[FUB-GEAS] GEAS Newsletter June 2014

[Newsletter Graduate School of East Asian Studies <fub-geas@lists.fu-berlin.de>]

GEAS Newsletter June 2014

 

 

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

 

Please read what is new at the Graduate School of East Asian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin, in June 2014.

 

We are honored to introduce our new Visiting Professors at GEAS: Prof. Timothy Cheek, Director of the Centre for Chinese Research and Louis Cha Chair in Chinese research at the Univ. of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and Prof. Yih-Chyi CHUANG, Department of Economics at National Chengchi University, Taipei, Taiwan.

 

 

Program

 

Wed, June 4 Fri, June 6th Tue, June 10th Wed, June 11th Mon, June 16th Wed, June 18th	SEMINAR	Intellectuals in China Timothy Cheek, Univ. of British Columbia
	Time	9-14 h
	Venue	GEAS, Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin, Room K18 (basement)
	Information	http://www.geas.fu-berlin.de/studium/Doctoral_Program/curriculum/semesterplaene/schedule_summer_14/31.html
Thu, June 5th	LECTURE	Human Rights Institutions: From Commitment to Compliance
		Thomas Risse, Professor of International Relations at Freie Universität Berlin
	Time	10-12 h
	Venue	Boltzmannstraße 1, 14195 Berlin
	Information	http://www.geas.fu-berlin.de/events/lectures/Ringvorlesung.html
Mon, June 16th	ROUNDTABEL	Understanding Modern China: Historiographical and Theoretical Issues
	Participants	Paul A. Cohen, Professor of History Emeritus, Wellesley College; Associate of the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Timothy Cheek, Professor at Institute of Asian Research, University of British Columbia, Vancouver Yeh Wen-hsin, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley Klaus Mühlhahn, Professor or Chinese History and Culture, Freie Universität Berlin
	Time	16-18 h
	Venue	Institute of East Asian Studies, Goßlerstr. 2-4, Room 203
Fr, June 20th	WORKSHOP	East Asian Transnational History Sheldon Garon, Professor of History and East Asian Studies at Princeton Univ.
		PhD Candidates and Researchers will discuss East Asian Transnational History and give presentations on their research. Graduate Students from our departments of Chinese, Japanese, or Korean Studies are also welcome to participate. Please contact coordinator@geas.fu-berlin.de or garon@princeton.edu
	Time	9-17 h
	Venue	GEAS, Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin, Room K18 (basement)
Mon, June 23rd	LECTURE	Asia’s Development Challenges and Economic Outlooks (to be confirmed) Stephen Groff, Vice-President of Asian Development Bank
	Time	16-18 h
	Venue	Henry-Ford-Bau, Garystraße 35, 14195 Berlin, Hall B
Tue, June 24th	BOOK TALK	Rising Powers and the End of American World Order Amitav Acharya, Professor of International Relations, American University, Washington, DC
	Time	18-20 h
	Venue	Henry-Ford-Bau, Garystraße 35, 14195 Berlin, Hall A
Thu, June 26th	LECTURE	Compete to Institutionalize East Asian Economic Integration: RCEP vs. TPP
		Junji Nakagawa, Professor of International Economic Law at Tokyo University
	Time	10-12 h
	Venue	Boltzmannstraße 1, 14195 Berlin
	Information	http://www.geas.fu-berlin.de/events/lectures/Ringvorlesung.html
Sa-So, June 28th-29th Sa-So, July 5th-6th	SEMINAR	Economic Development of Mainland China Yih-Chyi CHUANG, Department of Economics at National Chengchi University, Taipei
	Time	10-17 h
	Venue	GEAS, Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin, Room K18 (basement)
	Information	http://www.geas.fu-berlin.de/studium/Doctoral_Program/curriculum/semesterplaene/schedule_summer_14/30.html

 

For further information on the lectures and visiting researchers, please visit our website at http://www.geas.fu-berlin.de/index.html

If you have any questions, please contact us at newsletter@geas.fu-berlin.de

 

 

 

 

Julian Plenefisch

Researcher

Curriculum, Conferences and Publications Management

 

Graduate School of East Asian Studies

Freie Universität Berlin

Hittorfstraße 18

D-14195 Berlin, Germany

 

+49 30 838 58553