Doctoral candidates of Cohort V  will be back from their fieldwork in Asia and present their findings and new ideas at our Homecoming Symposium. The purpose of the symposium is to give our PhD students the chance to receive feedback on their progress from a variety of different researchers and peers before they start writing their dissertation.

Monday, December 9, 2019 (Seminar Room K18, Hittorfstr. 18, “Neubau”)

14:00 – 15:00               John Jacobs: “Japan’s Security Cooperation with Europe: Between the Bilateral US-Japan Alliance and UN Multilateralism”

15:00 – 15:30                Coffee break                           

15:30 – 16:30                Gwendolyn Domning:“Presidential Depravity Abides: Continuities and Changes of Institutionalized Corruption in South Korea since Democratization”

Tuesday, December 10, 2019 (Seminar Room 1.36, Hittorfstr. 18, “Neubau”)

10:00 – 11:00               Marina Zucker Marques: “The Chinese Strategy of Renminbi Internationalization”

11:00 – 12:00               Mei Chen: “Overcoming the Dependency: Institutions and Interests in China’s Public Hospital Reform”

12:00 – 13:00               Lunch Break

13:00 – 14:00               Qingye Guo: “Migration Politics and Migration Management in Contemporary China”

14:00 – 15:00               Bin Li: “Ethnicity and Locality: Entrepreneurship of Ikebukuro’s Chinese Community”

15:00 – 15:30                Coffee break

15:30 – 16:30                Hendrik Johannemann: “Opposing Desires: The Contentious Politics of the Anti-LGBT Movement within the South Korean Protestant Right and Beyond “