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This workshop delves into an under-studied topic of the Korean youth in the South, focusing on the multiple trajectories and complexities of newer-generation Korean im/migrants in the Southern Hemisphere and the Global South. Unlike younger-generation Koreans in the Global North particularly in North America and Europe, who have tended to pursue professional careers and achieved mainstream-oriented mobility, young Korean im/migrants in the Global South have explored different options and followed multiple trajectories beyond the boundaries of their host societies. Hence, this workshop aims to understand how and to what extent these particular circumstances have shaped their lives and experiences of the Korean youth in the South.
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IZO Events
Korean Studies at 51猎奇 of Frankfurt cordially invites you to the online workshop "Korean and German Encounters and Interactions" on 20 January and 21 January 2023.
You can register for the zoom link .
The following programme awaits you:
(Panel I) 20 January 2023, 10:15-12:15
Prof. Jin-Wook Shin & Boyeong Jeong (Chung-ang University)
Rival Narratives of Germany and Discursive Struggles in South Korean Public Spheres
Prof. Hannes Mosler (University of Duisburg-Essen)
South Korea's April Revolution Through the Lens of West Germany
Prof. Yvonne Schulz Zinda (University of Hamburg)
The Past, Present and Future of Korean Studies in Germany
(Panel II) 20 January 2023, 13:15-15:15
Prof. Jan Creutzenberg (Ewha Womans University)
Pansori in Germany: Korean Singing-Storytelling, from Invitation to Collaboration
Katharina S眉berkr眉b (University of Hamburg)
German Trends in Collecting Korean Material Culture Towards the End of the Chos艔n Dynasty
(Panel III) 21 January 2023, 10:00-12:00
Dr. Jihye Kim (University of Central Lancashire)
Hallyu (Korean Wave) and Korean Restaurant Businesses in Frankfurt
Prof. Yonson Ahn (51猎奇 of Frankfurt)
Maternal Practices of Korean Healthcare Workers in Germany
Dr. Jaok Kwon-Hein (University of Heidelberg)
Becoming 'Good' Working Mothers: Mothering of Highly Skilled Female Migrants from Korea in Germany
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鈥婭ZO & Ceditraa guest lecture on 6 December 2022, 18.15, IG 1.314
Prof. Ann Heylen on Digitization of Scholarly Publishing in East Asian Popular Culture Research
On 6 December 2022, Ann Heylen, Professor at the Department of Taiwan Culture, Languages and Literature, National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU), and Executive Director of the International Taiwan Studies Center (ITSC), at the College of Liberal Arts, NTNU, will give a talk in Frankfurt upon joint invitation by the Ceditraa project and the Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies (IZO).
The talk offers a case study in which the bibliographic references of the articles published in East Asian Journal of Popular Culture (EAJPC) are subjected to an electronic text analysis. It forms part of generating a relational database. The methodology will illustrate traditional corpus linguistic (CL) tools and tendencies in the development of scholarly publishing and patterns in the digitization of culture research. The concept of the 'journal as corpus' is taken as the organizing principle in the selection and editing of networked materials and multimedia to inquire about the role of language acquisition and cultural knowledge transmission. The purpose is to apply this method to a larger corpus of bibliographic references of East Asian popular culture.
Prof. Heylen's talk is organised by Mirjam Tr枚ster, whose Ceditraa research focuses on K-cinema in Taiwan.
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The 4th edition of the Korean Popular Culture Workshop will take place on the 16th of November 2022 between 4 and 6 pm CET. The event will be held online on Zoom with prior registration being required (registration link below). The workshop aims to shed light on the new developments in Korean cinema, dramas and music in the digital globalized world. This year the focus of the workshop will be the Korean film industry in the context of globalization and the changes in K-drama content and production generated by the emergence of streaming platforms like Netflix. The guest speakers are Jimmyn Parc, Associate Professor at the University of Malaya, Malaysia and Hyejung Ju, Associate Professor of Mass Communication at Claflin University in South Carolina, USA.
Announcements
In cooperation and with the support of IZO, the Sinology department will offer an exceptional calligraphy class taught by Mr. Hu CHANG, an experienced professional calligrapher, in the winter semesters 2022/23.
The course will be taught in a biweekly format on Friday, 12-14 on Campus Westend. All material will be provided free of charge.
More information is available on the .
Announcements
Our annual bilingual report for the academic year 2021/22 has just been published and is freely available for download.
The difficult situation at the time of the pandemic has not prevented the IZO from continuing research and activities - albeit virtually - and the Center can look back on an eventful year. The following pages will give you an insight into the activities of the center under the difficult conditions of the pandemic.
In the course of 2021-22, the first steps have been taken at IZO towards a hopefully 'post-pandemic' future. Teaching is largely face-to-face again, and events organized by IZO have gradually been transferred back into the 'real' world.
A first high point, as early as October, was a discussion of experts with the economist Barry Naughton on the present state of the Chinese economy. This event, which took place under the auspices of the guest professorship funded by the Deutsche Bank Stiftung in the summer of 2021, was held at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften in Bad Homburg. It was complemented by a meeting organized by the Early Career Researchers Network in which junior academics had an opportunity to speak to Professor Naughton and exchange their views on the future of Chinese and Asian Studies and on their own career perspectives.
Another major event in the year under review was the lecture on 'The Moral Duties of Art' with Yang Lian, the Chinese writer in exile and first laureate of the newly established IZO Fellowship (see below the poem he wrote in Frankfurt), and the writer Yan Geling. With an audience of 160 and the subsequent broadcasting of the video recording, this event reached an audience well beyond the boundaries of Frankfurt.
On the administrative level we have completely revised the IZO website, giving it a more modern appearance. It is now more up to date and highlights our research activities. Also, IZO has begun to significantly expand the sponsorship available to young researchers. We are pleased to announce that, in addition to the existing individual sponsorships, the newly created ECR Fund will offer up to 10.000 Euro per year to subsidise the independently organised activities of young researchers. This will also help to raise the profile of the University in the area of East Asia Studies.
In April 2022 another evaluation of IZO took place, the third since its inception. It is not yet known what the results and consequences will be. IZO continues to be committed to the study of the history of East Asia. In these turbulent times it also offers frameworks of reference and orientation in present-day East Asia. The most recent instance was a notable panel discussion in July of this year on Chinese-Russian relations in the context of the war in Ukraine.
Current Research
Current Research, September 2022
鈥婬eike Holbig on the Canonisation of Xi Jinping Thought
In this edited volume, China experts from Asia, the United States, Europe and Australia set out the future implications of trends in CPC ideology, politics and governance in Xi Jinping's 鈥淣ew Era." Published in September 2022, the collection offers clues on what the upcoming 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party will bring, what the next decade of party rule might look like, and what China's political elites do envision for the party's and the country's future. The book is distributed in Open Access.
Citation:
Holbig, Heike (2022). Canonising Xi Jinping Thought 鈥� Ideological engineering and its real-world relevance. In: Frank N. Pieke and Bert Hofman (eds.), CPC Futures. The New Era of Socialism with Chinese Characteristics, Singapore: NUS Press, 41-46. DOI: .
Download: (Open Access).
IZO Events
IZO Events
Symposium "Comparing and Transferring Law and Legal Expertise. The Role of Japan"
From 1 to 3 September, 2022, IZO co-hosted a major symposium on Japan's position in comparative law. The event at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative and International Private Law, Hamburg, celebrated the 70th birthday of Professor Harald Baum, the preeminent figure in Japanese legal studies in Germany and a long-term member of IZO's academic advisory board.
High-profile speakers from Asia, Europe, the U.S and Australia explored the influence of Japanese law outside Japan. Japan's history and its position as one of the largest economies in Asia suggest a major impact upon its neighbours and beyond and make the country potentially interesting as a source of legal concepts. However, this idea of Japan as an exporter of legal ideas is at odds with the still dominant, hierarchically tinged narrative of Japan as a mere recipient of Western legal ideas.
Within this framework, the talks aimed to assess, from multiple perspectives, the influence of Japanese law upon its neighbours as well as global developments. The participants explored themes such as the fundamental position of Japan in comparative legal studies, the impact of Japanese law upon East and Southeast Asian jurisdictions, as well as Japan's role within global harmonization projects.
Current Research
Current Research, June 2022
鈥婼inophone Classicism: Zhiyi Yang on Chineseness as Temporal and Mnemonic Experience in the Digital Era
Prof. Zhiyi Yang elaborates on the concept of "Sinophone Classicism" in , published in online first format by Cambridge University Press in June 2022.
In recent decades, highly heterogeneous literary and artistic articulations harking back to China's classical past have gained increasing currency in the global Sinophone space and cyberspace. Instead of dismissing them as 鈥渇etishisms" or authenticating them as 鈥淐hinese traditions," I propose 鈥淪inophone classicism" as a new critical expression for conceptualizing this diverse array of articulations. It refers to the appropriation, redeployment, and reconfiguration of cultural memories evoking Chinese aesthetic and intellectual traditions for local, contemporary, and vernacular uses, by agents identified or self-identified as Chinese. This essay proposes a subjective, intimate, and reflexive way to experience an individual's culturally acquired 鈥淐hineseness" that is temporal, mnemonic, and often mediated by digital media. It joins recent scholarly efforts to dismantle the view of 鈥淐hinese modernity" as a monocentric and homogenous experience by refocusing on classicism as a kind of 鈥渁ntimodern modernism." It also joins the post-Eurocentric turn in global academia by hinting at a future of 鈥済lobal classicisms."