The Institute
At the University of Duisburg-Essen’s Institute of East Asian Studies, many scholars from various academic disciplines are engaged in both research and teaching on contemporary East Asia, focusing on the economies, politics and societies of China, Japan and Korea.
Established in 1994, the IN-EAST is one of Germany’s large centers of social science research on contemporary East Asia. The IN-EAST runs Bachelor’s and Master’s programs, each covering intensive training in one of the East Asian languages: Japanese, Chinese, Korean.
Doctoral research is carried out by the doctoral programme on East Asian Futures of the Alliance for Research on East Asia Ruhr (AREA Ruhr), a joint research alliance of the IN-EAST (University of Duisburg-Essen) and the Faculty of East Asian Studies (Ruhr University Bochum) within the greater University Alliance Ruhr (UA Ruhr), funded by the Mercator Research Center Ruhr (MERCUR).
