Dear Moderator,

The research training group "Risk and East Asia" and the Institute of East Asian Studies (IN-EAST) at the University of Duisburg-Essen is organising a conference on economic, political, and social institutions in East Asia and how the responsibility of the risk involved, due to rapid globalization and social change, is shifting from state to market, from public to private and from collective to individual. Please send out the following details to SSJ-Forum subscribers:

The GRK 1613 "Risk and East Asia" --- a research training group funded by the DFG (German Research Foundation) at the Institute for East Asian Studies (IN-EAST), University of Duisburg-Essen --- has since its start in 2009 offered doctoral training and post-doctoral research opportunities in contemporary East Asian studies, focusing on the governance of risks triggered by Asian responses to global economic, political and social change.

We will mark 2018, our final year of funding, with a final conference, REA2018, to be held on June 20th and 21st, 2018.

The “Risk and East Asia” Final Conference should allow us to take stock of how the “risk” theme has evolved during the recent decade (when it focused our doctoral training at In-EAST), but it should also allow us to point further and chart new challenges. “Risk” was from the beginning the prism through which we could focus the analysis of institutional change as practiced in economics, politics and sociology, and there is no doubt all those who were part of that process gained insights and new ideas from this, not the least the doctoral students. This conference aims to conclude the (still) existing program with outstanding research papers that bring out new, original contributions to the study of risk and institutional change in East Asia.

We invite you to submit abstracts for REA2018. Abstracts should be written in English, the official language of the event. For further details regarding the call for papers please visit our conference web site at https://www.uni-due.de/in-east/risk_and_east_asia/final_conference_2018.php. The deadline for abstract submission is 28 February, the notification of acceptance will be sent out in April, and the conference will take place from 20 to 21 June in Duisburg, Germany.

We look forward to welcoming you in June.

Thank you very much.

Yours faithfully,
Zi Wang

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Zi Wang

Doctoral Fellow
Institute of East Asian Studies, Institute of Sociology
Universität Duisburg-Essen

Forsthausweg, Building LE, Room 726
47057, Duisburg
Tel: +49 203 379-1719
Fax: +49 203 379-4157
Website: https://www.uni-due.de/in-east/people/wang_zi.php