First GEAS graduate conference: Individual Agency in Institutional Contexts in East AsiaLisa Melcher und and Jan Niggemeier

ASIEN – Nr. 143 (2017) pp. 121–22

Berlin, December 9–10, 2016.

Organized by Byun You Kyung, Julia Gerster, Anselm Huppenbauer, Elena Korshenko, Eva Liias, Valeria Lotti, Lisa Melcher, Jan Niggemeier, and Daniela Simon, PhD-students of the Graduate School of East Asian Studies, Freie Universität Berlin.

This graduate conference revolved around the question of how to reconcile individual agency and meaning with the more impersonal institutions we work with in our more theoretical reasoning. A thematically and disciplinarily wide variety of contributions came from young scholars in Korean, Japanese, Taiwan, and China studies. 18 contributions were arranged in six theoretically-themed panels over two days; Roger Goodman (University of Oxford) contributed the keynote speech…