YSG Workshop 2024 – DGA Young Scholars Group Theory Workshop 2024 “Nation and Religion”Anastasia Kostromina

ASIEN – Nr. 168/169 (2023) pp. 182–84

The biannual DGA Young Scholars Group (YSG) workshop took place in Freiburg from June 14th to 16th. Young academics with backgrounds in Asian Studies gathered to learn about and discuss the application of theories in their research, as well as the differences between theory-driven anddriven research.

The workshop was opened on Friday evening by the current YSG representatives: Yasmin Koppen, Dan Petersen, Katharina Dressen, Lars Konheiser, and Munkhzul Bat-Erdene. Thereafter, the participants got to know each other. Prof. Dr. Jörg Plassen, Chair of East Asian Religions, Department of East Asian Studies, Ruhr Universität Bochum, gave a keynote lecture on the topic of “Some Remarks on the Concept of Nation in the Study of East Asian Buddhism.”

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