Asia
Dr. Verena Blechinger-Talcott
Professor of Japanese Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Japanese Studies
Hittorfstraße 18 (Rückgebäude), 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Phone (Assistant)
Areas of Expertise
- Japanese domestic policy
- Current issues in Japanese politics
- Japanese foreign and security policy
- Japan's economy
- Politics and society of Japan
- Political history of Japan
- Relationship Japan / U.S.A.
- Japan's role in Asia
- Corporate social responsibility in Japan
- Political party financing and corruption in Japan and Asia
Dr. Sabrina Habich-Sobiegalla
Professor of Chinese Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Sinology – China Studies
Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Please note
Interviews can also be given in Chinese.
Areas of Expertise
- China’s economic transformation since 1978
- Local economic policy in China
- China’s resources, industrial strategy, and energy policy
Dr. Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
Professor of Japanese Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Japanese Studies
Hittorfstr. 18, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
838-53857, -53856
Areas of Expertise
- Culture and literature of Japan
- History and society of Japan
- Identity discourses, culinary studies
- Cultural translation
Sebastian Hoppe
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for East European Studies
Department of Political Science
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- political economy of Russia, especially economic, infrastructure and resource policies
- politics and economy in the Russian Far East
- Russian-Chinese relations
- regime dynamics and social mobilization in Russia and Ukraine
Dr. Genia Kostka
Professor of Sinology
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Seminar of East Asian Studies
Sinology / China Studies
Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Digitization in China
- Environmental politics in China
- Climate change and energy policies in China
- Political economy in China
Dr. Hermann Kreutzmann
Professor of Development Studies
Department of Earth Sciences
Institute of Geographical Sciences
Center for Development Studies
Malteserstr. 74-100, 12249 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Afghanistan
- Pakistan
- India
- Nepal
- Tajikistan
- Kyrgyzstan
- Xinjiang (China)
- Minority research
- Development research
- Political geography
- High mountain research
- Nomadism
- Water
- Ethnicity
Dr. Jeong Hee Lee-Kalisch
Professor of Art History
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Art History Institute
Art History of South Asia
Koserstr. 20, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- China: Silk Road, exhibitions on art and culture
- North and South Korea: Art and culture
- Japan: Buddhist art, aesthetics
- Garden art of East Asia
Prof. Dr. Reimund Leicht
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Jewish Studies
Fabeckstraße 23/25, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Please note
The interviews can be conducted in Hebrew.
Areas of Expertise
- History of Judaism from antiquity to modern times
- Jewish philosophy in the Islamic-Arabic region and in Europe
- Christian Kabbalah (Johannes Reuchlin)
- Science of Judaism
- History of the Hebrew language
- History of the sciences surrounding Judaism
Dr. Gerhard Leitner, FAHA (Hon.)
Professor of English and Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities
Department of Philosophy and Humanities
Institute for English Language and Literature
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Mobile
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Australia: history, culture, languages, Aborigines, archaeology, migration and political dimensions
- Language policy, language planning, education policy especially in Australia, Asia, and Europe
- Languages and language ecology (language habitat) and political implications
- Southeast Asia: history, culture, languages and politics, globalization
Dr. Mechthild Leutner
Professor of Chinese Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Chinese Studies
Fabeckstraße 23-25, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Phone (Assistant)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Recent developments in China
- Politics and history of China
Dr. Christian Meyer
Professor of Chinese Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Chinese Studies
Fabeckstr. 23-25, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Religion(s) in China
- Confucianism
- Christianity in China
- Religious policy
Dr. Werner Pfennig
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science
International Politics and Area Studies
Iltisstr. 7, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Home)
Areas of Expertise
- Regional policy in East Asia
- Nuclear issues
- Reunification of North and South Korea
- China-Taiwan relations
Dr. Cornelia Reiher
Professor of Japanese Studies
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Seminar of East Asian Studies / Japanology
Graduate School of East Asian Studies
Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Japan
- Globalization
- Food studies
- Global agri-food system
- Food safety
- Rural Japan
- (Local) identities
- Rural revitalization
Dr. Carola Richter
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Media and Communication Studies
International Communication
Garystraße 55, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Arab media (al-Jazeera, Egypt, Libya)
- Protest movements in the Arab world, Islamists
- Foreign reporting, War reporting
- Image of Islam
- Media and the Middle East conflict
- Media and migration / refugees
Dr. Birgitt Röttger-Rössler
Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Collaborative Research Centre 1171: Affective Societies
Habelschwerdter Allee 45, 14195 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Phone (Assistant)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Southeast Asia, particularly Indonesia (social and political structures, religious diversity, gender relations)
- Vietnamese culture in Berlin
- Cultural aspects of emotions
- Socialization, education, and child development in cultural comparison
- Emotions and migration
- Gender relations (especially transgender cultural studies)
Dr. Eberhard Sandschneider
Professor of Political Science
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Otto Suhr Institute of Political Science / Politics in China and South Asia
Ihnestr. 26, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- China’s policies and international relations
- Chinese foreign policy
- Relationship between the EU and China
- Political relations between India, China, and Pakistan
- Politics in Korea and East Asia
- Transatlantic relations and Asia
- Balance of power between Asia and the U.S.
Jürgen Schaflechner
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Landoltweg 9-11, 14195 Berlin
Please note
Interviews can be given in German, English, Urdu/Hindi
Areas of Expertise
- Pakistan
- Populism / religious populism
- Politics of resentment
- Religious minorities in Pakistan
- Blasphemy / blasphemy laws
- Forced conversions to Islam
- Popular culture in Pakistan
- Antisemitism in Pakistan
- Islam
- Hinduism
- Ethnology of religion
- Ritual journeys
Dr. Regine Schönenberg
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Institute for Latin American Studies
Rüdesheimer Straße 54-56, 14197 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Organized crime
- Natural resource management
- Land management
- Intercultural learning
- Biography research
- Scenario research
Dr. Thomas Stodulka
Professor of Anthropology
Department of Politcal and Social Sciences
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Landoltweg 9 - 11, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Culture
- “Street children”
- Emotions
- Affects
- Stigmatization
- Childhood
- Youth
- Indonesia
- Culture and mental illness
- Social inequality
- Ethnography
Dr. Paul Unschuld
Professor of Medicine
Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin
Mitte Campus
Horst Goertz Institute for Theory, History, and Ethics of Chinese Life Sciences
Bonhoefferweg 3A, 10098 Berlin
Email
Areas of Expertise
- Analysis of historical pharmacological and pharmaceutical Chinese text sources
- Analysis of health policy and health industry in the PRC
- Comparative analysis of the history of medicine in China and Europe
- Investigation of historical and current developments in bioethics in China
Dr. habil. Christian Wagner
Senior Fellow
Department of Political and Social Sciences
Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (SWP)
German Institute for International and Security Affairs
Ludwigkirchplatz 3-4, 10719 Berlin
Phone (Office)
Homepage
Areas of Expertise
- Pakistan
- India
- Nepal
- Sri Lanka
- South Asia
- Foreign and security policy
- Democracy and politics in South Asia
Dr. Urs Matthias Zachmann
Professor of History and Culture of Modern Japan
Department of History and Cultural Studies
Institute of Japanese Studies
Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin
Areas of Expertise
- Culture and history of modern Japan
- Intellectual history of East Asia
- International relations of East Asia
- Relations between Japan and China
- Law in East Asia
- Human rights in East Asia