17/06/2026
One highlight event after another:
Sinology at IZO is inviting you to a guest lecture by Prof. Dr. QIN Hui 秦暉 entitled "A Global Crisis of Democracy and the Allure of the China Model - 全球民主危機與中國模式的誘惑", followed by a panel discussion with Prof. Dr. Dres. h.c. Bertram Schefold (professor emeritus of economics at Goethe-Universität Frankfurt).
The event is held in two languages (English and Chinese | 活動語言：中英), interpreted by Prof. Dr. Zhiyi Yang (Sinology, Goethe University).
When: Tuesday, 30. Juni 2026, 6 pm
Where: Campus Westend, Max-Horkheimer-Str. 4, Frankfurt am Main
Seminarhaus Room SH 0.101
08/06/2026
NEW PUBLICATION ALERT!
Yonson Ahn, together with Jihye Kim, published the anthology Korean Migration and Mobility in the Global South with Lexington Books.
This publication explores how Koreans in the Global South create new pathways of integration and opportunity within diverse political and economic contexts. Drawing on empirical case studies, it shows how migrants navigate local conditions and reshape conventional understandings of mobility and identity. The volume argues that Korean migration to the Global South is a significant yet understudied dimension of contemporary migration that calls for new theoretical perspectives on global mobility.
Link to the anthology:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/korean-migration-and-mobility-in-the-global-south-9781666963809/
Contributors/Authors: Yonson Ahn, Jihye Kim, Carolyn Choi, Dennis Woohyuk Choi, Jinok Choi, Sergio Gallardo García, K. C. Ho, Gaik Cheng Khoo, Jeehun Kim, Jihye Kim, Young Su Park, Hae Young Yun
Citation: Yonson Ahn and Jihye Kim eds. 2025. Korean Migration and Mobility in the Global South. Lanham: Lexington Books.
Korean Migration and Mobility in the Global South
Korean Migration and Mobility in the Global South argues that current migration studies, largely focused on South-to-North movement, overlook the complex realit…
29/05/2026
Neue hochkarätig besetzte Kooperationsveranstaltung mit dem China-Institut:
Recht und Macht in der internationalen Ordnung: Chinas Griff nach der Vergangenheit - und nach der Zukunft
Buchvorstellung und Podiumsdiskussion mit
Dr. Volker Stanzel (Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, ehem. Botschafter der BR Deutschland in der VR China und Japan)
MdB Omid Nouripour (Vizepräsident des Deutschen Bundestages, Mitglied im Auswärtigen Ausschuss und Berichterstatter der Grünen Bundestagsfraktion für China)
Prof. Dr. Björn Alpermann (Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Contemporary Chinese Studies)
Prof. Dr. Iwo Amelung (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt, Sinologie)
Zeit: Dienstag, den 16. Juni 2026, um 18:15 Uhr
Ort: Campus Westend, Casino, Nina-Rubinstein-Weg 1, 60323 Frankfurt am Main, Raum Cas 1.801 (Renate-von-Metzler-Saal)
Wir freuen uns auf den Austausch!
28/04/2026
News from the AspirE Project! In an effort for sustainability and transparency, AspirE is making its data collection resources openly available! Check it out!
Researching migration decision-making
As part of the AspirE project’s commitment to transparency, methodological rigor, and knowledge sharing, a set of key data collection tools developed for our fieldwork is now available.…
09/04/2026
friends, join us for part 3 of IZO's newest lecture series "Asia on the move"!
we are thrilled to welcome Robert Eberhart for a talk on
"The Emergence and Effects of the Entrepreneurial Ideology"
on Wednesday, Apr 22, 6-8 pm, in room SH3.102!
Abstract:
My talk develops a theoretical account of the transformation of entrepreneurship from a bounded economic activity into a generalized system of meaning. Drawing on institutional theory and organizational sociology, it argues that the attributes traditionally associated with entrepreneurship—opportunity recognition, risk-bearing, and innovation—have been abstracted and extended across domains, forming an entrepreneurial ideology. This ideology provides a cognitive and moral framework through which individuals interpret uncertainty, responsibility, and variation in outcomes. Tracing historical shifts in institutional arrangements, the analysis shows how the erosion of collective forms of coordination and the rise of decentralized, market-based systems create conditions that require new interpretive frameworks. Entrepreneurial ideology emerges as a response to these conditions, aligning individual understanding with structural realities. I will also focus on how this framework operates across domains such as work, social provision, and technological development, and how it stabilizes interpretation across positions by providing both justification and prospect, rendering inequality and individual responsibility as legitimate and inevitable.
Bio:
Robert N. Eberhart, PhD, is an associate professor of management and international business at the University of San Diego’s Knauss School of Business, where he studies how entrepreneurship shapes society. He serves as the inaugural International Business Research Scholar and earned his PhD in Management Science from Stanford University. His research develops theoretical insights on institutional change, new firm dynamics, and the societal effects of entrepreneurial ideology. His work has been published in leading journals including Organization Science, Strategic Management Journal, Strategy Science, Research in the Sociology of Organizations, and Journal of Management Inquiry.
His scholarship has received multiple honors, including the Responsible Research in Business and Management Award (2020) and the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings (2012). He serves on the editorial boards of Organization Science and Strategic Management Journal, is a visiting faculty member at Oxford University, and previously served as Vice Chair of the U.S.–Japan Innovation and Entrepreneurship Council.
Information on the lecture series Asia on the Move:
When humans migrate, they carry along their pasts, languages, sentiments, stories, and dreams. In our post-national world increasingly connected by digital technologies, national identities continue to function as “works of imagination” (Appadurai) that give individuals a sense of belonging. Asia, one of the most dynamic regions in the global flux of people, goods, and services, stands in the focus of this lecture series. In six lectures spanning across two semesters, this series promotes interdisciplinary perspectives to studying the mobility of people, memories, and imaginations across and beyond Asia.
looking forward to seeing you there!
