Welcome to the Asian Studies Centre at the University of Münster

The Asian Studies Centre is based at the Faculty of Philology at the University of Münster and was founded in 2024. It aims at networking scholars, students, and employees interested in Asia, who do research on Asia, or who are from Asia, to bundle their wide-ranging interests and competencies and make use of otherwise unknown synergies. [more]

News & events

| Conference
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International Conference "Intercultural Knowledge Transfer in (Transregional) Asian Religious Contexts"

The Institute of Sinology and East Asian Studies and the Institute for Missiology and the Study of Theologies Beyond Europe, in cooperation with the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" and the Asian Studies Centre, invite to the international conference "Intercultural Knowledge Transfer in (Transregional) Asian Religious Contexts", which will take place from 13 to 15 November 2025 in Münster.
Contact: knowledgetransfer2025@uni-muenster.de

| Call for Ideas
© Drawing from the book "24 examples of filial piety", 1846

Call for Ideas: Body and Age(ing) in Asia

With a joint workshop, we at the Asian Studies Centre want to explore our possibilities for interdisciplinary research on the topic of body and age(ing) in Asia. We invite interested scholars who are interested in the Asian cultural area to participate in the planned workshop. We ask for expressions of interest with a brief outline of the topic. We are considering the 16th, 17th (Thu/Fri) or possibly also the 18th of October (Sat) as the date for the workshop; the specific date will be discussed together.