Prof. Dr. Eun-Jeung Lee

Current Status

Head of the Institute of Korean Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin, Germany Prof__Dr__Eun-jeung_Lee

Education

1988 M.A. University of Göttingen, Germany (Political Sciences, Sociology, Ethnology)
1993 Dr. disc. Pol., University of Göttingen, Germany (Political Sciences)
2001 Habilitation, Martin-Luther-Univ. of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany (Political Sciences)

Functions

2001-2008 Private Lecturer at Martin-Luther-Univ. of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
2004-2008 Adjunct Lecturer at the Universities of Leipzig and Bochum, Germany and Tokyo, Japan, as well as at the Ewha Womans University in Seoul, Korea
2006-2007 Deputy Chairman at the Institute of Political Sciences at Martin-Luther-Univ. of Halle-Wittenberg, Germany
since 2008 Chairman of Korean Studies and Director of the Institute of Korean Studies at the Free Univ. of Berlin, Germany

Research Topics

  • Intercultural-political History of Ideas of Europe and East-Asia
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  • Political Theory
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  • History and Society of Korea
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  • International Comparative Transformation Research
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    Ausgewählte aktuelle Publikationen

  • „Anti-Europa“ – Die Geschichte der Rezeption des Konfuzianismus und der konfuzianischen Gesellschaft seit der frühen Aufklärung. Eine ideengeschichtliche Untersuchung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung der deutschen Entwicklung. Lit-Verlag, Münster, Hamburg & London 2003.
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  • Perspektiven der Systemtransformation in Korea, (SFB 580 Mitteilung; 21), SFB 580, Halle und Jena 2007.
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  • (Co-editor with Lim Hyukbaek): Hanbando-nŭn t’ongil togil-i toelsu issŭlkka? (Can the Korean Peninsula be Reunified to be a Reunified Germany? Lessons from the 20 Years’ Anniversary of the Collapse of the Berlin Wall for the Reunification of the Korean Peninsula). Sonjŏng, Seoul 2010.
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  • (Co-editor with Werner Pfennig): 20 Jahre deutsche Wiedervereinigung. Kommentierte Dokumentsammlung, Bd. 1-30 (80 Volumes), Ministry of Unification, Seoul 2010–2012.
  • Berlin Brandenburg sahoe t’onghap pangan chosa yon’gu. Kyŏnggido-rŭl wihan hwalyong pangan (Studies of Reunification Politics in Berlin and Brandenburg. Thinking about the Adaptability for the Korean Province of Kyŏnggi). Province Government of Kyŏnggido, Seoul 2012.
  • Ostasien – Denken. Diskurse um Ostasien. Nomos, Baden-Baden 2014 (forthcoming).
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    A complete bibliography is available.

    Contact

    Address Institut für Koreastudien, Fabeckstr. 7, 12195 Berlin
    E-mail Eun-Jeung.Lee@fu-berlin.de
    Webpage http://www.geschkult.fu-berlin.de/e/oas/korea-studien