De-centering academia: InterAsian Perspectives

By Claudia Derichs, Riho Isaka and Joanna Pfaff-Czarnecka “De-centering academia: InterAsian Perspectives” was a workshop held by the initiative ‘Shaping Asia: Connectivities, Comparisons, Collaborations’ and the German Institute for Japanese Studies on September 13, 2024. It addressed the recent dynamics in higher education in Asia, under the conditions of pronounced power asymmetries, but also of processes of ‘de-centering’—in the sense of challenging the Western dominance in this field. T...