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On Wednesday, November 21st, Dr. Young-du Kim and Dr. Il-woong Moon from the National Institute of Korean History, which is based in Gwacheon, Korea (http://www.history.go.kr/en/main/main.do), gave a talk at the EARL on Korean-history web archiving service. The well-attended lecture was held in the Korean language, and was simultaneously translated into English by Minyoung Chang, a lecturer of the Korean language.

On November 13th 2019, Professor Dr Jana S. Rošker has delivered an invited guest lecture at Trier. The lecture under the title “From Marx to Mao – The Sinization of Marxism” was jointly organized by the Department of Sinology of the Trier University, by the Confucius Institute Trier, and by the German-Chinese Society. The lecture was organized as a part of the celebration of the bicentenary of Karl Marx, who was born in Trier.

Trial access to Alexander Street Street collections:Border and Migration Studies Online, The Complete Anthropology Package in Women and Social Movements Library.

A delegation of academics, coming from Sichuan University and Renmin University of China, paid a visit to the East Asia Resource Library (EARL) on 3 October 2018.

The International Institute for Asian Studies at the University of Leiden has published in its Newsletter an article authored by Mirjam Kotar and Zlatko Šabič, describing the birth and the functioning of the EARL.

On the 25 September 2018, East Asia Resource Library received a visit from the prestigious National Taiwan University based in the Taipei City, Professor Shi Zhiyu, PhD.

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Short presentation of the library: Orientation day on 1st October 2018.

Professor Šabič participated with a talk on the development of Slovenia after the end of the Cold War and the breakup of Yugoslavia.

On Tuesday, 18th of September 2018, the Chinese author dr. Donni Wang successfuly presented her new book "Before the Market: The Political Economy of Olympianism" (Common Ground, 2018) on Tuesday, 18th of September 2018 in East Asia Resource Library (EARL) premises.