In 2013, the following researchers are invited for guest lectures:

• Prof. Dr. David Howell (Harvard University): Foreign Contacts and Informal Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan

• Prof. Dr. Prasenjit Duara (National University of Singapore): Transcendence in a Secular World: Asian Traditions and Sustainable Modernity

• Prof. Dr. Mark Swislocki (Brown University, Providence): Indian Chinese Food in Abu Dhabi, or What Makes Chinese Food "Chinese"?

• Prof. Dr. Paul Unschuld (Horst-Görtz-Stiftungsinstitut, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin): Die Grenzen von Skepsis und Vertrauen: Die Bewertung einer Heilkunde am Beispiel der Chinesischen Medizin

• Prof. Dr. Selçuk Esenbel (Bogazici University, Istanbul): The Japanese Army’s Geopolitical Strategy toward Pan-Islam and Ottoman-Turkey: The Diary of General Utsunomiya Taro (1860–1922)

• Prof. Doh Chull Shin (Center for the Study of Democracy, UC Irvine, and Social Science Research Center Berlin): Confucianism and Democratization in East Asia: Reassessing the Confucian Asian Values Debate

• Prof. Dr. Margarita Estévez Abe (Syracuse University / Collegio Carlo Alberto, Torino): Institutional Change and Welfare Politics in Japan: Did Anything Change?

• Prof. Dr. Miranda Schreurs (Free University Berlin): The Fukushima Nuclear Accident and Japanese Energy Politics

• Prof. Dr. Andrea Bréard (Université des Sciences et Technologies Lille 1 / International Consortium for Research in the Humanities, Erlangen): Numbers in China: Global Concepts and Local Narratives

• Dr. Carola Hommerich (German Institute for Japanese Studies, Tokyo): Psychosoziale Konsequenzen des 11. März 2011 – eine empirische Untersuchung