Elisa Hoerhager
External Collaborator / Former Research Fellow at the Professorship for Political Science with the Focus on Area Studies China/East Asia
Empirical Study: Disaster Victims
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Contact: German Embassy Beijing Botschaft der Bundesrepublik Deutschland in Peking http://www.china.diplo.de/Vertretung/china/de/Startseite.html Email: ehorhager(at)googlemail.com |
RESEARCH | VITA | TEACHING | PUBLICATIONS | TALKS |
Project related research
In my work for the project I am focusing on the case of disaster victims in China. In this research, I am taking into account aspects of vulnerability and the societal negotiation of risk, social justice and political legitimacy, as it is articulated around various types of disasters.
Other research interests
In general, I am interested in concepts of social justice and risk and how they are articulated across social movements and in public policy. My current research interests also lie in the areas of EU-Asia international relations, and in particular EU-China relations.
Employment history
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Since Aug 2016 |
Chief of protocol, German Embassy Beijing |
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Jul 2014 - Jul 2016 |
Research Fellow at the Professorship for Political Science with the Focus on Area Studies China/East Asia, Faculty of Social Siences (Institute for Political Science), Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main |
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Sep 2012 |
Freelance project staff and translations, Confucius Institute Freiburg |
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Jan 2013 - |
Intern, Federal Foreign Office of Germany, Dept. EU Enlargement and Foreign Policy |
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Aug 2010 – |
Trainee, EU Delegation to China, Beijing, Political Section |
Academic background
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Sept 2013 – |
Postgraduate M.A. EU International Relations & Diplomacy, College of Europe, Bruges |
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Sept 2011 – |
M.A. Applied Political Science, Diplôme de Sciences Po, Double degree bilingual program, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (Germany) and IEP Aix-en-Provence (France) |
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Sept 2007 – |
B.A. Applied Political Science, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and IEP Aix-en-Provence |
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Sept 2008 – |
B.A. Sinology, Liaoning University Shenyang (China), Université Aix-Marseille (France) |
Scholarships, Projects, Awards
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Nov 2013 – |
Project: TEDxCollegeOfEurope conference manager |
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Sept 2013 – |
Full scholarship: for the College of Europe awarded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research |
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2013 |
Award: Public Choice Award, TEDx Strasbourg University |
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2012 |
Award: 1st Prize, Chinese Bridge Competition, Germany |
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2011 |
Project: Women’s Rights NGO exchange project, EU Delegation Beijing |
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Sept 2007 – |
Scholarship by the Franco-German University organization (Deutsch-Französische Hochschule) |
Memberships
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Since 2012 |
German Association for Asian Studies (DGA) |
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Mar 2012 – |
Chinese language teacher (A1 and A2), Confucius Institute Freiburg |
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Mar 2012 – |
“History of Political Ideas and Political Theory”, Tutorial, Dept. Prof. Dr. Riescher for Political Theory, Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg |
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Dec 2010 – |
International Business Communication, Assistant lecturer for Prof. Shi Yongheng, Tsinghua University, Beijing |
| 2016 |
“China-ASEAN Relations and the South-China Sea: Beyond Balancing and Bandwagoning?” in: Fels, E., and Truong-Minh, V. (Eds.), A Regional Power Shift in the Making? The Rise of China and the South China Sea Disputes, Springer, Berlin, pp. 359-386. |
| 2015 | “Political Implications of Natural Disasters: Regime Consolidation and Political Contestation”, in Sener, S.M., Brebbia, C. A., Ozcevik, O. (Eds.), Disaster Management and Human Health Risk IV, WIT Press, Southampton, pp. 271-281. |
| 2015 | “The EU Pivot towards Southeast Asia: Between Regional Integration and Security Dynamics”, Brill edited volume (revised and resubmitted) |
| 2014 | “Political Implications of Natural Disasters: Regime Consolidation and Political Contestation”, Volume 150 of WIT Transactions on the Built Environment, 2014, p. 271-281. |
| 2013 | Rezension: Nora Sausmikat, Klaus Fritsche (Hrsg.), Civil Society in European-Chinese Relations: Challenges of Cooperation, ASIEN (218), p. 120. |
| 2012 | Die jungen „Digital Natives“ Südostasiens, Südostasien (4), p. 3-5. |
TALKS
Talks at academic Conferences, Seminars, Workshops
| October 7 - 8, 2016 | International Conference “Protecting the Weak – Concepts and East Asian Evidence”, Lingnan University, Hong Kong: (with Hüppe-Moon, Stefan) “Protecting the Weak in Contemporary Political Philosophy” |
| Apr 7-10, 2016 | 74th Annual Conference of the Midwest Political Science Association, Chicago, USA: (with Aldrich, Daniel and Forester, Summer) “Triggers for Policy Change: The 3.11 Fukushima Meltdowns and Global Nuclear Policy” |
| Nov 20 - 21, 2015 | Research Network "Governance in China" and Association for Social Science Research on China (ASC), Joint International Conference, Wuerzburg: “From gradual change to critical junctures: Managing disasters in the People’s Republic of China” |
| Oct 20 - 22, 2015. | Public lecture within the framework of the “Lecture Series on Disasters” of the Southwest Minorities University in Chengdu, China:“Institutionalization Processes of Disaster Risk Reduction in the PRC” |
| Oct 16 - 18, 2015 | Comparative study of disasters and upheavals: Perceptions and responses”, Chengdu, China: “Identifying Disaster Agency: The Definitional Struggles Surrounding Natural Hazards” |
| May 20 - 22, 2015 | International Conference on Disaster Management, organized by Wessex Institute at the Technical University of Istanbul: “Political Implications of Natural Disasters: Regime Consolidation and Political Contestation” |
| Feb 27- 28, 2015 | China and the Environment in the Social Sciences (CHESS) at the University of Vienna, Austria: “Disaster Risk Reduction and the Changing Roles of State and Civil Society in the PRC” |
| Jan 14 - 16, 2015 | Tokyo Conference on International Study for Disaster Risk Reduction and Resilience, organized by Science Council of Japan, UNISDR, IRDR and The University of Tokyo: “The politicization of disasters and its effects on disaster vulnerability and resilience: a case study of Wenchuan earthquake” |
| Jun 17-19, 2014 | Young Scholar’s Roundtable, EU-Asia Centre and ECRAN, presentation of research: “Trust and Distrust in EU-China relations |
| Mar 9, 2014 | Conference of the Centre for East Asian Studies Groningen (CEASG), “East Asia and the European Union: strong Economics, weak Politics?”, Paper: „Scenarios of EU Engagement in South East Asia“ |
