K O D I K A S / C O D E 44 (2021) · No. 1 - 3 Gunter Narr Verlag Tübingen Autorinnen und Autoren / Authors Prof. Dr. Henrik Dindas works as a full Professor of Higher Education Didactics at FOM University of Applied Sciences in Essen, Germany, as well as a moderator, speaker, and systemic coach in his own company (www.hd-coaching.de) with over 10 years of experience in the fields of higher education didactics, science communication, university development, quality management and evaluation. He has teaching experience at various universities in Germany and the USA and received his doctoral, master ’ s and bachelor ’ s degrees from the University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany. At FOM, he heads the Competence Centre for Didactics (KCD) and, as the Rector ’ s delegate for university-wide didactics, supports the development, testing, and evaluation of didactic teaching and learning methods, as well as innovative concepts for academic teaching. As a repeated Vice-Chair in international accreditation processes (Finnish Education Evaluation Centre), he regularly strengthens his expertise in international higher education didactics and quality development. Anna-Viktoria Eschbach is a German-Hungarian curator and writer who has been active in China for almost a decade, developing projects that stimulate dialogue and experimentation between creative disciplines and cultures. Currently she is a researcher at the Curatorial Research Collective at TU/ e Eindhoven and at the Art History Department at Kunstuni Linz with the topic “ Power, Politics and the Building of Contemporary Art Museums in China ” . She has been working on projects for documenta fifteen, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Artspace Sydney, CAFAM Beijing, and the Ludwig Museum Budapest. From 2014 - 2020 she built up the curatorial office and residency program, I: project space, in Beijing around topics of urbanization, gender concepts in the Asia Pacific, independent space practice, new media, and digital art. From 2015 to 2022, she was working on the long-term curatorial research platform Beijing22, documenting Greater Beijing ’ s urban transformation. As part of the Swiss Chinese publishing house tria, she has published numerous books around art, theory, urban development, and China. Anna has received grants from Getty Foundation, Deutsche Bank, and Forum Scientiarum, and has had residencies at Artspace, Sydney and nBK, Berlin. Nora-Sophia Eschbach boasts a decade-long tenure in Corporate Banking, specializing in the Swiss, German, and French markets. Her academic background includes a dual major in Political Science and Philosophy from the University of Vienna, complemented by a comprehensive professional journey encompassing banking, consulting, and policy analysis. This unique blend of education and experience equips her with a distinctive perspective on contemporary macroeconomic issues. Moreover, Nora Eschbach has contributed to the academic field through translations of seminal works such as John Dewey ’ s “ Liberalismus und gesellschaftliches Handeln ” and the development of methodological publications like “ Bausteine der Kommunikationswissenschaft ” . Prof. em. Dr. Viktoria Eschbach-Szabo is a Japanologist and linguist. She taught as Professor of Japanese Studies at the Asia-Orient Institute of the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen from 1992 to 2023. From 1975 to 1980, Eschbach-Szabo studied German, Slavic, Sinology and Japanese at Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), from which she graduated with a master ’ s degree. In 1984, she received her doctorate in Japanese linguistics from the Ruhr University in Bochum. From 1983 to 1990, she worked at the Faculty of East Asian Studies in Bochum on the Philipp Franz von Siebold Project. From 1990, she taught at the University of Trier for three semesters and was appointed Professor of Contemporary Japanese Studies. In 1993 she was invited with her husband Achim Eschbach as a Visiting Professor at Tokyo University working on the Philosopher and Economist Kurt Singer. Her main research in Japanese linguistics is about narrative perspectives, concept of person and names, the history of Japanese linguistic studies and semiotics of Japanese outside of Japan. Since 1993, she has worked at the Tübingen Center for Japanese Language and Culture at D ō shisha University in Ky ō to. Eschbach-Szabo held the presidency of the European Association for Japanese Studies from 2005 to 2008. Between 2006 and 2009, she participated in the Global Risks and Attitudes research project (Tübingen University. Dôshisha University and Sheffield University). At ETH Zurich, she taught on the cultural and scientific history of East Asia from 2007 to 2017. In 2009, she was a curator at the Hungary Festival in Japan with the exhibition “ Nukumori wa kawaranai - Intimacy Remains Unchanged. ” From 2015 to 2018, Eschbach-Szabo worked on various projects such as the German- Japanese-Korean project “ Colonial Memories ” , the German-Japanese project “ Social History of Manuals for a Meaningful Life ” , and the international study “ Cross-linguistic Modelling of Speech Data for Hesitation Type Disfluency ” . In addition to her teaching and research activities in East Asian Studies, she served for many years as organizer of the linguistics section and most recently as president of the European Association for Japanese Studies. In the context of her professorship in Japanese linguistics at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen, she is also committed to making knowledge about Japanese culture, society, and language accessible to a broader audience. In 2019 she was invited from Tokyo College at Tokyo University as an International Fellow. Her research interest is now focusing on Japanese language, linguistic position and historical and postmodern identity in the digital age. Autorinnen und Autoren / Authors 231