Presenter: Felix Erdt (University of Göttingen, Department of East Asian Studies) Commentators: Prof. Viren Murthy (Associate Professor of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Dr. Phil. Dr. rer. Med. Dominique Hertzer (Guest Researcher at the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen) Time: Wednesday, September 30, 4 pm – 5.30 pm Join us via Zoom, […]

Sascha Klotzbücher (University of Göttingen) Time: July 15, 2020 5pm Venue: Zoom-Meeting https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/93597507671?pwd=S3htRlBNd0RNQVF6Ukw3dlpBSXJEUT09 Meeting-ID: 935 9750 7671 Passwort: 404190 Abstract: Since 2016, the Chinese Communist Party proclaimed the strategy of “military-civil fusion” of research (Kania 2019) (军民融合). However, this cooperation between military academies and civil universities or research institutes is not new. This lecture aims […]

Lecturer: Gil Hizi (PhD University of Sydney) Abstract: Through the influence of psychotherapeutic expertise and popular entertainment, pedagogic programs for “self-improvement” in China today define positive affect as a key aspect of learning. In this talk, based on participant observations in the city of Jinan, I describe how workshops for interpersonal skills produce interactive spaces […]