CFP: Manchu in Global History: A Research Language for Qing Historians
Kulturwisssenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 1.601 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenOrganisers: Julia C. Schneider (Department for East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen) Katja Pessl (Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen) The deadline for submissions is April 4, […]
本年度第三次“汉语作为外语”专题工作坊 (3. Workshop „Fachdidaktik Chinesisch): 教学组织与管理 (Organisation und Management von Lehr- und Lernprozessen)
地点: Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerzimmer (LULZ) Waldweg 26, GöttingenProf. Dr. XIN Ping (辛平教授) Peking-Universität 北京大学 教学组织与管理 (Organisation und Management von Lehr-und Lernprozessen) Der Workshop findet in chinesischer Sprache statt. 本次工作坊工作语言为中文。 Ein kostenloses Mittagessen wird angeboten. Aufgrund der begrenzten […]
Prof Ge, Zhaoguang (Fudan University): “Global Elements in Traditional Chinese Historiography” (in Chinese, with English translation)
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.60 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenConference: Conceptions of the World in Twentieth-Century Chinese Historiography
KWZ & Sternwarte GöttingenOver the course of the twentieth century, the constant writing and rewriting of history reflect aspects of the changing conceptions of the “world” in China. Through various lenses – including […]
Dr. Armin Müller (Göttingen): “Social Policy in China: Retrospect and Prospect”
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.609 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenAbstract: Since 1979, social protection in China has undergone fundamental institutional transformations. This presentation provides an overview of the state of the literature on social policy in the PRC, the […]
Prof. Reza Hasmath (Alberta): “Is Policy Innovation Possible Under the Xi Jinping Regime?”
Theologicum, T0.136 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2, GöttingenAbstract: Despite playing a key contributory role in China’s recent economic reforms and the Party’s regime durability, there has been a noted reduction in central-level policy experimentation under Xi Jinping’s […]
Prof. Mayfair Yang (UC Santa Barbara): “Gendered Religiosity: Patriarchal Structures and Women’s Agency in China”
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.602 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenAbstract: This lecture will examine how social structures of power, such as patriarchal power, depend on the vicissitudes of human agency to implement their principles, opening them up to subtle […]
Prof. Hsiung Ping-chen (Chinese University of Hong Kong): “Discovering Childhood and Paediatrics in Chinese History: Further Considerations “
Theologicum, T0.136 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2, GöttingenAbstract: As a reflection on thirty plus years of research on childhood and paediatrics in Chinese history, this lecture intends to present further concerns after a systematic review, in three […]
Prof. Mark Frazier (India-China Institute, New School): “Urbanisation and Social Policy: Prospects for Social Citizenship in China”
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.606 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenAbstract: As numerous commentators have pointed out, China is the first country in the world to experience an ageing population without first having reached developed country status. China is indeed […]
Prof. Xiong Yuegen (Peking Univ.): “Poverty Alleviation as an Instrument of Technical Governance in Rural China”
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.602 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenAbstract: In the past decades, China has achieved a great success in poverty reduction by helping more than 800 million of poor farmers out of poverty trap. However, Chinese government […]
Prof. Jane Duckett (University of Glasgow): “Who cares about inequality in China? Public attitudes toward inequalities in access to health care “
Theologicum, T0.136 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2, GöttingenAbout the letuerer: Jane Duckett is Edward Caird Chair of Politics, International Dean (East Asia), and Director of the Scottish Centre for China Research at the University of Glasgow. She […]
Prof. Jeffrey Wasserstrom (UC Irvine): “China and the World in 1900: Stories of the Boxers and the First Global War”
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.609 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenAbstract: This illustrated lecture, entitled “China and the World in 1900: Stories of the Boxers and the First Global War,” revisits the anti-Christian uprising and international invasion that convulsed the […]
CeMEAS The 12th East Asia Research Salon: Theorizing the Current Global Order in the Era of Globalization, Regional Integration and the Resurgence of Nationalism: Global China, Regional EU, and National US?
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.701 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenXiao (Alvin) Yang, University of Kassel Abstract: Why has China become the defender of globalization whereas the US, who is supposed to be the defender of globalization, has turned towards […]
Francois Gipouloux (CNRS): „Maritime trade expansion in late Ming China“
Theologicum, T0.135 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2, GöttingenAbstract: Maritime trade during the late Ming was characterised by the intermingling of tributary trade, private trade and piracy. The establishment of the ban on maritime trade (海禁 haijin) gave […]
Prof. Liu Tao (University of Duisburg-Essen): “The Welfare Regime Within and Beyond Borders: The Openness and Closedness of Chinese Social Policy”
Theologicum, T0.136 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2, GöttingenAbstract: The functional operation of conventional Chinese welfare regime was closely linked to institutionally created forms of discrepancies and borders entrenching the status differences between different social classes as well […]
Prof. Milinda Bannerjee (Ludwig-Maximilian University ): “Sovereignty, Natural Law and the Ironies of Decolonization: India and the Tokyo Trial”
ZESS,Raum AP26 Goßlerstr. 10, GöttingenAbstract: Is the demand for codified international criminal justice antithetical to the demand for agonistic decolonization of global political, military, and economic power? Or can the establishment of global norms […]
Voices of Struggle: LGTBQ & Feminist Activism in China and Beyond
17.04.: Emmy-Noether-Saal, Tagungs- und Veranstaltungshaus Alte Mensa, Wilhelmsplatz 3, Göttingen & 18.04.: ZHG 002Symposium: Academia meets Activism: Feminism in China Voices of Struggle explores the complex entanglements between activism and academia in transnational perspective. What does it mean to be an engaged or […]
Prof Liu Kang (Duke University): Chinese Exceptionalism: A Research Agenda
Verfügungsgebäude VG 3.103 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenAbstract: This lecture explores the emergent Chinese exceptionalism in order to search for a possible research agenda from interdisciplinary approaches. It will focus on modern times from Mao to the […]
Yang LU (The University of Nottingham): „Recent Research on SLA in Chinese and Pedagogic Issues“ (not public)
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.701 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenAbstract: Due to the great interest in learning Chinese as a foreign language (CFL), over the past two decades there has been an increased number of Studies related to Second […]
Dr. Zhang Chunjie (University of California, Davis): “Weber, China, and Cultural Pessimism”
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.607 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenAbstract: This talk attempts to read Max Weber's treatise on Chinese Confucianism and Taoism, contained in his magnum opus Wirtschaftsethik der Weltreligionen, as a critique of a rationalism that Weber […]
Iain Johnston (Harvard University): China and International Order: What Order? Which Order?
Verfügungsgebäude, VG 3.103 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenAbstract: The discourse about China’s challenge to the liberal world order assumes that such an order exists. This talk argues that there are instead multiple orders in different arenas (military, […]
Greg Distelhorst (MIT) & Diana Fu (University of Toronto): Citizenship & Bureaucracy in China
Waldweg -1.201 Waldweg 26, GöttingenArticulating Authoritatian Citizenship in China Greg Distelhorst (MIT) Evaluating the Bureaucracy in China and the US Diana Fu (University of Toronto) Short Bio: Greg Distelhorst: Greg Distelhorst is the Mitsubishi […]
Bene Bassetti (University of Warwick): „Chinese as a Second Language Writing System: Some Less Widely Researched Issues“
Verfügungsgebäude VG 2.108 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenAbstract: This talk will explore some less widely researched topics related to the learning and use of hanzi and pinyin in learners of Chinese as a Foreign Language. First, we […]
Florian Coulmas (Universität Duisburg-Essen): “Die Alphabetschrift ist an und für sich die intelligentere.“ Überlegungen zur Bewertung von Schriftsystemen unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Chinesischen
Theologicum, T0.134 Platz der Göttingen Sieben 2, GöttingenAbstract: Sind manche Schriftsysteme besser als andere? Gibt es sinnvolle und verlässliche Kriterien zur Bewertung von Schriftsystemen? Vor dem Hintergrund dieser Fragen vergleicht dieser Vortrag die chinesische Schrift mit anderen […]
Qin Yaqing (China Foreign Affairs University): Chinese culture and foreign policy decision (中国文化与外交决策)
Verfügungsgebäude VG 3.103 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenShort Bio of the lecturer: QIN Yaqing is President and Professor of China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU) and Chancellor of China Diplomatic Academy, Executive Vice-president of China National Association for […]
Dr. Liza Wing Man Kam: “Underneath the grand yellow imperial roofs of Martyrs’ Shrines: Taiwan’s colonial past and onwards and the political symbolisms at play”
MPI. Max-Planck Institute for Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity Hermann-Föge-Weg 12 (Villa), GöttingenAbstract: The paper investigates the shift of power symbolism represented in Shinto Shrines and Martyrs’ Shrines since the colonial era in Taiwan, through putting architectural/urban design theories into dialogue with […]
Vortragsreihe „On Stage: Chinesische Oper im Kulturkontakt“ – Karsten Gundermann, „China und die Barockmusik. Von Chinoiserien, Missionaren und gegenwärtigen Experimenten“
Tagungs- und Veranstaltungshaus Alte Mensa, Hannah-Vogt-Saal Wilhelmsplatz 3, GöttingenAbstract: In der Chinamode des Barockzeitalters verbindet sich europäische Neugier auf Kurioses und Fremdes mit Projektionen eigener Träume auf das ferne „Reich der Mitte“. Ballette, höfische Opern und Genrestücke der […]
Todd Hall (Oxford University): The Senkaku Islands Dispute: A MacGruffin?
Waldweg 9.102 Waldweg 26, Göttingen, DeutschlandShort Bio of the lecturer: Prof Hall earned his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2008 and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton and Harvard, as well as visiting […]
Dominique Hertzer: “Die Resonanz von Körper und Geist – Zur Philosophie des Geistes im Chinesischen Denken”
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.607 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenAbstract: Die chinesische Vorstellung vom „Geist“ (shen 神) wird oftmals mit der westlichen Vorstellung von der „Psyche“ oder „der Seele“ gleichgesetzt. Doch gibt es im Chinesischen Denken überhaupt Vorstellungen, die […]
Saori Katada (University of Southern California): “The BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft”
Verfügungsgebäude VG 3.103 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenAbstract: In the first decade of the 21st century, five rising powers (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) formed an exclusive and informal international club, the BRICS. Although neither […]
Vortragsreihe „On Stage: Chinesische Oper im Kulturkontakt“ – Dr. Andreas Seifert, „Bühnen aus Papier. Popularisierung von Opern- und Theaterstoffen im chinesischen Comic“
Theologicum, T0.134 Platz der Göttingen Sieben 2, GöttingenAbstract: In diesem Vortrag geht es um die Darstellung und Wiedergabe von Opern und anderen Bühnenstücken im chinesischen Comic (lianhuanhua 连环画). Dabei wird ein historischer Bogen gespannt, der bei der […]
Marijk van der Wende and Marcus Düwell (Utrecht University): The New Silk Road: Implications for higher education and research cooperation between China and Europe
Verfügungsgebäude VG 1.102 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenAbstract: Recent geopolitical events such as Brexit and the US turning its back on international trade and cooperation create waves of uncertainty in higher education regarding international cooperation, the free […]
Prof. Chen Huaiyu (Arizona State University): The animal turn in the study of global history: a religious perspective
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 2.601 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenAbstract: This talk will examine some key issues that concern scholars who attempt to figure out the historical roots of our contemporary problems. One the one hand, some scholars have […]