Prof. Shaoxin DONG (Fudan University, Shanghai, PR China): „The Introduction of the Term „ASIA“ into China and Chinese responses“
Verfügungsgebäude, VG 1.108 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenAbstract: The three-continent system, including Europe, Asia and Africa, was invented by the ancient Greeks. In the Middle Ages, this system was explained in the Catholic theological context, which puts Jerusalem at the centre of T and O world map, and shows the continents as domains of the sons of Noah: Sem, Iafeth and Cham. […]
Prof. Olivier Remaud (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France) and Prof. Chunjie Zhang (University of California, Davis, USA): „Normative and Reflexive Ethics: Perspectives from China and the West, 1900-1950“
Verfügungsgebäude, VG 3.102 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenAbstract: In this joint event, Olivier Remaud and Chunjie Zhang will explore the possibility of using normativity and reflexivity as ethics in relation to environmental and cultural cosmopolitanisms in the first half of the twentieth century. Remaud will first lecture on “The World as Earth. Environmental Reflexivity and the Philological Mind.” From oceans filled with […]
CeMEAS/U4 Workshop & Public Panel: Towards a New Global Order? Ambitions, Scope and Challenges of China’s Belt and Road Initiative
Tagungs- und Veranstaltungshaus Alte Mensa Wilhelmsplatz 3, GöttingenHier erfahren Sie mehr.
Sonderführung durch den Forstbotanischen Garten der Universität Göttingen: China – Gehölze aus dem Reich der Mitte
Arboretum China, Bushaltestelle Tammanstraße am Nordcampus Tammanstraße, GöttingenDie Führung wird von Dipl.-Ing. Volker Meng im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe China’s Green Transformation im Sommersemester 2019 angeboten. Die Führungen sind kostenfrei und eine Anmeldung ist nicht nötig. Anfahrt und Treffpunkt: Arboretum China Bushaltestelle Tammanstraße am Nordcampus Route 1: Haltestelle Göttingen Campus (Linie 41) bis Goldschmidtstraße, dann zu Fuß 2 Minuten bis Haltestelle Tammanstraße Route […]
Prof. Selçuk Esenbel (Department of History, Boğaziçi University Istanbul): „Japan and China on the Silk Road: A Global History of Politics and Culture in Eurasia“
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.609 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenAbstract: Japan on the Silk Road is a global history of politics and culture from the late 19th century until the end of the second world war connected to the Great Game between competing empires of Russia, Britain, and China in the vast area of Eurasia across the Middle East and Central Asia. Between 1868-1945 […]
Prof. Dr. Martin Welp (Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development): “Greening for urban wellbeing: A Sustainability Assessment of the Kökyar Protection Forest in NW China”
Verfügungsgebäude, VG 4.103 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenAbstract: China has made remarkable achievements in increasing forest and vegetation cover in large parts of the country. The Three-North Shelter Forest Program (also known as the great green wall) is one the famous national initiatives to hold back desertification. On the local level, the city of Aksu, located at the fringe of the Taklimakan […]
Prof. Sheldon Garon (Department of History, Princeton University): „On the Transnational Destruction of Cities: What Japan and the U.S. learned from the Bombing of Britain, Germany, and China“
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.607Abtract: How did it become “normal” to bomb cities and civilians? Focusing on the aerial bombardment of China, Britain, Germany, and Japan in 1937-45, Garon spotlights the role of transnational learning in the construction of the “home front” among all the belligerents. World War II was a global experience, yet histories of the home front […]
The 14th Göttingen East Asia Research Salon: Measuring Reliability in the Wartime Transport of Provisions: The Case of Mao Yuanyi (1594-1641)
Verfügungsgebäude, VG 2.101 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenPresenter: Masato Hasegawa (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science) Commentators: Dr. Charlotte Backerra, Dr. Julia Schneider For an essay draft please contact us (assist@cemeas.uni-goettingen.de). Short Bio: Masato Hasegawa received his PhD in History from Yale University in 2013 and previously taught Chinese, Korean, and East Asian history at the University of Oregon, Columbia […]
FiReF-FIRSt International Conference: “The Global Dimensions of Religious Othering”
Emmy-Noether-Saal, Tagungs- und Veranstaltungshaus Alte Mensa Wilhelmsplatz 3, GöttingenThe topic of ‘religious othering’—stereotyping people of other faiths in a prejudicial way—has become an aspect of nationalist politics and social conflict throughout the world, including Europe and the United States. The conference will explore the various ways in which religious phenomena are related to the process of othering—identifying and maintaining group boundaries between those […]
The 13th Göttingen East Asia Research Salon: Mixed Identities in Northeast Chinese Borderlands: Koreans in Liaodong in the 15th to 17th centuries
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.701 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenPresenter: Hanning PIAO (Fudan University, Shanghai) Commentators: Yan JIN (Department of East Asian Studies, Göttingen) & Dr. Julia C. SCHNEIDER (Department of East Asian Studies, Göttingen) Abstract: Migration has existed throughout the history of human beings, affecting the identities of migrating peoples and the societies they migrate into. Before the world has been overwhelmed by […]
Guest Lectures on Chinese as a Foreign Language 汉语作为外语讲座
Verfügungsgebäude, VG 4.104 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenProf. LI Xiaoqi 李晓琪 (Peking University北京大学): 汉语虚词教学与研究 (Teaching and Research of Chinese Function Words) 摘要： 虚词是汉语语法的重要特点，是外国学生学习汉语的难点，外国学生在虚词学习方面存在着严重的“化石化”现象。如何把汉语虚词教学与研究有机地结合起来，摸索出科学有效的虚词教学方法和虚词研究模式，是每一位汉语教师及研究者需要面对的课题。本讲座与大家分享一路走来的虚词教学与研究心得。包括：虚词教学的原则（分清理论语法与教学语法）；虚词教学的方法（讲授与参与；练习与互动；表格与重现）和虚词教学案例分析。 Abstract: Chinese function words (虚词xuci ) are an important feature of Chinese grammar, and they stand for a point of difficulty for foreign students learning the Chinese language. In the study of function words, foreign students maintain a serious […]
China – Pflanzen aus dem Reich der Mitte Sonderführungen durch den Alten Botanischen Garten der Universität Göttingen
Alter Botanischer Garten Untere Karspüle 2, GöttingenIm Rahmen der Vortragsreihe China’s Green Transformation werden im Sommersemester 2019 Führungen zur Flora Chinas im Alten Botanischen Garten angeboten. Veranstalter der Vortragsreihe sind das Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) und das Akademische Konfuzius Institut (AKI) an der Universität Göttingen. Das detaillierte Programm der Vortragsreihe finden Sie auf unserer Webpage: www.cemeas.de. Termine für […]
Prof. Dr. Lena Hennigsen (Freiburg University): „Reading as creative and social practice: Unofficial popular entertainment literature during the Cultural Revolution“
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 1.731 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenAbstract: Most literary histories of Twentieth Century China describe the output of the Cultural Revolution (CR) in a few sentences or paragraphs. Legal and officially endorsed literary texts of the decade seem flat, dull and boring to today’s readers. The CR thus appears as a period of literary shortage that would be ended with post-CR […]
Li Hongtao 李红涛 (Zhegjiang University): “Defining a Green APP: Civic Tech, Digital Activism and Visions of Public Participation”
Verfügungsgebäude. VG 3.104 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenAbstract: With smog now constituting part of the daily health threats for Chinese people, many pollution tracking APPs have come into the market to meet the demand for smog related information. Taking one particular APP- “BlueSky Map”, which is originally known as Pollution Map, as the focal case, this talk will explore how grassroots activists […]
Prof. Dr. JIA Fang (Beijing Normal University): “Chinese Oral Expression Training in Overseas Language Environment”
Verfügungsgebäude, VG 3.106 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenAbstract: 摘要：在第二语言技能教学中，口头表达训练是学习者最需要教师帮助的项目之一，也是最能检验教师教学能力的科目，有很大的研究空间。本讲座的内容分为两个部分：第一部分：“汉语口头表达训练的基本问题与教学策略”，简要论述口语课的定位及教学目标，着重梳理教学中存在的实际问题和对应的教学策略。第二部分：“海外环境下的汉语口头表达训练”，分析海外环境下汉语口头表达训练的特点以及如何从教师、教材、教学方法等方面进行环境补偿。 In second language teaching, the training of oral competence is one of the most important skills for students that requires their teacher’s support. That is why it is as well one of the most representative subjects to proof the teacher’s teaching skills. Lots of research space remains within this topic. The lecture will […]
Eva Sternfeld (Sino-German Agricultural Centre): “Transforming China’s Agriculture and Food Sector – On path to sustainability?”
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.603 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenAbstract: China needs to feed about one fifth of the world population but has only 7 percent of world’s arable land. Ensuring food security has been always a challenge and agricultural intensification has been the program for decades. Since the 1970s technological developments such as mechanization, biotechnology and agrochemicals helped to achieve enormous increases in […]
Dr. Lee Chun-Yi (University of Nottingham): “Does China’s BRI have smart power on Southeast Asian countries?”
Verfügungsgebäude (VG) 2.103 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenAbstract: The One Belt One Road project (OBOR, later known as the Belt and Road Initiative, BRI), initiated by Chinese President Xi Jinping, took shape in October 2013. It is envisaged to connect vibrant East Asia and developed Europe via the Silk Road Economic Belt, linking China with European countries through the 21st Century Maritime […]
Prof. David Armitage (Harvard University): „In Defense of Presentism”
Tagungs- und Veranstaltungshaus Alte Mensa, Raum "Taberna" Wilhelmsplatz 3, GöttingenAbstract: Historians know one thing about presentism: they are against it. Yet what exactly presentism is, they cannot agree. Is it a focus on modern history or a novel way of thinking confined to the present at the expense of both past and future? Does it mean speaking only to the concerns of the present […]
Li-Jen Kuo (Texas A&M University, USA): „Acquisition of Chinese Characters by Second Language Learners: The Effects of Character Properties and Individual Differences“
Verfügungsgebäude, VG 3.106 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenAbstract: Recent years have witnessed a dramatic growth of Chinese learners worldwide and a need for cross-linguistic research on Chinese literacy development. Drawing upon theories of visual complexity effect (Su and Samuels, 2010) and dual-coding processing (Sadoski and Paivio, 2013), Dr. Li-Jen Kuo will present a study that investigated (a) the effects of character properties […]
4. Nacht des Wissens: Wang Yan & Christoph Zimmer (Ostasiatisches Seminar): “Chinesisch verstehen – China verstehen?”
Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude, ZHG 003 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, GöttingenZhèng dà guāng míng: 1706 steht Charles Maigrot vor dem chinesischen Kaiser. Als er aufgefordert wird, einige Schriftzeichen zu erläutern, versagt er kläglich. Kurz darauf werden die Missionare des Landes verwiesen. Legitimiert sprachliche Kompetenz kulturelle Expertise? Welche Bedeutung haben Sprache und Schrift zum Verständnis Chinas gestern und heute? Können wir China ohne Chinesisch verstehen? Diese […]
4. Nacht des Wissens: Katja Pessl (CeMEAS) & Daniel Fuchs (Ostasiatisches Seminar): “Sprachsalat und Fettnäpfchen: Chinesisch für Kinder und Erwachsene”
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.607Die Veranstaltung bietet eine humorvolle Einführung in Grundkenntnisse der chinesischen Sprache. Sie erlernen Grundstrukturen chinesischer Schriftzeichen und werden in die Herausforderungen der Übersetzung aus dem / in das Chinesische eingeführt. Zudem erwerben sie die Fähigkeit, ihren eigenen Namen am Ende der Veranstaltung in Form von chinesischen Schriftzeichen zu schreiben. Die Anzahl der Teilnehmer für diesen […]
Berufsinformationstag
Die einzelnen Veranstaltungsorte entnehmen Sie bitte dem obigen Link. Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenDie Seminare für Arabistik/ Islamwissenschaft, Iranstik, Turkologie und das Ostasiatische Seminar laden ein zum BerufsInformationsTag. Nähere Informationen zum Programm erhalten Sie hier.
Informations- und Diskussionsveranstaltung: “Arbeitskämpfe und die Verfolgung studentischer AktivistInnen in China”
Oeconomicum. OEC 0.211 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenMit: Michael Ma (SACOM, Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehaviour, Hongkong), Peter Birke und Daniel Fuchs (Georg-August-Universität Göttingen). Moderation: Katja Pessl (CeMEAS) Die Zahl der Streiks und Proteste in Chinas Weltmarktfabriken ist im vergangenen Jahrzehnt rasant angestiegen. Alleine zwischen 2015 und 2017 ereigneten sich mehr als 6.500 Arbeitskämpfe. Zugleich haben sich mit der Machtübernahme von […]
CANCELLED:Nicolas Standaert (University of Leuven (Belgium)): “AN INTERCULTURAL COMMUNICATION CIRCUIT OF BOOKS BETWEEN CHINA AND EUROPE IN THE SEVENTEENTH AND EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES: THE ESTABLISHMENT OF IN-BETWEEN TEXTUAL COMMUNITIES”
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.606 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenAbstract: A unique characteristic of the cultural contacts between China and Europe is the intercultural circuit of books: European books travelling to China and in return Chinese books travelling to Europe. A special feature was that a large number of intercultural books were translated and published into Chinese and others into European languages. What shape […]
Prof. Zhang Xupeng (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences): “Beyond National History: Some New Trends in Chinese History Writing”
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 0.610 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, DeutschlandAbstract: In recent years, many Chinese scholars have rethought the paradigm of national history. Consequently, research on borders and border-crossing history has become increasingly popular. In this context, some scholars argue that the formation of the Chinese nation is not a historically given process but rather the result of interactions between various internal and external […]
Prof. Dr. Christine Moll-Murata (Ruhr-Universität Bochum): “North-East Asian peripheries in focus: industrialization, architecture and city planning in Inner Mongolia”
Verfügungsgebäude, VG 3.107 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, GöttingenAbstract: Inner Mongolia belongs to the Northeast Asian Frontier Region as defined by Owen Lattimore. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, this macro-region has been subjected to various political impacts, Chinese, Japanese, and Russian. A recent research initiative based at Bochum and Duisburg sets out to consider especially the transnational and cross-border perspectives that […]
ASC Conference
Arbeitskreis Sozialwissenschaftliche Chinaforschung- Jahrestagung 2018 Hier erhalten Sie mehr Informationen.
Dharmameister Kaiyin: „Path to Happiness: Loving-kindness Meditation”
Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude, ZHG 004 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, GöttingenIm Kontext der Einführung in den Buddhismus (Teil des Moduls Geistesgeschichte) findet ein Gastvortrag statt. Ein führender Mönch vom Fagu-Kloster in Nordtaiwan kommt nach Göttingen und hält einen Vortrag zur buddhistischen Meditation. Sie alle sind herzlich eingeladen, diesen sicherlich spannenden Vortrag zum Buddhismus aus einer Innenperspektive zu besuchen. Sprache: Hochchinesisch mit Übersetzung ins Englische Übersetzer: […]