Lecture: Mu-chou Poo (Chinese University of Hong Kong): “Old society, New Belief: Religious transformation of Rome and China (1st – 6th c. CE)”
Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude, ZHG 004 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, GöttingenAbstract: Recently scholars in the study of antiquity around the world began to notice a trend of increasing interest in doing comparative studies. How should comparative study, particularly of the ancient world, be conducted, what are the benefits, what are the issues, are still problems that draw debates among scholars. This talk intends to use […]
Lecture: Jung-jen, Norman Tsai (National United University, Taiwan): “Japanese Colonial Shinto Shrines in Taiwan”
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 1.601 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, GöttingenAbstract: A lecture illustrated with the speaker’s latest field study on Japanese colonial Shinto shrines in Taiwan—the more than 400 Shinto Shrines built by the Japanese colonizers over the 50 years of colonization between 1895-1945—The lecture interprets the political, social and cultural meaning of these Shinto Shrines and their relics in the past and present. […]
Information meeting for our new master students in Modern Sinology
Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude, ZHG 002 Platz der Göttingen Sieben 5, GöttingenAll new students in the master program Modern Sinology are cordially invited to join the information meeting on October 12, 2018, at 1pm in room 002 of the ZHG (Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude).
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 been debating the intellectual and religious cause of the ecological crisis and the extinction of animal species across the global village. For instance, Lynn White […]
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 movement of students, academics, scientific knowledge, and ideas. Meanwhile China is launching new global initiatives with its New Silk Road (or One Belt One Road) […]
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 Bühne als Ausgangspunkt der chinesischen Comicentwicklung ansetzt, sich über die weitere Entwicklung der Comics als Mittel der politischen, kulturellen und technischen Bildung erstreckt und mit […]
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 revolutionaries nor extreme revisionists, the BRICS perceive an ongoing global power shift and contest the West’s pretensions to permanent stewardship of the existing economic order. […]
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 unseren Begriffen von Psyche oder Seele entsprechen? Ausgehend von den klassischen Fragen des Leib-Seele Diskurses im Abendland werden wir uns der chinesischen Vorstellung nähern, die […]
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 scholar appointments at the Free University of Berlin, Tsinghua University in Beijing, and the University of Tokyo. Prior to joining the University of Oxford, Prof […]
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 Kammermusik verlangten plötzlich nach chinesischen Klängen. Wie befriedigten die klassischen Komponisten Europas diese Nachfrage und welche Vorlagen nutzten sie? Was wusste man zur gleichen Zeit […]
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 political history. Three architectural complexes, Hualien Martyrs’ Shrine, Taipei National Revolutionary Martyrs’ Shrine and the Imperial Palace in Peking are interpreted in material and spatial […]
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 International Studies (CNAIS) and editor-in-chief of Foreign Affairs Review, the academic journal of CFAU and CNAIS. He was on the resource team for the UN […]
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 Schriften. Ausgangpunkt ist das in der Überschrift zitierte Verdikt des deutschen Philosophen Georg Friedrich Hegel, das eine positive Beantwortung der Frage nach einer möglichen qualitativen […]
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 will look at how the interword spacing conventions of CFL learners’ first languages affect their Chinese word awareness and their reading of hanzi sentences and […]
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 Career Development Professor and an Assistant Professor in Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research explores the social impact […]
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, trade, finance, information, environment, among others), and that there are tensions within and between these orders. China supports some of these orders, wants to reform […]
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 sees as the core component of Christian puritanism and as the foundational force for the rise of capitalism in Europe and America. This talk is […]
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 Language Acquisition in Chinese (SLAC). Though the research field has not yet been fully established with a framework and more specific guidelines, there have been […]
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 present, especially the ideological formations of Sinicization of Marxism (Chinese Marxism or Mao Zedong Thought),and “Socialism with Chinese Characteristics” (from Deng to Xi). To begin […]
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 activist scholar today? How should we think about the connections/separations between the two spheres of activism and academia? And how can activists and academics best […]
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 of justice be made compatible with, and even grounded upon, anti-colonial and democratic interventions? By analysing Indian involvement in the Tokyo Trial (1946-48), this paper […]
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 as among welfare clients from different social spaces (e.g. rural or urban areas). Since the Millennium an unprecedented and fast expanding social policy in the […]
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 way to a scarcity of goods entering China and to a great profitability of smuggling activities. While the ban on maritime trade never succeded in […]
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 more nationalist and inward-looking direction? Moreover, why is European Union, the model for regional integration, not only facing economic, financial and migration crises, but also […]
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 Qing Empire during the final year of the nineteenth century, paying particular attention to the varied ways these events were understood in different places at […]
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 is also Guest Professor at Nankai University (Tianjin, China). In 2012 she received the Lord Provost of Glasgow Education Award. In 2014 she was elected […]
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 has made a series of serious efforts on social policy implementation in rural areas, poverty as a problematic persistent issue is still perplexing owing to […]
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 ‘growing old before it grows rich,’ but the meanings and significance of this demographic event are not clear. A substantial body of scholarship, generally public […]