CeMEAS Double Feature: Art meets Academia Tuesday, December 17, 6pm, KWZ 0.607 Our “Xinjiang” Double Feature fosters dialogue between academia and arts as well as between Uyghur political activism and the inner psychology of experiencing modernity in an everyday context in Xinjiang. Lecture: Julie Chen, University College Cork Topic: The Internationalization of China’s Uyhur…
Year: 2013
Lecture Series
LECTURE: The Internationalization of China’s Uyghur Issues Julie Yu-wen Chen, University College Cork Tuesday, December 17, 2013 · 6 pm, KWZ, Room 0.607 This lecture explores the operation and coalition-building of Uyghur diasporic organizations in democratic countries. Since some Uyghur organizations have been lent notable legitimacy by liberal democracies and international governmental organizations, they can…
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LECTURE: Marcin Grabowski, Jagiellonian University U.S. Pivoting to Asia: Is there a real change in the American Foreign Policy towards China and the Asia- Pacific? Thursday, December 12, 2013, 6 pm KWZ, Room 0.603 G.W. Bush’s policy towards Asia-Pacific region was often perceived and described as neglectful. Occupied with other regions, especially Iraq and…
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LECTURE The Social Basis of Taiwan’s Liberalizing Cross-Strait Policies, 2008-2012 Chih-Jou Jay Chen of the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica Time13.12., 12-14 Uhr Room: VG 2.101 http://www.ios.sinica.edu.tw/fellow/chihjoujaychen/
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Lecture:Changing Cultures and Sociospatial Restructuring in Urban China: Shanghai Deljana Iossifova, University of Manchester Thursday, December 5, 2013 6 pm KWZ, Room 0.602 The talk explores closely linked processes of urban restructuring in China – rural-to-urban migration, urban redevelopment (including demolition and resettlement) and the ‘worlding’ of cities – through the lens of sanitation infrastructure…
Launch & Exhibition, Friday Dec 06, 2013 CETREN: The Politics of Secularism & The Emergence of New Religiosities With a photo exhibion on Secular Modernities and Uighur Muslims in Western China. Photographers: Ma Kang and Ablet Semet. Special guest talks by: John Bowen, Washington University, St. Louis. William Gould, University of Leeds. Peter Van der Veer, Max…
Questioning Modernity Conference
Göttingen 2013, Nov 22 – 24 Questioning Modernity: Critical Engagement with Western Knowledge in Late Imperial and Republican China 晚期中華帝國與民國時期針對西學的批判性交涉: 質問現代性 For three days from November 22 – 24 at the University of Göttingen scholars in the field of Chinese Studies debated ideas and exchanged experiences concerning the challenges and opportunities of researching questions related to the…
Questioning Modernity
Questioning Modernity 質問現代性 Critical Engagement with Western Knowledge in Late Imperial and Republican China 晚期中華帝國與民國時期針對西學的批判性交涉 Centre for Modern East Asian Studies/Göttingen, Institute of Modern History/Academia Sinica Nov. 22 to 24. 2013 Conference Theme Over the past 20 years, the development of modern knowledge in China has been a focus of much research. Core topics of debate…
Göttingen Lecture Series on Modern East Asia
LECTURE: The African Policies of EU and People‘s Republic of China Thursday, November 14, 2013 6 pm, KWZ, Room 0.603 Dr. Niall Duggan University of Göttingen Lecture Abstract: Both Europe and China have strong strategic interests in Africa. However, the actions of one of these two actors in Africa can often be counterproductive to the…
Göttingen Lecture Series on Modern East Asia
Lecture Series China goes global: Reflections on the Impact of a Rising Power Thursday, October 31, 2013, 6 pm, KWZ, Room 0.603 Prof. Bart Dessein Ghent University, Belgium Economic growth has increasingly interconnected China with world markets, and has given it an increasing clout in global politics and governance. This rise has, however, also…
Göttingen Lecture Series on Modern China
Göttingen Lecture Series 2013/14: Understanding China’s Global Impact This year’s lecture series deals with China’s rise and the consequences for the world as well as China’s homeland affairs. Thursday, 6pm, KWZ, Room 603 (602, 607) CeMEAS invited a number of experts from all over the globe to talk about China’s gobal impact: 31.10.13 Prof.…
Dr. Huang Weishan, Guest Researcher, 10.2013-10.2015
Dr. Huang Weishan Dr. Huang Weishan was a guest researcher at the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen. Before she was research associate at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity in Göttingen. What are your main research interests? My research interests focus on religious movements, migration…