Symposium: The Politics of Civilizationalisms June 29, 2026 Convenors: Dominic Sachsenmaier and Srirupa Roy Historische Sternwarte, Geismar Landstrasse 11, 37083 Göttingen Abstract: Over the past two decades, there has been a worldwide resurgence of discourses that define peoples in terms of their unique civilizational identity and call for states to refurbish…
Year: 2026
Lecture: Self-Affirmation and Self-Discovery: Mutual Understandings between Chinese and Japanese Buddhism and the Construction of East Asian Buddhist Identities in Modern Era
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Lecture: The Formation of Chinese Buddhist Sectarianism: Centering on the Concepts of Zong and Jiao
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GCC #50 China-Schock 2.0: Wie kann die deutsche Automobilindustrie reagieren?
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Was macht einen Helden aus? Auf den Spuren des Affenkönigs und anderer legendärer Figuren
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Lecture: China and the US in a Changing Global Order: How Can History Help Us Read the Future?
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3rd Kiel-Göttingen-CEPR Conference China in the Global Economy
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New Research Training Group on China's Geoeconomic Rise Receives DFG Funding
New Research Training Group on China’s Geoeconomic Rise Receives DFG Funding The German Research Foundation (DFG) has approved funding for the new Research Training Group (RTG) “China-GRASP: China’s Geoeconomic Rise and the Accumulation of Structural Power” at the University of Göttingen in cooperation with the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel). Based at…
2nd Göttingen China Workshop on Globalization, Macroeconomics, and Development
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Workshop: Sprachen lernen mit Apps
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Workshop: Literaturbetrachtung und kreatives Schreiben in der chinesischsprachigen Literatur – Poesie und chinesischer Sprachunterricht
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Gastbeiträge: Neue Themen der Didaktik chinesischsprachiger Literatur und Kultur
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