Zen Workshop at CeMEAS Friday, January 31, 2014 10 am – 12 pm, KWZ 0.607 Prof. Steven Heine, Florida International University Steven Heine, one of the most distinguished researchers in the field of Zen-Buddhism, will conduct a workshop discussing his latest publication: Sacred High City, Sacred Low City. http://asian.fiu.edu/about/director/ Picture:…
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LECTURE: Die chinesische Wahrnehmung Europas – Perzeptionen, Adaptionen und konzeptionelle Differenzen Wednesday, January 29, 2014 6pm, KWZ 1.731 May-Britt Stumbaum, Freie Univerität Berlin Picture: Jonsson, http://www.flickr.com/photos/karljonsson/ Lizenz: Creative CommonsAttribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported
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LECTURE: The PR China and the International Human Rights System Thursday, January 23, 2014 6 pm KWZ, Room 0.603 Peter-Tobias Stoll, Göttingen University One of the most controversial issues about the PR China concerns its commitment to respect, protect and fulfill human rights. After explaining the international human rights system, including standards, institutions and…
CETREN Speaker Series
CETREN – The CeMIS-CeMEAS Transregional Research Network: Speakers’ Series Thursday 23 January 2014, 2-4pm Waldweg 26 (Tower Building) Room 6.103 – Level 6 Militancy and Dissidence: Radical Aesthetics and Radical Politics in the 20th Century Yi Zheng, The University of New South Wales The late British historian Eric Hobsbawm characterized the twentieth century as the…
Double Feature: Art meets Academia
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…
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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…
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.…