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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture and Roundtable Discussion - Prof. Prasenjit Duara
DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture and Roundtable Discussion\nSustainability and the Crisis of Transcendence: The Long View from Asia \nPublic Lecture by Prof. Dr. Prasenjit Duara\, Duke University\nWednesday June 22\, 18:00-20:00 0.602 KWZ\nThe rise of Asia and China in particular has been accompanied by the need to project a new\, more just vision of the world that is not simply a new hegemony. Many Chinese intellectuals have sought to find inspiration in their historical and transcendent universalisms such as ‘all-under-heaven’ (tianxia). The paper is an effort to think through\nthe conceptual and political framework for understanding transcendence in post-Western modernity. Historically\, universalisms have been the source of ideals\, principles and ethics. Modern universalisms – developed from Kant to Marx – are apparently in retreat\, yielding to nationalism and consumerism.Yet the physical salvation of the world is of greatest urgency and becoming\, in some quarters\, the transcendent goal of our times. It will\, however\, need to transcend exclusive national sovereignty for its realization. The role of transnational civil society and NGOs as much as quasi-governmental and transnational agencies\, are crucial for this realization. Older approaches of dialogical transcendence may furnish us with useful methodologies of linking the personal\, the community\, the environment and the world.\nRegionalizing the Global\, Globalizing the Regional: An interdisciplinary conversation\nThursday June 23\, 9:15-11:00\n0.602 KWZ (please note the new venue!)\nRoundtable discussion with\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProf. Dr. Prasenjit Duara\, Duke University\nProf. Dr. Peter van der Veer\, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity\, Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Ravi Ahuja\, Centre for Modern Indian Studies\nProf. Dr. Matthias Koenig\, Institute for Sociology\nProf. Dr. Srirupa Roy\, Centre for Modern Indian Studies\nProf. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmeier\, Centre for Modern East Asian Studies\n\nTransregional Studies at Göttingen\nPresented by the Forum for Transregional and Global Studies\, CETREN\, CeMIS\, CeMEAS\, Academic Confucius-Institute & the Center for Theory of Culture and Society (ZTMK)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/guest-lecture-and-roundtable-discussion-prof-prasenjit-duara-2/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum (KWZ)
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture and Roundtable Discussion - Prof. Prasenjit Duara
DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture and Roundtable Discussion\nSustainability and the Crisis of Transcendence: The Long View from Asia \nPublic Lecture by Prof. Dr. Prasenjit Duara\, Duke University\nWednesday June 22\, 18:00-20:00 0.602 KWZ\nThe rise of Asia and China in particular has been accompanied by the need to project a new\, more just vision of the world that is not simply a new hegemony. Many Chinese intellectuals have sought to find inspiration in their historical and transcendent universalisms such as ‘all-under-heaven’ (tianxia). The paper is an effort to think through\nthe conceptual and political framework for understanding transcendence in post-Western modernity. Historically\, universalisms have been the source of ideals\, principles and ethics. Modern universalisms – developed from Kant to Marx – are apparently in retreat\, yielding to nationalism and consumerism.Yet the physical salvation of the world is of greatest urgency and becoming\, in some quarters\, the transcendent goal of our times. It will\, however\, need to transcend exclusive national sovereignty for its realization. The role of transnational civil society and NGOs as much as quasi-governmental and transnational agencies\, are crucial for this realization. Older approaches of dialogical transcendence may furnish us with useful methodologies of linking the personal\, the community\, the environment and the world.\nRegionalizing the Global\, Globalizing the Regional: An interdisciplinary conversation\nThursday June 23\, 9:15-11:00\n0.602 KWZ (please note the new venue!)\nRoundtable discussion with\n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProf. Dr. Prasenjit Duara\, Duke University\nProf. Dr. Peter van der Veer\, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity\, Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Ravi Ahuja\, Centre for Modern Indian Studies\nProf. Dr. Matthias Koenig\, Institute for Sociology\nProf. Dr. Srirupa Roy\, Centre for Modern Indian Studies\nProf. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmeier\, Centre for Modern East Asian Studies\n\nTransregional Studies at Göttingen\nPresented by the Forum for Transregional and Global Studies\, CETREN\, CeMIS\, CeMEAS\, Academic Confucius-Institute & the Center for Theory of Culture and Society (ZTMK)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/guest-lecture-and-roundtable-discussion-prof-prasenjit-duara/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum (KWZ)
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160629T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160629T180000
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SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture: The Realization of One Belt One Road?
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS Lecture\nThe Realization of One Belt One Road?\nWednesday June 29\, 2016  · 4 pm (c.t.) ·  Oec 1.163\nDr. Chun-Yi Lee\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Nottingham \nThe One Belt One Road (OBOR) project initiated by the President Xi Jing Ping\, took shape in March 2015. It is envisaged to connect vibrant East Asia and developed Europe via Silk Road Economic Belt\, linking China with European countries via the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. Its ultimate goal is to facilitate the trade and investment in Euroasia and promote economic growth.\nThe first step is to build upon necessarily infrastructure to facilitate the logistic trafficking\, enormous financial input is required for the initial infrastructure construction. The aim of OBOR\, therefore is to build networks of connectivity. It has to be noted that the geographical connections of ‘belt’ and ‘road’ are multiple. Two routes for silk road routes\, namely 21st Century maritime Silk Road and Maritime Silk Road Continental extension\, three main corridors embedded in Silk Road Economic belt\, respectively are Northern corridor\, Central corridor and Southern corridor\, Two main railway routes are Silk Rout trains and Trans-Siberian Railway. This corridor is extremely challenge not only because Xinjiang has already been troublous extremist segregation part. Most importantly\, what exactly the infrastructure that China intends to invest/build up from Xinjiang to Central Asian countries? This presentation therefore aims to analyse how realistic China can implement the multiple belts and roads project. \n  \nImage: By Jacopo\, Crossroads\, CC BY 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/HeCACA\nDesign: CeMEAS \n  \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/cemeas-lecture-the-realization-of-one-belt-one-road-2/
LOCATION:Oec 1.163\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 3\, Göttingen\, 37073\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160629T160000
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SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture: The Realization of One Belt One Road?
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS Lecture\nThe Realization of One Belt One Road?\nWednesday June 29\, 2016  · 4 pm (c.t.) ·  Oec 1.163\nDr. Chun-Yi Lee\, Faculty of Social Sciences\, The University of Nottingham \nThe One Belt One Road (OBOR) project initiated by the President Xi Jing Ping\, took shape in March 2015. It is envisaged to connect vibrant East Asia and developed Europe via Silk Road Economic Belt\, linking China with European countries via the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. Its ultimate goal is to facilitate the trade and investment in Euroasia and promote economic growth.\nThe first step is to build upon necessarily infrastructure to facilitate the logistic trafficking\, enormous financial input is required for the initial infrastructure construction. The aim of OBOR\, therefore is to build networks of connectivity. It has to be noted that the geographical connections of ‘belt’ and ‘road’ are multiple. Two routes for silk road routes\, namely 21st Century maritime Silk Road and Maritime Silk Road Continental extension\, three main corridors embedded in Silk Road Economic belt\, respectively are Northern corridor\, Central corridor and Southern corridor\, Two main railway routes are Silk Rout trains and Trans-Siberian Railway. This corridor is extremely challenge not only because Xinjiang has already been troublous extremist segregation part. Most importantly\, what exactly the infrastructure that China intends to invest/build up from Xinjiang to Central Asian countries? This presentation therefore aims to analyse how realistic China can implement the multiple belts and roads project. \n  \nImage: By Jacopo\, Crossroads\, CC BY 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/HeCACA\nDesign: CeMEAS \n  \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/cemeas-lecture-the-realization-of-one-belt-one-road/
LOCATION:Oec 1.163\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 3\, Göttingen\, 37073\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160706T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160706T180000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
CREATED:20160617T112828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160617T112828Z
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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Common Elements of an Axial Age? Comparative Perspectives on Ancient China and Ancient Egypt
DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture\nCommon Elements of an Axial Age? Comparative Perspectives on Ancient China and Ancient Egypt\nWednesday July 6\, 2016  · 4 pm (c.t.) ·  KWZ 0.608\nProf. Mu-Chou Poo\, Department of History\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong \nIn this lecture Prof. Poo re-examines the theory of the Axial Age by first investigating the case of China\, situating the findings in the context of the on-going scholarly discussions on the idea of the Axial Age as proposed by Jaspers and expounded by subsequent generations of scholars. A comparison with the case of ancient Egypt will then follow\, examining burial custom of ancient Egypt and the associated funerary texts. This lecture essentially holds that the concept of the Axial Age\, a philosophical interpretation of certain historical phenomena found in a number of early civilizations\, should not be seen as a “historical rule” or “evolutionary rule” in the development of the history of mankind. The concept might be a useful starting point to engage in the comparative study of civilizations\, but it also has the problem of favoring certain cultural traits in selected civilizations\, and ignoring some other parts and aspects of human history if we wish to see humanity as really a united one. \n  \nImage: By Pulpolux !!!\, Central Axis\, CC BY 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/CXm48\nDesign: CeMEAS \n  \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/4262/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum (KWZ)
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160706T180000
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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Common Elements of an Axial Age? Comparative Perspectives on Ancient China and Ancient Egypt
DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture\nCommon Elements of an Axial Age? Comparative Perspectives on Ancient China and Ancient Egypt\nWednesday July 6\, 2016  · 4 pm (c.t.) ·  KWZ 0.608\nProf. Mu-Chou Poo\, Department of History\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong \nIn this lecture Prof. Poo re-examines the theory of the Axial Age by first investigating the case of China\, situating the findings in the context of the on-going scholarly discussions on the idea of the Axial Age as proposed by Jaspers and expounded by subsequent generations of scholars. A comparison with the case of ancient Egypt will then follow\, examining burial custom of ancient Egypt and the associated funerary texts. This lecture essentially holds that the concept of the Axial Age\, a philosophical interpretation of certain historical phenomena found in a number of early civilizations\, should not be seen as a “historical rule” or “evolutionary rule” in the development of the history of mankind. The concept might be a useful starting point to engage in the comparative study of civilizations\, but it also has the problem of favoring certain cultural traits in selected civilizations\, and ignoring some other parts and aspects of human history if we wish to see humanity as really a united one. \n  \nImage: By Pulpolux !!!\, Central Axis\, CC BY 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/CXm48\nDesign: CeMEAS \n  \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/4262-2/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum (KWZ)
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160706T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160706T200000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
CREATED:20160617T113448Z
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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Chinese Humanities in the Global Era
DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture\nChinese Humanities in the Global Era\nWednesday July 6\, 2016  · 6 pm (c.t.) ·  KWZ 0.602\nProf. Hsiung Ping-Chen\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong \nThe Term “Humanities” is often used in reference to disciplinary academic humanities: a modern\, institutional subject. That its development is usually a product (or byproduct) of cultural politics in nation-building can be taken for granted. In the case of China\, however\, the long and complicated civilization evidenced before the modern era—since Neolithic times\, with literary texts that date back thousands of years—presents us with the particular problem of deciding whether “national” is the best and most representative designation for the evolution of Chinese humanities as a disciplinary subject or for the cultural heritage behind it. The developmental phases of Chinese humanities provide us with a good tool for considering the nature of “national” humanities in an era that is increasingly global. The fact that “Chinese” humanistic studies are the product of an ancient civilization has also given them an undeniable regional quality\, which explains why they continue to exhibit characteristics that appear to be more broadly “East Asian.” In crises or opportunities involving Chinese academic and public humanities\, therefore\, the interplay of this national and intrinsically regional character may help scholars to address the complex yet fundamental questions behind the assumption that any humanities can be labeled as national or regional in this global era. \n  \nImage: By Kevin Doncaster\, Marbles\, CC BY 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/ChipsX\nDesign: CeMEAS \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/guest-lecture-chinese-humanities-in-the-global-era/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum (KWZ)
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160706T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160706T200000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
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SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Chinese Humanities in the Global Era
DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture\nChinese Humanities in the Global Era\nWednesday July 6\, 2016  · 6 pm (c.t.) ·  KWZ 0.602\nProf. Hsiung Ping-Chen\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong \nThe Term “Humanities” is often used in reference to disciplinary academic humanities: a modern\, institutional subject. That its development is usually a product (or byproduct) of cultural politics in nation-building can be taken for granted. In the case of China\, however\, the long and complicated civilization evidenced before the modern era—since Neolithic times\, with literary texts that date back thousands of years—presents us with the particular problem of deciding whether “national” is the best and most representative designation for the evolution of Chinese humanities as a disciplinary subject or for the cultural heritage behind it. The developmental phases of Chinese humanities provide us with a good tool for considering the nature of “national” humanities in an era that is increasingly global. The fact that “Chinese” humanistic studies are the product of an ancient civilization has also given them an undeniable regional quality\, which explains why they continue to exhibit characteristics that appear to be more broadly “East Asian.” In crises or opportunities involving Chinese academic and public humanities\, therefore\, the interplay of this national and intrinsically regional character may help scholars to address the complex yet fundamental questions behind the assumption that any humanities can be labeled as national or regional in this global era. \n  \nImage: By Kevin Doncaster\, Marbles\, CC BY 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/ChipsX\nDesign: CeMEAS \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/guest-lecture-chinese-humanities-in-the-global-era-2/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum (KWZ)
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160707T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160707T200000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
CREATED:20160630T122231Z
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SUMMARY:Gastvortrag: Ein Postkolonialer Denker avant la lettre?  Takeuchi Yoshimi\, sein Asianismus und die Kritik an der Moderne
DESCRIPTION:Gastvortrag\nEin Postkolonialer Denker avant la lettre? Takeuchi Yoshimi\, sein Asianismus und die Kritik an der Moderne\nThursday July 7\, 2016  · 6 pm (c.t.) ·  KWZ 3.701\nProf. Viren Murthy\, Department of History\, University of Wisconsin-Madison \nIn den 1980er Jahren begann eine zentrale Auseinandersetzung zwischen Marxisten und postkolonialen Theoretikern. Letztere kritisierten den Marxismus als eurozentrisch. Ihrer Meinung nach sahen Marxisten die europäische Geschichte als universell gültig und nutzten daher das europäische Entwicklungsmodell um Asien zu erklären. So verwendeten die Marxisten Kategorien wie Sklavengesellschaft und Feudalismus\, um die chinesische\, japanische und indische Geschichte zu interpretieren. In dieser Hinsicht erscheint der bekannte japanische Intellektuelle Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977) als postkolonialer Denker avant la lettre.  In seiner Beschäftigung mit chinesischen Autoren und  Politikern wie etwa Lu Xun\, Sun Yat-sen und Mao Zedong kritisiert Takeuchi Kategorien wie Ost und West und entwickelt dadurch eine neue politische Sicht von Asien. Seiner Meinung nach wurde der Orient durch den Imperialismus erschaffen und daher als weniger fortschrittlich beurteilt als der Okzident. Intellektuelle im Orient setzen diese Wertung voraus\, obwohl sie gegen den Westen kämpfen\, denn in der Dialektik der 4.-Mai-Bewegung in China oder in der japanischen Meiji-Restauration kämpften chinesische und japanische Intellektuelle gegen den Imperialismus. In diesen Bewegungen verleugneten die Intellektuellen jedoch ihre eigene Kultur\, die sie als ein Hindernis für die Modernisierung sahen.  Takeuchi lieferte  hier eine neue Interpretation mit seiner Kritik an Ost und West. \nTakeuchi machte seinen Standpunkt durch seine eigene Auslegung von Lu Xun deutlich.  Lu Xun ist der bekannteste moderne Schriftsteller in China und  war nach den 1930er Jahren in China als Verteidiger der Modernisierung bekannt.  Als Takeuchis berühmtes Buch über Lu Xun 1944 erschien war er wahrscheinlich einer der ersten\, der Lu Xun als Kritiker der Moderne\, oder zumindest als einen der Moderne gegenüber zwiegespaltenen Denker\, einschätzte. Heutzutage ist eine solche Interpretation weit verbreitet. Der chinesische Neulinke Wang Hui hat beispielsweise in den späten 1980er Jahren eine ähnliche Interpretation von Lu Xun entwickelt. Dank des Einflusses subalterner und postkolonialer Studien in den 1990er Jahren haben Japanologen und wie Sinologen Takeuchi Yoshimi und seine Lu-Xun-Interpretation wiederentdeckt. In seinem Buch Takeuchi Yoshimi: Displacing the West (2004) versucht Richard Calichman Takeuchi philosophisch auszulegen und Takeuchis Begriff von Gefühl bzw. Passivität auf Basis der Thesen von Derrida und Jean-Luc Nancy zu erklären. \nChristian Uhls Wer War Takeuchis Lu Xun hingegen versucht Takeuchi von einer historischen Seite anzugehen und erklärt\, wie Takeuchi einige Begriffe und auch den theoretischen Rahmen von Nishida Kitaro verwendet. Ich versuche diese beiden Methoden weiterzuentwickeln\, konzentriere mich aber mehr auf die die Bedingungen der Interpretation Takeuchis sowie darauf\, wie solche Bedingungen mit den globalen Phänomenen des Kapitalismus und Imperialismus verknüpft sind. Takeuchi versucht  nämlich hier alternative Arten von Transzendenz zu entdecken und konstruiert durch eine literarische bzw. religiöse Transzendenz seine politische Vision. Seiner Meinung nach ist eine solche politische Transzendenz von einer eurozentrischen Perspektive aus nicht zu finden.  Die politische Vision\, die Takeuchi in China und Asien findet\, basiert auf einer anderen Art\, die Politik\, Religion und Literatur verbindet. In diesem Vortrag beabsichtige ich\, Takeuchis politische Ansicht von Asien bzw. seine Auslegung von Lu Xuns politischer Ansicht in einer Theorie des Kapitalismus zu begründen. Es ist bekannt\, daß Okawa Shumei Religion und Politik verbunden hat. Takeuchi versucht sich jedoch an dem Projekt\, Politik\, Religion und Literatur zu verknüpfen. Dieses Vorgehen ist mit der Suche nach einer Welt jenseits des Kapitalismus verbunden. Es ist zudem sein eigener Versuch\, eine neue sozialistische Politik zu schaffen. Wir können seinen Versuch postkolonial nennen\, aber trotzdem gibt es auch eine hegelianische Dimension\, weil Takeuchi danach strebt\, durch die Vermittlung Asiens westliche Ideale wie Freiheit und Egalität auf einer höheren Ebene zu realisieren. \n  \nImage: By guercio\, it depends on the cage you are in  CC BY 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/6ctyJd\nPoster Design: CeMEAS \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/guestlecture-ein-postkolonialer-denker-avant-la-lettre-takeuchi-yoshimi-sein-asianismus-und-die-kritik-der-moderne/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum (KWZ)
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160707T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160707T200000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
CREATED:20160630T122231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160630T122231Z
UID:5410-1467914400-1467921600@www.cemeas.de
SUMMARY:Gastvortrag: Ein Postkolonialer Denker avant la lettre?  Takeuchi Yoshimi\, sein Asianismus und die Kritik an der Moderne
DESCRIPTION:Gastvortrag\nEin Postkolonialer Denker avant la lettre? Takeuchi Yoshimi\, sein Asianismus und die Kritik an der Moderne\nThursday July 7\, 2016  · 6 pm (c.t.) ·  KWZ 3.701\nProf. Viren Murthy\, Department of History\, University of Wisconsin-Madison \nIn den 1980er Jahren begann eine zentrale Auseinandersetzung zwischen Marxisten und postkolonialen Theoretikern. Letztere kritisierten den Marxismus als eurozentrisch. Ihrer Meinung nach sahen Marxisten die europäische Geschichte als universell gültig und nutzten daher das europäische Entwicklungsmodell um Asien zu erklären. So verwendeten die Marxisten Kategorien wie Sklavengesellschaft und Feudalismus\, um die chinesische\, japanische und indische Geschichte zu interpretieren. In dieser Hinsicht erscheint der bekannte japanische Intellektuelle Takeuchi Yoshimi (1910-1977) als postkolonialer Denker avant la lettre.  In seiner Beschäftigung mit chinesischen Autoren und  Politikern wie etwa Lu Xun\, Sun Yat-sen und Mao Zedong kritisiert Takeuchi Kategorien wie Ost und West und entwickelt dadurch eine neue politische Sicht von Asien. Seiner Meinung nach wurde der Orient durch den Imperialismus erschaffen und daher als weniger fortschrittlich beurteilt als der Okzident. Intellektuelle im Orient setzen diese Wertung voraus\, obwohl sie gegen den Westen kämpfen\, denn in der Dialektik der 4.-Mai-Bewegung in China oder in der japanischen Meiji-Restauration kämpften chinesische und japanische Intellektuelle gegen den Imperialismus. In diesen Bewegungen verleugneten die Intellektuellen jedoch ihre eigene Kultur\, die sie als ein Hindernis für die Modernisierung sahen.  Takeuchi lieferte  hier eine neue Interpretation mit seiner Kritik an Ost und West. \nTakeuchi machte seinen Standpunkt durch seine eigene Auslegung von Lu Xun deutlich.  Lu Xun ist der bekannteste moderne Schriftsteller in China und  war nach den 1930er Jahren in China als Verteidiger der Modernisierung bekannt.  Als Takeuchis berühmtes Buch über Lu Xun 1944 erschien war er wahrscheinlich einer der ersten\, der Lu Xun als Kritiker der Moderne\, oder zumindest als einen der Moderne gegenüber zwiegespaltenen Denker\, einschätzte. Heutzutage ist eine solche Interpretation weit verbreitet. Der chinesische Neulinke Wang Hui hat beispielsweise in den späten 1980er Jahren eine ähnliche Interpretation von Lu Xun entwickelt. Dank des Einflusses subalterner und postkolonialer Studien in den 1990er Jahren haben Japanologen und wie Sinologen Takeuchi Yoshimi und seine Lu-Xun-Interpretation wiederentdeckt. In seinem Buch Takeuchi Yoshimi: Displacing the West (2004) versucht Richard Calichman Takeuchi philosophisch auszulegen und Takeuchis Begriff von Gefühl bzw. Passivität auf Basis der Thesen von Derrida und Jean-Luc Nancy zu erklären. \nChristian Uhls Wer War Takeuchis Lu Xun hingegen versucht Takeuchi von einer historischen Seite anzugehen und erklärt\, wie Takeuchi einige Begriffe und auch den theoretischen Rahmen von Nishida Kitaro verwendet. Ich versuche diese beiden Methoden weiterzuentwickeln\, konzentriere mich aber mehr auf die die Bedingungen der Interpretation Takeuchis sowie darauf\, wie solche Bedingungen mit den globalen Phänomenen des Kapitalismus und Imperialismus verknüpft sind. Takeuchi versucht  nämlich hier alternative Arten von Transzendenz zu entdecken und konstruiert durch eine literarische bzw. religiöse Transzendenz seine politische Vision. Seiner Meinung nach ist eine solche politische Transzendenz von einer eurozentrischen Perspektive aus nicht zu finden.  Die politische Vision\, die Takeuchi in China und Asien findet\, basiert auf einer anderen Art\, die Politik\, Religion und Literatur verbindet. In diesem Vortrag beabsichtige ich\, Takeuchis politische Ansicht von Asien bzw. seine Auslegung von Lu Xuns politischer Ansicht in einer Theorie des Kapitalismus zu begründen. Es ist bekannt\, daß Okawa Shumei Religion und Politik verbunden hat. Takeuchi versucht sich jedoch an dem Projekt\, Politik\, Religion und Literatur zu verknüpfen. Dieses Vorgehen ist mit der Suche nach einer Welt jenseits des Kapitalismus verbunden. Es ist zudem sein eigener Versuch\, eine neue sozialistische Politik zu schaffen. Wir können seinen Versuch postkolonial nennen\, aber trotzdem gibt es auch eine hegelianische Dimension\, weil Takeuchi danach strebt\, durch die Vermittlung Asiens westliche Ideale wie Freiheit und Egalität auf einer höheren Ebene zu realisieren. \n  \nImage: By guercio\, it depends on the cage you are in  CC BY 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/6ctyJd\nPoster Design: CeMEAS \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/guestlecture-ein-postkolonialer-denker-avant-la-lettre-takeuchi-yoshimi-sein-asianismus-und-die-kritik-der-moderne-2/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum (KWZ)
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160708T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160708T160000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
CREATED:20160701T071714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160701T071714Z
UID:4278-1467986400-1467993600@www.cemeas.de
SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Floating Gods\, Ghosts\, and Ancestors in North China Plain
DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture\nFloating Gods\, Ghosts\, and Ancestors in North China Plain: Boat-dwelling Fisherpeople’s Mobile Pantheon and Ancestral Hall\nFriday July 8\, 2016 · 2 pm (c.t.) · KWZ 0.610\nChing-chih Lin\n Graduate Institute of Religious Studies\, National Chengchi University \nThis talk focuses on how environmental change transformed the religious culture by examining the floating community of boat-dwelling fisherpeople in freshwater in North China. These mobile\, isolated boat people adapted to a boat-dwelling lifestyle\, organized aquatic social groups\, and created innovative religious practices and beliefs in order to maintain their relationships with spirits and ancestors\, as well as dispersed lineage members\, given that they had no fixed base on land to build temples\, ancestral shrines or tombs. These boat dwellers were displaced from their land-based estates and became environmental refugees during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. More than hundred thousands of boat-dwellers moved back and forth via interconnected waterways among lakes and Grand Canal in North Jiangsu\, Southwest Shandong\, and the Huai River valleys of Anhui. The isolation of the boat people protected their unique religious activities from the anti-religious campaigns of the twentieth century. Their ritual tradition Duangu Ceremony was granted the status of National Intangible Cultural Heritage by the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China in 2011. \nSome significant elements and structures of religious belief and practice of boat people\, namely their ancestral worship and central rituals for deities\, remained unchanged\, transcending differences in occupation\, social status\, and environment for centuries. With the assistance of ritualists within the floating community\, these boat people endeavored to continue their genealogies and maintain ancestor worship\, practices that were equally important to farmers. These shared components can help us rethink core elements and structures of Chinese popular culture\, previously based on farmers’ experiences\, and discern which features are the most significant in Chinese popular religion and how and why they play such vital roles. More importantly\, core cultural elements have been resilient and resistant to environmental change. \nImage: By Lawrence Siu\, the grand canal\, CC BY 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/4jAW6\,
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/guest-lecture-floating-gods-ghosts-ancestors-north-china-plain/
LOCATION:KWZ\, Heinrich Düker Weg 14\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160708T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160708T160000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
CREATED:20160701T071714Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160701T071714Z
UID:5411-1467986400-1467993600@www.cemeas.de
SUMMARY:Guest Lecture: Floating Gods\, Ghosts\, and Ancestors in North China Plain
DESCRIPTION:Guest Lecture\nFloating Gods\, Ghosts\, and Ancestors in North China Plain: Boat-dwelling Fisherpeople’s Mobile Pantheon and Ancestral Hall\nFriday July 8\, 2016 · 2 pm (c.t.) · KWZ 0.610\nChing-chih Lin\n Graduate Institute of Religious Studies\, National Chengchi University \nThis talk focuses on how environmental change transformed the religious culture by examining the floating community of boat-dwelling fisherpeople in freshwater in North China. These mobile\, isolated boat people adapted to a boat-dwelling lifestyle\, organized aquatic social groups\, and created innovative religious practices and beliefs in order to maintain their relationships with spirits and ancestors\, as well as dispersed lineage members\, given that they had no fixed base on land to build temples\, ancestral shrines or tombs. These boat dwellers were displaced from their land-based estates and became environmental refugees during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. More than hundred thousands of boat-dwellers moved back and forth via interconnected waterways among lakes and Grand Canal in North Jiangsu\, Southwest Shandong\, and the Huai River valleys of Anhui. The isolation of the boat people protected their unique religious activities from the anti-religious campaigns of the twentieth century. Their ritual tradition Duangu Ceremony was granted the status of National Intangible Cultural Heritage by the Ministry of Culture of the People’s Republic of China in 2011. \nSome significant elements and structures of religious belief and practice of boat people\, namely their ancestral worship and central rituals for deities\, remained unchanged\, transcending differences in occupation\, social status\, and environment for centuries. With the assistance of ritualists within the floating community\, these boat people endeavored to continue their genealogies and maintain ancestor worship\, practices that were equally important to farmers. These shared components can help us rethink core elements and structures of Chinese popular culture\, previously based on farmers’ experiences\, and discern which features are the most significant in Chinese popular religion and how and why they play such vital roles. More importantly\, core cultural elements have been resilient and resistant to environmental change. \nImage: By Lawrence Siu\, the grand canal\, CC BY 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/4jAW6\,
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/guest-lecture-floating-gods-ghosts-ancestors-north-china-plain-2/
LOCATION:KWZ\, Heinrich Düker Weg 14\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160725T161500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160725T180000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
CREATED:20160718T082629Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160718T082629Z
UID:5413-1469463300-1469469600@www.cemeas.de
SUMMARY:Lecture Series: What’s Religious about a Dead Body? Cadaver Donations in Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS lecture:\nWhat’s Religious about a Dead Body? Cadaver Donations in Taiwan \nMonday July 25\, 2016  · 4 pm (c.t.)  ·  KWZ 0.610\n Prof. C. Julia Huang\, National Tsing Hua University\, Taiwan/VisitingScholar\, The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies\, Stanford University \nDrawing from ethnographies\, in this lecture Prof. Huang will explore the phenomenon of a recent “surge” of cadaver donations for medical purposes in Taiwan. The setting is a university founded by Tzu Chi (Ciji)\, a charismatic movement that runs one of the largest charities of Chinese Buddhism in the world. Since Tzu Chi founded its medical school in 1994\, the total number of donors for whole body donation for medical education has increased from one in 1995 to over 34\,000 in 2013. To what extent is this increase of willed bodies a religious phenomenon? What is religious about the dead body? In this lecture\, Prof. Huang will analyze her ethnographies with different approaches to religion\, in hope that her work will shed light on the shifting concept of religion in a modern and multicultural context. \nImage: By University of Liverpool Faculty of Health & Life Sciences\, Anatomical diagram of the human skeleton (rear view)\, CC BY-SA 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/huDYbS\nDesign: CeMEAS
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-series-whats-religious-dead-body-cadaver-donations-taiwan-2/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum (KWZ)
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160725T161500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160725T180000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
CREATED:20160718T082629Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160718T082629Z
UID:4296-1469463300-1469469600@www.cemeas.de
SUMMARY:Lecture Series: What’s Religious about a Dead Body? Cadaver Donations in Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS lecture:\nWhat’s Religious about a Dead Body? Cadaver Donations in Taiwan \nMonday July 25\, 2016  · 4 pm (c.t.)  ·  KWZ 0.610\n Prof. C. Julia Huang\, National Tsing Hua University\, Taiwan/VisitingScholar\, The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies\, Stanford University \nDrawing from ethnographies\, in this lecture Prof. Huang will explore the phenomenon of a recent “surge” of cadaver donations for medical purposes in Taiwan. The setting is a university founded by Tzu Chi (Ciji)\, a charismatic movement that runs one of the largest charities of Chinese Buddhism in the world. Since Tzu Chi founded its medical school in 1994\, the total number of donors for whole body donation for medical education has increased from one in 1995 to over 34\,000 in 2013. To what extent is this increase of willed bodies a religious phenomenon? What is religious about the dead body? In this lecture\, Prof. Huang will analyze her ethnographies with different approaches to religion\, in hope that her work will shed light on the shifting concept of religion in a modern and multicultural context. \nImage: By University of Liverpool Faculty of Health & Life Sciences\, Anatomical diagram of the human skeleton (rear view)\, CC BY-SA 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/huDYbS\nDesign: CeMEAS
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-series-whats-religious-dead-body-cadaver-donations-taiwan/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum (KWZ)
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20161101T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20161101T200000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
CREATED:20161020T091516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161020T091516Z
UID:4436-1478023200-1478030400@www.cemeas.de
SUMMARY:Lecture: How China Escaped the Poverty Trap
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS Lecture Series:  \nHow China Escaped the Poverty Trap \nTuesday\, Nov. 1\, 2016 · 6 pm\, VG 3.101 \nYuen Yuen Ang\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, University of Michigan\n \n  \nPlease pay attention: this Lecture is cancelled. \n\nBefore markets opened in 1978\, China was an impoverished planned economy governed by a Maoist bureaucracy. In just three decades it evolved into the world’s second-largest economy and is today guided by highly entrepreneurial bureaucrats. What explains this amazing metamorphosis?\nWas it because China possessed basic growth factors like cheap labor? Was it bureaucratic incentives to promote growth? The use of incremental reforms? Or historical legacies? Existing accounts each highlight a different piece of the grand puzzle of China’s great transformation. Yet none can explain how the other pieces aggregated to remake an entire political economy within the span of a single generation.\nYuen Yuen Ang presents a fresh\, synthetic account of development that systematically traces the coevolution of markets and institutions. Her approach reveals a surprising finding: China escaped the poverty trap by first building markets with weak institutions—that is\, institutions that defy norms of good governance. This sequence of development is found in other geographic and temporal settings\, including late medieval Europe\, antebellum United States\, and contemporary Nigeria. \nBio\nYuen Yuen Ang is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. Her book\, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap\, is released by Cornell University Press in September 2016\, and included in its political economy series. She is a recipient of the Eldersveld Prize for outstanding research contributions from the University of Michigan’s Department of Political Science\, two Early Career Fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies\, and a global essay prize on “The Future of Development Assistance” from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Ang’s scholarship integrates the study of development\, complex systems\, and Chinese political economy. \nImage by: Horia Varlan\, Old key chain in the shape of a small Earth globe\, CC BY-SA 2.0\,\nhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/horiavarlan/4270078348/sizes/sq/
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-yuen-yuen-ang/
LOCATION:Verfügungsgebäude 3.101\, University of Goettingen\, Goettingen\, 37073\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20161101T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20161101T200000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
CREATED:20161020T091516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161020T091516Z
UID:5416-1478023200-1478030400@www.cemeas.de
SUMMARY:Lecture: How China Escaped the Poverty Trap
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS Lecture Series:  \nHow China Escaped the Poverty Trap \nTuesday\, Nov. 1\, 2016 · 6 pm\, VG 3.101 \nYuen Yuen Ang\, Assistant Professor of Political Science\, University of Michigan\n \n  \nPlease pay attention: this Lecture is cancelled. \n\nBefore markets opened in 1978\, China was an impoverished planned economy governed by a Maoist bureaucracy. In just three decades it evolved into the world’s second-largest economy and is today guided by highly entrepreneurial bureaucrats. What explains this amazing metamorphosis?\nWas it because China possessed basic growth factors like cheap labor? Was it bureaucratic incentives to promote growth? The use of incremental reforms? Or historical legacies? Existing accounts each highlight a different piece of the grand puzzle of China’s great transformation. Yet none can explain how the other pieces aggregated to remake an entire political economy within the span of a single generation.\nYuen Yuen Ang presents a fresh\, synthetic account of development that systematically traces the coevolution of markets and institutions. Her approach reveals a surprising finding: China escaped the poverty trap by first building markets with weak institutions—that is\, institutions that defy norms of good governance. This sequence of development is found in other geographic and temporal settings\, including late medieval Europe\, antebellum United States\, and contemporary Nigeria. \nBio\nYuen Yuen Ang is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Michigan. Her book\, How China Escaped the Poverty Trap\, is released by Cornell University Press in September 2016\, and included in its political economy series. She is a recipient of the Eldersveld Prize for outstanding research contributions from the University of Michigan’s Department of Political Science\, two Early Career Fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies\, and a global essay prize on “The Future of Development Assistance” from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. Ang’s scholarship integrates the study of development\, complex systems\, and Chinese political economy. \nImage by: Horia Varlan\, Old key chain in the shape of a small Earth globe\, CC BY-SA 2.0\,\nhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/horiavarlan/4270078348/sizes/sq/
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-yuen-yuen-ang-2/
LOCATION:Verfügungsgebäude 3.101\, University of Goettingen\, Goettingen\, 37073\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170117T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170117T200000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
CREATED:20161210T104014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161210T104014Z
UID:4719-1484676000-1484683200@www.cemeas.de
SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture: Was Buddha a Muslim? Ottoman Turkish Reflexions on Japan
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS Lecture: \nWas Buddha a Muslim? Ottoman Turkish Reflexions on Japan\nTuesday\, Jan. 17\, 2017\, 6 pm (c.t.) – 8 pm\, KWZ 2.601 \nDr. Katja Triplett \nCeMEAS\, University of Göttingen \nIn studies on relations between Japan and Turkey\, the topic of ‘religion’ has been mainly addressed in light of Islamic missionary activities and the role of Ottoman Turkish proselytizers in Japan. Recent studies have also highlighted the ways in which Japan served as a model for Ottomans in attaining “non-Western” modernity. \nHowever\, how Ottoman and republican Turkish intellectuals reflected about Japanese religions and spiritual practices has been not been studied yet in much detail\, despite the fact that a great variety of texts attests to the deep interest for these topics. Writers from Turkey who engaged with various forms of Japanese spirituality relied in their analyses often on sources in Western languages. The presentation will examine the originality of their interpretations and explore first-hand observations\, such as a visit to a Buddhist temple in Tokyo\, by Ottomans in early twentieth century Japan. \nAbout the lecturer:\nKatja Triplett holds a doctorate in the Study of Religions\, Japanese Linguistics and Anthropology from Marburg University\, and is currently affiliated at CeMEAS. From 2012 – 2016 she was professor for the Study of Religions at the Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen. Currently she is a lecturer in the Study of Religions at the Study of Religions Unit\, Institute for Theology and the Study of Religions\, Leibniz University Hannover.\nHer current research projects are Japanese Buddhist medicine (500-1600 CE) and religious ideas and aesthetics from Japan in the late Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/cemeas-lecture-buddha-muslim-ottoman-turkish-reflexions-japan/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170117T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170117T200000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
CREATED:20161210T104014Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161210T104014Z
UID:5429-1484676000-1484683200@www.cemeas.de
SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture: Was Buddha a Muslim? Ottoman Turkish Reflexions on Japan
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS Lecture: \nWas Buddha a Muslim? Ottoman Turkish Reflexions on Japan\nTuesday\, Jan. 17\, 2017\, 6 pm (c.t.) – 8 pm\, KWZ 2.601 \nDr. Katja Triplett \nCeMEAS\, University of Göttingen \nIn studies on relations between Japan and Turkey\, the topic of ‘religion’ has been mainly addressed in light of Islamic missionary activities and the role of Ottoman Turkish proselytizers in Japan. Recent studies have also highlighted the ways in which Japan served as a model for Ottomans in attaining “non-Western” modernity. \nHowever\, how Ottoman and republican Turkish intellectuals reflected about Japanese religions and spiritual practices has been not been studied yet in much detail\, despite the fact that a great variety of texts attests to the deep interest for these topics. Writers from Turkey who engaged with various forms of Japanese spirituality relied in their analyses often on sources in Western languages. The presentation will examine the originality of their interpretations and explore first-hand observations\, such as a visit to a Buddhist temple in Tokyo\, by Ottomans in early twentieth century Japan. \nAbout the lecturer:\nKatja Triplett holds a doctorate in the Study of Religions\, Japanese Linguistics and Anthropology from Marburg University\, and is currently affiliated at CeMEAS. From 2012 – 2016 she was professor for the Study of Religions at the Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen. Currently she is a lecturer in the Study of Religions at the Study of Religions Unit\, Institute for Theology and the Study of Religions\, Leibniz University Hannover.\nHer current research projects are Japanese Buddhist medicine (500-1600 CE) and religious ideas and aesthetics from Japan in the late Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey. \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/cemeas-lecture-buddha-muslim-ottoman-turkish-reflexions-japan-2/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170124T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170124T200000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
CREATED:20170113T084727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T084727Z
UID:4748-1485280800-1485288000@www.cemeas.de
SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture: Globalisation and Environmental Sustainability in China
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS Lecture: \nGlobalization and Environmental Sustainability in China\nTuesday\, Jan. 24\, 2017\, 6 pm (c.t.) – 8 pm\, KWZ 1.601\nMaoliang Bu\, PhD\nAssociate Professor\, School of Business\, Nanjing University \nGlobalization can be bad or good for the environment of China. On one side\, China may suffer from international pollution transfer. While on the other side\, globalization may make China better access advanced environmental technology and management.\nThe recent literature show very mixed evidences on both sides\, which calls for more research. The talk will share some studies from the presenter. \nAbout the lecturer:\nMaoliang Bu is an Associate Professor at Nanjing University\, School of Business\, and Adjunct Professor at Hopkins-Nanjing Center (Johns Hopkins University\, School of Advanced International Studies). His research is mainly on globalization and environmental sustainability. The recent publications include Globalization and the Environment of China (Emerald\, 2014). He has previously worked as a post-doctoral researcher at University of Goettingen\, and as a visiting professor at University of Groningen and University of Gothenburg. \n  \nImage by: mattwalker69\,91957046\, CC BY-SA 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/epFjF7
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/cemeas-lecture-globalisation-environmental-sustainability-china/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, Heinrich- Düker- Weg 14\, Göttingen
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170124T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170124T200000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
CREATED:20170113T084727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170113T084727Z
UID:5430-1485280800-1485288000@www.cemeas.de
SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture: Globalisation and Environmental Sustainability in China
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS Lecture: \nGlobalization and Environmental Sustainability in China\nTuesday\, Jan. 24\, 2017\, 6 pm (c.t.) – 8 pm\, KWZ 1.601\nMaoliang Bu\, PhD\nAssociate Professor\, School of Business\, Nanjing University \nGlobalization can be bad or good for the environment of China. On one side\, China may suffer from international pollution transfer. While on the other side\, globalization may make China better access advanced environmental technology and management.\nThe recent literature show very mixed evidences on both sides\, which calls for more research. The talk will share some studies from the presenter. \nAbout the lecturer:\nMaoliang Bu is an Associate Professor at Nanjing University\, School of Business\, and Adjunct Professor at Hopkins-Nanjing Center (Johns Hopkins University\, School of Advanced International Studies). His research is mainly on globalization and environmental sustainability. The recent publications include Globalization and the Environment of China (Emerald\, 2014). He has previously worked as a post-doctoral researcher at University of Goettingen\, and as a visiting professor at University of Groningen and University of Gothenburg. \n  \nImage by: mattwalker69\,91957046\, CC BY-SA 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/epFjF7
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/cemeas-lecture-globalisation-environmental-sustainability-china-2/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, Heinrich- Düker- Weg 14\, Göttingen
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170131T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170131T180000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
CREATED:20170119T155706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T155706Z
UID:4844-1485878400-1485885600@www.cemeas.de
SUMMARY:Lecture: The Autobiographies of Shanghai Jewish Refugees from Central Europe
DESCRIPTION:Lecture: \n The Autobiographies of Shanghai Jewish Refugees from Central Europe\nTuesday\, Jan.31\, 16(c.t.)-18\, KWZ.0.607\nXiaoqian Gao (高晓倩)\nComparative Literature and World Literature\, Fudan University \nOrganizer：Slavisches Seminar & CeMEAS\n \nThis report will do a job of mining the autobiographies for the details of Jewish experience in Shanghai. All the autobiographies constitute an inner space of collective memory. The space has its own structure which I want to illustrate with four relationships: Jewish Refugees’ relationships with Germany/Austria\, relationships with China/Japan\, relationships within Refugees and family relationships. The space gets its dynamics by alternation of inclusion and exclusion\, remembering and forgetting. The space has its function as a producer of identity. \nAbout the lecturer:\nMs.Xiaoqian Gao is an Associate Professor of the School of Foreign Language at Shanghai Institute of Technology. She specializes in English and American Literature\, particularly on Victorian Literature; Comparative Literature and Culture Studies. She is currently working on her dissertation at Fudan University on the Autobiographies of Shanghai Jewish Refugees from Central Europe. She got her M.A. at Ruhr Universität Bochum and has been visiting scholar at University of Pennsylvania and Frei Universität Berlin. \nClick here for a complete Curriculum Vitae from Xiaoqian Gao. \n  \nImage: hans-johnson\,Shanghai_1\, CC BY-SA 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/BPM1Va
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-series-autobiagraphies-shanghai-jewish-refugees-central-europa/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170131T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170131T180000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
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SUMMARY:Lecture: The Autobiographies of Shanghai Jewish Refugees from Central Europe
DESCRIPTION:Lecture: \n The Autobiographies of Shanghai Jewish Refugees from Central Europe\nTuesday\, Jan.31\, 16(c.t.)-18\, KWZ.0.607\nXiaoqian Gao (高晓倩)\nComparative Literature and World Literature\, Fudan University \nOrganizer：Slavisches Seminar & CeMEAS\n \nThis report will do a job of mining the autobiographies for the details of Jewish experience in Shanghai. All the autobiographies constitute an inner space of collective memory. The space has its own structure which I want to illustrate with four relationships: Jewish Refugees’ relationships with Germany/Austria\, relationships with China/Japan\, relationships within Refugees and family relationships. The space gets its dynamics by alternation of inclusion and exclusion\, remembering and forgetting. The space has its function as a producer of identity. \nAbout the lecturer:\nMs.Xiaoqian Gao is an Associate Professor of the School of Foreign Language at Shanghai Institute of Technology. She specializes in English and American Literature\, particularly on Victorian Literature; Comparative Literature and Culture Studies. She is currently working on her dissertation at Fudan University on the Autobiographies of Shanghai Jewish Refugees from Central Europe. She got her M.A. at Ruhr Universität Bochum and has been visiting scholar at University of Pennsylvania and Frei Universität Berlin. \nClick here for a complete Curriculum Vitae from Xiaoqian Gao. \n  \nImage: hans-johnson\,Shanghai_1\, CC BY-SA 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/BPM1Va
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-series-autobiagraphies-shanghai-jewish-refugees-central-europa-2/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170509T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170509T160000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
CREATED:20170413T115122Z
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SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture Series: China’s Road Towards Sustainability: Democracy or authoritarianism
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS Lecture Series\nChina’s Road Towards Sustainability: Democracy or authoritarianism\nArthur Mol\, Wageningen University\nTuesday\, 09.05.2017\,14:00 – 16:00\, T0.136 (Theologicum\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2) \n \n  \nAbout the lecturer:\nArthur Mol was trained in environmental studies (MSc) and sociology (PhD). Besides chair and professor at Wageningen University he was also professor of environmental policy at Renmin University\, China\, at Tsinghua University\, China\, and at the National University of Malaysia UKM. He is joint editor of the journal Environmental Politics\, and book series editor of New Horizons in Environmental Politics. His main fields of interest and publications are in environmental studies\, globalization\, social theory and the environment\, informational governance\, ecological modernization\, China\, sustainable (food) production and consumption and urban environmental governance. Currently\, he is Rector Magnificus and vice-president of Wageningen University & Research. \n  \n  \n(Information from Wageningen University\, https://www.wur.nl/de/Personen/prof.dr.ir.-APJ-Arthur-Mol.htm) \n  \n  \n  \nPicture:HD_Vision\, Road\, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/fjMadc
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-series-chinas-road-towards-sustainability-democracy-authoritarianism/
LOCATION:T0.136\, Theologicum\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben\, 2\, Göttingen\, 37073\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170509T140000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170509T160000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
CREATED:20170413T115122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170413T115122Z
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SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture Series: China’s Road Towards Sustainability: Democracy or authoritarianism
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS Lecture Series\nChina’s Road Towards Sustainability: Democracy or authoritarianism\nArthur Mol\, Wageningen University\nTuesday\, 09.05.2017\,14:00 – 16:00\, T0.136 (Theologicum\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2) \n \n  \nAbout the lecturer:\nArthur Mol was trained in environmental studies (MSc) and sociology (PhD). Besides chair and professor at Wageningen University he was also professor of environmental policy at Renmin University\, China\, at Tsinghua University\, China\, and at the National University of Malaysia UKM. He is joint editor of the journal Environmental Politics\, and book series editor of New Horizons in Environmental Politics. His main fields of interest and publications are in environmental studies\, globalization\, social theory and the environment\, informational governance\, ecological modernization\, China\, sustainable (food) production and consumption and urban environmental governance. Currently\, he is Rector Magnificus and vice-president of Wageningen University & Research. \n  \n  \n(Information from Wageningen University\, https://www.wur.nl/de/Personen/prof.dr.ir.-APJ-Arthur-Mol.htm) \n  \n  \n  \nPicture:HD_Vision\, Road\, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/fjMadc
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-series-chinas-road-towards-sustainability-democracy-authoritarianism-2/
LOCATION:T0.136\, Theologicum\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben\, 2\, Göttingen\, 37073\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170530T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170530T193000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
CREATED:20170419T140625Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170419T140625Z
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SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture Series: Farmers\, Market and Agricultural Policy in China
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS Lecture Series: \nFarmers\, Market and Agricultural Policy in China \nYu Xiaohua\, University of Göttingen\nTuesday\, 30.05.2017\, 18:00 – 19:30\, VG 3.103 \n \nAbout the lecturer:\nChair of Agricultural Economics in Developing and Transition Countries\, University of Göttingen\nResearch Interests:\nAgricultural Economics\, Environmental Economics\, Applied Econometrics\, and China Economy \nPicture: kevincure\, Rice Farmer\, Longsheng\, China\, \, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/6vLP2b \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/cemeas-lecture-series-farmers-market-agricultural-policy-china/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170530T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170530T193000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
CREATED:20170419T140625Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170419T140625Z
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SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture Series: Farmers\, Market and Agricultural Policy in China
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS Lecture Series: \nFarmers\, Market and Agricultural Policy in China \nYu Xiaohua\, University of Göttingen\nTuesday\, 30.05.2017\, 18:00 – 19:30\, VG 3.103 \n \nAbout the lecturer:\nChair of Agricultural Economics in Developing and Transition Countries\, University of Göttingen\nResearch Interests:\nAgricultural Economics\, Environmental Economics\, Applied Econometrics\, and China Economy \nPicture: kevincure\, Rice Farmer\, Longsheng\, China\, \, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/6vLP2b \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/cemeas-lecture-series-farmers-market-agricultural-policy-china-2/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170606T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170606T193000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
CREATED:20170516T102315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170804T124503Z
UID:5061-1496772000-1496777400@www.cemeas.de
SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture: The 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS Lecture:\nThe 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party: a Quantitative Assessment\nVictor Shih\, University of California San Diego\nTuesday\, 06.06.2017\, 18:00 – 19:30\, VG 2.104\n \nCo-organizer: Department for Political Science \n \nAbstract:\nTwo important questions that can be asked about the 19th Party Congress\, scheduled to take place in the fall of 2017\, include who will take over key positions at the top of the party hierarchy and whether Party Secretary General Xi Jinping can dominate the upper echelons of the Communist Party.  Drawing from a quantitative biographical database of over 4000 Chinese political elite\, I first attempt to present some theoretical and machine learning predictions about who will enter the Politburo in the fall of 2017.  Then\, using the same data\, I assess whether Xi Jinping already dominates the Chinese Communist Party\, or whether that is still a goal he needs to achieve in the fall congress.\n\nAbout the lecturer:\nVictor Shih is an associate professor of political economy and has published widely on the politics of Chinese banking policies\, fiscal policies and exchange rates. He was the first analyst to identify the risk of massive local government debt\, and is the author of “Factions and Finance in China: Elite Conflict and Inflation.”\nPrior to joining UC San Diego\, Shih was a professor of political science at Northwestern University and former principal for The Carlyle Group.\nShih is currently engaged in a study of how the coalition-formation strategies of founding leaders had a profound impact on the evolution of the Chinese Communist Party. He is also constructing a large database on biographical information of elites in China.\n  \n  \nImage: neiljs\, Tiananmen Square Beijing\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/5TfkQz \n  \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/5061/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170606T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170606T193000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
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SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture: The 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS Lecture:\nThe 19th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party: a Quantitative Assessment\nVictor Shih\, University of California San Diego\nTuesday\, 06.06.2017\, 18:00 – 19:30\, VG 2.104 \nCo-organizer: Department for Political Science \n \nAbstract:\nTwo important questions that can be asked about the 19th Party Congress\, scheduled to take place in the fall of 2017\, include who will take over key positions at the top of the party hierarchy and whether Party Secretary General Xi Jinping can dominate the upper echelons of the Communist Party.  Drawing from a quantitative biographical database of over 4000 Chinese political elite\, I first attempt to present some theoretical and machine learning predictions about who will enter the Politburo in the fall of 2017.  Then\, using the same data\, I assess whether Xi Jinping already dominates the Chinese Communist Party\, or whether that is still a goal he needs to achieve in the fall congress.\n\nAbout the lecturer:\nVictor Shih is an associate professor of political economy and has published widely on the politics of Chinese banking policies\, fiscal policies and exchange rates. He was the first analyst to identify the risk of massive local government debt\, and is the author of “Factions and Finance in China: Elite Conflict and Inflation.”\nPrior to joining UC San Diego\, Shih was a professor of political science at Northwestern University and former principal for The Carlyle Group.\nShih is currently engaged in a study of how the coalition-formation strategies of founding leaders had a profound impact on the evolution of the Chinese Communist Party. He is also constructing a large database on biographical information of elites in China.\n  \n  \nImage: neiljs\, Tiananmen Square Beijing\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/5TfkQz \n  \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/5061-2/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170619T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170619T193000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
CREATED:20170419T141504Z
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SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture Series: Behind the headlines:  reforming governance from rebuilding China’s fiscal foundations
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS Lecture Series: \nBehind the headlines:  reforming governance from rebuilding China’s fiscal foundations \nChristine Wong\, University of Melbourne\nMonday\, 19.06.2017\, 18:00 – 19:30\, KWZ 0.602 \n \nIn the lead up to the 19th Party Congress in November 2017\, the dominant narrative on Xi Jinping’s first term is that his ambitious reform program has stalled\, and that the anti-corruption campaign is just a ruse for power-grab and repression. This lecture argues instead that behind the headlines\, significant progress has been made towards building the foundations for a rule-based system of governance.\nThe analysis starts from reviewing the progress in fiscal reform\, a sector seen as the lynchpin of the ambitious\, comprehensive program announced at the Third Plenum of the Chinese Communist Party’s 18th Party Congress in November 2013. From the outside\, it looks like the early passage of the Budget Law and other legislative changes have brought few concrete results\, and progress is far behind schedule. In fact\, the Budget Law and associated documents have set in motion some fundamental changes that will redraw the boundary between the state and market\, as well as the state and society. These changes are just starting to be implemented\, though\, and progress will unlikely be linear. \nProfile\nChristine Wong is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Melbourne. Prior to joining Melbourne\, she was Professor and Director of Chinese Studies at the University of Oxford\, where she was a Fellow of Lady Margaret Hall. She has also held the Henry M. Jackson Professorship in International Studies at the University of Washington\, and taught economics at the University of California\, Santa Cruz; University of California\, Berkeley; and Mount Holyoke College.\nProfessor Wong has also held senior staff positions in the World Bank and the Asian Development Bank\, and worked extensively with other international agencies including the IMF\, OECD\, UNDP\, UNICEF\, and the UK Department for International Development. She is a member of the OECD Advisory Panel on Budgeting and Public Expenditures.\nProfessor Wong is a leading authority on China’s public finance. She has published widely on China’s public finance\, intergovernmental fiscal relations and their implications for governance\, economic development and welfare. Her recent research is focused on economic reform under Xi Jinping and the institutional constraints to modernising governance in China. \n  \n  \n  \nPicture: Lyn Gateley\, DSC01599\, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/8iF7Ey
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/cemeas-lecture-series-behind-the-headlines-2/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170627T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170627T193000
DTSTAMP:20260412T093733
CREATED:20170419T142143Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170419T142143Z
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SUMMARY:CeMEAS Lecture Series: Paper Tigers\, Hidden Dragons: Firms and the Political Economy of China’s Technological Development
DESCRIPTION:CeMEAS Lecture Series:\nPaper Tigers\, Hidden Dragons: Firms and the Political Economy of China’s Technological Development \nDouglas B. Fuller\, Zhejiang University\nTuesday\, 27.06.2017\, 18:00 – 19:30\, VG 3.103 \n \nChina presents us with a conundrum. How has a developing country with a spectacularly inefficient financial system\, coupled with asset-destroying state-owned firms\, managed to create a number of vibrant high-tech firms? \nChina’s domestic financial system fails most private firms by neglecting to give them sufficient support to pursue technological upgrading\, even while smothering state-favored firms by providing them with too much support. Due to their foreign financing\, multinational corporations suffer from neither insufficient funds nor soft budget constraints\, but they are insufficiently committed to China’s development. Hybrid firms that combine ethnic Chinese management and foreign financing are the hidden dragons driving China’s technological development. They avoid the maladies of China’s domestic financial system while remaining committed to enhancing China’s domestic technological capabilities. \nIn sad contrast\, China’s domestic firms are technological paper tigers. State efforts to build local innovation clusters and create national champions have not managed to transform these firms into drivers of technological development. \nThese findings upend fundamental debates about China’s political economy. Rather than a choice between state capitalism and building domestic market institutions\, China has fostered state capitalism even while tolerating the importing of foreign market institutions. While the book’s findings suggest that China’s state and domestic market institutions are ineffective\, the hybrids promise an alternative way to avoid the middle-income trap. By documenting how variation in China’s institutional terrain impacts technological development\, the book also provides much needed nuance to widespread yet mutually irreconcilable claims that China is either an emerging innovation power or a technological backwater. \nLooking beyond China\, hybrid-led development has implications for new alternative economic development models and new ways to conceptualize contemporary capitalism that go beyond current domestic institution-centric approaches. \n  \n  \n  \nPicture: Matt\, Garment factory jiaxing\, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/593ruE
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/cemeas-lecture-series-paper-tigers-hidden-dragons-2/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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