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SUMMARY:Lecture: Push and Pull: Toward a Taylorian Theory of Alternative Modernities
DESCRIPTION:Push and Pull: Toward a Taylorian Theory of Alternative Modernities\nJustin Ritzinger\, Associate Professor of Religious Studies\,\nUniversity of Miami\n  \nMay 6\, 2022\, 4 PM Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna\nOn Zoom: For registration\, please use this zoom link. \n Religion occupies a vexed position in many visions of modernity. It stands as the embodiment of “tradition\,” of the nonmodern\, of the irrational. It is thus presumed to be condemned to a shrinking sphere of social and cultural life. This has typically been construed as a “challenge” to which religion must “adapt” lest it face extinction. This adaptation typically includes demythologization\, rationalization\, and social engagement. Such understandings of modernization\, which I term “push models\,” are useful but insufficient. They fail to account not only for religion’s continuing hold on the hearts of many but also the inspiration modernity gave to many modernizing figures. This talk will offer a counterbalancing “pull model\,” drawing upon the account of moral frameworks in Sources of the Self to develop a Taylorian theory of the formulation of alternative modernities. Illustrated with reference to developments in religion in Republican China\, this theory may offer new angles for understanding this process in other areas of cultures as well. \nJustin Ritzinger is associate professor of Religious Studies at the University of Miami. He received his PhD in the Study of Religion from Harvard in 2010. His work focuses on modern and contemporary Chinese Buddhism. He is the author of a monograph on the reinvention of the cult of Maitreya\, entitled Anarchy in the Pure Land\, and articles dealing with eschatology\, engagements with evolutionary theory\, and international monastic exchange\, as well as tourist development in the contemporary People’s Republic. He is currently working on an ethnographic study of a blue-collar lay Buddhist group in Taiwan. At the University of Miami\, Ritzinger teaches courses in Asian religions. \n. \n.\nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n.\n\nOrganizers:\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Conservative Radicalism: Watsuji Tetsuro’s Critique of Civil Society and Its Implications for Chinese Intellectual History
DESCRIPTION:Conservative Radicalism: Watsuji Tetsuro’s Critique of Civil Society and Its Implications for Chinese Intellectual History\nViren Murthy\, Associate Professor of History\,\nUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison\n\n  \nMay 20\, 2022\, 12:00 PM Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna\nOn Campus: KWZ 0.610 (University of Göttingen\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, 37073 Göttingen)\nOn Zoom: For registration\, please use this zoom link. \nSince the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries\, as the Meiji state quickly modernized\, Japanese intellectuals confronted the atomization and alienation associated with new forms of labor in civil society. Unlike in the family\, where affective bonds govern human action\, in civil society\, people ventured into the world as purposive individuals entering into wage-contracts\, which forced them into a means-end relationship. While scholars have dealt with attempts to overcome modernity twentieth century Japan\, few have focused on the how the ideal of the family served as a trope to reconcile the antagonism between the individual and the community. The Japanese philosopher\, Watsuji Tetsuro (1889-1960) critically drew on Hegel’s conception of the family to attack civil society. While his critique is clearly conservative\, I argue that his position overlaps with leftist treatments of modern alienation and reveals the contradictions between spheres of the family and civil society. Watsuji develops his position in an essay written in the 1930s on the city\, where he translates the civil society (bürgerliche Gesellschaft) as “interest society (rieki shakai)”\, a sphere where people pursue personal gain. In response to this\, he advocates rekindling to older forms of society\, where work and family are not so clearly severed. Towards the end of my presentation\, I examine the implications of Watsuji’s critique of urban life for the study of Chinese intellectual history. Specifically\, in both contexts\, my study suggests that we at times blur the lines between radical and conservative because they often have a similar object of critique\, namely capitalism\, which they each grasp with varying degrees of success. \nViren Murthy teaches transnational Asian History and researches Chinese and Japanese intellectual history in the Department of History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. \n  \n.\nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n.\n\n\nOrganizers:\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Understanding the Alienated Self: The Interest in and Problematization of the Village in the Post May-Fourth Period 认识被化外的自我：后五四时期对乡村的关注和农村的问题化
DESCRIPTION:Understanding the Alienated Self: The Interest in and Problematization of the Village in the Post May-Fourth Period 认识被化外的自我：后五四时期对乡村的关注和农村的问题化\nLuo Zhitian 罗志田 (Distinguished Professor)\, History Department\, Sichuan University\nMay 27\, 2022\, 10:00 AM Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna\nOn Zoom: For registration\, please use this zoom link.\nThe lecture will be held in Chinese.  \n乡村曾被视为中国社会与文化的基础，在近代改称“农村”后，逐渐被认为出了问题。农村怎样成为“问题”及其所成的“问题”本身，既伴随着中国现代性展开的进程，也因其间的“现代”眼光所生成。这背后的一个要因，是城市的兴起和城乡的对立。由于城市被视为国家的主体，原来作为广土众民代表的乡村逐渐沦为化外，不复能表述自己。在五四后出现一种读书人想要了解自己国家的倾向，先是开始关注已近于未知的农村，观感褒贬参半；接着是被关注者逐渐问题化，见解贬多于褒；最后是问题化的农村升级为“破产”或“崩溃”，表述以贬为主。其间一个重要特点，是一些人因缺乏了解而把常态看成变态，甚至把国家整体的危难移植到农村身上。 \n  \nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n.\nOrganizers:\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Building a New Chinese State from the Northwest: The Proposal of Liu Guangfen (1843-1903)
DESCRIPTION:Building a New Chinese State from the Northwest: The Proposal of Liu Guangfen (1843-1903)\nOng Chang Woei 王昌偉 (Professor of Chinese Studies)\, Department of Chinese Studies\, National University of Singapore\n  \nJune 3\, 2022\, 10:00 AM Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna\nOn Zoom: For registration\, please use this zoom link. \n  \nIn the beginning of his book Origins of the Modern Chinese State\, Kuhn asks\, “What is Chinese about China’s modern state?” The answer\, Kuhn explains\, is not to be found by supposing that there some distinctive cultural qualities that will ensure that “China will always be China.” Rather\, it is to be found by probing how the Chinese in the recent past dealt with what he calls “constitutional issues” that had already presented themselves before the West made its impact felt. Using Liu Guangfen 劉光蕡 (1843-1903) as a case study\, I would like to ask a follow-up question: “What is northwestern about China’s modern state?” My assumption is that whatever “Chinese” problems that existed could be better understood if we take the regional perceptions of such problems into consideration. In this talk\, I will demonstrate that Liu Guangfen’s vision of building a modern Chinese state allows us to examine how the concern over nation-state building was shaped by regional experiences. I will also try to show that by studying a particular regional version of “Chinese” nation-state\, we can learn something important about the dynamics that shape the quest for a strong nation-state in modern China in general. \nChang Woei ONG is Professor of Chinese Studies at the National University of Singapore. He specializes in the intellectual history of middle period China and is the author of Men of Letters within the Passes: Guanzhong Literati in Chinese History\, 907-1911 (2008) and Li Mengyang\, the North-South Divide and Literati Learning in Ming China (2016)\, both published by Harvard University Asia Center. \n\n\nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n.\nOrganizers:\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd\n 
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SUMMARY:Lecture: The Creativeness of Modern Chinese Conservative Thinkers 王汎森: 近代保守思想家的創造性
DESCRIPTION:The Creativeness of Modern Chinese Conservative Thinkers 王汎森: 近代保守思想家的創造性\nWang Fan-sen 王汎森 (Academician\, Distinguished Research Fellow)\, Institute for History and Philology\, Academia Sinica\n  \nJune 10\, 2022\, 10:00 AM Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna\nOn Zoom: For registration\, please use this zoom link.\nThe lecture will be held in Chinese.\n \n近代中國保守思想家中至少可以區分成兩類，第一類是本能地反對任何改變現狀的思想，第二類是回到一個重要的思想基盤（如宋明理學、大乘佛學）上戰鬥。在這次演講中，我想討論第二類思想家，以宋育仁（1859-1931）、熊十力（1885-1968）、唐文治（1865-1954）、劉咸炘（1896-1932）、錢穆（1895-1990）等人為例，討論一個思想史上的問題：當晚清以來的新派一直在變的時候，反對或批評他們的人，其實也一直在變換他們的言論，同時也變換他們對傳統的解釋，以便對應挑戰。\n此外，我在比較仔細地審視他們的思路之後，認為他們不只是「回到本來」的樣子，而是有一個微妙的新創過程。譬如他們有時候會用「提高一格法」，把儒家思想，尤其是宋明理學，作一種新的調整、詮釋。借用卡夫卡的話：「當你凝視深淵時，深淵也在凝視你」。 \n  \nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n.\nOrganizers:\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20220617T100000
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Chinese Intellectuals’ Rethinking of Science\, Religion and Superstition in the 20th Century: From Yan Fu\, Liang Qichao to New Confucians
DESCRIPTION:Chinese Intellectuals’ Rethinking of Science\, Religion and Superstition in the 20th Century: From Yan Fu\, Liang Qichao to New Confucians\nHuang Ko-wu 黃克武\n(Academician\, Distinguished Research Fellow)\nInstitute of Modern History\, Academia Sinica\n\n  \nJune 17\, 2022\, 10:00 AM Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna\nOn Zoom: For registration\, please use this zoom link.\nThis lecture will be held in Chinese. \n  \nLate Qing and early Republican China has been regarded as a “secularized” age that ended “the era of classical learning” and opened the door to an empirical\, scientific search for knowledge. With the progress of secularization\, science gradually established its authoritative status. Thinkers of the May Fourth period\, such as Hu Shi and Chen Duxiu\, held science in high esteem and emphasized a clear-cut definition of science and superstition. To them\, religions were superstitions that needed to be eliminated. This led to many debates. There were two famous debates in the early Republican period. One was the spiritualism debate and the other was the science and metaphysics debate. The latter was influenced by the former in terms of vocabulary and issues. This lecture will describe these two debates and use Yan Fu and Liang Qichao as two examples to illustrate their views on science\, religion and superstition. Their views had a very complex origin. They attempted to rely on traditional spiritual resources to bridge East and West in order to build the moral and intellectual foundation needed for a modern state. New Confucians such as Tang Junyi and Mou Zongsan inherited the legacy of Yan and Liang. They resisted May Fourth scientism and anti-traditionalism\, and thought more deeply about the serious issue of how Chinese tradition and Western modernity should converge. \n清末民初的中國常常被認為是一個「世俗化」的過程，它結束了「經學時代」，開啟了經驗主義的科學時代。本講座以嚴復與梁啟超對科學、宗教與迷信等觀念的思索，來反省近代中國世俗化的問題。嚴復與梁啟超是近代中國引介民主與科學的先驅。嚴復所翻譯的《天演論》帶來了一個新的宇宙觀，而梁啟超受到嚴復影響，也對新學的引介發揮重要的作用。五四時期新舊人物均受到嚴、梁的影響，然而嚴、梁卻走出一條與五四新文化運動的支持者，如胡適與陳獨秀等人不同的思路。他們不主張科學與宗教（即迷信）的矛盾，反而強調，科學有其限度、宗教有其價值，而科學與宗教的發展將導致迷信的衰微。這一套想法一方面源自於赫胥黎的「不可知論」，另一方面則由於他們以易經與佛教來詮釋新的宇宙觀，並肯定「孝」的宗教意義。這一種以傳統思想資源來貫通中西的想法為港台新儒家，如熊十力、唐君毅和牟宗三等所繼承。他們極力抵制五四科學主義和反傳統主義，更深入地思考中國傳統和西方現代應該如何融合的嚴肅問題。 \nDr. Max K. W. Huang was born in Taipei\, Taiwan in 1957. He received his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in History from Nation Taiwan Normal University. He subsequently pursued his studies in the United Kingdom and the United States\, receiving a second master’s degree from Oxford University and his Ph. D degree from Stanford University. He is a distinguished research fellow at the Institute of Modern History\, Academia Sinica. His major fields are Ming-Qing studies and Modern Chinese intellectual history. He has published ten books and more than 100 articles. Dr. Huang’s most recent book is Yan Fu: The Man Who Enlightened China with His Pen (筆醒山河：中國近代啟蒙人嚴復\, 廣西師範大學出版社，2022年). \n  \nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n.\nOrganizers:\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd
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SUMMARY:Lecture: What is to be Done? Literature and History in China's Revolutionary Twentieth-Century
DESCRIPTION:What is to be Done? Literature and History in China’s Revolutionary Twentieth-Century\nRebecca Karl\nProfessor of History\, New York University\n  \nJune 24\, 2022\, 10:00 AM (GMT +2) in Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna\nOn Campus: KWZ 0.607 (University of Göttingen\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, 37073 Göttingen)\nOn Zoom: For registration\, please use this zoom link. \n  \nThis talk will address the problem of literary and historical narrative in China’s twentieth century. Revolutionary time is a particular kind of time\, requiring different kinds of narrative. In an analytical pass through a century of narrativizations/re-narrativizations\, the talk will examine how successive revolutionaries and writers attempted to answer the constantly posed and re-posed radical question of “what is to be done” (shto delats? 怎么办?). \n  \nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n.\nOrganizers:\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-what-is-to-be-done-literature-and-history-in-chinas-revolutionary-twentieth-century/
LOCATION:KWZ 0.607
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Modern Alienation and its Antidotes: Strategies from Early 20th Chinese Buddhist Intellectuals
DESCRIPTION:Modern Alienation and its Antidotes: Strategies from Early 20th Chinese Buddhist Intellectuals\nEyal Aviv\nAssistant Professor of Religion\, Department of Religion\, George Washington University\n  \nJuly 01\, 2022\, 10:00 AM (GMT +2) in Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna\nOn Campus: KWZ 2.739 (University of Göttingen\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, 37073 Göttingen)\nOn Zoom: For registration\, please use this zoom link. \n  \nIntellectuals\, such as Nietzsche\, Weber\, and Adorno\, described modernity as a period of alienation resulting from the collapse of pre-modern social and political structures and the disintegration of shared values. Alienation leaves the individual disconnected from organic relational networks from which humans derive a sense of meaning. But is alienation an inevitable side effect of modernity? In this talk\, I will explore the examples of some leading Chinese Buddhist intellectuals in the modern period and argue that far from being alienated\, Chinese Buddhists seized the significant changes of the period as an opportunity to transform Buddhism and adapt it to the new era. While they were aware of China’s predicament after the collapse of the imperial world order and the spread of colonialism\, still\, they approached it in an engaged and constructive spirit. In the talk\, I will reflect on what prevents alienation from occurring and why not all modernisms were born alike. \n  \nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n.\nOrganizers:\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-modernity-without-alienation-new-possibilities-for-20th-century-chinese-buddhism/
LOCATION:KWZ 2.739\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Heavenly Principle and the Trends of the Times: Some Thoughts on Confucianism
DESCRIPTION:Heavenly Principle and the Trends of the Times: Some Thoughts on Confucianism\nWang Hui\nProfessor of History\, Tsinghua University\n  \nJuly 08\, 2022\, 10:00 AM (GMT +2) in Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna \nOn Zoom: For registration\, please use this zoom link. \n  \nBetween the 1920s and the 1940s\, first Naitō Torajirō and then Miyazaki Ichisada introduced several important propositions regarding the Tang to Song transition\, capitalism during the Song Dynasty\, and East Asian early modernity. Since then\, despite constant controversy\, revision\, and improvement\, one Kyoto School proposition has garnered universal acclaim: there is a basic difference between the Tang and Song\, and the Song Dynasty deserves special status in history. In the fields of Chinese intellectual history or philosophy\, some of the characteristics of the Confucianism of the Northern and Southern Song dynasties (and especially the School of Principle of the Cheng brothers and Zhu Xi) have been of use to modern Confucian scholars as a reference for understanding the early modern in Chinese or East Asian history. Follow this trend\, the basic principles of Confucianism are not only organized into the European philosophical categories of ontology and epistemology\, but also into such historical categories as: an inward turn\, rationalization\, and secularization. So\, was there an early modern in Chinese history\, or how to interpret China and its “modernity”? This talk will take the establishment of the concept of heavenly principle as a clue to address the above issues. \n  \nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n.\nOrganizers:\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-heavenly-principle-and-the-trends-of-the-times-some-thoughts-on-confucianism/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Lecture: From Mentorship to Comradeship: Irving Babbitt\, The Critical Review\, and Conservative Globalism in Republican China
DESCRIPTION:From Mentorship to Comradeship: Irving Babbitt\, The Critical Review\, and Conservative Globalism in Republican China\nKuo Ya-pei\nAssistant Professor\, Center for International Relations Research\, University of Groningen\n  \nJuly 15\, 2022\, 10:00 AM (GMT +2) in Amsterdam\, Berlin\, Rome\, Stockholm\, Vienna\nOn Campus: KWZ 0.609 (University of Göttingen\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, 37073 Göttingen)\nOn Zoom: For registration\, please use this zoom link. \n  \nSince the late 19th century\, the “East vs West” dichotomy has been the predominant framework for understanding Chinese civilization and its place in the world. This talk focuses on The Critical Review (Xueheng 學衡)\, a “conservative” platform launched in 1922\, and its effort to overcome this dichotomy. As many modern scholars have pointed out\, those who were associated with the journal\, such as Wu Mi and Mei Guangdi\, held a globalist agenda with a conviction in cultural commonality across the East-West divide. This talk elucidates the particularist dimension of their globalist position. In spite of the apparent disparity between the East and the West\, these intellectuals believed that regional civilizations contain certain shared\, universal elements. The undeniable particularity of each cultural system thereby presents no barrier to the advancement of history. Rather\, they argued that manifesting local specifics was a vehicle contributing to the modern quest for the universal. Through the notion of a diffused locus of the universal\, The Critical Review relativized the West’s place in the modern world. The second half of the talk reconsiders Mei Guangdi and Wu Mi’s indebtedness to their American “mentor” Irving Babbitt. While Babbitt’s hermeneutic method and historical outlook left an imprint on the intellectual lives of his Chinese students\, Wu and Mei were cognizant of their own as well as Babbitt’s particularity. Their globalism rendered both Prograssive-Era America and post-revolutionary China as parallels that could learn from each other but held neither to be the absolute paragon of human progress. Revering Babbitt\, Mei and Wu wittingly deviated from his teachings in formulating their interpretations of Chinese culture. They epitomized an especially sober kind of student of the West\, a kind that utilized the knowledge of the West to nurture their own cultural acumen\, without idolizing the West as an object of emulation. \n  \nThis lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China.\n.\nOrganizers:\nProf. Dr. Axel Schneider\, University of Göttingen\nProf. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich\, University of Hamburg \n\n \n\nCeMEAS – Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen\n\n \nAsia-Africa- Institute\, Department for Chinese Language and Culture\, University of Hamburg \n\n\nDepartment of East Asian Studies\, University of Göttingen \n  \nSponsor: \n \nAcademic Confucius Institute\, University of Göttingen \n. \nImage: sung ming whang: Early saturday morning in color\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/6E5PXd
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-from-mentorship-to-comradeship-irving-babbitt-the-critical-review-and-conservative-globalism-in-republic-china/
LOCATION:KWZ 0.609\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, Göttingen\, 37073\, Germany
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Sitting in a Well\, Looking at the Sky
DESCRIPTION:Sitting in a Well\, Looking at the Sky\nDaniel Mroz\, PhD \n  \n13.6.2024\nSeminar Room 4\, Institute for Sports Science \n Zuò jǐng guān tiān坐井觀天is an idiomatic saying derived from a story in the Zhuāngzǐ 莊子\, a lighthearted Chinese philosophical work that presents funny and irreverent fables\, allegories\, and parables\, which teasingly subvert any possibility of certain perception and judgement. \nIn one of these tales\, a frog who lived in a dilapidated well celebrated his dominion over his tiny home\, inviting a tortoise from the eastern ocean in for a visit. The sea tortoise was too large to fit itself into the well\, and from outside told the frog about its own vasty ocean home\, which was so hard for the little frog to imagine\, that his mind scattered in all directions in astonishment\, beside himself in his puniness (trans. Ziporyn\, 2022: 140). \nThe saying zuò jǐng guān tiān has been my guide in the writing of my forthcoming book\, Resonant Space: Religion\, Theatre\, and the Chinese Martial Arts. Each chapter is conceived of as a different well\, revealing a different patch of sky to the frog who sits below. \nIn this presentation I shall examine the views from two different wells: the link between choreographed martial movement training and religious rituals\, and the relationship between martial movement training and the development of spatial perception in the performing arts. \nZiporyn\, B. trans. (2020). Zhuangzi: The Complete Works. Indianapolis/Cambridge: Hackett. \nDaniel Mroz\, PhD \nDaniel Mroz teaches acting and directing for the stage in the Department of Theatre at the University of Ottawa. He has directed original theatre for festivals in Canada and the United States and has taught actors\, directors\, dancers and choreographers in North America\, Great Britain\, France\, the Netherlands\, Turkey\, and China. He also works as a dramaturg and facilitator for contemporary dancers\, most recently with Canadian choreographer and dancer Katherine Ng. Daniel’s research focusses on the use of Chinese martial arts in contemporary theatre and dance. He contributes regularly to Martial Arts Studies\, a new research area that he has helped to establish in collaboration with colleagues from around the world \n  \n\n\nThis lecture is part of our lecture series 2024/2025: \nCurrent Debates in Martial Arts Studies: Inter- and Transdisciplinary Approaches to Combative Movement Cultures (SoSe 2024\, WiSe 2024/25) \n\nInstitut für Sportwissenschaften/Hochschulsport/Centre for Modern East Asian Studies
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LOCATION:Seminar Room 4\, Institute for Sports Science
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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SUMMARY:Lecture Series -Buddhism 2025/2026     Buddhism in Modern China: Concepts\, Practices\, and History
DESCRIPTION:Lecture Series -Buddhism 2025/2026\nBuddhism in Modern China: Concepts\, Practices\, and History\nOver the past two centuries\, Buddhism in China has engaged dynamically with shifting socio-political landscapes\, global circulations of knowledge\, and the multifaceted pressures associated with modernity\, resulting in enduring transformations of doctrine\, ritual life\, institutional structures\, and China’s cultural imagination and identity. This lecture series traces how Buddhist ideas and practices have been interpreted\, adapted\, and reconfigured from the late Qing through the Republican era to the present\, drawing on perspectives from history\, religious studies\, anthropology\, and philosophy. By following these trajectories of change\, the series highlights the intricate ways in which Buddhism has shaped—and been reshaped by—the changing intellectual\, social\, and political life in modern China\, providing a forum for interdisciplinary dialogue across fields\, methods\, and historical contexts. \n  \nDates and times \n2025/2026 \nLocation \nUniversity of Göttingen & Online (hybrid) \nOrganizers \nPeng Qinqin (University of Göttingen)\nZhu Ziyi (University of Göttingen) \nContact persons \nPeng Qinqin: qinqin.peng@uni-goettingen.de\nZhu Ziyi: ziyi.zhu@uni-goettingen.de \nLanguage \nChinese and English \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-series-buddhism-2025-2026-buddhism-in-modern-china-concepts-practices-and-history/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260116T143000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20260116T160000
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Revisiting the Understanding of “the Other” through Thermae Romae II: Implications for Chinese Language Teaching
DESCRIPTION:從《羅馬浴場 II》回看我們如何理解「他者」文化—— 對華語教學的啟示\nRevisiting the Understanding of “the Other” through Thermae Romae II:\nImplications for Chinese Language Teaching\n2026年1月16日（週五）14:30–16:00\nKWZ 1.701， 哥廷根大學\n報告人：曾金金 教授， 國立台灣師範大學 \n主持人：張陶 教授， 哥廷根大學 \n摘要 \n本報告以日本影視作品《羅馬浴場 II》為例，討論流行影視文本中「他者」文化的呈現方式，以及其中所體現的跨文化想像。作品透過幽默與錯位的敘事手法，將不同文化與時空並置，呈現文化差異被感知、想像與再詮釋的過程。報告嘗試從跨文化與語言學習的相關視角出發，思考此類影視作品在華語教學語境中可能引發的更廣泛反思，並為文化理解與比較提供一個開放的觀察方向。 \nAbstract \nTaking the Japanese audiovisual work Thermae Romae II as an example\, this talk examines how “the Other” is represented in popular screen media and how cross-cultural imagination is articulated through audiovisual narratives. By juxtaposing different cultures and temporalities through humor and narrative displacement\, the film foregrounds processes through which cultural differences are perceived\, imagined\, and reinterpreted. Drawing on perspectives from intercultural communication and language learning\, the talk further considers how such works can stimulate broader discussions of cultural understanding and comparison within the context of Chinese language teaching. \n時間與地點 \n時間：2026年1月16日（週五）14:30–16:00\n地點： KWZ 1.701， 哥廷根大學 \nSpeaker’s Bio: \n \nDr. Chin-Chin Tseng is a full professor in the Department of Chinese as a Second Language at National Taiwan Normal University. She is currently serving as the Taiwan Chair and visiting researcher at the University of Groningen\, the Netherlands. Dr. Tseng earned her B.A. in Foreign Languages and Literatures from National Taiwan University in 1988\, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Linguistics from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa. \nA linguist\, phonetician\, and teacher educator\, her early research focused on phonetics\, interlanguage\, and second language acquisition. More recently\, her work has expanded to include Chinese dialect teacher education\, AI-assisted teaching strategies\, and the development of an interlanguage prosodic database for Chinese language research in Europe. \nRecent publication: \nZhang\, F.\, & Tseng\, C.-C. (2025). Inclusive teaching strategies and proprioceptive learning methods for migrants in acquiring basic Chinese. In Y. Liang & Z. Li (Eds.)\, Diversity and inclusiveness in Chinese as a second language education (pp. 145–174). Routledge. \nOngoing project: \nInternational Integrated Collaboration Project for the University Alliance in the Czech Republic (ICU) and the University Academic Alliance in Taiwan (UAAT)\, under the national-level initiative for international collaboration in key academic fields (Humanities\, Arts\, and Social Sciences). \nProject Title: The Dynamics of East-West Civilizational Interactions: Conflict or Fusion? \nSub-project: A Study on Interpersonal Communication between Czechs and Taiwanese in the Context of Second Language Teaching \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-revisiting-the-understanding-of-the-other-through-thermae-romae-ii-implications-for-chinese-language-teaching/
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SUMMARY:Realizing Buddhahood in the Human Realm: The Theory and Practice of Humanistic Buddhism
DESCRIPTION:Realizing Buddhahood in the Human Realm:\nThe Theory and Practice of Humanistic Buddhism\n  \nLecture Series: Buddhism in Modern China 2025/2026 \nProf. Dr. 宣方 Xuan Fang (Renmin University of China) \nTime: February 4\, 2026\, 14:00 PM – 16:00 PM CET \nVenue: Raum 4.105\, Waldweg \nLanguage: Chinese/ 中文 \n  \nAbstract\n即人成佛：人间佛教的理论与实践\n摘要\n人生佛教作为汉传佛教回应现代性议题最重要的理论论述和实践模式，对二十世纪后半叶以来佛教在海峡两岸的蓬勃发展居功至伟，引起学界广泛的关注，相关研究持续升温，本世纪以来渐成显学，成果卓有可观。不过，此中仍有未发之覆，特别是一些基础的教理问题，对佛教共同体内部而言十分重要。例如，太虚关于人间佛教诸多论述引发后人大相径庭的理解，人间佛教推展过程中的种种歧出也使其备受争议。回归到基础教理层面来分析，争议的焦点集中在两个方面：第一、人生佛教思想的核心理论、宗旨及其性质是什么？是共世间的人天乘法门，还是大乘的菩萨道？第二、人生佛教如何修行？是由人、天、声闻、菩萨层层转进，还是由人乘直达佛乘？人菩萨行是否可能、如何可能？前一方面要回答人生佛教是什么，后一方面要回答人生佛教怎么修，这两个基础教理问题相互关联，是人生佛教的核心理论和立论根本；尤其是第二个问题，仍属学术界既往研究的未发之覆。人生佛教能否在教理上自洽地解答上述问题、回应各种质疑？本讲演将依据太虚、印顺的相关论述，对此作一考察。\nHumanistic Buddhism (rensheng fojiao) represents one of the most significant theoretical articulations and practical models through which Chinese Buddhism has responded to the challenges of modernity. Since the second half of the twentieth century\, it has played a crucial role in the remarkable revival and expansion of Buddhism in both Mainland China and Taiwan. As a result\, it has attracted sustained scholarly attention since the beginning of the twenty-first century.\nNevertheless\, important issues remain insufficiently examined\, particularly certain foundational doctrinal questions that are of great significance within the Buddhist community itself. For example\, Taixu’s various interpretations of Humanistic Buddhism (renjian fojiao) gave rise to markedly divergent understandings among later generations\, while differing paths of practical implementation have rendered the movement highly contested. When these debates are reconsidered at the level of fundamental doctrine\, they converge on two central issues: First\, what are the core theoretical foundation\, ultimate aim\, and doctrinal nature of Humanistic Buddhism? Should it be understood as a form of this-worldly Buddhist practice oriented toward the human and celestial vehicles\, or as an expression of the Mahāyāna bodhisattva path? Second\, how is Humanistic Buddhism to be practiced? Does cultivation proceed step by step—from the realms of human and celestial beings\, through the śrāvaka path\, and onward to the bodhisattva path—or does it advocate a direct transition from the human vehicle to Buddhahood? Is the practice of the “human bodhisattva” theoretically possible\, and if so\, in what sense? The first question concerns what Humanistic Buddhism is\, while the second addresses how it is to be practiced. These two fundamental doctrinal issues are closely interconnected and together constitute the core theoretical framework and justificatory basis of Humanistic Buddhism. In particular\, the second issue remains largely unexplored in existing scholarship.\nCan Humanistic Buddhism provide a doctrinally coherent response to these questions and adequately address the various criticisms directed toward it? Drawing on the writings of Taixu and Yinshun\, this lecture examines these issues from the perspective of Buddhist doctrinal theory. \n【Short Bio】\n宣方，中国人民大学宗教学系副教授，佛教与宗教学理论研究所研究员，兼任北京大学、香港中文大学、厦门大学、云南大学、中国佛教文化研究所等十余所国内佛学机构客座教授，《宗教》、《宗教研究》、《汉语佛学评论》等专业期刊编委。主要研究佛教思想史和当代佛教。\nXuan Fang is associate professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Renmin University of China and Research Fellow at the Institute for the Study of Buddhism and Religious Theory. He also serves as a visiting professor at more than ten Buddhist studies institutions in China\, including Peking University\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong\, Xiamen University\, Yunnan University\, and the China Institute of Buddhist Culture. He is a member of the editorial boards of several leading academic journals\, including Religion\, Religious Studies\, and Chinese Buddhist Studies Review. His main research interests focus on the intellectual history of Buddhism and contemporary Chinese Buddhism. \n \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/attaining-buddhahood-in-this-very-life-the-theory-and-practice-of-humanistic-buddhism/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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