CeMEAS

Guest Lecture: Revolution Comes to East: colonial modernity, national subjectivity and subaltern everydayness
2016-06-13 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Paris) | KWZ 0.602
Guest Lecture
Revolution Comes to East: Colonial Modernity, National Subjectivity and Subaltern Everydayness
Monday, June 13, 2016 · 6pm (c.t.) KWZ 0.602
Prof. Jie-Hyun Lim
Sogang University

Asianization, Africanization or Latin Americanization of Marxism involves more than a mere transposition of Marxian ideas to non-European countries. When revolution came to East, events contradicted the ideology. The Bolshevik revolution seemed to deny Marx’s famous dictum of ‘the country that is more developed industrially only shows, to the less developed, the image of its own future.’ Based on a divergent mode of capitalist development from the ‘West’, the Russian revolution represented ‘a revolution against Karl Marx’s Capital.’
However, revolution in Russia was not a derivative one wherein the historical authenticity of the Marxian revolution in the developed capitalist countries is tested. Viewed from entangled histories of capitalism, colonialism, nationalism and socialism as competing visions of the global modernity, the Bolshevik revolution was the field of political contests of those competing visions. As the development of the global socialism showed in the twentieth century, socialism was not consequent to capitalism but constitutive of it. Confronting subaltern everydayness, all that solid division of the revolution and counterrevolution, and colonial modernity and national subjectivity melts into the air. This is to trace the socialist revolution moving to East from the combined optic of the global modernity and local everydayness with a spatial stress on Asia.

Guest Lecture: Kafka in China - Rezeptionsgeschichte eines Klassikers der Moderne
2016-06-15 14:00 - 16:00 | Käte-Hamburger-Weg 6, KHW 0.111
Guest Lecture
Kafka in China – Rezeptionsgeschichte eines Klassikers der Moderne
Prof. Dr. Ren Weidong, Beijing Foreign Studies University
Wednesday, June 15, 2 pm, Käte-Hamburger-Weg 6, KHW 0.111
Die Rezeption Kafkas als eines Autors der modernen deutschsprachigen Literatur und der literarischen Moderne überhaupt erfolgt in China vor dem Hintergrund der Auseinandersetzung mit der “westlichen” und der eigenen literarischen Moderne.
Mein Vortrag zeichnet die Rezeptionsgeschichte Kafkas in China seit der Öffnungspolitik 1978 nach und deckt die Dispositionen auf, an die auch die chinesische Rezeption der westlichen literarischen Moderne insgesamt anschließt. Kafkas Werk provoziert ein neues ästhetisches Bewusstsein und verlangt eine aktive Anteilnahme des Lesers. Die Beschäftigung mit seinem Werk fordert die konventionellen Normen der chinesischen literaturwissenschaftlichen Forschung heraus und stellt den mit einem traditionellen Realismus vertrauten Leser vor neue Aufgaben. So ist die Geschichte der Kafka-Rezeption auch ein Spiegelbild des Wandels von literarischen Normen, ästhetischem Bewusstsein, dem Erwartungshorizont und der Entwicklung der Literaturforschung in China überhaupt.
Please note that this event will be held in German.

Guest Lecture: Buddhismus im Heutigen China
2016-06-15 16:00 - 18:00 | VG 3.108
Guest Lecture
Buddhismus im Heutigen China
Prof. Dr. Li Xuetao, Beijing Foreign Studies University
Wednesday, June 15, 4 pm, VG 3.108
Vom 22. bis 23. April 2016 fand die nationale Religionskonferenz in Beijing statt, an der Vertreter verschiedener Religionen teilnahmen. Auf dieser Konferenz hielt der chinesische Staatspräsident Xi Jinping eine wichtige Rede. Meister Xuecheng, Präsident der Vereinigung der Buddhisten Chinas, war bei der Konferenz ebenfalls anwesend. Der Buddhismus hat seinen Ursprung im alten Indien. Nach seiner Einführung in China vor etwa 2000 Jahren entwickelt er sich weiter und hat seither große Beiträge für die chinesische Kultur geleistet. Der Grund, warum der Buddhismus festen Fuß in China fassen konnte, liegt darin, dass er sich dem kulturellen Umfeld Chinas angepasst hat. Im Referat will Li über die Entwicklung des Buddhismus in China nach der Gründung der Volksrepublik im Jahr 1949 sprechen. Welches Schicksal hat der Buddhismus in der atheistischen Gesellschaft? Und spielt der Buddhismus weiterhin eine Rolle zur Reinigung des menschlichen Geistes in einer kommerzialisierten Gesellschaft, wie wir sie heute vielerorts erleben?
Please note that this event will be held in German.

Guest Lecture and Roundtable Discussion - Prof. Prasenjit Duara
2016-06-22 18:00 - 2016-06-23 11:00 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum (KWZ)
Guest Lecture and Roundtable Discussion
Sustainability and the Crisis of Transcendence: The Long View from Asia
Public Lecture by Prof. Dr. Prasenjit Duara, Duke University
Wednesday June 22, 18:00-20:00 0.602 KWZ
The 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
the 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.
Regionalizing the Global, Globalizing the Regional: An interdisciplinary conversation
Thursday June 23, 9:15-11:00
0.602 KWZ (please note the new venue!)
Roundtable discussion with

Prof. Dr. Prasenjit Duara, Duke University
Prof. Dr. Peter van der Veer, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen
Prof. Dr. Ravi Ahuja, Centre for Modern Indian Studies
Prof. Dr. Matthias Koenig, Institute for Sociology
Prof. Dr. Srirupa Roy, Centre for Modern Indian Studies
Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmeier, Centre for Modern East Asian Studies

Transregional Studies at Göttingen
Presented by the Forum for Transregional and Global Studies, CETREN, CeMIS, CeMEAS, Academic Confucius-Institute & the Center for Theory of Culture and Society (ZTMK)

CeMEAS Lecture: The Realization of One Belt One Road?
2016-06-29 16:00 - 18:00 | Oec 1.163, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 3, Göttingen, 37073, Germany
CeMEAS Lecture
The Realization of One Belt One Road?
Wednesday June 29, 2016 · 4 pm (c.t.) · Oec 1.163
Dr. Chun-Yi Lee, Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Nottingham
The 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.
The 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.

Image: By Jacopo, Crossroads, CC BY 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/HeCACA
Design: CeMEAS

Guest Lecture: Common Elements of an Axial Age? Comparative Perspectives on Ancient China and Ancient Egypt
2016-07-06 16:00 - 18:00 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum (KWZ)
Guest Lecture
Common Elements of an Axial Age? Comparative Perspectives on Ancient China and Ancient Egypt
Wednesday July 6, 2016 · 4 pm (c.t.) · KWZ 0.608
Prof. Mu-Chou Poo, Department of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
In 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.

Image: By Pulpolux !!!, Central Axis, CC BY 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/CXm48
Design: CeMEAS

Guest Lecture: Chinese Humanities in the Global Era
2016-07-06 18:00 - 20:00 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum (KWZ)
Guest Lecture
Chinese Humanities in the Global Era
Wednesday July 6, 2016 · 6 pm (c.t.) · KWZ 0.602
Prof. Hsiung Ping-Chen, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
The 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.

Image: By Kevin Doncaster, Marbles, CC BY 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/ChipsX
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Gastvortrag: Ein Postkolonialer Denker avant la lettre? Takeuchi Yoshimi, sein Asianismus und die Kritik an der Moderne
2016-07-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum (KWZ)
Gastvortrag
Ein Postkolonialer Denker avant la lettre? Takeuchi Yoshimi, sein Asianismus und die Kritik an der Moderne
Thursday July 7, 2016 · 6 pm (c.t.) · KWZ 3.701
Prof. Viren Murthy, Department of History, University of Wisconsin-Madison
In 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.
Takeuchi 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.
Christian 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.

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Poster Design: CeMEAS

Guest Lecture: Floating Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors in North China Plain
2016-07-08 14:00 - 16:00 | KWZ, Heinrich Düker Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Guest Lecture
Floating Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors in North China Plain: Boat-dwelling Fisherpeople’s Mobile Pantheon and Ancestral Hall
Friday July 8, 2016 · 2 pm (c.t.) · KWZ 0.610
Ching-chih Lin
Graduate Institute of Religious Studies, National Chengchi University
This 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.
Some 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.
Image: By Lawrence Siu, the grand canal, CC BY 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/4jAW6,

Lecture Series: What’s Religious about a Dead Body? Cadaver Donations in Taiwan
2016-07-25 16:15 - 18:00 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum (KWZ)
CeMEAS lecture:
What’s Religious about a Dead Body? Cadaver Donations in Taiwan
Monday July 25, 2016 · 4 pm (c.t.) · KWZ 0.610
Prof. C. Julia Huang, National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan/VisitingScholar, The Ho Center for Buddhist Studies, Stanford University
Drawing 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.
Image: 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
Design: CeMEAS

Lecture: How China Escaped the Poverty Trap
2016-11-01 18:00 - 20:00 | Verfügungsgebäude 3.101, University of Goettingen, Goettingen, 37073, Germany
CeMEAS Lecture Series:
How China Escaped the Poverty Trap
Tuesday, Nov. 1, 2016 · 6 pm, VG 3.101
Yuen Yuen Ang, Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan

Please pay attention: this Lecture is cancelled.

Before 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?
Was 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.
Yuen 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.
Bio
Yuen 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.
Image by: Horia Varlan, Old key chain in the shape of a small Earth globe, CC BY-SA 2.0,
https://www.flickr.com/photos/horiavarlan/4270078348/sizes/sq/

CeMEAS Lecture: Was Buddha a Muslim? Ottoman Turkish Reflexions on Japan
2017-01-17 18:00 - 20:00
CeMEAS Lecture:
Was Buddha a Muslim? Ottoman Turkish Reflexions on Japan
Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, 6 pm (c.t.) – 8 pm, KWZ 2.601
Dr. Katja Triplett
CeMEAS, University of Göttingen
In 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.
However, 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.
About the lecturer:
Katja 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.
Her 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.

CeMEAS Lecture: Globalisation and Environmental Sustainability in China
2017-01-24 18:00 - 20:00 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich- Düker- Weg 14, Göttingen
CeMEAS Lecture:
Globalization and Environmental Sustainability in China
Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, 6 pm (c.t.) – 8 pm, KWZ 1.601
Maoliang Bu, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Business, Nanjing University
Globalization 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.
The recent literature show very mixed evidences on both sides, which calls for more research. The talk will share some studies from the presenter.
About the lecturer:
Maoliang 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.

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Lecture: The Autobiographies of Shanghai Jewish Refugees from Central Europe
2017-01-31 16:00 - 18:00
Lecture:
The Autobiographies of Shanghai Jewish Refugees from Central Europe
Tuesday, Jan.31, 16(c.t.)-18, KWZ.0.607
Xiaoqian Gao (高晓倩)
Comparative Literature and World Literature, Fudan University
Organizer：Slavisches Seminar & CeMEAS

This 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.
About the lecturer:
Ms.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.
Click here for a complete Curriculum Vitae from Xiaoqian Gao.

Image: hans-johnson,Shanghai_1, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/BPM1Va

CeMEAS Lecture Series: China’s Road Towards Sustainability: Democracy or authoritarianism
2017-05-09 14:00 - 16:00 | T0.136, Theologicum, Platz der Göttinger Sieben, 2, Göttingen, 37073, Germany
CeMEAS Lecture Series
China’s Road Towards Sustainability: Democracy or authoritarianism
Arthur Mol, Wageningen University
Tuesday, 09.05.2017,14:00 – 16:00, T0.136 (Theologicum, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2)

About the lecturer:
Arthur 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.

(Information from Wageningen University, https://www.wur.nl/de/Personen/prof.dr.ir.-APJ-Arthur-Mol.htm)

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CeMEAS Lecture Series: Farmers, Market and Agricultural Policy in China
2017-05-30 18:00 - 19:30
CeMEAS Lecture Series:
Farmers, Market and Agricultural Policy in China
Yu Xiaohua, University of Göttingen
Tuesday, 30.05.2017, 18:00 – 19:30, VG 3.103

About the lecturer:
Chair of Agricultural Economics in Developing and Transition Countries, University of Göttingen
Research Interests:
Agricultural Economics, Environmental Economics, Applied Econometrics, and China Economy
Picture: kevincure, Rice Farmer, Longsheng, China, , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/6vLP2b
