CeMEAS Lecture Series

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …