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SUMMARY:Lecture: Historical Evolution and Future Trend of China's Agricultural Policy
DESCRIPTION:Lecture:\nHistorical Evolution and Future Trend of China’s Agricultural Policy\n  \n  \nDr. Xingqing Ye (The Development Research Center of State Council of China)\nTime: 10:00-12:00\, May 22\nVenue: VG 4105 \nShort CV: \nDr. Xingqing Ye is currently Director-General of the Research Department of Rural Economy of the Development Research Center of the State Council (DRC). DRC is a key policy think tank within Chinese government. \nDr. Ye has conducted in-depth research in the fields of modern agriculture\, new village construction\, grain supply\, agricultural tax systems\, urbanization\, rural migrant workers\, and land systems. He has compiled large amounts of research materials\, which got the approval of leaders in the State Council\, and played an important role in making some crucial decisions. \n  \n  \nDesign & Poster: CeMEAS\n Image:tribp\, Field\, CC BY-SA 3.0.https://flic.kr/p/faNDSg
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Citizenship & Bureaucracy in China
DESCRIPTION:Articulating Authoritatian Citizenship in China\nDiana Fu (University of Toronto)\nEvaluating the Bureaucracy in China and the US\nGreg Distelhorst (MIT) \n\nWednesday\, May 16\, 17:00-19:30\, Waldweg -1.201 \n  \nShort Bio: \nDiana Fu:\nDiana Fu is an assistant professor of Asian Politics. Her research examines the relationship between popular contention\, state power\, and civil society in contemporary China. Her book\, “Mobilizing Without the Masses\,” (2018\, Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics Series and Columbia University’s Studies of the Weatherhead East Asia Institute)\, examines state control and civil society contention in China. Articles that are part of this broader project have appeared in Governance (2017)\, Comparative Political Studies (2017)\, and The China Journal (2018)\, among others.\n(Information from University of Toronto) \nGreg Distelhorst:\nGreg Distelhorst is the Mitsubishi Career Development Professor and an Assistant Professor in Global Economics and Management at the MIT Sloan School of Management.\nHis research explores the social impact of multinational business\, focusing on how multinationals engage with labor-intensive manufacturers in the developing world. He examines initiatives to regulate labor standards in the supply chains of firms like Nike and HP. This research sits at the intersection of multinational management\, industrial relations\, and political economy.\nDistelhorst also studies Chinese politics and public policy\, focusing on China’s institutions of government responsiveness and accountability. He examines how citizens exploit these institutions and what prompts unelected officials to respond to citizen demands.\nHis research has been published in Management Science\, Regulation & Governance\, Comparative Political Studies\, and the Quarterly Journal of Political Science.\n(Information from MIT) \n  \nClick here for a draft paper to the topic by Greg Distelhorst. \n  \n  \nDesign & Poster: CeMEAS\n Image:International Monetary Fund\, _MG_9418 \, CC BY-SA 2.0.\,https://flic.kr/p/mnhFcy
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LOCATION:waldweg\, waldweg 26\, Gӧttingen\, 37073
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Sovereignty\, Natural Law\, and the Ironies of Decolonization: India and the Tokyo Trial
DESCRIPTION:Sovereignty\, Natural Law\, and the Ironies of Decolonization: India and the Tokyo Trial\nProf.Milinda Banerjee( Ludwig-Maximilian University )\n Monday\, 29.01.2018\, 16:00(c.t.) – 18:00\, ZESS\, AP26 \nAbstract:\nIs the demand for codified international criminal justice antithetical to the demand for agonistic decolonization of global political\, military\, and economic power? Or can the establishment of global norms of justice be made compatible with\, and even grounded upon\, anti-colonial and democratic interventions? By analysing Indian involvement in the Tokyo Trial (1946-48)\, this paper foregrounds some of the key complexities at stake in the dialectics between global norm-building and anti-colonial agonism. While existing scholarship on the Tokyo Trial has mainly dwelt upon legal and political history\, I draw upon methodological debates in the nascent field of global intellectual history to sharply focus on the tense relation between sovereignty and natural law which mediated discussions on justice in relation to colonialism\, in the Tokyo moment as well as in its long aftermath. I give particular attention to the dissenting Indian judge at the trial\, Radhabinod Pal (1886-1967)\, and contextualize his controversial judgment in relation to (anti-) colonial politics and justice\, not merely in relation to the Japanese Empire – and the decades-old Indian engagement with Japanese models of sovereignty – but also in relation to British India\, Dutch Indonesia\, French Indochina\, and Korea. In the process\, I relate the dynamics of the trial to transregional flows in legal-moral vocabularies and the emergence of international legal institutions\, including\, most notably\, the post-war International Law Commission. Simultaneously\, I relate Pal to other Indian actors\, such as Agent General Girja Shankar Bajpai (1891-1954) and Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru (1889-1964)\, who related (anti-) imperial anxieties to the politics of the Tokyo Trial. Further\, I show how the trial linked the paradoxes of India’s decolonization to foreign policy debates and questions about ‘race’ in relation to the United States and the United Kingdom. Ultimately\, I theorize about how the Tokyo Trial can shed novel conceptual light on the tortuous ironies involved in decolonization processes\, as regimes of sovereignty – and sovereign violence – were combated\, translated\, and expropriated across Asia through transimperial and transnational entanglements\, often with haunting long-term consequences. \n  \n  \nDesign & Image Selection: CeMEAS\nImage: The International Military Tribunal for the Far East\n \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-sovereignty-natural-law-ironies-decolonization-india-tokyo-trial/
LOCATION:Zentrale Einrichtung für Sprachen und Schlüsselqualifikationen der Universität Göttingen\, Goßlerstraße 10\, 37073 Göttingen\, 37073\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Lecture： China and the World in 1900: Stories of the Boxers and the First Global War
DESCRIPTION:China and the World in 1900: Stories of the Boxers and the First Global War\nProf. Jeffrey Wasserstrom (UC Irvine)\n Wednesday\, 13.12.2017\, 18:00 (c.t.) – 20:00\,\nKWZ 0.609 \nAbstract:\nThis illustrated lecture\, entitled “China and the World in 1900: Stories of the Boxers and the First Global War\,” revisits the anti-Christian uprising and international invasion that convulsed the Qing Empire during the final year of the nineteenth century\, paying particular attention to the varied ways these events were understood in different places at the time and the diverse kinds of stories that have been told about them since. As different as the world of 1900 is from our own\, especially when it comes to China’s strength now as opposed to weakness then\, we can see in the Boxer uprising and the response by an Allied Army made up of soldiers from Germany\, Japan\, Britain\, the United States and four other nations and empires many intimations of many things to come in the troubled twentieth century that was about to start and in our own anxious age. \nShort bio:\nJeffrey Wasserstrom\, who received his master’s from Harvard and his PhD. From Berkeley\, is Chancellor’s Professor of History at UC Irvine\, where he edits the Journal of Asian Studies (term ending June 2018) and holds courtesy affiliations with the Law School and program in Literary Journalism.  He has written five books\, including Student Protests in Twentieth-Century China (1991) and Eight Juxtapositions: China through Imperfect Analogies from Mark Twain to Manchukuo (Penguin 2016).  He has edited or co-edited several others\, including\, most recently\, The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China (2016).  In addition to writing for academic journals\, he has contributed to many general interest venues\, among them the New York Times\, the TLS\, and the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB).  He is an advising editor at LARB and an academic editor of its associated China Channel. \n  \n  \nDesign & Image Selection: CeMEAS\nImage: ralph repo， Qing Court Return\, The Emperess Dowerger [1902] George E. Morrison [RESTORED]\, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/7cW6Dp \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture%ef%bc%9a-china-world-1900-stories-boxers-first-global-war/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
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SUMMARY:Lecture Series: Poverty Alleviation as an Instrument of Technical Governance in Rural China
DESCRIPTION:Poverty Alleviation as an Instrument of Technical Governance in Rural China\nProf. Xiong Yuegen (Peking University)\n Thursday\, 07.12.2017\, 18:00 (c.t.) – 20:00\, KWZ 0.602 \nAbstract:\nIn the past decades\, China has achieved a great success in poverty reduction by helping more than 800 million of poor farmers out of poverty trap. However\, Chinese government has made a series of serious efforts on social policy implementation in rural areas\, poverty as a problematic persistent issue is still perplexing owing to institutional constraints and policy failure. In 2015\, the Party and central government launched a new national campaign entitled the Targeted Poverty Alleviation Programme aiming to eradicate the problem of poverty in rural areas by 2020. In this lecture\, I will mainly discuss the following issues: First\, how does this national campaign on poverty reduction in the new era differ from the previous ones? Second\, what is the main impact of the targeted poverty reduction programme on the farmers’ life and local government? Third\, what are the main limitations of the top-down model of poverty reduction programme in the centralized regime and its implications for the socio-economic development in future in China. Based on the field research conducted in Jiangxi Province\, the author will link the empirical data with theoretical interpretation on the ongoing social changes in the country. \nBio of the Speaker: \nYuegen Xiong is Professor and Director\, The Centre for Social Policy Research (CSPR) in the Department of Sociology at Peking University\, China. He is the author of Needs\, Reciprocity and Shared Function: Policy and Practice of Elderly Care in Urban China ( Shanghai Renmin Press\, 2008 )and Social Policy: Theories and Analytical Approaches ( Renmin University Press\, 2009 ) . He was the British Academy KC Wong Visiting Fellow at the University of Oxford during November 2002- September 2003\, the Fellow at the Hanse Institute for Advanced Study (HWK)\, Delmonhorst\, Germany during December 2003- February 2004 and the JSPS Fellow at the University of Tokyo in October\, 2005\, Visiting Professor in the Department of Social Sciences & Humanities\, Jacobs University Bremen from November\, 2015 to December\, 2015\, Germany. In the past years\, he has published extensively in the field of social policy\, comparative welfare regimes\, social work\, NGOs and civil society. He is the editorial member of Asian Social Work and Policy Review (Wiley)\, Asian Education and Development Studies (Emerald) and the British Journal of Interdisciplinary Studies (UK). He was the faculty of 483rd Salzburg Global Seminar on “ Economic Growth and Social Protection in Asia ” held in Austria during 7th-12th November\, 2011. \n  \n  \n  \n  \nDesign & Image Selection: CeMEAS\nImage: Samuel Vigier， Rural China\, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0\, https://flic.kr/p/c3ix1b \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-series-poverty-alleviation-instrument-technical-governance-rural-china/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20171128T180000
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Discovering Childhood and Paediatrics in Chinese History: Further Considerations
DESCRIPTION:Discovering Childhood and Paediatrics in Chinese History: Further Considerations\nProf. Hsiung Ping-chen\n (Chinese University of Hong Kong)\n 28. Nov.\, 18:00 – 20:00\, T0.136 \nAbstract: \nAs a reflection on thirty plus years of research on childhood and paediatrics in Chinese history\, this lecture intends to present further concerns after a systematic review\, in three parts:\nFirst\, a retrospective on the why’s and how’s of studying children and childhood in history\, the conceptual definition that the Chinese case had to start up with\, the categorical materials for the investigation\, the basic methodological questions to conduct the study with.\nSecond\, an in depth re-examination of the physical conditions in the beginnings of life \, and the role of traditional pedestrics in the Chinese and East Asian cultural linguistic world.\nThird\, further considerations are offered in way of world history\, interdisciplinary childhood studies\, and contemporary Chinese youth culture\, in this ongoing journey. \n  \n  \n  \nDesign & Image: CeMEAS
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-discovering-childhood-paediatrics-chinese-history-considerations/
LOCATION:Theologicum\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20171116T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20171116T200000
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Gendered Religiosity: Patriarchal Structures and Women’s Agency in China
DESCRIPTION:Gendered Religiosity: Patriarchal Structures and Women’s Agency in China\nProf. Mayfair Yang (UC Santa Barbara)\n16. Nov.\, 18:00 – 20:00\, KWZ 0.602\nAbstract: \nThis lecture will examine how social structures of power\, such as patriarchal power\, depend on the vicissitudes of human agency to implement their principles\, opening them up to subtle shifts and reconfigurations in social practice (Anthony Giddens\, Pierre Bourdieu). Traditional religiosities\, whether Christian\, Islamic\, Buddhist\, or others\, are often seen to produce conservative agents of patriarchy\, in both men and women. Writing about the women’s Islamic piety movement in contemporary Egypt\, Saba Mahmood has criticized the narrow definition of women’s agency put forth by liberal Western feminism. She suggests that women’s agency cannot be understood or defined in terms of oppositionality\, critical discourse\, or rebellious acts\, but must also take into account the modesty\, self-effacement\, and self-sacrificing ethos of pious women. Here\, I will examine the non-oppositional religious agency of pious women in rural and small-town Wenzhou. Two divinities in particular\, the regional deity of Chinese popular religion\, known as Goddess Chen the Fourteenth\, and the Buddhist mother goddess Guan Yin\, inspire these women’s religious agency. However\, I depart from Mahmood\, who almost closes herself off from feminist inquiry\, by showing how local women have\, through their self-sacrifice\, religious leadership\, and religious transcendence\, carved out a public space and role for women. In the absence of feminism\, and without directly confronting or resisting patriarchal power\, women’s religious agency has made a social impact and brought changes in local society. \nShort bio: \nMayfair Yang received her Ph.D. in Anthropology from UC Berkeley. She has been a faculty member in the Anthropology Department at UC Santa Barbara\, and is now a Professor in Religious Studies Department and East Asian Studies Department there. Yang was Director of Asian Studies at the University of Sydney in Australia\, and has been visiting scholar at the University of Michigan\, University of Chicago\, Harvard University\, Academia Sinica in Taiwan\, Beijing and Fudan Universities in China\, and the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She is the author of Gifts\, Favors\, & Banquets: the Art of Social Relationships in China\, and editor of Chinese Religiosities: Afflictions of Modernities & State Formation\, andPlaces of Their Own: Women’s Public Sphere in Transnational China. Her forthcoming book: Re-enchanting Modernity: Ritual Economy & Religious Civil Society in Wenzhou\, China (Duke University Press). She is also working on a second\, more theoretical book on Wenzhou religiosity and politics.
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-gendered-religiosity-patriarchal-structures-womens-agency-china/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20171026T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Berlin:20171026T200000
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Global Elements in Traditional Chinese Historiography
DESCRIPTION:Lecture: Global Elements in Traditional Chinese Historiography\nProf. Ge Zhaoguang (Fudan University)\nThursday\, October 26\,  6pm- 8pm\, KWZ 0.603\n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-global-elements-in-traditional-chinese-historiography/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20171026
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20171028
DTSTAMP:20171102T102745Z
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SUMMARY:Conceptions of the World in 20th-Century Chinese Historiography
DESCRIPTION:Conceptions of the World in 20th-Century Chinese Historiography\nTime: 26-27 October 2017\nPlace: Göttingen\, Germany\nOrganizer: Dr. Xin Fan\, State University of New York at Fredonia\n  \n \nOver the course of the twentieth century\, the constant writing and rewriting of history reflect aspects of the changing conceptions of the “world” in China.  Through various lenses – including but not limited to nation-states\, empires\, races\, civilizations\, cultures\, and classes – Chinese historians both creatively imagined global time and space and actively negotiated China’s position in it. This conference will posit new questions about the formation of Chinese worldviews by focusing on historiography as its primary field of inquiry. It will investigate a variety of ways in which Chinese historians constructed and deconstructed temporal and spatial concepts such as “Asian\,” “Asiatic\,” and “China.” In that manner\, the workshop will also establish an exchange between the field of China studies and global and transregional studies. A cohort of leading scholars from China\, North America\, and Europe have already committed their participation in this event\, and Professor Ge Zhaoguang from Fudan University will deliver a key speech during the event. \nThe conference is jointly hosted by the Göttingen Department of East Asian Studies\, the Center for Modern East Asian Studies and the Academic Confucius Institute. Outside sponsors: Volkswagen Foundation and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. \n  \nProgram: \n26 October 2017 \nKWZ 0.603 \n18:00 – 20:00 Keynote Speech \nGe\, Zhaoguang (Fudan University) \nGlobal Elements in Traditional Chinese Historiography (in Chinese) \n  \n27 October 2017 \nHistorische Sternwarte \nGeismar Landstr. 11\, 37083 Göttingen \n9:00 – 9:15 Opening Remarks \nFan Xin & Dominic Sachsenmaier \n9:15 – 11:15 Panel I \nMaking Sense of China and the World During the Early 20th Century \nChair: Sabine Dabringhaus (Freiburg) \nHon\, Tze-ki (The City University of Hong Kong) \nLocating China in the World: Newspapers and Textbooks in Late Qing Period \nSchneider\, Julia (Göttingen University) \nWriting a General History of China (Zhongguo tongshi): Thinking about Ethnicity in Early Nationalist Historiography \nStapleton\, Kristin (University at Buffalo) \nPopular History from the Pope of Thick-Black Studies \n11:15 – 11:45 Coffee Break \n11:45 – 13:00 Panel 2 \nProblems of Regionalism\, Universalism and Localism \nChair: Xin Fan (SUNY Fredonia; Global Fellow) \nHan\, Xiaorong (Hong Kong Polytechnic University) \nSoutheast Asia in Twentieth Century Chinese Historiography \nSchneider\, Axel (Göttingen University) \nUniversal progress and particular history: Chinese engagement with concepts of universal history \n13:00 – 14:15 Lunch Break \n14:15 – 16:00 Panel 3 \nChinese World Historical Outlooks and Marxism \nChair: TBA \nFan\, Xin (SUNY Fredonia; Global Fellow) \nThe Forced Analogy: Marxism\, Historiography\, and the Chinese Worldview \nLiu\, Xiaoyuan (University of Virginia) \nThe Chinese Communist Understanding of the World through Tibet in the 1950s \n16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break \n16:30 – 18:30 Panel 4 \nChallenges and Opportunities of Global Historical Scholarship \nChair: Dominic Sachsenmaier (Göttingen) \nChen\, Huaiyu (Arizona State University) \nThe Rise of the “Asian History” in Mainland China in the 1950s: A Global Perspective \nWang\, Q. Edward (Rowan University)  \nWorld History on A Par with Chinese History? — China’s Search for World Power \nDe Baets\, Antoon (University of Groningen) \nThe Subversive Power of Historical Analogies: A Global Approach \n18:30 – 18:45 Closing Remarks \n19:00 Conference Dinner \n  \nThe conference keynote speech (“Global Elements in Traditional Chinese Historiography”) will be open to the public\, and no prior registration is necessary. \nThe main conference will take place on Friday\, October 27 (9am – 6pm) at the Historische Sternwarte at Geismarer Landstrasse 11. Also this event is free and open to the public but pre-registration is required. If you wish to attend the conference\, please send an email to the following address: andreas.weis@stud.uni-goettingen.de\n\nPlease make sure to register by Monday\, October 23rd.
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/conceptions-world-20th-century-chinese-historiography/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum\, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14\, 37073 Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Conference,Lecture
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SUMMARY:The Beginning of the Century: A Reconsideration on the 20th Century in Chinese/Global History
DESCRIPTION:Lecture\n\nThe Beginning of the Century: A Reconsideration on the 20th Century in Chinese/Global History\nProf. WANG Hui (Tsinghua University)\n\nOrt: Adam-von-Trott-Saal\, Alte Mensa am Wilhelmsplatz\nDatum: 12.07.2017\, 18.00 – 20.00 Uhr\nOrganizers:\nAkademisches Konfuzius-Institut Göttingen &\nDepartment of East Asian Studies &\nMax Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity\n \n\nAbstract:\nAt the beginning of the 20th century\, the alien idea of century began to replace other traditional concepts of chronology in China and reshaped Chinese idea of time. Following the application of 20th century in Chinese context\, other related concepts such as 19th century\, 18th century and their sequence emerged as derivatives of 20th century. Before 1900\, the concept of century had almost not been discussed in this sense in China and never used as the self-consciousness of our era. The notion of century is closely connected with the 20th century\, its distinction from past eras being not just a simple temporal demarcation but an understanding of singular propensity of the time\, which render the history of the\nothers into a history of one’s own\, while situating it within history in toto for explanation and identification. This is the birth of global synchronicity in the history of China. How did intellectuals theorized the idea of 20th century? This talk will examine the birth of the notion of the 20th century in China from an intellectual history perspective and analyze its particular position in the history of China from the perspectives of time (history)\, space\, self-identification\, social ideals and etc.\n\nPresenter: \nWang Hui is a Changjiang Scholar Professor in the Department of Chinese Literature and the Department of History\, Tsinghua University\, and is Director of the Tsinghua Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences. His recent publications include China’s Twentieth Century (London/New York\, Verso\, 2016)\,  and China from Empire to Nation-State (two volumes) (Cambridge\, Mass: Harvard University Press\, 2014).\n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/beginning-century-reconsideration-20th-century-chineseglobal-history-2/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170628T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170628T200000
DTSTAMP:20170608T122815Z
CREATED:20170608T122815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170608T122815Z
UID:5478-1498672800-1498680000@www.cemeas.de
SUMMARY:Lecture: The Powers of Xi Jinping
DESCRIPTION:Lecture:\nThe Powers of Xi Jinping\nProf. Kerry Brown (King’s College London)\nVenue: VG 0.606\nDate: Wednesday\, 28.06.2017\, 18.00 – 20.00 Uhr\nOrganizers: Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Department for Political Science\nAbstract:\nThis year will see the 19th Party Congress\, marking a moment of re-evaluation for the Communist Party policy and elite leadership. Under Xi since 2012 there has been what is claimed to have been a concentration of power within his hands. But how can we best understand this power\, and what sense does it make to say that Xi is the new Mao of China? What is his political programme\, and how does it relate to the organisation he is meant to be serving and leading to a sustainable future – the Communist Party of China.’ \nPresenter:\nKerry Brown is Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College\, London. His main interests are in the politics and society of modern China\, in its international relations and its political economy. His monographs include `Struggling Giant: China in the 21st Century’ (London\, June 2007 )and `Friends and Enemies: The Past\, Present and Future of the Communist Party of China’ (London\, 2009). \n  \n  \nImage: APEC 2013\,neiljs\,Presiden China Hadiri APEC 2013\, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)\, https://flic.kr/p/goJ66F
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-powers-xi-jinping-2/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170502T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170502T193000
DTSTAMP:20170413T114232Z
CREATED:20170413T114232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170413T114232Z
UID:4982-1493748000-1493753400@www.cemeas.de
SUMMARY:Book Launch: Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History\, Historiography\, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s)
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch\nNation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History\, Historiography\, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s) \nTuesday\, 02.05.2017\,18:00 – 19:30\, KWZ 0.701\nJulia C. Schneider\, University of Göttingen\n\nIn Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History\, Historiography\, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s) Julia C. Schneider gives an analysis of nationalist and historiographical discourses among late imperial and early republican Chinese thinkers. In particular\, she researches their approaches towards non-Chinese people within the Qing Empire and the question on how to integrate them into a Chinese nation-state. \nNon-Chinese people\, mainly Manchus\, Mongols\, Tibetans\, and Turkic Muslims\, (Uyghurs)\, have not been considered as important factors in the history of early Chinese nationalism so far. But Chinese nationalist and historiographical discourses tell not only a lot about the Chinese image of the Other\, but also shed new light on the images of the Chinese Self and its assumed ability to assimilate and integrate other ethnicities. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/book-launch-nation-ethnicity-chinese-discourses-history-historiography-nationalism-1900s-1920s/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170502T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170502T193000
DTSTAMP:20170413T114232Z
CREATED:20170413T114232Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170413T114232Z
UID:5469-1493748000-1493753400@www.cemeas.de
SUMMARY:Book Launch: Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History\, Historiography\, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s)
DESCRIPTION:Book Launch\nNation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History\, Historiography\, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s) \nTuesday\, 02.05.2017\,18:00 – 19:30\, KWZ 0.701\nJulia C. Schneider\, University of Göttingen\n\nIn Nation and Ethnicity: Chinese Discourses on History\, Historiography\, and Nationalism (1900s-1920s) Julia C. Schneider gives an analysis of nationalist and historiographical discourses among late imperial and early republican Chinese thinkers. In particular\, she researches their approaches towards non-Chinese people within the Qing Empire and the question on how to integrate them into a Chinese nation-state. \nNon-Chinese people\, mainly Manchus\, Mongols\, Tibetans\, and Turkic Muslims\, (Uyghurs)\, have not been considered as important factors in the history of early Chinese nationalism so far. But Chinese nationalist and historiographical discourses tell not only a lot about the Chinese image of the Other\, but also shed new light on the images of the Chinese Self and its assumed ability to assimilate and integrate other ethnicities. \n  \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/book-launch-nation-ethnicity-chinese-discourses-history-historiography-nationalism-1900s-1920s-2/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170131T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170131T180000
DTSTAMP:20170119T155706Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170131T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170131T180000
DTSTAMP:20170119T155706Z
CREATED:20170119T155706Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170119T155706Z
UID:5466-1485878400-1485885600@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-2/
CATEGORIES:CeMEAS Lecture Series,Lecture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170124T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170124T200000
DTSTAMP:20170113T084727Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170124T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170124T200000
DTSTAMP:20170113T084727Z
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:20170117T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170117T200000
DTSTAMP:20161210T104014Z
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
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170117T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20170117T200000
DTSTAMP:20161210T104014Z
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:20161129T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20161129T200000
DTSTAMP:20161116T115433Z
CREATED:20161116T115433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161116T115433Z
UID:4562-1480442400-1480449600@www.cemeas.de
SUMMARY:Guqin Lecture: 山河逸响：民国山西琴人传
DESCRIPTION:古琴讲座\n山河逸响：民国山西琴人传\n2016年11月29日，星期二， KWZ 2.739 \, 18:00 – 20:00\n张德恒，山西大学文学院 \n内容介绍\n悠远的琴声，苍茫的余音，让浮躁的心瞬间安静，这是古琴独有的艺术魅力，入心，见情。\n意境深远的诗词吟唱，耐人咂味的禅宗思想，融中国儒释道精髓于一炉，这是古琴始终占据中国古典音乐最高点的魔咒，雅致，释然。\n\n二十世纪二三十年代，山西独特的社会人文环境，造就了雅乐的勃然兴起。民国山西，成为中国古琴人才汇聚的圣地，造就了山右琴学盛世。而其中的琴家，也成为雅乐传承中烁烁不灭的星光。\n山西大学文学院张德恒将介绍其作品：《山河逸响：民国山西琴人传》。本书收集了101位民国山西琴人的生平资料，并择取其中26位做了传记介绍，再现民国琴人雅致生活、仙骨般的精神世界。\n本书是近现代以来山西第一部古琴史著作，虽为地域性极强的山西范围，却足以展示民国时期中国琴界及琴人的状况。书中亦辑录了文献所载之古琴史料，及数位当代琴家访谈录。 \n作者简介\n张德恒，生于1985年，籍贯河北唐山，现居山西太原，吉林大学文学院毕业，主攻唐宋文学。在读期间出版《梦溪笔谈注评》(2009年，凤凰出版社)等著作四部。在《北方论丛》《兰州大学学报》《唐代文学研究》《宋代文学研究年鉴》《中外文化与文论》等期刊发表论文十余篇。现为山西大学文学院在读博士。擅长骈文及旧体诗词写作，其《珞珈赋》获武汉大学“建校120周年校庆征文”一等奖，其《李林歌》获朔州市纪念李林诞辰一百周年暨抗战胜利七十周年诗歌大赛一等奖。另有多篇诗文见载于《山西日报》、《山西市场导报》等刊物。社会兼职有山西韬园诗社社长等。 \n  \n主办 Organizers: \n   \n赞助 Sponsors and Facilitators: \n \n \nMusikinstrumentensammlung\nGeorg-August-Universität Göttingen\nMusikwissenschaftliches Seminar\nKurze Geismarstr. 1\nD-37073 Göttingen \n  \nImage by: chaos™\,远眺大同碛\, CC BY-SA 2.0\, https://www.flickr.com/photos/chaosinchaos/4010723093/
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/guqin-lecture-%e5%b1%b1%e6%b2%b3%e9%80%b8%e5%93%8d%ef%bc%9a%e6%b0%91%e5%9b%bd%e5%b1%b1%e8%a5%bf%e7%90%b4%e4%ba%ba%e4%bc%a0/
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Workshop
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20161129T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20161129T200000
DTSTAMP:20161116T115433Z
CREATED:20161116T115433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161116T115433Z
UID:5420-1480442400-1480449600@www.cemeas.de
SUMMARY:Guqin Lecture: 山河逸响：民国山西琴人传
DESCRIPTION:古琴讲座\n山河逸响：民国山西琴人传\n2016年11月29日，星期二， KWZ 2.739 \, 18:00 – 20:00\n张德恒，山西大学文学院 \n内容介绍\n悠远的琴声，苍茫的余音，让浮躁的心瞬间安静，这是古琴独有的艺术魅力，入心，见情。\n意境深远的诗词吟唱，耐人咂味的禅宗思想，融中国儒释道精髓于一炉，这是古琴始终占据中国古典音乐最高点的魔咒，雅致，释然。\n\n二十世纪二三十年代，山西独特的社会人文环境，造就了雅乐的勃然兴起。民国山西，成为中国古琴人才汇聚的圣地，造就了山右琴学盛世。而其中的琴家，也成为雅乐传承中烁烁不灭的星光。\n山西大学文学院张德恒将介绍其作品：《山河逸响：民国山西琴人传》。本书收集了101位民国山西琴人的生平资料，并择取其中26位做了传记介绍，再现民国琴人雅致生活、仙骨般的精神世界。\n本书是近现代以来山西第一部古琴史著作，虽为地域性极强的山西范围，却足以展示民国时期中国琴界及琴人的状况。书中亦辑录了文献所载之古琴史料，及数位当代琴家访谈录。 \n作者简介\n张德恒，生于1985年，籍贯河北唐山，现居山西太原，吉林大学文学院毕业，主攻唐宋文学。在读期间出版《梦溪笔谈注评》(2009年，凤凰出版社)等著作四部。在《北方论丛》《兰州大学学报》《唐代文学研究》《宋代文学研究年鉴》《中外文化与文论》等期刊发表论文十余篇。现为山西大学文学院在读博士。擅长骈文及旧体诗词写作，其《珞珈赋》获武汉大学“建校120周年校庆征文”一等奖，其《李林歌》获朔州市纪念李林诞辰一百周年暨抗战胜利七十周年诗歌大赛一等奖。另有多篇诗文见载于《山西日报》、《山西市场导报》等刊物。社会兼职有山西韬园诗社社长等。 \n  \n主办 Organizers: \n   \n赞助 Sponsors and Facilitators: \n \n \nMusikinstrumentensammlung\nGeorg-August-Universität Göttingen\nMusikwissenschaftliches Seminar\nKurze Geismarstr. 1\nD-37073 Göttingen \n  \nImage by: chaos™\,远眺大同碛\, CC BY-SA 2.0\, https://www.flickr.com/photos/chaosinchaos/4010723093/
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/guqin-lecture-%e5%b1%b1%e6%b2%b3%e9%80%b8%e5%93%8d%ef%bc%9a%e6%b0%91%e5%9b%bd%e5%b1%b1%e8%a5%bf%e7%90%b4%e4%ba%ba%e4%bc%a0-2/
CATEGORIES:Lecture,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20161121T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20161121T200000
DTSTAMP:20161109T112707Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Religion in Modern China
DESCRIPTION:Lecture\nReligion in Modern China\nMonday\, Nov. 21\, 2016  6 pm (c.t.) – 8 pm\, KWZ 1.601\nProfessor Li Tiangang 李天纲\nDepartment of Religious Studies\, Fudan University\n \nDoes China have its own religion? Is Confucianism a religion? How is the religious situation in contemporary China? These questions should be answered not only through the discussions within China studies\, but also from the perspective of religious studies. Prof. Li Tiangang is going to talk about how intellectuals engage with the modern movements of religious reformation since 1898. He will also focus on the question of religions in contemporary Chinese society.\n \nAbout the lecturer:\nLi Tiangang is Professor and Chair at the Department of Religious Studies\, Fudan University\, Shanghai. He was born in Shanghai in 1957\, and was trained as a historian in Fudan University to get his BA\, MA and Ph. D. degrees. As a visiting scholar/invited researcher\, he had been in Harvard University\, la Maison des sciences de L’homme\, Paris\, University of British Columbia\, Vancouver\, and a dozen other institutes worldwide. The major books he published\, such as ‘Chinese Rites Controversy\, Its History\, Documents\, and Significant’\, ‘Cross Cultural Explanation\, the meeting of Christian Theology and Confucian Biblical Study’\, were in the fields of Sino-Western cultural exchanges\, and Christian Church history in China. \nSponsors: Akademisches Konfuzius-Institut Göttingen\n\nImage by: kanegen\, Temple of Confucius\, CC BY-SA 2.0\,\nhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/kanegen/2901520641/
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/religion-modern-china/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20161121T180000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20161121T200000
DTSTAMP:20161109T112707Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Religion in Modern China
DESCRIPTION:Lecture\nReligion in Modern China\nMonday\, Nov. 21\, 2016  6 pm (c.t.) – 8 pm\, KWZ 1.601\nProfessor Li Tiangang 李天纲\nDepartment of Religious Studies\, Fudan University\n \nDoes China have its own religion? Is Confucianism a religion? How is the religious situation in contemporary China? These questions should be answered not only through the discussions within China studies\, but also from the perspective of religious studies. Prof. Li Tiangang is going to talk about how intellectuals engage with the modern movements of religious reformation since 1898. He will also focus on the question of religions in contemporary Chinese society.\n \nAbout the lecturer:\nLi Tiangang is Professor and Chair at the Department of Religious Studies\, Fudan University\, Shanghai. He was born in Shanghai in 1957\, and was trained as a historian in Fudan University to get his BA\, MA and Ph. D. degrees. As a visiting scholar/invited researcher\, he had been in Harvard University\, la Maison des sciences de L’homme\, Paris\, University of British Columbia\, Vancouver\, and a dozen other institutes worldwide. The major books he published\, such as ‘Chinese Rites Controversy\, Its History\, Documents\, and Significant’\, ‘Cross Cultural Explanation\, the meeting of Christian Theology and Confucian Biblical Study’\, were in the fields of Sino-Western cultural exchanges\, and Christian Church history in China. \nSponsors: Akademisches Konfuzius-Institut Göttingen\n\nImage by: kanegen\, Temple of Confucius\, CC BY-SA 2.0\,\nhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/kanegen/2901520641/
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/religion-modern-china-2/
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20161109T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20161109T180000
DTSTAMP:20161026T115246Z
CREATED:20161026T115246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161026T115246Z
UID:4465-1478707200-1478714400@www.cemeas.de
SUMMARY:Lecture: Confucian Role Ethics: A Challenge to the Ideology of Individualism
DESCRIPTION:Lecture\nAkademisches Konfuzius-Institut Göttingen presents:\nConfucian Role Ethics: A Challenge to the Ideology of Individualism\nWednesday\, Nov. 9\, 2016 · 4 pm\, ZHG 003\nRoger T. Ames\, Humanities Chair Professor\nat Peking University \nIn the introduction of Chinese philosophy and culture into the Western academy\, we have tended to theorize and conceptualize this antique tradition by appeal to familiar categories. Confucian role ethics is an attempt to articulate a sui generis moral philosophy that allows this tradition to have its own voice. \nThis holistic philosophy is grounded in the primacy of relationality\, and is a challenge to a foundational liberal individualism that has defined persons as discrete\, autonomous\, rational\, free\, and often self-interested agents. Confucian role ethics begins from a relationally constituted conception of person\, takes family roles and relations as the entry point for developing moral competence\, invokes moral imagination and the growth in relations that it can inspire as the substance of human morality\, and entails a human-centered\, a-theistic religiousness that stands in sharp contrast to the Abrahamic religions. \nAbout the lecturer: \nRoger T. Ames is Distinguished Humanities Chair Professor at Peking University\, a Berggruen Fellow\, and former Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai’i. He is former editor of Philosophy East & West and China Review International. Ames has authored several interpretative studies of Chinese philosophy and culture: Thinking Through Confucius (1987)\, Anticipating China (1995)\, and Thinking From the Han (1998) (all with D.L. Hall)\, and most recently Confucian Role Ethics: A Vocabulary (2011). His publications also include translations of Chinese classics: Sun-tzu: The Art of Warfare (1993); Sun Pin: The Art of Warfare (1996) (with D.C. Lau); the Confucian Analects (1998) and the Classic of Family Reverence: The Xiaojing (2009) (both with H. Rosemont)\, Focusing the Familiar: The Zhongyong (2001)\, and The Daodejing (with D.L. Hall) (2003). Almost all of his publications are now available in Chinese translation\, including his philosophical translations of Chinese canonical texts. He has most recently been engaged in compiling the new Blackwell Sourcebook of Classical Chinese Philosophy\, and in writing articles promoting a conversation between American pragmatism and Confucianism. \nImage by: Bernhard Wintersperger\, IMG_1176\, CC BY-SA 2.0\, \nhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/bwintersperger/8776462999/
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-confucian-role-ethics-challenge-ideology-individualism/
LOCATION:Zentrales Hörsaal Gebäude ZHG 002\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5\, 37073 Göttingen\, Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20161109T160000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20161109T180000
DTSTAMP:20161026T115246Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20161026T115246Z
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SUMMARY:Lecture: Confucian Role Ethics: A Challenge to the Ideology of Individualism
DESCRIPTION:Lecture\nAkademisches Konfuzius-Institut Göttingen presents:\nConfucian Role Ethics: A Challenge to the Ideology of Individualism\nWednesday\, Nov. 9\, 2016 · 4 pm\, ZHG 003\nRoger T. Ames\, Humanities Chair Professor\nat Peking University \nIn the introduction of Chinese philosophy and culture into the Western academy\, we have tended to theorize and conceptualize this antique tradition by appeal to familiar categories. Confucian role ethics is an attempt to articulate a sui generis moral philosophy that allows this tradition to have its own voice. \nThis holistic philosophy is grounded in the primacy of relationality\, and is a challenge to a foundational liberal individualism that has defined persons as discrete\, autonomous\, rational\, free\, and often self-interested agents. Confucian role ethics begins from a relationally constituted conception of person\, takes family roles and relations as the entry point for developing moral competence\, invokes moral imagination and the growth in relations that it can inspire as the substance of human morality\, and entails a human-centered\, a-theistic religiousness that stands in sharp contrast to the Abrahamic religions. \nAbout the lecturer: \nRoger T. Ames is Distinguished Humanities Chair Professor at Peking University\, a Berggruen Fellow\, and former Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawai’i. He is former editor of Philosophy East & West and China Review International. Ames has authored several interpretative studies of Chinese philosophy and culture: Thinking Through Confucius (1987)\, Anticipating China (1995)\, and Thinking From the Han (1998) (all with D.L. Hall)\, and most recently Confucian Role Ethics: A Vocabulary (2011). His publications also include translations of Chinese classics: Sun-tzu: The Art of Warfare (1993); Sun Pin: The Art of Warfare (1996) (with D.C. Lau); the Confucian Analects (1998) and the Classic of Family Reverence: The Xiaojing (2009) (both with H. Rosemont)\, Focusing the Familiar: The Zhongyong (2001)\, and The Daodejing (with D.L. Hall) (2003). Almost all of his publications are now available in Chinese translation\, including his philosophical translations of Chinese canonical texts. He has most recently been engaged in compiling the new Blackwell Sourcebook of Classical Chinese Philosophy\, and in writing articles promoting a conversation between American pragmatism and Confucianism. \nImage by: Bernhard Wintersperger\, IMG_1176\, CC BY-SA 2.0\, \nhttps://www.flickr.com/photos/bwintersperger/8776462999/
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/lecture-confucian-role-ethics-challenge-ideology-individualism-2/
LOCATION:Zentrales Hörsaal Gebäude ZHG 002\, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5\, 37073 Göttingen\, Göttingen\, Germany
CATEGORIES:Lecture
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160725T161500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160725T180000
DTSTAMP:20160718T082629Z
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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160725T161500
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160725T180000
DTSTAMP:20160718T082629Z
CREATED:20160718T082629Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160718T082629Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160718T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160722T180000
DTSTAMP:20160705T114645Z
CREATED:20160705T114645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160705T114645Z
UID:4283-1468828800-1469210400@www.cemeas.de
SUMMARY:Summer School Göttingen SPIRIT 2016. "Beyond the City Limits: Rethinking New Religiosities in Asia."
DESCRIPTION:Summer School\nSummer School Göttingen SPIRIT 2016. “Beyond the City Limits: Rethinking New Religiosities in Asia.” \n18-22 July 2016. University of Göttingen\, Germany\nGöttingen Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology (GISCA)\, Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS) & Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) \nTheme\nWith the rapid urbanization across Asia\, with new cityscapes\, glittering skyscrapers\, shopping malls\, globalized forms of consumption it is easy to assume that cities are the primary sites for the production of the new. Indeed\, urbanity is often used as a synonym for modernity and Asian futures would appear to be increasingly urban. The study of religion is no exception\, and emergent trends\, practices and movements are often implicitly or explicitly connected with the city. For example\, new religious movements are commonly treated as distinctly urban phenomena that reflect middle class sensibilities and subjectivities\, concerns and consumption patterns. Moreover\, the rise of new religious forms is often understood as coming at the expense of the rural\, as when village mediumship practices are seen to give way to urban spirit cults\, or when so-called “forest monasteries” in Thailand increasingly find themselves in urban or peri-urban zones. \nBut if cities are the future\, is the country then the past? Does the focus on cities as sites of “the new” ignore the complex ways rural contexts\, settings and imaginaries are implicated and contribute to contemporary religious practice? And to what extent does the notion of “urban religion” implicitly depend on its “others”? Does it reproduce the urban/rural distinction as one of the “great divides”  (Latour 1993) that have been central to the experience of modernity? In truth\, it is increasingly difficult to sustain sharp distinctions between rural and urban. Across Asia\, increased mobility especially patterns of rural/urban migration and the spread of communications and transport technologies connect urban and rural settings like never before improved education rates have seen the rise of an increasingly sophisticated\, cosmopolitan and politically engaged rural population. Yet nationalist constructions of identity and modernizing discourses across Asia have at once denigrated the rural\, “the peasantry”\, as backwards and in need of “development” while at the same time valorizing them as embodying traditional values and the essence of national identities. Religion is similarly implicated in such discourses\, at times standing for the “other” of modernity\, at others functioning as the locus of ethnic or national identities. \nYet so-called urban and rural religious practices do not constitute two opposed spheres of activity but are interconnected in various ways. Indeed\, it is frequently the very notion of an opposition between city and country that facilitates interactions and networks that traverse urban and rural contexts. For example\, urban religious institutions may recruit ritual specialists from the countryside because they are seen to have retained “correct” knowledge and techniques that urban practitioners have lost (Davis 2016)\, or city dwellers may see rural settings as sites of spiritual potential and seek out sites of pilgrimage\, of refuge or retreat. \nThis Summer School takes up these issues and asks how the study of contemporary religious life in Asia can benefit from “thinking beyond the city”\, whether “the city” is understood as a spatial entity\, a site of enquiry\, or as an analytical category. It will call into question many of the assumptions that go along with the study of urban religiosity and will attempt to bring “the urban” explicitly into relationship with its various “others” – such as the “rural”\, “hinterland”\, “periphery”\, or “village”. Central questions include: How do patterns of pilgrimage\, travel and tourism\, or the circulation of religious symbols or objects connect “urban” and “rural”? How do religious networks and practices help particular actors – such as rural/urban migrants – to negotiate tensions between their rural and urban lives? How do notions of nostalgia and pastness figure in projects of urban religio-spiritual renewal? How do dialectics of religion\, secularity and rationality play out in rural/urban spaces? And to what extent does the notion of an urban/rural divide itself inform religious practices and imaginaries? A final avenue of questioning focuses on the hierarchization of city and country and the relative superiority and agency attributed to the former. Just as postcolonial and critical theory have\nchallenged discourses that contrast a dynamic and active occident with a relatively static\, passive orient\, the Summer School will critically examine the manner in which similar distinctions between city and country have inflected the study of religion in Asia. It will ask how “provincializing” the city can lead to new insights and approaches that can reveal blindspots and draw attention to power differentials in Asian societies. The purpose would be to challenge the processes of othering that assign a relatively passive or reactive role for the countryside and to instead draw attention to the agency of rural actors\, to alternative imaginaries of the future\, and to ask what role religion plays in specifically rural modernities. \nThe summer school thus invites participants to engage with\, and develop\, their own work through an exploration of the way religion and spirituality intersect with three key themes: (1) traversing and transcending the rural/urban divide; (2) the city and its “others”; (3) provincializing the city. A range of international speakers has been invited whose collective expertise connects questions of rural/urban religiosities and critical engagements with the category of “the city” in contemporary Asia. An innovative approach of this Summer School is to include both scholars who work on religion and those do not but whose research aims to critically engage with the category of “the city”. This combination of perspectives is expected to produce stimulating exchange and novel insights. \nSpeakers will include: \n\nProf. Michael Herzfeld\, Harvard University\nProf. Ursula Rao\, Leipzig University\nProf. Christina Schwenkel\, UC Riverside\nProf. Julia Huang\, National Tsing Hua University\, Taiwan (tentative)\nDr. Radhika Gupta\, Göttingen University\n\nProf. Herzfeld will provide a public keynote as well as a general workshop on successful thesis writing. Podium discussions and morning lectures will provide theoretical frames and ethnographic snapshots from diverse Asian contexts. In addition\, students will participate in small working and reading groups moderated and mentored by each of the invited speakers over the course of the School. Mandatory readings for these sessions will be shared in advance. Participants will have the opportunity to introduce their own work in working groups\, to connect their research to each of the three theme blocs\, in order to develop new ideas and learn new approaches for their own work. \nHighlights of the cultural program include: \n\nA visit to the historic Bodenwerder synagogue from 1825\, which was translocated to Göttingen in 2006 to find out about the transformation of religious sites in a local context.\nA city tour\, including guided tours of historically significant cemeteries.\n\nAbout the organizers\nGISCA\, CEMIS and CeMEAS are key institutions building research\, network and outreach capacities in the study of religions at Göttingen Research campus (GRC). Bringing together scholars in the social sciences and humanities for inter-disciplinary dialogue\, they in particular foster an appreciation of regional diversity and intra- and cross-regional entanglements in Asia. With GISCA’s expertise in the anthropology of Southeast Asia and CEMIS and CeMEAS core competence in South and East Asia respectively\, these centers complement each other\, join creative forces and pool their excellent academic networks to organize this Summer School. \nContact\nKarin Klenke at karin.klenke@cemis.uni-goettingen.de\nhttps://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/531996.html
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/summer-school-gottingen-spirit-2016-beyond-city-limits-rethinking-new-religiosities-asia/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum (KWZ)
CATEGORIES:Conference,Lecture,Workshop
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DTSTART;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160718T080000
DTEND;TZID=Europe/Paris:20160722T180000
DTSTAMP:20160705T114645Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20160705T114645Z
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SUMMARY:Summer School Göttingen SPIRIT 2016. "Beyond the City Limits: Rethinking New Religiosities in Asia."
DESCRIPTION:Summer School\nSummer School Göttingen SPIRIT 2016. “Beyond the City Limits: Rethinking New Religiosities in Asia.” \n18-22 July 2016. University of Göttingen\, Germany\nGöttingen Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology (GISCA)\, Centre for Modern Indian Studies (CeMIS) & Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) \nTheme\nWith the rapid urbanization across Asia\, with new cityscapes\, glittering skyscrapers\, shopping malls\, globalized forms of consumption it is easy to assume that cities are the primary sites for the production of the new. Indeed\, urbanity is often used as a synonym for modernity and Asian futures would appear to be increasingly urban. The study of religion is no exception\, and emergent trends\, practices and movements are often implicitly or explicitly connected with the city. For example\, new religious movements are commonly treated as distinctly urban phenomena that reflect middle class sensibilities and subjectivities\, concerns and consumption patterns. Moreover\, the rise of new religious forms is often understood as coming at the expense of the rural\, as when village mediumship practices are seen to give way to urban spirit cults\, or when so-called “forest monasteries” in Thailand increasingly find themselves in urban or peri-urban zones. \nBut if cities are the future\, is the country then the past? Does the focus on cities as sites of “the new” ignore the complex ways rural contexts\, settings and imaginaries are implicated and contribute to contemporary religious practice? And to what extent does the notion of “urban religion” implicitly depend on its “others”? Does it reproduce the urban/rural distinction as one of the “great divides”  (Latour 1993) that have been central to the experience of modernity? In truth\, it is increasingly difficult to sustain sharp distinctions between rural and urban. Across Asia\, increased mobility especially patterns of rural/urban migration and the spread of communications and transport technologies connect urban and rural settings like never before improved education rates have seen the rise of an increasingly sophisticated\, cosmopolitan and politically engaged rural population. Yet nationalist constructions of identity and modernizing discourses across Asia have at once denigrated the rural\, “the peasantry”\, as backwards and in need of “development” while at the same time valorizing them as embodying traditional values and the essence of national identities. Religion is similarly implicated in such discourses\, at times standing for the “other” of modernity\, at others functioning as the locus of ethnic or national identities. \nYet so-called urban and rural religious practices do not constitute two opposed spheres of activity but are interconnected in various ways. Indeed\, it is frequently the very notion of an opposition between city and country that facilitates interactions and networks that traverse urban and rural contexts. For example\, urban religious institutions may recruit ritual specialists from the countryside because they are seen to have retained “correct” knowledge and techniques that urban practitioners have lost (Davis 2016)\, or city dwellers may see rural settings as sites of spiritual potential and seek out sites of pilgrimage\, of refuge or retreat. \nThis Summer School takes up these issues and asks how the study of contemporary religious life in Asia can benefit from “thinking beyond the city”\, whether “the city” is understood as a spatial entity\, a site of enquiry\, or as an analytical category. It will call into question many of the assumptions that go along with the study of urban religiosity and will attempt to bring “the urban” explicitly into relationship with its various “others” – such as the “rural”\, “hinterland”\, “periphery”\, or “village”. Central questions include: How do patterns of pilgrimage\, travel and tourism\, or the circulation of religious symbols or objects connect “urban” and “rural”? How do religious networks and practices help particular actors – such as rural/urban migrants – to negotiate tensions between their rural and urban lives? How do notions of nostalgia and pastness figure in projects of urban religio-spiritual renewal? How do dialectics of religion\, secularity and rationality play out in rural/urban spaces? And to what extent does the notion of an urban/rural divide itself inform religious practices and imaginaries? A final avenue of questioning focuses on the hierarchization of city and country and the relative superiority and agency attributed to the former. Just as postcolonial and critical theory have\nchallenged discourses that contrast a dynamic and active occident with a relatively static\, passive orient\, the Summer School will critically examine the manner in which similar distinctions between city and country have inflected the study of religion in Asia. It will ask how “provincializing” the city can lead to new insights and approaches that can reveal blindspots and draw attention to power differentials in Asian societies. The purpose would be to challenge the processes of othering that assign a relatively passive or reactive role for the countryside and to instead draw attention to the agency of rural actors\, to alternative imaginaries of the future\, and to ask what role religion plays in specifically rural modernities. \nThe summer school thus invites participants to engage with\, and develop\, their own work through an exploration of the way religion and spirituality intersect with three key themes: (1) traversing and transcending the rural/urban divide; (2) the city and its “others”; (3) provincializing the city. A range of international speakers has been invited whose collective expertise connects questions of rural/urban religiosities and critical engagements with the category of “the city” in contemporary Asia. An innovative approach of this Summer School is to include both scholars who work on religion and those do not but whose research aims to critically engage with the category of “the city”. This combination of perspectives is expected to produce stimulating exchange and novel insights. \nSpeakers will include: \n\nProf. Michael Herzfeld\, Harvard University\nProf. Ursula Rao\, Leipzig University\nProf. Christina Schwenkel\, UC Riverside\nProf. Julia Huang\, National Tsing Hua University\, Taiwan (tentative)\nDr. Radhika Gupta\, Göttingen University\n\nProf. Herzfeld will provide a public keynote as well as a general workshop on successful thesis writing. Podium discussions and morning lectures will provide theoretical frames and ethnographic snapshots from diverse Asian contexts. In addition\, students will participate in small working and reading groups moderated and mentored by each of the invited speakers over the course of the School. Mandatory readings for these sessions will be shared in advance. Participants will have the opportunity to introduce their own work in working groups\, to connect their research to each of the three theme blocs\, in order to develop new ideas and learn new approaches for their own work. \nHighlights of the cultural program include: \n\nA visit to the historic Bodenwerder synagogue from 1825\, which was translocated to Göttingen in 2006 to find out about the transformation of religious sites in a local context.\nA city tour\, including guided tours of historically significant cemeteries.\n\nAbout the organizers\nGISCA\, CEMIS and CeMEAS are key institutions building research\, network and outreach capacities in the study of religions at Göttingen Research campus (GRC). Bringing together scholars in the social sciences and humanities for inter-disciplinary dialogue\, they in particular foster an appreciation of regional diversity and intra- and cross-regional entanglements in Asia. With GISCA’s expertise in the anthropology of Southeast Asia and CEMIS and CeMEAS core competence in South and East Asia respectively\, these centers complement each other\, join creative forces and pool their excellent academic networks to organize this Summer School. \nContact\nKarin Klenke at karin.klenke@cemis.uni-goettingen.de\nhttps://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/531996.html
URL:https://www.cemeas.de/event/summer-school-gottingen-spirit-2016-beyond-city-limits-rethinking-new-religiosities-asia-2/
LOCATION:Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum (KWZ)
CATEGORIES:Conference,Lecture,Workshop
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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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