CeMEAS

CeMIG Lecture: Transnational Migration and Religious Conversion among North Korean Refugee-Migrants across Continents in Comparative Perspectives
2019-05-22 18:15 (Europe/Berlin) | VG, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
CeMIG Lecture:
Transnational Migration and Religious Conversion among North Korean Refugee-Migrants across Continents in Comparative Perspectives

Jin-heon Jung, Institute of Korean Studies in the Department of History and Cultural Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
22.05.2019, 16:15-17:45, VG 4.102

Abstract:
This talk examines North Korean refugee-migrants’ religious encounters throughout their transnational migrations by way of China to South Korea, North America, and Europe in comparative perspectives. It investigates how some of them become voluntarily or involuntarily converted to Christianity, and ordained as professional missionaries, while others are indifferent, critical to, or disenchanted from the religion in the contexts of both national division and their host societies. Their conversion to Christianity is often depicted as a signifier of a sacred triumph over the “evil” socialist North in evangelical political discourses. Such evangelical churches and missionary networks have provided secret shelters, broker-missionaries, and the “Underground railways” in China and Southeast Asian countries to South Korea and other western countries. Overseas Korean ethnic churches serve for the individual refugees to resettle in the host society and the co-ethnic community. Based on more than a decade long follow-up research among North Korean refugee-migrants in different countries, this talk aims to discuss the ways in which North Korean converted Christians develop and practice their own religiosities in the context of transnational migration and in envisioning post-division Korea. It sheds light on religion as a lens through which one can better understand how North Korean refugee-migrants negotiate senses of belonging and further claim to become “the chosen” rather than “helpless victims” in both secular and sacred terms. Moreover, this talk analyzes the similarities and differences in practicing religiosities and the implications among North Korean communities in Germany, England, South Korea, and North America respectively.
The talk is part of the CeMig lecture series on “Migration and Regimes of Migration Control: A Regional Comparison”.
For more information please visit the website: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/cemig+lecture+series+summer+term+2019/607157.html

Image: CeMig Lecture Series Summer Term 2019, @CeMig

Vortrag: Interregnum oder Epochensignum? Kollektive Führung als Antwort auf Stalin und Mao
2019-05-28 18:00 - 20:00 | KWZ, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, 37073, Germany
Vortrag:
Interregnum oder Epochensignum? Kollektive Führung als Antwort auf Stalin und Mao

Martin Wagner (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)
WANN: Dienstag, der 28.05.2019, 18 Uhr (c.t.)
WO: KWZ 0.603, Universität Göttingen

Diese Veranstaltung ist Teil des Forschungskolloquiums zur Neueren und Neuesten Geschichte Osteuropas.

Die Veranstaltungen sind öffentlich und Interessierte herzlich willkommen.
Mehr informationen finden sie unter: https://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/kolloquium/587670.html

The 14th Göttingen East Asia Research Salon
2019-06-11 16:00 - 18:00 | VG, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
The 14th Göttingen East Asia Research Salon:
Measuring Reliability in the Wartime Transport of Provisions: The Case of Mao Yuanyi (1594-1641)

Presenter: Masato Hasegawa (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science)
Commentators: Dr. Charlotte Backerra, Dr. Julia Schneider
Time: Tuesday, 11.06.2019, 4 pm (c.t.) – 6 pm
Venue: VG 2.101, University of Göttingen

Abstract
This paper examines the notion of efficiency and reliability in the wartime transport of provisions during the late Ming period. Primarily drawing on writings of Mao Yuanyi (1594-1641), one of the most prolific writers of the period on military matters, this study assesses how technologies, animals, and human labor enabled the overland transport of military provisions in late Ming society. A military strategist and advisor, Mao participated in the Ming defense effort against the Jurchen troops in Liaodong in the early seventeenth century. In his seminal study on the conduct of war, The Record of Military Preparedness (Wubeizhi), he extensively discussed the costs and benefits of the transport methods that were available at the time, including wooden carts, pack animals, and water transport. Among the various methods considered in The Record of Military Preparedness, Mao clearly favored what he called “human transport” (renyun), which exclusively relied on the labor of human bearers. By analyzing his writings on the transport of provisions and his forceful argument in favor of employing human labor, this study not only illuminates the manner in which consideration over the duration and speed of transport entailed an appraisal of reliability over the long term. It also reveals how local communities in the Liaodong region became intricately involved in the planning and implementation of war in the late Ming period.
For an essay draft please contact us (assist@cemeas.uni-goettingen.de).
Short Bio
Masato Hasegawa received his PhD in History from Yale University in 2013 and previously taught Chinese, Korean, and East Asian history at the University of Oregon, Columbia University, and New York University. His research centers on the question of how individual lives intersected larger historical changes in borderlands in early modern East Asia. His dissertation, “Provisions and Profits in a Wartime Borderland: Supply Lines and Society in the Border Region between China and Korea, 1592–1644,” examined the impact of cross-border wars on local society in the Chinese-Korean borderland during China’s political transition from the Ming to the Qing dynasty. Focusing on the wartime procurement and transport of provisions across the Chinese-Korean borders, it analyzed the manner in which the logistics of cross-border military campaigns profoundly affected and disrupted the lives of individuals and the region’s agricultural cycle. He is currently revising his dissertation for publication and preparing a new project on the notion of reliability in connection with technologies, animals, and seasonality in the Sino-Korean borderland of the early seventeenth century.
Source: https://www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/users/mhasegawa

Image: Qi Jiguang 戚繼光 (1528-1588), Lianbing shiji zaji 練兵實紀雜集 [Miscellaneous notes concerning military training], fascicle 6, leaf 22.

Lecture: Greening for urban wellbeing: A Sustainability Assessment of the Kökyar Protection Forest in NW China
2019-06-18 16:00 - 18:00 | VG, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Lecture:
Greening for urban wellbeing: A Sustainability Assessment of the Kökyar Protection Forest in NW China

Prof. Dr. Martin Welp (Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development)
Time: Tuesday, 18.06.2019, 4 pm-6 pm
Venue: VG 4.103, University of Göttingen
Abstract
China has made remarkable achievements in increasing forest and vegetation cover in large parts of the country. The Three-North Shelter Forest Program (also known as the great green wall) is one the famous national initiatives to hold back desertification. On the local level, the city of Aksu, located at the fringe of the Taklimakan desert in NW China, started already in the 1980s preparing and planting the so called Kökyar protection forest. It is an ecological engineering project with the intent of protecting the city from frequent dust and sand storms. The forest is well-known in China, has been awarded by the UN and is highlighted as an achievement of the so called “Kökyar-spirit”. We examined the shelterbelt from a broader perspective, embedding Kökyar to the wider context of social and environmental problems in South Xinjiang. Results affirm the economic sustainability of the shelterbelt, but see a mixed record for the social sphere as well as negative trade-offs when looking at the ecological dimensions — especially due high water consumption of the protection forest (a combination of poplar shelterbelts and orchards) and its impacts down-stream. There is a trade-off between artificial shelterbelt plantations for urban ecosystem services on the one hand side, and natural riparian forests and their biodiversity on the other hand side. In such agroforestry schemes systemic interactions need to be considered and locally adapted species favored.
Short CV
Martin Welp holds a professorship in Socioeconomics and Communication at the Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development (Faculty of Forest and Environment). He is head of the International Master Study Programme Global Change Management (M.Sc.). He earned his Doctoral degree at the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany and his Master’s degree in Forestry at the University of Helsinki in Finland. Before his current position he worked as senior researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), Department Global Change and Social Systems. He is engaged in stakeholder dialogues in science-policy-platforms as well as in management, researching positions and agreements among actors, dialogue methods and the theoretical framing of such dialogues. Research projects have focused on global (environmental) change with special attention to socio-economic dimensions and human well-being. Past projects include among others SuMaRiO – Sustainable Management of River Oases along the Tarim River / China funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. The full list of projects and publications in the field of climate mitigation and adaptation as well natural resources management (integrated coastal zone management, integrated river basin management, forest management, and arid land management can be found at URL: www.hnee.de/welp.

Hosted by the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) in cooperation with the Academic Confucius Institute (ACI) and the Old Botanical Garden at the University of Göttingen.

Image: CC BY-SA 2.0., Louis Dallara, Dead Cedar Trees, https://flic.kr/p/4Xh7cn

Lecture: Japan and China on the Silk Road: a Global History of Politics and Culture in Eurasia
2019-06-18 18:00 - 20:00 | KWZ, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, 37073, Germany
Lecture:
Japan and China on the Silk Road: a Global History of Politics and Culture in Eurasia

Prof. Selçuk Esenbel (Department of History, Boğaziçi University Istanbul)
Jun 18, 6:00 PM – 8:00 PM
KWZ 0.609, University of Göttingen
Japan on the Silk Road is a global history of politics and culture from the late 19th century until the end of the second world war connected to the Great Game between competing empires of Russia, Britain, and China in the vast area of Eurasia across the Middle East and Central Asia. Between 1868-1945 Japanese diplomats, military officers, archaeologists, and linguists traversed the land locked and maritime Silk Roads pursuing imperial interest and exploring ancient civilizations.
A global team of scholars bring to light Japan’s intellectual and political encounters with the peoples and cultures of Asia, in particular Turks and Persians, Hindus and Muslims of India, Mongolians and the Uyghur of Inner Asia, and Muslims in China. The study exposes the entanglements of pre-war Japanese Pan-Asianism with Pan-Islamism, Turkic nationalism and Mongolian independence as a global history of imperialism and the Japanese connections to Ottoman Turkey, India, Egypt, Iran, Afghanistan, and China. At the same time it reveals a discrete global narrative of cosmopolitanism in Japan’s intellectual and political encounters with the peoples and cultures of Eurasia Asia along this transnational geography. The Japanese experience also shows the background to the One Belt One Road vision of China today and the revival of the “Silk Road” as a geography of competition and contestation.
Prof. Selçuk Esenbel got her BA from George Washington University, M.S. from Georgetown University and Ph.D from Columbia University. She has been Chair of History Department, Director of Asian Studies Center, Turkish Director of Confucius Institute, and University Administrative Council Member; she is President of Japanese Studies Association in Turkey since 2002. Her latest publications include: Turk-Cin Iliskilerine Turkiye’den Bakislar (Turkish-Chinese Relations: Perspectives from Turkey, 2012), Japan, Turkey, and the World of Islam: The Writings of Selcuk Esenbel (2011), and Japan and the World of Islam: Transnational Nationalism and World Power, 1868-1945 (forthcoming, 2014). She got the High Achivement Award for Senior Scholars from Boğaziçi University in 2005, and the Special Prize for Japanese Studies from Japan Foundation in 2007.

Lecture: Governance of Green Space: Management Structure, Planning and Policies in China
2019-07-08 18:00 - 20:00 | VG, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Lecture:
Governance of Green Space: Management Structure, Planning and Policies in China

Wu Jian (Renmin University of China)
Time: Monday, July 8, 6 pm (c.t.)–8 pm
Venue: VG 3.108, 37073 Göttingen
Abstract
This lecture will introduce the theoretical basis and national strategy of China’s green space governance, describe the achievements and problems regarding the construction of China’s ecological space pattern, and share the recent progress in management structure reform, spatial planning and major policy practices toward an effective green space governance to promote the ecological civilization.

Hosted by the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) in cooperation with the Academic Confucius Institute (ACI) and the Old Botanical Garden at the University of Göttingen

Picture: Green Isolated Trees inside Sai Wan Estate © Shutterstocck

Lecture: Managing Municipal Solid Waste in China: A Community-based Decentralized Approach
2019-07-09 12:00 - 14:00 | VG, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Lecture:
Managing Municipal Solid Waste in China: A Community-based Decentralized Approach

Zhang Xuehua (Nanjing University) Time: Tuesday, July 9, 12 am (c.t.) – 2 pm Venue: VG 1.104, 37073 Göttingen
Hosted by the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) in cooperation with the Academic Confucius Institute (ACI) and the Old Botanical Garden at the University of Göttingen
Image: Peter Parkes, Other waste / Recyclable, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0), https://flic.kr/p/9CeNr7

Transnational ageing and care technologies: Mainland Chinese grandparenting migrants
2019-07-11 14:00 - 16:00 | MPI, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, 37073 Göttingen, 37073, Germany
Lecture:
Transnational ageing and care technologies: Mainland Chinese grandparenting migrants
Organizer: Max Planck Research Group
Lecturer: Dr. Elaine Ho (National University of Singapore)
Time: Thursday, 11. JULY 2019 | 14:15 – 16:00 |
Place: Hermann-Föge-Weg 12 (villa), Göttingen

Abstract:
Transnational ageing is an understudied topic compared to the attention that has been given to other aspects of transnational familyhood. This presentation focuses on grandparenting migrants from the People’s Republic of China who move temporarily to Singapore or Sydney to care for grandchildren and/or to receive care. Rather than “ageing in place”, they are charting transnational journeys of ageing by recreating social networks and social spaces abroad. Using WeChat, an ICT tool, they maintain social ties in China while also building new social connections abroad. Our presentation introduces the concept of “care technologies”, referring to two dimensions: first, in the Foucauldian sense of how technologies of subjectification are evinced in and through care relations; and second, the role that ICT tools play in mediating care relations across borders, exhibiting governmentality effects too. The presentation also shares insights on integrating qualitative research methods with Geographic Information Science (GIS) visualisations to extend understanding of the spatial and temporal care routines of the grandparenting migrants, as well as the “throwntogether” spaces which they share with older Singaporeans as they age abroad.
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Summer Break
2019-07-17 08:00 - 2019-09-30 17:00
CeMEAS wishes you a wonderful summer break!
We will be back next semester with more exciting events and news to share with you!

Foto: michael_china China_2014_Beijing_YuanMingYuan_Lotus_140712_7455 + (Copy) https://flic.kr/p/o32zQo, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

Lecture: The Cultural Interweaving among Deities, Humanity and Buddha
2019-11-11 16:00 - 18:00 | Theologicum, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
The Cultural Interweaving among Deities, Humanity and Buddha:
The Transition from Authoritarianism to Democratic Awakening

A Glance at Taiwan’s Recent Movement toward the Legislation of The Basic Religious Law

Lecturer: Bhikkhu Shih Fatzang
Abbot, Wanfo Buddhist Monastery, Tainan, Taiwan The Forty-sixth Generation Lineage-Holder in the Tiantai Lineage
Time: November 11, 2019 4 p.m.(c.t.)-6 p.m.
Venue: Theologicum -1.113, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2, 37073 Göttingen (please pay attention that the room is on the basement floor)

Image: Daoan,台南之行-萬佛寺 (285), CC BY-SA 2.0., https://flic.kr/p/F5t5GP
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Lecture: European Expats in East Asia: Issues in Cross-Cultural management
2019-11-19 16:00 - 18:00 | VG, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Lecture:
European Expats in East Asia: Issues in Cross-Cultural management
Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Fabian Froese (Economics)
Time: 19.11.2019, 16:00 – 18:00
Venue: Verfügungsgebäude 1.103 (Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7)
Organizer: Euroculture / GLOCAL
The public lecture series presents current research on Europe’s interrelationship with the global economy (past and present). Speakers from various disciplines provide a wide array of specialized topics to explore different facets of European engagement with economic globalization including: issues of trade and international investment, multinational companies and organizations, cross-cultural management and marketing, transfers of knowledge and know-how, questions of development and immigrant entrepreneurship, as well as finally issues of global migration and international labor markets. The lecture series addresses core questions of two Erasmus Mundus MA Programs in Göttingen about central issues for European politics and culture (Euroculture) and about regional perspectives on global markets (GLOCAL).

Here for the Program of the whole lecture series.

The Yijing and the Yijing Commentarial Traditions
2019-11-29 17:00 - 19:00 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Lecture:
The Yijing and the Yijing Commentarial Traditions

Prof. Dr. Tze-ki Hon (City University of Hong Kong)
Time: 29. November, 17:00 – 19:00
Venue: KWZ 0.603

Abstract:
Originally a divination manual, the Yijing 易經 (Book of Changes) is a composite text consisting of three distinct layers. Its first layer is comprised by the 8 trigrams and 64 hexagrams allegedly created by the mythical figure, Fu Xi. Its second layer are the hexagram statements and line statements allegedly written by King Wen and the Duke of Zhou during the 11th century BCE. Its third layer incorporates seven pieces of writings composed from 5th to 2nd century BCE. Divided into ten segments (hence, the name “Ten Wings”), the authors of these writings used the hexagrams to discuss cosmic patterns, the relations between humanity and nature, and the complexity of human life. By 125 BCE, these three textual layers were combined to form what we now call the Yijing.
Despite separate by hundreds of years, these three layers of the Yijing were traditionally considered as mutually reinforcing in illuminating the meanings of the classic. Yet, over the centuries, Chinese scholars disagreed on the sequence of reading. Some read the text chronologically, focusing on the visual images as the foundation of other parts. Others read the text historically, focused on the writings of King Wen and the Duke of Zhou to connect the hexagrams to the founding of the Zhou Dynasty. Yet others read the text retrospectively, focusing on the Ten Wings as the philosophical summation of the entire classic. In this talk, Prof. Hon will compare different commentarial traditions that interpreted the Yijing for different audiences.

Chan Studies based on the Rare Material Collection at Fo Guang University
2019-12-03 16:00 - 18:00 | VG, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Lecture:
Chan Studies based on the Rare Material Collection at Fo Guang University

Lectuerers: Yi-hsun Huang & Hsin-yi Lin
Time: 03. Dez., 16:00 – 18:00
Venue: VG 4.105, Göttingen
Organiser: Ostasiatisches Seminar

Yi-hsun Huang: Chan Master Hanyue’s Concept of Chan and Teachings
Abstract: This talk introduces Chan Master Hanyue’s 漢月 (1573–1635) attitude toward sūtra teachings in the late Ming by using a rare book, Hanyue’s Guiding Words on the Zhizheng zhuan. Hanyue represents a mature and confident attitude towards sūtra teachings on the part of a Chan master during the late imperial period of Chinese Buddhism.

Hsin-yi Lin: Meditation Illnesses
Abstract: In the history of meditation practice, the concept of meditation illnesses or chanbing 禪病 has been brought out by several Chinese masters in different periods. This talk traces its multiple usages and points out the shift of meaning of the phrase in history by looking into a bunch of meditation texts during the medieval China. This changing understanding of the term may reflect the preponderance of the Sutra of Perfect Enlightenment and Zongmi’s commentary in later interpretation of the concept among meditation practitioners.

Image: Master Hanyue from Changshu library ©. Yi-hsun Huang & Hsin-yi Lin

Ritual and Pluralism: Religious Variations on Socialist Death Rituals in Urban China
2019-12-09 10:30 - 12:00 | MPI-MMG Conference Room, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, 37073 Göttingen, 37073, Germany
Religious Diversity Colloquium:
“Ritual and Pluralism: Religious Variations on Socialist Death Rituals in Urban China
Lecturer: Huwy-min Lucia Liu (George Mason University)
Time: December 9, 2019, 10:30-12:00
Venue: MPI-MMG Conference Room, Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, Göttingen

The default funeral in Shanghai today consists of religious variations of a secular socialist civil ritual. Within this ritual, however, is a clear paradox: how can one create religious “variations” of a secular and socialist funeral that explicitly denies any recognition of spirits or the afterlife? How do socialist, religious, Confucian, and even Christian ideas of personhood and death become commensurable in one single ritual?
This talk explores the relationships between incommensurable values through commemorations of the dead in Shanghai.
Dr. Liu not only shows how a single ritual can realize multiple seemingly incommensurable values but also details two different techniques for making such incommensurable values commensurable. Her findings show that what makes value pluralism possible depends on how people conceptualize rituals. When people see rituals as following social conventions, there is more space for pluralism, but when people treat rituals as making personal testimonies, the possibility for pluralism decreases. Huwy-min Lucia Liu is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology and Anthropology at George Mason University in the United States since 2019. Before joining Mason, she was an Assistant Professor in the Division of Humanities at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Dr. Liu
received her PhD from the Anthropology Department at Boston University in 2015. Dr. Liu is a cultural anthropologist whose research interests cover topics in politics, religions, socialism and change, subjectivity and governance, life and death study, rituals, and emotion. She is currently working on a book tentatively titled, Governing Death, Making Persons: The New Chinese Way of Death.

Lecture: British Economic Interests and the International Order of Asia in the 1930s
2020-01-07 18:00 - 20:00 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum (KWZ)
Lecture: British Economic Interests and the International Order of Asia in the 1930s

Lecturer: Prof. Shigeru Akita (Professor of Global History, Osaka University)
Time: January 7, 2020, from 18:00 until 20:00
Venue: Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 1.701

Abstract:
The purpose of this talk is to reconsider the nature and formation of the ‘International Order of Asia’ in the 1930s in the light of new historiographical developments and to present a framework for the reconsideration of the ‘International Order of East Asia’ in the 1950s from the perspective of the continuities from previous decades. The main focus of the argument is to evaluate the role played by the United Kingdom in the formation of the ‘International Order of Asia’ in the 1930s.

Lecture: China and the World – Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
2020-01-14 16:00 - 18:00
Lecture: China and the World – Historical and Contemporary Perspectives
Speaker: Dominic Sachsenmaier
Time: January 14, 4pm – 6pm
Venue: Verfügungsgebäude, Room 1.103, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7
Lecture Series: Europe and the Global Economy
The public lecture series presents current research on Europe’s interrelationship with the global economy (past and present). Speakers from various disciplines provide a wide array of specialized topics to explore different facets of European engagement with economic globalization including: issues of trade and international investment, multinational companies and organizations, cross-cultural management and marketing, transfers of knowledge and know-how, questions of development and immigrant entrepreneurship, as well as finally issues of global migration and international labor markets. The lecture series addresses core questions of two Erasmus Mundus MA Programs in Göttingen about central issues for European politics and culture (Euroculture) and about regional perspectives on global markets (GLOCAL).
For more information:

Contact
0551/39-27822
lklein@uni-goettingen.de

External link
http://www.uni-goettingen.de/de/sh/31846.html

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Lecture: Die nationale und internationale Rechtslage Hongkongs vor dem Hintergrund aktueller Entwicklungen
2020-01-14 18:00 - 20:00
Lecture: Die nationale und internationale Rechtslage Hongkongs vor dem Hintergrund aktueller Entwicklungen
Lecturer: Hans-Günther Herrmann
Time: Dienstag, 14. Januar 2020 von 18:00 bis 20:00
Venue: Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, KWZ 1.701

Abstract:
Hongkong genießt dem Basic Law zufolge einen „hohen Grad der Autonomie“. Dieses Selbstverwaltungsrecht ist aber vom Gesetz nicht abschließend definiert, sondern wird durch die Rechtsprechung der Hongkonger Gerichte einerseits und Maßnahmen der chinesischen Zentralregierung andererseits schrittweise ausgestaltet. Diese Dynamik, in der beide Seiten agieren und reagieren und sich selbst Beschränkungen auflegen, setzt sich bis hin zu aktuellen Gerichtsurteilen fort. Daneben beeinflussen zwei externe Entwicklungen die Fähigkeit Hongkongs, seine Zukunft rechtlich selbständig zu gestalten: Erstens könnte Hongkong in den Handelsstreit zwischen den USA und China hineingezogen werden, unter anderem durch den amerikainischen „Hong Kong Human Rights and Democracy Act“. Zweitens stellt die zunehmende wirtschaftliche Integration Hongkongs in die chinesische Wirtschaft in Frage, inwieweit Hongkonger Rechtsnormen in Zukunft umgesetzt werden können. Angesichts der Planung für das „Greater Bay Area“ in Südchina zeichnen sich mehrere problematische Berührungspunkte ab.
Organiser: Ostasiatisches Seminar & CeMEAS
Photo: 20190818 Hong Kong anti-extradition bill protest Causeway Bay @ Hong Kong by Studio Incendo, https://flic.kr/p/2h26REe, Attribution 2.0 Generic (CC BY 2.0)

Lecture: Historical Narrative, Remembrance, and the Ordering of the World: A Historical Approach of China’s Contemporary Presence in Central Asia
2020-01-17 17:00 - 19:00 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich- Düker Weg 14, Göttingen
Lecture: Historical Narrative, Remembrance, and the Ordering of the World: A Historical Approach of China’s Contemporary Presence in Central Asia

Lecturer: Prof. Dr. Bart Dessein (Ghent University, Belgium)
Time: January 17, 2020, 17:00 – 19:00
Venue: KWZ, 0.607
Abstract:
China’s imperial history is characterized by the expansion and reduction of zones of Chinese cultural influence. This cultural influence also applies to Central Asia, which was part of China’s zone of cultural influence during the Tang Dynasty (618-907). The literature portrays the Tang Emperor as the “Khan” of these regions. The territorial expansion of the Mongol Yuan Dynasty (1368-1644) and the Manchu Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) also brought parts of Central Asia into China’s polity, albeit under different political structures. For Europe as well, Central Asia developed into an “intermediate land,” an area inhabited by, among others, descendants of Hellenistic culture brought into the region by Alexander the Great (356-323 BC). The Central Asian region was also the link between Europe and the Far East through the presence of Europeans in the Mongolian Empire. In this lecture, the importance of the Chinese ‘One Belt One Road Initiative’ will be discussed against the backdrop of the “historical awareness” of China and Europe.

Lecture: From China to Europe: The Travel of 14th/15th Century Paintings
2020-01-22 18:00 - 20:00 | ZHG
Lecture: From China to Europe: The Travel of 14th/15th Century Paintings

Lecturer: Dr. Kiras Perincek (Bogacizi University, Istanbul)
Time: January 22, 2020, 18:00 – 20:00
Venue: ZHG 1.41
Abstract:
The so-called Mehmet Siyah Kalem paintings, were produced on paper with brush and ink in a Chinese hinterland near Central Asia, during the 14th and 15th centuries. These paintings depicted scenes from folk stories, and they were cut and pasted into two albums in the Aqqoyunlu palace in Tabriz. They are brought by the Ottomans to Istanbul after the conquest of Tabriz at the beginning of the 16th century.
Most of them kept now in Topkapi Palace Library in Istanbul, they reflect the intercultural relations along the Silk Road during the Middle Ages, in terms of both artistic and narrative elements. They consist a case of mobility where the art subject, the artist, the artisanship, the artwork are all mobile during the Middle Ages along the Silk Road. Purchased by European collectors in the 1900s, some pieces traveled also further west from Istanbul.

Lecture: From Confucius to Ashoka. Civilizational Discourse in Contemporary Chinese-Indian Relations
2020-02-04 16:00 | KWZ 0.701
Lecture: From Confucius to Ashoka. Civilizational Discourse in Contemporary Chinese-Indian Relations
Lecturer: Antonina Luszczykiewicz, PhD (Jagiellonian University in Krakow)
Time: 04. Feb. 2020, 16:00 – 18:00
Venue: KWZ 0.701

Abstract:
It is hard to imagine a meeting between Chinese and Indian leaders without any cultural program or context: while Xi Jinping took the Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi, to the famous Terracotta Warriors site in Xi’an, Modi invited him back to a Hindu temple built in the 8th century in Mamallapuram. During these visits both leaders talked about the common Chinese-Indian heritage, as well as the peaceful and tolerant character of their historical relations.
To what extent is this Chinese-Indian „civilizational discourse“ based on facts, and to what extent is it a form of narrative manipulation? What is the meaning behind all these sublime references to civilizational heritage? Who are all these words and gestures really directed at, and what are they supposed to achieve? We cordially invite you to a lecture dedicated to uncovering the hidden meanings of the „civilizational discourse“ in contemporary Chinese-Indian relations.
Short bio:
Antonina Luszczykiewicz, PhD, is a faculty member of the Institute of the Middle and Far East at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow. Her research interests focus on China-India relations. She is also an author of two monographs dedicated to the image of Chinese and Indians in British literature. She is currently working on turning her PhD thesis, devoted to the cultural discourse of the Chinese-Indian Five Principles of Peaceful Coexistence, into a book.

Lecture: Die Konkurrenz um die Vormachtstellung in der Welt: China und die USA
2020-02-13 15:30 - 17:00 | Gemeindesaal St. Jacobi, Jacobikirchhof 2, Göttingen, 37073
Vortrag: Die Konkurrenz um die Vormachtstellung in der Welt: China und die USA
aus der Vortragsreihe: Ökumenisches Seminar – Zukunft China – wird die Welt chinesisch?
Referent/in: Carolin Kautz
Zeit: 15:30 – 17:00
Ort: Gemeindesaal St. Jacobi, Jacobikirchhof 2, 37073 Göttingen

Lecture: Die alte und die neue Seidenstrasse
2020-02-20 15:30 - 17:00 | Gemeindesaal St. Jacobi, Jacobikirchhof 2, Göttingen, 37073
Vortrag: Die alte und die neue Seidenstrasse
aus der Vortragsreihe: Ökumenisches Seminar – Zukunft China – wird die Welt chinesisch?
Referent/in: Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier
Zeit: 15:30 – 17:00
Ort: Gemeindesaal St. Jacobi, Jacobikirchhof 2, 37073 Göttingen

Lecture: Chinas Unbehagen an der Moderne; fortschrittskritische Stimmen im China des 20. Jahrhunderts
2020-02-27 15:30 - 17:00 | Gemeindesaal St. Jacobi, Jacobikirchhof 2, Göttingen, 37073
Vortrag: Chinas Unbehagen an der Moderne; fortschrittskritische Stimmen im China des 20. Jahrhunderts
aus der Vortragsreihe: Ökumenisches Seminar – Zukunft China – wird die Welt chinesisch?
Referent/in: Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider
Zeit: 15:30 – 17:00
Ort: Gemeindesaal St. Jacobi, Jacobikirchhof 2, 37073 Göttingen

Lecture: Christentum in China
2020-03-05 15:30 - 17:00 | Gemeindesaal St. Jacobi, Jacobikirchhof 2, Göttingen, 37073
Vortrag: Christentum in China
aus der Vortragsreihe: Ökumenisches Seminar – Zukunft China – wird die Welt chinesisch?
Referent/in: Isabel Friedmann
Zeit: 15:30 – 17:00
Ort: Gemeindesaal St. Jacobi, Jacobikirchhof 2, 37073 Göttingen

Lecture: Magie der chinesischen Medizin
2020-03-12 15:30 - 17:00 | Gemeindesaal St. Jacobi, Jacobikirchhof 2, Göttingen, 37073
Vortrag: Magie der chinesischen Medizin
aus der Vortragsreihe: Ökumenisches Seminar – Zukunft China – wird die Welt chinesisch?
Referent/in: Prof. Dr. Katja Triplett
Zeit: 15:30 – 17:00
Ort: Gemeindesaal St. Jacobi, Jacobikirchhof 2, 37073 Göttingen

Lecture: Die Georg-August-Universität und China
2020-03-19 15:30 - 17:00 | Gemeindesaal St. Jacobi, Jacobikirchhof 2, Göttingen, 37073
Vortrag: Die Georg-August-Universität und China
aus der Vortragsreihe: Ökumenisches Seminar – Zukunft China – wird die Welt chinesisch?
Referent/in: Prof. Dr. Peter Aufgebauer
Zeit: 15:30 – 17:00
Ort: Gemeindesaal St. Jacobi, Jacobikirchhof 2, 37073 Göttingen

Lecture: Wirtschaftskontakte zu China am Beispiel der Firma Henke Sass-Wolf, Mikrooptik GmbH, Angerstein
2020-03-26 15:30 - 17:00 | Gemeindesaal St. Jacobi, Jacobikirchhof 2, Göttingen, 37073
Vortrag: Wirtschaftskontakte zu China am Beispiel der Firma Henke Sass-Wolf, Mikrooptik GmbH,
Angerstein

Warum die Firma nach China gegangen ist
Wie das Leben und Arbeiten in Qingdao ist

aus der Vortragsreihe: Ökumenisches Seminar – Zukunft China – wird die Welt chinesisch?
Referent/in: Bernd Wiese (Geschäftsführer), Sven Krause (Prokurist)
Zeit: 15:30 – 17:00
Ort: Gemeindesaal St. Jacobi, Jacobikirchhof 2, 37073 Göttingen

Lecture: Verantwortlich wirtschaften in China: Anpassen, verändern oder verzichten? Ethische Herausforderungen für deutsche Unternehmen
2020-04-02 15:30 - 17:00 | Gemeindesaal St. Jacobi, Jacobikirchhof 2, Göttingen, 37073
Vortrag: Verantwortlich wirtschaften in China: Anpassen, verändern oder verzichten? Ethische Herausforderungen für deutsche Unternehmen
aus der Vortragsreihe: Ökumenisches Seminar – Zukunft China – wird die Welt chinesisch?
Referent/in: Dr. Martin von Broock
Zeit: 15:30 – 17:00
Ort: Gemeindesaal St. Jacobi, Jacobikirchhof 2, 37073 Göttingen

Online Lecture Series: "Resilienzen – Über den Umgang des Menschen mit Pandemien und anderen Katastrophen in der Geschichte"
2020-05-06 08:00 - 17:00
Digitale Vorlesungsreihe: “Resilienzen – Über den Umgang des Menschen mit Pandemien und anderen Katastrophen in der Geschichte”
Die Vorlesungen werden als Slidecast am jeweiligen Termin spätestens um 18 Uhr bei stud.ip online gestellt. Bitte melden Sie sich für die Vorlesungsreihe in Stud.IP an, um Zugriff auf die Dateien zu erhalten. Wie in jeder Vorlesungsreihe werden keine Prüfungen abgenommen.
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Ablaufplan
Einführung

22.4.2020: Arnd Reitemeier Einführung: Vulnerabilität und Resilienz: Gesellschaften und ihre Reaktionen auf Pandemien und Katastrophen

Abschnitt I: Katastrophen und Pandemien – Das Ereignis und die Folgen

29.4.2020: Frank Rexroth Die Große Pest 1348
6.5.2020: Niels Petersen Die große Mandränke 1362
13.5.2020: Otto Gecser Plague, Religion and the Fear of Infection in 15th-c. Perugia
15.5.2020: Dominic Sachsenmaier Die Katastrophen um die Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts – China und die Welt
20.5.2020: Dirk Schumann Die spanische Grippe 1918/1919
27.5.2020: Hartmut Berghoff Hingenommen und Vergessen. Die “Asiatische” Grippepandemie 1957/58

Abschnitt II: Gesellschaftliche Reaktionen, Strategien und Diskurse im Umgang mit Pandemien und Katastrophen

29.5.2020: Heinz-Günther Nesselrath Die Pest im klassischen Athen und ihre historischen und literarischen Folgen
3.6.2020: Philip Knäble Handelssperre, Quarantäne, Reinlichkeit – Der Lock-Down in frühneuzeitlichen Pestordnungen
5.6.2020: Johannes Bergemann Die Pest in Athen – Die Pandemie im 5. Jh. v. Chr. und ihre Folgen für die antike Demokratie. Eine archäologische Perspektive
10.6.2020: Ansgar Schanbacher Epidemien in der frühneuzeitlichen Stadt
12.6.2020: Malte de Vries, Alltag und städtisches Leben in Zeiten der Pest: Das Beispiel Braunschweig (1529–1681)
17.6.2020: Ravi Ahuja Epidemie und soziale Frage: Die Pest in Bombay, 1896–97
24.6.2020: Richard Hölzl Malaria und die Zusammenhänge zwischen Materialität und Kultur in der Geschichtswissenschaft
1.7.2020: Martin Lindner “Waldvolk kämpfe mit dem Boden um dein Sein!” – Germanisch-deutsche “Resilienz” im nationalsozialistischen Propagandafilm Ewiger Wald (1936)
8.7.2020: Katja Wezel Umgang mit dem Trauma des stalinistischen Terrors: Die Massendeportationen der Esten, Letten und Litauer 1941 und 1949
15.7.2020: Eva Klay Katastrophenschutz und Triage im 20. Jahrhundert

Online Lecture: Die Katastrophen um die Mitte des 17. Jahrhunderts – China und die Welt (Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier)
2020-05-15 18:00
This lecture is part of the Online Lecture Series “Resilienzen – Über den Umgang des Menschen mit Pandemien und anderen Katastrophen in der Geschichte”.
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