November 2021
Chinese Theater: Eco-environmental Performance in and outside Contemporary Chinese Theater
Speaker: DING Liu Time: Wed. Nov. 24, 2021. 1:00-2:30 PM CET Venue: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/94944402503 Meeting ID: 949 4440 2503 Organizer: Yingming Theater
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Global China Conversations #4 „Innovation Made in China“ – How effective is Beijing’s innovation policy?
„Innovation Made in China“ – How effective is Beijing's innovation policy? Speaker Dr. Philipp Böing, ZEW - Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research Wolfgang Krieger, Federation of German Industries (BDI e.V.) Time: 25.11.2021, 11.00 - 12:00 Please register here. Topic With its 14th Five-Year Plan, the Chinese government is focusing on a more innovation-based economy, aiming at becoming the world leader in science and technology by 2050. The Chinese state plays a central role in this endeavor. It drafts development…
Find out moreLecture: Yellow Peril with a Dash of Green?: Global Fantasies on an Islamized China at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Yellow Peril with a Dash of Green?: Global Fantasies on an Islamized China at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Dr. Mohammed Al-Sudairi (Hong Kong University) Tuesday, November 30, 18.15 (online) Presenter: Mohammed Al-Sudairi is a Post-doctoral Fellow at the Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences and is a Senior Research Fellow and Head of the Asian Studies Unit at the King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies. He obtained his PhD in Comparative Politics from the…
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Lecture: Leigh Jenco: The Ming-Qing Transition as a Philosophical Problem
The Ming-Qing Transition as a Philosophical Problem Leigh Jenco Professor of Political Theory, London School of Economics, Department of Government Dec 3, 2021 04:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna For registration, please use this zoom link. Abstract: The transition from the Ming dynasty to the Qing dynasty was not experienced as a sharp break for those who lived through it, but it has come to stand in the minds of later Chinese literati as nothing less than…
Find out moreBook presentation: “Borderland Infrastructures: Trade, Development, and Control in Western China”
Borderland Infrastructures: Trade, Development, and Control in Western China Alessandro Rippa (Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München) Tuesday, December 7, 18:15 https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/96044733388?pwd=YU1HbkVnam5CbmZGdXNzeHlWOVJMdz09 Meeting ID 960 4473 3388 Passcode 948177 ABSTRACT: Across the Chinese borderlands, investments in large-scale transnational infrastructure such as roads and special economic zones have increased exponentially over the past two decades. Based on long-term ethnographic research, Borderland Infrastructures addresses a major contradiction at the heart of this fast-paced development: small-scale traders have lost their historic strategic…
Find out more“Contemporary Theater Arts” Seminar Series No. 7: Illustrating the Stage of Hong Kong for Audiences of the Present and the Future
My Creative Journey as a Curator of the Exhibition "A Snap beyond Borders" Speaker: Chan Kwok Wai Bernice Time: Dec. 8th, Wednesday, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM CET Language: English Organizer: Yingming Theater ______________________ Zoom Meeting Meeting ID: 964 2065 8426 Passcode: 339948 Chan Kwok Wai Bernice is currently the General Manager of the International Association of Theatre Critics (Hong Kong), and an Examiner for the Hong Kong Arts Development Council (Drama Committee). She is also a Panel Member of the…
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Online Drama Reading: 活着 – To Live
Time: Dec. 11, Sat. 1: 00 PM CET Zoom: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/97211990533 Meeting ID: 972 1199 0533 Language: Chinese Zoom QR: Play Script: To Live or Huozhe in Chinese, a play by Zhang Xian adapted from Yu Hua's novel of the same name. It describes the struggles endured by the son of a wealthy land-owner, Fugui, in China from the 1940s to the 1970s
Find out moreWorkshop: Africa in Shifting Global Contexts: The Roles of China and the EU
Workshop Program Tuesday, December 14, 2021 08:15-08:30 GMT: Welcome Join Zoom Meeting: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/85234128312 Meeting ID: 852 3412 8312 Dr. Mengshu Zhan (Göttingen University, Germany) Prof. Dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier (Göttingen University, Germany) 08:30-10:00 GMT: Chinese and European Soft Power in Africa: Confrontational Pathways? Chair: Prof. Dominic Sachsenmaier (Göttingen University, Germany) Prof. David Mills (Oxford University), Dr Natasha Robinson (Oxford University) & Dr Hodan Abdi (Zheijang Normal University and City University of Mogadishu) “Feeling for the Stones:” Learning to Navigate Knowledge Diplomacy through the…
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Global China Conversations #5 Reshaping Global Industrial Chains: Options for China
Reshaping Global Industrial Chains: Options for China Speaker Dr Qiyuan Xu, Institute of World Economics and Politics (IWEP) at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS) Prof. Dr. Rolf J. Langhammer, Former Vice-President, Kiel Institute for the World Economy Time: 16.12.2021, 11.00 - 12:00 Please register here. Topic The current highly specialized and interconnected global industrial chains are highly vulnerable to global risks such as the intensifying trade protectionism and the covid-19 pandemic. This has induced policymakers in many…
Find out moreLecture: Peter Zarrow: The Utopian Impulse and Chinese Political Modernity
The Utopian Impulse and Chinese Political Modernity Peter Zarrow Department of History, University of Connecticut, Hartford, USA Time: Dec 17, 2021 04:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna For registration, please use this zoom link. This paper discusses the role played by utopian “moves” that were made by political thinkers in the late Qing and Republican periods to build a new more or less democratic and socialist nation. An analysis of four case studies—Kang Youwei, Cai…
Find out moreJanuary 2022
Lecture: Play and Performance of Hometown: A Talk on College Theater Production
Play and Performance of Hometown: A Talk on College Theater Production Speaker: Assoc. Prof. Dr. GAO Ziwen Time: Jan. 12, Wednesday, 1:00 PM-2:30 PM CET, Beijing Time 8:00 PM-9:30 PM Zoom Meeting: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/96138078236Meeting ID: 96138078236 Language: Chinese with English interpretation Poster: Zhang Tong / Yumin Ao More information under: https://yingmingtheater.com/seminar-series-no-8/ 讲题:《故乡》的编剧与制作——兼谈校园戏剧创作 嘉宾: 高子文（博士）副教授 时间: 1月12日（周三）欧洲中部时间 下午13:00时 北京时间 晚间20:00时 地点：https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/96138078236 会议号：96138078236 语言：中文配英文翻译 海报：张桐 / 敖玉敏 Lecture Content 讲座内容 To introduce the production background of Hometown 介绍舞台剧《故乡》的剧本创作背景 To describe the production process…
Find out moreLecture: Chinese Studies under the Eyes of the Communist Party?
Chinese Studies under the Eyes of the Communist Party? Self-censorship, Embedded Research and Ways to Discuss our Positionalities This lecture is part of the lecture series "TALK TO OUR AUTHORS", organised by the Journal der European Association of Chinese Studies Authors: Olga Lomová, Charles University, Prague, Czechia Andreas Fulda, University of Nottingham, UK Introduced and moderated by: Sascha Klotzbücher, University of Göttingen, Germany/University of Vienna, Austria Join the discussion on Zoom: Meeting ID: 962 4124…
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