Lecture: Christentum in China
2020-03-05 15:30 - 17:00 (Europe/Berlin) | 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

The Chinese Theater in Goettingen
2020-03-27 - 2020-08-02
The Chinese Theater in Goettingen
The Chinese Theater in Goettingen is a Chinese-language amateur theater group founded in summer 2019. Most members are Chinese students, but the group also includes research fellows, German students learning Chinese language at the University of Goettingen, and professionals working in the city of Goettingen. Dr. Yumin Ao acts as the coordinator. She is a researcher at the Gobal and Transregional Studies Platform, and her research interests focus on Chinese drama and cross-cultural theater. A team of volunteers take charge of operation, dramaturgy, technique and media of the theater group. Members meet every three weeks to read plays or to make staged readings of plays written by Chinese playwrights, for instance The Greatest Event in Life, The Rhinoceros in Love, and the Comical History of the Life of Dr. Faustus, etc.

The Chinese Theater in Goettingen wants to build friendly and inclusive spaces. Its purpose is to contribute to cross-cultural communication. Through staged readings and performances, we encourage thinking about “selection bias in life” and “personal development” and to widen our horizons. We also want to rethink cultural identities in the global context. We believe that by expressing our ideas and positions in universal issues we can contribute to clarifying problems of finding one’s identity and can suggest possible solutions. Building up a communicative platform will make different cultures more accessible and asessable.
Theater Online
Chinese Theater online activities – 在线朗读剧本: We usually meet online Fridays afternoon from 2PM to 4PM. We read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via WeChat/QQ or VooV audio calls.

WeChat ID: 哥廷根戏剧读演社
QQ #: 335030419
E-mail: yumin.ao@phil.uni-goettingen.de
Website: Yingmingtheater

All students are warmly welcome to participate in the activities. Anyone who is interested may join us via the above contacts. It’s a great opportunity to practice Chinese language with native speakers.

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 Drama Reading: 三古幸喜《喜剧的忧伤》Kōki Mitani, University of Laughs
2020-04-03 14:00 - 16:00 | WeChat & QQ
三古幸喜《喜剧的忧伤》Kōki Mitani, University of Laughs

Goettingen Theater online activities – 在线朗读剧本: We usually meet online Fridays afternoon from 2PM to 4PM. We read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via WeChat or QQ audio calls.

WeChat ID: 哥廷根戏剧读演社
QQ #: 335030419
E-mail: yumin.ao@phil.uni-goettingen.de

All students are warmly welcome to participate in the activities. Anyone who is interested may join us via the above contacts. It’s a great opportunity to practice Chinese language with native speakers.

For more information about the Chinese Theater Goettingen, please click here.

Online Drama Reading: 桥田寿贺子《结婚》Sugako Hashida, The Marriage
2020-04-10 14:00 - 17:00 | WeChat & QQ
桥田寿贺子《结婚》Sugako Hashida, The Marriage

桥田寿贺子《结婚》Sugako Hashida, The Marriage
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 10. Apr 2020
Place: Online (QQ Group: 335030419)
E-mail: yumin.ao@phil.uni-goettingen.de

Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via QQ audio calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
On 10th April 2020, the Chinese Theater in Goettingen is going to read the script The Marriage by Sugako Hashida. The Marriage is about how the Hanada family consisting of a Japanese mother and her four daughters pursuit of happiness by choosing their own paths.
If you are interested in the drama The Marriage, please do not hesitate to join us and let us explore the complex layers of matters of the heart together.

For more information about the Chinese Theater Goettingen, please click here.

Online Drama Reading: 斯拉沃米尔·穆罗热克《在海上》Sławomir Mrożek, At Sea
2020-04-18 14:00 - 17:00 | WeChat & QQ
斯拉沃米尔·穆罗热克《在海上》Sławomir Mrożek, At Sea

斯拉沃米尔·穆罗热克《在海上》Sławomir Mrożek, Out at Sea
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 18. Apr 2020
Place: Online (QQ Group: 335030419)
E-mail: yumin.ao@phil.uni-goettingen.de
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via QQ audio calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
How will three men – a fat man, a medium man, and a thin man – deal with the situation of being stranded at sea without any food? Let us read Sławomir Mrożek’s masterpiece of absurdism Out at Sea on online together 17. Apr 2020.
Anyone interested in the drama Out at Sea is warmly welcome to participate in the activities.
For more information about the Chinese Theater Goettingen, please click here.

Online Drama Reading: 杨绛《称心如意》Jiang YANG, Heart’s Desire
2020-04-25 14:00 - 17:00 | WeChat & QQ
杨绛《称心如意》Jiang YANG, Heart’s Desire

杨绛《称心如意》Jiang YANG, Heart’s Desire
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 25. Apr 2020
Place: Online (QQ Group: 335030419)
E-mail: yumin.ao@phil.uni-goettingen.de
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via QQ audio calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
In the 1930s, young Li Junyu came to throw herself into the lap of her mother’s brothers’ family in Shanghai because of losing her parents. The four siblings and their wives adopt diverse attitudes towards Junyu with the core way of passing the buck between each other. How can Junyu finally get her heart’s desire?
All students are warmly welcome to participate in the online activities. It’s a great opportunity to practice Chinese language with native speakers.

For more information about the Chinese Theater Goettingen, please click here.

Online Drama Reading: 奥古斯特·斯特林堡《朱莉小姐》August Strindberg, Miss Julie
2020-05-02 14:00 - 17:00 | QQ
奥古斯特·斯特林堡《朱莉小姐》August Strindberg, Miss Julie
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 02. May 2020
Place: Online (QQ Group: 335030419)
E-mail: yumin.ao@phil.uni-goettingen.de
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via QQ audio calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
Strindberg wrote Miss Julie with the intention of abiding by the theories of “naturalism,” which depicts a fierce battle between Miss Julie and Jean, a struggle for power and dominance enacted through a rough and compulsive play of seduction and repulsion.
If you want to know more about the drama Miss Julie, please do not hesitate to join us.
For more information about the Chinese Theater Goettingen, please click here.

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.
Weitere Informationen finden Sie hier.
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 Drama Reading: 安东·巴甫洛维奇·契诃夫《万尼亚舅舅》Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Uncle Vanya
2020-05-15 14:00 - 17:00 | QQ
安东·巴甫洛维奇·契诃夫《万尼亚舅舅》Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, Uncle Vanya

Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 15. May 2020
Place: Online (QQ Group: 335030419)
E-mail: yumin.ao@phil.uni-goettingen.de
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via QQ audio calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
Uncle Vanya portrays the visit of an elderly professor and his second young wife, Yelena, to the rural estate that upholds their urban lifestyle. How will Vanya – the brother of the professor’s late first wife – and Astrov – the local doctor – handle the upcoming unknown troubles? Let us read Chekhov’s renowned play, Uncle Vanya, online together on 15. May 2020.
Anyone interested in the drama Uncle Vanya is warmly welcome to participate in the activities.
For more information about the Chinese Theater Goettingen, please click here.

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”.
Please click here for more information on this lecture series.

Lecture: Die Neue Seidenstaße - Chinas Handelsnetze von morgen
2020-05-20 19:00 - 21:00 | Tagungszentrum Schloss Herrenhausen, Herrenhäuser Straße 5, Hannover, 30419
Welche Bedeutung hat der von China geplante internationale Handelskorridor? Eine Einordnung aus historischer, politikwissenschaftlicher sowie wirtschafts- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Perspektive am 12. Mai 2020 beim Herrenhäuser Forum in Hannover.

Mit einer modernen Seidenstraße will China seine Vormachtstellung im Handel festigen.

Kamelkarawanen, die Seide, Wolle, Gold und Silber transportieren – das sind die ersten Assoziationen, die viele mit der “Seidenstraße” verbinden, die auch heute noch ein Hauch von Magie umweht. Als Ferdinand von Richthofen den Begriff 1877 prägte, referierte er damit aber nicht nur auf das seit der Antike bestehende Netzwerk aus Handelsverbindungen für den Transport kostbarer Güter. Er bezog “Seidenstraße” auch auf den damit einhergehenden kontinuierlichen Austausch von Ideen und Technik sowie die Interaktion von Religionen und Kulturkreisen entlang des über 6.000 Kilometer umfassenden Wegenetzes.
Seit 2013 befeuert die Volksrepublik China unter Staatspräsident Xi Jinping die Vorstellung einer Seidenstraßenrenaissance. “One Belt – One Road” heißt das Mammutprojekt, mit dem China seine Vormachtstellung im Handel mit derzeit 64 Staaten festigen will. Wie definiert China seine handelspolitischen Ziele über die Neue Seidenstraße? Welche Chancen und Risiken birgt das Vorhaben für Europa? Hat die neue Seidenstraße auch eine ideelle und kulturelle Dimension? Und wenn ja, wie sieht sie aus?
Diese Veranstaltung richtet sich an ein neugieriges Publikum, das sich für aktuelle Themen aus Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft interessiert.
Herrenhäuser Forum Politik-Wirtschaft-Gesellschaft
Die Neue Seidenstaße – Chinas Handelsnetze von morgen
12. Mai 2020
Xplanatorium Schloss Herrenhausen, HannoverProgramm
Impulse
Prof. Dr. Ralph Kauz, Institut für Orient- und Asienwissenschaften, Universität Bonn
apl. Prof. Dr. Dirk Schmidt, Fachbereich III, Politikwissenschaft, Universität Trier
Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Maennig, Fakultät für Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Universität Hamburg
Moderation: Ulrike Heckmann, NDR Info

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Digital Lecture: Hingenommen und Vergessen. Die "Asiatische" Grippepandemie 1957/58 (Prof. Hartmut Berghoff)
2020-05-27 18:00
This lecture is part of the Digital Lecture Series “Resilienzen – Über den Umgang des Menschen mit Pandemien und anderen Katastrophen in der Geschichte”.
Please click here for more information on this lecture series.

Online Drama Reading: 亨里克·约翰·易卜生《群鬼》Henrik Johan Ibsen, Ghosts
2020-05-30 14:00 - 17:00 | QQ
亨里克·约翰·易卜生《群鬼》Henrik Johan Ibsen, Ghosts

Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 30. May 2020
Place: Online (QQ Group: 335030419)
E-mail: yumin.ao@phil.uni-goettingen.de
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via QQ audio calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
As the subject of Ghosts includes religion, venereal disease, incest, and euthanasia, it immediately had generated substantial controversy and negative criticism since it first staged in 1882. What kind of story does this great play try to convey? Why does this drama historically hold a position of immense importance? On finishing reading Ibsen’s Ghosts we will be keen to continue a discussion.
Everyone is warmly welcome to participate in online activities.
For more information about the Chinese Theater Goettingen, please click here.

Virtuelle Ringvorlesung: Resilienzen – Über den Umgang des Menschen mit Pandemien und anderen Katastrophen in der Geschichte
2020-06-05 18:00 - 2020-07-16 19:00 | StudIP & Youtube
Zu der Vorlesungsreihe tragen viele Kolleginnen und Kollegen aus dem Seminar für Mittlere und Neuere Geschichte, dem Institut für Historische Landesforschung, dem Althistorischen Seminar, dem Seminar für Klassische Philologie, dem Institut für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, dem Ostasiatischen Seminar und dem Center für Modern Indian Studies bei und berichten vielfach aus ihren aktuell laufenden Forschungen
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.
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“ 1918/19 – eine verdeckte Katastrophe
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

Die Vorträge können Sie sich auch hier auf Youtube ansehen.

Virtuelle Ringvorlesung - Ein Virus verändert die Welt
2020-06-09 18:15 - 2020-07-26 19:00 | Zoom & Youtube
Jeden Dienstag um 18.15 Uhr und damit zu unserer regulären Ringvorlesungs-Zeit laden wir Sie zu unserem Ringvorlesungs-Live-Stream ein. In den kommenden Wochen wird es dabei um verschiedene Themen gehen.
Mit einem informativen und anschaulichen Vortrag präsentieren unsere Referent*innen in einem rund 20-minütigen Vortrag ihre Themen. Anschließend haben Sie für weitere 10 Minuten die Gelegenheit, miteinander ins Gespräch zu kommen und eventuelle Rückfragen zu klären.
Mehr Informationen hier.

Online Drama Reading: 白峰溪《风雨故人来》Fengxi BAI, Friends through Thick and Thin
2020-06-13 14:00 - 17:00 | QQ
白峰溪《风雨故人来》Fengxi BAI, Friends through Thick and Thin
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 13. June 2020
Place: Online (QQ Group: 335030419)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via QQ audio calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
When people face the intractable situation that they need to make the life priority of career or love, what kinds of decisions will they make after a furious self-struggle? Let us read Bai’s script Friends through Thick and Thin to explore Peng’s answer.
If you want to know more about the drama Friends through Thick and Thin, please do not hesitate to join us.
For more information about the Chinese Theater Goettingen, please click here.

Online Drama Reading: 孟京辉《两只狗的生活意见》Jinghui MENG, The Life Comments of Two Dogs
2020-06-27 14:00 - 17:00
孟京辉《两只狗的生活意见》Jinghui MENG, The Life Comments of Two Dogs
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 27. June 2020
Place: Online (QQ Group: 335030419)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via QQ audio calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
Two dogs enter the city from the countryside in search of ideals and happiness. When both of them encounter various life problems along the way, they have unique perspectives on the situation. If you also have some opinions about your own life, perhaps the drama The Life Comments of Two Dogs can provide abundant illuminating thoughts for you.
Anyone interested in the drama The Life Comments of Two Dogs is warmly welcome to participate in the activities.
For more information about the Chinese Theater Goettingen, please click here.

First Drama Workshop of the Yingming Theater
2020-07-01 08:00 - 2020-08-31 17:00
The Yingming theater is going to have its first Drama Workshop in August.

Focus: Cross-cultural Communication
Format: Playback Theater
Language: English/Chinese/German
Platform: Zoom Meeting Room (TBA)
Date: TBA

Who can participate in this workshop?
If you are curious about the theatrical forms of playback, such as “Fluid sculptures”, “Pairs”, “Chorus”, “Free form”, “Snap shot” and “Collage”, if you want to communicate with friends of diverse cultural, linguistic, ethnic or religious backgrounds and share your life stories, and if you want to personally participate in the performances on the spot, then don’t hesitate to join us! This event can definitely provide you with a new perspective and a unique experience.
We always believe that everyone’s story has its own value and is worthy of being heard and respected. Therefore, we aim to understand the cultural diversity, to find ways to communicate effectively and to build a mutual understanding as well as the consensus.
Organizers:
Dr. Yumin Ao（Researcher at the Center for the Modern East Asian Studies）
Zhao Zhao（MA candidate at the Department of German Philology）
Registration:
yingming.theater@gmail.com

For more information on the workshop click here.

The 15th Göttingen East Asia Research Salon
2020-07-07 18:00 - 19:30 | Zoom
The 15th Göttingen East Asia Research Salon:
Closer to the self while far from home: A longitudinal study about the experiences of students from People’s Republic of China in Germany

Please RSVP for the event via Ms Kara Blumenthal at assist@cemeas.uni-goettingen.de.
Presenter:
Lili Jiang (University of Göttingen, Department of East Asian Studies)

Commentators:
Dr. Jesús Pineda (Scientific coordinator and researcher, German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD)
Dr. Sascha Klotzbücher (Acting Chair, Society and Economy of China, University of Göttingen)
Moderator:
Katja Pessl (Centre for Modern East Asian Studies)

Time: Tuesday, 07.07.2020, 6 pm (c.t.) – 7:30 pm
Venue: Online via Zoom

Abstract:
This dissertation explores the changes in Chinese master students’ identity and their sense of belonging during the years of their stay in Germany. The main purpose is to understand how they perceive their attachment to China politically, culturally and ethnically and how the perception gradually changed after their experiences in Germany, where they have learnt and developed different strategies to negotiate their identity and belonging. The study applies a combination of longitudinal method and the method of the biographical narrative interview which tracks 25 Chinese students’ lived experiences and processes of their change from their first semester until after they graduate from Germany, in order to capture critical moments of their transitions. The dissertation provides longitudinal evidence to reveal the complex and multilayered nature of the changing progress of these students’ identity and also supports that students’ transcultural experiences in Germany which helped them “unlearn” a normalized concept of “Chineseness” assisted them to go beyond their state-bound national loyalty and postulate a potential transcultural position in today’s world.

Short Bio:
I was born in Deyang, Sichuan and obtained both my bachelor’s and master’s degree at Sichuan University. I studied applied linguistics and bilingual education in Chengdu, New York, Uppsala and Goettingen. Before coming to Goettingen for my PhD program, I taught Chinese to international students at Sichuan University and Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu.

Online Drama Reading: The Umbrella in Salzburg
2020-07-11 14:00 - 17:00
苏叔阳《萨尔茨堡的雨伞》Shuyang SU, The Umbrella in Salzburg
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 11. July 2020
Place: Online (VooV Meeting ID：696 443 903 )
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
The derailment seems to be the uppermost factor of an abortive relationship. What kind of stories will happen in a seemingly relaxed relationship in Salzburg? Are there any so-called schemes, PUA (Pick-up Artist), or even the derailment? Let us read the diverting script The Umbrella in Salzberg by Shuyang Su.
If you want to know more about the drama The Umbrella in Salzburg, please do not hesitate to join us.
For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.

Online Lecture: Affective pedagogic spaces in contemporary China
2020-07-14 18:00 - 19:30
Lecturer: Gil Hizi (PhD University of Sydney)
Time: 14. July. 2020, 6:00 p.m.
Venue: Zoom

Through the influence of psychotherapeutic expertise and popular entertainment, pedagogic programs for “self-improvement” in China today define positive affect as a key aspect of learning. In this talk, based on participant observations in the city of Jinan, I describe how workshops for interpersonal skills produce interactive spaces that spark enthusiasm and optimism in participants. These pedagogies draw on the current primacy of “positive energy” (zheng nengliang) in Chinese education, media, and politics. I will discuss how these interactive spaces resemble group interactions from the communist period, while today positive affect is positioned more as an endpoint in separation from ordinary life and collective enterprises.
Gil Hizi (PhD University of Sydney) is a Humboldt Postdoctoral Fellow of Anthropology at the University of Cologne. He studies social change in China by focusing on perceptions of personhood and emotions. His main sites of enquiry have been pedagogic practices of self-improvement and psychotherapy. His work has been published in Anthropology and Asian Studies journals.

Zoom Access:
Topic: Affective Pedagogic Spaces in Contemporary China, Gil Hizi (PhD University of Sydney)
Time: 14.Jul.2020 06:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rom, Stockholm, Wien
https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/92606540714?pwd=[REDACTED]

Meeting-ID: 926 0654 0714
Passwort: [REDACTED]

Picture: MartaZ* , Positivity , https://flic.kr/p/egg74u
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Lecture: Weaponizing medicine: China’s disease prevention and the “military-civil fusion” in medical research
2020-07-15 17:00 - 18:30
Weaponizing medicine: China’s disease prevention and the “military-civil fusion” in medical research
Sascha Klotzbücher (University of Göttingen)
Time: July 15, 2020 5pm
Venue: Zoom-Meeting
https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/93597507671?pwd=[REDACTED]
Meeting-ID: 935 9750 7671
Passwort: [REDACTED]
Abstract
Since 2016, the Chinese Communist Party proclaimed the strategy of “military-civil fusion” of research (Kania 2019) (军民融合). However, this cooperation between military academies and civil universities or research institutes is not new. This lecture aims to discuss the overseen or hidden link and connection to the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) and its warfare for the institutionalization of disease control in China with case studies from the Korean War to the recent outbreak of Covid-19 epidemics.
I will discuss two different qualities of this militarization of disease control and medicine: First, disease control is organized in a procedural logic and along with the script of warfare and it mainly implemented by agents of warfare. The fight against an “American virus” during the Korean War, the strive to eliminate transmitting animals during several health campaigns, the SARS in 2003 and Covid-19 epidemics are examples how disease control is organized in the logic of battle when military logistics and organization patterns temporarily take the lead and establish new forms of control and distribution.
The second dimension of the militarization of the medical field is how “Military Academies” initiate and supervise joint medical projects with “civil” research institutes and universities. The best-documented example of this military-civic fusion is the noble price laureate Tu Youyou and her involvement in the “Project 523” against malaria in the 1970s.
Today, the Communist Party has restructured its science institutions and scientists to explore new forms of warfare with “life-controlling power” (制生权) or brain/ -controlling power” (制脑权). For this aim, the PLA seeks to integrate certain strategically important scientific disciplines (nanotech, neuroscience, genetics, AI) and their research into its military strategies. However, in contrast to Tu Youyou’s studies conducted in an exclusive Chinese context, today’s weaponization of science intends to create research platforms with international scholars for innovation and knowledge transfer of their usable data, techniques, and output. I will analyze these mechanisms based on the French-Chinese cooperation in one of the labs of the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the current search for vaccines against Covid-19 in commercial start-ups with a military background.
Sascha Klotzbücher is the Acting Chair for “Society and Economy of China” at the University of Göttingen. His research interests are health governance and memory of the Cultural Revolution. Related publication to the topic of the talk is the article “’Embedded Research’ in Collaborative Fieldwork” in the Journal of Chinese Current Affairs and his Ph.D. thesis on rural health care in the People’s Republic. His recent publication is a monograph on the transgenerational transmission of the Cultural Revolution in families (Lange Schatten der Kulturrevolution: Eine transgenerationale Perspektive auf Politik und Emotion in der Volksrepublik China“. Psychosozial-Verlag, 2019).

Picture: Report of the International Scientific Commission for the Investigation of the Facts Concerning Bacterial Warfare in Korea and China (ISC), 1952

CeMEAS Summer Break 2020
2020-07-24 08:00 - 2020-09-13 17:00
CeMEAS wishes you a wonderful and relaxing summer break!
We will be back next semester with more exciting events and news to share with you right here!

Photo: Tambako, Cute red panda on the branch, CC BY-ND 2.0, https://www.flickr.com/photos/tambako/49690787126/

Online Drama Reading: 童道明《塞纳河少女的面模》Daoming TONG, The Facial Mask of Seine Maiden
2020-07-25 14:00 - 17:00 | VooV
童道明《塞纳河少女的面模》Daoming TONG, The Facial Mask of Seine Maiden
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 25. July 2020
Place: Online (VooV Meeting ID：349 101 546)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
The Facial Mask of Seine Maiden was bought by Zhi FENG (冯至) accidentally in a bookstore when he studied aboard in Berlin. Since then, he had kept this facial mask even when he was at the National Southwest Associated University. If you are interested in Zhi FENG’s poems and his friendship with another famous Chinese scholar Xianlin JI (季羡林), please join us to read The Facial Masks of Seine Maiden together.
Anyone interested in the drama The Facial Mask of Seine Maiden is warmly welcome to participate in the activities.
For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.

Online Drama Reading: 潘惠森《在天台上冥想的蜘蛛》Weisum Poon, Spider in Meditation
2020-08-07 14:00 - 17:00 | VooV
潘惠森《在天台上冥想的蜘蛛》Weisum Poon, Spider in Meditation
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 07. August 2020
Place: Online (VooV Meeting ID：338 885 111)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
In this crowded city, Hong Kong, buildings are nestled against each other, well illuminated day and night. The rooftops of abundant high buildings and skyscrapers are connected into a wasteland when seen from above the city. There are four paupers without fixed residences on this wasteland. They gaze at the sky and overlook the world above the city landscapes while pursuing the highest-positioned goal in life with the lowest standard of material conditions.
They fly from one rooftop to another and do their best to return the world’s desires, which leaves them only spiders meditating on the rooftop. If you want to have the experience of spiders contemplating on the rooftop, please do not hesitate to join us.
For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.

Online Drama Reading: 陈尹莹《花近高楼》Joanna CHAN, The Whirligig of Time
2020-08-21 14:00 - 17:00 | VooV
陈尹莹《花近高楼》Joanna CHAN, The Whirligig of Time
Time: 14: 00 – 17: 00 21. August 2020
Place: Online (VooV Meeting ID：338 885 111)
Email: yingming.theater@gmail.com
Manner: Participants will read dramas and do some role-play exercises together via video or voice calls. Being an auditor is also welcome.
When you see the Chinese title of the drama, would you recall the verses by Du Fu杜甫, a poet from the Tang Dynasty? How does this kind of texts apply to Hong Kong stories in the second half of the 20th century? In a turbulent environment, what kind of persistence will people have, and what kind of choices will people make? By reading The Whirligig of Time, perhaps you could find your answer.
Anyone interested in the drama The Whirligig of Time is warmly welcome to participate in the activities.
For more information about the Chinese Theater in Goettingen, please click here.
