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Veranstaltungsreihe: „Demokratie ?! rund um die Welt“
2019-11-27 19:00 - 20:30 (Europe/Berlin) | Restaurant “Der Gartensaal”, Trammplatz 2, Hannover, niedersachsen, 30159, Germany
Hongkong- Chinas Außenposten für die Welt
Veranstaltungsreihe: „Demokratie ?! rund um die Welt“
Ein Vergleich demokratischer Entwicklungen aus der globalen Perspektive

27. November 2019 , 19:00 – 20:30 Uhr

Restaurant “Der Gartensaal”
Trammplatz 2, 30159 Hannover, Deutschland

Veranstalter: Politische Bildung in Niedersachsen

Programm

19.00 Uhr Begrüßung und Eröffnung:
Manuel Ley, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

19.10 Uhr Inputvorträge zum Thema:
Hongkong- Chinas Außenposten für die Welt
David Merkle, Länderreferent China der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

19:30 Uhr Diskussion mit

Dr. Sascha Klotzbücher, Professur “Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft Chinas” Universität Göttingen

Fin Mayer-Kuckuk, Journalist, ehemaliger Korrespondent in China und Japan

David Merkle, Länderreferent China der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung

Shi Ming, freier Journalist, Beiträge für ARD, ZDF, Deutschlandfunk sowie für Printmedien

Moderation: Thomas Awe, ehemaliger Leiter der Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung in China

20.30 Uhr Empfang

Nähere Informationen finden sich auf der Website: Veranstaltungsreihe: „Demokratie ?! rund um die Welt“

Formalisation, Informalisation and the Labour Process: Comparative Perspectives
2019-11-20 16:00 - 2019-11-22 17:00 | Alten Mensa, Wilhelmsplatz 3, Gӧttingen, 37073, Germany
International Workshop:
Formalisation, Informalisation and the Labour Process:
Comparative Perspectives

International Workshop, 20 – 22 November 2019,
Alte Mensa, Wilhelmsplatz 3, 37073 Goettingen
(For registration, please write to the workshop organisers at
ashwin.subramanian@stud.uni-goettingen.de)
International Centre for Advanced Studies “Metamorphoses of the Political”
Centre for Modern Indian Studies, Georg-August-University, Göttingen
Soziologisches Forschungsinstitut (SOFI), Göttingen

Program
20 November 2019

15:30 – 16:00 Registration
16:00 – 18:00 Introduction: Ravi Ahuja
Opening Lecture: Nicole Mayer-Ahuja
Formalisation, Informalisation and the Labour Process:
Insights and Blind Spots of Industrial Sociology
18:00 – 19:30 Reception
19:30 – 20:30 Film Screening and Discussion Cast in India (Natasha Raheja)
21 November 2019

9:00 – 11:00 Chair and Commentator: Jayeeta Sharma
Emma Alexander
Work places and living places in Bombay, 1850 to 1960: how
the informal allowed the formal to function and grow
Anna Sailer
The state and the factory in early 20th century Bengal
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 Chair and Commentator: Aardra Surendran
Denys Gorbach
Varieties of informality and hegemony at “old” and “new”
industrial workplaces in Ukraine
Mamatha Gandham
Heterogeneity of work relations at the site of production in
the New Delhi region
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 16:00 Chair and Commentator: Ravi Ahuja
Rosa Kösters
From segmentation to fragmentation: changing labour
relations in the Dutch formal industry sector, 1973-1985
Vinay Kumar
Restructuring (downsizing) Tata Steel: consent or coercion
Minhyoung Kang
The formalization of informal workers at Hyundai Motor
Company
16:00 – 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 – 18:30 Chair and Commentator: Sumeet Mhaskar
Dhiraj Nite
Multiple Times, unified process: interweaving of formality
and informality on the Indian mines, 1940s-1970s
Anusha Sundar
Gasping for air: silicosis in the mica mining industry c. 1909-
1956
Suravee Nayak
Political economy of subcontracting in the coal industry:
evidence from the Talcher coalfieds of Odisha, India
20:00 Conference Dinner (for participants)
22 November 2019

9:30 – 11:00 Chair and Commentator: Alexander Gallas
Jayaseelan Raj
Formal as informal: the social reproduction of labour in
Kerala’s tea plantations 3
Peter Birke / Felix Bluhm
Refugees at work: informality in the labour process of
migrants in German slaughterhouses
11:00 – 11:30 Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00 Chair and Commentator: Priyanka Srivastava
Sanjeev Routray
‘Time pass’ and ‘setting’: The Meanings, relationships, and
politics of urban informal work in Delhi
V. Kalyan Shankar
Male transgressions into an informal female occupation: the
gender dynamics of waste collection in an Indian City
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch Break
14:00 – 15:30 Chair and Commentator: Kanchana Ruwanpura
Sona Mitra and Ruchika Chaudhary
Labour practises in India’s emerging gig economy: Case study
of women workers in mobile application-based business
models delivering beauty and salon services
Simon Yin
Taxi drivers and ride-sharing in China
15:30 – 16:00 Coffee Break
16:00 – 17:00 Plenary Discussion
Introductory Statement: Samita Sen

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Film Cycle 2019: Enter the Dragon
2019-11-20 16:00 - 20:00 | Zentrales Hörsaalgebäude, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, Göttingen, 37073
Film Cycle 2019:
Enter the Dragon 龍爭虎鬥 (1973)

Lecturer: Katja Pessl
Time: 20.11.2019, 4 pm (sharp)
Venue: ZHG 1.142, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 5, 37073 Göttingen

Enter the Dragon is a 1973 martial arts action film produced by and starring Bruce Lee. The film, which co-stars John Saxon and Jim Kelly, was directed by Robert Clouse. It would be Bruce Lee’s final completed film appearance before his death on 20 July 1973 at age 32.
Enter the Dragon is considered to be one of the greatest martial arts films of all time. In 2004, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”. Among the first films to combine martial arts action with the emerging Blaxploitation genre, its success led to a series of similar productions combining both genres. Its themes have also generated scholarly debate about how they reflect the changes taking place within post-colonial Asian societies following the end of World War II.
(Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enter_the_Dragon)

Image: Squeezyboy, Bruce Lee (CC BY 2.0) https://flic.kr/p/cut95

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.

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
Image Selection & Design: CeMEAS

Modern South Asian History Research Seminar
2019-10-29 16:00 - 2020-02-04 19:00 | Waldweg 26, 2.112, Waldweg 26, 37073 Göttingen, niedersachsen, 37073, Germany
Modern South Asian History Research Seminar
Wintersemester 2019/20
Contact: Indian History.CeMIS@sowi.uni-goettingen.de
Venue: CeMIS board room (2.112), Waldweg 26

Download the programme as a pdf here
29.10.2019 – 16.00 – 18.00
Razak Khan (Erlanger Zentrum für Islam und Recht in Europa, Erlangen University): Entanglements in the
Colony: Jewish-Muslim Dialogue in South Asia
Soheb Ur-Rahman Niazi (Berlin Graduate School Muslim Cultures and Societies, FU Berlin): Social
Stratification of Muslims at a Qasbah in Colonial India: The Production and Contestation of Social
Hierarchy at Amroha
05.11.2019 – 16.00 – 19.00
Rohan Dominic Mathews (Institut für Soziologie and CeMIS, Göttingen University): Dynamics of
Production and Labour: The Case of Building Construction
Priyanka Srivastava (Department of History, University of Massachusetts Amherst): Beyond the Industrial
Paradigm: Non-Factory and Service Labour in Bombay City in the Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century
Aardra Surendran (Centre for Study of Developing Societies, School of Development Studies, TISS
Mumbai): Technological Upgradation in the Indian Public Sector: Impacts on Labour Process and Labour
Relations
12.11.2019 – 16.00 – 18.00
Josefine Hoffmann (CeMIS, Göttingen University): Reading Representative Rhetoric: Bosch India in the
German Archive
Atem Lemtur (CeMIS, Göttingen University): Locating the ‘Porter Servant’ in the ‘Archiv des Deutschen
Alpenvereins’
03.12.2019 – 16.00 – 19.00
Maria Framke: National Self-Assertion and Global Civil Society: Humanitarianism in Colonial British India
Svenja von Jan (CeMIS, Göttingen University): Non-elite, Subaltern, Lower Class – How to Productively
Categorize Socio-Economic Affiliation in South Asian Migration History
Vishal Singh Deo (Delhi University/CeMIS Göttingen): Playing Rent in the Khadar: The Construction of
Colonial Political Economy in the North West Provinces 1813-1860
Wednesday, 11.12.2019 – 18.15 – 19.45
Matthias van Rossum (International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam): Local and global slaveries –
the Dutch East India Company empire and coerced labour in South and Southeast Asia, 1600-1800
07.01.2020 – 16.00 – 18.00
Mufsin Puthan Purayil (IIM Calcutta/(CeMIS, Göttingen University): Communitarian Ties as a Strategic
Economic Resource: A Study of Job Seeking and Mobility Among Kerala Emigrants
Catharina Hänsel (CeMIS, Göttingen University/Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa): Trusteeship and
Wages – Ahmedabad as a Site of Industrial Wage Policy in the Making
21.01.2020 – 16.00 – 19.00
Maria Pomohaci (CeMIS, Göttingen University): Cleaning up the City: Health, Hygiene and Sanitation
Workers in Late Colonial Calcutta
Saeed Ahmad (CeMIS, Göttingen University): Settlement & Placemaking: The Case of Jangpura-Bhogal,
Delhi (1920-47)
Debangana Baruah (TISS Mumbai/CeMIS, Göttingen University): Migration Amidst the Citizenship Crisis:
An Everyday Struggle of Bengali-Speaking Muslim Migrant Workers from Assam in South Mumbai
04.02.2020 – 16.00 – 19.00
Christian de Vito (Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Bonn): Studying the Entanglements
Among Punishment, Labour and Dependency
Nabhojeet Sen (Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, Bonn): Punishment, Labour and
Dependency: Western India, c. 1720-1820
Michaela Dimmers (CeMIS, Göttingen University): How Does Labour Work? Prison Labour in Colonial
India

高山流水觅知音 - Die Klänge der Berge und des Wassers verstehen
2019-10-09 19:00 - 21:00 | Bürgerstraße 15, Bürgerstraße 15, 37073 Göttingen
高山流水觅知音 – Die Klänge der Berge und des Wassers verstehen
Gastkonzert des Nanjing University Traditional Instruments Orchestra
anlässlich des 5-jährigen Bestehens des Akademischen Konfuzius-Instituts Göttingen

Time: Oct.9, 19:00 – 21:00
Venue: Junges Theater Göttingen
Organizers:Akademisches Konfuzius-Institut Göttingen, Junges Theater Göttingen

Traditionelle Klänge einer alten Zivilisation erwarten alle, die sich am 9. Oktober im Zuschauersaal des Jungen Theaters einfinden. Zu hören sein werden unter anderem die Bambusflöte, die chinesische Wölbbrettzither Zheng und die Kniegeige Erhu, die, jede für sich, feste Bestandteile der chinesischen Musiktradition bilden. Entlockt wird diesen (und anderen) Instrumenten ihr ganz spezifischer Zauber durch die etwa 20 Virtuosinnen und Virtuosen des “Orchesters für traditionelle Musik der Universität Nanjing”, das uns auf seiner Deutschlandtournee besucht. Allesamt der chinesischen Elite-Universität Nanjing (Partnerhochschule der Universität Göttingen) angehörig, widmen diese sich neben ihrer Lehrtätigkeit bzw. ihrem Studium der Bewahrung und Vermittlung dieses kulturellen musikalischen Erbes. Von ihrem großen Engagement und meisterhaften Können zeugen seit der Gründung des Orchesters im Jahr 1996 zahlreiche Auszeichnungen und Gastspiele in den USA und vielen Ländern Asiens und Europas.

Striking Back? On Imperial Fantasies and Fantasies of Empire
2019-09-12 09:00 - 2019-09-13 18:00 | Alten Mensa, Wilhelmsplatz 3, Gӧttingen, 37073, Germany
Conference:
“Striking Back? On Imperial Fantasies and Fantasies of Empire”

Time: Thursday and Friday, 12-13 September 2019 |9:00-18:00
Venue: Alte Mensa, Adam-von-Trott-Saal, Wilhelmsplatz 3, 37073 Göttingen
Organizer: Max Planck research group “Empires of Memory”

click here for the event program

For more information please visit the conference website
http://events.mmg.mpg.de/striking-back/

Impressionen aus Xinjiang: Leben an der Seidenstraße
2019-08-31 00:00 - 23:59
Fotoausstellung
Impressionen aus Xinjiang: Leben an der Seidenstraße

Ort: Apex Göttingen Burgstr. 46, 37073 Göttingen
Zeit: 7. Juni bis August 2019

Eröffnung der Ausstellung und der 11. Märchenwochen: Auf der Seidenstraße unterwegs
Freitag 7. Juni 17 Uhr
Im Mittelpunkt dieser Fotoausstellung mit Bildern von Ma Kang und Ablet Semet steht das heutige Leben an der nördlichen Seidenstraße. Die Bilder aus Xinjiang im westlichen China erzählen vom Alltag in einer Region, in der sich nicht nur Architektur und Stadtbilder rasch verändern, sondern wo sich auch Glaube und Identität im Umbruch befinden. Als visueller Dialog zwischen Kunst und Wissenschaft lädt die Ausstellung dazu ein, Momente der Modernisierung und des Wandels in Xinjiang zu begreifen und die märchenhafte Vorstellung von der Seidenstraße ins richtige Licht zu stellen.

Ma Kang ist Fotograf und Maler. Er wurde 1962 in Nanjing geboren und lebt heute in Shanghai. Nach einer Ausbildung in Ölmalerei entdeckte Ma Kang die Fotographie als ideales Medium seines künstlerischen Ausdrucks. In seiner Arbeit geht es um den haltlosen Wandel in China und um das Verschwinden gelebter Vielfalt. In einer Zeit, in der Perspektiven, Glaube und Gewissheit für viele Chinesen besonders diffus und unzugänglich sind, hält er mit seiner Kamera Momente der „Ungewissheit“ fest. Die Fotoserie Makang’s Uncertain Times: Xinjiang Impressions ist seine neueste Arbeit zu Ürümqi, Kashgar und anderen Städten in Xinjiang.
Ma Kangs urbane Perspektive steht im Dialog zu Ablet Semets Blick auf das ländliche Xinjiang. Dr. Semet ist Wissenschaftler und Ethnologe am Seminar für Turkologie und Zentralasienkunde an der Universität Göttingen. Selbst Uigure, wurde er 1969 in Artush, in der Nähe Kashgars geboren, und begann sein Studium im Ürümqi, bevor er in Beijing Turkologie studierte. Nachdem er Zeit in Ankara verbrachte, kam er nach Deutschland und promovierte 2003 in Göttingen. Durch seine Fotografien dokumentiert er seine Forschung zu den kulturellen Begegnungen von Sprache, Literatur und multireligiösem Architekturerbe in Xinjiang.

Mehr Informationen zu den Märchenwochen finden Sie hier.

Veranstalter der Ausstellung: Centre for Modern East Asian Studies & Seminar für Turkologie und Zentralasienkunde an der Universität Göttingen

Wanderausstellung: yallah?! Über die Balkanroute
2019-07-29 14:00 - 2019-08-22 17:00 | Stadtlabor Migration, Schildweg 1, 37085 Göttingen
Wanderausstellung:
yallah?! über die Balkanroute

29. Juli – 22. Aug. 2019
Öffnungszeiten: 14:00 – 17:00 Uhr
Ort: Stadtlabor Migration, Schildweg 1, 37085 Göttingen, Raum 5+7 (nur als Ausstellungsfläche)

Worum geht es?
Nach und nach rücken der Sommer 2015, der „March of Hope“ von Budapest nach Österreich und die „Willkommen!“ rufenden Menschen an deutschen Bahnhöfen immer weiter in die Ferne. Während 2015 die geöffneten Grenzen die Stimmung elektrisiert haben, ist die heutige Debatte zum Thema Flucht immer öfter dominiert von Diskussionen über Grenzsicherung, Terror und rassistischen Perspektiven. Dem entgegen soll mit dieser Ausstellung der „langen Sommer der Migration“ 2015 und die Öffnung eines Korridors durch Süd-Osteuropa als relevantes politisches und historisches Ereignis festgehalten und gut aufgearbeitet einem breiten Publikum zugänglich gemacht werden. Die Ausstellung rückt zwei Jahre später Geflüchtete als Hauptakteur_innen wieder in den Vordergrund und zeigt mit zahlreichen Audio-, Foto- und Videoaufnahmen sowie Kunstwerken ihre Sichtweisen auf Migration und Europa.
Wer spricht?
Im Mittelpunkt der Ausstellung stehen die Perspektiven von Geflüchteten. Die präsentierten Audio-, Video- und Fotoaufnahmen wurden während zahlreicher Gespräche und Interviews in Nordgriechenland, Serbien oder in Deutschland aufgenommen.
Entstanden sind die Materialien während Fahrten auf die sogenannte Balkanroute, bei denen die Macher_innen der Ausstellung auf unterschiedliche Weise Geflüchtete solidarisch unterstützt haben. Während der Gespräche auf der Route wurde deutlich, dass die Stimmen von Refugees in Deutschland mehr Gehör finden müssen. In der Ausstellung kommen Künstler_innen mit Fluchterfahrung durch ihre eigenen Werke zu Wort. Die Ausstellung ist in einer Zusammenarbeit von mehreren Personen entstanden, die auf der Route Geflüchtete unterstützt haben und in politischen, kritisch-akademischen und künstlerischen Kontexten engagiert sind.
Die Ausstellung ist in deutscher Sprache. Audio-, Gedicht und Videobeiträge sind im Original mit Untertitel und Übersetzung.

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!

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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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Sonderführung: China – Pflanzen aus dem Reich der Mitte
2019-07-10 17:00 - 18:00 | Alter Botanischer Garten, Untere Karspüle 2, 37073 Göttingen, 37073, Germany
China – Pflanzen aus dem Reich der Mitte
Sonderführungen durch den Alten Botanischen Garten der Universität Göttingen

Dr. Michael Schwerdtfeger (Universität Göttingen)

Mittwoch, 10.07.2019, 17:00 – ca. 18:00, Alter Botanischer Garten, Untere Karspüle 2, 37073 Göttingen

Als im Jahr 1737 der Botanische Garten der Universität Göttingen angelegt wurde, war China noch „unerreichbar“ weit weg, und die meisten Europäer hatten von Natur und Kultur Chinas nur vage und abenteuerliche Vorstellungen. In der Folge fanden durch Naturforscher, Abenteurer, Gärtner, Missionare und Handelsreisende mehr und mehr Pflanzenarten aus dem Reich der Mitte in unsere Gärten. Unser Gartenrundgang stellt bekannte und außergewöhnliche pflanzliche Gäste und Botschafter aus diesem großen und vielfältigen Land vor.

Die Führungen werden von Dr. Michael Schwerdtfeger im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe China’s Green Transformation im Sommersemester 2019 angeboten. Veranstalter der Vortragsreihe sind das Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) und das Akademische Konfuzius Institut (AKI) an der Universität Göttingen. Das detaillierte Programm der Vortragsreihe finden Sie auf unserer Webpage: www.cemeas.de

Die Führungen sind kostenfrei und eine Anmeldung ist nicht nötig.

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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

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: 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.

Sonderführung: China – Gehölze aus dem Reich der Mitte
2019-06-18 18:00 - 19:00 | Tammanstraße, Tammanstraße, 37077 Göttingen, 37077, Germany
China – Gehölze aus dem Reich der Mitte
Sonderführung durch den forstbotanischen Garten und das pflanzengeographische Arboretum der Universität Göttingen

Dipl.-Ing. Volker Meng (University of Göttingen)
Dienstag, 18.06.2019, 18:00 – ca. 19:00, Arboretum China, Bushaltestelle Tammanstraße am Nordcampus
Die Führung wird von Dipl.-Ing. Volker Meng im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe China’s Green Transformation im Sommersemester 2019 angeboten. Veranstalter der Vortragsreihe sind das Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) und das Akademische Konfuzius Institut (AKI) an der Universität Göttingen.
Die Führung ist kostenfrei und eine Anmeldung ist nicht nötig.
Anfahrt und Treffpunkt:
Arboretum China
Bushaltestelle Tammanstraße am Nordcampus
Route 1:
Haltestelle Göttingen Campus (Linie 41) bis Goldschmidtstraße, dann zu Fuß 2 Minuten bis Haltestelle Tammanstraße
Route 2:
Haltestelle Göttingen Blauer Turm (Linie 23) Richtung Uni-Nord bist Tammanstraße

Image: Barockschloss: Ginkgo, Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0), https://flic.kr/p/7aBeHS

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

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.

Film Screening & Discussion: 30 Years of Tian'anmen
2019-06-04 18:00 - 20:00 | ZHG
Film Screening & Discussion: 30 Years of Tian’anmen
The Gate of Heavenly Peace 天安门 (1995)

Tuesday 04.06.2019 6pm
ZHG105, University of Göttingen
Directed by: Carma Hinton, Richard Gordon, Geremie Barme
Language: Chinese Dialogue, English voiceover translation, subtitles & narration
The Gate of Heavenly Peace is a three-hour documentary film about the 1989 protests at Tiananmen Square, which culminated in the violent government crackdown on June 4. The film uses archival footage and contemporary interviews with a wide range of Chinese citizens, including workers, students, intellectuals, and government officials, to revisit the events of “Beijing Spring.” From the beginning of the protests in mid-April to the night of June 3–4, the film provides a “meticulous day-by-day chronicle of the six-week period… This unglamorous but absorbing film interweaves videotaped scenes of the demonstrations and conversations with leaders and participants with an explanatory narration into an account that is as clear-headed as it is thorough and well-organized.”

Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Gate_of_Heavenly_Peace_(film)#cite_note-1

Image:tankman © Raimond Spekking / CC BY-SA 4.0 (via Wikimedia Commons) https://bit.ly/2M8b67m

The 13th Göttingen East Asia Research Salon
2019-06-04 16:00 - 18:00 | KWZ, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, 37073, Germany
The 13th Göttingen East Asia Research Salon:
Mixed Identities in Northeast Chinese Borderlands: Koreans in Liaodong in the 15th to 17th centuries

Presenter: Hanning PIAO (Fudan University, Shanghai)
Commentators: Yan JIN (Department of East Asian Studies, Göttingen) & Dr. Julia C. SCHNEIDER (Department of East Asian Studies, Göttingen)
Time: June 4, 2019, 4-6 pm
Venue: KWZ 0.701 (meeting room, Department of East Asian Studies)

Abstract:
Migration has existed throughout the history of human beings, affecting the identities of migrating peoples and the societies they migrate into. Before the world has been overwhelmed by modernization, national states and globalization, how did migratory people perceive themselves and how were they perceived by others? Were there clear boundaries between “Us” and “Them”, “Self” and “Others”? Was identity pure and stable or mixed and fragile?
In my presentation, I will discuss these questions by examining the case of Koreans who migrated to Liaodong in the 15th to 17th centuries. In case of the Korean migrants, identities turn out to be unstable, mixed and entangled.

(Image by Hanning Piao)

Short CV:
Since 2017, Hanning PIAO is a Master student at the Department of History, Fudan University. She has been a guest student at the University of Pennsylvania and at Seoul National University. Hanning earned her BA in History at the Department of History, Zhejiang University in Hangzhou, where she also worked as a student research assistant at the Research Center of Local Archives.

Co-organised and co-hosted by: Centre for Modern East Asian Studies and Department of East Asian Studies

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

Film screening: Under the Dome 穹顶之下
2019-05-28 18:00 - 20:00 | VG, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Film screening:
Under the Dome:Air pollution in China
柴静雾霾调查：穹顶之下 同呼吸 共命运

Lecturer: Katja Pessl (University of Göttingen)
Tuesday, 28.05.2019, 6pm (c.t.) – 8 pm, VG 3.104, Göttingen

Introduction:
Under the Dome is a 2015 self-financed, Chinese documentary film by Chai Jing, a former China Central Television journalist, concerning air pollution in China.
Chai Jing started making the documentary when her as yet unborn daughter developed a tumour in the womb, which had to be removed very soon after her birth. Chai blames air pollution for the tumour. The film, which combines footage of a lecture with interviews and factory visits, has been compared with Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth in both its style and likely impact. The film openly criticises state-owned energy companies, steel producers and coal factories, as well as showing the inability of the Ministry of Environmental Protection to act against the big polluters.
《穹顶之下》是由媒体人柴静于2015年2月底推出关于中国空气污染的一部调查片，由柴静作为主讲人对现状进行介绍，并插入采访拍摄的片段，呼吁人们关注中国的空气污染问题。
主讲人柴静从2013年冬季，中国大陆东北以及华北地区的大面积雾霾说起，讨论中国大陆的空气污染、相关治理以及存在的行政不作为情况。亦提及了洛杉矶（曾经发生的光化学烟雾事件）和伦敦（曾发生伦敦烟雾事件）及两地现状。人民网版本将影片分作八节，介绍雾霾定义、危害及成因和我们怎么办、提出了公民能做的七点环保措施。
Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Under_the_Dome_(film)

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: public poster, https://zh.wikipedia.org/wiki/穹顶之下_(纪录片)

CeMIG Lecture: Transnational Migration and Religious Conversion among North Korean Refugee-Migrants across Continents in Comparative Perspectives
2019-05-22 18:15 | 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

Sonderführung: China - Pflanzen aus dem Reich der Mitte
2019-05-22 17:00 - 18:00 | Alter Botanischer Garten, Untere Karspüle 2, 37073 Göttingen, 37073, Germany
China – Pflanzen aus dem Reich der Mitte
Sonderführungen durch den Alten Botanischen Garten der Universität Göttingen

Dr. Michael Schwerdtfeger (Universität Göttingen)

Mittwoch, 22.05.2019, 17:00 – ca.18:00, Alter Botanischer Garten, Untere Karspüle 2, 37073 Göttingen

Als im Jahr 1737 der Botanische Garten der Universität Göttingen angelegt wurde, war China noch „unerreichbar“ weit weg, und die meisten Europäer hatten von Natur und Kultur Chinas nur vage und abenteuerliche Vorstellungen. In der Folge fanden durch Naturforscher, Abenteurer, Gärtner, Missionare und Handelsreisende mehr und mehr Pflanzenarten aus dem Reich der Mitte in unsere Gärten. Unser Gartenrundgang stellt bekannte und außergewöhnliche pflanzliche Gäste und Botschafter aus diesem großen und vielfältigen Land vor.

Die Führungen werden von Dr. Michael Schwerdtfeger im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe China’s Green Transformation im Sommersemester 2019 angeboten. Veranstalter der Vortragsreihe sind das Centre for Modern East Asian Studies (CeMEAS) und das Akademische Konfuzius Institut (AKI) an der Universität Göttingen. Das detaillierte Programm der Vortragsreihe finden Sie auf unserer Webpage: www.cemeas.de

Die Führungen sind kostenfrei und eine Anmeldung ist nicht nötig.

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

Lecture: Reading as creative and social practice: Unofficial popular entertainment literature during the Cultural Revolution
2019-05-20 16:00 - 18:00 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Lecture:
Reading as Creative and Social Practice: Unofficial Popular Entertainment Literature during the Cultural Revolution

JunProf. Dr. Lena Henningsen (Freiburg)
Time: Monday, 20 May 2019, 4-6 pm
Venue: KWZ 1.731, 37073 Göttingen
Abstract:
Most literary histories of 20th-century China describe the output of the Cultural Revolution (CR) in a few paragraphs. Officially endorsed literary texts of the decade seem flat, dull and boring to today’s readers. The CR thus appears as a period of literary shortage. However, a more complicated picture of literary diversity arises once we look at actual literary practices: Chinese readers at the time were craving for things to read and went to great lengths to obtain reading materials. They would steal books from libraries; read literary texts from earlier epochs that were now forbidden; illegally read and copy material designated for internal circulation; write, read, copy and circulate entertainment literature by hand…
In this talk, JunProf. Dr. Lena Henningsen will discuss this latter type of popular unofficial hand-written (shouchaoben) entertainment fiction from the perspective of reading practices and delineate the role that readers played in their creation, circulation, preservation and development. After all, extant manuscripts attest to a great variety of versions of the “same” story: when copying texts, many readers found ways to alter, enhance or change extant stories. Resembling fan-fiction practices in many ways, they offered readers space to probe into their literary talents and creativity, to ponder their experiences during the CR, to question the ideals of Maoism, and to test new notions of love or the self.

Organised and hosted by: Department of East Asian Studies
Co-hosted and financed by: Academic Confucius Institute

Image by Lena Henningsen

CeMEAS Lecture Series: Defining a Green APP: Civic Tech, Digital Activism and Visions of Public Participation
2019-05-14 18:00 - 20:00 | VG, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
China’s Green Transformation – CeMEAS Lecture Series:
Defining a Green APP: Civic Tech, Digital Activism and Visions of Public Participation

Li Hongtao 李红涛 (Zhegjiang University)
Time: Tuesday, 14.05.2019, 6 pm-8 pm
Venue: VG 3.104, University of Göttingen
Abstract
With smog now constituting part of the daily health threats for Chinese people, many pollution tracking APPs have come into the market to meet the demand for smog related information. Taking one particular APP- “BlueSky Map”, which is originally known as Pollution Map, as the focal case, this talk will explore how grassroots activists define, legitimize and employ such APPs as useful tools, which enable the general public to get informed, make their voices heard, and take necessary actions. The empirical analysis will focus on how environmental APPs empower Chinese public, how do citizens, NGOs, government and polluters interact on the interface, and what is the effect and implication of such participation for China’s environmental governance.
Short CV
Dr. Hongtao Li (李红涛) is an Associate Professor in the Department of Journalism & Communication and a Distinguished Young Scholar at Zhejiang University. He also serves as an Associate Professor (20%) in the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at University of Oslo. He received his Ph.D. in Communication from City University of Hong Kong in February 2010. Before joining Zhejiang University in May 2010, he was a post-doctoral fellow and later a visiting Assistant Professor in the Center for Communication Research at City U of Hong Kong. His research interests include air pollution and environmental politics, global communication, sociology of news, media and cultural memory. He has published a book on the mediated memory of Nanjing Massacre (Renmin University Press, 2017) and his work appears regularly on major English and Chinese journals, including The China Quarterly, Communication and the Public, Media, Culture & Society, International Journal of Press/Politics, Asian Journal of Communication, Chinese Journal of Communication, and Communication & Society (in Chinese), etc.
(Source: Personal Homepage, Zhejiang University)

CeMEAS Lecture Series 2019: China’s Green Transformation
Organizer: CeMEAS
Sponsor: Akademischen Konfuzius-Instituts Göttingen
Partner: Alter Botanischer Garten der Universität Göttingen

Image: CC BY-SA 2.0., michael davis-burchat, mobile moment of worship, https://flic.kr/p/cacewm

Lecture: Chinese Oral Expression Training in Overseas Language Environment
2019-05-08 18:00 - 20:00 | VG, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Chinese Oral Expression Training in Overseas Language Environment

Prof. Dr. JIA Fang (Beijing Normal University)
Time: Wednesday, 08. 05.2019, 18:00 – 20:00
Venue: VG 3.106, University of Göttingen

Abstract:
摘要：在第二语言技能教学中，口头表达训练是学习者最需要教师帮助的项目之一，也是最能检验教师教学能力的科目，有很大的研究空间。本讲座的内容分为两个部分：第一部分：“汉语口头表达训练的基本问题与教学策略”，简要论述口语课的定位及教学目标，着重梳理教学中存在的实际问题和对应的教学策略。第二部分：“海外环境下的汉语口头表达训练”，分析海外环境下汉语口头表达训练的特点以及如何从教师、教材、教学方法等方面进行环境补偿。
In second language teaching, the training of oral competence is one of the most important skills for students that requires their teacher’s support. That is why it is as well one of the most representative subjects to proof the teacher’s teaching skills. Lots of research space remains within this topic. The lecture will be divided in two parts. The first will treat “fundamental issues and teaching strategies of oral expression training”, discussing briefly the status and teaching objectives of oral competence classes and putting emphasis on the combination of practical problems and how to respond to them with corresponding teaching strategies. The second part will focus on the analysis of characteristics of “Chinese Oral Expression Training in Overseas Environment” and how the environment can be compensated through teaching materials, teaching methods and other aspects.
讲座将用中文进行。
The lecture will be held in Chinese language.
Short bio:
简介：贾放，博士，北京师范大学汉语文化学院教授，世界汉语教学学会会员，中国民俗学会会员。研究方向为对外汉语教学及中国文化教学，民俗文化学。发表论文20余篇，出版译著两部及译文多篇，参加编写汉语教材两部。主持完成国家社科基金项目一项，省部级项目子课题两项。自1994年起从事对外汉语与中国文化教学以及各类汉语师资培训，培训内容包括：汉语课堂教学法、课堂教学观摩点评、汉语口头表达训练、教师的汉语观与教学成效、跨文化语境下的民俗文化教学等。讲授过的本硕士研究生课程有：汉语课堂教学法、课堂教学观摩、社会语言学课堂教学论、教学观摩与点评、以及中国风俗文化专题、中国文化史专题等。
JIA Fang (Ph.D.) is professor at the Chinese Culture Institute of Beijing Normal University and member of the International Society for Chinese Language Teaching, as well as the Chinese Folklore Society. Her research interests include teaching Chinese as a foreign language, Chinese culture, and Chinese folklore studies. Her academic achievements include over 20 published journal articles, two translated books, several translated papers and two Chinese textbooks. She also was the lead researcher in a national key research project funded by the National Social Science Foundation and two research projects on provincial level. Since 1994, she has been engaged in teacher trainings and Chinese language and culture teaching, amongst others focusing on Chinese language teaching methodology, teaching observation and evaluation, oral expression training, teaching theories and efficiency, as well as folklore culture teaching in cross-cultural contexts. Furthermore, she has taught a number of different postgraduate and undergraduate courses at BNU, such as Chinese language teaching methods, social linguistics, teaching theories, teaching observation and evaluation as well as special lectures on Chinese customs, culture, and cultural history.

CeMEAS Lecture Series: Transforming China’s Agriculture and Food Sector – On path to sustainability?
2019-05-06 16:00 - 18:00 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
China’s Green Transformation – CeMEAS Lecture Series:
Transforming China’s Agriculture and Food Sector – On path to sustainability?

Eva Sternfeld (Sino-German Agricultural Centre)
Time: Monday, 06.05.2019, 4pm (c.t.) – 6 pm
Venue: KWZ 0.603, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen

Abstract:
China needs to feed about one fifth of the world population but has only 7 percent of world’s arable land. Ensuring food security has been always a challenge and agricultural intensification has been the program for decades. Since the 1970s technological developments such as mechanization, biotechnology and agrochemicals helped to achieve enormous increases in agricultural productivity.
However, the so called “green revolution” is reaching its limits. In recent years the sector has been in the spot light for food safety scandals and ecosystem degradation. China’s government tries tackle these problems with a series of new policies and action plans. The presentation looks at the challenges China’s agricultural and food sector is confronted with and introduces recent strategies for sustainable agriculture.
Short CV:
Eva Sternfeld is science advisor at Sino-German agricultural Center (DCZ) in Beijing, a joint initiative of the German Federal Ministry of Food and Agriculture (BMEL) and the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs of the People’s Republic of China (MARA).
Prior to working with DCZ, Eva Sternfeld was a visiting professor at the Institute for East Asian Studies at Freie Universität Berlin and head of the Center for Cultural Studies on Science and Technology in China of TU Berlin. Between 2000 and 2008 she has been working as a foreign advisor for the Center of Environmental Education and Communication of the Chinese Ministry of Environmental Protection in Beijing. She has widely published on issues related to urban/rural development and water management in China. Recent publications include the edition of the Routledge Handbook on Environmental Policy in China (2017).

CeMEAS Lecture Series 2019: China’s Green Transformation
Organizer: CeMEAS
Sponsor: Akademischen Konfuzius-Instituts Göttingen
Partner: Alter Botanischer Garten der Universität Göttingen

Image: Eric, Train journey from Guiyang to Zhenyuan 37, CC BY-SA 2.0., https://flic.kr/p/bq2CNn

Lecture: Does China’s BRI have smart power on Southeast Asian countries?
2019-05-02 18:00 - 20:00 | VG, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, 37073 Göttingen, Germany
Lecture:
Does China’s BRI have smart power on Southeast Asian countries?

Dr. Lee Chun-Yi (University of Nottingham)
Thursday, May 2,2019, 6pm (c.t.) – 8 pm
VG 2.103, Verfügungsgebäude, Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen
Abstract:
The One Belt One Road project (OBOR, later known as the Belt and Road Initiative, BRI), initiated by Chinese President Xi Jinping, took shape in October 2013. It is envisaged to connect vibrant East Asia and developed Europe via the Silk Road Economic Belt, linking China with European countries through the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road. Its ultimate goal is to facilitate trade and investment in Eurasia and promote economic growth. The BRI triggered great discussion within and beyond China, with the intention of positioning China in an active role of global governance.
The main Asian countries on the map of China’s maritime belt include Vietnam, Malaysia, Philippines, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand. So far there has been no systematic research focusing on the socioeconomic impact of China’s BRI particularly on the question of to what extent the BRI’s smart power, that is the combination of hard power (economic and military) and soft power (cultural influence) on those countries. In this paper I will aim to compare and contrast Chinese investment on Vietnam and Malaysia.
The structure of the paper will be as following, the first section will be the discussion of smart power, the second section will be the empirical data of Chinese investment in selected countries of China’s BRI: Vietnam, Malaysia and Singapore. The empirical data will be composed by qualitative interviews and also statistic data from the listed countries. The third section will be the analysis of ‘effectiveness’ of China’s smart power by interpreting those countries responses towards Chinese investment in comparison of their responses towards China’s position in South China Sea.
Key words: Smart Power, Maritime Silk Road, South China Sea

Bio:
Dr Lee Chun-Yi’s is an Associate Professor at school of Politics and International Relations, she is also the director of Taiwan Studies Program at University of Nottingham. Chun-yi’s current research project is on geopolitical implications of BRI. She has served as a visiting research fellow at East Asia Institute at National University of Singapore from May to June 2018.
Dr Lee’s past research included Chinese investment in Taiwan. This project investigated bilateral cross-Strait economic activities and their impact on the two societies. It is a two and a half year project from July 2014 to December 2016. Dr Lee’s previous research project was on Chinese labour within the global economy with Prof Andreas Bieler at the School of Politics and International Relation. A three-year project that was completed in September 2014, it investigated the influence of different foreign investors on Chinese workers and labour rights.

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