CeMEAS

Film Cycle: Food is People's Heaven
2016-11-02 - 2017-01-25
Film Series:
Food is People’s Heaven
民以食为天
Wedensday, 4pm (c.t.)
KWZ 1.601
Lecturer: Katja Pessl

The Film Series at the Department of East Asian Studies provides an engaging and flexible study experience, intended to introduce students to a wide scope of East Asian films. Each semester features a specific topic with 6-7 screenings and provides ample opportunity for participants to discover, analyze and argue about film. Our screenings are followed by a moderated discussion and all students are welcome to participate!
In this semester’s film cycle we will focus on the deep-rooted connections between food and society. Through critical examination of the cultural and social significance of food we will engage with the history, art, production and consumption of food and its representation in film and cinematic language within greater China and beyond.
Program:
02.11.2016 A Bite of China: Gifts from Nature / The Story of Staple Foods 舌尖上的中国: 自然的馈赠 / 主食的故事 (2012)
16.11.2016 Eat Drink Man Woman 饮食男女 (1994)
30.11.2016 The Search for General Tso 寻找左宗棠 (2014)
14.12.2016 The Rice Bomber 白米炸弹客 (2014)
11.01.2017 The Biggest Chinese Restaurant in the World 世界最大的中国餐馆 (2008)
25.01.2017 The God of Cookery 食神 (1996)
Picture: Jevgeni Zotov, Baozi, CC BY-NC-ND 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/eeWa4L

CeMEAS Lecture: Was Buddha a Muslim? Ottoman Turkish Reflexions on Japan
2017-01-17 18:00 - 20:00 (Europe/Paris)
CeMEAS Lecture:
Was Buddha a Muslim? Ottoman Turkish Reflexions on Japan
Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017, 6 pm (c.t.) – 8 pm, KWZ 2.601
Dr. Katja Triplett
CeMEAS, University of Göttingen
In studies on relations between Japan and Turkey, the topic of ‘religion’ has been mainly addressed in light of Islamic missionary activities and the role of Ottoman Turkish proselytizers in Japan. Recent studies have also highlighted the ways in which Japan served as a model for Ottomans in attaining “non-Western” modernity.
However, how Ottoman and republican Turkish intellectuals reflected about Japanese religions and spiritual practices has been not been studied yet in much detail, despite the fact that a great variety of texts attests to the deep interest for these topics. Writers from Turkey who engaged with various forms of Japanese spirituality relied in their analyses often on sources in Western languages. The presentation will examine the originality of their interpretations and explore first-hand observations, such as a visit to a Buddhist temple in Tokyo, by Ottomans in early twentieth century Japan.
About the lecturer:
Katja Triplett holds a doctorate in the Study of Religions, Japanese Linguistics and Anthropology from Marburg University, and is currently affiliated at CeMEAS. From 2012 – 2016 she was professor for the Study of Religions at the Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen. Currently she is a lecturer in the Study of Religions at the Study of Religions Unit, Institute for Theology and the Study of Religions, Leibniz University Hannover.
Her current research projects are Japanese Buddhist medicine (500-1600 CE) and religious ideas and aesthetics from Japan in the late Ottoman Empire and modern Turkey.

CeMEAS Lecture: Globalisation and Environmental Sustainability in China
2017-01-24 18:00 - 20:00 | Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Heinrich- Düker- Weg 14, Göttingen
CeMEAS Lecture:
Globalization and Environmental Sustainability in China
Tuesday, Jan. 24, 2017, 6 pm (c.t.) – 8 pm, KWZ 1.601
Maoliang Bu, PhD
Associate Professor, School of Business, Nanjing University
Globalization can be bad or good for the environment of China. On one side, China may suffer from international pollution transfer. While on the other side, globalization may make China better access advanced environmental technology and management.
The recent literature show very mixed evidences on both sides, which calls for more research. The talk will share some studies from the presenter.
About the lecturer:
Maoliang Bu is an Associate Professor at Nanjing University, School of Business, and Adjunct Professor at Hopkins-Nanjing Center (Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies). His research is mainly on globalization and environmental sustainability. The recent publications include Globalization and the Environment of China (Emerald, 2014). He has previously worked as a post-doctoral researcher at University of Goettingen, and as a visiting professor at University of Groningen and University of Gothenburg.

Image by: mattwalker69,91957046, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/epFjF7

Lecture: The Autobiographies of Shanghai Jewish Refugees from Central Europe
2017-01-31 16:00 - 18:00
Lecture:
The Autobiographies of Shanghai Jewish Refugees from Central Europe
Tuesday, Jan.31, 16(c.t.)-18, KWZ.0.607
Xiaoqian Gao (高晓倩)
Comparative Literature and World Literature, Fudan University
Organizer：Slavisches Seminar & CeMEAS

This report will do a job of mining the autobiographies for the details of Jewish experience in Shanghai. All the autobiographies constitute an inner space of collective memory. The space has its own structure which I want to illustrate with four relationships: Jewish Refugees’ relationships with Germany/Austria, relationships with China/Japan, relationships within Refugees and family relationships. The space gets its dynamics by alternation of inclusion and exclusion, remembering and forgetting. The space has its function as a producer of identity.
About the lecturer:
Ms.Xiaoqian Gao is an Associate Professor of the School of Foreign Language at Shanghai Institute of Technology. She specializes in English and American Literature, particularly on Victorian Literature; Comparative Literature and Culture Studies. She is currently working on her dissertation at Fudan University on the Autobiographies of Shanghai Jewish Refugees from Central Europe. She got her M.A. at Ruhr Universität Bochum and has been visiting scholar at University of Pennsylvania and Frei Universität Berlin.
Click here for a complete Curriculum Vitae from Xiaoqian Gao.

Image: hans-johnson,Shanghai_1, CC BY-SA 2.0, https://flic.kr/p/BPM1Va
