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LECTURE: Die chinesische Wahrnehmung Europas – Perzeptionen, Adaptionen und konzeptionelle Differenzen Wednesday, January 29, 2014 6pm, KWZ 1.731 May-Britt Stumbaum, Freie Univerität Berlin Picture: Jonsson, http://www.flickr.com/photos/karljonsson/ Lizenz: Creative CommonsAttribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported

LECTURE: The PR China and the International Human Rights System Thursday, January 23, 2014 6 pm KWZ, Room 0.603 Peter-Tobias Stoll, Göttingen University   One of the most controversial issues about the PR China concerns its commitment to respect, protect and fulfill human rights. After explaining the international human rights system, including standards, institutions and…

CETREN – The CeMIS-CeMEAS Transregional Research Network: Speakers’ Series Thursday 23 January 2014, 2-4pm Waldweg 26 (Tower Building) Room 6.103 – Level 6 Militancy and Dissidence: Radical Aesthetics and Radical Politics in the 20th Century Yi Zheng, The University of New South Wales The late British historian Eric Hobsbawm characterized the twentieth century as the…

LECTURE: The Internationalization of China’s Uyghur Issues Julie Yu-wen Chen, University College Cork Tuesday,  December 17,  2013 · 6 pm, KWZ,  Room 0.607 This lecture explores the operation and coalition-building of Uyghur diasporic organizations in democratic countries. Since some Uyghur organizations have been lent notable legitimacy by liberal democracies and international governmental organizations, they can…

LECTURE: Marcin Grabowski, Jagiellonian University U.S. Pivoting to Asia: Is there a real change in the American Foreign Policy towards China and the Asia- Pacific? Thursday, December 12, 2013, 6 pm KWZ, Room 0.603   G.W. Bush’s policy towards Asia-Pacific region was often perceived and described as neglectful. Occupied with other regions, especially Iraq and…

LECTURE The Social Basis of Taiwan’s Liberalizing Cross-Strait Policies, 2008-2012 Chih-Jou Jay Chen of the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica Time13.12., 12-14 Uhr Room: VG 2.101 http://www.ios.sinica.edu.tw/fellow/chihjoujaychen/

Lecture:Changing Cultures and Sociospatial Restructuring in Urban China: Shanghai Deljana Iossifova, University of Manchester Thursday, December 5, 2013  6 pm KWZ, Room 0.602 The talk explores closely linked processes of urban restructuring in China – rural-to-urban migration, urban redevelopment (including demolition and resettlement) and the ‘worlding’ of cities – through the lens of sanitation infrastructure…