CeMEAS Guest Lecture: Floating Gods, Ghosts, and Ancestors in North China Plain: Boat-dwelling Fisherpeople’s Mobile Pantheon and Ancestral Hall

Kulturwissenschafltiches Zentrum, Raum 0.610 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, Niedersachsen, Deutschland

This talk focuses on how environmental change transformed the religious culture by examining the floating community of boat-dwelling fisherpeople in freshwater in North China. These mobile, isolated boat people adapted to a boat-dwelling lifestyle, organized aquatic social groups, and created innovative religious practices and beliefs in order to maintain their relationships with spirits and ancestors, […]

CeMEAS Lecture: Aircraft, Spacecraft, Statecraft: Specialist cultures and China-U.S. trade in sensitive technologies

Kulturwissenschafltiches Zentrum, Raum 0.610 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, Niedersachsen, Deutschland

Alanna Krolikowski, PhD (Vertretung der Professur für Gesellschaft und Wirtschaft des modernen China, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen) Why are some sensitive, strategic high-technology industries organized into transnational production networks while others are fragmented into national industrial bases? This project explores this general question through a comparison of China-U.S. trade in two strategic, dual-use sectors: civil commercial aircraft […]