Events

Tuesday, January 24, 18:15 – 19:45 KWZ 0.607 Abstract: This presentation proposes another interpretation of the Europe/China divergence, based on a redefinition of capitalism in much broader terms than its mere reduction to the industrial revolution. It recalls the reasons why Chinese merchant networks did not formalize autonomous institutions, in order to confer a perennial […]

The Art of Audience Participation in Applied Theatre Speaker: Estella WONG, Associate Professor and the Head of Applied Theatre in the School of Drama, Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts Date: Thursday, Jan 19, 2023, 13:00 PM CET Zoom Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/69482194990 Language: English More Information: https://yingmingtheater.com/chinese-culture-seminar-series/

The Department of East Asian Studies (the University of Göttignen) and the Department of Theatre, Film and TV Arts (Nanjing University) jointly host the “Contemporary Theater Arts” Seminar Series. It is open to anyone interested in the Asian theatre. Topic: Draft Theatre: the Assembly Line Theatre Production Speaker: ZHAO Chuan, author, art critic, independent theatre […]

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Sophia Kidd Title: Ontology of Self in Translating China's New Silk Roads KWZ 0.609 Abstract: In this lecture, I discuss how the ontological unit of 'self' cannot be taken for granted when discussing narratives, translation of, and methodology for understanding China's New Silk Roads. I will do this by analyzing how the ontology of self […]

The Department of East Asian Studies invites all first semester students to an information event on October 21, 2022 from 12:00 p.m. to 1:00 p.m. The meeting takes place in room KWZ 0.602. Here you get to the orientation phase program of the Department of East Asian Studies. Here you can find the course overview […]

Das Ostasiatische Seminar lädt alle Erstsemester für den 21. Oktober 2022 von 10:00-12:00 Uhr zu einer Informationsveranstaltung über unsere Bachelorstudiengänge in das Kulturwissenschaftliche Zentrum KWZ 0.602 ein. Da wir an diesem Tag bereits die Gruppeneinteilung für den Sprachunterricht vornehmen werden, wird die Teilnahme dringend empfohlen. Hier gelangen Sie zum Orientierungsphasen-Programm des Ostasiatischen Seminars.

Nach zwei Jahren Pandemie eine einmalige Möglichkeit, Arbeitswelten, Berufseinstieg und Kompetenzen für den chinesischen Arbeitsmarkt kennen zu lernen und zu diskutieren! Zeit: 07.10.2022, 10:00 Ort: VG 1.101 Herr Wolfgang Krieger vom BDI (Bundesverband der Deutschen Industrie) in Peking wird einen kurzen Vortrag halten und dann für ein Q&A zur Verfügung stehen. Wolfgang Krieger ist Deputy […]

September 23, Friday 11:00 - 11:20 Opening and Introduction • Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen) • Janice Hyeju Jeong (University of Göttingen) • Mohammad Alsudairi (King Faisal Center for Research and Islamic Studies) 11:30 - 14:00 Panel I. Visions and Instrumentalizations of Islam in Asia: Historical Trajectories Chair: Janice Hyeju Jeong (University of Göttingen) • […]

Speaker: Wen Shuang (New York University of Shanghai) This talk narrates four little-known stories of Arab-Chinese entanglement in the age of trans-imperial collaboration and competition in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Although much attention is paid to China's relationships with the Middle East today, I argue that this relationship did not emerge out […]

Dr. Dr. Dominique Hertzer Visiting Lecturer, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen July 13, 2022, 10:00 AM On Campus: KWZ 0.701 Conference Room (University of Göttingen, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen) On Zoom: For online participation, please use this zoom link. Is there only one soul? What is the relation between body and mind […]

Speaker: Shoufu Yi (University of British Columbia) On Campus: Hörsaal 1.201, Waldweg On Zoom: The digital participation at this event is open to everyone who registers prior to the event: Registration This talk has two goals. First, it develops a new approach to the studies of political theory and philosophy, one that I call everyday […]

July 08, 2022, 10:00 AM (GMT +2) in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link. Between the 1920s and the 1940s, first Naitō Torajirō and then Miyazaki Ichisada introduced several important propositions regarding the Tang to Song transition, capitalism during the Song Dynasty, and East Asian early modernity. […]

July 07, 2022, 18:00 (GMT +2) in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna On Campus: VG 3.103 (University of Göttingen, Verfügungsgebäude, Platz der Göttinger 7, 37073 Göttingen) On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link. Dictionaries compiled in the last phase of the manuscript age (late 16th to early 19th century) acted as metaphorical soldiers […]

Nationalism as a concept is often considered to be rooted in European experience. However, the introduction, translation, and appropriation of nationalism have also changed the course of history in East Asia. On this panel, Stefan Berger and Xin Fan contrast and compare the role of nationalism in the making and unmaking of modern China and […]

July 01, 2022, 12:00 PM (GMT +2) in Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna On Campus: KWZ 0.606 (University of Göttingen, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen) On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link. Intellectuals, such as Nietzsche, Weber, and Adorno, described modernity as a period of alienation resulting from the collapse of pre-modern social and […]

June 24, 2022, 10:00 AM On Campus: KWZ 0.607 (University of Göttingen, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen) On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link. This talk will address the problem of literary and historical narrative in China’s twentieth century. Revolutionary time is a particular kind of time, requiring different kinds of narrative. In an […]

Location: KWZ 0.609 Abstract: The talk traces the genealogy of modern European modes of knowledge under the rubrics of ‘liberal arts’, as the origin and basis for modern China’s institutions and modes of knowledge, and then examines China’s ‘liberal arts’ as institution and modes of knowledge from the early years of the twentieth century to […]

June 17, 2022, 10:100 AM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link. Late Qing and early Republican China has been regarded as a “secularized” age that ended “the era of classical learning” and opened the door to an empirical, scientific search for knowledge. With the progress of secularization, […]

June 10, 2022, 10:00 AM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link. The lecture will be held in Chinese. 近代中國保守思想家中至少可以區分成兩類，第一類是本能地反對任何改變現狀的思想，第二類是回到一個重要的思想基盤（如宋明理學、大乘佛學）上戰鬥。在這次演講中，我想討論第二類思想家，以宋育仁（1859-1931）、熊十力（1885-1968）、唐文治（1865-1954）、劉咸炘（1896-1932）、錢穆（1895-1990）等人為例，討論一個思想史上的問題：當晚清以來的新派一直在變的時候，反對或批評他們的人，其實也一直在變換他們的言論，同時也變換他們對傳統的解釋，以便對應挑戰。 此外，我在比較仔細地審視他們的思路之後，認為他們不只是「回到本來」的樣子，而是有一個微妙的新創過程。譬如他們有時候會用「提高一格法」，把儒家思想，尤其是宋明理學，作一種新的調整、詮釋。借用卡夫卡的話：「當你凝視深淵時，深淵也在凝視你」。 This lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China. Organizers: Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider, University of Göttingen Prof. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich, University […]

On Zoom: For registration (required), please use this Zoom link. Abstract: At the beginning of his book Origins of the Modern Chinese State, Kuhn asks, “What is Chinese about China’s modern state?” The answer, Kuhn explains, is not to be found by supposing that there are some distinctive cultural qualities that will ensure that “China […]

This conference is organized by a Joint Center of Advanced Studies entitled "Worldmaking from Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China." Funded by the Federal Ministry of Educa-tion and Research (BMBF) since November 2020, the Joint Center is characterized by its highly integrated network system. It brings together scholarly teams from Freie Universität Berlin, Georg-August-Universität Göttingen, […]

May 27, 2022, 10:00 AM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link. The lecture will be held in Chinese. 乡村曾被视为中国社会与文化的基础，在近代改称“农村”后，逐渐被认为出了问题。农村怎样成为“问题”及其所成的“问题”本身，既伴随着中国现代性展开的进程，也因其间的“现代”眼光所生成。这背后的一个要因，是城市的兴起和城乡的对立。由于城市被视为国家的主体，原来作为广土众民代表的乡村逐渐沦为化外，不复能表述自己。在五四后出现一种读书人想要了解自己国家的倾向，先是开始关注已近于未知的农村，观感褒贬参半；接着是被关注者逐渐问题化，见解贬多于褒；最后是问题化的农村升级为“破产”或“崩溃”，表述以贬为主。其间一个重要特点，是一些人因缺乏了解而把常态看成变态，甚至把国家整体的危难移植到农村身上。 This lecture is part of the lecture series New Perspectives on Modernity in China. . Organizers: Prof. Dr. Axel Schneider, University of Göttingen Prof. Dr. Thomas Fröhlich, University […]

Topic: Writing a Play Script and Teaching How to Write One Speaker: Guy Chenzi Time: Wednesday, May 25, 2: 00 PM Zoom Meeting: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/62861416226 Meeting ID: 628 6141 6226 Language: Chinese Content： 1. Can we “learn” how to write a play? What are the pros and cons of playwriting “apprenticeships”? 2. Can we “teach” how […]

May 20, 2022, 12:00 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna On Campus: KWZ 0.610 (University of Göttingen, Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen) On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link. Since the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, as the Meiji state quickly modernized, Japanese intellectuals confronted the atomization and alienation associated with new forms […]

May 6, 2022, 4 PM Amsterdam, Berlin, Rome, Stockholm, Vienna On Zoom: For registration, please use this zoom link. Religion occupies a vexed position in many visions of modernity. It stands as the embodiment of “tradition,” of the nonmodern, of the irrational. It is thus presumed to be condemned to a shrinking sphere of social […]

Ms. ZHU Yi, a New York-based bilingual playwright, is to give a talk on "Writing New Plays in China and the US" on April 20th. Zoom Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/98307551103 Professor Xiaomei CHEN from the University of California, Davis, will present a talk about "Performing the Socialist State" on May 4th. Zoom Link: https://uni-goettingen.zoom.us/j/95966904122 For more information […]