Past Event Highlights
In the past winter term CeMEAS has organized the Lecture Series "Social Policy in China: Retrospect and Prospect" and co-organized the OAS Film Cycle "Periphery at the Centre: China’ s Borders and Frontiers". In September we organized an international workshop "Manchu in Global History:A Research Language for Qing Historians". We are looking forward to …
Voices of Struggle: LGBTQ & Feminist Activism in China and Beyond
Alten Mensa Wilhelmsplatz 3, Gӧttingen, GermanyVoices of Struggle explores the complex entanglements between activism and academia in transnational perspective.
Film Screening: The VaChina Monologues
ZHGFan Popo’s 2013 short documentary explores how ‘The Vagina Monologues’ (1996), the iconic yet controversial play by Eve Ensler, has become an empowering tool for feminist and women’s groups all over China.
Lecture Series 2018: What Makes a Superpower? New Perspectives on China’s Rise
KWZ Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, GermanyWelcome to the next CeMEAS Lecture Series!
Lecture Series 2018: Chinese Exceptionalism: A Research Agenda
VG Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, 37073 Göttingen, GermanyLecture Series 2018: Chinese Exceptionalism: A Research Agenda Liu Kang (Duke University) Tuesday, April 24, 6pm (c.t.), VG 3.103 Abstract: This lecture explores the emergent Chinese exceptionalism in order to search for a possible research agenda from interdisciplinary approaches. It will focus on modern times from Mao to the present, especially the ideological formations of …
Lecture Series 2018: China and International Order: What Order? Which Order?
VG Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, 37073 Göttingen, GermanyLecture Series 2018: China and International Order: What Order? Which Order? Alastair Iain Johnston (Harvard University) Tuesday, May 15, 6pm (c.t.), VG 3.103 Abstract: The discourse about China's challenge to the liberal world order assumes that such an order exists. This talk argues that there are instead multiple orders in different arenas (military, trade, finance, …
Lecture: Citizenship & Bureaucracy in China
waldweg waldweg 26, GӧttingenArticulating Authoritatian Citizenship in China Diana Fu (University of Toronto) Evaluating the Bureaucracy in China and the US Greg Distelhorst (MIT) Wednesday, May 16, 17:00-19:30, Waldweg -1.201 Short Bio: Diana Fu: Diana Fu is an assistant professor of Asian Politics. Her research examines the relationship between popular contention, state power, and civil society in …
Lecture: Historical Evolution and Future Trend of China’s Agricultural Policy
VG Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, 37073 Göttingen, GermanyLecture: Historical Evolution and Future Trend of China's Agricultural Policy Dr. Xingqing Ye (The Development Research Center of State Council of China) Time: 10:00-12:00, May 22 Venue: VG 4105 Short CV: Dr. Xingqing Ye is currently Director-General of the Research Department of Rural Economy of the Development Research Center of the State Council …
Lecture Series 2018: Chinese culture and foreign policy decision
VG Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, 37073 Göttingen, GermanyLecture Series 2018: Chinese culture and foreign policy decision (中国文化与外交决策) Qin Yaqing 秦亚青(China Foreign Affairs University) Tuesday, May 29, 6pm (c.t.), VG 3.103 Short Bio of the lecturer: QIN Yaqing is President and Professor of China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU) and Chancellor of China Diplomatic Academy, Executive Vice-president of China National Association for International …
Lecture: Underneath the grand yellow imperial roofs of Martyrs’ Shrines: Taiwan’s colonial past and onwards and the political symbolisms at play
MPI Hermann-Föge-Weg 12, 37073 GöttingenThe paper investigates the shift of power symbolism represented in Shinto Shrines and Martyrs’ Shrines.
Lecture Series 2018: The Senkaku Islands Dispute: A MacGruffin?
waldweg waldweg 26, GӧttingenLecture Series 2018: The Senkaku Islands Dispute: A MacGruffin? Todd Hall (Oxford University) Tuesday, June 5, 6pm (c.t.), Waldweg 9.102 Short Bio of the lecturer: Prof Hall earned his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2008 and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton and Harvard, as well as visiting scholar appointments at the Free …
Lecture: Die Resonanz von Körper und Geist – Zur Philosophie des Geistes im Chinesischen Denken
KWZ Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, 37073 Göttingen, GermanyDie Resonanz von Körper und Geist – Zur Philosophie des Geistes im Chinesischen Denken Dr. Dr. Dominique Hertzer Donnerstag, 07.06.2018, 4 pm (c.t.), KWZ 0.607 Übersicht: Die chinesische Vorstellung vom „Geist“ (shen 神) wird oftmals mit der westlichen Vorstellung von der „Psyche“ oder „der Seele“ gleichgesetzt. Doch gibt es im Chinesischen Denken überhaupt …