Urbanization and the Establishment of Communities (Shequ) in China: Implications for Everyday Life Friday, November 23, 2012 12:30 – 13:30, Seminar Room 0.610, KWZ Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14 Prof. Dr. Flemming Christiansen Chair of Political Sociology of China University of Duisburg-Essen

China and the United States: Four Mutual Images in Public Discourse Friday, November 23, 2012 15:00 -16:00, Seminar Room 0.609, KWZ Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14 Dong Wang PhD, Professor of Contemporary Chinese History University of Turku

Lecture Series: Culture Governance and Local Development in China: The Case of Nanjing Wednesday, January 23, 2013 18:00 – 20:00, Seminar Room 0.603, KWZ Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14 Prof. Leng Tse-Kang National Chengchi University, Academia Sinica The purpose of this talk is to delve into the model of urban governance on the cultural industry in China. The …

Lecture Series: Environmental pollution in China. New media and public participation: The case of air pollution Wednesday, April 24, 2013 18:00 – 19:30, Seminar Room 0.609, KWZ Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14 Prof. Li Ji School of Journalism and Communication, Wuhan University The air pollution problem in China has been taken as the most serious environmental challenge facing …

VORTRAG: How Can Latecomer Countries Catch-Up? (Vortragssprache: Deutsch) A Case Study of China‘s High-Speed Rail Dienstag, 30. April, 2013 14 Uhr c.t., KWZ 2.601 Prof. Dr. Junhua Zhang Jiaotong University, Shanghai Dr. Junhua Zhang currently is a Professor of Political Science at the School of International and Public Affairs of the Shanghai Jiao Tong University …

Lecture Series: Comparative Terror in China and Taiwan Peformances and Realities in Regime Consolidation: The Campaign to Suppress Counterrevolutionaries and the White Terror in Su’nan and Taiwan, 1950-1954 Monday, May 13, 2013, 6 pm, KWZ, Room 0.606 Julia C. Strauss SOAS, University of London Lecture Abstract: Much of the state building literature that comes from …

Lecture Series: Medicincal Delicatessen Chinese medicine practitioners and substances in contemporary China Friday, June 7, 2013, 3 pm, KWZ, Room 0.609 Dr. Lena Springer EASTmedicine research centre, University of Westminster, London Lecture Abstract: This talk presents findings of a multi-sited ethnography based on recent fieldwork in Sichuan province, China: in a remote region and in …

Lecture Series Die Kulturrevolution im Familiengedächtnis Dr. Sascha Klotzbücher (Göttingen, Wien) 28. Juni 2013, 16:00 Uhr, KWZ 0.601 Beispiele aus Film, Literatur und Bildender Kunst zeigen den „langen Schatten“ der Kulturrevolution. Dieser bleibt jedoch für die Sozialwissenschaften schwer wissenschaftlich fassbar. In diesem Projekt werden daher Zeitzeugen und ihre Nachfahren in Wuhan befragt. Sie werden nicht …