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Prof. Wu Ying-Chu 吳瑛珠 from the Department of Public Administration at Tamkang University will present a current research project in the Taiwan Colloquium on Thursday, 26 January, 6 p.m. Her topic is 

Das Verhältnis zwischen politischen Parteien und Abgeordneten - Ausgehend vom Rotationsprinzip in Deutschland zur Überprüfung der Verfassungsauslegung Nr.311 in Taiwan
[Relation between political parties and delegates - Departing from the rotation principle in Germany to review the constitutional interpretation no. 311 in Taiwan]

Venue is the lecture hall 001 in Keplerstraße 2.

Premodern Colloquium seesion on Tuesday 24 Jan 2023 at 16:15 in Wilhelmstr. 133, Room 30
Xu Runzhou, "The Process of Landscape-Centered Rituals - a Case Study of Mount Qianfo's Pilgrimage System" (MA project)

Zoom Link: zoom.us/j/97739823797

Visiting Scholar, Prof. Wu Ying-Chu 吳瑛珠 from the Department of Public Administration at Tamkang University will give a public talk on Monday, 23 January, 6 to 8 p.m:

Umwandlung der verfassungsrechtlichen Stellung der politischen Parteien in Taiwan – vom Verfassungsentwurf in Jahr 1936 bis zur Verfassungsauslegung Nr. 793 im Jahr 2020 
[Change of the constitutional position of political parties in Taiwan - from the constitutional draft of 1936 to the interpretation No. 793 in 2020]

Venue is the room 1.81 at Keplerstraße 2.

Greater China Colloquium / Taiwan Colloquium
Prof. Dr. Nicola Spakowski (Freiburg) "Worker heroes and heroines in China - models of a society of production (1940s to 1970s)"
Thursday 19 Jan, 6 – 8 pm c.t.
Keplerstr. 2, Hörsaal (HS) 001

Greater China Colloquium / Taiwan Colloquium
Abbey Heffer, "Local Policy Experimentation: An 'Innovative' Way for Local Chinese Governments to Respond to Protest?"
Thursday 12 Jan, 6 – 8 pm c.t.
Keplerstr. 2, Hörsaal (HS) 001

Premodern Colloquium session on Tuesday 20 Dec 2022 at 16:15 in Wilhelmstr. 133, Room 30
Jiang Qingjun, M.A. (Tübingen)
"Reshaping Masculinity between China and Korea during the Ming-Qing Transition (17th and 18th Centuries)" (PhD Project)
Zoom Meeting: https://zoom.us/j/99625784856?pwd=WkFpTG5GbHRwUlVwNmREQWl6SGl2dz09, Meeting-ID: 996 2578 4856, Kenncode: 910744

Premodern Colloquium session on Tuesday 13 Dec 2022 at 16 c.t. in Wilhelmstr. 133, Room 30
Fabian Hiller, M.A. (Tübingen)
"Reflecting Zhang Taiyan 1906-1911. Critical Evaluation and Contextualization of Late Qing Source Materials" (PhD Project)

Premodern Colloquium session on Tuesday, 6 Dec 2022, 16:00 c.t., Wilhelmstr. 133, Raum 30
Patrick Aberle (Tübingen)
"Sustainability and Ecology in Chinese Forestry: The Case of the Tallow Tree" (PhD Project)

Premodern Colloquium session on Tuesday 29.11 at 16c.t. in Wilhelmstr. 133, Room 30
Zhao Yawei, M.A. (Tübingen University)
"The Interaction of Landscape Paintings between Qianlong 乾隆 and Cichen 詞臣" (PhD Project)

Premodern China Colloquium – Winter Semester 2022 / 2023
Prof. Dr. Olivia Milburn (Hong Kong University).
"Insanity and Brain Damage: Accounts from Early and Medieval China"
Wednesday, 23 Nov 2022, 10:00 c.t.
Meeting Link https://zoom.us/j/99914456710?pwd=QUx5UnlQOTJZandRbjhORVpZb28vQT09
Meeting-ID: 99914456710, Passcode:  016912

Abstract: Until the development of brain scanning technology in 1978, words for insanity and brain damage were vague, because the causes of many kinds of insanity were not known, and the symptoms of different conditions could overlap. MRI scanning has allowed for a number of syndromes hitherto regarded as mental health issues, such as Capgras or Othello, to be identified as exclusively caused by brain lesions. However, while modern medicine has made some strides in developing treatment for conditions caused by chemical imbalances and trauma, brain lesions remain completely incurable. Early and medieval Chinese texts recorded individuals affected by a wide variety of conditions, including stroke, dementia, the effects of poisoning and lyssaviruses, Korsakoff syndrome and so on. These records have great intrinsic interest, to understand the history of mental health issues in China, and also offer continuities with the present, given that these conditions remain intractable.

Bio: Olivia Milburn is currently Professor at the School of Chinese, Hong Kong University and was formerly employed at the Department of Chinese, Seoul National University. She received her MA from Cambridge and PhD from SOAS, University of London. Her research focuses mainly on the history and culture of the ancient kingdoms of Wu and Yue, and the position of minorities and marginalized groups in early and medieval China, such as intersex persons, the disabled, and so on. In addition, Olivia Milburn has engaged in research on the early history of the novel in China. Her modern literature translations, recognized with the Special Book Award of China in 2018, include works by Mai Jia, Feng Jicai, Jiang Zilong, Fang Fang, and Su Tong.

Greater China Studies / Taiwan Colloquium – Winter Semester 2022 / 2023
Karoline Buchner (FU Berlin), "Of ‘Quiet Medical Revolutions’ and ‘Foreign Meddling’: Covering Chinese Medicine in Taiwan Panorama"
Nov. 17, Thursday, 6 – 8 pm, Keplerstr. 2, Hörsaal (HS) 001

Next Wednesday (Nov 16), we are resuming our departmental seminar series with a talk by Daniela Caterina from Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan (an annoucement of a second talk by Emanuele Ferragina at 18:00 c.t. will follow)
Institutskolloquium / Departmental Seminar
Daniela Caterina
Europe and China beyond Orientalism? (Mis-)representations, abridged encounters and the call for a new research agenda
Wednesday, 16 November 2022 · 16:00 c.t. · Room 124, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Melanchthonstr. 36
Or join online via Zoom: 930 8975 0663 (Meeting ID), 142311 (Passcode)
China’s rise as a key global actor has magnified the ubiquitous presence and relevance of China debates. Yet what is this ‘China’ we refer to in so much controversial talk? It is namely striking that the more China references abound in public and academic discourse, the more ‘China’ seems to remain a black box to external eyes. The lecture will tackle this paradox and its implications, arguing for the urgency of a Europe-China research agenda at the crossroads of political theory, international political economy, and postcolonial studies.
Dr Daniela Caterina is a Lecturer at the School of Philosophy of the Huazhong University of Science and Technology Wuhan (China). She combines her research interest in critical political economy, critical discourse analysis and Antonio Gramsci’s thought with a focus on EU-China relations and Italian politics – especially with an eye to the role of populist actors.

Judy LEE Yi Nga (Resident Fellow at the ERCCT)
"Hong Kong Exiles in Taiwan: An Ongoing Observation"
Venue is VG Wilhelmstr. 19 SR 001 on Thursday (7.7) at 6 pm.

Dr. Yao LIN (NYU, Shanghai), "Authoritarian Malepistemization and its Discontents: Chinese Discourses on the Russian-Ukrainian War"
Friday, July 1, 2022, 12 pm
Zoom registration: https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkde2vpjIoG9ODhq_8wFjekU9ihlb9mX-a

Since the start of the Russia-Ukraine War, the Chinese government and its mouthpieces have mounted a domestic pro-Russia propaganda campaign. This talk will examine the ideological underpinnings of this propaganda effort, its effects on China's public discourse and informational ecosystem, and the various discursive and ideological strategies different intellectuals and netizens adopt to countervail the state's pro-Russia talk points.

Dr. Yao Lin is an Assistant Professor of Practice in Political Science at New York University Shanghai. He publishes extensively in moral and political theory, comparative politics and law, American politics, Chinese politics, and ideology studies.

Vivien Markert, M.A. (Tübingen)
"The Chinese Islamic Association on the Sinicization of Islam" (PhD project)
June 23, 6 PM, Seminarraum 001 in Verfügungsgebäude Wilhemstr. 19

Dr. Luwei Rose LUQIU 闾丘露薇, Hong Kong Baptist University
“Hong Kong: Still a Free Society?”
Colloquium Greater China Studies, Tuesday, June 21, 2022, 6 pm In Person: SR 236 Neue Aula
https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJYocuGsrD4tHNTMtxUcGjs9YwFPa-TYOJc0

A free press has been one of the cornerstones of the success of Hong Kong and an essential ingredient of a free society. However, this year, a nosedive in press freedom ranking to 148th globally symbolizes that free speech has been tattered. The introduction of the changes in the media system in Hong Kong and how academic freedom has started to suffer demonstrates how a free society rapidly deteriorated.
Luwei Rose Luqiu (Lüqiu) is assistant professor at the School of Communication at Hong Kong Baptist University. She researches censorship, propaganda, and social movements in authoritarian regimes. She has been a journalist for 20 years and was a 2007 Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. She received her Ph.D. in mass communication from Pennsylvania State University and earned her bachelor's degree in philosophy from Fudan University. Her latest book is "Covering the 2019 Hong Kong Protests".

Guo Liqiao 郭立桥 (Xiamen University, ERCCT short-term resident fellow)
"The Rivalry Between Mainland China and Taiwan: How They View Each Other's Application to Join the CPTTP"
Thursday 6 pm in Seminarraum 001 in Wilhemstr. 19 (Verfügungsgebäude)

Jour fixe des Center for Religion, Culture and Society (CRCS) mit Prof. Dr. Johannes Brachtendorf und Prof. Dr. Achim Mittag, 18.01.2022, 12:30-13:30 Uhr

Der Philosoph und katholische Theologe Prof. Dr. Johannes Brachtendorf und der Sinologe Prof. Dr. Achim Mittag geben Einblick in ihre interdisziplinäre Lehrkooperation zu Matteo Riccis Werk „Die wahre Lehre vom Herrn des Himmels“ (Tianzhu shiyi 天主實義, 1603), in dem es um die Jesuiten-Mission in China geht. Ricci, ein italienischer Jesuit, richtet sich mit seiner systematischen Darstellung der christlichen Weltanschauung an die gebildeten Chinesen, weshalb er dieses Werk  in chinesischer Sprache geschrieben und in die Form eines Dialogs zwischen einem europäischen und einem chinesischen Gelehrten gebracht hat. Für Brachtendorf und Mittag war in ihrer Analyse Folgendes von besonderem Interesse: die Übertragung lateinischer Begriffe in chinesische Begriffe, Riccis Versuch christliche Denkweisen mit konfuzianischen Vorstellungen abzugleichen, sowie die konkrete Einbettung von Riccis Werk in die kulturgeschichtliche Situation Chinas zu Beginn des 17. Jahrhunderts.

Der Vortrag findet digital statt. Zugangsdaten zur Zoomkonferenz können nach Anfrage (per Mail an crcs@uni-tuebingen.de) zugeschickt werden. 

Alexandre Gandil (Centre for International Studies (CERI) at Paris Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po))
"Re-Mapping the Taiwan Strait: Putting the "(Mainland) China / Taiwan" Framework to the Test through the Lens of Kinmen"

Monday, 12 July 2021, 12:30-13:45, online via zoom.us/j/99707781367

The concept of “relations between the two sides of the Taiwan Strait” (Taiwan haixia liang’an guanxi 台灣海峽兩岸關係) implies that the Taiwan Strait acts as a border area which articulates the relations between the two entities delimited by its shores, namely Mainland China and the island of Taiwan. However, political borders are not congruent with these geomorphological limits, since the Republic of China’s (Taiwan) sovereignty spans across the Taiwan Strait: its territory includes Kinmen [金門], a small archipelago (150 km²) located off the coast of PRC’s Fujian province, next to Xiamen city.

Bringing Kinmen back on the map of the Taiwan Strait is a two-fold process: it implies to identify (1) the reasons why it has become a blind spot in regional cartography beyond reasons of mere pragmatism or simplification, and (2) what renewed consideration towards it could bring to the study of cross-Strait relations as a whole. Ultimately, this process boils down to calling into question geographic determinism and favors an “eventialization” (Michel Foucault) of the Taiwan Strait.

Am Montag, dem 05.07.2021, von 18:30 h bis 19:30 h, beschäftigt sich Prof. Dr. Gunter Schubert
in einem moderierten Gespräch bei der Deutschen Atlantischen Gesellschaft e. V. mit dem Thema

„Neoimperiale Politik? Chinas regionale und globale Ambitionen – und wie sich der „Westen“ dazu verhalten kann“

Prof. Dr. Gunter Schubert ist Professor am Lehrstuhl für Greater China Studies am Asien-Orient-Institut der Universität Tübingen. Moderiert wird die Veranstaltung von Christian Gottschalk der Stuttgarter Zeitung. Ausführliche Informationen zu den Referenten und zum Thema des Seminars finden Sie unter folgendem Link:

https://ata-dag.de/veranstaltung/neoimperiale-politik-chinas-regionale-und-globale-ambitionen-und-wie-sich-der-westen-dazu-verhalten-kann/

Im Anschluss an den Vortrag besteht die Möglichkeit, Fragen an den Referenten zu richten und über dieses spannende Thema ins Gespräch zu kommen.

Das Gespräch findet statt im Tübinger Hesse-Kabinett. Die Veranstaltung wird als Online-Seminar via Zoom übertragen. Die Anmeldung ist direkt über den folgenden Link möglich: https://zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_WT3IiTGPSZ6kkuSo9OoSMA

Linh Le-Phuong (Institute for Media Studies of the University of Leiden)
"Female Migration to Taiwan in Vietnamese Online Media: Changing Representation, Changing Society?"

Monday, 5 July 2021, 12:30-13:45, online via zoom.us/j/99707781367

Female migration from Vietnam to Taiwan is not a new topic, but the media representation of this migration route in the Vietnamese online news media and its consequences on the Vietnamese female migrants have not been explored intensively. Using the theoretical frameworks from media, migration and gender studies, I employed a quantitative content analysis approach to comprehend this topic. In this talk at ERCCT, I will present my preliminary findings and discuss if and can the changing representation present meaningful transformations for both the sending and the host society and for the Vietnamese female migrants in particular. Some suggestions for relevant stakeholders are offered and the conclusion will open space for further discussion on the media representation of Vietnamese female migrants and its connection to the New Southbound Policy.

Dr. Anna L. Ahlers, Max Planck Institute für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin
"Building a 'World Class Science System' in Xi Jinping China"
Thursday, 1 July 2021, 12:30-13:45
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chinas-political-system-in-the-xi-era-features-trends-and-developments-tickets-149658429391

WebTalk der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung, Landesbüro Baden-Württemberg

"Die Welt braucht den Westen"
Gespräch mit Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff und Prof. Dr. Gunter Schubert

Freitag, 18.06.2021, 19:15 - 20:30 Uhr

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Lange machte sich in der politischen Debatte Fatalismus breit: Der Westen sei tot, heißt es, die internationale Ordnung am Ende, Amerika verloren. Wer so argumentiert, ergibt sich kampflos dem nationalistischen Zeitgeist, übersieht die wachsende Gegenwehr und unterschätzt die Reformkräfte, sagt Thomas Kleine-Brockhoff. Er plädiert für eine Umkehr: Statt die Unabwendbarkeit einer antiliberalen Ära zu beklagen, sollten die Kräfte, die sich der liberalen Demokratie verbunden fühlen, Gegenstrategien erarbeiten. Was die Wahl von Joe Biden für die Perspektive der internationalen Politik bedeutet und was es in der Praxis heißt, mit robustem Liberalismus für eine freiheitliche Ordnung zu kämpfen, bespricht er im Dialog mit Prof. Dr. Gunter Schubert.

Die Veranstaltung wird aus Mitteln des Auswärtigen Amtes finanziert.

MENG Ye, M.A. (Universität Tübingen)
"From Resilience to Consolidation: Judicial Reforms and Authoritarian Rule in Xi Jinping China"
Thursday, 16 June 2021, 12:30-13:45
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chinas-political-system-in-the-xi-era-features-trends-and-developments-tickets-149658429391

Prof. Dr. Christian Göbel (Universität Wien)
"Handling Social Protest in Xi Jinping’s China"
Thursday, 10 June 2021, 12:30-13:45
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chinas-political-system-in-the-xi-era-features-trends-and-developments-tickets-149658429391

Prof. Dr. Doris Fischer (Universität Würzburg)
"Economic Steering in Xi Jinping China"
Thursday, 6 May 2021, 12:30-13:45
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chinas-political-system-in-the-xi-era-features-trends-and-developments-tickets-149658429391

Prof. Dr. Thomas Heberer (Universität Duisburg-Essen)
"A Disciplining Agency: The State in Xi Jinping China"
Thursday, 29 Apr 2021, 12:30-13:45
Registration: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chinas-political-system-in-the-xi-era-features-trends-and-developments-tickets-149658429391

Our associated researcher Anna Strob, M.A., was invited by the Institute of Greco-Roman Studies at Seoul National University to contribute to the international workshop on "Aristoteles Asianus: Aristotle’s Works, the Coimbra Texts, and Jesuits’ Chinese Translations in the Seventeenth Century." In her presentation on 3 February 2021 she introduced an in-depth study on selected passages from the Kongji gezhi 空際格致 (Investigation into Phenomena in the Atmosphere, c. 1633) and the accommodative approach taken by the Jesuit missionary Alfonso Vagnone in his Chinese translation of Aristotelian natural philosophy to late Ming China. The online format of the conference allowed the joining of various scholars from related research fields and drew an international audience that actively engaged in the unfolding discussion.

Am 19.01.2021 um 20 Uhr hält unser Mitarbeiter Sascha Zhivkov einen Vortrag zum Thema "Die gegenseitige Wahrnehmung der Gesellschaften Chinas, Hongkongs und Taiwans: Träume und Albträume über die eine chinesische Nation" an der VHS Ulm (für Teilnahmeinformationen dem Link folgen). 

Prof. Schubert, our former colleague Dr. Franziska Plümmer (now University of Vienna), and Anastasiya Bayok (Freie Unviersität Berlin) will give a lecture on the occasion of their book launch for “Immigration Governance in East Asia: Norm Diffusion, Politics of Identity, Citizenship” (Routledge) on Friday,  January 15th, 3 to 5 p.m. PDF

The public talk will be chaired by Professor Verena Blechinger-Talcott (Vice-President for International Affairs fo Freie Universität Berlin, and former director of the Einstein Visiting Fellow projects and GEAS)

The book is edited by Gunter Schubert, Franziska Plümmer and Anastasiya Bayok, and analyses immigration policies in East Asia in the context of contemporary global migration flows and mobility. It is one of the first scholarly attempts to investigate East Asian immigration from such a comprehensive perspective. East Asian states demonstrate both similarities and striking differences in their immigration governance strategies and practices. International norms, as well as established traditional connections between states and nations in East Asia, accompanied by economic interdependences and in some cases political tensions in the region, self-identity and perceptions of “the other” effect immigration policy in East Asia in multiply ways. To assess how global norms of migration have impacted the East Asian migration region and explore regional migration trends, the book contains 13 case studies which investigate the regulation of immigration in China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Three analytical strands, namely, norm diffusion, identity politics, and citizenship, build the theoretical framework for the case studies which investigate how regional and national norms, discourses, and institutions affect local communities and migration patterns. The most recent world-wide mobility restrictions caused by the Covid-19 pandemic could also leave its mark on immigration governance in East Asia.

The lecture will be held in English and via Webex (online). Please register with the GEAS Events by January 5, 2021 at events@geas.fu-berlin.de

Thursday, December 17 2020, 12.30 p.m. CET

Christopher R. Hughes is Professor of International Relations at the LSE, where he teaches courses in the International Politics of the Asia Pacific, Chinese Foreign Policy and Foreign Policy Analysis. He also served as Director of the Asia Research Centre at the LSE from 2002 to 2005. He has organised joint research projects with Fudan University, Renmin University, the Shanghai Institutes for International Studies, and the Graduate School of Asia Pacific Studies at Waseda University. He has also been a visiting fellow at Waseda, Aichi University (Nagoya), Lingnan University (Hong Kong) and Academic Sinica (Taiwan).

His books include Taiwan and Chinese Nationalism (Routledge 1997), China and the Internet: Politics of the Digital Leap Forward (edited with Gudrun Wacker, Routledge 2003) and Chinese Nationalism in the Global Era (Routledge 2006). He has also published various articles on the international politics of the Asia-Pacific, international relations theory and foreign policy in leading academic journals and currently working on a major research project on the development and role of militarism in China and Japan, the first stage of which appeared in ‘Militarism and the China Model: The Case of National Defense Education’, Journal of Contemporary China, 2017.

Ulrich Theobald hält an der Universität Münster einen Vortrag zu "Organisierte Kriminalität und soziale Kontrolle in Asien"
Do, 10.12.2020, 16:00
im Rahmen der Ringvorlesung "Control and Security in Modern and Premodern Asia"
Ringvorlesung im Wintersemester 2020/21, mit Unterstützung der Eurasia Foundation (from Asia)
Programm

Am Montag, 21. September, wird Prof. Gunter Schubert Referent in einem Webinar der Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung sein.

"China und Hongkong: Das neue Sicherheitsgesetz und seine Auswirkungen"

21.09.2020, 19:30 - 21:00 Uhr

Teilnahme und Info per: https://shop.freiheit.org/#!/Veranstaltung/JZ7LY