14.04.2026

Colloquium History and Culture of China, Summer Term 2026

History and Culture of China, Sinological Colloquium Summer Term 2026
Tuesday, 4 p.m. c.t., Wilhelmstraße 133, Room 30 [unless otherwise indicated]
Organiser: Prof. Dr. Huang Fei

Tuesday, April 21: Elisabeth Biebl, M.A. M.Ed. (Tübingen University)
Knowledge About the Unknown: Why Publish a 1000-Year-Old Work in a Time of Striving for Globality?

Tuesday, April 28: HE Cheng, PhD (College of Fellows, Tübingen)
The Pharmaceutical Soot: Ink as Medicine and Pigment in Premodern China

Tuesday, May 12: Prof. Ronald C. Po (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Shark Fin in Late Imperial China: A Cultural History

Tuesday, May 19: Dr Maxim Korolkov (Tübingen University)
The Liye Translation Project: China's Earliest Known Administrative Archive and its Context

Tuesday, June 2: HAN Qiqin, PhD cand. (Tübingen University)
Between Knowledge and Power: The Transmission of the Thermometre and Sino-Western Interaction in the 1680s

Tuesday, June 9: ZHAO Yawei, M.A. (Tübingen University)
Iconographic Analysis and Visual Rhetoric in Fine-Phrase Official Painters' Imperial Tour Painting

Tuesday, June 16: Prof. Marta Hansen (Erlangen University)
Hand as Diagram: Ritual Healing and Prognosticating in Medieval Chinese Medicine

Tuesday, June 23. ZHENG Xinyu, M.A. (Tübingen University)
Distancing from Cold Harm: Reconceptualising yunqi in the Ming Period

Tuesday, June 30: Patrick Aberle, M.A. (Tübingen University)
Oil Trees on Their Journey to the Southwest: Lessons from Folk Documents

Tuesday, July 7: JIANG Qingjun, M.A. (Tübingen University)
Reshaping Masculinities in the Ming-Qing Transition (17-18 Centuries)

Tuesday, July 14: Prof. YI Yolan (National Taiwan University)
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Thursday, July 16: Brian G. Lander (Brown University)
Translating Chinese Texts on Environmental Sources

Tuesday, July 21: HE Zhenghong, M.A. (Tübingen University)
From Medicine to Art: Modelling the Circulation of Blue Pigment (qing 青) Knowledge in Early Modern China