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Prof. Sheldon Garon (Department of History, Princeton University), “On the Transnational Destruction of Cities: What Japan and the U.S. learned from the Bombing of Britain, Germany, and China”

Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum KWZ, Raum 0.607 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, Niedersachsen, Deutschland

How did it become “normal” to bomb cities and civilians?  Focusing on the aerial bombardment of China, Britain, Germany, and Japan in 1937-45, Garon spotlights the role of transnational learning in the construction of the “home front” among all the belligerents.  World War II was a global experience, yet histories of the home front remain […]

Lecture Series: China’s Green Transformation: Prof. Dr. Martin Welp (Eberswalde University for Sustainable Development) “Greening for urban wellbeing: A Sustainability Assessment of the Kökyar Protection Forest in NW China”

Verfügungsgebäude VG 4.103 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen, Niedersachsen

Abstract China has made remarkable achievements in increasing forest and vegetation cover in large parts of the country. The Three-North Shelter Forest Program (also known as the great green wall) is one the famous national initiatives to hold back desertification. On the local level, the city of Aksu, located at the fringe of the Taklimakan […]

Sonderführung durch den Forstbotanischen Garten der Universität Göttingen: China – Gehölze aus dem Reich der Mitte

Arboretum China, Bushaltestelle Tammanstraße am Nordcampus Tammanstraße, Göttingen, Niedersachsen

Image: Barockschloss: Ginkgo, Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic (CC BY-SA 2.0), https://flic.kr/p/7aBeHS Die Führung wird von Dipl.-Ing. Volker Meng im Rahmen der Vortragsreihe China’s Green Transformation im Sommersemester 2019 angeboten. Die Führung ist kostenfrei und eine Anmeldung ist nicht nötig. Anfahrt und Treffpunkt: Arboretum China Bushaltestelle Tammanstraße am Nordcampus Route 1: Haltestelle Göttingen Campus (Linie 41) bis […]

Prof. Olivier Remaud (École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris, France) and Prof. Chunjie Zhang (University of California, Davis, USA), “Normative and Reflexive Ethics: Perspectives from China and the West, 1900-1950”

Verfügungsgebäude, VG Raum 3.102 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen, Deutschland

In this joint event, Olivier Remaud and Chunjie Zhang will explore the possibility of using normativity and reflexivity as ethics in relation to environmental and cultural cosmopolitanisms in the first half of the twentieth century. Remaud will first lecture on “The World as Earth. Environmental Reflexivity and the Philological Mind.” From oceans filled with plastics […]

Prof. Shaoxin DONG (Fudan University, Shanghai, PR China), “The Introduction of the Term “ASIA” into China and Chinese responses”

Verfügungsgebäude VG 1.108 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7, Göttingen

The three-continent system, including Europe, Asia and Africa, was invented by the ancient Greeks. In the Middle Ages, this system was explained in the Catholic theological context, which puts Jerusalem at the centre of T and O world map, and shows the continents as domains of the sons of Noah: Sem, Iafeth and Cham. In […]