Ethnomusicologist Frederick Lau explores ways of listening to Chinese music as a window to understand Chinese society. At the core of his presentation is the focus on the linkage between […]
AKI organized a dialogue with students on “China in the Global Humanities”, a lecture by Prof. Mu-chou Poo on “Common Elements of an Axial Age? Comparative Perspectives on Ancient China […]
In this lecture Prof. Poo re-examines the theory of the Axial Age by first investigating the case of China, situating the findings in the context of the on-going scholarly discussions […]
The Term “Humanities” is often used in reference to disciplinary academic humanities: a modern, institutional subject. That its development is usually a product (or byproduct) of cultural politics in nation-building […]
August 29-September 1, 2016: AKI co-organized the Sino-German Symposium on Social Computing with the Institute of Computer Science, Göttingen University.