Academic Confucius Institute Göttingen

OAS Lecture: Prof. Mayfair Yang (UC Santa Barbara): “Gendered Religiosity: Patriarchal Structures and Women’s Agency in China”

Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum KWZ, Raum 0.602 Heinrich-Düker-Weg 14, Göttingen, Deutschland

2. Gendered Religiosity: Patriarchal Structures and Women’s Agency in China This lecture will examine how social structures of power, such as patriarchal power, depend on the vicissitudes of human agency to implement their principles, opening them up to subtle shifts and reconfigurations in social practice (Anthony Giddens, Pierre Bourdieu). Traditional religiosities, whether Christian, Islamic, Buddhist, […]

OAS Lecture (co-hosted by AKI): Prof. Hsiung Ping-chen (Chinese University of Hong Kong): Discovering Childhood and Paediatrics in Chinese History: Further Considerations”

Theo 0.136 Platz der Göttinger Sieben 2, Göttingen, Deutschland

As a reflection on thirty plus years of research on childhood and paediatrics in Chinese history, this lecture intends to present further concerns after a systematic review, in three parts: First, a retrospective on the why's and how's of studying children and childhood in history, the conceptual definition that the Chinese case had to start […]