Sustainability and Crisis of Transcendence: An Asian Perspective
June 22, 2016: AKI hosted a lecture by Prof. Dr. Prasenjit Duara (Duke University) on “Sustainability and Crisis of Transcendence: An Asian Perspective”.
Academic Confucius Institute Göttingen
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Regionalizing the Global, Globalizing the Regional: An interdisciplinary conversation
AKI organized a panel discussion on “Regionalizing the Global, Globalizing the Regional: An interdisciplinary conversation” with Prof. Prasenjit Duara (Duke) and several members of the Göttingen campus.
Lecture by Prof. Dr. Frederick Lau (University of Hawai at Manoa): Listening to Chinese Music
Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar Kurze-Geismar-Str. 1, Göttingen, DeutschlandEthnomusicologist 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 music and culture and how music exemplifies larger social sentiments, practice, and ethos across time and space. The definition of Chinese music thus depends on […]
China in the Global Humanities
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 and Ancient Egypt” and a lecture by Prof Hsiung Ping-Chen (both Chinese University of Hong Kong) on “Chinese Humanities in the Global Era”.
Lecture Prof. Mu-Chou Poo (Department of History, The Chinese University of Hong Kong): Common Elements of an Axial Age? Comparative Perspectives on Ancient China and Ancient Egypt
Kulturwissenschaftliches Zentrum, Raum 0.608 Heinrich-Düker-Weg, GöttingenIn 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 on the idea of the Axial Age as proposed by Jaspers and expounded by subsequent generations of scholars. A comparison with the case of ancient […]