The rise of Asia and China in particular has been accompanied by the need to project a new, more just vision of the world that is not simply a new […]
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: Roundtable discussion with […]
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 […]