Academic Confucius Institute Göttingen

Vortrag Prof. Dr. Li Xuetao: Buddhismus im heutigen China

今天的中国佛教 北京外国语大学 李雪涛 2016年4月22至23日,中共中央总书记习近平在全国宗教工作会议上指出:“做好宗教工作,必须坚持党的宗教工作基本方针,要全面贯彻党的宗教信仰自由政策,依法管理宗教事务,坚持独立自主自办原则,积极引导宗教与社会主义社会相适应。”中国各个宗教的主要代表参加了这次的会议,当然也包括中国佛教协会的会长学城法师了。 从印度传到中国的佛教正是因为能够适应中国文化的环境,它才能一直保留到今天。文化适应促使佛教演变,并使它能够对中国文化做出积极的贡献。 佛教传入中国已经有两千年的历史了,1949年之后它的发展如何?进入了新的世纪佛教在中国还是一个重要的宗教吗?在一个主流意识形态为无神论的社会里,佛教的命运如何?它在严重物质化、商品化的社会中,还能够起到净化人的心灵的作用吗?报告人希望对这些问题展开讨论。 Buddhismus im heutigen China Vom 22. bis zum 23. April 2016 fand die nationale Religionskonferenz in Beijing statt, an der Vertreter verschiedener Religionen in China teilnahmen. Auf dieser Konferenz hielt der chinesische Staatspräsident Xi Jinping eine wichtige Rede. Dabei sagte er, dass religiöse Angelegenheiten von „besonderer Bedeutung“ für die […]

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Prasenjit Duara (Duke University): Sustainability and Crisis of Transcendence: An Asian Perspective

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

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 hegemony. Many Chinese intellectuals have sought to find inspiration in their historical and transcendent universalisms such as ‘all-under-heaven’ (tianxia). The paper is an effort to […]

Roundtable Discussion: Regionalizing the Global, Globalizing the Regional: An interdisciplinary conversation

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

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 Prof. Dr. Prasenjit Duara, Duke University Prof. Dr. Peter van der Veer, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen Prof. […]

Lecture by Prof. Dr. Frederick Lau (University of Hawai at Manoa): Listening to Chinese Music

Musikwissenschaftliches Seminar Kurze-Geismar-Str. 1,Göttingen,Deutschland

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  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 […]

Lecture Prof. Hsiung Ping-Chen (The Chinese University of Hong Kong): Chinese Humanities in the Global Era

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

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 can be taken for granted. In the case of China, however, the long and complicated civilization evidenced before the modern era—since Neolithic times, with literary […]