Events
„Masters of Disguise? Conceptions and Misconceptions of ‘Rhetoric’ in Chinese Antiquity“ (September 4–6, 2013)
Conference
Organization:
URPP Asia and Europe and the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – East Asian Studies.
„The Gender of Authority: Celibate and Childless Men in Power“ (August 28–30, 2013)
Conference
Organization:
History Department and the URPP Asia and Europe.
„Interdisciplinarity and Methodological Challenges in Area Studies“ (June 10–14, 2013)
Summer School in Basel
Organization:
Centre for African Studies in cooperation with the URPP Asia and Europe.
„The Chinese Communist Party and the Politicization of Traditions“ (June 6–8, 2013)
Workshop
Organisation:
URPP Asia and Europe and the Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – East Asian Studies.
„The Japanese Army’s Geopolitical Strategy toward Pan-Islam and Ottoman-Turkey: The Diary of General Utsunomiya Taro (1860–1922)“ (Mai 30, 2013)
Guest lecture
Organisation:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies / Japanology in cooperation with the URPP Asia and Europe.
„Confucianism and Democratization in East Asia: Reassessing the Confucian Asian Values Debate“ (May 23, 2013)
Guest lecture
Organization:
URPP Asia and Europe and Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – East Asian Studies.
„Institutional Change and Welfare Politics in Japan: Did Anything Change?“ (May 16, 2013)
Guest lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – East Asian Studies in cooperation with the URPP Asia and Europe.
„Constructing Qing Imperial Landscapes: Exhibition of the Qing Yangshi Lei Architecturial Archives“ (May 10–June 10, 2013)
Exhibition
Organization:
ETH Zürich, Department of History of the Modern World, and URPP Asia and Europe.
„Entangled Landscapes: Re-thinking the Landscape Exchange between China and Europe in the 16th-18th Centuries“ (May 10–12 2013)
International Symposium
Organization:
URPP Asia and Europe in collaboration with the Institute of Art History (East Asian Section) and East Asian Studies at the University of Zurich.
„Intersectionality Revisited“ (May 5, 2013)
Workshop
Organization:
URPP Asia and Europe, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Gender Studies and Ethnographic Museum.
„The Fukushima Nuclear Accident and Japanese Energy Politics“ (April 29, 2013)
Guest lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – East Asian Studies and URPP Asia and Europe.
„Political Protests, Social (Non-)Movements and the Role of Digital Media“ (April 24–25, 2013)
Graduate Student Workshop
Organization:
URPP Asia and Europe.
„Numbers in China: Global Concepts and Local Narratives“ (April 23, 2013)
Guest lecture
Organization:
URPP Asia and Europe and Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – East Asian Studies.
„Asienwissenschaften: Debatten und Perspektiven“ (April 17–20, 2013)
7. Schweizerische Nachwuchstagung der Asienwissenschaften
Organization:
Schweizerische Asiengesellschaft, Schweizerische Gesellschaft Mittlerer Osten und islamische Kulturen, URPP Asia and Europe.
„Auf Weltreise: Indische Götter und ein chinesischer Philosoph“ (March 18, 2013)
Talk im Turm
Organization:
“magazin. Die Zeitschrift der Universität Zürich”.
„Cross-Cultural Comparison“ (March 8, 2013)
Workshop
Organization:
Centre for African Studies, University of Basel, and URPP Asia and Europe.
„Psychosoziale Konsequenzen des 11. März 2011: Eine empirische Untersuchung“ (March 7, 2013)
Guest lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – East Asian Studies and URPP Asia and Europe.
„Mercury in Medicine: Fluid Economies of Knowledge and Trade“ (February 21–22, 2013)
Workshop
Organization:
URPP Asia and Europe.
„Zum Verhältnis von Offenbarung und Wissenschaft in al-Ghazālī’s Schrift Ǧawāhir al-Qur'ān“ (December 13, 2012)
Guest lecture
Organization:
Seminar for Islamic Studies, University of Zurich, in cooperation with the URPP Asia and Europe.
„Iki: Ausdifferenzierung der Interaktionssemantik in Japan“ (December 13, 2012)
Guest lecture
Organization:
Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Zurich, in cooperation with the URPP Asia and Europe.
„Is there an Indian Literature? Time and Self in Hindi Literature as a Tentative Answer“ (November 30, 2012)
Guest lecture
Organization:
University of Zurich, Department of Indology in cooperation with the URPP Asia and Europe.
„Thailand’s Political Crisis (cont.)“ (November 22, 2012)
Public Guest Lecture
Organization:
URPP Asia and Europe.
„Reading With Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Post-Colonial Feminism and European Textualities“ (November 15, 2012)
Guest lecture
Organization:
Department of Indology, University of Zurich, in cooperation with the URPP Asia and Europe.
„Definitely In My Back Yard: Kaminoseki and the making/breaking of modern Japan“ (November 15, 2012)
Guest lecture
Organization:
Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Zurich, in cooperation with the URPP Asia and Europe.
„Concepts of Religion Between Asia and Europe“ (November 1–3, 2012)
Conference
Organization:
URPP Asia and Europe and the Seminar for Religious Studies at the University of Zurich in cooperation with the Swiss Society for the Study of Religions.
„Protests, the Media and the Circulation of Norms: Arab Spring and Fukushima“ (October 26, 2012)
Workshop
Organization:
URPP Asia and Europe.
„Die ‚Grundregel der Auslegung‘ - Zu al-Ghazālī’s Stellung in der Geschichte des sunnitischen Islams“ (October 18, 2012)
Guest lecture
Organization:
Seminar for Islamic Studies, University of Zurich, in cooperation with the URPP Asia and Europe.
„Biography Afield in Asia and Europe“ (September 20–21, 2012)
Workshop
Organization:
URPP Asia and Europe and History Department, University of Zurich.
„‚… einzig in einem unserer Bücher, das jenen vorenthalten werden soll, für die es nicht bestimmt ist‘ - Al-Ghazālī und das Problem der Pseudo-Epigraphica“ (September 19, 2012)
Guest lecture
Organization:
Seminar for Islamic Studies, University of Zurich, in cooperation with the URPP Asia and Europe.
„Transcultural Perspectives on Late Medieval and Early Modern Slavery in the Mediterranean“ (September 12–15, 2012)
International Conference
Organization:
History Department, University of Zurich, in cooperation with the Free Universtiy of Berlin, the URPP Asia and Europe and the Swiss Asia Society.
„Sor-hoon Tan’s Confucian Democracy: Author Meets Critics“ (July 6, 2012)
Workshop
Organization:
School of Philosophy, Renmin University of China, and URPP Asia and Europe.
„Canonical Processes and the Development of Noncanonical Traditions“ (June 25–27, 2012)
Summer School Biblical Criticism in Einsiedeln
Organization:
Organized by the Faculty of Theology at the University of Zurich (Prof. Dr. Jörg Frey, Prof. Dr. Konrad Schmid), in cooperation with the joint degree Master’s program Antikes Judentum, University of Zurich and University of Bern, the Conférence Universitaire de Suisse Occidentale, and the URPP Asia and Europe.
„Tertium datur: The Third in History, 1450-1850“ (June 21–23, 2012)
International Conference
Organization:
History Department, University of Zurich, in cooperation with the URPP Asia and Europe.
„Expulsions: Inequality’s Next Frontier“ (May 21, 2012)
Guest lecture, organized by the URPP Asia and Europe
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Saskia Sassen, Columbia University, New York
„Entdifferenzierungen? Religion und Medizin“ (May 11–12, 2012)
Conference, organized by the Seminar of Religious Studies in cooperation with the URPP Asia and Europe.
„Mao – Mao-Bibel – Mao-Fieber: Maoismen in China und Europa“ (May 11, 2012)
Workshop and Public Panel Discussion, organized by the Ethnographic Museum of the University of Zurich in cooperation with the URPP Asia and Europe.
„Liaozhai – Gedichte, Essays, Erzählungen in Kantonesisch“ (April 29, 2012)
Reading with the poet Prof. Leung Ping-kwan (Hong Kong), organized by the Rietberg-Gesellschaft and the URPP Asia and Europe
„Koranexegese als politische Theologie: Türkische Vordenker im Ringen um eine islamische Gesellschaft“ (April 25, 2012)
Guest lecture, organized by the Oriental Institute, in cooperation with the URPP Asia and Europe
Lecturer:
Dr. phil. Dr. theol. habil. Felix Körner SJ, Pontificia Università Gregoriana, Rome
„A Piece of Connected History: Interpretating the Life and Writings of Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati (1858-1922)“ (April 25, 2012)
Guest lecture, organized by the Department of Indology
Lecturer:
Prof. Dr. Maya Burger, University of Lausanne Gregoriana, Rome
„Rechtsverschriftung und Kanonbildung in der alten Welt“ (April 18, 2012)
Guest lecture, organized by the Faculty of Theology, in cooperation with the URPP Asia and Europe
Lecturer:
Prof. em. Dr. Jan Assmann, Konstanz University
„Asian Postmodernities and their Legacies“ (March 30–31, 2012)
Graduate Student Workshop, organized by the URPP Asia and the Institute of East Asian Studies, Chinese Studies
„Von der Schonung zur Nächstenliebe: Begriffsgeschichtliche Variationen der Zuneigung“ (March 22, 2012)
Guest lecture, organized by the Institute of East Asian Studies, in cooperation with the URPP Asia and Europe
Lecturer:
Dr. Christian Schwermann, University of Bonn
„Circulating Norms: Human Rights and Gender in a Globalized World“ (March 20, May 15, May 29, 2012)
Spring 2012 Lecture Series of the URPP Research Field 3 (Norms and Social Order(s))
„Ein Jahr nach Fukushima – Die Debatte zu Atomenergie in Asien und Europa“ (March 13, 2012)
Public panel discussion of the URPP Asia and Europe
Organization:
Dr. Inge Ammering, UFSP Asien und Europa