Within the framework of their fellowship of the Joint Center Worldmaking and the project Conceptions of World Order and Their Social Carrier Groups, the visiting fellows present their research projects at the University of Göttingen.

Venue

Verfügungsgebäude (VG) 2.103

Platz der Göttinger Sieben 7
37073 Göttingen

Program May - July 2023

May 4, 6-8 PM

A Tale of Two Cities: Conflicting Narratives on Hong Kong

Dr. Wai-Yip Ho

 

May 11, 6-8 PM

Towards an Anticolonial Asian Cinema: the 1957 Asian Film Week and China’s Imagination of Asia

Dr. Hu Nan (Fudan University)

 

June 8, 6-8 PM

China in the Processes of Worldmaking: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives

Prof. Edward Wang (Rowan University; USA)

 

June 22, 6-8 PM

The Wandering Earth and China’s Construction of an Alternative Cosmopolitanism

Prof. He Weihua (Central China Normal University)

 

July 13, 6-8 PM

Transnational Knowledge Transfers (Joint Presentation)

Pacific Crossings: The China Foundation and a Negotiated Translation of American Sciences to China, 1913-1949

Sally Xing (Columbia University)

 

Custodians of Civilization: Overseas Students, Foreign Advisors, and the Rise of Modern Asian Statehood, 1882-1928

 Lucas Brang (University of Cologne)