Conferences and Workshops
- Workshop „Welfare Schemes, the State and Corruption in India: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches“ (June 19–20, 2017)
- Conference „A l’Orientale - Collecting, Displaying and Appropriating Islamic Art and Architecture in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries“ (May 4–6, 2017)
- Conference „Coming of Age in Sinophone Studies“ (March 23–26, 2017)
- Workshop „Vision and Visuality in Buddhism and Beyond“ (November 24–26, 2016)
- Workshop „Islamic Art: Reception Processes in Middle Ages and Modern Times“ (November 4, 2016)
- Workshop „Publication Workshop“ (October 27–28, 2016)
- Workshop „Graduate Student Workshop“ (October 27–28, 2016)
- Workshop „The Environment and Global History“ (October 26, 2016)
- International Conference „Human : Non-Human – Bodies, Things, and Matter across Asia and Europe“ (October 6–8, 2016)
- Graduate Seminar „Hong Kong Identity: Lost and Found in Transition“ (September 19–21, 2016)
- International Workshop „Many Different Shores: Hong Kong Connections Across the South-/East Asian Sinosphere“ (September 16–17, 2016)
- International Conference „The Power of Symbols: The Alhambra in a Global Context“ (September 15–17, 2016)
- International Workshop „Post-Colonial Feminisms: Perspectives from Egypt, India, and Japan“ (June 16, 2016)
- Conference „Deceased and Bereaved! Continuity and Innovation in Death Rituals“ (May 20–21, 2016)
- Workshop „Methodological and Ethical Challenges in Qualitative Research Projects“ (May 10–11, 2016)
- International Conference „Katagami in the West“ (March 18–19, 2016)
- Workshop „Feminism and Theory in the Arab World“ (March 17–19, 2016)
- Workshop „Transgression and Encounters with the Terrible in Buddhist and Śaiva Tantras“ (February 19–20, 2016)
- Conference „Putting the House of Wisdom in Order: The Fourth Islamic Century and the Impulse to Classify, Arrange and Inventory“ (February 19–20, 2016)
- Workshop „Publication Workshop“ (December 14–15, 2015)
- Workshop „The Means of Love in the Arab World: Pragmatics Beyond Norms and Trangressions“ (December 11–12, 2015)
- Conference „Activism in Contemporary Japan: New Ideas, Players and Arenas?“ (November 5–6, 2015)
- Workshop „Snapshots of Change: Assessing Social Transformations in Qualitative Research“ (October 23–24, 2015)
- Symposium „Buddhist Japonisme: Negotiating the Triangle of Religion, Art and Nation“ (September 18–19, 2015)
- Workshop „Concepts in Transition: Modes and Effects of Change“ (September 9–11, 2015)
- Conference „Mythos Orient: Architektur und Ornament im Zeitalter des Orientalismus“ (June 12, 2015)
- Workshop „Civil Society in Taiwan and Hong Kong: Looking back and Reaching out“ (June 7–8, 2015)
- International Workshop „Humanistic Scholarship and the Anthropocene: Approaching China from a Sustainability Paradigm“ (May 15–17, 2015)
- Doctoral Workshop „Civil Society in Japan“ (November 25, 2014)
- Conference „Asia and Europe in Translation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives“ (November 6–8, 2014)
- Workshop „Social Movements in Theory and Practice: Concepts and Experiences from Different Regional Contexts“ (October 24–25, 2014)
- Doctoral Workshop „Intersubjectivity and Eco-theory“ (October 16–18, 2014)
- Workshop „Concepts of Concept: Perspectives across Languages, Cultures and Disciplines“ (September 10–11, 2014)
- Workshop „Gendering Citizenship“ (September 10, 2014)
- Conference „The Gongsunlongzi and Other Neglected Texts“ (August 27–29, 2014)
- Conference „23rd European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS)“ (July 23–26, 2014)
- Symposium „Sterbehilfe und Suizidbeihilfe: Japan, Deutschland und die Schweiz in vergleichender Perspektive“ (November 28, 2013)
- Conference „Traveling Norms and the Politics of Contention“ (October 24–26, 2013)
- Workshop „Sense of Place, Sense of Taste, Sense of Skill: Hawkers and Cookshops in Public Spaces of Asian Cities“ (October 10–12, 2013)
- Workshops „Social movements and the position of the researcher: Methods and approaches for analysing contemporary contestation and mobilisation“ (September 17–18, 2013)
- Conference „Masters of Disguise? Conceptions and Misconceptions of ‘Rhetoric’ in Chinese Antiquity“ (September 4–6, 2013)
- Conference „The Gender of Authority: Celibate and Childless Men in Power“ (August 28–30, 2013)
- Workshop „The Chinese Communist Party and the Politicization of Tradition“ (June 6–8, 2013)
- International Symposium „Entangled Landscapes - Re-thinking the Landscape Exchange between China and Europe in the 16th-18th Centuries“ (May 10–12 2013)
- Workshop „Intersectionality Revisited“ (Mai 5, 2013)
- Graduate Student Wo „Political Protests, Social (Non-)Movements and the Role of Digital Media“ (April 24–25, 2013)
- 7. Schweizerische Nachwuchstagung der Asienwissenschaften „Asienwissenschaften: Debatten und Perspektiven“ (April 17–20, 2013)
- Workshop „Cross-Cultural Comparison“ (March 8, 2013)
- Workshop „Mercury in Medicine: Fluid Economies of Knowledge and Trade“ (February 21–22, 2013)
- International Symposium „Concepts of Religion between Asia and Europe“ (November 01–03, 2012)
- Workshop „Protests, the Media and the Circulation of Norms: Arab Spring and Fukushima“ (October 26th 2012)
- Workshop „Biography Afield in Asia and Europe“ (September 20–21, 2012)
- International Conference „Transcultural Perspectives on Late Medieval and Early Modern Slavery in the Mediterranean“ (September 12-15, 2012)
- Workshop „Sor-hoon Tan’s Confucian Democracy: Author Meets Critics“ (July 6, 2012)
- International Conference „Tertium datur: The Third in History, 1450-1850“ (June 21–23, 2012)
- Conference „Entdifferenzierungen? Religion und Medizin“ (May 11–12, 2012)
- Workshop and Public Panel Discussion „Mao – Mao-Bibel – Mao-Fieber: Maoismen in China und Europa“ (May 11, 2012)
- Graduate Student Workshop „Asian Postmodernities and their Legacies“ (March 30–31, 2012)
- PhD Seminar „Nomadic Feminist Theory in a Global Era“ (November 25, 2011)
- International Workshop „Ghosts in Asian Cinemas“ (4-5 November 2011)
- International Symposium „Laws of Heaven – Laws of Nature: The Legal Interpretation of Cosmic Phenomena in the Ancient World“ (5-6 September 2011)
- International Workshop „Yangzhou – A Place in Literature: The Local in Chinese Culture From the Late Imperial Through the Modern Era“ (1-3 September 2011)
- International Workshop „Roger Ames’s Confucian Role Ethics: A Vocabulary“ (19 July 2011)
- International Conference „Islamic Newthinking - In Honor of Nasr Abu Zayd“ (26-28 June 2011)
- Workshop „Indian Secularism“ (18 April 2011)
- Internationale Konferenz „Was ist Philosophie?“ (13-16 January 2011)
- Workshop „Ethnography and Ethnology in China 1950-1980“ (1-3 September 2010)
- Workshop „A Discussion of Tu Weiming's Thought“ (16 July 2010)
- International Conference „Verschleierter Orient - Entschleierter Okzident? Inszenierung in Politik, Recht, Kunst und Kultur seit dem 19. Jahrhundert“ (3-5 June 2010)
- International Workshop „Entangled By Multiple Tongues: The Role of Diaspora in the Transfer of Culture“ (3-4 June 2010)
- 6th Conference for young researchers of the Swiss Asian Society „Asien wissenschaftlich reflektieren. Texte, Themen, Diskurse“ (2-5 May 2010)
in cooperation with the Swiss Asian Society and the Swiss Society for the Middle East and Islamic Cultures
- Symposium: "Philosophische Lektüre älterer Texte zwischen Asien und Europa: Chancen und Probleme“, (17.-18. December 2009)
- International Conference „Transcultural Bodies - Transboundary Biographies. Border Crossings in Asia and Europe“ (21-24 February 2010)
- International Conference „Varieties of Modernity?“ (8-10 September 2009)
- Workshop „The Cultural and Political Implications of the Learning of Heart-and-Mind: A Discussion of Tu Weiming's Thought“ (16. June 2010).
- Workshop „Body at Work: Materials and Methods“ (26-28 June 2009)
in cooperation with the "Völkerkundemuseum" in Zurich
- Workshop „Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and the Chinese State“ (13 June 2009)