In 2014, the following researchers are invited for guest lectures:

• Prof. Dr. Nadia al-Bagdadi (Central European University, Budapest): Körpersprachen: Zu Wahrnehmung und Wandel von Körpervorstellungen im arabischen 19. Jahrhundert

• Prof. Dr. Jens Schlieter (University of Bern): Von der traditionellen buddhistischen Ethik zur buddhistischen Bioethik

• Amal Suleiman El-Obeidi (University of Benghazi): Changing Elites in Libya Post Qadhafi

• Dr. Dominik Wujastyk (University of Vienna): On the Buddhist Background of Patañjali’s Yoga Teaching

• Prof. Dr. Angelika Neuwirth (Freie Universität Berlin): Koranforschung – eine politische Philologie?

• Prof. Dr. Michel Hockx, Director SOAS China Institute (SOAS, University of London): Internet Poetry in Chinese: Transgressions and Innovations

• Prof. Dr. Kathryn Babayan (University of Michigan): The Body of the Friend in Early Modern Isfahan

• Prof. Masako Hiraga (Rikkyo University): Two Haiku or One? A Close semiotic Analysis of Two Poems about Silence by Bashō

• Prof. Dr. David Mervart (University of Heidelberg, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid): The Many Lives of Father Gerbillon’s Sino-Russian Treaty: An Attempt at a “Global” Intellectual History

• Professor Sasaki Chikara (University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing): Decaying Higher Education in Modern Japan: The University of Tokyo under the Neoliberal Regime since 1991

• Prof. Dr. Kenneth Dean (McGill University): Ritual Revolutions and Parallel Universes: The Chinese Temple Network from Putian to Southeast Asia

• Prof. Dr. Dhruv Raina (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, Centre for Social Sciences): Decolonising the History of Science: The Role of International Academic Networks (1945–1960)