Activities „Entangled Histories“

• Performance: „Kutiyattam: Traditionelles Sanskrittheater aus Kerala“ (June 25, 2017)

• Guest Lecture in Institute Colloquium „Routes and Paths: Knowledge Transfer in Asian Art“: „Constructing the History of Japanese Art in the British Museum“ (May 31, 2017)

• Guest Lecture in Institute Colloquium „Routes and Paths: Knowledge Transfer in Asian Art“: „Stars from the East: Motivtransfer zwischen der Islamischen Welt und dem Westen“ (May 17, 2017)

• Guest Lecture in Institute Colloquium „Routes and Paths: Knowledge Transfer in Asian Art“: „Ukiyo-e als Weltspiegel: Übersetzungs- und Transformationsprozesse im populären Farbholzschnitt der Edo-Zeit“ (May 10, 2017)

• Conference: „A l’Orientale: Collecting, Displaying and Appropriating Islamic Art and Architecture in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries“ (May 4–6, 2017)

• Guest Lecture in Institute Colloquium „Routes and Paths: Knowledge Transfer in Asian Art“: „Bihzad in Japan: The Circulation of Persian Images Across Asia and Europe“ (May 3, 2017)

• Guest Lecture in Institute Colloquium „Routes and Paths: Knowledge Transfer in Asian Art“: „Rodin in Tokyo? Zur Rezeption europäischer Skulptur in Japan um 1900“ (April 26, 2017)

• Guest Lecture in Institute Colloquium „Routes and Paths: Knowledge Transfer in Asian Art“: „Showing (off) Chinese Neolithic Pottery in Museums in China“ (April 12, 2017)

• Guest Lecture in Institute Colloquium „Routes and Paths: Knowledge Transfer in Asian Art“: „Photography and Early Experimental Women Artists in Mainland China“ (April 5, 2017)

• Guest Lecture in Institute Colloquium „Routes and Paths: Knowledge Transfer in Asian Art“: „Perspectives Strong and Weak in the World of 19th Century Hawai’i“ (March 29, 2017)

• Conference: „Coming of Age in Sinophone Studies“ (March 23–26, 2017)

• Guest Lecture in Institute Colloquium „Routes and Paths: Knowledge Transfer in Asian Art“: „Frühmittelalterliche Seiden aus Zentralasien – die Überlieferung im Westen und im Osten“ (March 22, 2017)

• Guest Lecture in Institute Colloquium „Routes and Paths: Knowledge Transfer in Asian Art“: „To Zurich with Love: Direct and Indirect Import Routes for Asian Art: ca. 1860 to 1960“ (March 15, 2017)

• Guest Lecture in Institute Colloquium „Routes and Paths: Knowledge Transfer in Asian Art“: „Keynote Speech: The Disentanglement of the World: A History of the 20th Century“ (March 8, 2017)

• Guest Lecture in Institute Colloquium „Routes and Paths: Knowledge Transfer in Asian Art“: „Some Chinese Roots of Conceptual Art or Ai Weiwei in New York“ (March 1, 2017)

• Guest Lecture in Institute Colloquium „Routes and Paths: Knowledge Transfer in Asian Art“: „Routes and Paths: Knowledge Transfer in Asian Art“ (February 22, 2017)

• Guest Lecture „South Asia Forum“: „Writing Autobiography as an LGBTIQ Activist in India“ (November 24, 2016)

• Guest Lecture: „Agrarian Distress in Rural India: An Assessment of 25 Years of Economic Reform“ (November 22, 2016)

• Guest Lecture: „Between China and the World: Issues in Tibet’s History“ (November 17, 2016)

• Workshop: „Islamic Art: Reception Processes in Middle Ages and Modern Times“ (November 4, 2016)

• Guest Lecture „South Asia Forum“: „Herbert: Ein Kalkutta-Roman (Nabarun Bhattacharya)“ (October 27, 2016)

• Workshop: „Graduate Student Workshop“ (October 27–28, 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)

• Guest Lecture: „Japanische Keramik: Aufbruch im 20. Jahrhundert“ (May 18, 2016)

• Guest Lecture: „Nachhaltigkeit im Kontext verstehen: Fenhandel und Imperien zwischen Mittelmeer und Indischem Ozean (300 v.Chr. bis 300 n. Chr.)“ (April 21, 2016)

• Guest Lecture „South Asia Forum“: „Death, Merit and Nation: Eye Donation Practices among Theravada Buddhists in Contemporary Sri Lanka“ (March 23, 2016)

• International Conference: „Katagami in the West“ (March 18–19, 2016)

• Guest Lecture: „The Historical Models for Violent Solutions in Maoist China and After“ (March 17, 2016)

• Guest Lecture „South Asia Forum“: „The State of the Individual: Probing the Moral World of India’s National Biometric Identification Project“ (March 2, 2016)

• Guest Lecture: „Islamic Art for a Christian Society: The Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages“ (October 29, 2015)

• Guest Lecture: „Schattentheater: Sachphilologie, Polemik und Ästhetik bei Georg Jacob“ (October 22, 2015)

• Guest Lecture: „Alterität und Irrationalismus: Die Araber in der europäischen Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung (1780–1850)“ (October 1, 2015)

• Topical Lecture Series: „“Asia and Europe”: Actors, Concepts, Narratives“ (September 14 – December 14, 2015)

• Performance: „Kutiyattam: Traditionelles Sanskrittheater aus Kerala“ (July 26, 2015)

• International Conference: „The Myth of the Orient: Architecture and Ornament in the Age of Orientalism“ (June 12, 2015)

• Panel Discussion: „Zivilgesellschaft in Taiwan und Hongkong: Interaktionen mit der Volksrepublik China“ (June 8, 2015)

• Conference: „Civil Society in Taiwan and Hong Kong: Looking back and Reaching out“ (June 7–8, 2015)

• Panel Discussion: „Umweltprobleme in Asien: Politische, ökonomische und kulturelle Perspektiven“ (May 16, 2015)

• Guest Lecture: „From Here to Eternity: A Sino-Jewish Encounter“ (May 15, 2015)

• International Workshop: „Humanistic Scholarship and the Anthropocene: Approaching China from a Sustainability Paradigm“ (May 15–17, 2015)

• Guest Lecture: „Von der traditionellen buddhistischen Ethik zur buddhistischen Bioethik“ (December 10, 2014)

• Exhibition: „Tokens of the Path – Japanese Devotional and Pilgrimage Images: The Wilfried Spinner Collection (1854–1918)“ (November 28 – May 17, 2015)

• Other Events: „Rakugo – Gefallene Worte“ (November 16, 2014)

• Conference: „Asia and Europe in Translation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives“ (November 6–8, 2014)

• Guest Lecture: „On the Buddhist Background of Patañjali’s Yoga Teaching“ (November 5, 2014)

• Guest Lecture: „Internet Poetry in Chinese: Transgressions and Innovations“ (October 22, 2014)

• Doctoral Workshop: „Intersubjectivity and Eco-theory“ (October 16–18, 2014)

• Forum: „The Hong Kong Umbrella Movement“ (October 14, 2014)

• Conference: „23rd European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS)“ (July 23–26, 2014)

• Guest Lecture: „Ritual Revolutions and Parallel Universes: The Chinese Temple Network from Putian to Southeast Asia“ (May 14, 2014)

• Guest Lecture: „Decolonising the History of Science: The Role of International Academic Networks (1945–1960)“ (April 15, 2014)

• Guest Lecture: „Foreign Contacts and Informal Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan“ (December 18, 2013)

• Guest Lecture: „Transcendence in a Secular World: Asian Traditions and Sustainable Modernity“ (December 12, 2013)

• Guest Lecture: „Indian Chinese Food in Abu Dhabi, or What Makes Chinese Food "Chinese"?“ (October 10, 2013)

• Workshop: „Sense of Place, Sense of Taste, Sense of Skill: Hawkers and Cookshops in Public Spaces of Asian Cities“ (October 10–12, 2013)

• Guest Lecture: „Die Grenzen von Skepsis und Vertrauen: Die Bewertung einer Heilkunde am Beispiel der Chinesischen Medizin“ (October 3, 2013)

• Workshop: „Social Movements and the Position of the Researcher: Methods and Approaches for Analysing Contemporary Contestation and Mobilisation“ (September 17–18, 2013)

• Conference: „The Gender of Authority: Celibate and Childless Men in Power“ (August 28–30, 2013)

• Summer School: „Interdisciplinarity and Methodological Challenges in Area Studies“ (June 10–14, 2013)

• Guest Lecture: „Confucianism and Democratization in East Asia: Reassessing the Confucian Asian Values Debate“ (May 23, 2013)

• Exhibition: „Constructing Qing Imperial Landscapes: Exhibition of the Qing Yangshi Lei Architecturial Archives“ (May 11 – June 10, 2013)

• International Symposium: „Entangled Landscapes: Re-thinking the Landscape Exchange between China and Europe in the 16th-18th Centuries“ (May 10–12, 2013)

• Conference: „Asienwissenschaften: Debatten und Perspektiven“ (April 17–20, 2013)

• Other Events: „Auf Weltreise: Indische Götter und ein chinesischer Philosoph“ (March 18, 2013)

• Workshop: „Cross-Cultural Comparison“ (March 8, 2013)

• Workshop: „Mercury in Medicine: Fluid Economies of Knowledge and Trade“ (February 21–22, 2013)

• Guest Lecture: „Is there an Indian Literature? Time and Self in Hindi Literature as a Tentative Answer“ (November 30, 2012)

• Guest Lecture: „Thailand’s Political Crisis (cont.)“ (November 22, 2012)

• Guest Lecture: „Reading With Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak: Post-Colonial Feminism and European Textualities“ (November 15, 2012)

• Workshop: „Protests, the Media and the Circulation of Norms: Arab Spring and Fukushima“ (October 26, 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)

• International Workshop: „Tertium datur: Das Dritte in der Geschichte, 1450-1850“ (June 21–23, 2012)

• Guest Lecture: „Expulsions: Inequality’s Next Frontier“ (May 21, 2012)

• Workshop: „Mao – Mao-Bibel – Mao-Fieber: Maoismen in China und Europa“ (May 11, 2012)

• Other Events: „Liaozhai: Gedichte, Essays, Erzählungen in Kantonesisch“ (April 29, 2012)

• Guest Lecture: „A Piece of Connected History: Interpretating the Life and Writings of Pandita Ramabai Sarasvati (1858-1922)“ (April 25, 2012)

• Workshop: „Asian Postmodernities and their Legacies: Asian Postmodernities and their Legacies“ (March 30–31, 2012)

• International Workshop: „Ghosts in Asian Cinemas“ (November 4–5, 2011)

• International Workshop: „Yangzhou – A Place in Literature: The Local in Chinese Culture From the Late Imperial Through the Modern Era“ (September 1–3, 2011)

• International Workshop: „Contact Zones in Asia and Europe“ (June 14–15, 2011)

• Guest Lecture: „Colonial Perceptions of the Hindu Widow's 'Struggle Against Nature' in 19th century India“ (May 24, 2011)

• Guest Lecture: „Drugs and Prayers: Indian Psychiatry in the Realm of Saints“ (May 12, 2011)

• Guest Lecture: „Rituelle Gesetze: Staat und Besessenheit im modernen Indien“ (May 11, 2011)

• Guest Lecture in the Series „Euro-Asian Knowledgescapes“: „Knowledge in Motion in the Early Modern World“ (May 10, 2011)

• Panel Discussion: „Democracy and New Media“ (April 19, 2011)

• Guest Lecture in the Series „Euro-Asian Knowledgescapes“: „Techniken für Geister: Ethnotopographien des Wissens im Hochland Südostasiens“ (April 5, 2011)

• Guest Lecture in the Series „Euro-Asian Knowledgescapes“: „Prolegomenon to the Metahistory of Technology in South Asia“ (March 22, 2011)

• Guest Lecture in the Series „Euro-Asian Knowledgescapes“: „Habitus und Habitat: Ming Literati, Urbanisierung, und räumliches Wissen“ (March 8, 2011)

• International Workshop: „Recalling Historical Legacies: Ethnography and Ethnology in China, 1950-1980“ (September 1–3, 2010)

• International Workshop: „Entangled By Multiple Tongues: The Role of Diaspora in the Transfer of Culture“ (June 3–4, 2010)

• Conference: „Asien wissenschaftlich reflektieren: Texte, Themen, Diskurse“ (May 2–5, 2010)

• Guest Lecture: „Why Civilizations Can’t Climb Hills: The Peoples of the Southeast Asian Massif“ (March 17, 2010)

• International Conference: „Transcultural Bodies – Transboundary Biographies: Border crossings in Asia and Europe“ (February 21–24, 2010)

• Guest Lecture: „Liquidity of Being: An Approach to Chinese Cinema“ (November 30, 2009)

• Other Events: „Eröffnungsveranstaltung des interdisziplinären Doktoratsprogramms“ (October 20, 2009)

• International Conference: „Varieties of Modernity? Possibilities and Limitations of a Research Perspective on Asia and Europe“ (September 8–10, 2009)

• International Conference: „Body at Work: Materials and Methods“ (June 26–27, 2009)

• Workshop: „Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and the Chinese State: Multiscalar Dimensions and Legal Pluralism“ (June 12–13, 2009)

• Guest Lecture in the Series „Mirrored Histories: Constructions of the Past between Asia and Europe“: „Provincializing Europe: A Genealogy of the Project“ (May 6, 2009)

• Guest Lecture in the Series „Mirrored Histories: Constructions of the Past between Asia and Europe“: „Niedergang und Aufstieg Asiens: Zur Geschichte einer west-östlichen Idee“ (March 24, 2009)

• Guest Lecture in the Series „Mirrored Histories: Constructions of the Past between Asia and Europe“: „The Subject of Asia“ (February 16, 2009)