Events
Kutiyattam: Traditionelles Sanskrittheater aus Kerala (June 26, 2017)
„Welfare Schemes, the State and Corruption in India: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches“ (June 19–20, 2017)
Workshop
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Indian Studies, Department of Political Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„A Day between Asia and Europe“ (May 21, 2017)
Farewell Party of the URPP Asia and Europe
Organization:
URPP Asia and Europe and Ethnographic Museum
„The Hajj and European Imperial Powers: Between Pan-Islam, the Cholera, Shipping Trade“ (May 15, 2017)
Guest Lecture in the Series „The Middle East in Global History – Global History in the Middle East“
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Islamic Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Kulturelle Konvergenz und Kulturvergleich im europäisch-nahöstlichen Raum: Romantisches Erzählen in Bagdad um 1850“ (May 11, 2017)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Islamic Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„A l’Orientale - Collecting, Displaying and Appropriating Islamic Art and Architecture in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries“ (May 4–6, 2017)
Conference
Organization:
Institute of Art History, URPP Asia and Europe, Museum Rietberg, and Moser Familienmuseum Charlottenfels der Heinrich und Henri Moser Stiftung in Neuhausen bei Schaffhausen
„Pomp und Souveränität: Die Europareisen iranischer Schahs im Zeitalter des Hochimperialismus“ (March 27, 2017)
Guest Lecture in the Series „The Middle East in Global History – Global History in the Middle East“
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Gender Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Coming of Age in Sinophone Studies“ (March 23–26, 2017)
Conference
Cooperation:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Chinese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Hidden Texts: The Commentary Tradition of the South Indian Sanskrit Theatre Kūṭiyāṭṭam“ (March 21, 2017)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Indian Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Prostitution and Migration in the Interwar Mediterranean“ (March 13, 2017)
Guest Lecture in the Series „The Middle East in Global History – Global History in the Middle East“
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Islamic Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Routes and Paths: Knowledge Transfer in Asian Art“ (February 22–May 31, 2017)
Institute Colloquium, Spring Semester 2017
Cooperation:
Institute of Art History, Section for East Asian Art, URPP Asia and Europe, and Swiss-Japanese Society
„Vision and Visuality in Buddhism and Beyond“ (November 24–26, 2016)
Workshop
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Chinese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Writing Autobiography as an LGBTIQ Activist in India“ (November 24, 2016)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and URPP Asia and Europe
„Brief Overview of the Japanese Whaling History: With Some Notes on the Current Status of Japanese Whaling and Relevant Scientific Activities to Stock Managements“ (November 23, 2016)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Japanese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Agrarian Distress in Rural India: An Assessment of 25 Years of Economic Reform“ (November 22, 2016)
„Between China and the World: Issues in Tibet’s History“ (November 17, 2016)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Student Group for Tibet (STAFT), URPP Asia and Europe, and Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology
„Islamic Art: Reception Processes in Middle Ages and Modern Times“ (November 4, 2016)
Workshop
Organization:
Institute of Art History, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Islamic Studies, and URPP Asia and Europe
„Of Prophets and Scribes: Concepts and Taxonomies of Interpreting Texts in Early China and the Near East“ (November 3, 2016)
„Publication Workshop“ (October 27–28, 2016)
Workshop
Organization:
Graduate School of East Asian Studies (GEAS), Freie Universität Berlin and URPP Asia and Europe
„Graduate Student Workshop“ (October 27–28, 2016)
Workshop
Organization:
Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in a Global Context: The Dynamics of Transculturality", Heidelberg University and URPP Asia and Europe
„Herbert: Ein Kalkutta-Roman (Nabarun Bhattacharya)“ (October 27, 2016)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology and URPP Asia and Europe
„The Environment and Global History“ (October 26, 2016)
„Human : Non-Human: Bodies, Things, and Matter across Asia and Europe“ (October 6–8, 2016)
„Hong Kong Identity: Lost and Found in Transition“ (September 19–21, 2016)
Graduate Seminar
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Chinese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Many Different Shores: Hong Kong Connections Across the South-/East Asian Sinosphere“ (September 16–17, 2016)
International Workshop
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Chinese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
The Power of Symbols: The Alhambra in a Global Context (September 15–17, 2016)
„Post-Colonial Feminisms: Perspectives from Egypt, India, and Japan“ (June 16, 2016)
International Workshop
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, URPP Asia and Europe, and Swiss Society for Gender Studies (SGGF/SSEG)
„Western Understanding of the Yantra and the Mandala: The Work of Heinrich Zimmer and its Influence on C. G. Jung“ (June 1, 2016)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Indian Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Japan, Islam, and the Turkic World“ (May 26, 2016)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Islamic Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Deceased and Bereaved! Continuity and Innovation in Death Rituals“ (May 20–21, 2016)
Conference
„Japanische Keramik: Aufbruch im 20. Jahrhundert“ (May 18, 2016)
Guest Lecture and Book Presentation
Organization:
URPP Asia and Europe and Department of Art History, Section for East Asian Art History
„Ghora: Waiting for the Goddess“ (May 18, 2016)
Movie Screening
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Indian Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Methodological and Ethical Challenges in Qualitative Research Projects“ (May 10–11, 2016)
Workshop
„Nachhaltigkeit im Kontext verstehen: Fenhandel und Imperien zwischen Mittelmeer und Indischem Ozean (300 v.Chr. bis 300 n. Chr.)“ (April 21, 2016)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Center for Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability and URPP Asia and Europe
„Von guten und von schlechten Träumen: Zum Traummotiv in der buddhistischen Literatur des japanischen Mittelalters“ (April 21, 2016)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Japanese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Death, Merit and Nation: Eye Donation Practices among Theravada Buddhists in Contemporary Sri Lanka“ (March 23, 2016)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology, URPP Asia and Europe, and Department of Geography
„Katagami in the West“ (March 18–19, 2016)
International Conference
Organization:
Department of Art History, Section for East Asian Art History, and URPP Asia and Europe
„Women’s and Gender Studies in Arab and Swiss Universities“ (March 18, 2016)
Panel Discussion
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Islamic Studies and Gender Studies, URPP Asia and Europe, and Swiss Society for Gender Studies (SGGF/SSEG)
„Feminism and Theory in the Arab World“ (March 18–19, 2016)
Workshop
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Islamic Studies and Gender Studies, URPP Asia and Europe, and Swiss Society for Gender Studies (SGGF/SSEG)
„The Historical Models for Violent Solutions in Maoist China and After“ (March 17, 2016)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Chinese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Tell the Prime Minister“ (March 9, 2016)
Movie Screening
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Japanese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„The State of the Individual: Probing the Moral World of India’s National Biometric Identification Project“ (March 2, 2016)
Guest Lecture
„Transgression and Encounters with the Terrible in Buddhist and Śaiva Tantras“ (February 19–20, 2016)
Workshop
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Indian Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Putting the House of Wisdom in Order: The Fourth Islamic Century and the Impulse to Classify, Arrange and Inventory“ (February 19–20, 2016)
Conference
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Islamic Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Publication Workshop“ (December 14–15, 2015)
Workshop
Organization:
URPP Asia and Europe and Graduate School of East Asian Studies (GEAS), Freie Universität Berlin
„The Means of Love in the Arab World: Pragmatics Beyond Norms and Trangressions“ (December 11–12, 2015)
Workshop
Organization:
Centre Jacques-Berque, The Nordic Africa Institute, URPP Asia and Europe, and Zentrum Moderner Orient (ZMO)
„Der lange Schatten Nöldekes: Bemerkungen zur Gründerzeit der modernen westlichen Koranforschung im 19. Jahrhundert“ (December 3, 2015)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Islamic Studies, Institute of Religious Studies, and URPP Asia and Europe
„Activism in Contemporary Japan: New Ideas, Players and Arenas?“ (November 5–6, 2015)
Conference
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Japanese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Islamic Art for a Christian Society: The Iberian Peninsula in the Middle Ages“ (October 29, 2015)
Guest Lecture
„Continuity and Change in the Japanese Political System after Fukushima“ (October 28, 2015)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Japanese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Greeks and Jews on the Origin of Law“ (October 22, 2015)
Guest Lecture
„Schattentheater: Sachphilologie, Polemik und Ästhetik bei Georg Jacob“ (October 22, 2015)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Islamic Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Snapshots of Change: Assessing Social Transformations in Qualitative Research“ (October 23–24, 2015)
Workshop
„Alterität und Irrationalismus: Die Araber in der europäischen Philosophiegeschichtsschreibung (1780–1850)“ (October 1, 2015)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Islamic Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„The Court and the Nation: Patterns of Conceptual Change between Beijing and Mexico in the Early Twentieth Century“ (September 23, 2015)
Guest Lecture
„Buddhist Japonisme: Negotiating the Triangle of Religion, Art and Nation“ (September 18–19, 2015)
Symposium
Organization:
Musée d’ethnographie de Genève, University of Zurich, and Hosei University Tokyo
„‚Asia and Europe‘: Actors, Concepts, Narratives“ (September, 14 – December 14,2015)
Topical Lecture Series
„Concepts in Transition: Modes and Effects of Change“ (September 9–11, 2015)
Workshop
Organization:
URPP Asia and Europe and Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Chinese Studies
„Kutiyattam: Traditionelles Sanskrittheater aus Kerala“ (July 26, 2015)
Performance
„Mythos Orient: Architektur und Ornament im Zeitalter des Orientalismus“ (June 12, 2015)
Conference
Organization:
Institute of Art History, URPP Asia and Europe, and Foundation Oberhofen Castle
„Zivilgesellschaft in Taiwan und Hongkong: Interaktionen mit der Volksrepublik China“ (June 8, 2015)
Panel Discussion
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Chinese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Civil Society in Taiwan and Hong Kong: Looking back and Reaching out“ (June 7–8, 2015)
Workshop
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Chinese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„What Makes Middle Aged Women Become Politicized: The Case of Family Members of Political Dissidents between the 1970s and 2000s of South Korea“ (May 21, 2015)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Japanese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„The Law of Nature, the “Intelligible World” and the “Mystery that is to Come” in Ancient Judaism“ (May 18, 2015)
Guest Lecture
„Umweltprobleme in Asien: Politische, ökonomische und kulturelle Perspektiven“ (May 16, 2015)
Panel Discussion
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Chinese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„From Here to Eternity: A Sino-Jewish Encounter“ (May 15, 2015)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Chinese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
- International Workshop „Humanistic Scholarship and the Anthropocene: Approaching China from a Sustainability Paradigm“ (May 15–17, 2015)
„Assessing the Social Rights Jurisprudence of India: Perspectives from Constitutional Theory and Comparative Law“ (May 7, 2015)
Guest Lecture (Lecture Series „Constitutional Reform and Social Change in Asia and the Middle East“)
„Zwischen anspruchsvollen Erwartungen vom Staat und Repräsentationsdefizite: Warum akzeptieren viele Japaner den LDP-Entwurf der anti-freiheitlichen Verfassungsrevision?“ (April 28, 2015)
Guest Lecture (Lecture Series „Constitutional Reform and Social Change in Asia and the Middle East“)
„2011 and the Middle East Challenge to World Constitutionalism“ (March 17, 2015)
Guest Lecture (Lecture Series „Constitutional Reform and Social Change in Asia and the Middle East“)
„Körpersprachen: Zu Wahrnehmung und Wandel von Körpervorstellungen im arabischen 19. Jahrhundert“ (December 10, 2014)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Islamic Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Von der traditionellen buddhistischen Ethik zur buddhistischen Bioethik“ (December 10, 2014)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Indian Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„WegZeichen – Japanische Kult- und Pilgerbilder: Die Sammlung Wilfried Spinner (1854–1918)“ (November 28 – May 17, 2015)
Exhibition
„Neighborhood Associations and Local Governance in Japan“ (November 27, 2014)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Japanese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Civil Society in Japan“ (November 25, 2014)
Doctoral Workshop
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Japanese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Changing Elites in Libya Post Qadhafi“ (November 20, 2014)
Guest Lecture
„Rakugo – Gefallene Worte“ (November 16, 2014)
Rakugo Show
„Asia and Europe in Translation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives“ (November 6–8, 2014)
Conference
„The Abenigma?: Japan’s Foreign Policy under Prime Minister Abe“ (November 6, 2014)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Japanese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„On the Buddhist Background of Patañjali’s Yoga Teaching“ (November 5, 2014)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Indian Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Power and Civil Society in Japan: The Continuing Exercise of Vertical Control within a Socio-Cultural Field“ (October 30, 2014)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Japanese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Koranforschung – eine politische Philologie?“ (October 27, 2014)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Department for the Study of Religions, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Islamic Studies, and URPP Asia and Europe
„Social Movements in Theory and Practice: Concepts and Experiences from Different Regional Contexts“ (October 24–25, 2014)
Workshop
„Changing Japan’s Civil Society and Advocacy after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident“ (October 23, 2014)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Japanese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Internet Poetry in Chinese: Transgressions and Innovations“ (October 22, 2014)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Chinese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Intersubjectivity and Eco-theory“ (October 16–18, 2014)
Doctoral Workshop
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Chinese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„The Body of the Friend in Early Modern Isfahan“ (October 15, 2014)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Islamic Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Two Haiku or One?: A Close Semiotic Analysis of Two Poems about Silence by Bashō“ (October 15, 2014)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Japanese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„The Hong Kong Umbrella Movement“ (October 14, 2014)
Forum
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Chinese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„The Many Lives of Father Gerbillon’s Sino-Russian Treaty: An Attempt at a “Global” Intellectual History“ (September 26, 2014)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
URPP Asia and Europe and Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Japanese Studies
„Concepts of Concept: Perspectives across Languages, Cultures and Disciplines“ (September 10–11, 2014)
Workshop
„Gendering Citizenship“ (September 10, 2014)
Workshop
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Gender Studies, Swiss Society for Gender Studies (SGGF/SSEG), and URPP Asia and Europe
„The Gongsunlongzi and Other Neglected Texts: Aligning Philosophical And Philological Perspectives“ (August 27–29, 2014)
Conference
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Chinese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„23rd European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS)“ (July 23–26, 2014)
Conference
Final Roundtable (June 11, 2014)
Conclusion of the lecture series „Cultural Materiality: Concepts at stake in Comparative Manuscript Studies“
„Überall Text: Arabische Dokumente als Quelle zur arabisch-islamischen Textkultur“ (June 5, 2014)
Guest Lecture (lecture series „Cultural Materiality: Concepts at stake in Comparative Manuscript Studies“)
„Moulding the Past: Writing, Text and Memory in Early Chinese Manuscripts“ (May 21, 2014)
Guest Lecture (lecture series „Cultural Materiality: Concepts at stake in Comparative Manuscript Studies“)
„Decaying Higher Education in Modern Japan: The University of Tokyo under the Neoliberal Regime since 1991“ (May 21, 2014)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies - Japanese Studies and URPP Asia and Europe
„Ritual Revolutions and Parallel Universes: The Chinese Temple Network from Putian to Southeast Asia“ (May 14, 2014)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
URPP Asia and Europe, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Chinese Studies, and Ethnographic Museum
„Reading Scribal Culture in the Manuscripts of the Cairo Geniza“ (May 7, 2014)
Guest Lecture (lecture series „Cultural Materiality: Concepts at stake in Comparative Manuscript Studies“)
„Decolonising the History of Science: The Role of International Academic Networks (1945–1960)“ (April 15, 2014)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Indian Studies, URPP Asia and Europe, Center «History of Knowledge», and ETH – History of the Modern World
„Die Hebräische Bibel als schriftgelehrte Traditionsliteratur: Materiale Aspekte ihrer Entstehung“ (April 9, 2014)
Guest Lecture (lecture series „Cultural Materiality: Concepts at stake in Comparative Manuscript Studies“)
„The Text of the Hebrew Bible from the Dead Sea Scrolls to the Medieval Codex“ (March 26, 2014)
Guest Lecture (lecture series „Cultural Materiality: Concepts at stake in Comparative Manuscript Studies“)
„Foreign Contacts and Informal Diplomacy in Early Modern Japan“ (December 18, 2013)
Guest Lecture
„Die Bedeutung der Mohammed-Forschung für die islamische Theologie“ (December 12, 2013)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Islamic Studies, Department for the Study of Religions, and URPP Asia and Europe
„Transcendence in a Secular World: Asian Traditions and Sustainable Modernity“ (December 12, 2013)
Guest Lecture
„Authentizität in der Leben-Mohammed-Forschung?“ (November 28, 2013)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Islamic Studies, Department for the Study of Religions, and URPP Asia and Europe
„Sterbehilfe und Suizidbeihilfe: Japan, Deutschland und die Schweiz in vergleichender Perspektive“ (November 28, 2013)
Symposium
Organization:
Faculty of Law, Center for Medicine – Ethics – Law Helvetiae, Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies, and URPP Asia and Europe
„Mohammed und die frühe islamische Gemeinschaft aus historischer Sicht“ (November 7, 2013)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Islamic Studies, Department for the Study of Religions, and URPP Asia and Europe
„Traveling Norms and the Politics of Contention“ (October 24–26, 2013)
Conference
„Iran and the Green Revolution“ (October 24, 2013)
Movie Screening
„Zwischen der "Suche nach dem historischen Mohammed" (A. Jeffery, 1926 / F.E. Peters, 1991) und der Debatte über die Mohammed-Forschung“ (October 24, 2013)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Islamic Studies, Department for the Study of Religions, and URPP Asia and Europe
„Sense of Place, Sense of Taste, Sense of Skill: Hawkers and Cookshops in Public Spaces of Asian Cities“ (October 10–12, 2013)
Workshop
„Warum ist die Mohammed-Forschung ein Problem?“ (October 10, 2013)
Guest Lecture
Organization:
Institute of Asian and Oriental Studies – Islamic Studies, Department for the Study of Religions, and URPP Asia and Europe
„Indian Chinese Food in Abu Dhabi, or What Makes Chinese Food "Chinese"?“ (October 10, 2013)
Guest Lecture
„Die Grenzen von Skepsis und Vertrauen: Die Bewertung einer Heilkunde am Beispiel der Chinesischen Medizin“ (October 3, 2013)
Guest Lecture
„Social movements and the position of the researcher: Methods and approaches for analysing contemporary contestation and mobilisation“ (September 17–18, 2013)
Workshops in Basel
„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
„Interdisciplinarity and Methodological Challenges in Area Studies“ (June 10–14, 2013)
Summer School in Basel
„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
„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
„Cross-Cultural Comparison“ (March 8, 2013)
Workshop
„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
„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
„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
„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
„‚… 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
„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
„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
„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
„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
„Circulating Norms: Human Rights and Gender in a Globalized World“ (March 20, May 15, May 29, 2012)
„Ein Jahr nach Fukushima – Die Debatte zu Atomenergie in Asien und Europa“ (March 13, 2012)
Public panel discussion of the URPP Asia and Europe