Activities „Concepts and Taxonomies“

• Guest Lecture: „Hidden Texts: The Commentary Tradition of the South Indian Sanskrit Theatre Kūṭiyāṭṭam“ (March 21, 2017)

• Workshop: „——山是山—— … a Mountain is a Mountain is …: Vision and Visuality in Buddhism and Beyond“ (November 24–26, 2016)

• International Conference: „Human : Non-Human: Bodies, Things, and Matter across Asia and Europe“ (October 6–8, 2016)

• Guest Lecture: „Western Understanding of the Yantra and the Mandala: The Work of Heinrich Zimmer and its Influence on C. G. Jung“ (June 1, 2016)

• Movie Screening: „Ghora: Waiting for the Goddess“ (May 18, 2016)

• Guest Lecture: „Von guten und von schlechten Träumen: Zum Traummotiv in der buddhistischen Literatur des japanischen Mittelalters“ (April 21, 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)

• Conference: „Transgression and Encounters with the Terrible in Buddhist and Śaiva Tantras: 1st Zurich International Conference on Indian Literature and Philosophy (ZICILP)“ (February 19–20, 2016)

• Guest Lecture: „Der lange Schatten Nöldekes: Bemerkungen zur Gründerzeit der modernen westlichen Koranforschung im 19. Jahrhundert“ (December 3, 2015)

• Guest Lecture: „Greeks and Jews on the Origin of Law“ (October 22, 2015)

• Symposium: „Buddhist Japonisme: Negotiating the Triangle of Religion, Art and Nation“ (September 18–19, 2015)

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

• Workshop: „Concepts in Transition: Modes and Effects of Change“ (September 9–11, 2015)

• Guest Lecture: „The Law of Nature, the “Intelligible World” and the “Mystery that is to Come” in Ancient Judaism“ (May 18, 2015)

• Guest Lecture: „Koranforschung – eine politische Philologie?“ (October 27, 2014)

• Guest Lecture: „Two Haiku or One? A Close Semiotic Analysis of Two Poems about Silence by Bashō“ (October 15, 2014)

• Guest Lecture: „The Many Lives of Father Gerbillon’s Sino-Russian Treaty: An Attempt at a “Global” Intellectual History“ (September 26, 2014)

• Workshop: „Concepts of Concept: Perspectives across Languages, Cultures and Disciplines“ (September 10–11, 2014)

• Conference: „The Gongsunlongzi and Other Neglected Texts: Aligning Philosophical And Philological Perspectives“ (August 27–29, 2014)

• Guest Lecture in the Series „Cultural Materiality: Concepts at stake in Comparative Manuscript Studies“: „Final Roundtable“ (June 11, 2014)

• Guest Lecture in the 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 in the 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 in the Series „Cultural Materiality: Concepts at stake in Comparative Manuscript Studies“: „On the Media and Malleability of Early Chinese Writings“ (May 15, 2014)

• Guest Lecture in the Series „Cultural Materiality: Concepts at stake in Comparative Manuscript Studies“: „Reading Scribal Culture in the Manuscripts of the Cairo Geniza“ (May 7, 2014)

• Guest Lecture in the Series „Cultural Materiality: Concepts at stake in Comparative Manuscript Studies“: „Die Hebräische Bibel als schriftgelehrte Traditionsliteratur: Materiale Aspekte ihrer Entstehung“ (April 9, 2014)

• Guest Lecture in the 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 in the Series „Positionen aktueller Mohammed-Forschung“: „Die Bedeutung der Mohammed-Forschung für die islamische Theologie“ (December 12, 2013)

• Guest Lecture in the Series „Positionen aktueller Mohammed-Forschung“: „Authentizität in der Leben-Mohammed-Forschung?“ (November 28, 2013)

• Guest Lecture in the Series „Positionen aktueller Mohammed-Forschung“: „Mohammed und die frühe islamische Gemeinschaft aus historischer Sicht“ (November 7, 2013)

• Guest Lecture in the Series „Positionen aktueller Mohammed-Forschung“: „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 in the Series „Positionen aktueller Mohammed-Forschung“: „Warum ist die Mohammed-Forschung ein Problem?“ (October 10, 2013)

• Workshop: „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)

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

• Workshop: „The Chinese Communist Party and the Politicization of Traditions“ (June 6–8, 2013)

• Guest Lecture: „Numbers in China: Global Concepts and Local Narratives“ (April 23, 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)

• Guest Lecture: „Zum Verhältnis von Offenbarung und Wissenschaft in al-Ghazālī’s Schrift Ǧawāhir al-Qur'ān“ (December 13, 2012)

• Conference: „Religionsbegriffe zwischen Asien und Europa“ (November 1–3, 2012)

• Guest Lecture in the Series: „Die “Grundregel der Auslegung”: Zu al-Ghazālī’s Stellung in der Geschichte des sunnitischen Islams“ (October 18, 2012)

• Guest Lecture: „Al-Ghazālī und das Problem der Pseudo-Epigraphica“ (September 19, 2012)

• Workshop: „Sor-hoon Tan’s Confucian Democracy: Author Meets Critics“ (July 6, 2012)

• Summer School: „Canonical Processes and the Development of Noncanonical Traditions“ (June 25–27, 2012)

• Guest Lecture: „Koranexegese als politische Theologie: Türkische Vordenker im Ringen um eine islamische Gesellschaft“ (April 25, 2012)

• Guest Lecture: „Rechtsverschriftung und Kanonbildung in der alten Welt“ (April 18, 2012)

• Guest Lecture: „Von der Schonung zur Nächstenliebe: Begriffsgeschichtliche Variationen der Zuneigung“ (March 22, 2012)

• Guest Lecture in the Series „Religionsbegriffe in der Moderne“: „Imagining Religions in India: Colonialism and the Mapping of South Asian History and Culture“ (December 12, 2011)

• Guest Lecture in the Series „Religionsbegriffe in der Moderne“: „The Conceptual Formation of the Category «Religion» in Modern Japan: Religion, State, Shinto“ (December 6, 2011)

• Guest Lecture in the Series „Religionsbegriffe in der Moderne“: „Bedeutung und Funktion der Religion in der Moderne“ (November 29, 2011)

• Guest Lecture in the Series „Religionsbegriffe in der Moderne“: „Milal and Madhahib - Islamische Traditionen des Schreibens über andere Religionen und ihr Verschwinden in der Moderne“ (November 15, 2011)

• Guest Lecture in the Series „Religionsbegriffe in der Moderne“: „The Notions of «Religion» and «Superstition» in Modern China: Unforeseen Consequences for Social Life at the Grassroots“ (October 18, 2011)

• International Symposium: „Laws of Heaven – Laws of Nature: The Legal Interpretation of Cosmic Phenomena in the Ancient World“ (September 5–6, 2011)

• International Workshop: „Roger Ames’s Confucian Role Ethics: A Vocabulary“ (July 19, 2011)

• Guest Lecture: „Methodological Issues for the Comparative Study of Chinese and Greek Antiquity: The Example of Shuihudi and Dodona“ (June 16, 2011)

• International Conference: „What is Philosophy?“ (January 13–16, 2011)

• Guest Lecture: „Was ist Philosophie? Überlegungen aus europäischer Perspektive“ (November 10, 2010)

• Guest Lecture: „Herder-Watsuji-Nishida: Über «Leibniz-Syndrome» in der Philosophie“ (November 4, 2010)

• Workshop: „The Cultural and Political Implications of the Learning of Heart-and-Mind: A Discussion of Tu Weiming's Thought“ (July 16, 2010)

• Guest Lecture in the Series „Researching Philosophy in Asian Contexts“: „The Sense and Significance of Japanese Philosophy“ (June 1, 2010)

• Guest Lecture in the Series „Researching Philosophy in Asian Contexts“: „Confucian Role Ethics in a Changing World Culture“ (May 18, 2010)

• Guest Lecture in the Series „Researching Philosophy in Asian Contexts“: „Classical Indian Theories of Knowledge and Error“ (May 11, 2010)

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

• Guest Lecture in the Series „Researching Philosophy in Asian Contexts“: „The Centrality of Philosophy in the Pre-Modern Islamic Intellectual Tradition“ (April 13, 2010)

• Guest Lecture: „Zur Bedeutung des Götterbildes in der Pañca-rātra-Tradition des Hinduismus“ (November 27, 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)