Month: February 2022

Histoire & Mesure : Enjeux épistémologiques et perspectives analytiques dans une perspective transpériode Mercredi 23 février 2022 de 9h30 à 17h30   Cette journée d’études, organisée par Alessandro Stanziani (ESOPP-GRHEN), est consacrée aux relations entre la mesure et l’histoire. L’hi...

During the Republican era, personal hygiene and public sanitation became indicators for civilization and a healthy and strong population. Influenced by similar notions in Europe, the United States, Japan and other countries that aspired to be modern, Chinese politicians, intellectuals, and educators...

Am Lehrstuhl für Sinologie mit dem Schwerpunkt Geistes- und Kulturgeschichte Chinas (Alexander von Humboldt-Professur) — Institut für Sprachen und Kulturen des Nahen Ostens und Ostasiens — der FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg ist zum 1. Oktober 2022 eine Stelle für eine*n Doktorand*In/wissenschaftliche Mitarbe...

The Chair for Sinology with a focus on the Intellectual and Cultural History of China — Institute for Near Eastern and East Asian Languages and Civilizations — at FAU Erlangen-Nuremberg invites applications for the position of a PhD student (f/m/d) related to mathematics or statistics in China (19th...

We invite proposals for a conference which will explore the life of numerically framed knowledge from a global historical perspective on quantification. It is based on the assumption that numbers have their own biographies and are not simply the objective reflection of reality but socially, politica...