Seminars

During the summer term 2022 the IKGF organizes a lecture series on the Consortium's theme Fate, Freedom and Prognostication. Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe. It takes place on Tuesdays, 6:15 pm–7:45 pm CEST (US East Coast: 12:15 pm–1:45 pm EDT; China: 0:15 am–1:45 am...

The notion of disability - as it is currently understood - first emerged in Europe no more than two centuries ago, brought about by the epistemological shift of modern science. In China, as well as in Europe, the concept played a central role in the development of the capitalist economic theories of...

Doubts about the reliability of China's official statistics have been on everyone's lips since the Great Leap Forward debacle. It has clearly demonstrated what devastating consequences the agency of figures can have if these are not based on economic and demographic realities. As early as 1907, the ...

During the winter term 2021/2022 the IKGF organizes a lecture series on the Consortium's theme Fate, Freedom and Prognostication. Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe. It takes place on Tuesdays, 6:15 pm–7:45 pm CEST (US East Coast: 12:15 pm–1:45 pm EDT; China: 0:15 am–1:...

Jointly organized by the History Department and the Chair for Sinology, a series of four online talks will take place during the winter term 2021/22:   28.10.2021 My World in War and Revolution: A Comparative History of the Modern Diary in the East and West by Aaron Moore ...

In this seminar Prof. Bréard presents a cultural and epistemological approach to the numerical and numerological significance of numbers in divinatory texts and other contexts in early and late imperial as well as modern China. As an overarching theme, readings and discussions will address "Numbers ...

In the early twentieth century, defining Chinese characteristics in quantitative terms allowed comparisons and provided scientific answers in the search for the relative position of the Chinese in the historical evolution of human beings and the origins of mankind that challenged earlier culturally ...

During the summer term 2021 the IKGF organizes an online lecture series on the Consortium's theme Fate, Freedom and Prognostication. Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe. It takes place on Tuesdays, 6:15 pm–7:45 pm CEST (US East Coast: 12:15 pm–1:45 pm EDT; China: 0:15 am...