Summer School "China in Europe, Europe in China – Past and Present" (University of Hamburg, July 19-21, 2016)
For those readers of the Global History Blog interested in interactions between Europe and China, take note – there's a summer school taking place at the University of Hamburg from July 19 to July 21, 2016. The summer school devoted to discuss transnational and interdisciplinary approaches on Sino-European interactions in the past and present. The announcement goes into more detail:
The event will bring together PhD students, advanced researchers, and professors from the partner universities Fudan University and Universität Hamburg for a two-and-a-half-day program. With keynote lectures and PhD project presentations, the summer school will provide a platform to discuss transnational and regional ties, interdisciplinary approaches and new findings in the field of Sino-European interactions in the past and present.
Both universities established the graduate school in the autumn of 2013 as part of town twinning initiatives between Hamburg and Shanghai. The graduate school started as a project of the Chinese Studies and History Departments, concentrating on Sino-German relations.
Following last year's summer school at Fudan University, this year's event will mark the end of a cycle and the beginning of a new phase: After three years, the first cohort of PhD candidates focusing on Chinese-German historical relations will complete the program. In the future, it will extend its scope to focus on PhD and research projects examining transfer processes between China and Europe. Furthermore, it will look not only at processes in a historical perspective, but will also consider the whole range of the humanities: literary criticism, philosophy, the science of art, musicology, cultural anthropology et cetera.
The program will be rounded off by two presentations of the "Public Lecture Series Shanghai – Hamburg", organized by the partner universities in celebration of 30 years of city partnership.
The summer school is subsidized by the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Since 2015, the DAAD has supported both universities in their efforts to strengthen their cooperation as part of a trilateral network with Macquarie University in Sydney, Australia.
Program
Tuesday, 19 July, 2016 15:00-15:30 Welcome (Hamburg-Saal) (Chinese embassy (TBA) Birthe KUNDRUS, Department of History, Universität Hamburg
QU Weiguo, Fudan University
Carsten KRAUSE, Confucius Institute at the Universität Hamburg
15:30-17:00 Poster Session "China in Germany, Germany in China" (Wandelgang) China and the West German New Left, 1950-1980 Mascha JACOBY
Orchestration and Representation: Republican China in Germany, 1937-1941 Simon PREKER
Germany and the Theory and Practice of Vocational Education in Republican China Henrike RUDOLPH
Chinese Leftist Students in Germany, 1919-1939 Christina TILL
The German Participation in the North China Expedition of Sven Hedin, 1927-1935 Batkhishig TSERENNYAM
17:00-19:00 Keynote Lecture (Hamburg-Saal) A Sideways Gaze: Thinking Maoist China in Europe Fabio LANZA, The University of Arizona
Wednesday, 20 July, 2016 (Shanghai-Saal) 09:00-11:00 Panel 1 Chair: QU Weiguo, Fudan University
German-Chinese Relations on the Screen: Migration and Gender in the German Crime Television Series Tatort Arnhilt HÖFLE, Universität Hamburg
The Discursive Representation of China in the Opium Wars: A Comparative Study of Early and Contemporary Narratives from the Great Britain SHAN Liyang, Fudan University
The Themes of Death and Rebirth in Yang Kuangman's Poems—A Comparative Study on the Influences of Western Poetry on Contemporary Chinese Poets XU Kejun, Fudan University
11:00-11:30 Coffee & Tea
11:30-13:00 Panel 2 Chair: GAO Xi, Fudan University
Rebuilt the Babel. On the Research about Chinese Characters and Other in China Illuserata（《中国图说》） SHAO Xiaolong, Fudan University
"Blind Dialogue": The Influences and Responses of Western Daoism Studies in Early 20th Century XIE Yifeng, Fudan University
15:00-16:30 Panel 3 Chair: WANG Weijiang, Fudan University
"Eine mehr gesprochene deutsche Gesinnung (A stronger sense of Germanness)"? Constantin von Hanneken and the Boxer Movement WANG Yi, Universität Hamburg
How to Cast a Diplomat: A Case Study of the Selection of Chinese Envoys in the Late Qing Dynasty HUANG Tian, Universität Hamburg
16:30-17:00 Coffee & Tea
18:00-20:00 Public Lecture Series Shanghai – Hamburg (Universität Hamburg, VMP 6, Hörsaal F) World against Globe: Goethe and the Significance of World Literature ZHANG Nan, Fudan University
Thursday, 21 July, 2016 (Shanghai-Saal)
09:00-10:00 Public Lecture Series Shanghai – Hamburg Chair: Birthe KUNDRUS, Universität Hamburg
Ferdinand von Richthofen and his Geographical Research in China FEI Jie, Fudan University
10:00-10:30 Coffee & Tea
10:30-12:00 Panel 4 Chair: Michael FRIEDRICH, Universität Hamburg
The Tomb Inscriptions of Jesuits at Shanghai Shengmutang in the Late Qing Period WANG Hao, Fudan University
Education in Times of War: the Transformation of the German School Shanghai during the 1930s and 1940s BAO Zhong, Universität Hamburg
14:00-15:30 Panel 5 Chair: SUN Jian, Fudan University
Transmedia remembering: Recollection, representation and reconstruction of the Shanghai Exile (1933-1949) in Germany and China since 1989 TONG Xin, Universität Hamburg
The Far Eastern Jewish Central Information Bureau and its Influence on Jewish Musician's Exile in Shanghai 1938/39 Sophie FETTHAUER, Universität Hamburg
Interested in attending or following the discussions? For more information, you can contact with Prof. Birthe Kundrus (Universität Hamburg) via birthe.kundrus@uni-hamburg.de