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Wednesday Weekly 22 May 2019
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Konrad Adenauer Research Award for André LalibertéOur Senior Fellow André Laliberté (University of Ottawa) has been awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation's Konrad Adenauer Research Award for his scientific oeuvre, in particular for his research on East Asian democracies, which in many respects transcends borders. The award is endowed with 60,000 € and is to be used, among other things, to realise a long-term research project at a German research institution.
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Markus Dreßler at Symposium on Alevi StudiesOn Wednesday, 29 May, Markus Dreßler will give a talk on “Alevis and Alevism: Reflections on a Complex Field of Research (Aleviten und Alevitentum: Überlegungen zu einem komplexen Forschungsfeld)” at the symposium “Alevi Studies in Germany. Challenges and Pespectives (Alevitische Studien in Deutschland. Herausforderungen und Perspektiven)” organized by the Academy of World Religions of Hamburg University and the Alevi Community Germany. The symposium will be held in German.
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Jeffrey Wasserstrom: Beijing 1989 and Hong Kong 2014. Comparing, Contrasting, and Connecting the Tiananmen and Umbrella MovementsWith the 30th anniversary of the June 4th Massacre and the 5th anniversary of the start of the biggest PRC protest wave since 1989 coming in the fall, this talk will revisit both events, while also bringing in comparison with things that have taken place in other periods in Chinese history (such as during the May 4th Movement of 1919) and in other parts of the world (such as Eastern Europe, 1989).
Date: 27 May, 12 a.m.
Venue: Schillerstraße 6, Room S 202
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Rowena Xiaoqing He: China since Tiananmen. History, Memory, and Nationalism
Drawing on her first book "Tiananmen Exiles" and her current book project on Chinese student nationalism in the post-89 China, Professor He’s talk will interweave personal narratives with historical contexts to illustrate the ongoing war of memory against forgetting, and the implications of this open wound on Chinese society and its relationship with the world.
Date: 29 May, 5 p.m.
Venue: Strohsackpassage, Nikolaistr. 8-10, 5th floor
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Public Lecture: Disappearance of Calmness and Insight in the Contemplative Practice of Chinese BuddhismOn Monday, 27 May, Mario Poceski (University of Florida) will give a talk on “Disappearance of Calmness and Insight in the Contemplative Practice of Chinese Buddhism”. Amongst other things, this lecture explores major Chinese transformations of the classical paradigm of Buddhist meditation, which incorporates two distinctive approaches to contemplative practice: calmness and insight.
The lecture is organized by the Institute of East Asian Studies of Leipzig University and the Confucius Institute Leipzig.
Time: 6 p.m.
Venue: Confucius Institute Leipzig, Otto-Schill-Str. 1, 04109 Leipzig
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