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Conferences and Workshops

Workshop „Welfare Schemes, the State and Corruption in India: Quantitative and Qualitative Approaches“ (June 19–20, 2017)

Conference „A l’Orientale - Collecting, Displaying and Appropriating Islamic Art and Architecture in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries“ (May 4–6, 2017)

Conference „Coming of Age in Sinophone Studies“ (March 23–26, 2017)

Workshop „Vision and Visuality in Buddhism and Beyond“ (November 24–26, 2016)

Workshop „Islamic Art: Reception Processes in Middle Ages and Modern Times“ (November 4, 2016)

Workshop „Publication Workshop“ (October 27–28, 2016)

Workshop „Graduate Student Workshop“ (October 27–28, 2016)

Workshop „The Environment and Global History“ (October 26, 2016)

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

Graduate Seminar „Hong Kong Identity: Lost and Found in Transition“ (September 19–21, 2016)

International Workshop „Many Different Shores: Hong Kong Connections Across the South-/East Asian Sinosphere“ (September 16–17, 2016)

International Conference „The Power of Symbols: The Alhambra in a Global Context“ (September 15–17, 2016)

International Workshop „Post-Colonial Feminisms: Perspectives from Egypt, India, and Japan“ (June 16, 2016)

Conference „Deceased and Bereaved! Continuity and Innovation in Death Rituals“ (May 20–21, 2016)

Workshop „Methodological and Ethical Challenges in Qualitative Research Projects“ (May 10–11, 2016)

International Conference „Katagami in the West“ (March 18–19, 2016)

Workshop „Feminism and Theory in the Arab World“ (March 17–19, 2016)

Workshop „Transgression and Encounters with the Terrible in Buddhist and Śaiva Tantras“ (February 19–20, 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)

Workshop „Publication Workshop“ (December 14–15, 2015)

Workshop „The Means of Love in the Arab World: Pragmatics Beyond Norms and Trangressions“ (December 11–12, 2015)

Conference „Activism in Contemporary Japan: New Ideas, Players and Arenas?“ (November 5–6, 2015)

Workshop „Snapshots of Change: Assessing Social Transformations in Qualitative Research“ (October 23–24, 2015)

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

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

Conference „Mythos Orient: Architektur und Ornament im Zeitalter des Orientalismus“ (June 12, 2015)

Workshop „Civil Society in Taiwan and Hong Kong: Looking back and Reaching out“ (June 7–8, 2015)

International Workshop „Humanistic Scholarship and the Anthropocene: Approaching China from a Sustainability Paradigm“ (May 15–17, 2015)

Doctoral Workshop „Civil Society in Japan“ (November 25, 2014)

Conference „Asia and Europe in Translation: Interdisciplinary Perspectives“ (November 6–8, 2014)

Workshop „Social Movements in Theory and Practice: Concepts and Experiences from Different Regional Contexts“ (October 24–25, 2014)

Doctoral Workshop „Intersubjectivity and Eco-theory“ (October 16–18, 2014)

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

Workshop „Gendering Citizenship“ (September 10, 2014)

Conference „The Gongsunlongzi and Other Neglected Texts“ (August 27–29, 2014)

Conference „23rd European Conference on South Asian Studies (ECSAS)“ (July 23–26, 2014)

Symposium „Sterbehilfe und Suizidbeihilfe: Japan, Deutschland und die Schweiz in vergleichender Perspektive“ (November 28, 2013)

Conference „Traveling Norms and the Politics of Contention“ (October 24–26, 2013)

Workshop „Sense of Place, Sense of Taste, Sense of Skill: Hawkers and Cookshops in Public Spaces of Asian Cities“ (October 10–12, 2013)

Workshops „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)

Conference „The Gender of Authority: Celibate and Childless Men in Power“ (August 28–30, 2013)

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

International Symposium „Entangled Landscapes - Re-thinking the Landscape Exchange between China and Europe in the 16th-18th Centuries“ (May 10–12 2013)

Workshop „Intersectionality Revisited“ (Mai 5, 2013)

Graduate Student Wo „Political Protests, Social (Non-)Movements and the Role of Digital Media“ (April 24–25, 2013)

7. Schweizerische Nachwuchstagung der Asienwissenschaften „Asienwissenschaften: Debatten und Perspektiven“ (April 17–20, 2013)

Workshop „Cross-Cultural Comparison“ (March 8, 2013)

Workshop „Mercury in Medicine: Fluid Economies of Knowledge and Trade“ (February 21–22, 2013)

International Symposium „Concepts of Religion between Asia and Europe“ (November 01–03, 2012)

Workshop „Protests, the Media and the Circulation of Norms: Arab Spring and Fukushima“ (October 26th 2012)

Workshop „Biography Afield in Asia and Europe“ (September 20–21, 2012)

International Conference „Transcultural Perspectives on Late Medieval and Early Modern Slavery in the Mediterranean“ (September 12-15, 2012)

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

International Conference „Tertium datur: The Third in History, 1450-1850“ (June 21–23, 2012)

Conference „Entdifferenzierungen? Religion und Medizin“ (May 11–12, 2012)

Workshop and Public Panel Discussion „Mao – Mao-Bibel – Mao-Fieber: Maoismen in China und Europa“ (May 11, 2012)

Graduate Student Workshop „Asian Postmodernities and their Legacies“ (March 30–31, 2012)

PhD Seminar „Nomadic Feminist Theory in a Global Era“ (November 25, 2011)

International Workshop „Ghosts in Asian Cinemas“ (4-5 November 2011)

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

International Workshop „Yangzhou – A Place in Literature: The Local in Chinese Culture From the Late Imperial Through the Modern Era“ (1-3 September 2011)

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

International Conference „Islamic Newthinking - In Honor of Nasr Abu Zayd“ (26-28 June 2011)

Workshop „Indian Secularism“ (18 April 2011)

Internationale Konferenz „Was ist Philosophie?“ (13-16 January 2011)

Workshop „Ethnography and Ethnology in China 1950-1980“ (1-3 September 2010)

Workshop „A Discussion of Tu Weiming's Thought“ (16 July 2010)

International Conference „Verschleierter Orient - Entschleierter Okzident? Inszenierung in Politik, Recht, Kunst und Kultur seit dem 19. Jahrhundert“ (3-5 June 2010)

International Workshop „Entangled By Multiple Tongues: The Role of Diaspora in the Transfer of Culture“ (3-4 June 2010)

6th Conference for young researchers of the Swiss Asian Society „Asien wissenschaftlich reflektieren. Texte, Themen, Diskurse“ (2-5 May 2010)
in cooperation with the Swiss Asian Society and the Swiss Society for the Middle East and Islamic Cultures

Symposium: "Philosophische Lektüre älterer Texte zwischen Asien und Europa: Chancen und Probleme“, (17.-18. December 2009)

International Conference „Transcultural Bodies - Transboundary Biographies. Border Crossings in Asia and Europe“ (21-24 February 2010)

International Conference „Varieties of Modernity?“ (8-10 September 2009)

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

Workshop „Body at Work: Materials and Methods“ (26-28 June 2009)
in cooperation with the "Völkerkundemuseum" in Zurich

Workshop „Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region and the Chinese State“ (13 June 2009)

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