Research Projects (2006–2017)

Amsler, Monika, M.A. (doctoral student Religious Studies)
Project title: Purpose and Nature of the Talmudic Medical Units in Tractates Shabbat, Pessachin, Gittin and Avodah Zara
Doctoral committee: Prof. Dr. Christoph Uehlinger, Prof. Dr. Michael L. Satlow, Prof. Dr. Konrad Schmid
Funded by: URPP Asia and Europe (2013)

Ateş, Şevket, M.A. (doctoral student Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies)
Project title: Philosophy in the Turkish Republic: Processes of Philosophical Reception in the Context of Cultural Transformation
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rudolph
Funded by: URPP Asia and Europe (2006–2009), SNSF – Fellowship for Prospective Researchers (2011–2013)

Ganser, Elisa, Dr. (postdoc Indian Studies)
Project title: The Place of Art in Indian Religious Thought: On the Soteriological Value of Acting, Singing and Dancing in Abhinavagupta’s Work and Beyond
Funded by: URPP Asia and Europe (2014–2015)

Hetmanczyk, Philipp, Dr. (doctoral student Religious Studies)
Project title: Begräbnispraxis in China zwischen „Wirtschaftsrationalität“ und „Verschwendung“: Ökonomische Bewertungen von Religion im Kontext von Religionspolitik und Religionstheorie
Doctoral committee: Prof. Dr. Dorothea Lüddeckens (UZH), Prof. Dr. Christoph Uehlinger (UZH), Prof. Dr. Hubert Seiwert (University of Leipzig), Prof. Dr. Philipp Clart (University of Leipzig)
Funded by: URPP Asia and Europe (2010–2013)
Degree: doctorate (2016)

Indraccolo, Lisa, Dr. (postdoc Chinese Studies)
Project title: Debate Arena: Argumentation and Persuasion in Warring States Philosophical Discourse
Funded by: URPP Asia and Europe (2011–2014), Research Talent Development Fund of the Zurich University Association (2012–2013), Forschungskredit of the University of Zurich (2014–2016)

Lange, Elena, Dr. (doctoral student Japanese Studies)
Project title: The Overcoming of the Subject: Nishida Kitarōs Way to Ideology
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Raji C. Steineck
Funded by: URPP Asia and Europe (2009–2010), SNSF – Project Funding (2013–2016)
Degree: doctorate (2011)

Lasater, Phillip, Dr. (doctoral student Theology)
Project title: The Facets of Fear: Fear of God in Exilic and Post-Exilic Contexts
Doctoral committee: Prof. Dr. Konrad Schmid (UZH), Prof. Dr. Christoph Uehlinger (UZH), Prof. Dr. Thomas Krüger (UZH)
Funded by: URPP Asia and Europe (2011–2014)
Degree: doctorate (2017)

Leach, Robert, Dr. (postdoc Indian Studies)
Project title: Taxomies of Religious and Philosophical Knowledge in Classical Sanskrit Literature
Funded by: URPP Asia and Europe (2012–2014), SNSF – Project Funding (2014–2017)

Lukicheva, Polina, M.A. (doctoral student Chinese Studies)
Project title: The Concepts of Space and Methods of Composition in the Chinese Literati’ Theories of Art in the Seventeenth Century
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Behr
Funded by: URPP Asia and Europe (2014–2016), SNSF – Project Funding (2016–2019)

Mittmann, Christoph, M.A. (doctoral student Japanese Studies)
Project title: Yamagata Bantō’s Yume no shiro: An Attempt to Reorganize the Knowledge Available to Japan
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Raji C. Steineck
Funded by: URPP Asia and Europe (2013), Young Researchers’ Exchange Program Fellowship (2015–2015)

Müller, Ralf, Dr. (postdoc Japanese Studies)
Project title: Zen and Japanese Philosophy: Dōgen’s Importance to the Kyōto School
Funded by: URPP Asia and Europe (2010–2011)

Müller, Simone, PD Dr. (postdoc Japanese Studies)
Project title: Writers as Intellectuals in Postwar Japan (1945–1972) in the Light of Jean-Paul Sartre’s Concept of Engagement
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Raji C. Steineck
Funded by: URPP Asia and Europe (2006–2009), SNSF – International Short Research Visit (2013–2013)
Degree: habilitation (2012)

Schneider, Marcel, M.A. (doctoral student Chinese Studies)
Project title: Transition through Tradition: The Battle for Defensable Orders at the Dawn of Imperial China
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Behr
Funded by: URPP Asia and Europe (2016–2017)

Seidel, Roman, Dr. (doctoral student Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies)
Project title: The Reception of Kantian Philosophy in Iran: It’s origins and significance
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rudolph
Funded by: URPP Asia and Europe (2009–2011), POINT Research Fellowship Program (2015)
Degree: doctorate (2012)

Serbaeva, Olga, Dr. (postdoc Indian Studies)
Project title: Translating the Non-Evident: “Altered States of Consciousness” in Vidyapitha Tantras and in Western Transcreations of “Tantrism”
Funded by: URPP Asia and Europe (2007–2010)

Vandenreydt, Sarah, lic.phil. (doctoral student Religious Studies)
Project title: Buddhism between Philosophy and Religion 1875–1900: Discourse and Social Dynamics in England as Evidenced in the Texts of F.M. Müller, H.P. Blavatsky and A.P. Sinnett
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Christoph Uehlinger
Funded by: URPP Asia and Europe (2009–2010)

Vetrov, Viatcheslav, Dr. (postdoc Chinese Studies)
Project title: Reincarnated Conceptuality: The Other Life of Western Philosophy in the Work of Hu Shi 胡適 (1891–1962) and Qian Zhongshu 錢鍾書 (1910–1998)
Funded by: URPP Asia and Europe (2010–2013)

von Wyss-Giacosa, Paola, Dr. (postdoc Social and Cultural Anthropology)
Project title: Pictorial Ethnography of Religion in European Publications on Asia
Funded by: URPP Asia and Europe (2007–2010)

Weaver, James, Dr. (postdoc Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies)
Project title: Organising Disagreement in the Long Ninth Century: On the Use of the Term ‘iḫtilāf’ in the ʿAbbāsid Period
Funded by: URPP Asia and Europe (2012–2013), SNSF – Project Funding (2013–2016)

Weber, Ralph, Prof. Dr. (senior teaching and research assistant Philosophy)
Project title: Zur Kritik neuerer konfuzianischer Gerechtigkeitstheorien / Constructions of Political Modernity in Contemporary Chinese Political Thought
Funded by: URPP Asia and Europe (2008–2014)
Degree: habilitation (2016)

Gösken, Urs, Dr. (Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies)
Project title: Attitudes of Iranian Intellectuals towards the West
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Ulrich Rudolph

Kaufmann, Paulus, Dr. (Japanese Studies)
Project title: Rhetorik des japanischen Buddhismus

Mertens, Annemarie, Dr. (Indian Studies)
Project title: Group Identity and Religious Conflict: The Self-Concept of the Hindu Bhagavatas