The Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften: Science & Society
»Sinophone Classicism. Chinese Cultural Memories in a Global Space«
Lecture series
beginning 2021
In the Chinese-speaking world, artistic positions that draw on classical Chinese traditions have recently gained in popularity. The Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften is dedicating a lecture series to these contemporary and multi-layered forms of expression in art and literature, in digital media and in the lifestyles of individual communities. The series was developed by Goethe-Fellow Zhiyi Yang, Professor of Sinology at Goethe University Frankfurt am Main, as part of her research project at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften.
Events
04 November 2021
Lecture | online
»A Story of the Red Seed. Classicism and Modernist Crisis«
David Der-wei Wang (Harvard University)
26 November 2021
Lecture | hybrid
»A Tower Built Downward: The Creative Transformation of Chinese Classical Lyric Aesthetics«
YANG Lian (Poet)
17 December 2021
Lecture | online
»Piety without Obedience? Popular Discourse on Filial Piety as a Resource for Morality in Contemporary China«
Marius Meinhof (Bielefeld University)
21 January 2022
Lecture | hybrid
»From Platform to Lying Flat: Youth, Technology, Hipsters, and the Question of Chineseness«
Jeroen de Kloet (University of Amsterdam)
10 February 2022
Lecture | online
»Translating Calligraphy«
Markus Nornes (University of Michigan)
28 April 2022
Lecture | online
» ›Romance of the Three Kingdoms‹ as Early Modern Text and Contemporary Video Game«
Paize Keulemans (Princeton University)
19 May 2022
Lecture | online
»The Body that Counts: On the Digital Techniques of the Chinese Modern Dance«
Chieh-Ting Hsieh (National Chengchi University, Taipei)
09 June 2022
Lecture | hybrid
»Xiqu 2.0: Deconstructing Chinese Classical Theatres in Digital Times«
Rossella Ferrari (University of Vienna)
06 July 2022
Lecture | online
»Classicist Drama in Digital Times«
Michelle Yeh (University of California, Davis)
27 October 2022
Lecture | online
»Surface Classicism & Large-scale Multimedia Tourist Performance in the PRC«
Tarryn Chun (University of Notre Dame)
24 November 2022
Lecture | hybrid
»Castration Redux: A Genealogy of Sinophone Transtopia«
Howard Chiang (University of California, Davis)
13 December 2022
Lecture | hybrid
»Zwischen postdigital und Tradition. Klassische chinesische Kunst im Metaversum«
Lei XUE (artist, Darmstadt and Peking)
27 April 2023
Lecture | hybrid
»Archaeology and Futurology in Contemporary Sinophone Science Fiction«
Mingwei Song (Wellesley College)
25 May 2023
Lecture | hybrid
»The Neo-Avant-Garde and the ›Future‹ of China’s Literary ›Past‹«
Fangdai Chen (Lingnan University)
21 June 2023
Lecture | hybrid
»›Do You Hear the People Sing?‹ – The Power of Silence, the ›Classic of Songs‹ and Traditions of Protest in China«
Barbara Mittler (Heidelberg University)
Project lead
Zhiyi Yang, Professor of Sinology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main and Goethe-Fellow at Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften (e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)