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)
10 June 2022
Workshop | online
»Classicism in Digital Times. Harvard-Frankfurt-Lingnan Symposium«
David Der-wei Wang (Harvard University), Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt University/FKH)
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)
7 November 2023
Lecture | hybrid
»Sinophone Cine-feminisms«
Zhen Zhang (New York University)
25 January 2024
Lecture | online
»Brushing Through Time: Classical Elegance and Contemporary Expressions in Chinese Calligraphy«
Shi-siang TEO (National Taiwan University)
10-11 May 2024
Vorkshop
»Global Sinophone Classicisms. Hybridity, Agency, and Critical Challenges«
Zhiyi Yang (Frankfurt University), David Der-wei Wang (Harvard University, USA) et al.
22 May 2024
Lecture | hybrid
»Gao Xingjian’s Politics of Resistance and Nonconformist Poetics: The Portrayal of Huineng in the Play and the Production of Gao Xingjian’s Snow in August«
Tsu-Chung Su (National Taiwan Normal University)
7 June 2024
Workshop
»Sini-style Islamic calligraphic workshop«
Haji Noor Deen (artist)
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.)