Archive: Events of the Karlgren-Eisenstadt Programme
2018
5 - 7 April. SYMPOSIUM
Re-examining the Idea of the Axial Age and Axial Civilizations
Saïd Arjomand, Johann Arnason, Jan Assmann, Merlin Donald,
Renaud Gagné,
Chris Hann, Hans Joas, Mirjam Künkler, Daniel Mullins,
Yuri Pines,
Christian
Polke, Michael J. Puett, Jan Retsö, Heiner Roetz, Stephen Sanderson,
Benjamin Schewel,
Ilana
Silber,
Patricia Springborg, Guy Stroumsa, Björn
Wittrock
17 - 19 May. SYMPOSIUM
Rethinking Modernity: Entanglements and Ruptures, 1770-present
Saïd Arjomand, Rajeev Bhargava, Linda Colley,
Prasenjit Duara,
Rebecca Earle,
Andreas Eckert, Hans Joas,
Wolfgang Knöbl,
Jürgen
Kocka,
Mirjam Künkler,
R.I. Moore, Michael
Puett, Kapil Raj,
Keith
Tribe,
Peter Wagner,
Wang Hui,
Björn Wittrock,
R. Bin Wong
2017
18 May. LECTURES
Saïd Amir Arjomand, Distinguished Service Professor of Sociology, and
Director, Stony Brook
Institute for Global Studies, State University of New York at Stony Brook
The Distinctive Pattern of Revolution in the Islamicate Civilization
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Wang Hui, Short-term Visitor, SCAS.
Professor of Chinese Literature and History, and Founding Director, Institute for
Advanced Study in the Humanities and Social Sciences,
Tsinghua University, Beijing
The Beginning of the Century: A Reconsideration of the 20th Century in Chinese/Global
History
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2016
28 January. LECTURE
Michael Lackner, Short-term visitor, SCAS. Professor of Chinese Studies and Director, Internationales
Kolleg für
Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Traditional China: ‘Superstitious’ or ‘Rational’? Another View of Cross-cultural Master Narratives
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19 May. LECTURE
R.I. Moore, Professor Emeritus of Medieval History, Newcastle
University
Treasure in Heaven: Defining the Eurasian Old Regime
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20-21 May. SYMPOSIUM
Rethinking World History: Empires, Networks and Trade, Seventeenth and Eighteenth
Centuries
Saïd Arjomand, Mary Elizabeth Berry, Prasenjit Duara, Maura D. Dykstra, Benjamin
Elman,
David L. Howell, Wang Hui, Huricihan Islamoglu, R.I. Moore, Michael J. Puett,
André Wink, Björn Wittrock,
R. Bin Wong,
among others
2015
21-23 May. SYMPOSIUM
The Age of Transregional Reorientations: Rethinking Global History, Tenth to
Thirteenth
Centuries
Saïd Arjomand, Johann P. Arnason, Michal Biran, Peter K. Bol, Richard von Glahn,
Judith Herrin, Benjamin Z. Kedar, Donald N. Levine, R.I. Moore, Yuri Pines,
Michael J. Puett, Wang Hui, André Wink and Björn Wittrock, among others.
2014
15 May. WORKSHOP
The Arts of Imperial Portraiture and the Cultural Construal of the Self
Lothar von Falkenhausen, Christoph Harbsmeier, David Konstan, Christoph König,
Lothar Ledderose,
Michael J. Puett, Richard Vinograd
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15 May. LECTURE
David Konstan, Professor of Classics, New York University
When Rulers Become Gods: Art and the Construction of the Imperial Self
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2013
28 May.
WORKSHOP.
Neo-Confucianism in the Making: Wang Tong’s Zhongshuo
Joachim Gentz, Christoph Harbsmeier, Michael Lackner,
Olga Lomová, David McMullen,
Michael J. Puett, Ding Xiang Warner
28 May. LECTURE
Michael Lackner, Professor of Sinology, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen
The Middle Ages in Chinese Intellectual History: Neo-Confucian Resonances and Historical Analyses
2012
11-13 June.
SYMPOSIUM
Feeling an Obligation:
Exploring Evaluative and Normative Constraints on Human Agency in a
Historical and Ethnographic Perspective
Julia Annas, Émilie Aussant, Douglas Cairns, Maria A. Carrasco, Hugo David, Christel Fricke,
Christoph Harbsmeier, Anastasia Maravela, Michael J. Puett, Öyvind Rabbås, Peter Railton
In collaboration with
Centre for the Study of Mind in Nature (CSMN),
University of Oslo
This page will shortly be updated further, to include also events held earlier than 2012.
