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Symposium: Rethinking Theory and Practice through East – West Dialogue


‘Rethinking Theory and Practice through East – West Dialogue’ 

This symposium brings together a distinguished Professor of comparative philosophy, a anthropologist researching Falun Gong, and a number of performance artists, all working on China and Japan. Together they engage in multi-disciplinary and multi-media reflections on theory and practice, inspiration and presence, in relation to the EAST – WEST dialogue. The symposium is organized through ACCORD with Stichting Filosofie Oost-West, Stichting Performance, VISOR and Dialoog Academie.

Date: June 14th 2012 
Time: 1pm – 5:30pm.
Location: Kerkzaal, 16th floor. Main building, VU University Amsterdam.   

Faculteiten: Faculteit der Godgeleerdheid and Faculteit Sociale Wetenschap
Afdelingen: Theologie en wijsbegeerte, and sociale and cultureel antropologie.

Further Information and registration: 
See the symposium flyer. Registration at accordamsterdam@gmail.com before June 10th (please). Price of entry is 12 euro (to be paid on the day). 
Link: http://www.dialoogacademie.nl/cultuur-podium/activiteiten/view/69-symposium-rethinking-theory-and-practice-through-east-west-dialogue 

CHINA SEMINAR | 23 MAY 2012 | Laurence Roulleau-Berger| After Western Hegemony

China Seminar 8 May

CHINA
SEMINAR | 08 MAY 2012 | Yunxiang Yan | Immorality and Its Moral Implications in
Contemporary China

 

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China Seminar 2 May: Florian Schneider: Mass Culture and the Construction of Political Discourse

CHINA
SEMINAR | 02 May 2012 | Florian Schneider | Mass Culture and the Construction
of Political Discourse

 

In co-operation with

SVS Leiden:

We, the SVS
(Student Association Sinology), want to give ‘our’ staff members of the Leiden
Sinology Institute a platform where they can present their research. This way,
students can find out what their teachers really do.

 

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Lecture 27 April: Adam Cathcart on Sino-Korean relations, 1945-50

 Mutual Dependency and Double Collapse: Sino-North Korea Relations, 1945-50 

Adam Cathcart (Pacific Lutheran University, Tacoma, Washington, USA) 

This paper examines the broad weave of interactions between the Chinese Communist Party and the nascent North Korean state during an period of extreme stress: that of the Chinese civil war (1945-1950). The paper chronicles North Korea’s aid to the Chinese revolution, including substantial logistical support within North Korea itself, violence along both sides of the frontier, and the permeable line that emerged between the Chinese Communist and North Korean security forces. Other questions taken up briefly by the paper include CCP management of education politics for the 40,000 Overseas Chinese in North Korea, Kim Il Song’s perception of the Chinese civil war, bribery and Soviet border guards, and the politics of illegal North Korean border jumpers.  

The paper draws upon new documents from Chinese archives, a re-reading of captured North Korean files, and declassified CIA documents, as well as translations from neglected Chinese memoirs.  Through these sources, it is hoped that both the paper and the larger book project of which it is a part will set the stage for more informed discussion of events and relationships driving contemporary Sino-North Korean relations along the border and beyond.  

All are welcome!

Datum: 27 april 
Tijd: 11.00 – 13.00 uur 
Locatie: Lipsius zaal 011, Cleveringaplaats 1

Website: http://hum.leidenuniv.nl/nieuws/lezingen/lezing-adam-cathcart-noordkorea-china.html

CHINA SEMINAR | 25 APRIL 2012 | Anup Grewal | Revolutionary Embodiments

CHINA SEMINAR | 25 APRIL 2012 | Anup Grewal | Revolutionary
Embodiments: Gender and Genre in Xie Bingying’s War Diary and Autobiography
of a Woman Soldier
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China Seminar: 10 APRIL 2012 | Fan Popo | The Chinese Closet: Being Gay in China

CHINA
SEMINAR | 10 APRIL 2012 | Fan Popo | The Chinese Closet: Being Gay in China

 

 

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The Chinese Closet: Being Gay in China

Speaker:  Fan Popo (independent
filmmaker and writer)
Expertise:  Gay filmmaker, writer, activist

Date and time:  Tuesday, 10 April 2012, 15.15 – 17.00h
Venue:  Lipsius
building, room 208
Language:  English and Chinese

Abstract:
Fan Popo is in the Netherlands
to present his documentary Be a Woman at the CinemAsia Festival in Amsterdam (screening on
April 6, cf. www.cinemasia.nl). In Leiden, he will give an overview of the LGBT situation in China: is it hard for young people to come out
in China?
What types of difficulties are they confronted with? What kind of role can
filmmakers play in (gay) community building?


Speaker’s resume:
Fan Popo
范坡坡 was born in 1985, graduated from Beijing Film Academy.

Published Happy Together: Complete Record of a Hundred Queer Films 春光乍泄:百部同志电影全记录 (Beifang Wenyi Press, 2007). 

Third Prize in the LGBT Research Paper Prize, Chi-Heng Foundation; 

Prism Prize of 22nd Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival.

Participation in directing China Queer Film Festival Tour in over twenty major cities in China since 2008. International
exchange in Taipei, Copenhagen, Los Angeles etc.

 

 

List of works (as director):

2008 The Good Days, 96 mins, the 5th China Documentary Film Festival;

From Tsinghua to Qinghai, 28 mins, the World Urban Forum IV;

Taipei: City of Rainbow, 10mins, the 1st China Queer Film Festival Tour.

2009 New Beijing, New Marriage, 18
mins, the 4th Beijing Queer Film Festival, the 29th 

Vancouver International Film Festival;
21st Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival; 3rd Asian Queer Film
Festival (Tokyo).

2010 Chinese Closet, 88 mins, the 2nd China Queer Film Festival Tour;
2011 Asian Hotshot Festival (Berlin); 11 th
Seoul
Independent DOcumentary Film & Video Festival
.

Paper House, 20 mins, 2010 Guangzhou International Documentary Film Festival. 

2011 Be a Woman, Long Beach Q Film
Festival, Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film
Festival.

 

List of works (as photographer):

Queer China, “Comrade” China, the 3rd Beijing Independent Film Festival, the 24th Torino GLBT Film Festival, the 29th Vancouver International Film Festival.

 

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Lecture 28 March- African Studies Centre Leiden

What can Western donors learn from China’s approach in Africa

by Prof. Deborah Brautigam

Date: 28 March 2012  
Time: 15.00 until 17.00 hour

Location: Venue: Room 1A41, African Studies Centre, Faculty of Social Sciences, Leiden University, Pieter de la Court building, Wassenaarseweg 52, Leiden, a 7-minute walk from Leiden CS. Note that the temporary building entry is at the Wassenaarseweg side. 

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Sino-Kwa project: two talks on 2nd March

The Leiden-UvA Sino-Kwa project is happy to announce two talks on the topic of analytic/isolating languages, by Prof. Alain Peyraube (CRLAO, CNRS-EHESS, Paris) and Prof. Nigel Duffield (The University of Sheffield).
 
Date and time:     Friday, March 2nd 2012, 13:30-15:30
Venue:                Leiden University, Faculty of Humanities, Matthias de Vrieshof 2, room 001
Language:           English
 
All are welcome. For any questions, please contact d.j.j.van.esch@hum.leidenuniv.nl. The organisers hope to see you there!
 
"Has Chinese changed from a synthetic language into an analytic language or vice versa?"
by Prof. Alain Peyraube (CRLAO, CNRS-EHESS, Paris)
 
The terms ‘analytic’ and ‘synthetic’ should be used in a relative rather than absolute sense. For example, languages like English are less inflectional, and thus more analytic than most of the other Indo-European languages.
Chinese is said to be an isolating language and consequently an analytic language, i.e. a language that conveys grammatical relationships syntactically, via the use of words or free morphemes. It does not possess bound morphemes, such as inflectional prefixes, suffixes or infixes. However, it is also claimed that Archaic Chinese (11th-2nd c. BCE), and especially Late Archaic – the Classical Chinese par excellence (5th – 2nd c. BCE) – had an inflectional morphology, and not just derivational affixes.
 
With this idea of degrees of analyticity and syntheticity in mind, some scholars have hypothesized that Classical Chinese has been moving from less analyticity to more analyticity between Archaic and Medieval Chinese (5th – 14th c. AD), and from more syntheticity to less syntheticity from Medieval to Modern Chinese (14th – 18th c. AD) and then on to Contemporary Chinese (from 18th c. on).
 
This hypothesis will be discussed in the paper and it will be shown that this cyclic change is far from being well-founded.
 
"Unpeeling an onion: what Vietnamese tells us about the lexicon-syntax interface"
by Prof. Nigel Duffield (The University of Sheffield)
Among isolating languages, Vietnamese is relatively unusual in having at its disposal a large inventory of functional (grammatical) vocabulary: elements that carry semantic information with respect to tense, ‘Outer’ and ‘Inner’ Aspect, mood, illocutionary force, and—what is termed here—assertion. Given that it is also a rigidly head-initial language with very little uninterpreted syntactic movement, the distribution and interpretation of these elements relative to each other and to the thematic verb-phrase (vP) provides a fairly direct ‘cartography’ of the functional syntax of Vietnamese (and—it may be argued—of other languages, such as English or Dutch, in which this phrasal architecture is obscured by the effects of head-movement). In this paper, I shall discuss the significance of Vietnamese for a layered approach to syntactic representation, focussing on Tense, Assertion, Negation and the representation of events (Event Structure). First, I present some basic distributional facts previously discussed in Duffield (2007, in press) to show that the syntactic features determining emphasis in both affirmative and negative sentences in Vietnamese are realized in a relatively low position in the clausal syntax, immediately above the maximal thematic verb-phrase (‘Low Modality’). It will then be argued that this position is directly event-related, associated with an ‘event variable’ in the sense of Davidson (1967), Pustejovsky (1995). Next, I shall argue on the basis of constraints on Yes-No questions that syntactic features associated with affirmative emphasis in Vietnamese are necessarily projected lower than—and independently of—the functional projection that hosts sentential negation: that is to say, the claim will be that affirmative emphasis is a special case of assertion, rather than the polar opposite of negation (cf. Laka 1990). Finally, I shall review some of the distributional differences between English and Vietnamese in declarative clauses: resurrecting earlier generative analyses—in particular that of Chomsky (1957)—I offer some speculative suggestions for a uniform approach to finiteness and emphasis in the two languages.

CHINA
SEMINAR | 22 February 2010 | Shen Yang and Christoph Harbsmeier

 

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Professor Shen Yang

(Beijing University)

“FP功能投射与“V+P(到/在)NPL结构的句法构造

 

Date and
time
:  Wednesday, 22 February, 15.00h – 16.00h
Venue:  Arsenaal building,
room 014
Language:  Chinese
Speaker:  Shen Yang (Beijing
University)
Expertise现代汉语句法学、语义学
Abstract:
本文全面观察了现代汉语“V+P(到/在)NP”结构有多种形式变化和复杂语义差异,并试图找出结构中VP层动词的“位移特征”及结构中PP层介词“到、在”的“投射机制”对此的共同制约条件,即谓语动词的位移特征强弱可以诱发介词“到、在”不同终点义的投射。文章也讨论了汉语“位移终点”结构的类型归属,认为汉语这类结构介于动词型“位移终点”结构(V型)和介词型“位移终点”结构(S型)之间。同时本文还认为非“位移终点”类“V+P(在)NP”结构中动词后的“在NP”并没有FP层,只是动词前附加性PP结构的一种特殊表现。

Speaker’s resume:
北京大学博士,香港城市大学博士后。

现任北京大学人文特聘教授,北京大学中文系教授,北京大学中文系副主任。

曾任美国哈佛大学、香港中文大学、香港理工大学、台湾中央研究院访问学者。

2012年荷兰莱顿大学和荷兰亚洲国际研究院(IIAS)访问学者。

E-mailsyshen@pku.edu.cn

 

Professor Christoph
Harbsmeier

(University of Oslo)

“Anaphora,
cataphora and exophora in Classical Chinese”

 

Date and
time
:  Wednesday, 22 February, 16.00h – 17.00h
Venue:  Arsenaal building,
room 014
Language:  English
Speaker:   Christoph Harbsmeier
(University of Oslo)
Expertise:  Chinese Linguistics
Abstract:
Co-reference relations between pronouns (including zero-pronouns) and
their antecedents have been extensively studied in general linguistics. The
case of Modern Chinese has drawn much general linguistic attention in this
connection. The case of anaphora in classical Chinese, which is radically
different from the case of Modern Chinese, is barely mentioned even in specific
discussions of the Chinese language.

The subtle connections of
zero-anaphora with the rhetorical device of the
zeugma are
obvious, and they certainly have not so far received any of the detailed
linguistic as well as stylistic attention they deserve.

The present paper will present an
exploratory survey of nominal, verbal as well as sentential anaphora based
mainly on Early Warring state sources.


Speaker’s resume:
Christoph Harbsmeier is a professor of Chinese in the University
of Oslo, and also an adjunct professor
of Chinese in Peking Unversity, Fudan Unversity, Wuhan
University, Zhejiang University, East China Normal University,
Xinjiang University as well as Shanghai Normal
Unviversity. His books include Wilhelm von Humholdt and the Philosophical
Grammar of Chinese (in German) (1978), Aspects of Classical Chinese Grammar
(1981), and vol. 7.1 of Science and Civilisation in China, Language and Logic. (1998). He is the editor in chief of Thesaurus
Linguae Sericae (url: http://tls.uni-hd.de/).

E-mailChristoph.harbsmeier@ikos.uio.no


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