Milestones Mar
12-15, 2012, Toronto/Canada, participation in AAS Annual
Meeting [forthcoming]
Sep 15-18, 2011 Berlin/Germany, key note speaker at the international
conference "The Sino-Global Discourse", organized by the
Institute for Cultural
Diplomacy [forthcoming]
Aug 1, 2011 Nanjing/China, launch of research project websites
"Text comparison project",
"Survey on the Dream
of the Red Chamber"
July 1, 2011 Orem, Utah/USA, starting
date Associate
Professor of Chinese Studies with Utah Valley University Apr 23, 2011, Cambridge, MA&USA, Harvard University, Fairbank
Center, presentation "1999, March 28: 16-year old Han
Han roughs up the literary scene", at "Writing
a New Literary History of Modern China"
Apr 21, 2011, Cambridge, MA/USA, Harvard University, New
England Seminar at Fairbank Center, After-the-dinner
speech "The
myth of the independent writer – the examples of Lu Xun and
Han Han" 7.30-8.45 p.m.
Apr , 2011, Honolulu, Hawai'i/USA, participant at "Zhang
Liqing Memorial International Conference on Hanyu Pinyin",
East-West Center, University of Hawai'i, organizer: Victor H.
Mair
Apr 1, 2011, Honolulu, Hawai'i/USA,
presentation "Civil
Society:
The Public Sphere in China of 1917-1937 and Today,
Stimulated by Lu Xun and Han Han in their Role as the
National Critical Conscience" at Annual
Meeting of the Association of Asian Studies
Apr 1, 2011, Honolulu, Hawai'i/USA,
organizer of panel "The
New Chinese Political and Cultural Identity: Harmonious in
the Nation or the Globe?" at Annual Meeting of the
Association of Asian Studies
Mar 25, 2011, Cambridge, MA/USA, co-organizer of lecture by
Stefan Messmann "Footbinding
in China: An Unpunished Crime", Harvard Law School,
Harvard, lecture series "East Asian Legal
Studies Lunchtime Talk"
Feb, 2011, Cambridge, MA/USA, Workshop
at Harvard, EALC
Jan 7, 2011, Bochum/Germany, colloqium for PhD candidates
(with Prof. Harald Holz), Ruhr University
Bochum
Jan 1, 2011, Bochum/Germany, starting date appointment as
Advisor for Study
Abroad Program and University Partnership with China,
Institute for Applied Work Management, Ruhr
University Bochum
Dec 16, 2010, Hong Kong/China, University of Hong Kong,
University Libraries, meeting with Dr. Anthony Fergurson, project Dream of the Red Chamber
Dec 15, 2010, Hong Kong/China, Chinese University of Hong
Kong, Department of Translation, Prof. Lawrence Wong, invited
lecture "Choices
of subjectivity and randomness - Non-representativeness as a
characteristic of the cultural field of translation between
Western and Chinese literature"
Dec 13, 2010, Peking/China, Peking University,
meeting with Prof. Li Duo, discussing "Text comparison project"
and fulltext database with functions of comparison and
hypertext
Nov 19-20, 2010 New York N.Y./USA, Discussant
at the conference "The
Story of the Stone and The Tale of Genji in Modern China and
Japan: Issues in Issues in Media, Technology, Gender,
and National Identity", Columbia University, New York, NY/USA
Oct 15, 2010 Cologne/Germany, co-editor of the Bulletin of the
German China Association 2010, with Prof. Gregor Paul
Oct 1, 2010 Cambridge, MA/USA, Workshop
on Contemporary Chinese Culture and Literature, informal
gathering at Harvard University
Oct 1, 2010 Bochum/Karlsruhe/
Rom/Budapest, Start of the research project „Re-defining
China’s identity at the beginning of the 21st century –
Changing patterns of perception of Chinese culture and society
and the emergence of a critical public opinion“, with Stefan
Messmann (Central European University, Budapest), Luigi Moccia
(Università Roma Tre), and Guido Rappe (TU Karlsruhe), funds
granted by the European Science and Scholarship Association,
projects ends: Sep 30, 2012
Sep 24-25, 2010 Cambridge, MA/USA, Chair of panel
"Literature, Translation, and Transculturation", at:
conference "New
Century,
New
Literature", Harvard University Asia Center, Cambridge
MA/USA
Sep 16, 2010 Wolfsburg/Germany, Lecture "On
the
way
to a Chinese production culture", at: conference "Beyond
Japan", CampusLife / AutoUni Wolfsburg
Sep 1, 2010 - Aug 31, 2011 Cambridge, MA/USA, visiting scholar
at Harvard University, in East Asian Languages and
Civilizations
Aug 2010 Bochum/Germany, international conference
"Philosophy Bridging Worlds", Ruhr University Bochum
Aug 2010 Riga/Lettland, lecture " 'Art is back in
literature' - How a
few works of contemporary Chinese mass literature turn
against the opportunist main stream", at Biannual Meeting,
European Association of Chinese Studies
Aug 2010 Shanghai/China, university cooperation negotiations
with Tongji
University as representative of Ruhr University Bochum
Jul 2010 - Aug 2010 Peking,Chengdu,Shanghai/China, Research
project "Western translations of the Dream of the Red Chamber" in China, funds
granted by the Hanban, Ministry of Education, PR China
Jul 1, 2010, Cologne/Germany, lecture "Contemporary Chinese
Literature. Online and blog literature", German
China Association
June 10, 2010,
OAPEN Seminar, June 10, 2010, Amsterdam,
Netherlands
Apr 29-30, 2010, TU Berlin, Meeting of the Working Group of
University Presses, organizer of wiki of University Presses
March 25-28, 2010, Philadelphia Pennsylvania/USA,
presentation of the "European Journal of
Sinology" at the 'Association of Asian Studies (AAS)
Annual Meeting'
March 9, 2010, Aachen/Germany, "Chances
for SME to enter the Chinese market", Interview by Martin
Klapheck, Tivoli, Aachen 7.30-8 p.m.
Autumn 2009/Spring 2010 Munich,Bochum/Germany, two
monographs and one edited proceedings on contemporary Chinese
literature published:
Chinese
Literature in translation – Proceedings of the
conference at the University of Applied Languages Munich
2009/6/27, Munich 2009, 164 pp
Chinese cultic
literature 2008/2009 - authors, works, trends,
Munich 2009, 127 pp., book series Sinica vol. 25
Chinese
contemporary literature - authors, works, trends – A
snap-shot 2007/2008, Munich 2008, 267 pp., book
series Sinica vol. 23
