The Thematic Network 'Principles of Cultural Dynamics'---CUHK, Hong Kong

a) PCD Network Inauguration, Berlin, 22-24 January 2014

 

RIH sent a delegation to attend the Inauguration of “Principles on Cultural Dynamics” Network, which was hosted by FUB from 22 Jan to 24 Jan, 2014. The delegation members are: Prof. Hsiung Ping-chen, Prof. Poo Mu-chou, Prof. Ian Morley and Mr. Lei Shiwei (PhD candidate, History Department, CUHK).

 

The PCD network Inauguration in January 2014 consists of three parts: 1) Strategy meeting; 2) Opening ceremony 3) Workshop on “How to Define Cultural Dynamics”.

 

The Strategy meeting was held in the morning, 23 January 2014. Prof. Hsiung, Prof. Poo and Mr. Lei attended the meeting, in which issues pertaining to the organization of future activities of the network were discussed. The most important programs of the PCD network are exchange programs and Global Humanities Campus.  The exchange programs include:

 

1) Global Humanities Junior Fellowship (4 to 6 months)

2) Global Humanities Junior Research and Teaching Stay (3 to 5 months)

3) Global Humanities Senior Research and Teaching Stay (1 month)

4) Global Humanities Distinguished Lecture Series

 

All CUHK delegation members attended the opening ceremony in the evening, 23 January. Prof. Hsiung was invited to take part in the public panel discussion on “Global Humanities and Cultural Dynamics” at the ceremony. She gave a lecture on “Compare so as to Connect: The Mirror Effect of Europe and Asia”.

 

Prof. Morley and Prof. Poo presented papers in the workshop on “How to Define Cultural Dynamics” on 24 January. Prof. Poo’s paper presented on “Understanding cultural dynamics through comparison: The study of antiquity and global humanities”, and Prof. Morley’s paper presented on “The Advancement of civilization and cities in the Asia-Pacific: Moving beyond national/cultural borders”.

 

 

 

 

b) PCD Summer Workshop at FUB (21 July – 3 August 2014)

 

The summer program for 2014, hosted by Dahlem Humanities Center of FUB, includes a two-week summer school and a two-day workshop.

 

The Centre for the Comparative Study of Antiquity has selected two PhD graduate students from History Department, namely Chen Qin and Zhang Peiling, to participate in the 2014 summer workshop. They took part in “Circular and Vectorial Trends in Cultural Development” workshop and visited local museums.

 

 

 

 

c) PCD’s Global Humanities Junior Fellowship Visiting Students

• Students from Dahlem Humanities Center

1) Mr. Philipp Meyer, visiting period: 12 Feb to 15 July 2014

Mr. Philipp Meyer, supported by PCD’s Global Humanities Junior Fellowship, is hosted by RIH from 15 Feb to 15 July 2014.

 

Mr. Meyer is a PhD graduate student at the Institute of Philosophy of FUB. The title of his doctorate dissertation is “Inkommensurabilität als sozialphilosophisches

Problem” (Incommensurability as a Problem of Social Philosophy), and the dissertation is supervised by PD Dr. Hans Feger.

 

At CUHK, Mr. Meyer is under the guidance of Prof. Kwan Tze-wan and also affiliated to Edwin Cheng Foundation Asian Centre for Phenomenology, one of the research centers of RIH. His contact information in HK is as follows:

Tel: 6440 5026

Email: philipp-meyer1@gmx.net

 

• Students from CUHK

1) Miss. Xu Dongni, visiting period: 3 July to 30 December, 2014

Miss. Xu Dongni, an MPhil student of History Department at CUHK, has been awarded the Global Humanities Junior Fellowship, hosted by the Institute of Egyptology under the Ancient Studies in FUB. Her MPhil thesis is titled “Idea and Wealth in Ancient Egypt”, supervised by Prof. Poo Mu-chou. At FUB, she is under the guidance of Prof. Joanne Rowland. 

 

 

 

 

d) Brief meeting on PCD project on 7 June, at CUHK

Participants:

1) Prof. Hsiung Ping-chen (Director, Institute for the Humanities, CUHK)

2) Prof. Kupper Philipp Meyer (Dahlem Humanities Center, FUB)

3) Prof. Poo Mu-chou (Director, Centre for Comparative Study of Antiquity, CUHK)

4) Prof. Ian Morley (Department of History)

5) Prof. Lim, Song-hwee (Department of Cultural and Religious Studies)

6) Dr. Wang Wan-jui (Postdoctoral Fellow, RIH)

7) Mr. Tsang Yik Man (PhD candidate, Department of History, CUHK)

8) Mr. Lei Shiwei (PhD candidate, Department of History, CUHK)

9) Miss. Zhang Peilin (PhD candidate, Department of History, CUHK)

10) Miss.Xu Dongni (Mphil graduate student, Department of History, CUHK)

 

Prof. Kupper gave a brief introduction on “Principles of Cultural Dynamics” Network – A New Format of Research-Oriented Cooperation Between Humanities Centers Worldwide in the meeting, which consisted of four programmes: 1) Global Humanities Junior Fellowship (4 to 6 months); 2) Global Humanities Junior Research and Teaching Stay (3 to 5 months); 3) Global Humanities Campus, Joint Workshop; 4) Summer school. These topics were discussed vigorously in the meeting.

 

 

 

 

e) Global Humanities Junior Research and Teaching Stay

1) Dr. Wang Wan-jui, Postdoctoral Fellow, RIH (Visiting Date: 10 June 2014 to 6 September 2014)

Dr. Wang has been invited to give a talk titled “New Taiwanese Cinema” at Bauhaus-Universitat Weimar, Asia Film Festival: Taiwan-Japan on 28 June 2014, and “Modernity, Cold War and the World Cinema” on 23 July 2014 respectively during this research trip. For details, please visit: http://www.uni-weimar.de/de/medien/professuren/film-und-medienwissenschaft/ostasiatische-aesthetik/

 

 

 

f) Global Humanities Senior Research and Teaching Stay

1) Prof. Lim Song Hwee, Director of Cultural Studies, CUHK (Visiting Date: 20 July to 3 August 2014)

Prof. Lim gave a talk on “Speed and Slowness in Contemporary Film Cutlure” on 28 July and attended a workshop on “Circular and Vectorial Trends in Cultural Developments”, giving a talk on “Walking in the City, Slowly: Spectacular Temporal Practices in Chai Min Leong’s Slow Walk, Long March Series” on 29 July. This paper aims to complicate extant scholarship on the theme of walking in the city by exploring the temporal aspect of this everyday practice.

 

2) Prof. Chou Whei-wing (Visiting Professor, Taiwan Research Centre, RIH)

Prof. Chou visited FUB from 30 July to 2 August 2014, and gave a talk on Cross Taiwan Strait Relation of the last hundred years in summer school.

 

* Pre-PCD Inauguration Note: Before PCD Inauguration, Mr. Tsang Yik Man, a PhD candidate of Department of History, was invited by DHC as a representative of CUHK to attend the conference “Dramatic Experience: Poetics of Drama and the Public Sphere(s) in Early Modern Europe and Beyond,” held in Berlin on 27-28 November 2013.