Tuesday | 07:00 PM | China and the U.S. – Ambition and Frustration in Fragile Societies Biao Xiang (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle) in conversation with Manfred Berg (HCA) Biao Xiang studied sociology at Beijing University, China, and received his PhD in social anthropology from the University of Oxford, UK. He was Professor of Social Anthropology at Oxford before he joined MPI in 2021. Biao Xiang’s research addresses various types of migration and mobility– internal and international, unskilled and highly skilled, and for reasons momentous and mundane– in China, India and other parts of Asia. Through the lens of migration, he has examined a wide range of political economy issues, including state-society relations, labour, social reproduction, and mobility governance. Biao Xiang is the winner of the 2008 Anthony Leeds Prize for his book Global Body Shopping and the 2012 William L. Holland Prize for his article ‘Predatory Princes’. His 2000 Chinese book 跨越边界的社区 (published in English as Transcending Boundaries, 2005) was reprinted in 2018 as a contemporary classic, and 自己作为方法 (Self as Method, co-authored with Wu Qi) was ranked the Most Impactful Book 2020 in China according to the website Douban. Through public-facing articles and interviews, his ideas regularly generate wide discussions in China and beyond. Xiang’s work has been translated into Japanese, French, Korean, Spanish, German and Italian. Address Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) 010.01.05 (CATS Auditorium) Voßstrasse 2 69115 Heidelberg Homepage Event https://www.hca.uni-heidelberg.de/veranstaltungen/encounters.html Organizer Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) Homepage Organizer https://www.cats.uni-heidelberg.de Contact Registration E-Mail ahennemann@hca.uni-heidelberg.de Alle Termine der Veranstaltung '„Encounters” - New Perspectives on Asia, America, and Europe': Encounters Tuesday 30th November 2021, 07:15 PM Transforming U.S.-China conflicts? Common interests and transnational perspectives • Dr. Cheng Li, Brookings Institution, Washington, D.C. (USA), John L. Thornton China Center • Prof. Dr. Sebastian Harnisch, Heidelberg University, Institute of Political Science Tuesday 25th January 2022, 12:30 PM Visions of a new global order - A view from China • Prof. Dr. Wang Hui, Tsinghua University, Peking (China), Department of Chinese Language and Literature
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(Heidelberg Center for American Studies) Tuesday 14th February 2023, 07:00 PM China and the U.S. – Ambition and Frustration in Fragile Societies Biao Xiang (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle) in conversation with Manfred Berg (HCA) Tuesday 04th June 2024, 06:15 PM Michael Meyer in conversation with Barbara Mittler |