Annual Worldmaking Conference 2023 - The Making of Epochal Events— Narrating Turning Points in Chinese History:
Panel VI. Making World Health — Local Moments and Global Moments
Chair: Elena Meyer-Clement (University of Copenhagen)
Harald Bøckman (University of Oslo): An Epochal Event Unfolding: Wuhan in the Spring of 2020
Igor Sevenard (Freie Universität Berlin): SARS in Hongkong as an Epochal Event
Chen Hao (Peking University / Fellow Heidelberg): Non-human Animals in a Human Pandemic: Entangled Histories
Emily Graf (Tübingen University / Associate Member Berlin): The Barefoot Doctor Transgressing Worlds of Health?
Liu Chao (Nanjing University / Fellow Berlin): Ushering Nutrition and Nutriology into Everyday Life: A Conceptual History of yingyang in Republican China (virtual presentation)
11:15 – 11:30
Coffee Break
11:30 – 13:00
Rethinking Religion(s) in China—Theories, Methods, Practices
Methods Workshop organized by the Göttingen Team
Invited Guests:
Tansen Sen (New York University Shanghai)
Buddhist Cosmopolis and Ecumenes: Deconstructing Buddhist Transnational Entanglements in the Longue Durée
Vincent Goossaert (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études, Paris)
The CRTA Database of Chinese Religious Texts
Commentary by Mohammed Alsudairi (Australian National University / Former Fellow Göttingen) Adresse Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) 010.01.05 Voßstrasse 2 69115 Heidelberg Homepage Veranstaltung https://www.worldmaking-china.org/en/annual-conference/ Veranstalter Centre for Asian and Transcultural Studies (CATS) Homepage Veranstalter https://www.cats.uni-heidelberg.de Kontakt contact@cats.uni-heidelberg.de Alle Termine der Veranstaltung 'Annual Worldmaking Conference 2023 - The Making of Epochal Events— Narrating Turning Points in Chinese History': “The epochal event [is] (1) an emerging category of a new kind of historical thought [that] is best conceived of as (2) a hyper-historical event that (3) brings about a ‘new reality’ and thereby (4) separates two worlds (5) in its capacity to signal the most momentous transformative changes (6) that extend beyond the limits of human experience (7) both in the world of human affairs and in the more-than-human world of the human-technology-nature entanglement.”[1]
Chinese history has been marked by radical changes in society, culture and the environment, which are often linked to specific events: famines, rebellions, inventions. This conference seeks to investigate how such epochal events determine our understanding of Chinese history and structures its narration. Potential contributions shall investigate how these events were reflected upon by specific actors and in specific media, and how they shaped institutions and social structures. A special emphasis shall be placed on how such events are recorded (in texts, images, statistics etc.) and situated in a particular vision of the Chinese past and future, arguing for their “epochal” quality.
We seek to engage with the question in how far such events are “epochal” at all, whether they necessarily mark a break with the past, thus promising the dawning of a new epoch, a “new reality” (Simon), or whether the “epochal” can also be constructed to make a claim of historical discontinuity that might be quite at odds with the experiences of the actors involved. With Bernard Stiegler we also want to ask whether there is a way to end the epochal: the “epoch of the absence of epoch,” the absence of any collective vision for the future that he attributes to the current disjuncture of our technical and social systems.[2] Contributors are invited to consider how such epochal events or certain types of periodization impacted in their own fields of specialty – if they did at all. They are also free to introduce events that are meaningful within a given discipline, community region, or time period but ignored or marginalized in other narratives – suggesting alternative epochal divides.
[1] Zoltan B.Simon, The Epochal Event: Transformations in the Entangled Human, Technological, and Natural Worlds, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 114.
[2] Bernard Stiegler. The Age of Disruption: Technology and Madness in Computational Capitalism. Cambridge: Polity 2019, chap. 2.
Donnerstag, 15. Juni 2023, 13.30 Uhr Annual Worldmaking Conference 2023 - The Making of Epochal Events— Narrating Turning Points in Chinese History
Freitag, 16. Juni 2023, 09.30 Uhr Annual Worldmaking Conference 2023 - The Making of Epochal Events— Narrating Turning Points in Chinese History
Samstag, 17. Juni 2023, 09.15 Uhr Annual Worldmaking Conference 2023 - The Making of Epochal Events— Narrating Turning Points in Chinese History
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