SinoNet: Fwd: Einladung zum Vortrag von Wang Ban (Stanford University) am 12. Oktober 2012 um 17 Uhr

[Thomas Immervoll]

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Sehr geehrte Kolleginnen, sehr geehrte Kollegen,

wir laden herzlich zum Vortrag ein:

Ban Wang, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford
University

Sublimation as a Method for Understanding China’s Political Culture

12.10.2012, 17:00 Uhr
HS 24, Hauptgebäude der Universität Wien, Universitätsring 1, Wien

Abstract:
Sublimation is a concept that offers a dialectic interplay between the
individual’s passion and higher pursuits of culture, between libido and
society, passion and politics. By reconsidering sublimation this talk
questions the image of the psyche hemmed in by the symbolic order and
outside agencies. Andreas-Salomé’s theory of sublimation teaches us that
symbolic boundaries are created by humans--out of the depths of memory and
libidinal yearnings for happiness, and that we are mistaken to believe
that social norms are by nature alienating. Symbols of reality ought to be
a stand-in for the underlying, all-embracing unity of the subject and the
cultural environment. The notion of eros as life force compels us to
enquire into emotional, and aesthetic roots of political culture in modern
China.

Bio:
Ban Wang is the William Haas Professor in Chinese Studies at Stanford
University. He is currently the chairperson of the Department of Asian
Languages and Cultures.  His major publications include The Sublime Figure
of History: Aesthetics and Politics in Twentieth –Century China  (Stanford
UP, 1997), Illuminations from the Past (Stanford UP, 2004), and History
and Memory (in Chinese, Oxford UP, 2004).  He co-edited Trauma and Cinema
(Hong Kong UP, 2004), The Image of China in the American Classroom
(Nanjing UP, 2005), China and New Left Visions (Roman and Littlefield,
2012), and Debating Socialist Legacy in China (forthcoming Palgrave,
2013). He edited Words and Their Stories: Essays on the Language of the
Chinese Revolution (Brill, 2010).  He has been a research fellow with the
National Endowment for the Humanities in 2000 and the Institute for
Advanced Study at Princeton in 2007.

Einführung und Moderation: Vizerektorin Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik


Ban Wangs Vortrag ist die key note lecture und Auftaktveranstaltung des
Workshops:
The affective foundations of contemporary Chinese society. An explorative
dialogue between the Humanities, Social Sciences and Psychotherapy.

13.-14.10.2012, Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften/Sinologie, Hof 2, Tor
2.3, Raum: SIN 1.

Auch zu diesem Workshop sind alle eingeladen. Er ist Teil des FWF-Projekts
„Our own shadow of the Cultural Revolution: Transgenerational transmission
and the affective foundations of contemporary Chinese society” (FWF J
3203, Leitung: Dr. Sascha Klotzbücher), Webseite:
http://china-emotion.univie.ac.at

Konferenzsprache ist Englisch.

Ein ausführliches Programm sowie abstracts, Kurzbiographien der
Vortragenden sowie Ortsbeschreibung finden Sie auf der Workshop-Webseite:
http://china-emotion.univie.ac.at/workshop-2012/

Mit freundlichen Grüßen
Sascha Klotzbücher

-- Dr. Sascha Klotzbücher Department of East Asian Studies University of
Vienna Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften Universität Wien Spitalgasse 2,
Hof 2 1090 Wien Austria Tel:+43-1-4277-43858 Fax:+43-1-427743849
http://homepage.univie.ac.at/sascha.klotzbuecher/

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