Lecture series »Sinophone Classicism« / Jeroen de Kloet

About the speaker
Jeroen de Kloet is Professor in Globalisation Studies and Head of the Department of Mediastudies, and member of the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA), at the University of Amsterdam. He is also part of the research priority area Global Digital Cultures. Since 2019, he is also affiliated to the School of Music and Recording Arts and part of the State Key Lab of Media Convergence and Communication of the Communication University of China in Beijing under the 1000 talent scheme. Since 2015 Jeroen de Kloet is a regular visiting scholar at the Beijing Film Academy. His work focuses on the cultural implications of globalization, with a special interest in contemporary China. He has worked on popular music, in particular Chinese rock and pop music. Between 2007 and 2012, with a VIDI grant of the NWO, his research expanded towards contemporary art, new media and cinema; as well as towards other issues, in particular the global rise of the discourse of the creative industries, the possibilities to be critical and urban change in China.

About the lecture series
In recent years, literary and cultural works that evoke the cultural memories of classical Chinese traditions are gaining popularity in the global Sinitic-languages space and cyberspace. From literary to visual culture, from pop music to fashion, from state policies to daily rituals, these classicist articulations present Chineseness as complicated, multifaceted, multilingual, and cross-cultural. They raise important questions on the relevance of Chinese traditions today to China, to global Chinese communities, and to a future of »world literature«—as Goethe envisioned it nearly two centuries ago. In this multiannual lecture series, prominent scholars, writers, and artists will present fascinating case studies from their research or draw upon their aesthetic practices to elaborate on their understanding on these important questions. Such investigations demonstrate the abundant aesthetic and intellectual resources that the vast repertoire of Chinese cultural memories may provide to engage in a dialogue on the present and future of a global culture.

Concept of the lecture series: Zhiyi Yang, Professor of Sinology, Goethe University Frankfurt am Main.

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Termine im Überblick

• 28. Oktober 2021
  David Der-wei Wang
  Professor of Chinese Literature
  Harvard University
• 26. November 2021
  Yang Lian
  Poet in Exile
  London and Berlin
• 17. Dezember 2021
  Marius Meinhof
  Sociologist
  University of Bielefeld
• 21. Januar 2022
  Jeroen de Kloet
  Professor in Globalisation Studies
  University of Amsterdam
• 10. Februar 2022
  Markus Nornes
  Professor of Asian Cinema
  University of Michigan,
  Ann Arbor

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Online- oder Hybridveranstaltung vor Ort am Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften in Bad Homburg.

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