German sinologist Björn Alpermann has guest-edited a new special issue of the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs that focuses on “China’s Rural-Urban Transformation: New Forms of Inclusion and Exclusion”. As Alpermann writes in the abstract of his editorial: “China’s urbanisation drive has been unprecedented in
Futures of Media – Media Power 21-22 January 2022 Journalism Program – Xiamen University Malaysia The conference will be held on Zoom The relationship between politics and the media has always been one of the central themes of media theory. From the beginnings, media scholars exerted
The Moral Roots of Quarantine: The East and the West 16–17 December 2021, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Faculty of Arts and Humanities – University of Macau “The Moral Roots of Quarantine: The East and the West” mainly aims at enriching the scholarly debate about comparative East–West perspectives on the responses to
In this lecture, which will be in English with English-Chinese bilingual PPT slides, Karl-Heinz Pohl (卜松山) looks at the “Basics of Chinese Aesthetics – Its Philosophical and Cross-Cultural Frame of Reference”. For Pohl, a “symbolic and aesthetic orientation” (references to literature, art, religion and philosophy) is
Indonesia, the state with the largest Muslim population in the world, is in a process of continuous societal transformation. From the perspective of Media and Communication Studies, recent political developments towards an increasingly consolidated democratic system are of great interest. The comparison with Germany may
At The Cooler Lumpur Festival, they believe that discussion and dialogue is the hallmark of any great society. Hear, hear! They trust in “the irresistible and contagious power of a great idea and the latent potential it holds to inspire awareness, change and transformation” –
They’re back: the Freedom Film Fest collective, a not-for-profit body established to support and develop social documentary filmmaking, returns to PJ Live Arts, Jaya One in Kuala Lumpur. Happening for one week, from 21 to 28 September, FFF will show the latest award-winning films, highlighting
He is the most famous, if not the only, graffiti artist of Pakistan – Abdullah Ahmed Khan aka Sanki King. With his contribution to the Karachi Biennale 2017 – “Mind Palace – Freedom of Thought” – the twenty-seven-year-old Sanki has now officially arrived in the
The Roppongi Art Night Executive Committee will be hosting Roppongi Art Night 2017 for 2 days on September 30 (Sat) and October 1 (Sun), 2017. Roppongi Art Night is a one-night celebration of art staged in the district of Roppongi. A diverse range of works