Protected: “I want to open all the doors” – Interview with Wing Shya by Aurora
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“Dear Mr. Heidingsfelder” – “Dear Mr. Alpermann”: A Correspondence on the SCMP Op-Ed
Dear Mr. Heidingsfelder, With great interest, I read your commentary in the South China Morning Post. Even though I am not one of those who are singing from the same song-sheet that claims Confucius Institutes promote espionage or otherwise endanger our freedom of science, some
China’s Rural-Urban Transformation: Special Issue of the Journal of Current Chinese Affairs
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
“My only trick: to be as Austrian as possible” – Virtual Classroom session with Bernhard Zand (Der Spiegel)
In this new episode of our virtual classroom series, students of UIC’s 2021 “Entertainment Journalism” class talk to Bernhard Zand – long time DER SPIEGEL correspondent, linguistic miracle (who effortlessly switches between several languages in a single sentence), passionate jogger, and last but not least:
“You’re in control!” – Virtual Classroom session with Ben Falk, author of ‘Entertainment Journalism’
Hi everybody! My name is Ben. I am the author of Entertainment Journalism – Making Your Career and the same journalist. So I want to say hello to everybody. Thank you so much for asking me such interesting questions. I’ll do my very best to
Realo Turned Fundi – The Baerbock Doctrine. An Op-Ed by Markus Heidingsfelder
The new German Foreign Minister Annalena Baerbock recently prescribed a course of “dialogue and toughness” for China. Bad cop and good cop in one person, a bit of Habermas here, a bit of Carl Schmitt there, so to speak. German tabloid BILD did not
Conference: 4th Futures of Media – “Media Power”, 20-21 January 2022
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
Conference : “The Moral Roots of Quarantine”, 16–17 December 2021
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
“Believable Lies” – Min Tesch on the Art of Visual Effects. Interview by DENG Qi
Hi, Min. How are you? Hi, Chelsea. I’m okay, thanks. I was looking forward to play some soccer later today, but when I woke up this morning, my heel was swollen, out of nothing. No idea why. It really hurts when I step on it.
“90 Days Later” – A PS to the interview with Markus Heidingsfelder on the Lab Leak Thesis
AK: Hi, Markus. Hello, Arqam, hello, Aymen. AK: Here we are again, more than 90 days later. Yes, here we are. I am happy to see that you are both still alive and well. AK: Alive, yes. Well, not so much. AA: Yeah, these lockdowns