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Winter Semester 2021/22, Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften
During the winter semester 2021-22 Professor Zhivi Yang (Chinese Studies) will organized the lecture series “Sinophone Classicism" in cooperation with the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften in Bad Homburg.
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 Sinophone 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. The Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften is dedicating the lecture series »Sinophone Classicism: Chinese Cultural Memories in a Global Space« to exploring these contemporary forms of expression. We invite prominent scholars, writers, and artists to present case studies from their research or to reflect upon their aesthetic practices. The lecture series is conceptualized and organized by Zhiyi Yang, Professor of Sinology at Goethe University, who is currently Goethe Fellow at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften.
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Members of the project (from left to right): Dr. Aimi Muranaka , Dr. Helena Hof, Dr. Ruth Achenbach , Dr. Megha Wadhwa and Dr. Joohyun Justine Park; Fotograf/courtesy of: M. Wadhwa |
We are pleased to announce that the website of the new project Qualification and Skill in the Migration Process of Foreign Workers in Asia"Qualification" in the migration process of foreign skilled workers in Asia is now live! At www.quamafa.de you will find up-to-date information on our work on qualified migration in Asia, including lecture series, publications, movies... QuaMaFA is a joint research project of the IZO of the Goethe University Frankfurt in cooperation with the FU Berlin and the University of Duisburg-Essen and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity! |
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Third-party funding for QuaMaFA, 2021-2024
Aging societies in industrialised nations need skilled workers - specialists in the IT sector, in innovative start-ups, or from top universities. This applies to Germany as well as to the East Asian countries of South Korea, Singapore, China, and especially Japan. Because of their quality of life and lucrative renumeration, these countries are attractive for qualified migrants. But the recipe for success in the competition for the best brains is far from clear: What attracts well-trained specialists to Japan, South Korea, China, or Singapore? What facilitates, and what hinders the integration of skilled foreign workers? What social networks do skilled migrant workers develop? What role does their own initiative for further qualification, their ethnicity and nationality, their gender and multilingualism play? And what causes skilled workers to return to their home countries after years?
More information here.
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Under the title "East Asian labor market: What attracts the best minds abroad", the Goethe University reports on its website about the new BMBF-funded IZO joint project "Qualification" in the migration process of foreign skilled workers in Asia (QuaMaFA) under the direction of Dr. Ruth Achenbach.