Public Lecture: Islam in the “Age of Confessionalization”

Tijana Krstic (CEU, Budapest) will talk about "Islam in the “Age of Confessionalization”: Reimagining Community, Piety, Morality and Governance in the Ottoman Empire, 1540s-1720s" on 28 November, 7 p.m., Schillerstraße 6, Room 102. The talk aims to investigate the impact of confessional polarization among Muslims living in the early modern Ottoman Empire (and beyond) on the emergence of new conceptual distinctions in the discourses of piety, morality and governance articulated by Ottoman Muslims between the sixtenth and early eighteenth centuries ...

Public Lecture by Mayfair Yang

The Significance of Whenzhou's "Ritual Economy" in China's Capitalism and Globalization.

20 November, 6 p.m., Confucius Institute (Otto-Schill-Str. 1, 04109 Leipzig)

This lecture takes up calls by J.K. Gibson-Graham and others to challenge representations of capitalism as a monolithic entity, and instead, to make more visible the economic multiplicity that is all around us, but we fail to see.  Many scholars already understand that Chinese state capitalism diverges from Western liberal capitalism.  Few have examined how pre-capitalist forms of economic practice are uneasily incorporated within Chinese state capitalist economy, where they continue to operate according to non-capitalist or even anti-capitalist principles, such as kinship ethics, human-divine exchange, divine and ritual debt-economies, communal interests, and rivalries of generosity, even while they are also penetrated by capitalism ...