Conferences and Workshops organized by the Institute

Chronology of past activities

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26. Sep. - 1. Oct. 2009:
Venturing into Magnum Cathay. 17th Century Polish Jesuits in China: Michał Boym S.J. (1612–1659), Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki S.J. (1610–1656), and Andrzej Rudomina S.J. (1596–1633). International Workshop

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 ----------   2003   ----------

26—27 September 2003: Symposium at the Monumenta Serica Research Center at the Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei, on the history of Monumenta Serica, its contribution to Sinology and on Sinology in Taiwan. For details, see www.mssrc.fju.edu.tw
Zu einem sinologischen Symposium zum Thema "Scholarly Dialogue on China: Monumenta Serica as Example" luden im September das Monumenta Serica Sinological Research Center (MSSRC) am College of Foreign Languages and Literature der Katholischen Fu-Jen-Universität in Taipei (Taiwan) in Zusammenarbeit mit dem Institut Monumenta Serica (Sankt Augustin) ein.
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19.—22. September 2003:
Youtai - Presence and Perception of Jews and Judaism in China, Internationales Symposium und Ausstellung, Germersheim.
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20—26 May 2003:
International Conference "Research on Nestorianism in China," Salzburg (Austria), jointly held by the Institute of Church History and Patrology of the University of Salzburg, the private Institute for the Christian Orient and the Monumenta Serica Institute, Sankt Augustin.
Dem aktuellen Forschungsstand zur Geschichte der Kirche des Ostens (dem sog. Nestorianismus) war eine internationale Konferenz in Salzburg vom 20. bis 26. Mai 2003 gewidmet.
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21—25 February 2003:
International Conference "Fascination and Understanding. The Spirit of the Occident and the Spirit of China in Reciprocity," Smolenice Castle (Slovakia)
The conference attempts to elucidate and interpret the meaning of seminal ideas in the West (Abendland) and China which on one side arouse fascination and lead to attempts for understanding and comparison but on the other side might prevent understanding (Verstehen), focusing on historical, philosophical, literary, and religious aspects.
Diese Konferenz stand in der Nachfolge von zwei früheren Konferenzen in Smolenice, die beide von Prof. MARIÁN GÁLIK initiiert und organisiert worden waren ("Interliterary and Intraliterary Aspects of the May Fourth Movement 1919 in China", 13.—17. März 1989, und "Chinese Literature and European Context", 22.—25. Juni 1993). Nach den Vorstellungen der Organisatoren sollte die jetzige Konferenz jedoch über das Feld der Literaturwissenschaft hinausgehen und auch die Gebiete der Philosophie, der Geschichte und der Religion berücksichtigen.
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 ----------   1997   ----------

In 1997the Monumenta Serica Institute and the China-Zentrum organized an exhibition and an international colloquium on the history of Jews in China "From Kaifeng to Shanghai — Jews in China".
The exhibition was staged at the ethnological museum "Haus Völker und Kulturen" in Sankt Augustin and included the Shanghai woodcuts of the German-born Jewish artist David Ludwig Bloch who lived in exile in Shanghai from 1940—1949. On the occasion of the exhibition, these woodcuts were published in book-form in a trilingual edition (German — English — Chinese):

David Ludwig Bloch. Holzschnitte — Woodcuts
Shanghai 1940—1949
. Herausgegeben von Barbara Hoster, Roman Malek und Katharina Wenzel-Teuber. (Sankt Augustin — Nettetal 1997), 249 pp.

The international colloquium "From Kaifeng to Shanghai — Jews in China" (September 22—26, 1997) was attended by some 20 scholars and subsidized by the Asia Committee of the European Science Foundation and the Pacific Cultural Foundation. The proceedings were published as volume 46 of the Monumenta Serica Monograph Series
From Kaifeng ... to Shanghai. Jews in China. Ed. by Roman Malek. Joint Publication of the Monumenta Serica Institute and the China-Zentrum (Sankt Augustin — Nettetal 2000), 706 pp.

Also in 1997, the Monumenta Serica Institute, in cooperation with the Institute for Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, organized an international conference on Daoism "Dao in China und im Westen. Impulse für die moderne Gesellschaft aus der chinesischen Philosophie", held at Sankt Augustin from October 8—10. The proceedings were published in German as Dao in China und im Westen. Impulse für die moderne Gesellschaft aus der chinesischen Philosophie, ed. by Josef Thesing and Thomas Awe (Bonn: Bouvier, 1999).
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In 1995 the Monumenta Serica Institute participated in organizing an international conference held in Xi'an, China, from October 23—27 on Laozi "Laozi - Interpretation und Wirkung". The conference was jointly held by the Institute for Philosophy of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, the Monumenta Serica Institute and the China-Zentrum. The proceedings were published in the Chinese journal Zhongguo zhexue shi (History of Chinese Philosophy), No. 3-4 (1995).
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In 1992 the Monumenta Serica Institute, in cooperation with the China-Zentrum, organized the "International Symposium on the Occasion of the 400th Anniversary of the Birth of Johann Adam Schall von Bell, S.J. (1592—1666). Science — Philosophy — Religion." It was held at Sankt Augustin from May 4—9 and attended by more than 70 scholars from fourteen different countries. The proceedings, supplemented with additional materials, were published in two volumes in the Monumenta Serica Monograph Series:

Roman Malek (ed.), Western Learning and Christianity in China. The Contribution and Impact of Johann Adam Schall von Bell (1592—1666). Jointly published by China-Zentrum and the Monumenta Serica Institute (Sankt Augustin — Nettetal 1998), 2 vols., 1259 pp.

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