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Subject: H-ASIA: CFP Optimism and Scepticism regarding Progress in Late
19th-Century Republican China, Erlangen, Oct 29-31, 2013
> H-ASIA
> November 27, 2012
>
> Call for papers: Optimism and Scepticism regarding Progress in Late
> 19th-Century Republican China, ("Fate, Freedom and Prognostication.
> Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia and Europe"),
> Erlangen, Germany, 29-31 October 2013
>
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> Call for papers: Optimism and Scepticism regarding Progress in Late
> 19th-Century Republican China
>
> Location: Germany
> Call for Papers Date: 2013-01-18
> Date Submitted: 2012-11-21
> Announcement ID: 198940
>
> On behalf of the International Consortium for Research in the Humanities
> "Fate, Freedom and Prognostication" at the Friedrich-Alexander-University
> Erlangen-Nuremberg Prof. Thomas Frohlich (convenor) invites to the
> conference on Optimism and Scepticism regarding Progress in Late
> 19th-Century Republican China. The conference will be held from 29th -
> 31th October 2013 in Erlangen, Germany.
>
> The aim of this conference is to examine expressions of optimism and
> scepticism regarding civilizational progress as they appeared within the
> circles of the Chinese intellectual and political elite.
>
> Following crisis response strategies from the end of the 19th century,
> conceptions of civilizational progress, in the broad sense, social
> evolution and modernization quickly gained a great degree of influence in
> political and intellectual circles in China. Even though Western ideas
> played a central role to varying degrees in the development of such
> conceptions, the evaluations, assessments and prognoses of progress were
> by no means concurrent in China and Western societies. While optimistic
> views on civilizational progress tended to lose importance in Europe and
> North America from the late 19th century and sceptical findings were
> increasingly emphasized, optimism regarding progress continued to
> predominate in China in various forms. Fundamentally optimistic positions,
> in China, referred to the temporal aspects of civilizational advance: it
> was thus thought to be possible that progress/modernization could occur in
> an accelerated mode in China. This attitude reflects notions of a present
> and future China in which a catching up with, overtaking and surpassing of
> supposedly more advanced Western societies might take place. Moreover, a
> multifaceted and frequently ethically based diagnosis of Chinas current
> situation appeared which recognized a lack of simultaneity from an
> explicitly universal historical perspective and was associated with
> predictive statements. Here, China appeared as a historical entity that
> was stuck in a historically backwards era in comparison to Western
> societies and therefore, facing considerable time pressure, needed to
> undertake targeted steps toward an accelerated process of development.
> Such optimistic assumptions can be found in a broad intellectual and
> political spectrum that is not adequately understood in terms of the usual
> classifications like progressive/conservative. In this context, research
> on scepticism regarding progress and criticism of optimistic positions
> from late imperial and Republican China would also be highly instructive.
>
> The focus of the conference allows for a wide-ranging framework for
> transdisciplinary investigations into aspects of optimism and scepticism
> regarding civilizational progress.
>
> If interested, please send an abstract (max. one page), along with a short
> CV to julia.hauser@ikgf.uni-erlangen.de by 18th January 2013. Notice of
> acceptance/ rejection will be sent by early February. As the conference is
> a discussion-based workshop final papers should be submitted to the
> conference organizers on or before 1st September, 2013. All presentations
> should be written and delivered in English. For further information please
> contact Julia Hauser (julia.hauser@ikgf.uni-erlangen.de).
>
> International Consortium for Research in the Humanities "Fate, Freedom
> and Prognostication. Strategies for Coping with the Future in East Asia
> and Europe"
> Friedrich-Alexander-Universitt Erlangen-Nrnberg
> Ulrich-Schalk Str. 3a, 91056 Erlangen
> phone: +49 (0)9131 85 - 20618
> fax: +49 (0)9131 85 20630
> www.ikgf.uni-erlangen.de
>
> Email: julia.hauser@ikgf.uni-erlangen.de
> Visit the website at http://www.ikgf.uni-erlangen.de
>
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