Prof. Dr. Ralph Weber has held a presentation on Chinese writer Liu Xiaobo at a conference at the University of Zurich. The conference titled ”Residual Futures: Rethinking Utopianism in Modern China” was held on October 3-6, 2018.
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Ralph Weber Teaches at Summer School in Dakar
Prof. Dr. Ralph Weber, Assistant Professor for European Global Studies, was part of the teaching team of a summer school on African Studies and Area Studies in Africa. The topic of the event was “African Studies and Africanists: Whence the…
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Ralph Weber, Xu Zhenxu, and Chan Yim Fong at the World Congress of Philosophy in Beijing
Prof. Dr. Ralph Weber, Xu Zhenxu, and Chan Yim Fong have presented papers at the 24th World Congress of Philosophy. The event took place from August 13 to August 20, 2018, in Beijing, China. The congress sought to explore dimensions of the…
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Der SNF fördert zwei neue Projekte am Europainstitut
Prof. Christa Tobler und Prof. Ralph Weber haben beim Schweizerischen Nationalfonds (SNF) zwei neue Forschungsprojekte eingeworben. Christa Toblers Projekt befasst sich ab Herbst 2018 mit Fragen der Altersdiskriminierung im Arbeitsrecht,…
The Politics of European Studies in Asia: Workshop in Basel
What drives research on Europe globally? And are European studies politicized in Asia? These are the key questions of a workshop titled „The Politics of European Studies in Asia” at the Institute for European Global Studies. The event was…
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Ralph Weber Speaks at the Queen Mary University of London About Comparative Philosophy
On January 17, 2018, Prof. Ralph Weber presented a lecture on Comparative Philosophy at Queen Mary University of London. The lecture was part of the Centre for Law and Society in a Global Context’s lecture series on “Comparative…
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Ralph Weber Speaks at International Symposium on the Legacy of Liu Xiaobo in Helsinki
On January 12, 2018, Prof. Ralph Weber gave a talk on the “Normative Appeal of Political Realism in the PRC“ at the international symposium “The Legacy of Liu Xiaobo” in Helsinki. The event was organized by the Erik Castrén Institute for…
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EIB (Prof. Dr. Ralph Weber) organizes International Workshop in Cameroon
“European Concepts for African Realities – Problem or Not?” was the topic of a conference organised by the EIB in Yaoundé, Cameroon. The event took place from November 19 to 23 at the Faculty of Arts, Letters and Social Sciences of the…
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Prof. Weber and Dr. Silvana Târlea in China
Prof. Ralph Weber and Dr. Silvana Târlea travelled to China at the end of October to conduct fieldwork for the project "European Studies in a Global Perspective".
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Conference on “Global Chinese Philosophy”
Almost 100 scholars have presented their work at the 2nd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Philosophy (EACP), which took place in Basel on September 7-9, 2017. The theme of the conference was "Global Chinese…