FOR APAC Guest Lecture: „Foremen, Labor Scout, and Overseas Worker Agent, Java 1870s – 2020s“
16. Juni 2026 | Online: Over the past century and a half, laborers from rural Java, Indonesia, have moved to various regions, near and far. Beginning with local migration in the mid-19th century to expand coffee cultivation, this evolved into overseas migration to all corners of the world. This migration was facilitated by middlemen known as mandor, werek, and migrant worker agents. Without those middlemen, the entire labor recruitment structure in and from Java would be impossible.
Vortrag mit Rektor Bernhard Fügenschuh
19. Mai 2026 | Präsenz: Momente der Entscheidung: Warum sich sehr verschiedene Studien in einer Seele finden lassen. Julius Gremblich, Franziskaner und Geologe. Kein Blümchen wagt es, den ungastlichen Boden zu betreten … ” – so beginnt Julius Gremblich 1877 seine Abhandlung über Torfbildung. Am Rand der Alpen zeigt sich: Leben steckt oft im Verborgenen – und Wissenschaft beginnt mit Staunen, Beobachten und Sammeln.
FOR APAC Ringvorlesung: “Wuju (舞剧): Colossal Spectacle between Cultural Renaissance and Geopolitics”
19. Mai 2026 | Präsenz: The Chinese “dance drama” known as wǔjù (舞剧), is a modern hyper-mediated form of grand spectacle that cannot easily be pigeon-holed. It draws on long traditions of performing arts that include multiple forms of Chinese opera (such as jingju and kunqu) and narrative song (shuochang yishu), but also on more recent developments from ballet, modern dance, experimental and avant-garde theatre, music theatre, even acrobatics, the “model operas” of the Cultural Revolution era, and now digital arts.
