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Basic Concepts in transcontinental perspective

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Basic Concepts in transcontinental perspective

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Professor Dr. Marc Matten

Institute for Near Eastern and East Asian Languages and Civilizations
Chair for Sinology with a focus on the Intellectual and Cultural History of China (Alexander von Humboldt-Professor)

  • Phone number: +49 9131 85-22445
  • Email: marc.matten@fau.de

Basic Concepts in transcontinental perspective

This key
research priority addresses
processes of negotiating political, social and cultural basic concepts in the
history of transcontinental spaces and empires in the nineteenth and twentieth
century, with a special focus on East Asia, Europe, the Near East and North
America. By using approaches of cultural studies, history of ideas and
conceptual history we explore by what practices, actors and channels assumingly
European basic concepts of modernity (such as progress, freedom, power, labor,
economy, property, family, sovereignty, but also the concept of modernity
itself) are translated and disseminated. We analyze how and in what way these
concepts are received and rejected, adapted and changed, disseminated and
re-imported globally as heuristic categories to understand societies. The main
goal of this research field is to generate fundamental insights in the
transcontinental circulation of concepts and to differentiate them in their linguistically
and culturally specific historicity. By doing so it aims at transcending
established disciplinary boundaries between the area studies and historical
sciences, and at understanding the function and effect of basic concepts in the
increasingly globalizing humanities.

Projects:

Diamantenpolitik. Transnationale Eigentumsordnungen in der Moderne

Das Projekt geht von der These aus, dass soziale und politische Gefüge in der Moderne ganz wesentlich über materielle Verfügungs- und Handlungsrechte ausgehandelt wurden. Als produktive Sonde in das Handeln, die Aushandlungsprozesse und die Konflikte rund um Eigentum nutzt das Projekt Diamanten. Denn Diamanten waren im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert auf doppelte Weise eine umstrittene Ressource. Zum einen stellten sie ein in hohem Maße begehrtes Gut dar. Sie galten als verlässliche Wertspeicher, symb…

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Scientists and their Knowledge Networks in the Cold War Era

In the past decades, the history of science has experienced numerous turns due to new methodologies or the investigation of previously overlooked sources. This gave rise to new perspectives that have emphasized the contribution of non-European societies to both the emergence and formation of academic disciplines. While these findings have been analyzed in detail for late imperial and Republican China, the case for the People’s Republic of China during the Cold War era has remained a lacuna. T…

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Digital Humanities: Wissens- und Intellektuellennetzwerke im 19./20. Jahrhundert: Japanische Gelehrte in Deutschland

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Spektakuläre Gewaltakte. Transnationale Öffentlichkeiten und Terrorismus, 1880-1914

In dem Projekt soll die kommunikative Wirkung spektakulärer Gewaltakte in den letzten beiden Jahrzehnten vor dem Ausbruch des Ersten Weltkrieges in vergleichender und transnationaler Perspektive analysiert werden. Als „spektakulär“ werden dabei Attentate bezeichnet, die besonders heftige Reaktionen in der Öffentlichkeit hervorriefen. Dies galt (und gilt) insbesondere für terroristisch motivierte Bombenattentate aus dem Untergrund mit einer großen Zahl unbeteiligter Opfer, aber auch für Pogrome u…

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Trinationales Workshop-Programm „Wissensproduktion in transkontinentaler Perspektive“

Das durch den DAAD geförderte Workshopprogramm veranstaltet zusammen mit dem Integrated Human Sciences Program for Cultural Diversity (Tokyo University) und dem Institute of Korean Studies (Yonsei University) Workshops für Nachwuchswissenschaftler in Erlangen, Seoul und Tokyo, die sich mit Produktion, Transfer und Zirkulation von Wissen in transkontinentaler Perspektive beschäftigen. Die Förderung ermöglicht zusätzlich längere Forschungsaufenthalte für DoktorandInnen und Masterstudierende der FAU…

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Grundbegriffe chinesischer Geschichte im transnationalen Kontext

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Publications:

  • Matten M.:
    Hermeneutics of Translation: A critical consideration of the term dao in two renderings of the Analects
    In: Journal of Chinese Philosophy 31 (2004), p. 329–347
    ISSN: 0301-8121
    DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-6253.2004.00157.x
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  • Gutsche V., Florin M., Krentz N. (ed.):
    Diversität historisch. Repräsentationen und Praktiken gesellschaftlicher Differenzierung im Wandel
    Bielefeld: 2018
    (Histoire)
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  • Derix S.:
    Hidden Helpers. Biographical Insights into Early and Mid-Twentieth Century Legal and Financial Advisors
    In: European History Yearbook 16 (2015), p. 47-62
    ISSN: 1616-6485
    Open Access: https://www.degruyter.com/downloadpdf/books/9783110415162/9783110415162-004/9783110415162-004.pdf
    BibTeX: Download
  • Derix S.:
    Transnationale Familien
    In: Jost Dülffer, Wilfried Loth (ed.): Dimensionen internationaler Geschichte, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, 2012, p. 335-351 (Studien zur Internationalen Geschichte, Vol.30)
    ISBN: 978-3-486-71707-5

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  • Derix S.:
    Vom Leben in Netzen. Neue sozial- und geschichtswissenschaftliche Perspektiven auf soziale Netzwerke
    In: Neue politische Literatur 56 (2011), p. 185-206
    ISSN: 0028-3320
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