University of Heidelberg

Joachim Kurtz, "Framing Western Knowledge in Seventeenth-Century China: Rhetorical Strategies in Jesuit Paratexts." Paper presented at the workshop “Paratexts in Late Imperial Chinese Book Culture.” Heidelberg University, October 2010.

Joachim Kurtz, "The Rhetoric of Trust: Science and Religion in Jesuit Paratexts." Invited paper presented at the symposium “Europe in China – China in Europe: Science and Technology as a Vehicle of Intercultural Dialogue.” BIIB, Zurich, June 2010.

Joachim Kurtz, "From the Discovery of a Discipline to the Invention of a Tradition, or: How ‘Chinese Logic’ Was Given Its History." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Philadelphia, March 2010.

Joachim Kurtz, "Anatomy of a Textual Monstrosity: Dissecting the Mingli tan (De Logica, 1631)." Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the History of Science Society, Phoenix, Arizona, November 2009.

Martin Hofmann, "Cartographic Persuasion: Interpretations of the Tribute of Yu in Song Dynasty Maps." Paper presented at the AAS/ICAS Conference, Honolulu, April 2011.

Martin Hofmann, "Völlig verdreht? Xu Wenjings Karten zum Yugong." Paper presented at the China-AG Tagung, Münster, February 2011. 

Martin Hofmann, "Visual Arguments - The Function of Maps in the Debate on the 'Tribute of Yu'." Paper presented at the Convention of the Modern Language Association, Los Angeles, January 2011.

Martin Hofmann, "Mit falschen Karten? Überlegungen zur Bedeutung von Authentizität bei Illustrationen am Beispiel von Hu Weis (1633-1714) 'Yugong zhuizhi'." Paper presented at the Jahrestagung der Deutschen Vereinigung für Chinastudien, Heidelberg, November 2010. 

Martin Hofmann, "Tracing the Blackwater - Historical maps on a Mythical River in the Western Periphery of China." Invited paper presented at the workshop "L'Asie Orientale dans les traditions cartogrphiques asiatiques et occidentales: différences, interrelations, interactions." CNRS-EHESS, Paris, November 2010. 

Martin Hofmann, "Mapping Arguments – The Debate on the ‘Three Jiang’ in Late Imperial China." Paper presented at the Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies, Riga, July 2010. 

Martin Hofmann, "The Lasting Impact of the Yu the Great – Traditional Chinese Spatial Concepts in Supra-regional Maps from the 12th to the 18th Century." Invited paper presented at the conference "Visual Representations in Pre-modern and Non-Western Science and Technology." Hsinchu, Taiwan, December 2009.

Martin Hofmann, "Frag-würdige Probleme – Chen Dayous (1198-1250) Bemühen um ein korrektes Verständnis des Shangshu." Paper presented at the Jahrestagung der Deutschen Vereinigung fur Chinastudien, München, November 2009.   

Joachim Kurtz: Paratexts in Late Imperial Chinese Book Culture (HS/OS), summer 2010.

Martin Hofmann / David Mervart: Shifting Horizons: Historical Notions of Space in East Asia (HS/OS), winter 2010/11