Friday, 12 October 2012, 17:00-18:30

Location: HS 24, Hauptgebäude der Universität Wien, Universitätsring 1, 1010 Wien

Key-note lecture (with introductory remarks by Prof. Dr Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik)

Ban Wang

Sublimation as a Method for Understanding China's Revolutionary Culture

(This lecture is co-sponsered by the Confucius Institute at University of Vienna)

Saturday, 13 October 2012

Location: SIN 1, Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften-Sinologie, Campus der Universität Wien AKH, Spitalgasse 2, Courtyard 2, Door 2.3, second floor

Welcome and introduction

9:00-09:30

Susanne Weigelin-Schwiedrzik 

Introduction to the workshop and comments on Ban Wang’s lecture (with response by Ban Wang)

Panel 1:  Conceptualizations of affects and emotion 9:30-10:50

Chair: Andrea Riemenschnitter

09:30-09:50

Haiyan Lee

Acting Out Happiness: Emotion, Ritual, and the Social Order in a Comparative Perspective

09:50-10:10

Claus Lamm

Affects and emotions in Psychology and Neurosciences

10.10-10:30

N.N., Wang Ning

Comments

10:30-10:50

Discussion

Panel 2: Affective foundations of Chinese politics 11:10-12:50

Chair: Felix Wemheuer

11:10-11:30

Aaron Moore

Hijacked Development? Social Consciousness in the Wartime Diaries of Children and Adolescents, 1931-1945

11:30-11:50

Feiyu Sun

A Neurosis Analysis of suku (to confess bitterness): Understanding China’s Revolution with Classical Psychoanalysis

11:50-12:10

Audrey Min Yang

Trauma, Memory and Identity in the Aftermath of the Great Leap Famine: Findings from Oral History Research in Xuancheng, Anhui

12:10-12:30

Tomas Plänkers, Angelika Messner

Comments

12:30-12:50

Discussion

Panel 3: Affects in contemporary Chinese society,  14.30-16.30

Chair: Helmut Opletal

14:30-14:50

Xudong Zhao

Family, life course and mental health in China

14:50-15:10

Tomas Plänkers

Forwarding trauma to the next generation. The follow-up of the Chinese Cultural Revolution

15:10-15.30 Sascha Klotzbücher

"Eating Bitterness" (chiku) as a Resource. Transgenerational Perspectives on Strategies of Maoist Self-manipulation

15:50-16:10

Ban Wang, Tao Lin

Comments

16:10-16.30

Discussion

Sunday, 14 October 2012

Location: SIN 1, Institut für Ostasienwissenschaften-Sinologie, Campus der Universität Wien AKH, Spitalgasse 2, Courtyard 2, Door 2.3, second floor

Panel 4: Cultural and institutional boundaries of affect interpretation,  09:00-10:10

Chair: Haiyan Lee

09:00-09:20

Tao Lin 

The encounter of Psychoanalysis on Chinese Culture

09:20-09:40   

Ning Wang   

Chinese culture and psychoanalysis

09:40-09:50

Xudong Zhao   

Comments

09:50.10:10   

Andrea Riemenschnitter

Reflections + Comments

10:10-10:30     

Discussion

Panel 5:  Cultural boundaries of affect production,  10:50-12:10

Chair: Lena Springer
10:50-11:10

Antje Haag

On Shame in China

11:10-11:30

Angelika Messmer

Pain and Suffering in concrete terms

11.30-11:50

Haiyan Lee, Aaron Moore   

Comments

11:50-12:10       

Closing discussion