Goethe University Frankfurt
Campus Westend, Seminarhaus
Max-Horkheimer Str. 4
60323 Frankfurt am Main

Room: SH 0.107

Panel 1: Transcultural Philosophy

9:30–11:00 a.m.

Chair: Fabian Heubel (Academia Sinica)

Lothar Wilms (GU Frankfurt)
“Greek Freedom: A Structuralist Approach”

Elena Heller (GU Frankfurt) and Robert Thyssen (GU Frankfurt)
“The Aesthetics and Politics of Play between Nature and Freedom”

Chiang Tsai-Chen (NTNU)
Things as Ecstatic Being: Freedom in Religious Architecture

Tea break

11:00–11:30 a.m

Panel 2: Aesthetical Perspectives
Chair: Tsang-long Liu (NTNU)

11:30 a.m.–1:00 p.m.

Chair: Tsang-long Liu (NTNU)

Nathan Taylor (GU Frankfurt)
“Feral Freedom in Anna Seghers”

Huang Yu-Ting (NTNU)
“Inter-objective Mutual Reflection: On Nature and Freedom in Stille Freundin”

Zhiyi Yang (GU Frankfurt)
“Hunger Memories: Nature and (Un-)Freedom in Cheng Jianfu’s Great Leap Forward Poetry”

Lunch break

1:30–2:15 p.m.

Panel 3: Historical Observations

2:15-3:45 p.m.

Chair: Iwo Amelung (GU Frankfurt)

Chang Cheng (NTNU)
“Competition among the German States within the Qing Treaty Ports during the 1860s: The Diplomatic Autonomy of die Freien und Hansestädte”

Michael O’Krent (Basel)
“Two Metaphysical Models of History in the Late Qing”

Haochen Ku (MPI)
“Positivising the “Mandate of Heaven”: The Translation of Ethical Nature through the Leninist Parties in Modern China, 1928–1949”