“Social Worlds Workshop”Ryanne Flock

ASIEN – Nr. 168/169 (2023) pp. 179–81

During the last weekend in January 2023, Björn Alpermann (University of Würzburg) and Elena Meyer-Clement (University of Copenhagen) hosted the annual workshop of their ongoing research project “Social Worlds: China’s Cities as Spaces of Worldmaking” at the Forschungskolleg Humanwissenschaften in Bad Homburg. Located at the University of Würzburg, the project is part of “Worldmaking from a Global Perspective: A Dialogue with China”, a collaborative research project funded by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research. Using the prism of the “social world” allows multiple perspectives on Chinese society, focusing on the knowledge creation, transmission, and agency that emerges in communicative dynamics. To share and discuss the most recent work in progress, the workshop brought together the project members Ryanne Flock (postdoc), Antonie Angerer (predoc), and Birgit Herrmann (coordination); (former) project fellows Bettina Gransow, Gil Hizi, and Mao Jingyu; and colleagues from Sociology and China Studies Isabel Heger-Laube, Michael Malzer, Marius Meinhof, Tian Yueran, Yuan Mingqing, and Francesco Zaratin (in alphabetic order)…