AREA Ruhr is pleased to remind you of the upcoming third installation of its newly implemented AREA Book Talk Series. The talk will feature former AREA Ruhr doctoral student Yasmin Koppen, introducing her recent publication “East Asian Landscapes and Legitimation: Localizing Authority Through Sacred Sites in China and Vietnam”. You are cordially invited to attend.
14 January 2025, 6.15–7.30 PM
“East Asian Landscapes and Legitimation: Localizing Authority Through Sacred Sites in China and Vietnam”
by Yasmin Koppen (Talk conducted in German)
Host: Christine Moll-Murata (RUB)
About the AREA Book Talk Series
In the winter term 2024/25 AREA Ruhr has launched its novel AREA Book Talk Series. Experts from AREA Ruhr are meeting up with authors of newly released academic books that deal with East Asia from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives. We are curious about getting insights into recently published research results and discussing the “research journey” that authors have been engaged in.
All events are conducted online via Zoom and are open to be joined after registration. Following the exchange between the invited author and an AREA host, the audience is encouraged to join the discussion.
About the author
Yasmin Koppen is postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Religions at Leipzig University, focusing on Chinese and Southeast Asian religions. She completed her studies in Chinese and Religious Studies at Ruhr-University Bochum and enhanced her expertise in Vietnamese studies as a research fellow at LWL-Museum für Archäologie in Herne. Her doctotal studies were supported by AREA Ruhr. Her current research concerns the religionization of environmental movements in the struggle of indigenous cultures against green imperialism in Southeast Asia.
About the Book
The book examines the contrasting outcomes of the Chinese Empire’s conquests of Sichuan and Vietnam with a focus on the dynamics between central auhority and local autonomy, as they are evident in the transformation of sacred sites. The Experiential Architecture Analysis (EAA) introduced in this book offers a framework to examine spatial-social interactions, which provided new insights into transcultural ideology transfer and the roles of sacred sites in visualizing power and resistance. The case studies demonstrate the role of hydrolatric sites in the social resilience of local cultures under transregional pressure.
Registration
Please register through the following link to receive access to the online Book Talk:
https://uni-due.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/u50vf-ysqTIuG9WT6dwl2x72ppJ5AbYZSHuB