Thursday, 7 June 2018
4 pm Welcome & Introduction
Miscommunication East and West
5 pm Marion Eggert (Bochum): A Korean View on Failed Encounters: Pak Chiwôn (1737-1805) on the Pitfalls of Inter-Cultural Communication
6 pm Eleanor Ty (Waterloo): Asianfail and the Myth of the Model Minority
Friday, 8 June 2018
9.00 am Welcome Address by Prof. Dr. Michael Jäckel, President of the University of Trier
Travellers and Travelling Concepts
9.15 am Barbara Schaff (Göttingen): Lost in Laos: Henri Mouhot and Stephen Greenblatt
10.15 am Ralf Hertel (Trier): The Encounter that Wasn’t: Imagining East Asia in Richard Hakluyt
– Coffee Break 30 mins –
11.30 am Yao Shaoji (Taipei): Dichtung und Wahrheit in den Schriften Wilhelm Joests zu seiner Reise auf Formosa 1880
– Lunch Break 90 mins –
Missionary Encounters
2 pm Ana Fernandes Pinto (Lisbon): 17th Century Jesuit Narratives on Japanese Martyrdom: Salvation in a Failed Mission?
3 pm Andreas Regelsberger (Trier): Jesuits on Stage in Early Modern Japan
– Coffee Break 30 mins –
Images and Objects
4.30 pm Benedikt Vogel (Trier): Filling the Gap? Foreign Things and the Other
5.30 pm Timon Screech (London): The Failure of European Painting in Japan in the Early-Modern Period
Saturday, 9 June 2018
Encounters at Court
9 am Kirsten Sandrock (Göttingen): Narrating Failure in Anna Leonowens’s The English Governess at the Siamese Court
10 am Hans-Jürgen Lüsebrink (Saarbrücken): Louis XIV and the Kingdom of Siam: Development and Failure of a Diplomatic and Intercultural Relation in the (Pre)colonial Era
– Coffee Break 30 mins –
11.30 am Roland Altenburger (Würzburg): Chinese Kotow and European Handshake: Episodes in the History of Intercultural Etiquette in China around 1900
– Lunch Break 90 mins –
Contemporary failures
2 pm Alex Demeulenaere (Trier): Visibility and Blindness in Barthes’ L’empire des signes
3 pm Eva-Maria Schmitz (Trier): “We Are Ambassadors for Our Race”: Negotiating Cultural Clashes in David Mitchell’s The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet
– Coffee Break 30 mins –
4.30 pm Christian Soffel (Trier): Material Truth: Discordant Cultural Concepts in Contemporary China and Europe
5.30 pm Closing discussion
