[KS] 2nd Enemy Encounters Webinar “Reading Sunzi as a Western Text”

[Noordam, Dr. Barend]

Dear colleagues,

Please see below for information about the second session of the 2024-2025 Enemy Encounters in East Asia webinar series of the Research Training Group "Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East” at Heidelberg University, Germany. As previously announced the Aftermath of the East Asian War of 1592-1598 webinar series has come to a close, but it will be succeeded by this new webinar series.


“The Mismeasure of Sunzi: Reading Sunzi as a Western Text”
Peter Lorge
(Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University)

  *   November 13, 2024, 3:00 PM (Heidelberg, CEST) via ZOOM.
  *   The webinar will be recorded, but not the question time.
  *   If you would like to attend the webinars, please contact barend.noordam at hcts.uni-heidelberg.de<mailto:barend.noordam at hcts.uni-heidelberg.de>.

In this session, Peter Lorge (Associate Professor, Vanderbilt University) will share his thoughts on the Western (mis)interpretations of Sunzi’s Art of War:



Sunzi’s Art of War has been a foundation text for strategy in China for over two millennia.  Its short history in the West has been attended by profound misunderstanding and misinterpretation.  This is particularly strange because Sunzi’s translation into French in the late 18th century directly influenced the modern Western definition of “strategy.”  In this paper I will explain Sunzi’s reception in the West, and how its interpretation has much more to do with Western concepts of strategy than Sunzi’s original meaning.



BACKGROUND

For more information about the Research Training Group "Ambivalent Enmity: Dynamics of Antagonism in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East”, please go to our website  https://ambivalentenmity.org/.
This project has received funding from the German Research Foundation (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG).

Kind regards,


Barend



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Dr. Barend Noordam

RTG Ambivalent Enmity | Postdoctoral Research Fellow


Heidelberg Centre for Transcultural Studies | HCTS

Karl Jaspers Centre

Voßstr. 2 | Building 4400 | Room 009

69115 Heidelberg, Germany



Tel: +49 (0) 6221 544082

E: barend.noordam at hcts.uni-heidelberg.de

W: https://ambivalentenmity.org/people-2/post-doctoral-research-fellows/

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