Re: Germany’s contentious China debate
Since Dr. Andreas Fulda posted his reply to Björn Alpermann’s LinkedIn comment regarding "Chinese money at German universities" (https://unis.davidmissal.de/) it might be useful to get a bit of context.
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Re: Germany’s contentious China debate
In a LinkedIn post from Friday, 25 March Professor Alpermann raised the issue of financial dependencies on China in British higher education. He argued that funding from China to German universities can only be measured in the thousandths. Even with unreported contributions he suggested that they unlikely make up more than 0,6% of the total amount of public funding for German universities (32,7 billion Euro). Please find below my response from Friday, 25 March (translated from German with the help of DeepL).
"Björn Alpermann
Re: Germany’s contentious China debate
On Thursday, 24 March Professor Schubert asked me via LinkedIn to provide more specific information about my work on financial dependencies in the British higher education sector. Please find below my reply from Friday, 25 March 2022 (translated from German with the help of DeepL):
"Gunter Schubert
I have summarized my experiences in the UK in an article for APuZ:
Fulda (2021), Preserving Science Autonomy. China and science in the UK, February 12, 2021, From Politics and Contemporary History.
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13th ISHORE Webinar | Dr. Bindu Menon: "Affective Vocality and Malayalam Film Publics" | 7.30pm IST, 31 March 2022
The Institute for Social Sciences, Humanities and Oceanic Research (I-SHORE), Kerala, India, is delighted to invite you to the thirteenth session of its webinar series "Confluences 2022". In this edition, Dr. Bindu Menon (Associate Professor of Media Studies, Azim Premji University, Bangalore) would give a talk titled "Aural Awakenings: Affective Vocality and Malayalam Film Publics (1900-1950)" on Thursday, 7.30 pm (Indian Standard Time), 31 March 2022. For more details on the topic, see the abstract below.
Call for Papers> "The Dharma-Ending Age", University of British Columbia, October 7–9, 2022
The Dharma-Ending Age: The Climate Crisis through the Lens of Buddhist Eschatology, Past and Present
October 7–9, 2022
University of British Columbia
Hosted by the Yin-Cheng Buddhist Studies Network and the From the Ground Up Project (www.frogbear.org) at the University of British Columbia, this conference will take place on October 7–9, 2022 in hybrid format.
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