In our workshop, we aim to bring together Asian perspectives on ghosts in both theoretical texts and aesthetic representations. In order to understand the impact on modernity of the non-modern in the shape of residual religious orientations and other images of spectral untimeliness, we will study the continuity of ghost narratives in modern Asian cultural production.

In cooperation with URPP Asia and Europe, Völkerkundemuseum UZH, Institute of Film Studies, Department of Indian Studies.

With generous support by: Schweizerische Asiengesellschaft, Vereinigung akademischer Mittelbau USZ, Wlhelm Jerg Legat, Zürcher Universitätsverein

http://www.ostasien.uzh.ch/sinologie/aktuell/workshop2011.html