Speaker Prof. Dr. Joachim Kurtz

Joachim Kurtz has explored the anxieties and interests that fuel East Asian discourses of self-assertion in his research and teaching, highlighting the transcultural nature of even the most ferociously nativist rhetoric in politics, philosophy and other fields. More recently, he has begun to investigate the ways in which Confucian revivalists in Mainland China borrow Protestant and orthodox Christian as well as Islamic fundamentalist tropes to reject global modernity and oppose its cosmopolitan propagators.