14.01.2025 - 18:00

AREA Book Talk Series with Yasmin Koppen

Book Talk with Yasmin Koppen | Tue, January 14, 2025, 6–8 pm | Online via Zoom

East Asian Landscapes and Legitimation: Localizing Authority Through Sacred Sites in China and Vietnam

Host: Christine Moll-Murata (RUB)

Zoom registration link:
https://uni-due.zoom-x.de/meeting/register/u50vf-ysqTIuG9WT6dwl2x72ppJ5AbYZSHuB

About the author
Yasmin Koppen is postdoctoral research fellow at the Institute for the Study of Religions at Leipzig University, focusing on Chinese and Southeast Asian religions. She completed her studies in Chinese and Religious Studies at Ruhr University Bochum and enhanced her expertise in Vietnamese studies as a research fellow at LWL-Museum für Archäologie in Herne. Her doctoral studies were supported by AREA Ruhr. Her current research concerns the religionization of environmental movements in the struggle of indigenous cultures against green imperialism in Southeast Asia.

About the Book
The book examines the contrasting outcomes of the Chinese Empire’s conquests of Sichuan and Vietnam with a focus on the dynamics between central authority and local autonomy, as they are evident in the transformation of sacred sites. The Experiential Architecture Analysis (EAA) introduced in this book offers a framework to examine spatial-social interactions, which provided new insights into transcultural ideology transfer and the roles of sacred sites in visualizing power and resistance. The case studies demonstrate the role of hydrolatric sites in the social resilience of local cultures under transregional pressure.

The AREA Book Talk Series (online via Zoom) will be continued.
The Book Talk Series gives experts from AREA Ruhr the chance to meet up with authors of newly released academic books that deal with topics related to East Asia from a wide variety of disciplinary perspectives to discuss their novel publications.