Dr. Daniel Hausmann

Internationales Kolleg für Geisteswissenschaftliche Forschung "Schicksal, Freiheit und Prognose. Bewältigungsstrategien in Ostasien und Europa"
 Hartmannstr. 14
91052 Erlangen




IKGF Visiting Fellow November 2019 – May 2020

IKGF Research Project:

Comets, Earthquakes, and other Omens: Metaphorization and Political Reform, 1874-1882


Curriculum Vitae

Daniel Hausmann studied philosophy and Chinese studies at Frankfurt University. After a long stay in Beijing to learn Chinese in 2005-6 and after finishing his studies in 2011, he started his PhD in 2012, supported by the Gerda Henkel foundation. Henceforth, he regularly conducted research in China's archives and finished his PhD on earthquakes in 2016. Shortly later, he started to work as research fellow at the SFB 1095 "Schwächediskurse und Ressourcenregime" at Frankfurt University.

Selected Publications

Articles

"A Two Step Transition, 1895-1900 Discourses of Weakness as basso continuo of Chinese Modernity", in: Iwo Amelung and Sebastian Riebold (ed.), Revisiting the "Sick Man of Asia". Discourses of Weakness in late 19th and early 20th Century China, (forthcoming).
"Reisbrei und Gefahr. Vorstellungen von Nothilfe in Taicang, 1794", in: Grete Schönebeck and Philip Grimberg (ed.), Vom Wesen der Dinge - Realitäten und Konzeptionen des Materiellen in der chinesischen Kultur (forthcoming).
2018 (with Otto Danwerth et al.) "Resources in a Social World", in: Iwo Amelung, Hartmut Leppin, and Christian Müller (ed.), Discourses of Weakness and Resource Regimes Trajectories of a New Research Program, Frankfurt: Campus, pp. 223-254.
2018 (with Nicolas Perreaux) "Resources - A Historical and Conceptual Roadmap", in: Iwo Amelung, Hartmut Leppin, and Christian Müller (ed.), Discourses of Weakness and Resource Regimes Trajectories of a New Research Program, Frankfurt: Campus, pp. 179-208.
2014 "'Moral epidemics'. Gerüchte und informelle Kommunikation in Zeiten von Katastrophen und Krisen in der Qing-Dynastie", in: Laurens Schlicht and Sebastian Klinge (ed.), GEHEIMNIS_WISSEN. Perspektiven auf das Wissen vom Geheimnis seit dem 18. Jahrhundert, Berlin: Trafo, pp. 115-136.