| Professional Career |
PRESENT POSITIONS 2011- Chair Professor (Ordinaria) of Chinese Culture and Society, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of St.Gallen PREVIOUS POSITIONS 2017-2022 Head, Centre for Intercultural Competence, St.Gallen Institute for Management in Asia Pte. Ltd., Singapore, SGI-HSG 2014-2015 Co-Director, Asia Research Centre, ARC-HSG, University of St.Gallen, Switzerland 2007-2011 Associate Professor of Contemporary Chinese Studies (with professorial School leadership tasks and full tenure), and Research Director (2011), School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham, UK 2005-2006 University Lecturer (full tenure) of Contemporary Chinese Studies, Institute of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham, UK 1998-2005 University Lecturer (full tenure) of Chinese Studies, Dept. of East Asian Studies, University of Durham, Durham, UK 1995-1998 University Lecturer of Chinese Studies, Dept. of East Asian Studies, University of Durham, Durham 1995 Part-time Lecturer in Classical Chinese, Oxford University, Institute for Chinese Studies 1994/1995 Randall-McIver Junior Research Fellow, Chinese Studies, Oxford University, St. Anne's College, Oxford 1994-98 Research Fellow (part-time), Project on Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples with Professor David Faure Oxford University, and Taiwan National University, Taipei, ROC 1994/95 Tutor (part-time) in modern Chinese literature, Sarah Lawrence College (US) at Oxford University, Oxford 1992-95 Tutor (part-time) in Classical Chinese and Early Modern Vernacular (Ming/Qing) Literature: Chinese Studies Honours School, for Wadham, Brasenose, Hertford, New, St. Anne's, St. Hilda's, St. John's, and Somerville Colleges, and the Institute for Chinese Studies, Oxford University |
| Teaching Activities |
LIST OF COURSES TAUGHT List of Courses Taught by Professor Daria Berg
Courses taught in the following University of St.Gallen Programmes:
BA: Bachelor;
MA: Master;
PL: Public Lectures;
IEMBA: International Executive MBA, Executive School, University of St.Gallen;
SGI-HSG: St.Gallen Institute of Management in Asia, Singpore
Spring 2021 “China under Xi Jinping: What does it Mean for China’s Economy and Society?” (with Guido Cozzi; MA) “Integrative Portfolio Media” (BA, MA) Autumn 2020 “Modern China in History and Film” (BA)
“Integrative Portfolio Media” (with Veronica Barassi; BA, MA)
“Chinas Erster Kaiser” (“China’s First Emperor”) (PL) Spring 2020 “Transformation: A View from Media and Culture” (BA)
“China under Xi Jinping: What does it Mean for China’s Economy and Society?” (with Guido Cozzi; MA) “Integrative Portfolio Media” (BA, MA) Autumn 2019 “Pop Culture in China” (BA)
“Asia Compact: Competence in Intercultural Communication at SGI-HSG, Singapore” (MA)
“Singapore Field School in Intercultural Competence at SGI-HSG, Singapore” (DOK)
Spring 2019 “China’s New Super Cities: A Cultural Journey” (BA)
“Women, Gender and Responsibility in China” (MA)
“Wealth Creation in China” (with Tomas Casas; MA)
Autumn 2018 “Modern China in History and Film” (BA)
“‘Superpower China’: Economic Imbalances & Cultural Shifts” (with Guido Cozzi; MA)
“Asia Compact: Competence in Intercultural Communication at SGI-HSG, Singapore” (MA)
Spring 2017 “Pop Culture in China“ (BA)
“Youth Culture in China” (MA) “China Invents the Future” (with Tomas Casas, MA)
“Cultural Studies: Text and New Media in the Digital Age” (with Ulrich Schmid, DOK)
Autumn 2016 “China’s Transformation: A View from Media and Culture” (BA)
“China’s Avantgarde: Authors, Artists and Activists” (MA)
“‘Superpower China’: Economic Imbalances & Cultural Shift” (with Guido Cozzi, MA)
“The Organisation of Media, Globalising Markets and Transcultural Communication” (DOK)
Spring 2016 “Modern China in History and Film” (BA)
“China’s Generation X and the City: Transcultural Communication in China’s Emerging World Cities” (MA)
“China Invents the Future: The Culture of Entrepreneurship, Technology and Social Networks” (with Tomas Casas, MA)
“The Organisation of Media, Globalising Markets and Transcultural Communication” (DOK)
Autumn 2016 “China’s New Super Cities: A Cultural Journey” (BA) “Women, Gender and Responsibility in China” (MA) “‘Superpower China’: Economic Imbalances & Cultural Shifts” (with Guido Cozzi; MA)
“Chinas Neue Popkultur” (PL)
Autumn 2015 “China’s Transformation: A View from Media and Culture” (BA)
“China’s Avantgarde: Authors, Artists and Activists” (MA)
“‘Superpower China’: Economic Imbalances & Cultural Shifts” (with Guido Cozzi, MA)
“World Culture and Globalisation: China, New Media, Gender” (DOK Kolloquium)
“China vom Kaiser bis Mao: Geschichte und Film im 20. Jahrhundert, 1900-1976” (“China from Empire to Mao: History and Film in the Twentieth Century, 1900-1976”, PL)
Spring 2015 “Pop Culture in China” (BA)
“Youth Culture in China” (MA)
“The Chinese Dream: Twenty-First Century Superpower” (MA)
Autumn 2014 “China’s New World Cities: A Cultural Journey” (BA)
“Women, Gender and Responsibility in China” (MA)
“‘Superpower China’: Economic Imbalances & Cultural Shifts “(with Guido Cozzi; MA)
“Chinas Neue Superstädte: Eine kulturelle Reise” (“China’s New Super Cities: A Cultural Journey”, PL)
Spring 2014 “Film and Culture in China” (BA)
“Cultural Entrepreneurs and Creative Industries in China” (MA)
“Generation X and the Chinese City: Transcultural Communication in China’s Emerging World Cities” (MA)
Autumn 2013 “China’s Transformation: A View from Media and Culture” (BA)
“China’s Avantgarde: Authors, Artists and Activists” (MA)
“Transforming China: New Media and Culture between Consumerism and Censorship” (DOK)
“BRICs Transcultural Perspective: Business in China” (IEMBA; Executive School)
“Kurtisanen, Künstlerinnen und Cybervamps: Chinesische Frauen in Geschichte und Gegenwart” (“Courtesans, Artists and Cybervamps: Chinese Women Past and Present”, PL)
Spring 2013 “Pop Culture in China” (BA)
“Youth Culture in China” (MA)
Autumn 2012 “China’s Culture of Consumption” (BA)
“Gender and Responsibility in China” (MA)
“Künstler, Schriftsteller und Intellektuelle in China – Ai Weiwei und die chinesische Avantgarde” (“Artists, Writers and Intellectuals in China – Ai Weiwei and China’s Avantgarde”, PL)
Spring 2012 “Cinema in China” (BA)
“Entrepreneurialism in Chinese Culture” (MA)
Autumn 2011 “Media and Culture in a Globalising China” (BA)
“Digital Dissent: Internet Authors, Artists and Activists in Twenty-first Century China” (MA)
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| Talks |
ACADEMIC INVITATIONS FOR TALKS
2021/2020 Daria Berg & Giorgio Strafella, Book Presentation : "The Avant-Garde in Postsocialist China, 1978-2018: The Art of Transculturality" Edited by Daria Berg and Giorgio Strafella, 12th International Convention of Asia Scolars (ICAS 12) Kyoto 24-28 August 2021 Strafella, Giorgio & Berg, Daria: “Delegated Digital Art: Victor Wong's Tech-ink Paintings and Chen Qiufan’s ‘State of Trance’” 12th International Convention of Asia Scolars (ICAS 12) Kyoto 24-28 August 2021 Strafella, Giorgio & Berg, Daria: “Borders, Marginality, and the Contemporary: Yang Zhichao's Art at the Turn of the 21st Century”, 23nd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies. University of Leipzig, Germany. 24-28 August 2021. Due to pandemic, moved to 2021. Berg, Daria & Strafella, Giorgio: Celebrity in Post-Socialist China as Transmedia Storytelling, 12th International Convention of Asia Scolars (ICAS 12) Kyoto 24-28 August 2021 Daria Berg & Giorgio Strafella. “China’s New Media Superstars.” 23nd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies. University of Leipzig, Germany. 24-28 August 2021. Due to pandemic, moved to 2021. Daria Berg & Giorgio Strafella, “Rising from the Margins: Women Superstars in Superpower China”. Conference “China From The Margins: New Narratives Of The Past And Present”, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University, Department of China Studies, Suzhou (PRC), 10-11 April 2020. Due to pandemic, moved to 2021.
2019
Berg, Daria. “Verführung im Vergnügungsviertel: Die talentierte Frau in Kunst und Literatur im China der Kaiserzeit.” Invited Talk at the International Lyceum Club, St. Gallen, 24 November 2019. Strafella, Giorgio & Berg, Daria. “Performance Art on the China/West Border: YanZhichao’s Jiayu Pass.” Annual Conference on Asian Studies (ACAS), Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, 22-23 November 2019. Strafella, Giorgio & Berg, Daria. “Post-Human Wilderness: Dystopian Landscapes in China from the Intellectual Crisis of the 1990s to Cao Fei.” The 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars - ICAS 11. - Leiden, The Netherlands. 19 July 2019.Berg, Daria & Strafella, Giorgio. “New Digital Media and Changing Gender Roles: The Rise of Women Cultural Entrepreneurs in a Globalising China.” The 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars - ICAS 11. - Leiden, The Netherlands. 17 July 2019. Berg, Daria & Strafella, Giorgio. “Kulturunternehmer und digitale Medien in China.” Konfuzius-Institut Leipzig, 4 February 2019.
2018
Berg, Daria. “Superstars in der Supermacht China: Eine Schriftstellerin und eine Künstlerin im Spannungsfeld von Staat und Konsumkultur.” Invited Talk at the International Lyceum Club, St. Gallen, 24 November 2019. Berg, Daria & Strafella, Giorgio. “Ruins in the Post-Humanist Wilderness.” Conference on “Residual Futures: Rethinking Utopianism in Modern China.” University of Zurich & Villa Garbald, Castasegna. 5 October 2018. Berg, Daria & Strafella, Giorgio. “The Rise of Women Cultural Entrepreneurs in China’s Mediasphere.” 22nd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies. University of Glasgow, UK. 30 August 2018. Strafella, Giorgio & Daria Berg. “Cao Fei: The Nightmares of China’s Rejuvenation.” 22nd Biennial Conference of the European Association for Chinese Studies. University of Glasgow, UK, 29 August 2018. Strafella, Giorgio & Daria Berg. “Celebrità e nuovi media: un'esplorazione delle strategie transmediali.” Invited lecture at University of Milan, 25 May 2018.Berg, Daria & Strafella, Giorgio. “China’s New Cultural Entrepreneurs and the Digital Media.” Invited lecture at University of Dhaka, Bangladesh, 16 April 2018. Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “China's New Cultural Entrepreneurs and the Digital Media”. Invited lecture at University of Milan, Italy. 28 March 2018.
2017
Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “Stars mit dem & gegen das System: Cao Fei”. Freiburger China Gespräche, Freiburg, 6 December 2017. Strafella, Giorgio & Daria Berg. “The Internet, Public Opinion and Online Culture in 21st Century China.” Invited lecture at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, Seoul, South Korea. Strafella, Giorgio. “Il dibattito intellettuale in Cina nell'era delle riforme.” Contribution to a seminar at Università degli Studi di Milano, Milan, Italy.Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “Women Writers as Cultural Entrepreneurs”. Workshop on “Popular Literature in Contemporary China: Production, diffusion and genres”, University of Genève, Genève, Switzerland, 17 June 2017. Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “The Transmedia and Transcultural Hyperrealism of Ai Weiwei’s Digital Communication.” Workshop ‘Landscapes or Realism’. SOAS, University of London, February. Berg, Daria. “Amazon, Artist and Activist: A Pioneering Courtesan Poet and Painter in late Ming China”. University of Würzburg, Germany, 18 January 2017.
2016
Strafella, Giorgio & Daria Berg. “Zhou Xiaoping: A Blogger for China’s Renaissance?” 21th Conference of the European Association Conference of Chinese Studies, St. Petersburg, 24 August 2016. Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “China’s New Businesswomen: Authors, Bloggers and Celebrities as Cultural Entrepreneurs in Post-Deng China.” XXIst European Association for Chinese Studies Bienniale Conference, St Petersburg, Russia, 23-28 August 2016. Berg, Daria. “China’s New Cultural Entrepreneurs 2.0: Authors, Bloggers, Consumption Celebrities”. University of Genève, Genève, Switzerland, 10 May 2016.Berg, Daria & Rui Kunze. “Chinese Woman in New York City: Transcultural Travel and Postsocialist Cosmopolitanism in Twenty-first Century China.” International interdisciplinary conference “People and Cultures in Motion: Environment, Space and the Humanities.” Chengchi University, Taipei, Republic of China, 13 March 2016. Berg, Daria. “Cyberbabe, Cybervamp, Consumption Celebrity: Anni Baobei and the Web-based Spectacle of Female Self-Fashioning in Twenty-first Century China”. CCK Lecture Series, St Gallen and Leiden University, Leiden, 11 March 2016.
2015
Strafella, Giorgio & Daria Berg. “Narrating and Critiquing the Avant-Garde in Contemporary China.” Part I of two invited lectures at Fudan University, July 2015. Strafella, Giorgio & Daria Berg. 2015. “Narrating and Critiquing the Avant-Garde in Contemporary China.” Part II of two invited lectures at Fudan University, July 2015.
2014
Berg, Daria, Wei-hsin Lin & Giorgio Strafella. “Micro/Blogs and Glocalisation: Transcultural Communication in China’s New Mediasphere.” “China’s Media Go Global” International Conference, Tsinghua University, Beijing, 2-3 September 2014. Berg, Daria & Giorgio Strafella. “Creating a New Chinese Cyber-Celebrity: A Cultural Analysis of Han Han’s Blog as Web-based Media Spectacle.” XXth European Association for Chinese Studies Bienniale Conference, Braga and Coimbra, Portugal, 24 July 2014.
2013
Berg, Daria. “Blogging China: Han Han and the Art of Trans/cultural Communication 2.0 in Postsocialist China’s Marketplace”. KIM (Cultures, Institutions, Markets) Lecture, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of St. Gallen, 21 October 2013. Berg, Daria. “Transcultural Flows in Postsocialist China: The Utopian Team and the Art of Transcultural Travel”. Panel on “Transcultural Communication in a Globalizing China”. Conference “The Future of Content is Context”, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of St. Gallen, 25/26 April 2013. Berg, Daria. “Auf der Erfolgsleiter zu den Wolken: Visionen von Examenskandidatinnen in Romanen (xiaoshuo) der späten Kaiserzeit.” Symposium on the Chinese Novel (xiaoshuo), Maerz 2013 “Alltagskultur in chinesischen Romanen”. University of Munich, Germany, 24 March 2013.2012 Berg, Daria. “Chinese Dreams: Weaving Red Threads of Communication”. Inaugural Lecture. University of St.Gallen, Switzerland, 9 October |
| Additional Information |
EXTERNAL POSITIONS
Research Associate, China Policy Institute, University of Nottingham, 2007-
Research Associate, Institute of Chinese Studies, University of Heidelberg, Germany, 2007-
Elected Board Member, European Association for Chinese Studies, 2002-06
Webmaster, European Association for Chinese Studies, 2002-04
Council Member, Universities’ China Committee London, 1999-2004
VISITING APPOINTMENTS
1997: Visiting Professor, Zhongshan University, Canton, China
RESEARCH ORGANISATION & COLLABORATION2016: Principal Investigator and Conference Organiser, “The Art of Transculturality: New Frontiers in Postsocialist China’s Avant-garde”, University of St.Gallen, 28/29 July
2013: Panel Organiser, “Transcultural Communication in a Globalizing China.” Conference “The Future of Content Is Context”, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of St. Gallen, 25/26 April
2008: Panel Organiser, “Cyberspace, Consumerism and Cultural Creativity in Twenty-First Century China.” 60th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, Atlanta, GA
2004: Panel Organiser, “Books, Bodies And Business: Cultural Consumption and Production in Contemporary China in Interdisciplinary Perspective.” 56th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, San Diego, CA
2003: Panel Organiser, “Beyond Gender and Class: Ladies, Lovers, Loyalists and the Search for Gentility.” 55th Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, New York, NY
2002: Panel Organiser, “Women and Publishing in Traditional China.” 14th European Association for Chinese Studies Conference, Moscow
2002: Principal Investigator and Conference Organiser, “Perceptions of Gentility in Chinese Literature and History,” with Dr. Chloë Starr, Durham University. The results have been published in a refereed book: The Quest for Gentility in China: Negotiations beyond Gender and Class. Edited volume, with Chloë Starr. London: Routledge.
1998: Chair and Co-organiser, International Symposium “The Study of Women in Late Imperial China,” jointly with Prof. Harriet T. Zurndorfer, Leiden University, The Netherlands, sponsored by the International Institute for Asian Studies
1996: Panel Organiser, “Martyr, Saviour and Saint: Women in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Fiction and History.” 48th Annual Meeting of Association for Asian Studies, Honolulu, HI
1994-1998: Member of the research project on Taiwan’s Indigenous Peoples, with Professor David Faure, in collaboration with Oxford University and Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan, supported by the Shung Ye Foundation, Taipei
PhD SUPERVISION
2016- Dominique Ursprung. “Educational System in China”. University of St.Gallen.
2012-16 Sergio de Eccher. “The Impact of Social Networks in China”. University of St.Gallen.
2011-15 Katrin Müller-Hansen. “Han Han and China’s Education System.” University of St.Gallen.
2011-12 Rebecca Scott. “Children’s Literature in Twentieth-Century China.” University of Nottingham.
2010-11 Tracey Fallon. “Language, Culture and Soft Power in China.” University of Nottingham.
2009-11 Wu Junqing. “Investigating the Traditional Characteristics of Religious Policy in Communist China.” University of Nottingham.
2009-14 Giorgio Strafella. “Intellectual Politics, Literature and Culture: The Intellectual Debate over the Humanistic Spirit (renwen jingshen zhenglun) in China since 1989.” University of Nottingham.
1995-99 Sarah Dauncey. “The Politics of Fashion: Perceptions of Power in Female Dress and Ornamentation as reflected in the sixteenthcentury Chinese Novel Jin Ping Mei.” University of Durham.
LANGUAGES
Fluency in speech and writing in English, German, Chinese, Japanese and French
Reading proficiency in Classical Chinese and Latin
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