Events
The events draw a varied audience with an interest in the region.
All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated. Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis.
For further information contact the Centres and Programmes Office.
Disclaimer
Please note that every effort has been made to ensure that the information contained on the website is as accurate as possible. We cannot guarantee, however, that subsequent changes have not been made. Please be advised to check information relating to scheduled events by using the contact information provided.
2012
January
16/01/12
- Party Reinvention and Social Welfare Reform in China
Bingqin Li (LSE)
23/01/12
- Mediated citizenship: political discussions on the Chinese Internet
Bingchun Meng (LSE)
30/01/12
- Rethinking Myth on the Left: A Case Study of Chinese Socialist Musical
Xioning LU (SOAS)
February
06/02/12
- The Political Economy of Public Goods Provision in Rural China
Vanesa Pesqué Cela (KCL)
16/02/12
- Making a Difference – Representing/Constructing the Other in Asian/African Media, Cinema and Languages
Please refer to the programme
The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars from across the world to discuss the representations of 'Otherness' in Asian and African media cultures. We shall explore how Otherness is constructed when the ‘Other’ cannot be considered as totally 'alien', but when familiarity might also be of vital importance.
20/02/12
- Learning to live with pollution: the making of environmental subjects in a Chinese industrialised village
Anna Lora-Wainwright (Oxford)
21/02/12
- Do The Ten Mohist Theses Represent Mozi’s Thought?
Professor Carine Defoort (University of Leuven, Belgium)
22/02/12
- Arguments In The Form Of Body-Part Trade-Offs: Their Nature And Evolution
Professor Carine Defoort (University of Leuven, Belgium)
23/02/12
- Instruction Dialogues In The Zhuangzi: An “Anthropological” Reading
Professor Carine Defoort (University of Leuven, Belgium)
27/02/12
- Problems with Chinese religion
Xinzhong Yao (KCL)
March
05/03/12
12/03/12
- The Public Life of Contemporary Chinese Poetry in English Translation
Cosima Bruno (SOAS)
April
19/04/12
- An evening with Mo Yan 莫言
Mo Yan 莫言
23/04/12
May
11/05/12
- Law, Governance and Development: The Transformation of Property Rights in Land and Property Law in China
Various speakers
Following its workshop on Law and Orientalism in 2011, CEAL, with the support of the Centre of Chinese Studies, SOAS, will hold a workshop on The Transformation of Property Rights in Land and Property Law in China.
15/05/12
23/05/12
- Confucian Role Ethics: A Challenge to the Ideology of Individualism
Henry Rosemont, Jr. (Brown) & Roger T. Ames (Hawai’i)
September
October
08/10/12
- Sagely Ruler and Worthy Subject: Authority and Loyalty in Ming China and Beyond
Dr Peter Ditmanson (Department Lecturer, Oriental Institute, University of Oxford)
15/10/12
- How an alternative ‘China model’ (Lishang-wanglai 礼尚往来) can help in understanding the uncertain world
Xiangqun Chang (Co-Director and Senior Research Associate, China in Comparative Perspective Network (CCPN), LSE)
22/10/12
- Unthinking Area Studies
Jing Tsu (Yale)
29/10/12
- The last results of the Project on Textual Analysis for the study of imagery and the representation of emotions in late imperial China
Paolo Santangelo (Prof. of East Asian History in Sapienza University of Rome)
November
19/11/12
- Chinoiserie and subalterneity in S.I. Hsiung's Lady Precious Stream (1934)
Ashley Thorpe (University of Reading)
December
03/12/12
- The Bliss and Curse of Being Remote: Peach Blossom Springs in Enshi, central China, 2012.
Hans Steinmuller (LSE)
