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.
2013
January
21/01/13
- Commercial Capitalism and the Ancestral Hall in Late Imperial China
Joe P. McDermott (Cambridge)
28/01/13
- The Moving Medium: Historical. Photographs and the Aesthetic Representation of China?s Twentieth-Century Past
Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
We regret to inform you that this event has been cancelled.
February
01/02/13
- An Account of My Research on Romance of the Western Chamber and Beyond
Professor Wen-Chin HSU
04/02/13
- Floating Clouds and Feudal Commodifications: Family, Law and Reform in the Contemporary PRC
Professor Michael Palmer (Shantou University Law School, China)
25/02/13
- Rethinking Sino-European Comparative History
Hilde de Weerdt (King’s College London)
March
06/03/13
- The Burdens of Happiness: Zhu Changwen's Garden of Joy
Professor Stephen H. West (Foundation Professor of Chinese at Arizona State University and formerly Louis Agassiz Professor of Chinese at UC Berkeley)
07/03/13
- SOAS Master Class
Professor Stephen H. West (Foundation Professor of Chinese at Arizona State University and formerly Louis Agassiz Professor of Chinese at UC Berkeley)
18/03/13
- Antwerp in the Ming, the Ming in Antwerp
Dr Anne Gerritsen (Department of History, University of Warwick)
September
05/09/13
- Max Weber, China and the Spirit of Capitalism
The conference brings scholars from the social sciences and humanities together in a West/East dialogue central both to mutual understanding between China and the West and also to an exploration of the possible varieties of capitalism.
