Forthcoming Events
The China Institute coordinates activities at SOAS, University of London that relate to the study of China. The events bring together academic staff and students with diverse interests and backgrounds.
For further information contact Li-Sa Whittington at the Institute on sci@soas.ac.uk
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2022
May
30/05/22
- Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy.
Li Zhang (Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Davis)
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This talk is an overview and open discussion of Zhang’s newly published book - an in-depth ethnographic account of how an unfolding “inner revolution” is reconfiguring selfhood, psyche, family dynamics, sociality, and the mode of governing in post-socialist times in China.
June
06/06/22
- Indelible City: Dispossession and Defiance in Hong Kong
Louisa Lim (University of Melbourne)
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This book talk explores a new attempt to craft a history for Hong Kong centring local voices.
07/06/22
- Celebrating 50 years of Gay pride in Britain / A special SOAS event celebrating African, Asian and Middle Eastern contributions to Queer London
Various Speakers
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Exploring key sites of importance from protest spaces, parties and meeting spaces and their spiritual, psychological, emotional value to Queer London.
13/06/22
- Socialist Hot Noise: Loudspeakers and Open-Air Cinema in Maoist China
Jie Li (John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Harvard University)
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This talk excavates a media history of loudspeakers and open-air cinema through the conceptual framework of “socialist hot noise”: a participatory sociothermic affect and a synergy between body and electricity that soldered scattered populations into the revolutionary masses.