SOAS China Institute Monday Forums
SOAS China Institute Monday Forums examines the fundamental issues facing China today and provides unique opportunities to gain insight into China through the perspectives of internationally respected experts from both inside and outside of China.
Convenor and Chair: Dr Jieyu Liu
Contact Li-Sa Whittington/ Aki Elborzi on sci@soas.ac.uk for further information.
Please note that we do not distribute seminar notes.
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Forthcoming Events
Déjà Vu? Photography as Metaphor: Repurposing Archival Photographs of Mao
Prof. Barbara Mittler (University of Heidelberg)
The anchor for this presentation which stems from a joint research project with the historian of India, Sumathi Ramaswamy, is Gigi Scaria’s six-minute video installation No Parallel (2010).
14 January 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PMPersonal Trust and Stranger Solidarity: Competing Moral Economies of Chinese Organic Farming
Dr Anders Sybrandt Hansen (Aarhus University)
21 January 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PMDisability in China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture
Dr Sarah Dauncey (University of Nottingham)
Who defines what it means to be ‘disabled’ in China today? In this talk, Sarah Dauncey looks at the construction of disabled identities specifically from the perspective of Chinese cultural epistemologies.
11 March 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PMWilliam Jankowiak (University of Nevada)
Hot Romance and Cold Calculation: Understanding Mate Selection, Dating, and Valued Place on Love in Urban China.
25 March 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PM