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/ Isabelle Scott on sci@soas.ac.uk for further information.
The forum is free and open to the public unless otherwise stated. Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis.
Please note that we do not distribute seminar notes.
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Forthcoming Events
Performance legitimacy and the Chinese health care system
Dr Neil Munro (University of Glasgow)
15 October 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PMWomen’s Pornographies and Social Activism in Hong Kong
Katrien Jacobs
This talk analyzes the views and activities of sex activists and entrepreneurs in Hong Kong and San Francisco, who were interviewed about the topic of queer and feminist pornography and its relationship to social movements.
5 November 2018, , 5:00 PM - 6:30 PMProfessor Valerie Hansen (Yale University)
12 November 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PMBeijing from below: new light on the recent history of China’s capital
Harriet Evans (University of Westminster)
This talk tells a story of revolution and reform that challenges many of the familiar themes of dominant chronology of the PRC.
19 November 2018, Russell Square: College Buildings, G3, 5:30 PM - 6:30 PMTea dreams? How Brits feel and think about China, and why: preliminary survey findings
Peter Gries 葛小伟 (Lee Kai Hung Chair and Director, Manchester China Institute, and Professor of Chinese Politics, The University of Manchester)
10 December 2018, , TBC, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PMDéjà 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, TBC, 5:00 PM - 6:30 PMDisability in China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture
Dr Sarah Dauncey (University of Nottingham)
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