What Do We Need to Know About the Chinese Communist Party? Professor Timothy Creek will explore the nature of the CCP in this webinar.
Emergent Genders: Living Otherwise in Tokyo’s Pink Economies Michelle Ho traces the genders manifesting alongside Japanese popular culture in Akihabara, an area in Tokyo renowned for the fandom and consumption of anime, manga, and games.
Valedictory Lecture - On Manuscripts, Rituals and Curious Images: A Journey through the Ruptures of Japanese Buddhism This lecture reflects on a scholarly journey that has sought to challenge conventional narratives of Japanese Buddhism through a ritual and visual approach to Buddhist epistemic practices.
1984, When The Sun Didn't Rise The film documents the lives of women and children in a Widows Colony formed after the 1984 Sikh massacre.
Is China’s Urban-Rural Income Gap Still Relevant? Professor Sicular discusses why, in the context of China's rapid urbanisation, standard approaches to measuring the urban-rural income gap have become less relevant.
Why does Japan still use orphanage-style care rather than foster care and adoption? In this talk, Dr Michael Rivera King will focus on why Japan still uses ‘orphanage-style’ care instead of foster care and adoption for children who are unable to live with their birth parents.
Thinking Politics Beyond the State: Historians and International Affairs in the 20th Century This event explores how historians have shaped the ways we think about international politics and diplomacy.
Complicit: British Complicity in the Genocide in Gaza Join us for a discussion between Peter Oborne and Professor Martin Shaw about British complicity in mass atrocities in Gaza.