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Chinese sources on Bodhgaya from the Long First Millenium

Join us for a reading and discussion of selected passages from Chinese sources on Bodhgayā.

Dr Feryal Awan

Feryal Awan is a Lecturer in Media and Postcolonial Studies at the Institute of Education, UCL. Her work examines the political, cultural and socioeconomic impact of colonialism on children in Palestine and the UK.

The Evolution of the Sri Lankan Mind: The Life and Work of Martin Wickramasinghe (1890–1976)

In this talk, Uditha Devapriya will present an overview of Wickramasinghe’s life and work in the context of cultural modernism in South Asia. The presentation draws on Devapriya’s research on Wickramasinghe, including his contribution to South Asian art, culture, and society.

Dr Borayin Larios

The Precarious Past in Premodern Java

In this talk, Wayan Jarrah Sastrawan examines how communities in Java between the fifth and fifteenth centuries CE responded with distinctive strategies to record and transmit knowledge of the past. Drawing on sources in Javanese, Sanskrit, Malay, and related languages from the Indonesian archipelago, he provides a detailed account of diverse forms of history-making in premodern Java, reconstructing a dynamic culture in which written and nonwritten modes of transmission coexisted and intersected.

Dr Thaís de Carvalho

Thaís de Carvalho is a Lecturer in Sustainability and Development.

Locating Voices of Black, Indigenous and People of Colour in 19th Century Missionary Periodicals / Part 2

Dr Joanne Davis reflects on the completion of a successful collaborative research project, BIPOC Voices in the Victorian Periodical Press, which has recently launched on One More Voice.

Professor Helen Giunashvili

Helen Giunashvili is a researcher at G. Tsereteli Institute of Oriental Studies, Ilia State University in Tbilisi and is also affiliated to the Graduate School of the Methodology of the Humanities in Paris.

New office revolutions: Tropes and technologies for open talk in South Korean offices since the 1980s

1980s South Korea saw many reports promising a 'new office revolution' or a 'new wind' that would dramatically change South Korean work life through automation (jadonghwa). Drawing on newspaper archives from the 1980s and 1990s, this presentation looks at some of the technological promises and narrative tropes that were used in this period to show how offices would allow greater connections to developed countries.