Department: Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Talks:

Thursday 23 January 2025

Grassroots Officials, Worker Wrongdoings, and Masculinity in the Nantong Municipal Steel Rolling Mill c. 1970
Date: 23 January 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Amanda Zhang (Birkbeck, University of London)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)

Monday 27 January 2025

Reading Nineteen Eighty-Four in Beijing
Date: 27 January 2025, 10:00 - 12:00
Speaker : Professor Jeffrey Wasserstrom (University of California Irvine)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 28 January 2025

EU-China Relations in their 50th Anniversary and Future Perspectives
Date: 28 January 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Ambassador Jorge Toledo (Delegation of the European Union to the People’s Republic of China)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 29 January 2025

US-China Relations in the 21st Century: Prospect and Retrospect
Date: 29 January 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Andrew Scobell (United States Institute of Peace)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 30 January 2025

A China Reporter's Notebook - Watching a Great Power Open and Rise, then Turn Inwards
Date: 30 January 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Mr David Rennie (The Economist)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Monday 3 February 2025

Great Compassion in Art: The Guanyin Mural of Tang Dynasty Dunhuang
Date: 3 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Irene Lok (University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: Basement Teaching Room 1, Pusey Lane, Oxford, OX1 2LE
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 4 February 2025

Transforming the Way of Water: Yvonne Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea and Zao Wou-Ki’s Paintings
Date: 4 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Shuangyi Li (University of Bristol)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)

Thursday 6 February 2025

A Nosedive into Medieval China: Smells, Identities and the Writing of the Olfactory Past
Date: 6 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Flavia Xi Fang (University of London)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)

Monday 10 February 2025

The Māṇavikā Chapter in the Uttaragrantha of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya
Date: 10 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Hyebin Lee (Norwegian Institute of Philology)
Venue Details: Basement Teaching Room 1. Pusey Lane, Oxford, OX1 2LE
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 11 February 2025

The Art of State Persuasion: China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes
Date: 11 February 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Frances Yaping Wang (Colgate University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 19 February 2025

Pathways to Conflict in the South China Sea
Date: 19 February 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Professor David A. Welch (University of Waterloo)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Ho Tim Seminar Room (first floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Thursday 20 February 2025

Diaspora Chinese and Modern China: Transnationalism and Class of the Chinese of the British West Indies, the 1880s–1970s
Date: 20 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Setsuko Sonoda (Ritsumeikan University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Friday 21 February 2025

Dharma Without Borders How Tzu Chi Created a “Pure Land on Earth” in the Middle East
Date: 21 February 2025, 14:00 - 15:30
Speaker s: Stefania Travagnin (SOAS), Emma Tomalin (University of Leeds)
Venue Details: Gillis Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 27 February 2025

Remorse-Proneness, AI Alignment, and Artificial Moral Psychology
Date: 27 February 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Charles Goodman (Binghamton University)
Venue Details: Spalding Room (3rd floor)
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)

Friday 28 February 2025

Panel discussion on Buddhism and AI
Date: 28 February 2025, 10:00 - 12:45
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue Details: Basement Teaching Room 1
Organiser: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)
Host: Kate Crosby (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 4 March 2025

Anthropocene Urbanity and Surreal Imagery: Hong Kong in Contemporary Sinophone Fiction
Date: 4 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Xiaofan Amy Li (UCL)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 11 March 2025

From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-commerce in China
Date: 11 March 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Lizhi Liu (Georgetown University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Title TBC
Date: 11 March 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor David M. McCourt (University of California Davis)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)