Tuesday 25 April 2017

• 14:00 - ʿAlā fuwīr Tuṭīla. Bilingual contracts and written culture during the Christian conquest of al-Andalus
  Mr Rodrigo García-Velasco Bernal (University of Cambridge)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 14:30 - Who’s Who at and around Deir el-Medina: New Insights about the Community of Workmen and Its Service Personnel
  Dr Kathrin Gabler (Universität Basel)
  Topics in Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (EANES Topics Seminar)

Tuesday 2 May 2017

• 14:00 - The origins of royal funerary architecture in al-Maghrib al-Aqṣā
  Mr Péter Tamás Nagy (Khalili Research Centre)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 14:30 - Life and Labour in the Twin Towns: The View from Old Kingdom Gebelein
  Dr Hratch Papazian (University of Cambridge)
  Topics in Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (EANES Topics Seminar)

Tuesday 9 May 2017

• 14:00 - The written culture in Medieval and Early Modern Islamic Spain
  Dr Nuria Martínez de Castilla (Paris, EPHE)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 14:30 - The Ptolemaic Queens in the Egyptian and Hellenistic Cults
  Dr Martina Minas-Nerpel (Swansea University/Prifysgol Abertawe)
  Topics in Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (EANES Topics Seminar)

Friday 12 May 2017

• 13:00 - The Mesopotamian Sublime: Time, Matter, Image in Mesopotamian Antiquity
  This lecture is free to students and staff of the University of Oxford. Booking is necessary for members of the public not affiliated with the University and can be made here: http://www.ashmolean.org/events/Lectures/?id=132
  Prof. Zainab Bahrani (Columbia University)
  Topics in Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (EANES Topics Seminar)

Tuesday 16 May 2017

• 14:00 - Light and Lighting in al-Andalus
  Dr Tom Nickson (London, Courtauld Institute)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 15:30 - Egypt and Kush: Elkab to Kurgus – Tracking the Pharaonic Inscriptions
  Dr Vivian Davies (University of Oxford/Elkab Expedition)
  Topics in Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (EANES Topics Seminar)

Tuesday 23 May 2017

• 14:00 - Writing a New History of Western Islamic Architecture
  Professor Jonathan Bloom (Boston College)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Tuesday 30 May 2017

• 14:00 - Life beyond the medina of Cordoba: districts (rabad) and cemeteries (maqābir)
  Dr María Teresa Casal García (Madrid, CSIC)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 14:30 - 'And the Goddess Gave Us the Love of Husband and Wife’: Hittite Kings and Their Queens
  Dr Amir Gilan (Tel Aviv University)
  Topics in Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (EANES Topics Seminar)
• 15:30 - Glassmaking in Umayyad and post-Umayyad al-Andalus
  Dr Chloe Duckworth (Newcastle University)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Tuesday 6 June 2017

• 14:00 - New (graphic) documents for the study of Almoravid and Almohad architecture
  Professor Antonio Almagro Gorbea (Granada, CSIC)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 14:30 - Shapeshifter: Perception and Symbolism of the Moon in Graeco-Roman Egypt
  Dr Victoria Altmann-Wendling (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)
  Topics in Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (EANES Topics Seminar)

Tuesday 13 June 2017

• 14:00 - Berbers and Borderlands: state formation and urbanisation in early medieval Morocco
  Dr Corisande Fenwick (University College London)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars
• 15:30 - ‘How were the traces of their edifices erased?’ Archaeological / ethno-historical survey of Jerba, Tunisia
  Professor Renata Holod (University of Pennsylvania)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Tuesday 11 July 2017

• 14:30 - One Hundred Years of the Egyptian Collection at Kyoto University––Past and Future
  Prof. Tomoaki Nakano (Chubu University, Japan)
  Topics in Egyptology and Ancient Near Eastern Studies (EANES Topics Seminar)

Thursday 12 October 2017

• 14:00 - Acculturated natives who rebel. Revivalist, Ottomanist and Pan-Arabist engagements with early Islamic art (1876-1930s)
  Dr Nadia Ali (Wolfson College, Empires of Faith Project)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 19 October 2017

• 14:00 - The ʿAbbasid envoy and the giant’s bones: notes on the authorship of Ibn Fadlan’s Kitab
  Dr Luke Treadwell (St Cross College, KRC)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 26 October 2017

• 14:00 - Late medieval pottery from Ephesus
  Dr Georgi Parpulov (Wolfson College, British Museum)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 2 November 2017

• 14:00 - L’architecture palatiale ziride et hammadide et son influence sur l’architecture normande en Sicile
  Professor Lamia Hadda (University of Naples “L’Orientale”) )
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 9 November 2017

• 14:00 - Geometry and architecture in Islamic Jerusalem: a Sufi way
  Dr Archie G. Walls (independent scholar)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 16 November 2017

• 14:00 - ‘Ways of seeing’: Preparing the new Albukhari Foundation Galleries of the Islamic World
  Dr Ladan Akbarnia (British Museum)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 23 November 2017

• 14:00 - An impossibility? Writing a book on Persian Pottery
  Professor Oliver Watson (Wolfson College, KRC)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 30 November 2017

• 14:00 - Iran: collecting and curating
  Ms Fuchsia Hart (Wolfson College, V&A Museum)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 31 May 2018

• 17:00 - Islamic Umma and Nationalism in a Postmodern World
  Katrin A. Jomaa (University of Rhode Island)

Sunday 17 June 2018

• 09:00 - After Clarice: Lispector’s Legacy
  Various Speakers

Monday 8 October 2018

• 17:00 - A Babylonian Babel: The Sasanians and the Crystallization of Judaism
  Shai Secunda (Bard College)
  The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities

Tuesday 9 October 2018

• 17:00 - Red Flags: Why Xi's China is in Jeopardy
  Mr George Magnus (Adviser and former Chief Economist, UBS)

Monday 15 October 2018

• 17:00 - Resisting the Empire: Armenian Historiography of the Fifth Century
  Dr David Zakarian (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford)
  The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities

Tuesday 16 October 2018

• 13:00 - Silk Road Century: BRI meets Rules Based Order
  The Rt Hon. Liam Byrne (MP)

Tuesday 23 October 2018

• 17:00 - Serial Orthodoxy: State, Faith and Power in the Sasanian Empire
  Albert de Jong (Universiteit Leiden)
  The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities

Tuesday 30 October 2018

• 17:00 - Babylonian Jews as Sasanian Jews: The Politics of Accommodation
  Simcha Gross (University of California at Irvine)
  The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities

Monday 5 November 2018

• 17:00 - Sometimes the Empire Strikes Back: The Sasanian Empire and its Religious Communities
  Touraj Daryaee (University of California at Irvine)
  The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities

Monday 12 November 2018

• 17:00 - The Sasanian Role in the Mandaean World
  Charles Häberl (Rutgers University)
  The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities

Monday 19 November 2018

• 17:00 - Chalcedonians and Severans in the Empire of Khusrau II
  Phil Booth (University of Oxford)
  The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities

Tuesday 20 November 2018

• 17:00 - Are the US and China doomed to Enmity?
  Professor Kishore Mahbubani (National University of Singapore)

Friday 23 November 2018

• 17:00 - Party Spirit: Producing a Communist Civil Religion in Contemporary China
  Professor Frank Pieke (Mercator Institute for China Studies)

Monday 26 November 2018

• 17:00 - Strategies for Success: Manichaeism under the Early Sasanians
  Iris Colditz (Freie Universität Berlin)
  The Crucible of Empire: The Sasanian World and its Religious Minorities

Friday 18 January 2019

• 17:00 - China Past, Present and Future: Family History and National Destiny
  Sylvie Bermann (French Ambassador to Russia), Yan Lan (Chairman and CEO of Greater China and Lazard Asia (HK) Ltd)

Wednesday 23 January 2019

• 17:00 - Public Security Informants in the Early People’s Republic of China
  Michael Schoenhals (Lund University)

Thursday 24 January 2019

• 17:00 - Chinese Perspectives on the Bomb in the Early Atomic Age, 1945–53
  Nicola Leveringhaus (King's College London)

Monday 28 January 2019

• 17:00 - Dance of the Trillions: Developing Countries and Global Finance
  David Lubin (Head of Emerging Markets, Citi)

Friday 1 February 2019

• 17:00 - Crucible: Thirteen months that Forged China and Our World, 1947–48
  TBA

Tuesday 12 February 2019

• 17:00 - Out of the Gobi: My Story of China and America
  Weijian Shan (Chairman and CEO of PAG Asia Capital)

Friday 22 February 2019

• 17:00 - Opium’s Long Shadow: From Asian Revolt to Global Drug Control
  TBA

Thursday 7 March 2019

• 17:00 - From Transatlantic to Eurasian: Global Order in the 21st Century
  TBA

Thursday 9 May 2019

• 14:00 - Archivists, Activists, and Graphomaniacs: Towards an ‘Integrated’ History of Early Polish Holocaust Testimony
  Katherine Lebow (University of Oxford)
  Seminar on the Holocaust and Memory

Thursday 23 May 2019

• 14:00 - Why do we need a history of prostitution in the Holocaust? Reflections on sexual violence, agency, and sex work
  Anna Hájková (University of Warwick)
  Seminar on the Holocaust and Memory

Thursday 6 June 2019

• 14:00 - "We Are All Witnesses": Eva Reichmann and Early Holocaust Research at the Wiener Library
  Christine Schmidt (Wiener Library for the Study of the Holocaust and Genocide)
  Seminar on the Holocaust and Memory

Thursday 17 October 2019

• 17:15 - The Language of the Qur’an in light of the Arab Grammarians and Early Qur’anic Manuscripts
  Marijn Van Putten (Leiden University)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 24 October 2019

• 17:15 - The Great Mosque of Damascus and the medieval Islamic mosaic industry
  Beatrice Leal (University of Oxford)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 31 October 2019

• 17:15 - The archaeology of the San‘ā’ palimpsest: New reflections from the perspective of codicology
  Eléonore Cellard (Collège de France)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 7 November 2019

• 17:15 - The Management of Architectural Heritage in the Mamluk Sultanate
  Doris Behrens Abouseif (SOAS)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 14 November 2019

• 17:15 - Origins of Hebrew calligraphy: from Abbasid Baghdad to Fatimid Cairo
  Judith Olszowy-Schlanger (University of Oxford)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 21 November 2019

• 17:15 - Manuscrits Coraniques de l’Afrique, une étude comparative
  Constant Hamès (Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Monday 25 November 2019

• 17:00 - Europe, the World and Beyond
  Ambassador Peter Wittig (German Ambassador to UK)

Thursday 28 November 2019

• 17:15 - The ‘Mosque of the Prophet’ and Beyond: A Tentative Reconstruction of the Early Islamic topography of Madina al-Munawwara (622-750) Based on Written Sources
  Aila Santi (American University of Beirut)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Thursday 5 December 2019

• 17:15 - Artistic and Architectural patronage of the Mughal emperor Shah Jahan
  Gulfishan Khan (Aligarh Muslim University)
  Khalili Research Centre Seminars

Friday 7 February 2020

• 17:00 - Economic Shocks and Authoritarian Stability
  Professor Victor Shih (University of California San Diego)

Wednesday 12 February 2020

• 17:00 - Long Peace Street: A Walk along China’s Most Important Street
  Dr Jonathan Chatwin

Wednesday 28 October 2020

• 13:00 - The House of Yan: A Family at the Heart of a Century in Chinese History
  Lan Yan

Thursday 29 October 2020

• 12:30 - The Invisible City: A Global Microhistory of Europeans and their Social Networks in Eighteenth Century Beijing
  Dr Eugenio Menegon (Boston University)

Thursday 12 November 2020

• 17:00 - Time and History across China’s Northeastern Borders
  Dr Ed Pulford (The University of Manchester)

Friday 20 November 2020

• 14:00 - Riskier than you think: Crisis instability between the US and China in maritime Asia
  Professor Jonathan D. Caverley (US Naval War College), Dr Peter Dombrowski (US Naval War College)

Tuesday 24 November 2020

• 13:00 - Where Next For UK‒China Relations?
  Professor Rana Mitter (University of Oxford), Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford), Sophie Gaston (British Foreign Policy Group)

Wednesday 25 November 2020

• 13:00 - The Future of US‒China Relations – Has China Won?
  Professor Kishore Mahbubani (National University of Singapore)

Thursday 26 November 2020

• 17:00 - Tchang's Secret Signature: Paranoia, Realism, and The Adventures of Tintin
  Professor Andrew F Jones (University of California, Berkeley)

Tuesday 1 December 2020

• 13:00 - In conversation: Eyck Freymann and Rana Mitter on the Imperial Echoes of One Belt One Road
  Eyck Freymann (University of Oxford), Professor Rana Mitter (University of Oxford)

Friday 4 December 2020

• 14:00 - Calculating Bully – Explaining Chinese Coercion
  Keitlan Vivian Zhang (George Mason University)

Monday 25 January 2021

• 12:00 - Poverty Alleviation in China: The Rise of State-sponsored Corporate Paternalism
  Camille Boullenois (Australian National University)

Tuesday 26 January 2021

• 17:30 - Before Sufism: Early Islamic Renunciant Piety
  Christopher Melchert (Oxford), Respondent: Michael Cooperson (UCLA)
  The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar

Friday 29 January 2021

• 14:00 - Few Strings Attached: Why Countries Join the Belt and Road Initiative
  Professor M Taylor Fravel (MIT)
  International Relations of China

Tuesday 2 February 2021

• 17:30 - Explorations into the Origins of Islam: Religious and Philosophical Worldviews of the Quranic Mushrikūn
  Ahab Bdaiwi (Leiden/Cambridge), Respondent: Nicolai Sinai (Oxford)
  The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar

Monday 8 February 2021

• 12:00 - China 1949: Year of Revolution
  Graham Hutchings (University of Oxford, University of Nottingham)

Tuesday 9 February 2021

• 17:30 - Beyond the Mystical: how Hafiz’s poetry can help historians read post-Mongol Iran
  Dominic Brookshaw (Oxford), Respondent: Paul Losensky (Indiana)
  The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar

Friday 12 February 2021

• 14:00 - Leveraging Money and Politics: The Rise of China’s Sovereign 'Leveraged' Funds and China’s Financial Statecraft
  Dr Zongyuan Zoe Liu (Texas A&M)
  International Relations of China

Tuesday 16 February 2021

• 17:30 - Redeeming Books: Christian-Muslim Relations through the Colophons of Medieval Armenian Manuscripts
  David Zakarian (Oxford), Respondent: Heghnar Watenpaugh (UC Davis)
  The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar

Thursday 18 February 2021

• 17:00 - Jesuits, Women and Domestic Christianity in Early Modern China
  Dr Nadine Amsler (University of Bern)

Tuesday 23 February 2021

• 17:30 - Ottoman Historiography and Topographical Illustration in Manuscripts attributed to Matrakçı Nasuh
  Zeynep Yürekli (Oxford), Respondent: Serpil Bağcı (Hacettepe)
  The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar

Thursday 25 February 2021

• 17:00 - The Politics of Transnational Aesthetics: Contemporary Chinese Art and Design in Global Contexts
  Professor Jenny Lin (University of Southern California)

Friday 26 February 2021

• 14:00 - A World Safe for Autocracy? The Domestic Politics of China’s Foreign Policy
  Professor Jessica Chen Weiss (Cornell University)
  International Relations of China

Tuesday 2 March 2021

• 12:00 - How China Loses: The Pushback against Chinese Global Ambitions
  Luke Patey (Danish Institute for International Studies + University of Oxford)
• 17:30 - The Language of Politics in Wā’iẓ Kāshifī’s Futuwwatnāma-i sulṭānī
  Neguin Yavari (Columbia/Oxford), Respondent: Alan Strathern (Oxford)
  The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar

Thursday 4 March 2021

• 17:00 - Matrix Barcodes, Swapped Faces and Thousand-mile Eyes: Machine Vision in Chinese Everyday Life
  Dr Gabriele de Seta (University of Bergen)

Monday 8 March 2021

• 13:00 - America in Retreat: The Decline of US Leadership from WW2 to Covid-19
  Michael Pembroke

Tuesday 9 March 2021

• 17:30 - Tribes, bandits, & minstrels: A shared popular culture as a response to Ottoman and Safavid power
  Ali Aydın Karamustafa (Oxford), Respondent: Edmund Herzig (Oxford)
  The Oxford Pre-Modern Middle Eastern History Seminar

Thursday 11 March 2021

• 17:00 - Miracles and the Supernormal in Medieval China: A Discussion on Religious Objects in the Works of Daoxuan道宣596–667
  Nelson Landry (University of Oxford)

Friday 12 March 2021

• 14:00 - Protecting China’s Interests Overseas: Securitization and Foreign Policy
  Dr Andrea Ghiselli (Fudan University)
  International Relations of China

Tuesday 27 April 2021

• 13:00 - Maoism: A Global Story
  Professor Julia Lovell (Birkbeck College, University of London)

Thursday 6 May 2021

• 17:00 - What are the historians’ biggest frustrations with popular conceptions of China in the United Kingdom?
  Professor Rana Mitter (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Professor Robert Chard (University of Oxford), Dr Rachel Leow (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 11 May 2021

• 10:00 - Orchestration: China’s Economic Statecraft across Asia and Europe
  Professor James Reilly (University of Sydney)
  International Relations of China

Thursday 13 May 2021

• 17:00 - How Communist Is the People’s Republic of China?
  Professor Patricia Thornton (University of Oxford), Dr Daniel Koss (Harvard University), Professor Joseph Fewsmith (Boston University), Professor Rebecca Karl (NYU)

Tuesday 18 May 2021

• 13:00 - Is the meaning of family changing in China, and if so, how?
  Professor Rachel Murphy (University of Oxford), Professor Xiaoying Qi (Australian Catholic University), Professor Suen Yiu Tung (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Professor Harriet Evans (University of Westminster)

Thursday 20 May 2021

• 13:00 - What does it mean to be 'Chinese' outside of China today?
  Professor Biao Xiang (University of Oxford), Dr Simeng Wang (The French National Centre for Scientific Research), Professor Gracia Liu-Farrer (Waseda University), Professor Gregory Lee (University of St Andrews)

Friday 21 May 2021

• 15:00 - Mixed Signalling in Chinese Foreign Policy
  Professor Xiaoyu Pu (University of Nevada, Reno)
  International Relations of China

Thursday 3 June 2021

• 15:00 - China’s Public Diplomacy Operations
  Hannah Bailey (University of Oxford), Marcel Shliebs (University of Oxford)

Friday 4 June 2021

• 14:00 - Killing Chickens, Scaring Monkeys: The Demonstration Effects of China’s Economic Coercion and their Limits
  Professor Ja Ian Chong (National University of Singapore)
  International Relations of China

Tuesday 15 June 2021

• 17:00 - How China Escaped Shock Therapy: The Market Reform Debate
  Professor Isabella Weber (University of Massachusetts Amherst)

Friday 18 June 2021

• 14:00 - International Law as Driver of Confrontation: UNCLOS and China’s Policy in the South China Sea
  Dr Andrew Chubb (Lancaster University)
  International Relations of China

Monday 4 October 2021

• 17:00 - Classical Learning and the Politics of the Common Good in Early China
  The talk will be conducted in hybrid format. The in-person part of the event has limited space (max. 18 people) and pre-booking is required. If you are an Oxford student or staff member and wish to book a space, please contact Giulia Falato (giulia.falato@orinst.ox.ac.uk). To attend online, please see registration details below.
  Professor Michael Nylan (University of California, Berkeley)
  China Studies Seminar series

Wednesday 13 October 2021

• 13:00 - Decolonization and Human Rights Discourse within the Taiwan Independence Movement in Japan, 1960-2000
  Wolfgang G Thiele (Free University of Berlin)
  International History of East Asia

Thursday 14 October 2021

• 17:00 - An Archive of Comparison: Between Adab, Wenxue and Literature
  Professor Michael Gibbs Hill (William & Mary)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 15 October 2021

• 13:00 - The Construction of the Civil Service in China: Issues and Suggestions
  Talks are delivered in Mandarin, followed by bilingual Q&As
  Professor Guirong MAO (Meijigakuin University)
  Mandarin Forum

Wednesday 20 October 2021

• 13:00 - 'A Jinnah for Chinese Islam': Muslim Politics between South Asia and China, 1940-1949
  Aaron Glasserman (Harvard University)
  International History of East Asia

Thursday 21 October 2021

• 17:00 - The Politics of Financial Control in China: Mutual Endangerment in State-Business Relations
  Professor Meg Rithmire (Harvard University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 22 October 2021

• 14:00 - Influences, Unintended Consequences and Ripple Effects: Conceptualizing the Presence of China in Southeast Asia
  Professor Enze Han (University of Hong Kong)
  International Relations of China

Tuesday 26 October 2021

• 17:00 - China Town Hall
  Jeremy Korngold

Wednesday 27 October 2021

• 13:00 - Rockefeller Bolshevik: John Black Grant and the Conception of Modern Public Health in China and India
  TBA
  International History of East Asia

Thursday 28 October 2021

• 17:00 - ‘Cybersecurity and Informatization: Restructuring Chinese Governance Through Technology’
  Dr Rogier Creemers (Leiden University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 29 October 2021

• 13:00 - ‘The Devil is in the Details’: Mao Zedong before and after the Luochuan Conference, August 1937
  Talks are delivered in Mandarin, followed by bilingual Q&As
  Dr Sherman Xiaogang Lai (Queen’s University at Kingston and the Royal Military College of Canada)
  Mandarin Forum

Wednesday 3 November 2021

• 13:00 - Between Escapism and Propaganda: Cultural Activities in Soviet POW Camps After World War II
  TBA
  International History of East Asia

Thursday 4 November 2021

• 17:00 - Classical Learning and the Politics of the Common Good in Early China
  The talk will be conducted in hybrid format. The in-person part of the event has limited space (max. 18 people) and pre-booking is required. If you are an Oxford student or staff member and wish to book a space, please contact Giulia Falato (giulia.falato@orinst.ox.ac.uk). To attend online, please see registration details below.
  Professor Michael Nylan (University of California, Berkeley)
  China Studies Seminar series

Wednesday 10 November 2021

• 13:00 - Seeing the World Through the Atom: Readings of Fallout in Postcolonial North and South Korea
  Derek J Kramer (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
  International History of East Asia

Thursday 11 November 2021

• 17:00 - Rural Development in China and East Asia
  Professor Kristen Looney (Georgetown University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 12 November 2021

• 13:00 - Missionary Yijing in Qing China: Dialogues between the Yijing and the Bible
  Talks are delivered in Mandarin, followed by bilingual Q&As
  Professor John T. P. LAI (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  Mandarin Forum

Tuesday 16 November 2021

• 12:30 - Where is the UK National Interest in our Economic Relationship with China?
  John Edwards (Her Majesty’s Trade Commissioner for China)
  Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series

Wednesday 17 November 2021

• 13:00 - The Anti-Hong Kong Dollar Campaign and the Making of China’s Exchange Rate Regime, 1949-1951
  Leung Ho-chiu (University of California, San Diego)
  International History of East Asia

Thursday 18 November 2021

• 17:00 - Dog Days and Salted Fish: Malaise of Indolence among Young Migrant Café Workers in Shanghai
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 19 November 2021

• 14:00 - The Role of Practice Diffusion in China’s Engagement in Global Standardization
  Professor Dr Sarah Eaton (Humboldt University Berlin)
  International Relations of China

Monday 22 November 2021

• 14:00 - Sharing Food, Vulnerability and Intimacy in a Global Pandemic: The Digital Art of the Chinese Diaspora in Europe
  Professor Hongwei Bao (University of Nottingham)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 23 November 2021

• 17:00 - The Battle of Images: The Sino-Hollywood Negotiation
  Prof. Ying Zhu (Hong Kong Baptist University)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 24 November 2021

• 13:00 - China's Role in Post-Pandemic Asia: Trade, Vaccines and Infrastructure
  Henry Tillman (Grisons Peak Services), Dr Ganeshan Wignaraja (National University of Singapore)
• 13:00 - Recontextualizing Japanese Views of African Americans from the Arrival of Commodore Perry (1853) to the Paris Peace Conference (1919)
  Tarik Merida (Free University of Berlin)
  International History of East Asia

Friday 26 November 2021

• 13:00 - The Reform of the Legal System of Taxation in China in the Last Two Decades and Future Prospects
  Talks are delivered in Mandarin, followed by bilingual Q&As
  Professor Yan XU (China University of Political Science and Law)
  Mandarin Forum
• 14:30 - Disaggregating China, Inc.: State Strategies in the Liberal Economic Order
  Professor Yeling Tan (University of Oregon)
  International Relations of China

Monday 29 November 2021

• 12:30 - Reimagining the World Order: Chinese Literary Conventions and the Representation of International Relations in the Mongol Yuan Dynasty
  Dr Ming Tak Ted Hui (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Wednesday 1 December 2021

• 13:00 - Legacies of minjok and neo-Confucianism in the construction of early DPRK political apparatus
  Noël Seulgi Um-Lo (Columbia University)
  International History of East Asia

Thursday 2 December 2021

• 10:00 - The Politics of Nuclear Commemoration in Asia: The China Case
  Nicola Leveringhaus (King's College London)
  International Relations of China

Thursday 20 January 2022

• 17:00 - Distant Shores: Colonial Encounters on China’s Maritime Frontier
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 21 January 2022

• 13:00 - Making Sustainable Urbanization in China: Environmental Externalities, Income Inequality and Resources Governance in the Post-carbon Era
  Mandarin presentation; English PPT; bilingual Q&As
  Professor Xiaoling Zhang (City University of Hong Kong)
  Mandarin Forum

Monday 24 January 2022

• 13:00 - Being Transgender in China: Trans Celebrity, Queer Activism and Feminist Politics
  Professor Hongwei Bao (University of Nottingham)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 25 January 2022

• 14:00 - The Taiwanese Roots of East Asia’s War Litigation Movement: An Alternate Genealogy
  Professor Timothy Webster (Western New England University)

Wednesday 26 January 2022

• 17:00 - What are we speaking about when we speak of China?
  Professor Biao Xiang (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology), Dr Yangyang Cheng (Yale University), Dr Rachel Leow (University of Cambridge)
  China Centre Conversation series

Friday 28 January 2022

• 14:00 - Translation Matters: Problems of Inference in Assessments of China's Intentions
  Professor Alastair Iain Johnston (Harvard University)
  International Relations of China

Thursday 3 February 2022

• 17:00 - The Future Is Now: Theory and Method of the Newborn Socialist Thing
  Professor Laurence Coderre (New York University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 4 February 2022

• 13:00 - The Impact of COVID-19 on Mental Health and Beyond: Reflections from China
  Mandarin Forum: Mandarin presentation, English PPT, bilingual Q&As
  TBA
  Mandarin Forum

Monday 7 February 2022

• 13:00 - Typographic Bodies: Futurist Biopoetics in Republican China
  Dr Chloe Estep (Columbia University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 11 February 2022

• 10:00 - Chinese Scholars and the Studies of Chinese Foreign Policy
  Professor Kai He (Griffith University)
  International Relations of China

Wednesday 16 February 2022

• 17:00 - America and China: How did we get here, and where should diplomacy go next?
  Robert B. Zoellick
  Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series

Thursday 17 February 2022

• 17:00 - Back Down to the Countryside: Contextualizing the Fanxiangqingnian ‘Return Youth’ Phenomenon, A Case Study of Heyang Village
  Linda Qian (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 18 February 2022

• 13:00 - Developing 'Street Brains': Actors and Smart City Governance at Neighbourhood Level in Beijing
  Mandarin presentation; English PPT; bilingual Q&As
  Shuwen Zhou, (University of Oxford)
  Mandarin Forum

Thursday 24 February 2022

• 17:00 - Jokebooks and Humour Publications in Late-Ming China
  Dr Elizabeth Smithrosser (International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 25 February 2022

• 14:00 - Politics of AI in China
  Professor Jinghan Zen (Lancaster University)
  International Relations of China

Monday 28 February 2022

• 12:30 - The Micro-institutional Foundations of Capitalism: Sectoral Pathways to Globalization in China, India, and Russia
  Professor Roselyn Hseuh (Temple University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 4 March 2022

• 13:00 - Do you feel accepted? Perceived acceptance and its spatially varying determinants of migrant workers among Chinese cities
  Presentation in Mandarin; English PPT; bilingual Q&As
  Dr Hengyu Gu (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  Mandarin Forum

Monday 7 March 2022

• 10:00 - Looking for balanced growth in China amid lockdowns, regulatory headwinds, and an ambitious climate agenda: Insights from the latest IMF China Staff Report
  Helge Berger (IMF), Wenjie Chen (IMF)
• 13:00 - Foreigners and Outsiders: Chinese Views of Jesuit Missionaries in the Late Ming Period
  Dr Ana Carolina Hosne (National Council for Scientific Research (CONICET), Argentina)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 10 March 2022

• 13:00 - An English Schoolboy in War-torn China
  Walford Gillison, Prof. Rana Mitter (University of Oxford)

Friday 11 March 2022

• 14:30 - Making China Great Again? China’s 'Green' and 'Digital' Belt and Road Initiative
  Dr Yuka Kobayashi (SOAS)
  International Relations of China

Tuesday 26 April 2022

• 17:00 - What can we learn from the past when trying to make sense of the Chinese Communist Party today?
  Professor Jeff Wasserstrom (University of California, Irvine), Professor Diana Fu (University of Toronto), Ian Johnson (The Council on Foreign Relations)
  China Centre Conversation series

Wednesday 27 April 2022

• 17:00 - Sinophone Mobilities: Syaman Rapongan, Dadelavan Ibau and the Politics of Indigeneity
  Dr Kyle Shernak (Queen Mary University of London)
  Restless China: Mobility in Literature, Art and Film

Friday 29 April 2022

• 13:00 - 'Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow Taiwan': History, Geopolitics and Transboundary Civil Society between China’s Two Peripheral Societies
  Mandarin presentation; English PPT; bilingual Q&As
  Professor Ming-sho Ho (National Taiwan University)
  Mandarin Forum

Tuesday 3 May 2022

• 17:00 - The Vibrant Material and Digital Geographies of Contentious Politics in China
  Dr Carwyn Morris (University of Manchester)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Thursday 5 May 2022

• 17:00 - Book Launch: The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire
  Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 6 May 2022

• 14:00 - The Future of PLA Strategy and Operations Concerning Taiwan
  Dr Joel Wuthnow (National Defense University)
  International Relations of China

Tuesday 10 May 2022

• 11:00 - Perfect Imbalance: China and Russia
  Dr Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova (Riga Stradins University)
• 17:00 - The Kangaroo Man in the Paddock: Reproductive Technologies and Body Politics in Lily Hsueh’s Writings of Family History
  Dr Po-hsi Chen (University of Cambridge)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 11 May 2022

• 17:00 - Sinophone Performances in Journey-Form in Times of (Im)mobility
  Prof. Dr Rossella Ferrari (University of Vienna)
  Restless China: Mobility in Literature, Art and Film

Friday 13 May 2022

• 13:00 - Organised Crime in Rural China: Gang Evolution, Crime–State Relations and State Infrastructural Power
  Mandarin presentation; bilingual Q&As
  Professor Peng Wang (University of Hong Kong)
  Mandarin Forum

Wednesday 18 May 2022

• 17:00 - Not Moving: Performing Sleep in Contemporary China
  Dr Ros Holmes (University of St Andrews)
  Restless China: Mobility in Literature, Art and Film

Thursday 19 May 2022

• 17:00 - Authenticity and Sincerity in Premodern China
  Professor Xiaofei Tian (Harvard University), Professor Antje Richter (University of Colorado Boulder), Dr Christopher J Foster (SOAS)
  China Centre Conversation series

Friday 20 May 2022

• 14:00 - Catching Fire: How National Humiliation Spreads Hostile Foreign Policy Preferences on Chinese Social Media
  Dr Michael Masterson (Missouri State)
  International Relations of China

Tuesday 24 May 2022

• 12:00 - Sinostan, China's Inadvertent Empire
  Raffaello Pantucci (RUSI)

Wednesday 25 May 2022

• 12:00 - Chinese Legal Thought on the Global Stage
  Professor Samuli Seppänen (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 26 May 2022

• 17:00 - Translation
  Professor Nicholas Williams (Arizona State University), Dr Paul Bevan (University if Oxford), Dr Ewan Macdonald (University of Oxford)
  China Centre Conversation series

Friday 27 May 2022

• 13:00 - The Online 'Informing' System: Popularized Internet Regulation in Mainland China
  Mandarin presentation; bilingual Q&As
  Professor Chelsea C. Chou (National Taiwan University)
  Mandarin Forum
• 14:00 - Political Demonstration Effects: Authoritarian Informational Statecraft and Public Support for Democracy
  Professor Audrye Wong
  International Relations of China

Wednesday 1 June 2022

• 17:00 - The Logic of Expulsion in Contemporary China
  Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
  Restless China: Mobility in Literature, Art and Film

Thursday 2 June 2022

• 17:00 - Fathoming the Changes between Heaven and Earth. Reconsidering the Status of the Book of Changes in Wang Bi’s Philosophy
  Hybrid event: in-person and online (via Zoom). Registration required for online attendance.
  Dr Raphaël Van Daele (Université Libre de Bruxelles)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 6 June 2022

• 13:00 - Beyond Heteronormativity? Intimacy and Intersectionality of Lesbians and Gay Men in Post-Reform China
  Hybrid event: In-person and online (via Zoom). Registration required to attend online.
  Professor Susanne Choi (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  China Studies Seminar series

Wednesday 8 June 2022

• 10:00 - The West, China and 'Systemic Rivalry' – Coalitions and Counter-coalitions
  Andrew Small (German Marshall Fund)
  International Relations of China
• 17:00 - New Wonders of a Nonbinary Universe: The Rise of the She-Sci-Fi in China
  Professor Mingwei Song (Wellesley College)
  Restless China: Mobility in Literature, Art and Film

Friday 10 June 2022

• 13:00 - Tensions and Paradoxes: An Investigation of Internationalisation of Chinese Higher Education
  Mandarin presentation; bilingual Q&As
  Dr Xin Xu (University of Oxford)
  Mandarin Forum
• 17:00 - Frontier Aesthetics and Psychological Healing in Guo Xiaolu’s Village of Stone
  Annabella Massey (University of Oxford)
  Restless China: Mobility in Literature, Art and Film

Wednesday 15 June 2022

• 17:00 - Walking the City 2.0: Urban Space as Digital Noise
  Professor Yomi Braester (University of Washington)
  Restless China: Mobility in Literature, Art and Film

Monday 3 October 2022

• 16:00 - Necessary Fictions: The State, Stock Markets and Growth in East Asia
  Professor John Yasuda (Johns Hopkins University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 10 October 2022

• 17:00 - Demystifying China's Innovation and Entrepreneurial System
  Professor David Gann (University of Oxford)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 13 October 2022

• 17:00 - The Chinese Latrine: a Pigstory
  Professor Roel Sterckx (University of Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Displacement: Tibetan Buddhist Contributions to the International Humanitarian Field
  Christina Kilby (James Madison University), Christina Kilby (James Madison University)
  Tibetan Graduate Studies Seminar

Friday 14 October 2022

• 13:00 - Women and Heroin Addiction in China’s Reform Era (ONLINE ONLY)
  Mandarin presentation; English PPT; bilingual Q&As
  Professor Huan Gao (California State University, Stanislaus)
  Mandarin Forum

Thursday 20 October 2022

• 13:00 - Taiwan’s Postwar Student Movement and the Making of Democracy
  Online event, but can be watched online at the China Centre, in the Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
  Professor Ming-sho Ho (National Taiwan University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 25 October 2022

• 13:00 - Reconsidering the Principles of Zheng Xuan’s 鄭玄 Canonical Scholarship
  The talk will be in Chinese
  Hashimoto Hidemi 橋本秀美 (Aoyama Gakuin University, Japan)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 27 October 2022

• 17:00 - Fighting Imperialism – Forging Solidarity: Africa in PRC Visual Propaganda, 1950s to 1980s
  Dr Thoralf Klein (Loughborough University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 28 October 2022

• 13:00 - Decoding the Illegal Online Market: The Governance Mechanisms of Internet Gambling (ONLINE ONLY)
  Mandarin presentation; English PPT; bilingual Q&As
  Dr Lin Wanlin (The University of Hong Kong)
  Mandarin Forum
• 17:00 - The Evolution of Contemporary China Studies: Coming Full Circle?
  This is an in-person and online event. To attend online (via Zoom), registration is required
  Professor David Shambaugh (George Washington University)
  China Centre talks

Wednesday 2 November 2022

• 13:00 - The Meaning of Sima Qian’s ‘一家之言’
  Talk will be in Chinese. Registration necessary for online attendance.
  Professor Chen Suzhen 陈苏镇 (Peking University)

Thursday 3 November 2022

• 16:00 - Necessary Fictions: The State, Stock Markets and Growth in East Asia
  Professor John Yasuda (Johns Hopkins University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Wednesday 9 November 2022

• 17:00 - World Safe for Autocracy? The Domestic Politics of China's Foreign Policy
  Professor Jessica Chen Weiss (Cornell University)

Thursday 10 November 2022

• 17:00 - Modernity on the Periphery: Urbanisation and Informality after the Chongqing Model
  Dr Asa Roast (University of Leeds)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 11 November 2022

• 13:00 - Life in Lhasa during the Republic Era: Dai Xinsan’s Diary (ONLINE ONLY)
  Mandarin presentation; English PPT; bilingual Q&As
  Professor Chuan Wang (Sichuan Normal University)
  Mandarin Forum
• 17:00 - Green Ink: Plant-human Relations in Contemporary Sinophone Fiction
  Dr Astrid Møller-Olsen (Lund University)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Tuesday 15 November 2022

• 17:00 - Hong Kong – China’s canary down the mine?
  The Rt Hon, the Lord Patten of Barnes, CH PC Chancellor (University of Oxford)
  China Centre talks

Wednesday 16 November 2022

• 17:00 - Obsessed with Reading: Bovarysm as a Phenomenon in the Reception of Translated Love Stories in Early Twentieth-Century China
  Date has been changed from 8 to 16 November. Location has changed to Ho Tim Seminar Room (first floor)
  Professor Jane Qian Liu (University of Warwick)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Thursday 17 November 2022

• 13:00 - Queer Melancholia, Queer Joy (ONLINE ONLY)
  Dr Wen-chi Li (University of Edinburgh)
• 17:30 - How do movement parties learn lessons of defeat in Taiwan? The case of the Green Party Taiwan
  Dr Dafydd Fell (SOAS)
  China Studies Seminar series

Wednesday 23 November 2022

• 13:00 - Chinese Female Star Power in Translingual Media Culture: The Case of Michelle Yeoh
  Prof. Dorothy Wai Sim Lau (Hong Kong Baptist University)
• 17:00 - She’s an Icon, She’s Your Type: Linguistic Gender through Typographic and Visual Perspectives in Republican China
  Dr Coraline Jortay (University of Oxford)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Thursday 24 November 2022

• 17:00 - Du Fu (712‒770) and his Troubled Search for Identity (POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE)
  This seminar has been postponed until further notice
  Professor David McMullen (University of Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 25 November 2022

• 13:00 - The Resistance War in the Diary of Huang Tirun (1933‒1939) (ONLINE ONLY)
  Mandarin presentation; English PPT, bilingual Q&As
  Dr Haonan Xiang (Minzu University of China)
  Mandarin Forum

Tuesday 29 November 2022

• 13:00 - Book talk: The Subplot: What China is Reading and Why it Matters (POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE)
  This event has been postponed until further notice
  Megan Walsh
  Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series

Thursday 1 December 2022

• 16:00 - Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
  Professor Victor Seow (Harvard University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 19 January 2023

• 17:00 - Reader, Author, Icon, Superhero? Lu Xun and his Literature in Chinese Comics
  Dr Lena Henningsen (University of Freiburg)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 26 January 2023

• 17:00 - The Rise and the Fall of the EAST: Examination, Autocracy, Stability, and Technology in Chinese History and Today
  Prof. Yasheng Huang (MIT Sloan School of Management)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 27 January 2023

• 17:00 - China and the UK in 2023, is there a Progressive Way Forward?
  Catherine West (MP)
  China Centre talks

Monday 30 January 2023

• 13:00 - Divergent Trajectories of China’s Email-Order Brides (ONLINE ONLY)
  Online only.
  Professor Monica Liu (University of St Thomas)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 31 January 2023

• 17:00 - Mao and Markets: The Communist Roots of Chinese Enterprise
  Hybrid event. To join talk online, please register first.
  Professor Christopher Marquis (University of Cambridge)
  Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series

Thursday 2 February 2023

• 17:00 - Self-Fashioning in Tang China: From the 'Casual Gaffer' to the 'Master of Extreme Torment'
  Dr Xiaojing Miao (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 7 February 2023

• 12:10 - The View From Beijing: Reflections on Recent Developments in the PRC
  Talk and discussion will start at 12.10
  Prof. Katherine Morton (Schwarzman College)
  China Centre talks

Wednesday 8 February 2023

• 12:00 - The Risk of Conflict in the Taiwan Strait: Strategy, Technology and Deterrence
  Dr James Lee (Academia Sinica)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 9 February 2023

• 17:00 - Imperial Gateway: Colonial Taiwan and Japan's Expansion in South China and Southeast Asia, 1895-1945 (ONLINE ONLY)
  Online only, via MS Teams
  Prof. Seiji Shirane (The City College of New York (CUNY))
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 10 February 2023

• 13:00 - Fighting for International Communism? Chinese Youth in Burma during the Mao Era
  In-person event only. Presentation in Mandarin; bilingual Q&As
  Dr Ning Zhang (University of Oxford)
  Mandarin Forum

Wednesday 15 February 2023

• 15:00 - China’s Ambitions to Explore the Moon and the Prospects for Lunar Governance
  Prof Martin Elvis (Harvard University), Dr Alanna Krolikowski (Missouri University of Science and Technology)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 16 February 2023

• 17:00 - The Qing Empire and its Offshore Islands during the Long Eighteenth Century
  Prof. Ronald C. Po (LSE)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 17 February 2023

• 12:30 - Chinese State-Owned Companies and Investment in Latin America and Europe
  For link to full paper, please contact: information@chinese.ox.ac.uk
  Professor Larry Catá Backer (白 轲) (Pennsylvania State University)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 23 February 2023

• 17:00 - Attitudes to Chinese Economic Investment in the Middle East and North Africa
  Professor Neil Ketchley (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 24 February 2023

• 13:00 - Prayers, Votes and Money: The Impact of Religions on Rural Political Participation in China
  In-person event only. Mandarin presentation, bilingual PPT.
  Professor Pinghan Liang (Sun Yat-sen University)
  Mandarin Forum

Wednesday 1 March 2023

• 15:00 - Chinese Companies Going Global. Findings from the Cornell EMI report 2022
  Dr Lourdes Casanova (Cornell University), Dr Anne Miroux (Cornell University)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 2 March 2023

• 17:00 - Dreaming Together: Communes Before Communism, 1919-1921
  Dr Shakhar Rahav (University of Haifa)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 3 March 2023

• 13:00 - Evolution of Regime Complex in Global Governance: A Chinese Perspective on Human Genetic Information
  Presentation in Mandarin; bilingual Q&As
  Professor Hanzhi Yu (Zhejiang University)
  Mandarin Forum

Monday 6 March 2023

• 13:00 - One China, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism
  Online seminar, which can be viewed at the China Centre
  TBA
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 7 March 2023

• 12:00 - Situating Hong Kong in International Politics through Documentary Filmmaking: the Questions of Agency and Representation
  Dr Malte Kaeding (University of Surrey), Dr Heidi Wang-Kaeding (Keele University)
  China Centre talks

Wednesday 8 March 2023

• 17:00 - Christian Yijing: James Legge's Moral and Religious Interpretation of The Book of Changes
  Professor John T. P. Lai (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Thursday 9 March 2023

• 17:00 - Clean Air at What Cost? The Rise of Blunt Force Regulation in China
  Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 24 April 2023

• 17:00 - Why Do Chinese Filmmakers Love Melons? and Other Questions from a New Digital Archive of Early Cinema
  Professor Christopher Rea (University of British Columbia)

Tuesday 25 April 2023

• 17:00 - Gagauz Culture and Language of Bessarabia
  TBA
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series on the Caucasus and Central Asia

Wednesday 26 April 2023

• 12:00 - The US‒Japan Alliance and Taiwan
  Professor Adam P Liff (Indiana University)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 27 April 2023

• 17:00 - Negotiated Sovereignty: The Fisherfolks and the State in the Northern Gulf of Tonkin, 1954‒1964
  Dr Qingfei Yin (LSE)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 28 April 2023

• 13:00 - Values Confliction and Identification in China’s Generation Y
  Mandarin presentation; English PPT; bilingual Q&As
  Professor Leiping Bao (Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences)
  Mandarin Forum
• 17:00 - TALK POSTPONED: CIT: An Alternative Classification Scheme for the Chinese Visual Culture
  This talk has been postponed until further notice
  Dr Zhang Hongxing (Victoria and Albert Museum)

Monday 1 May 2023

• 17:00 - Guarding Dictatorship: China's Surveillance State.
  Professor Minxin Pei (Claremont McKenna College)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 2 May 2023

• 17:00 - Land, Church and Identity of the Caucasian Albanians in Historical Narratives: Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods
  TBA
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series on the Caucasus and Central Asia
• 17:00 - Remembering and Forgetting Pivotal Moments in Modern Chinese History
  Hybrid event. Can be attended in person at the China Centre (no registration required) or online via Zoom (registration required)
  Professor Jeff Wasserstrom (University of California, Irvine), Professor Patricia Thornton (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
  China Centre Conversation series

Wednesday 3 May 2023

• 12:00 - China’s Path to Global Influence
  Prof. Richard Carney (China Europe International Business School (CEIBS), Shanghai)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Ruling the Sichuan’s Stage: Reading China’s Sociocultural Transformation from the 18th to the 20th Century through the Perspective of Opera
  Dr Igor Iwo Chabrowski (University of Warsaw)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 9 May 2023

• 17:00 - Kars and Batum under Russian Rule (1878-1918): Southwest Caucasus or North-eastern Anatolia?
  TBA
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series on the Caucasus and Central Asia

Thursday 11 May 2023

• 17:00 - TALK POSTPONED: The Wor(l)d Itself: The Language of Mapping China
  TALK POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE
  Dr Stephen Whiteman (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:30 - Lecture 1: Manuscripts and Rituals: The Written Transmission of the Zoroastrian Rituals
  Professor Alberto Cantera (Freie Universität Berlin)
  9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures

Friday 12 May 2023

• 13:00 - Network Games: Strategic Reasoning in International Relations (With Applications in Chinese Foreign Policy)
  Presentation in Mandarin; PPT in English; bilingual Q&As
  Dr Yuke Li
  Mandarin Forum

Monday 15 May 2023

• 13:00 - ONLINE: Rival Partners: How Taiwanese Entrepreneurs and Guangdong Officials Forged the Development Model
  Online event. Can be viewed online remotely or at China Centre.
  Dr Jieh-min Wu (Academia Sinica)
  China Studies Seminar series

Wednesday 17 May 2023

• 12:00 - Decoupling in the Digital Age: China and the Challenge of Massive Modularity
  Prof. Eric Thun (University of Oxford)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Zhang Yueran speaking at China Centre
  Zhang Yueran

Thursday 18 May 2023

• 17:30 - Lecture 2. “The Questioned Antiquity of the Zoroastrian Rituals: Their Reception in Western Academia” – Thurs 18 May 2023 at 5:30pm
  Professor Alberto Cantera (Freie Universität Berlin)
  9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures

Monday 22 May 2023

• 13:00 - Rejuvenating Communism: Youth Organizations and Elite Renewal in Post-Mao China
  This talk will be in the Ho Tim Seminar Room (first floor)
  Dr Jérôme Doyon (Sciences Po)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 23 May 2023

• 17:00 - Transnational Nationalism: Visions of Abkhazia, 1992-1993
  TBA
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series on the Caucasus and Central Asia
• 17:00 - Vessels and Cargos: Spaces of Inclusion and Exclusion in Johnnie To’s Drug War and Lee Hae-young’s Korean Remake Believer
  Dr Jinhee Choi (King's College London)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Thursday 25 May 2023

• 17:00 - From Public Sympathy to Collective Anger: Media, Emotions, and Politics in 1930s-China
  Dr. Xin Fan (University of Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:30 - Lecture 3. “The Ritual System: Modularity and Productivity''
  Professor Alberto Cantera (Freie Universität Berlin)
  9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures

Friday 26 May 2023

• 13:00 - China's Asymmetric Statecraft: Alignments, Competitors, and Regional Diplomacy
  Mandarin presentation; English PPT; bilingual Q&As
  Professor Yuxing Huang (Tsinghua University)
  Mandarin Forum

Tuesday 30 May 2023

• 17:00 - The shariatic turn in 13th-century Islamic law. Historical evidence and doctrinal changes
  Dr Christian Müller
• 17:00 - The Great Terror in Soviet Uzbekistan: Mechanisms, Methods and Means
  TBA
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series on the Caucasus and Central Asia

Wednesday 31 May 2023

• 13:00 - The Myth and Facts of China's Public Surveillance System: Evidence from the Government Procurement Contracts
  Professor Pinghan Liang (Sun Yat-sen University)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 1 June 2023

• 16:00 - Framed by the Archive: Maoist Revolution and the Case of Merchant Zha, 1949‒1952
  Professor Brian DeMare (Tulane University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 5 June 2023

• 14:00 - A Zen Foundation for Critical Subjectivity in the New Field of Contemplative Studies
  Professor Harold D. Roth (Brown University)
  Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series
• 16:00 - An Introduction to and Revisionist Critique of the Case (案) as Historical Source and Administrative Artefact in Local Jurisdictions of the Late Empire
  Dr Maura Dykstra (Caltech)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 6 June 2023

• 17:00 - Book Launch and Discussion: V. Calzolari - The Apocryphal Acts of the Apostles in Armenia
  Professor Valentina Calzolari (University of Geneva/University of Oxford)
• 17:00 - Do Seeds Fire up the Belt and Road Initiative? The Politics of the Diffusion of Chinese Crop Seeds in Tajikistan
  Irna Hofman (Oxford)
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series on the Caucasus and Central Asia

Thursday 8 June 2023

• 17:00 - Sino-US Relations: A Historical Perspective from the Pearl River Delta
  Professor John D. Wong (The University of Hong Kong)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 9 June 2023

• 13:00 - Alterity of Original: The Text Construction and Classics Interpretation in the Translation of the Daodejing by James Legge
  Mandarin presentation, English PPT, bilingual Q&As
  Professor Ayong Lei (Minjiang University)
  Mandarin Forum

Wednesday 14 June 2023

• 09:30 - Conference on Chinese Art and Literature in the Republican Era
  Dr Paul Bevan (University of Oxford)

Thursday 15 June 2023

• 17:00 - POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE: China’s Law of the Sea
  This talk has been postponed until further notice
  Dr Isaac B Kardon (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 14 July 2023

• 12:15 - “The connection between Byzantine Cappadocia and Antioch: churches and their iconography between the fourth and the seventh centuries”
  Prof. Elena Ene Draghici-Vasilescu (University of Oxford)

Monday 25 September 2023

• 09:00 - Hadith, Piety, and Law: A Conference in Honour of Christopher Melchert
  E-mail ruth.macdonald@humanities.ox.ac.uk to register.
  Various Speakers

Friday 6 October 2023

• 12:00 - Sparks: China's Underground Historians and Their Battle for the Future
  Ian Johnson
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 10 October 2023

• 12:00 - Hong Kong: Not Just Another Chinese City
  Vaudine England (Leiden University)
  China Centre talks

Wednesday 11 October 2023

• 17:00 - Literary Transmission as Political Action: Feng Menglong's Mountain Songs Compendium (c. 1610)
  Professor Leigh Jenco (LSE)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 16 October 2023

• 12:00 - U.S. and European Legal Responses to Chinese Forced Labour
  Mr Aaron Halegua (Aaron Halegua PLLC)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 17 October 2023

• 17:00 - One Man Talking: Selected Essays of Shao Xunmei, 1929‒1939
  Dr Paul Bevan (University of Oxford), Dr Susan Daruvala (University of Cambridge)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 18 October 2023

• 12:00 - Xi Jinping: The Hidden Agendas of China's Ruler for Life
  Dr Willy Lam (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 19 October 2023

• 17:30 - Lecture 4: ‘The Satisfaction of the yazata’ and ‘The Blessing of the ratus’: On the Zoroastrian Long Liturgies
  Professor Alberto Cantera (Freie Universität Berlin)
  9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures

Tuesday 24 October 2023

• 17:00 - Rising Powers and the Politics of Status: China and India in the Liberal International Order
  Dr Rohan Mukherjee (LSE)

Thursday 26 October 2023

• 17:00 - Spectres of Progress in a Northeast Asian Borderland
  Dr Ed Pulford (The University of Manchester)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:30 - Lecture 5: Ritual and Revelation: The Complex Liturgies Based on the Visperad Time
  Professor Alberto Cantera (Freie Universität Berlin)
  9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures

Thursday 2 November 2023

• 17:00 - Book talk: Factional-Ideological Conflicts in Chinese Politics: To the Left or to the Right?
  Dr Olivia Cheung (SOAS)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:30 - Lecture 6: Turning the Tables: From the daēnā to the Dēnkard
  Professor Alberto Cantera (Freie Universität Berlin)
  9th Ratanbai Katrak Lectures

Wednesday 8 November 2023

• 17:00 - The Cultural Revolution in a Rural County of China
  Professor Dong Guoqiang (Fudan University)

Thursday 9 November 2023

• 17:00 - Making Peace with the Devil: The Problem of Ending Just Wars
  Dr Elisabeth Forster (University of Southampton), Dr Isaac Taylor (Stockholm University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 13 November 2023

• 17:00 - Post Taiwan New Cinema Era: The Auteurs and the Industry
  Dr Chen Pin-chuan (Taipei Representative Office, UK)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 14 November 2023

• 17:00 - Reading the People’s Republic
  Megan Walsh
  Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series
• 17:00 - The Muslim Difference: Defining the Line between Believers and Unbelievers from Early Islam to the Present (Youshaa Patel)
  Prof. Youshaa Patel (Lafayette College)

Monday 20 November 2023

• 17:00 - Meditations of a Vaibhāṣika Bodhisattva
  Henry Albery (Ghent University)

Tuesday 21 November 2023

• 17:00 - Book Launch: A celebration to mark the publication of The Definitive Zoroastrian Critique of Islam Chapters 11-12 of the Škand Gumānīg-Wizār by Mardānfarrox son of Ohrmazddād Translated Texts for Historians Volume 83
  DAME AVERIL CAMERON (Former Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine History & Former Warden, Keble College, Oxford), Prof Nicolai Sinai (Pembroke College), Yuhan Vevaina, Professor Christian Sahner (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 22 November 2023

• 12:00 - Trustworthiness as Reputation in International Cooperation-building: Implications for US–China Relations
  Professor Shiping Tang (Fudan University)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 23 November 2023

• 17:00 - Locust Control in Late Imperial China
  Dr Desmond Cheung (SOAS)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 27 November 2023

• 12:00 - The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy
  Professor Suisheng Zhao (University of Denver)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 28 November 2023

• 12:00 - The Politics of Promotion and Survival in China's Foreign Affairs System
  Dr Tyler Jost (Brown University)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Gao Xingjian’s Bilingual Experimentation on the World Stage: Encounters with Translation
  Kate Costello (University of Oxford)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Monday 4 December 2023

• 14:00 - Mapping the City of the Gods: Bangkok, Ethnicity, and the Galactic Polity 
  Dr. Justin McDaniel
  Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series
• 14:00 - Mapping the City of the Gods: Bangkok, Ethnicity, and the Galactic Polity
  Justin McDaniel (University of Pennsylvania)
  Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture Series

Tuesday 5 December 2023

• 09:00 - Crossing Ancient Sacred Landscapes: Contacts and Continuities in the Ancient Desert Cults and Beliefs of Northern Arabia and the Arid Southern Levant
  Various Speakers

Monday 15 January 2024

• 17:00 - US–China Competition: Risks without Rewards?
  Professor Ashley J. Tellis (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace)
  China Centre talks

Friday 19 January 2024

• 13:00 - The Vicissitudes of the Image of the Soviet Union among the Chinese Public during the 1950s
  Presentation in Mandarin
  Professor Wang Zihui (Northwest University)
  Mandarin Forum

Monday 22 January 2024

• 17:00 - Pure and True: the Everyday Politics of Ethnicity for China’s Hui Muslims
  Dr David Stroup (University of Manchester)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 25 January 2024

• 17:00 - Post-Election Analysis of Taiwan’s 2024 Elections
  Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Monique Chu (University of Southampton), Dr Michael Reilly (University of Nottingham)
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 1 February 2024

• 17:00 - How to Tell a Sensitive History: Interviews with Chinese International Communist Volunteers in Burma
  Dr Ning Zhang (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 2 February 2024

• 13:00 - Democracy, Nationalism and Revolution: The Relationships between Revolutionists and the Powers during China’s National Protection War (1915‒1916)
  Mandarin presentation
  Professor Honglei Cheng (Central China Normal University)
  Mandarin Forum

Monday 5 February 2024

• 12:00 - Life Above All Else: Foucault, China and Mutations of the Biopolitical
  Dr Christian Sorace (University of Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 6 February 2024

• 17:00 - The 'Strategic Partnership' between China and the European Union after Twenty Years: Drivers of Change and Continuity
  John Farnell (University of Oxford)
  China Centre talks

Wednesday 14 February 2024

• 17:00 - Freedom Undone: The Assault on Liberal Values and Institutions in Hong Kong
  Professor Michael C Davis (Wilson Center)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 15 February 2024

• 11:00 - The Tudeh, the ADP emigrants and the development of Azeri nationalism in the 1940s-1970s
  Dmitry Asinovsky
• 17:00 - China's Economic Diplomacy in an Age of 'Derisking'
  TALK CANCELLED
  Dr Lucie Qian Xia (University of Oxford)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 16 February 2024

• 13:00 - Where is the Way out for the Sino-Indian Border Dispute?
  Mandarin presentation
  Professor Xinmin Sui (Zhengzhou University)
  Mandarin Forum

Monday 19 February 2024

• 10:00 - 清代宮廷戲臺與戲曲 (The Court Stages and Dramas of the Qing Dynasty)
  Lecture conducted in Chinese
  Professor Lee Chang-Sook (Seoul National University)
• 14:00 - 十五世紀以來韓中使臣的戲曲體驗和兩國宮廷慶祝戲比較小論 (A Comparison of Korean and Chinese Envoys' Experience of Drama and Court Celebrations in the Two Countries since the Fifteenth Century)
  Lecture conducted in Chinese
  Professor Lee Jeong-Jae (Sogang University, Korea)

Tuesday 20 February 2024

• 12:05 - The Upside of US‒Chinese Strategic Competition: Institutional Balancing and Order Transition in the Asia Pacific
  Professor Kai He (Griffith University)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Medium Format: Soil Photography, Ecological Mosaics, Dispossession
  Dr William Schaefer (Durham University)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Thursday 22 February 2024

• 11:00 - The World of Sogdian Art (5th-8th centuries CE)
  Michael Shenkar (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
• 17:00 - China’s Mundane Revolution: Cheap Print, Vernacular Knowledge and the Rise of the Common Reader, 1894‒1954
  Professor Joan Judge (York University, Toronto)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 23 February 2024

• 16:30 - Noriyuki Ishibashi | The Meaning and Usage of the Modifying Clause (Noun Clause) with the Nouns, ことkoto' and 'のno'
  Noriyuki Ishibashi

Tuesday 27 February 2024

• 17:00 - Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth-Century China
  Professor Ying Qian (Columbia University)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Thursday 29 February 2024

• 11:00 - Book Presentation: THE LAILASHI CODEX: The Crown of Georgian Jewry - Survival in Soviet Times
  Dr Thea Gomelauri (Oxford Interfaith Forum, AMES)
• 17:00 - Engaging with Alterity: The Chinese Style of Gardening in 18th-century Britain
  Dr Yue Zhuang (University of Exeter)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 1 March 2024

• 10:00 - Transmediating Traditions in China and Beyond
  Various Speakers
• 13:00 - Young Men and Women of the World: Versified Climate, Ethnicity and Sex in Fazıl Bey (d. 1810)'s Verse Narratives
  Selim Sırrı Kuru (University of Washington; Visiting Fellow, All Souls College, Oxford)
• 13:00 - Shanghai A-Fei: Fashionable Rebels and Discourse Showdown in Socialist China
  Mandarin presentation
  Professor Yajuan Liu (East China Normal University)
  Mandarin Forum

Monday 4 March 2024

• 12:00 - Wild Ride: A Short History of the Opening and Closing of the Chinese Economy
  Anne Stevenson-Yang (J Capital Research USA LLC)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Inside the Global Supply Chain: Transnational Migrant Labour, Commodity Circulation and Digitised Economies across Taiwan
  Dr Beatrice Zani (French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS))
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 5 March 2024

• 16:15 - Graduate Indology Seminar: Francesca Orsini In conversation about her book East of Delhi Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature with with Faisal Devji, Imre Bangha and Pranav Prakash.
  Various Speakers

Wednesday 6 March 2024

• 17:00 - The British China Story
  Professor Kerry Brown (King's College London)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 7 March 2024

• 11:00 - Book Launch: Afghanistan Dispossessed: Women, Culture and the Taliban
  Dr Raziza Sultanova (University of Oxford)

Friday 8 March 2024

• 11:00 - From Shi jing to Internet: The Poetry Republic of China
  Professor Xiaofei Tian (Harvard University)

Monday 8 April 2024

• 12:00 - Thomas Schelling, the United States, and China’s Rise
  Professor Thomas J. Christensen (Columbia University)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 23 April 2024

• 17:00 - Southeast Asia between the Superpowers: Who is Where and Why?
  Professor Yuen Foong Khong (National University of Singapore)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Worrying about China: Storytelling, Humanitarian Intervention, and the Global Circulation of Independent Chinese Documentary
  Dr Luke Robinson (University of Sussex)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Thursday 25 April 2024

• 17:00 - Buddhists in the Print Culture of Republican China
  Dr Gregory Scott (University of Manchester)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Professor Garth Fowden (University of Cambridge) | Orienting the Global First Millennium: Iranosphere Perspectives
  Garth Fowden (Cambridge)

Friday 26 April 2024

• 13:00 - Migrant Approaches, Family Patterns and Social Integration: the Striving Teams' Family Migration in Contemporary China
  Mandarin presentation
  Professor Godfrey (Gaohui) Wu (Central South University, PR China)
  Mandarin Forum

Monday 29 April 2024

• 17:00 - Book Launch Panel | Yuhan Sohrab-Dinshaw Vevaina - The Sūdgar Nask of Dēnkard Book 9 and Zoroastrian Hermeneutics in Late Antiquity
  Various Speakers

Tuesday 30 April 2024

• 17:00 - Dr Anahita Arian (Cambridge/ONGC) Encounters in the Persianate World: The Safavid Diplomatic Envoy to Siam
  Anahita Arian
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series
• 17:00 - Unfulfilled Dreams: China’s 'Liberal' Communist Party Intellectuals’ Struggle for Democracy from the 1930s to the 2000s
  Dr Verna Yu (University of Oxford)
  China Centre talks

Wednesday 1 May 2024

• 12:00 - How Can Regulation Revive China’s Sagging Economy?
  Professor Angela Zhang (University of Hong Kong)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 2 May 2024

• 17:00 - Chairman Mao’s Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China
  Professor Bin Xu (Emory University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Andrew Marsham (University of Cambridge) | ‘Re-Framing the Umayyad Empire: Pastoralists, Plague, and Peripheries’
  Andrew Marsham (Cambridge)

Friday 3 May 2024

• 16:30 - Luke Treadwell (AMES/ St Cross) | Coin Legends and Protocol Texts in the 70s/690s: Emblematic Identity and Monetization of Exchange in the Umayyad State
  Luke Treadwell (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 7 May 2024

• 17:00 - Aydogdy Kurbanov – Dehistan (South-West Turkmenistan) in the first half of the 1st Millennium CE
  Aydogdy Kurbanov (University of Lyon)
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series
• 17:00 - The Door Opened: Documenting the Early Years of China’s Reform Era
  Adrian Bradshaw (Photojournalist)

Wednesday 8 May 2024

• 17:00 - From the Studio of Sour Mood: Poetry and Prose of Guan Yunshi 貫雲石 (1286–1324)
  Professor Emeritus Richard John Lynn (University of Toronto)

Thursday 9 May 2024

• 17:00 - Scents of China: A Modern History of Smell
  Dr Xuelei Huang (University of Edinburgh)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Julia Bray (University of Oxford) |‘Medieval Arabic Literature: What Do You Know, and What Can You Do with It?’
  Professor Julia Bray (Oriental Studies, Oxford)

Tuesday 14 May 2024

• 17:00 - Selbi Durdieva - ‘Hauntology, Inheritance, and Women’s Writing: Entangled Pasts in Turkmen Family Archives’
  Selbi Durdieva
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series
• 17:00 - Landscape Paintings and Territorial Sovereignty in Socialist China
  Professor PANG Laikwan (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 15 May 2024

• 10:00 - Solitude and Community in Contemporary Chinese Culture
  Various Speakers
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China
• 12:00 - Made in China: When US-China Interests Converged to Transform Global Trade
  Dr Elizabeth Ingleson (LSE)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 16 May 2024

• 17:00 - Navigating Geoeducational Dilemmas: Chinese Student Migration in Singapore
  Professor Zachary M. Howlett (YaleNUSCollege)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Hannah-Lena Hagemann (University of Hamburg) ‘“Behold! Quraysh is praying behind Bakr!” Kharijite Rebellion and Bakri Tribalism from al-Jazira to Iran 7th-9th c.’
  Hannah-Lena Hagemann (Hamburg)

Friday 17 May 2024

• 10:00 - From Sicily to Sumatra: Conference in Honour of Professor Jeremy Johns
  Lev Arie Kapitaikin (Tel Aviv University), Ruba Kana'an (University of Toronto), Marcus Milwright (University of Victoria / University of York), Teresa Bernheimer (LMU (Munich)), Mariam Rosser-Owen (V&A (London)), Elvira Miceli (University of Oxford), Joseph O'Hara (University of Oxford), Laura Hinrichsen (Scholar), Peter Nagy (Qatar Museums), Julian Raby (Smithsonian Institution), Jessica Rahardjo

Monday 20 May 2024

• 17:00 - Paradiplomacy in Hard Times: Cooperation and Confrontation in Subnational US-China Relations
  Professor Kyle Jaros (University of Notre Dame)
  China Centre talks

Tuesday 21 May 2024

• 17:00 - Sinologist, Traveller, Governor, Spy: The Lives and Legacies of Sir Cecil Clementi, 17th Governor of Hong Kong
  Graham Hutchings (University of Oxford, University of Nottingham)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Dr Thomas Welsford (All Souls) An Armenian Liberal in Revolutionary Samarkand
  Dr Thomas Welsford (All Souls)
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series

Wednesday 22 May 2024

• 17:00 - If Hong Kong is really over
  Dr Kim Wah Chung
  China Centre talks

Thursday 23 May 2024

• 17:00 - Alebachew Belay (Debre Berhan University) | ‘Connected “Pagans” from Medieval Ethiopia: Monumental and Artifactual Evidence’
  Alebachew Belay (Debre Berhan University)
• 17:00 - Captain of the Roving Bandits: Spoken drama and the culture of Rural Pacification in Japanese-occupied China
  Professor Jeremy E Taylor (University of Nottingham)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 24 May 2024

• 13:00 - Governance of the Water Community in the South-central Region of the People's Republic of China
  Professor Yunxian Ren (Nanchang Hangkong University)
  Mandarin Forum
• 16:30 - Tibetan Manuscripts and Early Printed Books: Book talk and roundtable discussion
  Dr Lama Jabb (University of Oxford), Prof Ulrike Roesler (University of Oxford), Charles Manson (University of Oxford), Prof. em. Matthew Kapstein (EPHE, Paris), Dr Hildegard Diemberger (University of Cambridge), Dr Sam van Schaik (British Library)

Monday 27 May 2024

• 17:00 - Chinese Businessmen and the Economic Roots of American Cold War Power, 1938‒1955
  Professor Judd Kinzley (University of Wisconsin-Maddison)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 28 May 2024

• 17:00 - Dr Stefan Williamson Fa (ONGC) Connections and Dis/continuities in Contemporary Aşıq Practice in Georgia
  Stefan Williamson Fa:
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series

Thursday 30 May 2024

• 09:00 - Workshop | Mountains and the Historian
  Various Speakers
• 17:00 - Louise Rayne (Newcastle University) | ‘Detecting Irrigation and Desertification in the Middle East and North Africa Since the Medieval Period’
  Louise Rayne (Newcastle University)

Tuesday 4 June 2024

• 17:00 - Vali Kaleji: Iran’s Relations with the Republics of Azerbaijan, Armenia and Georgia in the First Period of Independence (1917-1921)
  Vali Kaleji
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series

Thursday 6 June 2024

• 17:00 - Problematic Analogies: Diplomatic Exchange and the Discourse of Legitimacy in Early Medieval China
  Professor Lu Kou (Columbia University)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 17:00 - Dan Reynolds (University of Birmingham) | ‘Charlemagne’s Jerusalem: Rhetoric, Exegesis and the Ninth-Century “Holy Land”’
  Dan Reynolds (Birmingham)

Friday 7 June 2024

• 13:00 - The Way of the Sage: The Cultivation Efforts of Neo-Confucianists in the Song and Ming Dynasties
  Presentation in Mandarin
  Professor Hui Yin (Yuelu Academy of Hunan University)
  Mandarin Forum

Monday 10 June 2024

• 17:00 - Competition in the Gray Zone: A Cross-analysis of Taiwan and the South China Sea
  Diren Doğan (Alanya Alaaddin Keykubat University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Tuesday 11 June 2024

• 17:00 - Dr Matthias Battis (ONGC) | Stalinabad 1930: Aleksandr Semenov and the convergence of scholarship and politics at the Tajik language congress
  Dr Matthias Battis (ONGC)
  TOSCCA/ONGC Seminar series

Wednesday 12 June 2024

• 17:00 - Invitation to a Banquet: Exploring Chinese food
  Ms Fuchsia Dunlop
  Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker Series

Thursday 13 June 2024

• 17:00 - Professor Peter Sarris (University of Cambridge) | JUSTINIAN BETWEEN EAST AND WEST
  Peter Sarris (University of Cambridge)

Thursday 20 June 2024

• 12:00 - China’s Military Rise: Two decades of catch up with the USA
  Professor Peter Robertson (University of Western Australia)
  China Centre talks

Friday 21 June 2024

• 09:00 - Balliol Welcoming Panel
  Elena Lombardi (Balliol College), John-Paul Ghobrial (Balliol College), Nicola Trott (Balliol College), Diego Zancani (Balliol College), Christine Borgman (UCLA), Joanna Weinberg (Exeter College)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 11:00 - Conditioned Arising in Buddhism and Biology: Lessons from the Commentaries of Won Hyo, and Stefano Zacchetti’s work on the Da Zhidu Lun
  Professor Denis Noble (University of Oxford)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 11:30 - Translating Medicine Across Cultures: The Divergent Strategies of An Shigao and Dharmarakṣa in Introducing Indian Medical Concepts to China
  Lu Lu (Zhejiang University)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 12:00 - A Commentarial Fork in the Road: A Parting of Ways in the Indian and Chinese Versions of the Ratnagotravibhāga
  Christopher V. Jones (University of Vienna)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 13:30 - “Best of Sages” or “Seventh of Sages”: Isi-sattama in Pāli Atthakathā
  Qingniao Li (University of Oxford)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 13:50 - A commentary as Buddhavacana: The composition of the Vinayavibhaṅga and its interplay with the Sūtra-Piṭaka
  Ven. Wanyu Zhang (Farong) (University of Oxford)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 14:10 - In Praise of the Eminent Monk: Remarks on the Life and Works of Dharmarakṣa 竺法護 through the Study of Colophons
  Yunyao Zhai (Harvard University)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 14:30 - Traces and Fragments of Early Prajñāpāramitā Exegesis in Anonymous Quotations in the Da zhidu lun (*Mahāprajñāpāramitopadeśa)
  Ven. Tuan Huynh (University of Oxford)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 15:30 - Inviting the Perfection of Wisdom to Tibet: Translation, Circulation, and the Role of Inventories
  Ulrike Roesler (University of Oxford)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 16:00 - Atiśa’s Commentary on the “Perfection of Wisdom in One Hundred Thousand Lines”
  Marek Mejor (University of Warsaw)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 16:30 - Not so adamantine after all: the influence of commentary on the textual development of the Vajracchedikā
  Paul Harrison (Stanford University)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 18:15 - Stefano Zacchetti’s Last (Posthumous) Monograph, its Significance, and Its Place in his Scholarship
  This talk is part of the evening programme on Stefano Zacchetti’s Writings: Talks and Book Launch
  Michael Radich (Heidelberg University)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 18:45 - The Unpublished Scholarly Legacy of Stefano Zacchetti: a Few Remarks
  This talk is part of the evening programme on Stefano Zacchetti’s Writings: Talks and Book Launch
  Jonathan Silk (Leiden University)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 19:15 - The translators of Stefano’s Dazhidulun Monograph into Chinese
  This talk is part of the evening programme on Stefano Zacchetti’s Writings: Talks and Book Launch
  Chen Jinhua (University of British Columbia), Zhao You (Peking University), Lu Lu (Zhejiang University)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond

Saturday 22 June 2024

• 09:00 - Preliminary Exploration of Texts and Annotations in Various Languages of The Sarasvatī-parivarta from The Suvarṇaprabhāsottama-sūtra《金光明經·大辯才天女品》諸語種文本及其注疏初探
  Ming Chen (Peking University)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 09:30 - Hešeri Rushan and the Tuṣita (Doushuai 兜率) Heaven School 赫舍里如山與“兜率宗”
  Jidong Chen (Aoyama Gakuin University)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 10:00 - The Specific Usages, Characteristics, and Sources of "All" in Early Chinese Translations of Buddhist Scriptures 早期汉译佛经“一切”的特殊用法、性质及其来源
  Yichen Meng
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 11:00 - Death and Rebirth in the Third-Century State of Wu 吳: transmigration described in the Liudu ji jing 六度集經 (T152)
  Janine Nichol (Independent scholar)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 11:30 - The Influence of Indic Linguistics on the Formation and Interpretation of the Chinese Buddhist Lexicon
  Paolo Visigalli (Shanghai Normal University)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 12:00 - Translation and Commentary at the Dawn of Chinese Buddhism: New Light from An Shigao’s Yin chi ru jing and its Commentary
  Eric Greene (Yale University)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 13:30 - A Five Dynasties Manuscript in relation to Tang Buddhist culture: A Study of S.3728 from the British Library
  Nelson Landry (University of Hamburg)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 14:00 - Daoist Gods Explaining Buddhist Texts: Buddhist Exegesis through Spirit-Writing in Qing China
  Qijun Zheng (École Pratique des Hautes Études - Université PSL)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 14:30 - Jifa 吉法 – Variations of Maṅgala in Chinese Buddhist Writing
  Zhao You (Peking University)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 15:30 - A Gāndhārī exegetical text corresponding to part of the *Āryavasumitrabodhisattvasaṃgītiśāstra
  Francesco Barchi (Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 16:00 - Buddhist Homiletics as Social Commentary
  Péter-Dániel Szántó (ELTE Budapest)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 16:30 - The special dead and the living virtuosi: religious ideals in the Deccan in the Middle Period of Indian Buddhism
  Vincent Tournier (École française d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO))
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond
• 17:45 - The Scripture in Forty-two Sections (Sishier zhang jing 四十二章經, T784): Reconsidering an Enigmatic Text
  This keynote lecture is represented by Paul Harrison. It is only for in-person audience and it is now FULL.
  Jan Nattier (University of California at Berkeley)
  Illuminating the Sacred Word – translation, commentary, and exegesis in the Buddhist world and beyond

Monday 24 June 2024

• 17:00 - Meditation and Abhidhamma
  For online audience: Zoom Meeting ID: 562 211 2020 Passcode: 111222
  TBA

Friday 28 June 2024

• 16:00 - The 1st Oxford Korean Literature Festival: A Conversation with Cha Inpyo
  Dr Jieun Kiaer (University of Oxford), Cha Inpyo

Thursday 4 July 2024

• 09:30 - Aesthetic and Symbolic Dimensions of Arabic Writing (ASDAW) Symposium
  Prof Alain George (University of Oxford), Luke Treadwell (University of Oxford), Umberto Bongianino (Islamic Art and Architecture), Ruba Kana'an (University of Toronto), Marcus Milwright (University of Victoria / University of York), Alya Karame, Nourane Ben Azzouna, Vivek Gupta, Zahra Kazani (University of Oxford), Martina Massullo, Sergio Carro Martín, András Barati, Patricia Blessing, Carine Juvin, Eloïse Brac de la Perrière
• 18:00 - K-Pop from the Godfather of K-Pop and BTS
  Dr Jieun Kiaer (University of Oxford), Kim Hyung-Suk

Friday 19 July 2024

• 16:00 - An Extraordinary Journey: The First Chinese Art Student to Visit Twentieth-Century India
  Dr YAN Yu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)

Monday 14 October 2024

• 17:00 - Challenges of Buddhist Studies in Southeast Asia
  Venerable Khammai Dhammasami (Oxford Buddha Vihara and Shan State Buddhist University)
  Glorisun Lecture Series in Buddhist Studies 2024-2025

Thursday 17 October 2024

• 17:00 - Intrepid Nobodies: Chinese Servants in the Canton Trade, 1700-1850
  Dr Song-Chuan Chen (University of Warwick)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 21 October 2024

• 12:00 - What is the Status Quo in the Taiwan Strait?
  Dr James Lee (Academia Sinica)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 28 October 2024

• 19:00 - Documentary Screening | Amu Darya: River to a Missing Sea
  TBA

Thursday 31 October 2024

• 17:00 - Imagined 'Chinatowns' (hancheng 漢城) in Medieval Manchuria: A Critical Han Studies Approach to Liao Dynasty Populations and Settlements
  Dr Lance Pursey
  China Studies Seminar series

Thursday 7 November 2024

• 17:00 - Efficacious Writing: The Workings of Talismans in Contemporary Daoist Practice
  Dr David Mozina (University of Cambridge)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 11 November 2024

• 17:00 - Seung-Hee Nah | Resettlement Challenges of North Korean Women through the Lens of an Immigrant
  Seung-Hee Nah
• 17:00 - Title TBC
  Nelson Landry (University of Hamburg)
  Glorisun Lecture Series in Buddhist Studies 2024-2025

Tuesday 12 November 2024

• 12:00 - China in the Caribbean with Implications for Western Hemisphere Geopolitics
  Dr Bhoendradatt Tewarie (The University of the West Indies)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Murder in the Maloo: A Tale of Old Shanghai
  Dr Paul Bevan (University of Oxford)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Thursday 14 November 2024

• 17:00 - Rural-to-Urban Migration, Gender and Familial Care in Post-Socialist China
  Professor Susanne Choi (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 18 November 2024

• 17:00 - Atomized Incorporation: Chinese Workers and the Aftermath of China's Rise?
  Professor Sungmin Rho (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva)
  China Studies Seminar series
• 19:00 - Heungboga: Exploring Korean Traditional Pansori and Folk Songs
  Various Speakers

Thursday 21 November 2024

• 17:00 - Compensation and the Consolidation of Authoritarian Power: Evidence from China’s 2016 PLA Reform
  Professor Victor Shih (University of California San Diego)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 25 November 2024

• 12:00 - Technology and the Rise of Great Powers
  Dr Jeffrey Ding (George Washington University)
  China Centre talks

Wednesday 27 November 2024

• 17:00 - Audio(visual) Sources for Chinese Socialist Soundscapes: A Methodological Exploration
  Professor Jie Li (Harvard University)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Thursday 28 November 2024

• 17:00 - Through Texts or Objects: How Classicists and Antiquarians Conceptualised the Chinese Ritual Jade cong
  Dr Qin Yang (University of Nottingham)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 2 December 2024

• 17:00 - Udayana's refutation of apoha
  Bogdan Diaconescu (University of Oxford)
  Glorisun Lecture Series in Buddhist Studies 2024-2025

Thursday 5 December 2024

• 17:00 - EU-Taiwan Relations in a New Reality: What Lies Ahead?
  Dr Zsuzsa Anna Ferenczy (National Dong-Hwa University, Hualien, Taiwan)
  China Studies Seminar series