The SOAS China Institute has an exciting programme of seminars lined up for the 2015-16 academic year. The SOAS China Institute Monday Forums examines the fundamental issues facing China today and provides unique opportunities to gain insight into China through the perspectives of internationally respected experts.
Please find below and attached the SOAS China Institute Monday Forums 2015-16 Programme.
All forums will be held from 5pm-7pm, in Djam Lecture Theatre (unless stated otherwise), SOAS, University of London, Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London, WC1H 0XG.
Forums are free and open to the public, no booking required.
19 October 2015
Politics in the era of Xi Jinping: breaking new ground or sticking to consultative Leninism?
Professor Steve Tsang (Nottingham)
Djam Lecture Theatre
9 November 2015
How Anti-mercantile were Early China’s Masters of Philosophy?
Professor Roel Sterckx (Cambridge)
Djam Lecture Theatre
23 November 2015
Purity and Order: Toward Social-Cultural Understandings of the Cold War World
Dr Hajima Masuda (National University of Singapore)
Djam Lecture Theatre
7 December 2015
State Power and the Confucian Classics: The Mengzi jiewen 孟子節文 and Truth Management under the First Ming Emperor
Professor Bernhard Fuehrer (SOAS, University of London)
Djam Lecture Theatre
14 December 2015
Performing Citizenship: Mobile Screens & Surveillance Cameras in Contemporary Chinese Urban Space
Professor Yomi Braester (Washington)
Room G3
18 January 2016
With and against the family, with and against the state - Staying single and getting rich in China’s ‘harmonious society’
Dr Roberta Zavoretti (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
Djam Lecture Theatre
1 February 2016
Was Bruce Lee Chinese, or American, or British, or What?
Dr Paul Bowman (Cardiff)
Djam Lecture Theatre
22 February 2016
Benefit Sharing in the Mekong River Basin between China and the Lower Mekong Countries
Professor Seungho Lee (Korea)
Djam Lecture Theatre
14 March 2016
Ten things you may think you know about China that aren’t really so
Guy de Jonquières (Ecipe)
Djam Lecture Theatre
For further details, please visit http://www.soas.ac.uk/china-institute/events/
Kind regards,
Li-Sa Whittington
Executive Officer, SOAS China Institute
SOAS, University of London
Thornhaugh Street, Russell Square, London WC1H 0XG
Tel: +44 (0)20 7898 4823 Email: [log in to unmask]
Web: www.soas.ac.uk/china-institute/
Office Hours: Monday, Wednesday and Thursday (0930-1600)
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