Activities supported by ADI
2011
Lectures, seminars, workshops etc.
- Cooking, Eating
and Orientation: The Malay and Chinese and Cultural Regimes Compared
Gæste lecture by Professor Geoffrey Benjamin, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore
- Tagore's Legacy
Guest lecture by Dr. William Radice, School of Oriental and African Studies, London on "Tagore's Legacy - Rabindranath Tagore's Literature and its Relevance in Modern India"
- A Passage to India: Film and Discussion
Cinematic depiction of E.M. Forster's classic novel 'A Passage to India' as part of seminar on ‘Post/Colonial Identities'.
- Heroes and Exemplary Lives in Modern Japan
Workshop with Dr. Kweku Ampiah from the University of Leeds
- The 'authentic' other on display: living ethnographic exhibitions - past and present
Lecture by Anne Folke Henningsen, Saxo Institute, in the CGSAS' seminar series on Post/Colonial Identities.
- Power, Planning, and the Emergence of Baroque Forms of Life in Urban Malaysia
Guest lecture by Dr. Richard Baxstrom, University of Edinburgh
- LARM Artist Talks: Miya Yoshida
Media/art researcher and a curator from Japan
- Design of a Nation: Making India Global
ADI Lunch Lecture by Ravinder Kaur, associate professor at the Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
- Challenging the Harmonious Society - Tibetans and Uyghurs in Socialist China
Closed workshop
- PhD workshop "Writing Difference"
Co-organized PhD dissertation workshop, ADI and the Institute of Public Knowledge, New York University
- Quantity Restrictions and Price Adjustment of Chinese Textile Exports to the US
Guest Lecture by Richard Upward, University of Nottingham.
- Inaugural lecture - Oscar Salemink
Professor Oscar Salemink's inaugural lecture
"Framing Religion: The Human Rights Encounter and the Transformation of
Religion in Vietnam".
- Crossing cultural borders then and now - In the fish market at Tranquebar and in the archive
Guest lecture by Professor Will Sweetman, Department of Religion, University of Otago, New Zealand.
- ADI Summer School on Central Asia
‘History, Identity and
Religion in Contemporary Central Eurasia' in Copenhagen, 4-15 July 2011.
- Two keynotes on Central Asia
"The Mongol Empire (13th and 14th centuries) - a starting point of 'Early Modern Times' in a global perspective?" by Prof. Bert Fragner and "The nomadic legacy in Central Asia: Empires, trade and political culture" by Prof. Thomas Barfied.
- Danish expeditions along the Silk Road
Public lecture on "Danish expeditions
along the Silk Road - Collecting objects from the Steppes to the High
Pamirs 1896-1899" at the National Museumby Dr.phil.
Esther Fihl, Professor mso.
- Urban imaginaries and power in Asian mega-cities
Initial meeting to discuss new research theme.
- Rabindranath Tagore
Conference in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) - poet, educationist, composer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
- Indonesian Minorities - Rights, Plights and Positions
Nordic Indonesia Studies Network (NISN) Third Annual Workshop, NIAS, Copenhagen, 22-24 September 2011.
- Indian Economy under the Reforms: Growth, Poverty and Inequality, 1991 to 2010
Guest lecture by Professor Venkatesh Athreya.
- Guest Lecture by Penny van Esterik
Lecture entitled "Hindsight, Oversight and Insight into Ban Chiang
Neolithic Burial Pottery, northeast Thailand; a personal trajectory
through interdisciplinary research in Southeast Asia" by Penny van Esterik, Professor of Anthropology, York University.
- Buddhist Economics and Thailand's Sufficiency Economy
Guest lecture by Professor Donald K. Swearer, Harvard Divinity School.
- Religious Charity, Secular Law, and NGO Regulation India
Guest lecture by Erica Bornstein, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.
- From Pusher Street to Purulia: Legal Monism versus Legal Pluralism
Lunch lecture by Stig Toft Madsen, Fil.Dr., Senior Research Fellow at NIAS.
- Politics of Human Development in an Indian State
Guest lecture by Dr. Manabi Majumdar, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata.
- Health Inequity and Democratic Deficit: Learning by India from India
Guest lecture by Dr. Manabi Majumdar, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata.
- Mapping national anxieties: Thailand's southern conflict
Guest lecture by Professor Duncan McCargo, University of Leeds.
- ADI Workshop
A 2-day workshop on the recently initiated research clusters: 'Urban Imaginaries and power in Asian mega-cities', 'Bodies and Boundaries', 'State, Society and Marginality', and 'Asia-Europe Encounters'.
- Krudt og kugler i Kina
Åbent foredrag ved forfatter Simon Rom Gjærø "Krudt og kugler i Kina: Dansk våbenekspert i tjeneste hos Kinas mest magtfulde krigsherre i de kaotiske 1920ere". Efter foredraget vistes dokumentarfilm.
- What should we Learn from China?
Guest lecture by Associate Professor Josef Gregory Mahoney, East China Normal University.
- Guest lecture on Hip-hop in Japan
"Hip-hop Japan: Creativity and Identity within Cultural Globalisation" by Kiku Day, SOAS, University of London.
Travel funding and other grants
