2013

29. jan. 2013, kl. 12.00-18.45

China Studies: PhD Workshop

Six PhD students present their papers on a number of subjects ranging from low-carbon life in Dongpingxiang to urban activists in rural China.

6. febr. 2013, kl. 15.00-17.00

Tradition-Making and Education in Modern Ayurveda

Gæsteforelæsning ved Anthony Cerulli, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, NY, og  Institut d'Études Avancées de Paris.

7. febr. 2013, kl. 12.00-14.00

Narrativity and Indian Historiography

Indologi indbyder til endnu en gæsteforelæsning ved Anthony Cerulli, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, NY, og Institut d'Études Avancées de Paris.

20. febr. 2013, kl. 14.00-15.00

Asia and Europe Connected: Asia in Europe, Europe in Asia

Gæsteforelæsning ved Republikken Koreas ambassadør i Danmark, Dr. Byung H. Kim. Efterfølgende vil der være reception i Leifsgade.

26. febr. 2013, kl. 15.00

Materializing Culture: Design, Technology and Community in an Artisanal Textile from India

Gæsteforelæsning ved Aarti Kawlra, International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, Netherlands.

27. febr. 2013, kl. 11.00-12.00

Low Carbon Green Growth Strategy In East Asia in Practice: A Critical Review

NIAS inviterer til seminar med Dr. Akihisa Mori, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Global Environmental Economics, Kyoto University.

28. febr. 2013, kl. 14.00

Mumbai as Dreamscape: Poverty, Media, Property

Public lecture "Mumbai as Dreamscape: Poverty, Media, Property" , Prof. Arjun Appadurai, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, New York University.

28. febr. - 2. marts 2013

Speculation in India: Imaginaries of Indian economies

Seminar addressing the aspects of speculation in India. Keynote address by Professor Arjun Appadurai, New York University.

15. marts 2013, kl. 13.00-16.30

Centre for Advanced Migration Studies

Officiel åbning af Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS) den 15. marts 2013 på det Humanistiske Fakultet, Københavns Universitet.

21. marts 2013, kl. 14.15-16.00

The Passion for God in Gendered Islamism

Seminar forud for Iram Asifs forsvar af Ph.d. afhandlingen "The Passion for God in Gendered Islamism. A Study of Education, Authority and Jihad in the Red Mosque and Jamia Hafsa in Urban Pakistan".

2. april 2013, kl. 10.15-12.00

From World History to World Literature: Reflections on a New Comparative Method

Gæsteforelæsning ved Professor Shu-mei Shih, UCLA. Alle er velkomne!

4. april 2013, kl. 15.00-17.00

China's leadership and the consequences for China's political system

A leading scholar on human rights in China, Dr. Zhang Wei is the co-director of Institute of Human Rights at China University of Political Science and Law. Registration required.

8. april 2013, kl. 14.15-16.00

A Tale of Two Amnesties: 6 October 1976 and the misplacement of accountability in Thailand

Gæsteforelæsning ved Tyrell Haberkorn fra Department of Political and Social Change, Australian National University.

11. april 2013, kl. 9.15-11.00

Stranded Britons: Hong Kong and Falkland Islanders at Empire's End

Seminar "Stranded Britons: Hong Kong and Falkland Islanders at Empire's End" med Mark Hampton og Ezequiel Mercau.

15. april 2013, kl. 14.00

Chinese media and the 4th estate

Gæsteforelæsning ved Ph.d. stipendiat Laura Dombernowsky, Institut for Kultur og Samfund, Asienstudier, Aarhus Universitet.

16. april 2013, kl. 14.00-16.00

Copenhagen climate change seminar

Former Maldives President Mohamed Nasheed will give a talk on 'How can we build a carbon neutral world economy?'.

17. april 2013, kl. 14.00-17.00

China's Arctic ambitions

Conference on China's ambitions in the Arctic region with dr. Linda Jakobson, the East Asia Program Director at Lowy Institute for International Policy, as the keynote speaker, and a panel of scholars on issues pertaining to China and the Arctic. Registration is required.

18. april 2013, kl. 15.15-17.00

Newness, Ritual and Globalization in Urban Hindu Temple Publics

ADI og Tors inviterer til gæsteforelæsning med Tulasi Srinivas, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Emerson College, Boston.

18. april 2013, kl. 18.30

Between tradition and modernity: Socialist development among the Uyghurs of Xinjiang

Lektor Ildikó Bellér-Hann (Københavns Universitet) holder foredrag om Kinas tyrkiske folkeslag uighurerne på basis af helt nye feltarbejdsstudier.

18. april 2013, kl. 9.00-10.30

Prospects for China's foreign policy

China has a new leadership, but what bearing will this have on Beijing's foreign policy priorities, if any? This talk by dr. Linda Jakobson, a leading scholar in the field, explores the prospects for China's post-transition foreign policy. 
Registration required.

18. april - 19. april 2013

Network of South East Asian Studies

Et møde for danske forskere, der arbejder med Sydøstasien. Mødet er initieret af Oscar Salemink og Steffen Jensen som et første skridt på vejen til et "Scandinavian Network of South East Asian Studies". 

23. april 2013, kl. 12.30-14.00

Religious Extremism and Modernity - Mapping the New Pakistan

Gæsteforelæsning ved Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa arrangeret af Centre of Global South Asian Studies og Sasnet. BEMÆRK: ændret lokale

29. april 2013, kl. 14.15

The Folk Memory Project: Introduktion og filmfremvisning med Wu Wenguang

Wu Wenguang, Kinesisk pioner på dokumentarfilmsområdet og medgrundlægger af Caochangdi Workstation i Beijing, præsenterer og viser film fra sit ‘Folk Memory Project’.

2. maj 2013, kl. 13.15

Double lecture by Surinder Jodhka and Anna Lindberg

CGSAS invites you to a double lecture: Indian Village in neoliberal times: Changing Economies, Power and Identities by Surinder Singh Jodhka, JNU and Paradise Limited: Marriage and Dowry in Kerala by Anna Lindberg, Lund.

3. maj 2013, kl. 13.00-15.30

Late Neolithic, Multi-species Resettlement Camp as a template for 'Development'

Gæsteforelæsning ved Professor James Scott, Yale University. I forbindelse med forelæsningen vil Professor Scott få overrakt "The Ester Boserup Prize for Research on Development" af Udviklingsminister Christian Friis Bach.

16. maj 2013, kl. 9.00-12.30

World Literature and the World of Literature

Offentlig forelæsning ved prof. Howard Goldblatt, University of Notre Dame og prof. Sylvia Lin, University of  Notre Dame i forbindelse med Ph.d.-kurset 'World Literature and the World of Literature'.

17. maj 2013, kl. 12.15-14.00

Pre-defence seminar: Fictions of Kinship. Representations of the Multicultural Turn in (S) Korean Cinema and TV Drama.

Most welcome to the third pre-defence seminar at ToRS where we will discuss 
Jacob Ki Nielsen’s project: Fictions of Kinship. Representations of the Multicultural Turn in (S) Korean Cinema and TV Drama. 

23. maj 2013, kl. 16.00

Global Lectures - Ha-Joon Chang

Gæsteforelæsning i Global Lectures serien ved Ha-Joon Chang, Cambridge University.   "23 thing they don’t tell you about capitalism - and what they mean for our economic prospects"

24. maj 2013, kl. 14.00

Ph.d. forsvar ved Rune Bolding Bennike

Afhandlingen der forsvares: "Governing the Hills. Imperial Landscapes, National Territories, and Production of Place between Naya Nepal and Incredible India"

28. maj 2013, kl. 15.30-17.00

Kinas selvsikre sikkerhedspolitik?

Center for Militære Studier på Københavns Universitet inviterer til seminar om Kinas sikkerhedspolitik i anledning af den nyligt publicerede bog ”Kinas sikkerhedspolitik: stabilitet og spændinger”.

30. maj - 31. aug. 2013

Photo Exhibition: How to Win Elections in Indonesia?

Photo exhibition by Vera Altmeyer running from 30 May to 31 August 2013 in the Faculty Library of Social Sciences.

10. juni 2013, kl. 10.00-12.00

Guest Lecture: Queer Filmmaking and Queer Politics in Contemporary China

Public lecture by Dr Hongwei Bao, Lecturer in Asian Media, Nottingham Trent University, UK and visiting researcher at NIAS 10-14 June 2013. (New venue)

13. juni - 14. juni 2013

Growth: Critical Perspectives from Asia

ADI's 5. internationale konference byder på hovedtaler ved Professor Danny Quah og Professor Edward Farmer samt en række tværfaglige paneler om green growth, cultural growth, economic growth og meget mere.

17. juni 2013, kl. 9.15-11.00

China's cities and climate change

The workshop explores sustainable city development in China, presenting three cases from Hangzhou and Shanghai that relate to China’s attempted transition towards a low-carbon society. Registration is required.

2. juli 2013, kl. 11.00-14.00

Ph.D forsvar ved Nina Elisabeth Torm

Nina Elisabeth Torm forsvarer sin ph.d.-afhandling “Firms and Workers in Transition:
A Series of Micro Studies on Vietnam”.

11. juli 2013, kl. 13.00

Ph.d. forsvar - Katja Rangsivek

Katja Rangsivek, Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier, forsvarer sin Ph.d. afhandling "TRAKUN, POLITICS AND THE THAI STATE".

20. aug. 2013, kl. 10.00

Building to feel - Space and emotion in Delhi in the 1840s

Guest lecture by Professor Dr. Margrit Pernau, Center for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin.

2. sept. 2013, kl. 13.00-13.45

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and Democracy in Japan: Attempting to Harmonize Diverse Voices

Guest lecture at NIAS by Mikiko Eto, Professor of Political Science, Hosei University.

6. sept. 2013, kl. 14.00

Tiltrædelsesforelæsninger

Fælles tiltrædelsesforelæsninger for Tine Gammeltoft, Henrik Vigh og Morten Axel Pedersen, der alle tre er blevet udnævnt professorer ved Institut for Antropologi i år.

10. sept. 2013, kl. 9.45

Copenhagen South Asia Workshop 2013

Annual Copenhagen South Asia Workshop (CSAW) on 10th September 2013 with keynote address by Professor Kavita Philip, University of California, Irvine and special session with Indian Ambassador to Denmark Niraj Srivastava.

23. sept. 2013, kl. 14.30-17.30

The Balance of Power in Asia

The Centre for Military Studies invites you to participate in the seminar: "The Balance of Power in Asia".

9. okt. 2013, kl. 13.15-15.00

Against the Consensus - Reflections on the Great Recession

Gæsteforelæsning ved Professor Justin Lin, Peking University (Beida) arrangeret af DERG, Økonomisk Institut.

24. okt. 2013, kl. 11.15-13.00

Money, Marriage and Gender: Dowry in India

Gæsteforelæsning med Dr. Ranjana Sheel, Department of History, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, Indien.

25. okt. 2013, kl. 9.00-17.00

Concept India Competences

As part of the UCPH India Action Plan, Asian Dynamics Initiative invites academic and administrative staff at UCPH working with India to participate in the course Concept India Competences.

29. okt. 2013, kl. 10.15-12.00

Rabindranath Tagore's Rural Reconstruction Experiment: Present Intervention

Public guest lecture by Dr. Sujit Kumar Paul, Associate Professor at the Department of Lifelong Learning and Extension at Visva Bharati University.

4. nov. 2013, kl. 15.15-16.45

The Idea of Science in Modern China

CECS is hosting a series of international lectures on Global Constitutional Struggles this autumn. Our second guest is Wang Hui, who will speak on The Idea of Science, the Reclassification of Knowledge and the Question of Culture in Modern China.

4. nov. - 8. nov. 2013

7th Annual NNC Conference

This year's NIAS/NNC conference and PhD course "The Power of Knowledge: Asia and the West" will take place at SDU on 4-8 November 2013. Deadline for submitting abstracts is 20 October 2013.

6. nov. 2013, kl. 10.15-12.00

Agency and Social Change: What Value Heritage?

Public guest lecture by Professor Amareswar Galla, Executive Director of the International Institute for the Inclusive Museum. The lecture is organised by the Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. All are welcome.

7. nov. - 8. nov. 2013

Social Mobility and Inequality in post-reform India

International conference in Delhi on 7-8 November jointly organised by University of Copenhagen and University of Delhi.

15. nov. 2013, kl. 14.00-16.30

Ph.d.-forsvar i statskundskab ved Christian Bayer Tygesen

Christian Bayer Tygesen forsvarer sin Ph.D.-afhandling "Who Guards the Guardians in Kabul? Afghanistan between autocracy, democracy, and state collapse".

20. nov. 2013, kl. 16.15-17.00

Spinning a Yarn - A Tapestry of Danish Colonial Narratives?

Gæsteforelæsning ved Josefine Baark, Department of History and Art, University of Cambridge, arrangeret af ToRS og Tranquebar Initiativet, Nationalmuseet.

21. nov. 2013, kl. 14.15-17.00

Prophecy and Protest in the Age of Globalization

Gæsteforelæsning ved Professor Torkel Brekke, Pembroke College, Oxford.

26. nov. 2013, kl. 14.30-15.45

Beggars of Lahore - film screening by Sheba Saeed

Dr. Sheba Saeed, PhD from Birmingham University and director of the film will talk about her work and answer questions after the screening.

4. dec. 2013, kl. 14.15-16.00

Dalit Political Mobilization and Cultural Identity Politics

Gæsteforelæsning ved Dr. Heinz Werner Wessler, Gæsteprofessor i Indologi, Institutionen för lingvistik och filologi, Uppsala Universitet.

5. dec. 2013, kl. 10.00-12.00

China's Overseas Resource Extraction

Seminar with Dr. Jill Shankleman: China’s growing demand for resources has led to large-scale investments in oil, gas, and mining industries across the world. But what are the social, political, and environmental challenges of these activities, and how are they being addressed?

5. dec. 2013, kl. 15.30-19.30

Emerging Priorities of the Xi-Li Administration

NOTICE: TODAY'S EVENT "EMERGING PRIORITIES OF THE XI-LI ADMINISTRATION" HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO THE STORM FORECAST 

10. dec. 2013, kl. 8.30-18.15

Law and Art: European And Global Perspectives

Workshop arrangeret af CECS, Det Juridiske Fakultet og ToRS, Det Humanistiske Fakultet.

12. dec. 2013, kl. 10.15-12.00

Law Reform in Pakistan

Gæsteforelæsning ved Dr. Osama Siddique, Department of Law & Policy, Lahore University of Management Sciences.

16. dec. 2013, kl. 15.00-17.00

US Rebalancing Policy and China-India Relations, including maritime issues (by invitation only)

Talk by Dr. Satu Limaye, director of the East-West Center in Washington, DC, on China-India relations in light of US rebalancing, followed by roundtable discussion.