Activities supported by ADI 2016
List of activities funded and/or (co-)organized by ADI
Lectures, seminars, workshops etc.
Asia brown bag lecture: Trine Brox and Miriam K. Zeitzen
Trine Brox and Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen presented the project "Prince Peter and The Third Danish Expedition to Central Asia - 7 years in Kalimpong" Read more
Music and China’s National Identity
China Lecture with Dr. Chen Yudan (Fudan University) organised by Fudan-European Centre for China Studies. Read more
The Precariat in the Era of Rentier Capitalism
Public guest lecture by Guy Standing, Professor of Development Studies at SOAS, University of London. Read more
Asia brown bag lecture: Atreyee Sen
NIAS and ADI brown bag lecture 'My wife carries a knife!’: Right-wing female militancy and castration/ wounding/masculine anxieties in a Mumbai slum by Atreyee Sen. Read more
Evaluating the Early Anthropocene Hypothesis
The conference aimed to bring together archaeologists, earth scientists and scholars from related fields working in east and west Asia to evaluate the early Anthropocene hypothesis and the impact Neolithic farming economies had on local environments and global climate. Read more
Arctic science diplomacy: a case of managing the rise of China
Roundtable with Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen, Professor of Northern Studies and Barents Chair in Politics at the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Community Planning at the University of Tromsø-The Arctic University of Norway. Read more
PhD course: Food, Health and Philosophy in East and West
Food, Health and Philosophy in East and West: interfaces between science, culture and business - international and interdisciplinary PhD course organised in China. Read more
International workshop - Understanding the Other Korea: North Korea
One day workshop on North Korea. Read more
Daniel Bell: The China Model
Book launch of Daniel Bell's new book: The China Model Read more
Political Seminar: Is democracy better than meritocracy?
Seminar with Daniel Bell and Theresa Scavenius Read more
Yonsei University and University of Copenhagen
Following several fruitful visits to Seoul, the University of Copenhagen is currently exploring possibilities for closer collaboration with Yonsei University. As a first step the two universities organized a joint Yonsei-Copenhagen workshop on 18-20 April 2016. Read more
The Dystopia of Health Governance and Moral Rule in Post-coup Thailand
Public guest lecture by Daena Funahashi, Assistant Professor, Aarhus University. Read more
Progress and its Ruins: Ghosts, migrants and the uncanny in Northern Thailand
Public guest lecture by Andrew Alan Johnson, Assistant Professor, Yale-NUS College.Read more
The Failure in Embedded Autonomy: South Korean Regulatory Reform Experience
Public guest lecture by Yeonho Lee, Professor of Political Science, Director of Yonsei-SERI EU Center, and Director of the Institute of East and West Studies, Yonsei University. Read more
Human Rights in China: The Work of the Dui Hua Foundation
Round table meeting on human rights in China and the work of the Dui Hua Foundation. Read more
The Precious Lord: The history and practice of the Jowo Shakyamuni of Lhasa, Tibet
Public guest lecture by Cameron David Warner, Associate Professor, Aarhus Universitet. Read more
Engaging the Senses in the Tibetan tantric "Major Practice Session" (sgrub chen)
Guest lecture by Cathy Cantwell, Oriental Studies, University of Oxford. Read more
History Inside Globalization - Spatial Power and Inequity in Asia
Public lecture by Professor David Ludden, New York University. Read more
The East Asian Peace – Can It Last?
Roundtable in the ThinkChina Working Group on Politics with Stein Tønnesson, Research Professor at the Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO). Read more
ChinaTalks: Will China find a ‘New Normal’?
Lecture in the ChinaTalks series with Barry Naughton, Professor of Chinese Economy at UC San Diego. Event co-organized with CFA Society Denmark. Read more
JapanSessions: Career Talk with Carina Bastlund Woollhead
Carina Woollhead presented her experience with life beyond academia Read more
Public lunch talk - China’s Ambition in the South China Sea: Hegemonic Power Versus Maritime Order
Professor Katherine Morton, Chair and Professor of China’s International Relations at the University of Sheffield, discussed China’s hardening stance in the South China Sea. Read more
Public lecture - What does China's "New Normal" mean for local governments?
The Economist's Mary Boyd, Director, Economics Corporate Network Shanghai, presented and discussed the conclusions of the recently published report 'Opening the books'. Read more
Public guest lecture: Participative Mapping for the Urban Poor of Jakarta
Yantri Dewi gave a SEASS lecture on the topic of Jakartan Urban Poor. Yantri is an Jakarta-based urbanist and lecturer at Matana University in Tangerang. She is trained in architectural engineering at UNPAR in Bandung and holds a Master in Human Settlements from KU Leuven. Read more
Open lecture - China in the Era of Xi Jinping: Stronger China, Harder Choices
Open lecture on 'China in the Era of Xi Jinping: Stronger China, Harder Choices' with Jo Inge Bekkevold, Head of the Center for Asian Security Studies, Norwegian Institute for Defence Studies. Read more
Book launch: Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan
Talk with Gitte Hansen, Newcastle University about her latest book "Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan". Read more
Open event (research + poetry): Your smartphone kills workers in China
This open seminar – which mixes state-of–the–art research and insights from China's factory floors with readings of workers’ – was concerned with the lives of workers in China and discussed how consumers in Denmark may relate to the life of people who produce our smartphones. Read more
An Anthropology of -isations
Department of Anthropology hosted Professor MSO, Ayo Wahlberg's inaugural lecture. Read more
ADI Conference 2016
Locating Asia beyond, and within, its territoriality, the 8th international ADI conference explored historical connections, circulations and contentions that produce Asia within a global epistemic frame. The conference featured keynote addresses, roundtables and panels across disciplines, temporalities and themes in the study of Asian dynamics. Read more
Public Guest Lecture: Religion, Atheism and the Quest for Indonesian Identity
Timo Markus Duile, PhD and post-doc at the Department of Southeast Asian Studies at the Rhenish Friedrich Wilhelm University of Bonn, gave a SEASS lecture on identity and religion in Indonesia. Read more
Vested interest in Chinese politics – a form of corruption or a means to get things done?
Open roundtable event on 'vested interests' in Chinese politics with Professor Yu Zheng, Fudan University and Professor Jørgen Delman, University of Copenhagen. Read more
China’s aid and investment in developing countries
Open seminar in Asia House with Professor Yu Zheng, Fudan University and Senior Research Yang Jiang, DIIS. Organized by ThinkChina.dk, DIIS and Fudan-European Centre for China Studies. Read more
Beyond Domestic Borders
Lunch talk by Hyaeweol Choi, Professor of Korean Studies; Director, Korea Institute Australian National University: "Beyond Domestic Borders: Transnational Mobility in the Making of Modern Korea, 1920 ‐ 1945" Read more
Roundtable discussion: Chinese grandparents' contribution in the upbringing of young children in China
The discussion was led by Dr. He Min from the Preschool Education Department at East China Normal University (ECNU). Read more
China Lecture: Governing the Arctic and Antarctic
Public guest lecture by Professor in International Law Chen Li from the Law School of Fudan University. Read more
Women in the World of Murakami Haruki
Public guest lecture by Dr Gitte Marianne Hansen, Lecturer in Japanese Studies at the School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University. The lecture is part of the JapanSession series. Read more
ChinaTalks: Collective Actions in Post-Mao China: Between Chaos and Discipline
ChinaTalks lecture by Dingxin Zhao, Max Palevsky Professor of Sociology at the University of Chicago and Qianren Jihuai Professor of Zhejiang University. Read more
The Rise of Protestantism in Post-Mao China: State and Religion in Historical Perspective
Seminar about Protestantism's explosive growth in post-Mao China with Prof. Yanfei Sun, Department of Sociology, Zhejiang University. Read more
Symposium: Ways of Overlooking
This symposium focused on the multiple ways of looking and overlooking that entangle and make everyday life. Read more
Film screening: An Ordinary Election
The story of an Indian election campaign from up-close - an intimate ground-up perspective of the anxieties, ambitions, struggles, and intrigues from the electoral battleground. Post-screening discussion with the film’s director, Lalit Vachani. Read more
Public guest lectures: Thomas Blom Hansen and Edward Simpson
"Media, locality and community: notes on ethnography and media in a township in Durban" by Professor Thomas Blom Hansen, Stanford University and "You tube or Participant Observation? Recent fieldwork experiences on global infrastructure in Reunion Island" by Professor Edward Simpson, School of Oriental and African Studies, London. Read more
SEASS lecture: Livable City for Who?
Public SEASS lecture by Dr. Rita Padawangi from the Asian Urbanisms Cluster, ARI, National University of Singapore: "Livable City for Who? Place-Making and Cultural Heritage in the era of Fragmented Urbanism" Read more
Who controls murky waters in the South China Sea?
Academic Roundtable discussion with Dr. Hassan Wirajuda, former Foreign Minister of the Republic of Indonesia; Dr. Andreas Bøje Forsby, DIIS; Dr. Edyta Roszko, Cross-Cultural & Regional Studies, UCPH; Dr. Camilla T.N. Sørensen, Political Science, UCPH Read more
Open seminar: New approach to Local Governments’ Innovations in the Xi Era
Seminar with Professor Jianxing Yu, Dean of School of Public Affairs, Zhejiang University. Moderator: Jørgen Delman, professor of China Studies. Read more
Open seminar: Beef, Barbeque, and Nationalism
Open seminar with PhD Anders Riel Müller, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies Read more
ChinaTalks: Building Inclusive Cities
Landscape Architecture Lectures and ChinaTalks are proud to present Professor Pengjun Zhao, School of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Peking University. Read more
Open seminar: Affordances of Tibetan Landscape
Open seminar with Professor Dan Smyer Yü, Founding Director of the Center for Trans-Himalayan Studies, Yunnan Minzu University. Read more
Buddhism, business and economic relations - in Asia and beyond
A three-day conference focusing on the complex relationship and ideological juxtapositions that lie within the nexus of Buddhism and economic activity in various historical and contemporary contexts in Asia and beyond. Read more
Landscapes of Power, Gardens of Labour: The President's Estate in Delhi, India
Public lecture by Professor Amita Baviskar, sociologist at the Institute of Economic Growth, Delhi. Read more
JapanSessions: Lecture by Lone Jung Persson
Lone Jung Persson has a Master's Degree in Japanese Studies and Economics and many years of experience in project management. Today she works as Program Leader at Koncern It at Region Zealand. Read more
SEASS lecture: Who wants to be the Tinderella?
Public SEASS lecture by Rinatania Fajriani, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies: "Who wants to be the Tinderella? Narrative construction of online dating practice in Indonesia" Read more
New Brooms and Old: Sweeping Corruption in India, One Law at a Time
Public guest lecture by Aradhana Sharma, associate professor of Anthropology at Wesleyan University Read more
Comparing Dynamics of Social Capital in Japan and China
Lunch seminar with Shinya Ueno, professor at the Center for Policy Studies, Kumamoto University and Chunrong Liu, associate professor and executive vice director of the Fudan-European Centre for China Studies. Read more
The Ebola Crisis and China’s Search for a Role as a Responsible Great Power
A lecture in the ChinaTalks series with Barry Buzan, Professor of International Relations, LSE. Read more
JapanSessions: Media Coverage in Crisis
Public lecture on the media coverage of the Fukushima disaster by Dr Jens Sejrup, Dept, of Anthropology, UCPH. The lecture is part of the JapanSession series. Read more
Talking with the Pakistani Taliban
Lecture by Mona Kanwal Sheikh, PhD, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS).Read more
SEASS lecture: Dealing with Environmental Disaster in Urbanizing Indonesia: Ten Years of Lapindo Mudflow, and Still
Public SEASS lecture by Anton Novenanto, Department of Sociology, Universitas Brawijaya, Indonesia: "Dealing with Environmental Disaster in Urbanizing Indonesia: Ten Years of Lapindo Mudflow, and Still" Read more
Duterte-style Populism: The Philippines in the Geopolitical Economy of Southeast Asia
Presentation by Bonn Juego, postdoctoral researcher at the University of Jyväskylä and currently guest researcher at NIAS. Comments by Nina Trige Andersen and Mark Philip Stadler. Read more
Development of Universal Social Security and Politics of Health Care in Indonesia
SEASS talk by Muhammad Ridha, activist and researcher engaged in Indonesia’s working and oppressed class movement. Read more
The Politics of Reform: Peoples Liberation Army under Xi Jinping
Guest lecture by You Ji, Professor of International relations and Head of Department of Government, University of Macau, PRC. Read more
Temporariness, circularity, mobility: internal migration and social citizenship in Europe and China
Workshop organised by the Dept. of Political Science. Open to interested scholars. Read more
Valuing Buddhist Things
Public guest lecture "Valuing Buddhist Things: Religious objects and knowledge transfer in British India’s hill stations" by Emma Martin, University of Manchester Read more
Innovation and Entrepreneurship – with a Sino-Danish twist
The UCPH China Staff Association invited colleagues at the University of Copenhagen to an annual event, focusing on innovation and entrepreneurship. Read more
Asia brown bag lecture - Sanae Suzuki
Newly arrived guest researcher at NIAS, Sanae Suzuki, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), presenting on "Conflict management by regional organizations". Read more
War or peace in East Asia?
Jonathan Holslag, Professor, Dept of Political Science, Free University Brussels and Stein Tønnesson, Research Professor, Peace Research Institute Oslo will discuss the prospect of peace in East Asia. Read more
Travel funding
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Camilla T. N. Sørensen, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science
Research trip to Greenland - Edyta Roszko and Marie Roesgaard, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
Participation in EAN meeting and conference in Coimbra, Portugal -
Jacob Smidt-Madsen, PhD fellow, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
Research and fieldwork in India -
Kyoko Murakami, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology
Research trip to Japan -
Mark Philip Stadler, PhD fellow, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
Archival research trip to Leiden, Netherlands -
Nikolaos Olma, PhD fellow, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies
Fieldtrip to Tashkent, Uzbekistan -
Yu-ting Liu, PhD fellow, Department of Sociolog
Workshop participation in Taipei
Other grants
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Chenchen Zhang, Postdoctoral fellow, Department of Political Science
Workshop at UCPH on internal migration and social citizenship in Europe and China -
Signe Andersen, PhD fellow, Department of Anthropology/Hvidovre Hospital
Assistance for transcription of interviews from fieldwork in China