2010

21 Jan. 2010, 13:00-14:30

Guest Lecture - Nils Finn Munch-Petersen

Nils Finn Munch-Petersen will give a guest lecture entitled "The Maldive Islands - Cultural Implosion" on 21 January at NIAS. All are welcome. 

10 Feb. - 11 Feb. 2010

Cultural Cities - International Seminar

"Cultural Cities: Creativity and Social Inclusion in Osaka and Copenhagen" is an international 2-days seminar that will address issues of artistic and creative practices within city planning and local communities in Osaka and Copenhagen.

16 Feb. 2010, 13:00

PhD defense

Mads Clausen, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, defends his PhD thesis "The Vortex is here: Asia and Australian Post-Imperial Nationhood".

17 Feb. 2010, 12:15-13:30

ADI Lunch Lecture - East Asian Peace

Timo Kivimäki, professor at the Dept. of Political Science, will give the first ADI lunch lecture. The title is 'East Asian Peace'.

5 Mar. 2010, 2 pm.

PhD defense - Mikkel Rytter

Mikkel Rytter, Department of Anthropology, will defend his PhD thesis "Family Upheaval - Generation, Mobility and Relatedness among Pakistani Migrants in Denmark". 

15 Mar. 2010, 10:00-12:00

ADI South Asia Lecture - Dr. Nikita Sud

Nikita Sud, Department of International Development, University of Oxford, will give a lecture on 'Liberalisation, Hindu Nationalism and the State'. All are welcome.

16 Mar. 2010, 14:00-16:00

Guest lecture - Erica Bornstein

Erica Bornstein, Assistant Professor in Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, will be giving a lecture entitled 'Philanthropy and Empathy in New Delhi' at the Dept. for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

17 Mar. 2010, 12:15-13:30

ADI Lunch Lecture - Ayo Wahlberg

Ayo Wahlberg, Dept. of Anthropology, will give the next ADI lunch lecture on "Family secrets and the industrialisation of herbal medicine in Viet Nam". All are welcome.

22 Mar. 2010, 3 pm.

Guest lecture - Jonas Parello-Plesner

The Department of Political Science is organising a guest lecture with Jonas Parello-Plesner on "The New Rising Powers, China and India - responsible stakeholders of the international system?"

25 Mar. 2010, 12:30

Masculinities: Perspectives from the South

Dr. Ajay Bailey, University of Groningen, will visit NIAS and ADI to take part in a roundtable discussion on "Masculinities: Perspectives from the South".

30 Mar. 2010, 9:00

Focus Asia

Twice annually the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, arranges a series of public lectures entitled "Focus Asia". The theme of the next Focus Asia lectures is "The Rule of Law in Asia".

8 Apr. 2010, 2 pm.

The Process of Resolution of Conflict in Aceh: Are there Lessons To Be Learned

Lecture by Professor Timo Kivimäki, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. All are welcome.

12 Apr. 2010, 1:15-2:45

Guest lecture - Helmut Morsbach

ADI is pleased to invite you to a guest lecture with Professor Helmut Morsbach on "The psychological importance of ritualized gift exchange in modern Japan".

12 Apr. 2010, 15:00-17:00

China and India as development actors

Guest lecture with Peter Kragelund organized by Camilla Sørensen, Dept. of Political Science.

21 Apr. 2010, 12:15-13:30

ADI Lunch Lecture - Søren Ivarsson

The next ADI Lunch Lecture "Policepower and the formation of the modern Thai state: The Thai Provincial Gendarmerie and its Danish Officers, 1897-1926" is by Søren Ivarsson, Saxo Institute.

5 May 2010, 14:00-17:00

Special Seminar on Diplomacy in East Asia

The Asia Research Centre, CBS and the Embassy of Japan in Copenhagen are pleased to announce a Special Seminar on Diplomacy in East Asia: Japan, US and China relations in the 21st century.

19 May 2010, 12:15-13:30

ADI Lunch Lecture - Jakob Roland Munch

Next in the ADI lunch lecture series is Jakob Roland Munch, Professor at the Department of Economics. The title of his lecture is "Trade with China - Are there reasons to be concerned?"

27 May 2010, 13:00-14:30

Seminar - Digital governance in Chengdu

Seminar on 'Digital governance in Chengdu: Urban management systems and government affairs service centres' with Jesper Schlæger, PhD fellow at the Department of Political Science. All are welcome!

16 June 2010, 9:30-17:30

The Ethnic Crises in Burma/Myanmar: 2010 and Beyond

This seminar aims at taking a close look at the most significant recent developments concerning ethnic conflict in Burma/Myanmar as well as the international community's dilemmas and possibilities to respond. Venue: NIAS

17 June 2010, 13:15

PhD defence - Helle Jørgensen

Helle Jørgensen, Department of History and Area Studies, Aarhus University, defends her PhD thesis "Tranquebar - Whose History? Transnational Cultural Heritage in a Former Danish Trading Colony in South India".

1 Sept. 2010, 14:30-16:00

Research seminar with Prof. Charles F. Keyes

Research seminar at the Department of Anthropology. "From Peasant to Cosmopolitan Villagers: Refiguring the ‘Rural' in Northeastern Thailand" with Prof. Charles F. Keyes, University of Washington.

3 Sept. 2010, 14:00

PhD defence - Susanne Bregnbæk

Susanne Bregnbæk, Dept. of Anthropology, defends her PhD thesis "Family, State and the Quandaries of Education. The Tension between Self-sacrifice and Self-actualization among University Students in Beijing."

15 Sept. 2010, 12:15-13:30

ADI Lunch Lecture - Ildiko Beller-Hann

Ildiko Beller-Hann, Associate Professor, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies will give a lunch lecture on "Household economy and community cohesion in rural Xinjiang".

21 Sept. 2010, 15:00-16:30

Guest lecture - Thai Ghosts Go Modern

Guest lecture "Thai Ghosts Go Modern: Production, Circulation, and Consumption of the Horror in Contemporary Thailand" by Pattana Kitiarsa, Southeast Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore.

21 Sept. 2010, 15:15-17:00

Shiroki - Calligraphy Workshop

Calligraphy workshop with visual artist, Shiroki.

22 Sept. 2010, 15:15-16:30

Free trade agreements in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific

Guest lecture at the Dept. of Economics "Free trade agreements in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific" with Professor Christopher Dent, University of Leeds.

23 Sept. 2010, 15:15-16:30

The British Empire c. 1800-1950: between reform and repression

Christopher Bayly, St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, has been appointed adjunct professor at the SAXO Institute. "The British Empire c. 1800-1950: between reform and repression" is his inaugural lecture.

23 Sept. 2010, 9:15-11:00

Energy Diplomacies of East Asian States

Guest lecture at NIAS "Understanding the Energy Diplomacies of East Asian States" with Professor Christopher Dent, University of Leeds.

24 Sept. 2010, 10:00-11:30

National attitudes and politics in Japan

Guest lecture on "National attitudes and politics in Japan" with Professor Akihiko Tanaka, Managing Director & Executive Vice President of the University of Tokyo. All are welcome, but registration is required. 

28 Sept. 2010, 9:30-17:30

Copenhagen South Asia Workshop

A one-day workshop on South Asia with paper presentations and keynote speech by Tanika Sarkar, professor of history at Jawaharlal Nehru University.  

4 Oct. 2010, 2:30

Danish Media and Pakistani Islam

Guest lecture at NIAS by Uzma Rehman, who has a PhD from the Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

5 Oct. 2010, 13:00-15:00

Goa - An Internal Exotic in South Asia

Guest lecture: Goa - An Internal Exotic in South Asia. Discourses of Colonialism and Tourism by Pamila Gupta, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg.

12 Oct. 2010, 10:00-12:00

Nepal Today

Nepal Today: A Conversation on Development, Governance and Politics - with Professor Mahendra Lawoti, University of Michigan.

11 Nov. - 13 Nov. 2010

Asian Diversity in a Global Context

The annual, international ADI conference 2010 is a big three-day event: a grand opening at the Ceremonial Hall followed by two days with panels and workshops focusing on a wide variety of Asia related topics.

16 Nov. 2010, 11:00-13:00

Towards a new literature? Women writers in contemporary Japan

Guest lecture at ToRS with Prof. Anne Sakai-Bayard, INALCO, Paris.

2 Dec. 2010, 17:00-19:30

Visual Anthropology: Awakening Giant - the Cultural Revolution in the People´s Republic of China

CANCELLED! Jens Bjerre, Danish nestor of ethnographic documentaries presents a film from 1960s China.

6 Dec. 2010, 14:30

Rethinking China’s New Documentary Movement: Engagement with the Social

Lu Xinyu, Professor and Director of the Broadcasting and Television Department, School of Journalism, Fudan University, Shanghai will give a talk on the New Documentary Movement.

6 Dec. 2010, 15:15-16:15

Shipwrecks in the Java Sea: Ancient Ships and Modern Treasure Hunters

Guest lecture by Professor John Miksic from the National University of Singapore. This lecture is the first of two and is organized by Southeast Asian Studies and ADI.

7 Dec. 2010, 1 pm

Dynamic Labor Demand in China: Public and Private Objectives

Econometrics seminar at the Dept. of Economics with Russell Cooper, University of Texas: "Dynamic Labor Demand in China: Public and Private Objectives"

8 Dec. 2010, 12:15-13:30

ADI Lunch Lecture

"Junk Empire. A preliminary take on Chinese construction projects and timber extraction in Mozambique" by Morten Axel Pedersen, Mikkel Bunkenborg and Morten Nielsen, Dept. of Anthropology.

8 Dec. 2010, 16:00-17:00

The First Chinese Diaspora: China and Southeast Asia , 1100-1365

Guest lecture by Professor John Miksic from the National University of Singapore to celebrate 50 years of Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Organizers: Southeast Asian Studies and ADI.