2011

20 Jan. 2011, 10 am

Chinese Pension Reform

Guest lecture by Fabrizio Zilibotti, University of Zurich on "Chinese Pension Reform in the Face of Demographic Transition and Financial Imperfections" at the Dept. of Economics.

24 Jan. 2011, 15:00

Guest lecture by Professor Geoffrey Benjamin

Guest lecture on "Cooking, Eating and Orientation: The Malay and Chinese and Cultural Regimes Compared" by Professor Geoffrey Benjamin, Nanyang Technological University i Singapore.

10 Feb. 2011, 9:30

PhD course

PhD course on "Ritual, Aesthetics, Performance and agency in Pakistan" at the Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

17 Feb. 2011, 12:30

Lunch talk: On Hatred: Concept, Crime, Culture

Lunch talk at NIAS by Thomas Brudholm, Associate Professor, Minority Studies, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

21 Feb. 2011, 12:30

Lunch talk: Dimensions of Social Cohesion

Professor Olli Kangas, Social Insurance Institution of Finland, will present and discuss methodology and findings from an extensive comparative study of social cohesion in parts of Asia and Africa. 

24 Feb. 2011, 2:30

Minicoy - A Muslim Atoll society where women own the homes

Guest lecture by NIAS associate Nils Finn Munch-Petersen.

17 Mar. 2011, 17:00

The Impact of Connectivity on Market Interlinkages; Evidence from Rural Punjab

Presentation by Mahvish Shami, University of Copenhagen.

21 Mar. 2011, 2:15

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". All are welcome.

23 Mar. 2011, 13:00

A Passage to India: Film and Discussion

We will watch the cinematic depiction of E.M. Forster's classic novel 'A Passage to India' as part of our seminar ‘Post/Colonial Identities'.

25 Mar. 2011, 9:15-16:00

Heroes and Exemplary Lives in Modern Japan

The Asian Studies Section, Japanese Studies, invites you to a workshop with Dr. Kweku Ampiah from the University of Leeds.

30 Mar. 2011, 17:00-19:30

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

Jens Bjerre, Danish nestor of ethnographic documentaries, presents a film from 1960s China. Introduction by Ida Nicolaisen. Deadline for registration: 23 March. 

7 Apr. - 8 Apr. 2011

What's in a word? The minority concept revisited

Conference and PhD course over two days. Read more about the format, programme and deadlines for registrations, abstracts and papers.

11 Apr. 2011, 15:00-17:00

Seminar: Is a Peaceful Rise of China Possible?

China-Sec at Centre for Military Studies is pleased to announce the seminar "Is a Peaceful Rise of China Possible?" with Professor Barry Buzan, London School of Economics.

12 Apr. 2011, 15:00-16:00

Guest lecture by Prof. Shereen Ratnagar

The Management of Water and Waste Water in some Towns of the Harrappa Civilization of South Asia.

13 Apr. 2011, 13:00

Bombay's Entangled Modernities, c. 1700-1900

The World History Workshop and the Saxo-Institute are organizing a lecture followed by a masterclass in Global History with Professor C. A. Bayly.

14 Apr. 2011, 13:00-15:00

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.

14 Apr. 2011, 9:30

Managing Diversity: The Indian Experience

SASNET organises a full-day  seminar on "Managing Diversity: The Indian Experience". The keynote speaker is Professor Zoya Hasan from the Centre for Political Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi.

28 Apr. 2011, 12:15-13:15

Guest lecture by Dr. Richard Baxstrom

Dr. Richard Baxstrom, University of Edinburgh, will give a talk at NIAS entitled "Power, Planning, and the Emergence of Baroque Forms of Life in Urban Malaysia". All are welcome.

29 Apr. 2011, 14:30

LARM Artist Talks: Miya Yoshida

LARM Artist Talk: Miya Yoshida, a media/art researcher and a curator from Japan currently living and working in Berlin, Germany.

2 May 2011, 15:15-17:15

China-SEC: Seminar with Dr. Holslag

China-SEC, Centre for Military Studies invites you to a seminar on "Trapped Giant: China's Troubled Military Rise" with Dr. Jonathan Holslag.

3 May 2011, 12:15-13:30

ADI Lunch Lecture - Ravinder Kaur

Next in the ADI lunch lecture series is Ravinder Kaur, associate professor at the Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. The title of her talk is "Design of a Nation: Making India Global".

9 May 2011, 14:00-15:30

Guest Lecture by Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian

Gao Xingjian, Nobel Prize winner in Literature, will give a lecture on "Literature and Ideology". Registration closed (full). 

17 May 2011, 13:15

PhD defence by Thao Thi Vu

Thao Thi Vu, Dept. of Geography and Geology, defends PhD thesis "When Women Make "Houses": Female Labour Migration and Family Transition in Rural Vietnam".

20 May - 21 May 2011

Challenging the Harmonious Society - Tibetans and Uyghurs in Socialist China

Workshop on "Challenging the Harmonious Society - Tibetans and Uyghurs in Socialist China". NOTE: This workshop is a closed event. Participation by invitation only.

23 May 2011, 1 pm

The worship of young virgin girls as goddesses in the secular state of Nepal

Guest lecture by Michael Allen, Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Sydney.

30 May - 31 May 2011

A World of Translation

International PhD course organized by The Research School of Regional Studies. Read more about the programme, format and the deadlines for registrating, submission of abstracts and papers.

5 June - 6 June 2011

PhD workshop "Writing Difference"

ADI and the Institute of Public Knowledge, New York University are co-organizing a dissertation workshop for PhD Fellows at the two universities.

10 June 2011, 1 pm.

Guest Lecture by Richard Upward

Guest lecture at the Dept. of Economics entitled "Quantity Restrictions and Price Adjustment of Chinese Textile Exports to the US" by Richard Upward, University of Nottingham.

17 June 2011, 14:00

Inaugural lecture - Oscar Salemink

The Department of Anthropology and ADI are pleased to announce Professor Oscar Salemink's inaugural lecture "Framing Religion: The Human Rights Encounter and the Transformation of Religion in Vietnam".

21 June 2011, 14:30-15:30

Crossing cultural borders then and now - In the fish market at Tranquebar and in the archive

Guest lecture "Crossing cultural borders then and now - In the fish market at Tranquebar and in the archive" by Professor Will Sweetman, Department of Religion, University of Otago, New Zealand.

4 July 2011, 14:15-15:45

Two keynotes on Central Asia

ADI's summer school on Central Eurasia will open with two keynote addresses: "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. All are welcome!

4 July - 15 July 2011

ADI Summer School on Central Asia

Asian Dynamics Initiative is organizing a summer school on ‘History, Identity and Religion in Contemporary Central Eurasia' to be held in Copenhagen, 4-15 July 2011.

6 July 2011, 14:30

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 Museum followed by a short presentation in the exhibitions of objects from Central Asia by Dr.phil. Esther Fihl, Professor mso.

22 Aug. 2011, 1 pm

Urban imaginaries and power in Asian mega-cities

ADI and Jørgen Delman, Professor, Chinese Studies, invite researchers at the University of Copenhagen to the initial meeting on Urban imaginaries and power in Asian mega-cities.

8 Sept. - 10 Sept. 2011

ETSG 2011 Copenhagen

The 13th European Trade Study Group (ETSG) conference will be held in Copenhagen and hosted by the Dept. of Economics, University of Copenhagen and the Dept. of Economics, CBS.

15 Sept. 2011, 15:15-16:30

Cross-Cultural Seminar: Oscar Salemink

Seminar with Oscar Salemink, Professor of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen on "Sex and the Temple: Interlocking categorizations of sexuality, gender and the sacred in post-secular Vietnam".

16 Sept. 2011, 9:00-17:15

ECCS 10th anniversary

The European Centre of Chinese Studies (ECCS) located at Peking University will celebrate its 10th anniversary on 16.9.2011 by conducting two workshops on: "China Studies" and "Philosophy in Action".

19 Sept. 2011, 10:00-16:00

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.

22 Sept. - 24 Sept. 2011

Indonesian Minorities - Rights, Plights and Positions

Nordic Indonesia Studies Network (NISN) Third Annual Workshop, NIAS, Copenhagen, 22-24 September 2011.

23 Sept. 2011, 14:00-17:00

PhD defence by Winnie Bothe

Winnie Bothe defends her PhD thesis "Forming Local Citizens in Bhutan: The Traditionalization of Participation - Empowerment, Domination or Subjugation?".

23 Sept. 2011, 1pm

PhD defence by Jens Tue Sejrup

Jens Sejrup defends his PhD thesis "Returns of the Other. The Roles of Repetition and Representation in Mass Media Coverage of Japan-Taiwan Relations".

29 Sept. 2011, 13:15-14:30

Indian Economy under the Reforms: Growth, Poverty and Inequality, 1991 to 2010

Guest lecture by Professor Venkatesh Athreya on "Indian Economy under the Reforms: Growth, Poverty and Inequality, 1991 to 2010".

29 Sept. 2011, 15:15-16:30

Cross-Cultural Seminar: Brian Moeran

Cross-Cultural Seminar with Brian Moeran, Copenhagen Business School, on "Japanese Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in Japan".

4 Oct. 2011, 14:15-15:30

Guest Lecture by Penny van Esterik

Penny van Esterik, Professor of Anthropology, York University will give a lecture entitled "Hindsight, Oversight and Insight into Ban Chiang Neolithic Burial Pottery, northeast Thailand; a personal trajectory through interdisciplinary research in Southeast Asia".

6 Oct. - 9 Oct. 2011

Commensality and Social Organisation

Workshop on food, identity and globalisation organised by the Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies

10 Oct. 2011, 12:15-13:30

Buddhist Economics and Thailand's Sufficiency Economy

Guest lecture by Professor Donald K. Swearer, Harvard Divinity School.

11 Oct. 2011, 10:15-12:00

Religious Charity, Secular Law, and NGO Regulation India

Guest lecture by Erica Bornstein, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. All are welcome.

13 Oct. 2011, 15:15-16:30

Cross-Cultural Seminar: Ayo Wahlberg

Cross-Cultural Seminar with Ayo Wahlberg, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, on "Banking viability - reproduction and the sperm crisis in China".

26 Oct. 2011, 12:15-13:00

From Pusher Street to Purulia: Legal Monism versus Legal Pluralism

Lunch lecture by Stig Toft Madsen, Fil.Dr., Senior Research Fellow at NIAS. All are welcome. Feel free to bring your own lunch.

28 Oct. 2011, 10:15-20:50

Workshop on Queer Theory and Activism in China

The workshop is made up of three parts combining theoretical discussion with case studies: 1) Queer Activism in China, 2) Queer theory in China and 3) Queer documentaries. Deadline for registration: 21 October 2011.

10 Nov. 2011, 15:15-16:30

Sacred Money. Faith and Finance in a Global Sufi Order

The Cross-Cultural Seminar series has invited Nils Bubandt, Aarhus University, to present a paper on "Sacred Money. Faith and Finance in a Global Sufi Order".

16 Nov. 2011, 9:00-12:30

Japan Today: Challenges and Responses to Globalization

Symposium at CBS with Professor Toshiya Ozaki, Rikkyo University, Professor Takehiko Kariya, University of Oxford, and Professor Anthony P. D'Costa, Asia Research Centre, CBS.

16 Nov. 2011, 13:15-15:00

Politics of Human Development in an Indian State

Guest lecture by Dr. Manabi Majumdar, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata.

17 Nov. 2011, 13:15-14:30

Health Inequity and Democratic Deficit: Learning by India from India

Guest lecture by Dr. Manabi Majumdar, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata.

17 Nov. 2011, 15:15-16:30

Mapping national anxieties: Thailand's southern conflict

Guest lecture by Professor Duncan McCargo, University of Leeds. The lecture will be immediately followed by a reception at NIAS launching Professor McCargo's new book.

18 Nov. - 20 Nov. 2011

Halfdan Siiger and Danish Central Asian Research

Conference on Danish Central Asian Research in commemoration of Halfdan Siiger. The conference is organized jointly by Aarhus University, University of Copenhagen, the National Museum and Moesgård Museum.

21 Nov. - 22 Nov. 2011

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'.

24 Nov. 2011, 15:15-16:30

Shaping modern knowledge on Islam

Cross-Cultural Seminar by Dietrich Jung from the University of Southern Denmark. Title of the presentation: "Max Weber and Sheikh Ahmad ibn Zayni al-Dahlan: Shaping modern knowledge on Islam".

25 Nov. 2011, 11:15-13:00

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 vises dokumentarfilm.

7 Dec. 2011, 13:15-15:00

What should we Learn from China?

Guest lecture at NIAS by Associate Professor Josef Gregory Mahoney, East China Normal University.

7 Dec. 2011, 19:30

Gender and Culture in China

Talk in the Danish-Chinese Association by Denise Gimpel, associate professor in China Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

8 Dec. 2011, 13:15-14:30

Guest lecture on Hip-hop in Japan

Guest lecture on "Hip-hop Japan: Creativity and Identity within Cultural Globalisation" by Kiku Day, SOAS, University of London.

8 Dec. 2011, 15:15-16:30

Postsocialist Publishing: Internet Literature in China

Cross-Cultural Seminar at ToRS by Michel Hockx, School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

8 Dec. 2011, 17:00-18:30

Sacralizing the State and De-Sacralizing Islam: Islamists and the Democratic Deficit in Pakistan

Roundtable discussion on "Sacralizing the State and De-Sacralizing Islam: Islamists and the Democratic Deficit in Pakistan" with Farhat Haq, Professor of Political Science, Monmouth College.

12 Dec. 2011, 3 pm

The making of a new folk art

Guest lecture by by Associate professor Roma Chatterji, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi.