2013

• 29 Jan. 2013, 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 Feb. 2013, 15:00-17:00

  Tradition-Making and Education in Modern Ayurveda

  Guest lecture by Anthony Cerulli, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, NY, and Research Fellow at Institut d'Études Avancées de Paris.

• 7 Feb. 2013, 12:00-14:00

  Narrativity and Indian Historiography

  Guest lecture by Anthony Cerulli, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, NY, and Research Fellow at Institut d'Études Avancées de Paris.

• 11 Feb. 2013, 13:00

  PhD defence by Jun Liu

  "Mobilized by Mobile Media. How Chinese People use mobile phones to change politics and democracy" PhD defense by Jun Lui.

• 20 Feb. 2013, 14:00-15:00

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

  Lecture by Dr. Byung H. Kim, Korean Ambassador to Denmark. The lecture is followed by a reception.

• 26 Feb. 2013, 3 pm

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

  Guest lecture by Aarti Kawlra, Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, Netherlands.

• 27 Feb. 2013, 11:00-12:00

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

  Seminar at NIAS with Dr. Akihisa Mori, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Global Environmental Economics, Kyoto University

• 28 Feb. 2013, 14:00

  Mumbai as Dreamscape: Poverty, Media, Property

  Public Lecture by  Prof. Arjun Appadurai,  Department of Media, Culture, Communication, New York University

• 28 Feb. - 2 Mar. 2013

  Speculation in India: Imaginaries of Indian economies

  3-day seminar on speculation - including keynote lecture by Prof. Arjun Appadurai.

• 15 Mar. 2013, 13:00-16:30

  AMIS inauguration

  Official opening of the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS) on 15 March 2013 at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen.

• 21 Mar. 2013, 14:15-16:00

  The Passion for God in Gendered Islamism

  Pre-defence seminar of Iram Asif's project 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 Apr. 2013, 10:15-12:00

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

  Public lecture by Professor Shu-mei Shih, UCLA. All are welcome!

• 4 Apr. 2013, 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 Apr. 2013, 14:15-16:00

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

  Guest lecture by Tyrell Haberkorn, research fellow at the Department of Political and Social Change, Australian National University.

• 11 Apr. 2013, 9:15-11:00

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

  Seminar on "Stranded Britons: Hong Kong and Falkland Islanders at Empire's End" with Mark Hampton, Lingnan University and Ezequiel Mercau, University of Copenhagen.

• 15 Apr. 2013, 14:00

  Chinese media and the 4th estate

  Guest lecture by PhD student Laura Dombernowsky, Department of Culture and Society, Section for Asian Studies, University of Aarhus.

• 15 Apr. - 16 Apr. 2013

  Opening of Fudan European Centre for China Studies at UCPH

  A new and exciting collaboration between Fudan University, Shanghai, and University of Copenhagen has resulted in the establishment of a new China centre at UCPH, the first of its kind in Europe. The opening will be celebrated over two days, with the conference “Creative Spaces: Seeking the Dynamics of China’s Development” and an opening ceremony. Registration is required.

• 16 Apr. 2013, 14:00-15:00

  Copenhagen climate change seminar

  Mohamed Nasheed, the former Maldives President, will give a talk on 'How can we build a carbon neutral world economy?'

• 17 Apr. 2013, 14:00-17:00

  Conference on 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 Apr. 2013, 15:15-17:00

  Newness, Ritual and Globalization in Urban Hindu Temple Publics

  Public lecture on "Newness, Ritual and Globalization in Urban Hindu Temple Publics" by Tulasi Srinivas, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Emerson College, Boston.

• 18 Apr. 2013, 18:30

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

  Talk by Ildikó Bellér-Hann, associate professor at the Department of Cross-Cultural based on her latest fieldwork and research.

• 18 Apr. 2013, 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 Apr. - 19 Apr. 2013

  Network of South East Asian Studies

  Founding meeting for Danish scholars working on Southeast Asia as a first step towards building a Scandinavian Network of South East Asian Studies. (Participation by invitation)

• 23 Apr. 2013, 12:30-14:00

  Religious Extremism and Modernity - Mapping the New Pakistan

  Centre of Global South Asian Studies and the Swedish Network of South Asian Studies (SASNET) are pleased to invite you to a public lecture by Ayesha Siddiqa. PLEASE NOTE: Venue has changed.

• 29 Apr. 2013, 14:15

  The Folk Memory Project: Talk and film screening with filmmaker Wu Wenguang

  Wu Wenguang, China’s pioneering independent documentary filmmaker and co-founder of the Caochangdi Workstation in Beijing, will present his ‘Folk Memory Project’.

• 2 May 2013, 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 May 2013, 13:00-15:30

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

  Public lecture by Professor James Scott, Yale University, organized by the Centre of Global South Asian Studies and the Centre for Development Research, UCPH.

• 16 May 2013, 9:00-12:30

  Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Lin: keynote lectures on 'World Literature and the World of Literature'

  Prof. Howard Goldblatt, University of Notre Dame and Prof. Sylvia Lin, University of  Notre Dame gives public keynote lecture for PhD course 'World Literature and the World of Literature'.

• 17 May 2013, 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 May 2013, 16:00

  Global Lectures - Ha-Joon Chang

  Ha-Joon Chang, Cambridge University, will give a talk in the Global Lectures series on 23 thing they don’t tell you about capitalism - and what they mean for our economic prospects.

• 24 May 2013, 14:00

  PhD defence by Rune Bolding Bennike

  Rune Bolding Bennike defends his PhD thesis "Governing the Hills. Imperial Landscapes, National Territories, and Production of Place between Naya Nepal and Incredible India".

• 10 June 2013, 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 June - 14 June 2013

  Growth: Critical Perspectives from Asia

  ADI's 5th international conference 13-14 June with keynote lectures by Professor Edward Farmer and Professor Danny Quah as well as interdisciplinary panels on green growth, cultural growth, ecomonic growth and more.

• 17 June 2013, 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 July 2013, 11:00-14:00

  PhD defence - Nina Elisabeth Torm

  Nina Torm, Department of Economics, defends her PhD thesis “Firms and Workers in Transition: A Series of Micro Studies on Vietnam”.

• 11 July 2013, 1 pm - precisely

  Public Defence of PhD Thesis: Katja Rangsivek

  Katja Rangsivek, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, defends her PhD thesis "TRAKUN, POLITICS AND THE THAI STATE".

• 15 Aug. - 24 Aug. 2013

  State Formation, State Development, and State Challenges. Denmark and South Korea compared

  Summer school at the Dept. of Political Science on "State Formation, State Development, and State Challenges. Denmark and South Korea compared", 15-24 Aug 2013.

• 20 Aug. 2013, 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, 1 pm

  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, 14:00

  Inauguration Lectures in Social Anthropology

  This year the Department of Anthropology has appointed three professors. Colleagues, students, family and friends are invited to a joint inauguration event held by the three new professors: Tine Gammeltoft, Henrik Vigh and Morten Axel Pedersen. 

• 10 Sept. 2013, 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, 2:30-5:30

  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 Oct. 2013, 1:15-3:00

  Against the Consensus - Reflections on the Great Recession

  Guest lecture by Professor Justin Lin, Peking University (Beida) organised by DERG, Department of Economics.

• 24 Oct. 2013, 11:15-13:00

  Money, Marriage, and Gender: Dowry in India

  Public guest lecture by Dr. Ranjana Sheel, Department of History at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.

• 25 Oct. 2013, 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 Oct. 2013, 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, 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, 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.

• 20 Nov. 2013, 16:15-17:00

  Spinning a Yarn - A Tapestry of Danish Colonial Narratives?

  Guest lecture by Josefine Baark, Department of History and Art, University of Cambridge organized by ToRS and the Tranquebar Initiative of the National Museum.

• 21 Nov. 2013, 14:15-17:00

  Prophecy and Protest in the Age of Globalization

  Guest Lecture by Professor Torkel Brekke, Pembroke College, Oxford

• 26 Nov. 2013, 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.

• 29 Nov. 2013, 15:00

  PhD defence - Annette Thorsen Vilslev

  Annette Thorsen Vilslev defends her PhD thesis "Affective World Literature. The Continuity of Consciousness in the Literary Theory and Novels of Japanese Writer Natsume Sõseki"

• 4 Dec. 2013, 14:15-16:00

  Dalit Political Mobilization and Cultural Identity Politics

  Public guest lecture by Dr. Heinz Werner Wessler, Department of Linguistics and Philology (Indology) at Uppsala University.

• 5 Dec. 2013, 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, 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, 8:30-18:15

  Law and Art: European And Global Perspectives

  Workshop organized by Centre for European Constitutionalization and Security, Faculty of Law & Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Faculty of Humanities.

• 12 Dec. 2013, 10:15-12:00

  Law Reform in Pakistan

  Public guest lecture by Dr. Osama Siddique, Department of Law & Policy, Lahore University of Management Sciences.

• 16 Dec. 2013, 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.