2015

7 Jan. 2015, 12:30-13:15

Four more years for Abe

Lunch lecture at NIAS by freelance journalist Asger Røjle Christensen.

12 Jan. 2015, 13:00

PhD defence by Michael Ulfstjerne

Michael Alexander Ulfstjerne defends his PhD thesis titled Un-real Estate: The Social Life of Temporary Wealth in China.

15 Jan. 2015, 12:15-13:15

The Intergroup Relations Model and its Relevance for Asian-European Interaction

Lunch lecture at NIAS by Thomas E. Malloy, Professor of Psychology at Rhode Island College.

28 Jan. - 30 Jan. 2015

Practices of Order: Colonial and Imperial Projects

Keynote lectures by George Steinmetz, Mariana Valverde and Stephen Legg as part of a conference on practices developed by colonial states and empires in order to govern the behavior of their subject populations.

29 Jan. 2015, 9:30-16:15

(Un)common enclosures

Public seminar by the Globalization and Development Researcher Group, Dept. of Anthropology on 29 January 2015.

5 Feb. 2015, 15:00

Gender and Islam in Indonesia

Public guest lecture by Nina Nurmila, Senior Lecturer at the State Islamic University (UIN) Bandung, Indonesia.

18 Feb. 2015, 12:00-13:00

Asia brown bag lecture: Kai He

NIAS and ADI invite you to a brown bag lecture on China’s Crisis Behavior: Political Survival and Foreign Policy after the Cold War by Kai He from the Dept. of Political Science.

24 Feb. 2015, 10:15-12:00

China Talks: Professor Yuan Ren

"Migration and Low-Carbon Society: Factors associated with Migrants' Consumptive Carbon Emission in Urban China" by Yuan Ren, Professor of Demography and Urban Studies at Fudan University.

25 Feb. 2015, 14:00-16:00

The Amritsar Massacre - Genealogy of Colonial Violence in British India

Public lecture by Kim Wagner, Senior Lecturer in British Imperial History, Department of History, Queen Mary University of London.

27 Feb. 2015, 13:00-14:30

Lunch lecture by Prof. Li Xing

Lunch lecture by Professor Li Xing, Aalborg University on Understanding the dialectics between hegemony and world order. The rising powers and the emerging world re-order.

2 Mar. 2015, 12

Lunch seminar by Assistant Professor Jun Liu

12.00-13.00 at NIAS

9 Mar. 2015, 10:15-12:00

China Talks: Professor Amitav Acharya

"Taming China: Can Asia Overcome Chinese Dominance and Avoid Europe's Past?" by Professor Amitav Acharya, American University, Washington, DC. 

16 Mar. 2015, 17:00-19:00

Korean Studies Seminars 2015: Stories that Art Objects Tell

Lecture by Charlotte Horlyck, Lecturer in Korean Art History at SOAS, The University of London.

18 Mar. 2015, 10:00

Public Defence of PhD Thesis: Xiaowei Gui

Xiaowei Gui defends his PhD thesis entitled Handling of Small-Scale Protests in China. Process Dynamics and Outcomes.

19 Mar. 2015, 13:00-15:00

A Writer's Journey by Namita Gokhale

Public lecture by Namita Gokhale, author, founder and co-director of the worlds' largest annual literary event 'Jaipur Literary Festival'.

19 Mar. 2015, 15:15-16:45

China Talks: Social movements, corruption and Party-state responses in China

Two talks on The enigma of President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption campaign by Li Lianjiang of the Chinese University of Hong Kong and Defragmenting Authoritarianism: Online complaining, accountability and power concentration in China by Christian Göbel of the University of Vienna.

20 Mar. 2015, 10:00-12:00

Human Rights in China

Round table meeting on human rights in China and on the results which one NGO – Dui Hua – has achieved through interaction and negotiations with Chinese authorities over a period of 25 years.

25 Mar. 2015, 12:00-13:00

Asia brown bag lecture: Jong Kun Choi

Brown bag lecture titled North Korea, an Impossible State? Why and How Sunshine Policy to North Korea deserves another chance after 7 years by Professor Jong Kun Choi,  Yonsei University, Korea.

26 Mar. 2015, 16:30

Farewell lecture and reception for Prof. Min Dongchao

Professor Min shares the insights she has gained through her two-year EU Marie Curie International Incoming Fellowship at NIAS.

26 Mar. 2015, 20:00-22:00

Himlens Søn og Velstandsguden: Religion i Kinas historie

Foredrag v/ Bent Nielsen, lektor, Ph.d.

16 Apr. - 17 Apr. 2015

Demographic changes in Southeast Asia: Regional and international ramifications

Two Nordic Southeast Asia Network workshops Gender and generational transformations (16-17 April, 2015) and Security and migration (23-24 October 2015). 

16 Apr. - 17 Apr. 2015

N-SEA workshop

Gender and generational transformations in Southeast Asia - the first of two workshops on Demographic changes in Southeast Asia: Regional and international ramifications organized by the Nordic Southeast Asia network (N-SEA) and sponsered by NOS-HS.

17 Apr. 2015

Call for Participation in PhD workshop: Making sense of the field in Southeast Asia

PhD workshop in connection with the N-SEA workshop series “Demographic changes in Southeast Asia: Regional and international ramifications”.

20 Apr. 2015, 14:00-15:30

From Ground Zero to Degree Zero: Akira as Origin and Oblivion

Guest lecture by Christopher Bolton Associate Professor, Williams College on Ōtomo Katsuhiro's cult anime film Akira

20 Apr. 2015, 14:30-18:00

Conference & job fair: Crack the China Code

How can employees with expertise on China-Denmark boost their business and career?

21 Apr. 2015, 12:00-13:00

Asia brown bag lecture: Michael Alexander Ulfstjerne

NIAS and ADI invite you to a brown bag lecture on "Un-real Estate: The Social Life of Temporary Wealth in China" by Michael Alexander Ulfstjerne, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

23 Apr. - 24 Apr. 2015

Contested Narratives: International Workshop with PhD course

Varying frames or forms of narratives - whether of historical trajectories of the emergence of modern nation-states and their boundaries and borderlands, configurations of memory and cultural heritage, politics of identity and not-belonging, or modes of (un-)development and migration - are not fixed, stable, and unchanging.

27 Apr. 2015, 15:00-17:00

Seminar: China as a Rising Power in Asia and in the World

Centre for Military Studies has the pleasure of inviting you to a seminar with professor and ambassador Jørgen Ørstrøm Møller on the subject  “China as a Rising Power in Asia and in the World”.

27 Apr. 2015, 17:00-19:00

Korean Studies Seminars 2015: Can the Past Forget us? Historical Memory in Northeast Asia

Public lecture by Dr Jong Kun Choi, Yonsei University

28 Apr. - 29 Apr. 2015

New India's World

Workshop on New India's World. An invitation to rethink the question of novelty.

5 May 2015, 10:00-12:00

China Talks: Professor Bu Wei

"The Point is to Change It": Exploring the Theory and Practice of Action-oriented Communication Research in China

7 May 2015, 10:00-12:00

Korean Studies Seminar: Equivalences in Korean and English Languages

Korean Studies Seminar with lecture by Dr. Stefan Knoob

7 May - 8 May 2015

The Internal and External Constraints on Foreign Policy in India. Exploring Culture and Ethnic Sensitivities

NIAS and the Department of Political Science at the University of Aalborg invites you to attend a workshop on The Internal and External Constraints on Foreign Policy in India. Exploring Culture and Ethnic Sensitivities.

8 May 2015, 17:00-19:00

Korean Studies Seminar: Does Confucianism matter in the study of Korea?

Korean Studies Seminar with Dr. Isabelle Sancho

8 May - 9 May 2015

Filmscreening + Masterclass: Ascan Breuer / Dokumentarisches Labor

8 May: Filmscreening "Jakarta Disorder" + "Paradise Later" (Trilogi Jawa I + II). 9 May: Masterclass with Ascan Breuer: Documentary as Lab: Dubious Documentary vs. Documentary of Truthiness

11 May 2015, 12:00-13:00

Asia brown bag lecture: Ildiko Beller-Hann

NIAS and ADI invite you to a brown bag lecture on Islam, legitimation, identity: Uyghur historical narratives from Eastern Xinjiang by Ildikó Bellér-Hann from the Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. 

13 May 2015, 16:00-18:00

Poetic Encounters: Hindi Meets Danish

Through a series of poetic translations to the danish, students of Modern South Asian Studies will present the work of renowned Hindi poet Shri Krishna Kumar Vidhyarthi

27 May 2015, 13:00-15:00

Fieldwork seminar: South-South Mobilities: An ethnographic exploration of African migrants in contemporary Delhi

Fieldwork seminar with Bani Gill

29 May - 30 May 2015

The 4th Korean Screen Culture Conference

K-Pop, K-Drama, Hallyu, transnational cultural flows, South and North Korean film. 28 speakers, 10 countries, 7 panels, 2 days.

4 June 2015, 9:30-11:00

ChinaTalks: Andrew Scobell

"China's Great Leap Outward: Hard and Soft Dimensions of a Rising Power"

8 June 2015, 11:00-12:15

EPRU SEMINAR

Heiwai Tang, John Hopkins University. "Domestic Value Added in Exports: Theory and Firm Evidence from China"

12 June - 13 June 2015

Inequity and Urbanism in the Global South

Centre of Global South Asian Studies and the PhD programme at Department of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies are organising its 4th annual collaborative workshop for doctoral students at New York University. This time Amsterdam University has joined the NYU-Copenhagen initiative as well.

15 June 2015, 10:15-12:00

ChinaTalks: Dr. Zhao Quansheng

"The New Type of US-China Relations: A Dual Leadership Structure in Asia Pacific"

16 June 2015, 11:00-12:00

Professor Willy Lam: The Rise of Xi Jinping and the Closing of the Chinese Mind

Prof. Willy Lam guests NIAS to give a lecture based on his latest publication Chinese Politics in the Era of Xi Jinping - Renaissance, Reform, or Retrogression?

17 June 2015, 9:30-12:30

Asia-Nordic Cross-Cultural Dialogue for Closer Relations

Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers, Dagfinn Høybråten, will talk about the Nordic way and Asia exclusively in AsiHouse, Indiakaj 16.

24 June 2015, 10:30-11:30

Keynote lecture by Professor Paul Freedman

As part of the 7th Intl. ADI Conference Food, Feeding, and Eating in and out of AsiaProfessor Paul Freedman, Yale University, will give a keynote lecture on Asian Restaurants in London and New York.

24 June - 26 June 2015

ADI conference: Food, Feeding, and Eating in and out of Asia

The 7th annual international ADI conference "Food, Feeding, and Eating In and Out of Asia" takes place at the University of Copenhagen on 24-26 June 2015. The conference will feature distinguished keynote speakers as well as interdisciplinary panels.

25 June 2015, 13:00

Returning to the Forest. Shamanism, Landscape and History among the Duha of Northern Mongolia

Benedikte Møller Kristensen defends her PhD thesis.

25 June 2015, 14:00-15:00

Keynote lecture by Dr Madhusree Mukerjee

As part of the 7th Intl. ADI Conference Food, Feeding, and Eating in and out of Asia Dr. Madhusree Mukerjee will give a keynote lecture on The Imperial Roots of Hunger.

26 June 2015, 13:15-16:00

Mongolia as Theory

Is Mongolia becoming an anthropological empire, and should it? Informal roundtable with presentations by Prof. Manduhai Buyandelger (MIT) and Dr. Gregory Delaplace (Nanterre).

26 June 2015, 16:15-17:15

Keynote lecture by Professor Michael Herzfeld

As part of the 7th Intl. ADI Conference Food, Feeding, and Eating in and out of Asia Professor Michael Herzfeld, Harvard University, will give a keynote lecture on When is Food Ethnic and What does that Imply? Reproducing Inequalities in the Framing of Asian Cuisines.

12 Aug. 2015, 10:00-12:30

ChinaTalks: Professor Wei Ran

Professor Wei Ran on general trends, breakthroughs and enduring challenges in communications research across Asian nations during the dawn of the “Asian Century.”

13 Aug. 2015

NordMedia: Media Presence – Mobile Modernities

Panel on "Media and Communication in Asia in early 21 century: Changes, Continuities, and Challenges"

14 Aug. 2015, 9:30-17:00

The New China: Gender, Class and Everyday life

This seminar focuses on significant intersections of gender, class and new forms of life in 21st century China.

17 Aug. 2015, 16:00-17:30

Seminar: How to drive your business with public affairs/government relations in China

Peter Yan, Public Affairs Director of Rockwool China, will provide a rare and personal insight into his experiences with PA/GR and qualify them in the context of ‘doing business in China’. 

18 Aug. 2015, 11:15-13:00

Urban Renewal and Cultural Imagination in Shanghai

Public lecture by Lena Maria Sheen, Assistant Professor at NYU Shanghai.
Part of the international summer school Urban Culture in Theory and Action

18 Aug. 2015, 9:15-11:00

Transcultural Urban Creativity and Activism in Hong Kong

Public lecture by Minna Valjakka, Ph.D. of the Academy of Finland. 
Part of the international summer school Urban Culture in Theory and Action

11 Sept. 2015, 10:00-12:00

Discussion: New Subaltern Politics

Centre for Global South Asian Studies invites you to a discussion on New Subaltern Politics edited by Alf Gunvald Nielsen and Srila Roy and published by Oxford University Press in 2015.

14 Sept. 2015, 13:30-15:00

CRIC Research Seminar: Embracing Concurrent Realities. Revisiting the Relationship between Human Rights and Conflict Resolution

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14 Sept. 2015, 15:00-17:00

ChinaTalks: China's Foreign Policy - A New Normal?

In the ChinaTalk "China's Foreign Policy - a new normal?", Marc Lanteigne, Senior Research Fellow, NUPI, will discuss the recent trends in China's foreign policy under Xi Jinping.

18 Sept. 2015, 13:30-15:15

Making a spectacle of fisheries: Framing sovereignty in the South China Sea

Lecture by Edyta Roszko, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. 

29 Sept. 2015, 9:00-16:30

ADI research day

Research presentations and discussions.

5 Oct. 2015, 14:00-16:00

CANCELLED - ThinkChina roundtable discussion: How to stabilise Sino-U.S. relations?

With Professor Xiong Zhiyong, China’s Foreign Affairs University (Beijing) - one of China’s most prominent scholars on Sino-U.S. relations and China’s foreign policy and particularly well-informed about Beijing’s foreign policy priorities.

6 Oct. 2015, 10:30-12:00

India-EU partnership and its significance in the 21st century world

Public talk by Anand Sharma, former Union Cabinet Minister in charge of Commerce and Industry and Textiles in the Government of India, and since June 2014 Deputy Leader of opposition in Rajya Sabha.

6 Oct. 2015, 15:00-17:30

Roundtable Discussion: Assessing the state of EU-Taiwan relations

Open roundtable discussion organized by the ThinkChina Working Group on Politics.

7 Oct. 2015, 14:00-17:00

Peter Marcus Kristensen defends his PhD thesis at the Department of Political Science

"Rising Powers in the International Relations Discipline: Sociological Inquiries into a Dividing Discipline and the Quest for Non-Western Theory".

13 Oct. 2015, 10:00-12:00

China's Contested Internet

The Fudan Centre is proud to present a guest lecture by Professor Yang Guobing, University of Pennsylvania, on the subject of his new book, China's Contested Internet.

20 Oct. 2015, 16:00-18:00

Known and Unknown History Between Denmark and Korea

Korean Studies Seminars 2015 by Professor Yi T’ae-jin, Seoul National University.

20 Oct. - 21 Oct. 2015

Two talks by Jan Breman, University of Amsterdam

The first talk is titled Informalizing The Economy: The Return of the Social Question at a Global Level, and the second, Pauperism in India: Past and Present, is a talk on Prof. Breman's forthcoming book.

23 Oct. 2015, 13:10-15:30

Religion and Armed Revolutionary Movements: the Naxalites, Birsa Munda, Christianity and Hindu Sects

Centre of Global South Asian Studies and the Department of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen invites you to a public lecture by Alpa Shah on 'Religion and Armed Revolutionary Movements: the Naxalites, Birsa Munda, Christianity and Hindu Sects’

23 Oct. - 24 Oct. 2015

N-SEA workshop in Helsinki: Security and migration

The second of two workshops on "Demographic changes in Southeast Asia: Regional and international ramifications" organized by ADI and N-SEA – the Nordic Southeast Asia Network.

26 Oct. 2015, 12:00-16:00

Proletarian Nights in the 21st Century

The seminar is structured as a roundtable with each participant offering a 5-10 minutes reflection on aspects of Rancière’s work of particular relevance to today’s debates.

26 Oct. 2015, 14:00-16:00

Guest lecture by Jack Barbalet

Public guest lecture Wealth Migration from Mainland China: International Investor Residency Schemes and Chinese Wealth Preservation by Jack Barbalet, Chair Professor in Sociology, Hong Kong Baptist University

29 Oct. 2015, 17:00-19:00

Spurned Courtesans, Returned Gifts and Invented Pavilions: Convention, Reputation and Mythmaking in Chosŏn-Ming Relations, 1400–1633

Korean Studies Seminars 2015 by Dr Sixiang Wang, University of Pennsylvania.

30 Oct. 2015, 14:00-16:00

Roundtable Discussion: Assessing China’s Eco-cities

Roundtable discussion with Professor Cunkuan BAO - one of China’s leading authorities on eco-cities.

31 Oct. - 1 Nov. 2015

Governance for urban sustainability in China: Challenges and Practices

Workshop on "Governance for urban sustainability in China" at Danish Architectural Centre.

3 Nov. 2015, 13:15-14:15

Processes of Norm Contestation In International Politics: Humanitarian Intervention and Scorekeepers in Global South

Research seminar by Sasikumar S. Sundaram, PhD-candidate from International Relations and European Studies at Central European University, Budapest.

3 Nov. 2015, 14:00-16:00

Celebration of ThinkChina PI, Bertel Heurlin's 80th birthday

Seminar to celebrate ThinkChina PI, Professor Bertel Heurlin's 80th birthday. Speakers include UCPH's Prorector, Lykke Friis and Head of Department, Lars Bo Kaspersen.

4 Nov. 2015, 13:00-16:30

2nd Annual Nepal Workshop

The workshop brings together scholars across departments and disciplines working on Nepal for a debate on the key agendas for research.

4 Nov. 2015, 15:00-17:00

Daniel Beattie - Ikke altid så høflige: Japan set gennem rapmusik

Foredraget giver en introduktion til japansk raps historie, samt hvorledes rapmusik fungerer som et rum for alternative kønsidentiteter og marginaliserede grupper.

9 Nov. 2015, 11:00-13:00

ChinaTalks: Ritual and Sincerity: Theories from China

ChinaTalk by Michael Puett, Walter C. Klein Professor of Chinese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University.

10 Nov. 2015, 10:00-12:00

The Forming of World Subjects: Promoting Intersubjective anthropologies between China and Southeast Asia

Seminar with Associate Professor Haoqun Gong from Institute of Global Ethnology and Anthropology, Minzu University of China. 

11 Nov. 2015, 17:15-19:00

Yenching Academy Introduction Meeting

Introduction to the 1-year master of China Studies Program at Yenching Academy w. John Holden, Associate Dean, Yenching Academy.

12 Nov. 2015, 10:00-12:00

Roundtable: The Clash of Civilizations and Terrorism - Imagination or Reality

Roundtable in the ThinkChina Working Group on Politics with Professor Jiadong Zhang, Center for American Studies, Fudan University

12 Nov. 2015, 16:15-18:00

UNIQLO Store Manager Candidate Program

Come and hear about the opportunities for a one-year training program with Uniqlo. For students with minimum a bachelor's degree.

17 Nov. 2015

PhD course: Travel Writing - Politics, Poetics and Meaning

The Department for Cross Cultural and Regional Studies invites PhD students from across disciplines, including—but not limited to—travel studies, literature, anthropology, sociology, area studies, religious studies, geography, political science, postcolonial studies, history, cartography and semiology to present their work, at any stage it might be, and benefit from individual feedback provided—among others—by the keynote speaker, Prof. Tim Youngs (Nottingham Trent University) and all others present, including senior faculty from our department.

24 Nov. - 25 Nov. 2015

Made in India

Global Stories presents MADE IN INDIA as a lecture performance at the University of Copenhagen; a result of a collaboration between Global Stories and the Section for Theatre and Performance Studies at the Department of Arts and Cultural Studies.

25 Nov. 2015, 10:00-14:00

Seminar with Monika Arnez: The events of 1965 in Sang Penari

The Republic of Indonesia celebrates the 70th anniversary of its independence in 2015, an event that fills the heart of many Indonesian with dignity and joy. However, 2015 also marks the 50th anniversary of an attempted coup d’état and its terrifying consequences, the mass killings of people associated with the Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) and other left-wing organisations.

26 Nov. 2015, 10:00-13:00

Seminar with Monika Arnez: Gender and Islam in Indonesia

In contrast to other countries with a Muslim majority, Indonesia is considered to be moderate with regard to its gender orders.  However, the role of women in Islam is contested, and there are different ways of how gender and Islam play out in debates about women’s agency.

26 Nov. 2015, 12:00-13:00

Asia brown bag lecture: Cecilia Milwertz

NIAS and ADI invite you to a brown bag lecture on Manufacturing the World – the interconnectedness of Chinese workers and Danish consumers by Cecilia Milwertz from NIAS.

27 Nov. 2015, 9:00-12:00

Seminar with Monika Arnez: Disputed Lands

Indonesia is rich in natural resources but at the same time conflicts arise over land rights, ownership and exploitation of resources.

27 Nov. 2015, 10:00-12:00

Digital China - Visions, Negotiations and Experiences

Research seminar by Professor Marina Svensson and Dr Barbara Schulte with an introduction to the interdisciplinary project Digital China based at Lund University.

27 Nov. 2015, 10:00-12:00

Pyar, paap aur politics (love, sin and politics)

Public lecture on "Pyar, paap aur politics (love, sin and politics): Inter-religious love affairs, slum citizenship and community surveillance in two radicalised Indian ghettoes" by Atreyee Sen, Dept. of Anthropology.

27 Nov. 2015, 13:30-15:00

Public talk by Professor Purwo Santoso

"Welfare Regime for Democratizing Indonesia" by Purwo Santoso, Professor of Government, Head of Department of Politics and Government at the Gadjah Mada University in Yogyakarta.

1 Dec. 2015, 15:00-17:00

Economy and Security Landscape of Northeast Asia: Implications for Danish Interests

Lecture by Professor Jong Kun Choi of Yonsei University, Seoul, Korea. Choi works on International Relations theories. He is currently spending a sabbatical year as a visiting scholar at NIAS - Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. 

8 Dec. 2015, 16:00-18:00

’One Belt - One Road’ – and the implications for China-EU relations

ChinaTalk with Senior Policy Fellow François Godement, Director of the Asia and China Programme, European Council on Foreign Relations (ECFR)

10 Dec. - 11 Dec. 2015

Copenhagen China Conference

Conference in Copenhagen featuring China-researchers (from PhD students and onwards) based in Copenhagen and key partners such as Fudan University. 

14 Dec. 2015, 15:00-16:30

Sharing Cities - A Case for Truly Smart and Sustainable Cities

Professor Julian Agyeman and PhD candidate Duncan McLaren will be speaking on the potential and challenges for cities in the race towards sustainability, considering
Copenhagen as one place where a new sharing paradigm is emerging, alongside cities such as Seoul, Medellin and San Francisco.

15 Dec. 2015, 12:00-13:00

Asia brown bag lecture: Stine Puri and Lars Højer

NIAS and ADI invite you to a brown bag lecture with presentations from the collective project Escalations: A Comparative Ethnographic Study of Accelerating Change.