2016

14 Jan. 2016, 12:00-13:00

Asia brown bag lecture: Trine Brox and Miriam K. Zeitzen

Trine Brox and Miriam Koktvedgaard Zeitzen will present the project "Prince Peter and The Third Danish Expedition to Central Asia - 7 years in Kalimpong"

27 Jan. 2016, 12:00-13:00

Music and China’s National Identity

China Lecture with Dr. Chen Yudan (Fudan University) organised by Fudan-European Centre for China Studies. 

8 Feb. 2016, 13:00

Narrating Self and China. Women’s Autobiography in Early Twentieth Century China

PhD defence by Irina Kristensen.

9 Feb. 2016, 12:00-13:30

The Precariat in the Era of Rentier Capitalism - CHANGED VENUE

Public guest lecture by Guy Standing, Professor of Development Studies at SOAS, University of London. Please register no later than 1 February.

10 Feb. 2016, 12:00-13:00

Asia brown bag lecture: Atreyee Sen

NIAS and ADI invite you to the brown bag lecture 'My wife carries a knife!’: Right-wing female militancy and castration/ wounding/masculine anxieties in a Mumbai slum by Atreyee Sen.

11 Feb. 2016, 13:00-16:00

Governing the conflicted commons: Authorising resource access in the Indian tribal belt

Siddharth Sareen, Section for Global Development, Department of Food and Resource Economics, defends his doctoral thesis at the PhD school of SCIENCE.

18 Feb. - 19 Feb. 2016

Evaluating the Early Anthropocene Hypothesis

The conference aims 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.

22 Feb. 2016, 13:00-16:00

Arctic science diplomacy: a case of managing the rise of China

Roundtable with Rasmus Gjedssø Bertelsen. Please register by 19 February.

24 Feb. 2016, 12:00-16:00

Readings in Ayurvedic Sanskrit

Seminar with Professor Tsutomu Yamashita, Kyoto Gakuen University, and Associate Professor Kenneth Zysk, University of Copenhagen.

24 Feb. 2016, 17:00-19:00

The Invention of Taekwondo Tradition

Public guest lecture by Dr Udo Monig, Department of Taekwondo, Youngsan University, Pusan, South Korea

25 Feb. 2016, 16:00-18:00

Exhibition: Life in China's mega cities

Photographer and CEO of the Danish think tank Urban, Niels Bjørn, has visited five Chinese mega cities and documented Chinese peoples' everyday life.

2 Mar. 2016, 15:00-16:30

Redrawing the Global Financial Map - Jin Liqun President of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank

The talk will discuss how the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) can contribute to economic development in Asia. It will also address the opportunities for the European cooperating partners and the possible synergies between AIIB and the Silk Road initiative.

3 Mar. 2016, 10:30-12:00

CANCELLED: Carol Gluck on "Modernity in Common: Japan and World History"

The public guest lecture by Professor Carol Gluck has been cancelled. 

4 Mar. 2016, 17:00-19:00

Dissident Translations

Taking outset in her video installation and film Reiterations of Dissent (2011/15), Jane Jin Kaisen will talk about her extensive artistic research into the political history of Jeju Island, which she began in 2011 with the exhibition project Dissident Translation.

11 Mar. 2016, 17:00-19:00

Codruţa Sîntionean: Heritage Practices during the Park Chung Hee Era: An enduring legacy

In the 1960s-1970s, military dictator Park Chung Hee’s postcolonial government created a very enduring trope about correcting the historical views of the past and establishing a “correct view of the nation”

29 Mar. - 8 Apr. 2016

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.

9 Apr. 2016, 9:00-18:00

International workshop - Understanding the Other Korea: North Korea

One day workshop on North Korea.

13 Apr. - 15 Apr. 2016

International conference: EAKLE

International three day conference/workshop: EAKLE (European Association for Korean Language Education). 

13 Apr. 2016, 19:00-21:00

Daniel Bell: The China Model

Book Launch of Daniel Bell's new book: The China Model

14 Apr. 2016, 13:00-15:45

NEW VENUE: Political Seminar: Is democracy better than meritocracy?

NEW VENUE: Seminar with Daniel Bell and Theresa Scavenius

18 Apr. - 20 Apr. 2016

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 are organizing a joint Yonsei-Copenhagen workshop on 18-20 April.

19 Apr. 2016, 13:00-15:00

The Dystopia of Health Governance and Moral Rule in Post-coup Thailand

Public guest lecture by Daena Funahashi, Assistant Professor, Aarhus University. 

20 Apr. 2016, 13:00-15:00

Progress and its Ruins: Ghosts, migrants and the uncanny in Northern Thailand

Public guest lecture by Andrew Alan Johnson, Assistant Professor, Yale-NUS College.

20 Apr. 2016, 13:00-15:00

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. 

25 Apr. 2016, 14:00-15:30

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.

26 Apr. 2016, 16:00-17:00

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.

27 Apr. 2016, 17:00-19:00

Engaging the Senses in the Tibetan tantric "Major Practice Session" (sgrub chen)

Guest lecture by Cathy Cantwell, Oriental Studies, University of Oxford.

27 Apr. 2016, 9:00-11:00

History Inside Globalization - Spatial Power and Inequity in Asia

Public lecture by Professor David Ludden, New York University.

28 Apr. 2016, 14:00-16:00

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).

29 Apr. 2016, 17:00-19:00

Linguistic Representation of the Sewol Ferry Disaster - A Corpus-based Analysis of Headlines from Two Korean Newspapers

Public guest lecture by You-Kyung Ju, SOAS, the University of London

2 May 2016, 14:00

PhD defence - T. Kasandra Behrndt-Eriksen

Tanja Kasandra Behrndt-Eriksen, Dept. of Political Science, defends her PhD thesis "Chinese Energy Companies’ Acquisitions Abroad. Implications for the Foreign Policy of an Authoritarian State."

2 May 2016, 17:00-19:00

Desiring Denmark: Danish Living in the Social Imagination of Koreans during Colonial Korea

Guest lecture by Albert L. Park, associate professor of history at Claremont McKenna College (Claremont, CA) and the Co-Principal Investigator of EnviroLab Asia at the Claremont Colleges.

3 May 2016, 10:00-12:00

ChinaTalks Lecture Series: 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. 

13 May 2016, 14:00-16:00

JapanSessions: Career Talk with Carina Bastlund Woollhead

Carina Woollhead presents her experience with life beyond academia

19 May 2016, 12:00-13:30

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, discusses China’s hardening stance in the South China Sea.

20 May 2016, 9:30-11:00

Public lecture - What does China's "New Normal" mean for local governments?

The Economist's Mary Boyd, Director, Economics Corporate Network Shanghai, presents and discuss the conclusions of the recently published report 'Opening the books'.

26 May 2016, 13:15-15:00

Public guest lecture: Participative Mapping for the Urban Poor of Jakarta

Yantri Dewi will be giving 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.

26 May 2016, 15:00-17:00

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.

26 May - 27 May 2016

Art & Politics in Postwar Japan

The conference will focus on art and politics in Japan in the period 1945-1975 in order to provide a foundation for scholars and general audiences to gain insights into the artistic and political situation of Japan in the immediate postwar period.

8 June 2016, 15:00-16:30

Book launch: Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan

Join us for a talk with Gitte Hansen, Newcastle University, who will present her latest book "Femininity, Self-harm and Eating Disorders in Japan".

17 June 2016, 12:15-14:15

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’ – is concerned with the lives of workers in China and discusses how consumers in Denmark may relate to the life of people who produce our smartphones.

17 June 2016, 14:30

An Anthropology of -isations

Department of Anthropology invites you to join Professor MSO, Ayo Wahlberg's inaugural lecture.

20 June - 22 June 2016

ADI Conference 2016

Locating Asia beyond, and within, its territoriality, the 8th international ADI conference explores historical connections, circulations and contentions that produce Asia within a global epistemic frame. The conference will feature keynote addresses, roundtables and panels across disciplines, temporalities and themes in the study of Asian dynamics.

23 June 2016, 13:15-15:00

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, will give a SEASS lecture on identity and religion in Indonesia.

29 June 2016, 13:00

Public PhD defence: Emilija Zabiliute

Emilija Zabiliute defends her PhD dissertation "Living with others: Subjectivity, relatedness and health among urban poor in Delhi".

12 Aug. 2016, 14:00

PhD defence: Andreas Møller Mulvad

Andreas Møller Mulvad defends his PhD thesis "Hegemonic Projects. Interventions on the Politics of Communist Elite Legitimation in China, 2008-2015". 

23 Aug. 2016, 14:00-16:00

Vested interest in Chinese politics

Open roundtable event on 'vested interests' in Chinese politics with Professor Yu Zheng, Fudan University and Professor Jørgen Delman, University of Copenhagen.

24 Aug. 2016, 15:30-17:00

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.

25 Aug. 2016, 12:00-13:00

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" 

29 Aug. 2016, 10:00-12:00

Roundtable discussion: Chinese grandparents' contribution in the upbringing of young children in China

The discussion will be led by Dr. He Min from the Preschool Education Department at East China Normal University (ECNU). 

29 Aug. 2016, 15:00-16:30

China Lecture: Governing the Arctic and Antarctic

Public guest lecture by Professor in International Law Chen Li from the Law School of Fudan University.

5 Sept. 2016, 14:00-15:30

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. All are welcome.

5 Sept. 2016, 15:00-17:00

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.

6 Sept. 2016, 15:00-17:00

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.

8 Sept. - 9 Sept. 2016

Symposium: Ways of Overlooking

This symposium is an invitation to focus on the multiple ways of looking and overlooking that entangle and make everyday life. Seats are limited registration is required.

9 Sept. 2016, 14:00

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.

12 Sept. 2016, 9:30-12:00

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. 

12 Sept. 2016

PhD Workshop: Ethnography of Connections

The workshop critically addresses a number of questions related to fieldwork methodologies in an increasingly interconnected world.

20 Sept. 2016, 16:15-18:00

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" 

22 Sept. - 24 Sept. 2016

13th Korean Studies Graduate Students Convention

The conference aims to give graduate students in all Korea-related fields an opportunity to present their research, share academic interests, and strengthen ties with other junior scholars.

27 Sept. 2016, 15:00-17:00

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

29 Sept. 2016, 15:00-16:30

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.

29 Sept. 2016, 17:00-19:00

Open seminar: Beef, Barbeque, and Nationalism

Open seminar with PhD Anders Riel Müller, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies

30 Sept. 2016, 10:00-17:00

Fudan Day: China’s New Diplomacy and the voices from below

Join us for an informal Fuday Day Event where colleagues from Fudan University and University of Copenhagen discuss China’s New Diplomacy and the voices that are emerging from below through Chinese social media. 

4 Oct. 2016, 16:30-18:00

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.

11 Oct. 2016, 13:00-14:30

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.

12 Oct. - 14 Oct. 2016

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.

17 Oct. 2016, 12:00-14:00

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.

24 Oct. 2016, 12:15-14:00

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.

25 Oct. 2016, 15:15-17:00

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"

31 Oct. 2016, 15:00-16:00

How the most vulnerable countries are leading the world to tackle climate change

Lecture by Dr. Saleemul Huq, International Institute for Environment and Development, Bangladesh. about how the most vulnerable countries are leading the world to tackle climate change.

1 Nov. 2016, 10:00-12:00

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

4 Nov. 2016, 12:30-14:00

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.

7 Nov. - 11 Nov. 2016

9th Nordic NIAS Council Conference and PhD Course

Nordic Asian Studies in the 21st Century – Stocktaking for the Future, a conference with focus on current tendencies and future prospects for Asian studies within the Humanities and the Social Sciences. 

9 Nov. 2016, 10:00-11:30

The Ebola Crisis and China’s Search for a Role as a Responsible Great Power

As part of the ChinaTalks, we are proud to present Barry Buzan, Professor of International Relations, LSE.

10 Nov. 2016, 13:15-15:00

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. All are welcome.

11 Nov. 2016, 10:00-12:00

Talking with the Pakistani Taliban

Lecture by Mona Kanwal Sheikh, PhD, Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS).

11 Nov. 2016, 16:00-18:00

Cheonghak Dong – beliefs and life style

Public Korea Studies Lecture by independent scholar Dorrit Wagner. The lecture is in Danish.

15 Nov. 2016, 15:15-17:00

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"

22 Nov. 2016, 14:15-16:00

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.

24 Nov. 2016, 16:00-18:00

Neighbourhood as social and commercial space in South Korea

Public Korea Studies Lecture by Antti Leppänen, PhD, University of Turku, Finland: "Neighbourhood as social and commercial space in South Korea: the self-employed and the ideology of communality"

25 Nov. 2016, 13:15-15:00

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.

1 Dec. 2016, 13:00-15:00

The Politics of Reform: Peoples Liberation Army under Xi Jinping

As part of ChinaTalks, we are proud to present You Ji, Professor of International relations and Head of Department of Government, University of Macau, PRC.

2 Dec. 2016, 10:15-16:45

Temporariness, circularity, mobility: internal migration and social citizenship in Europe and China

Workshop organised by the Dept. of Political Science. Open to interested scholars, but registration is required.

5 Dec. 2016, 10:00-12:00

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 

7 Dec. 2016, 15:00-17:00

Math and Melody in Indian Science

Guest lecture by Prof. Ramasubramanian, IIT Bombay, Cell for Indian Science and Technology in Sanskrit, Department of Humanities and Social Sciences.

8 Dec. 2016, 15:30-18:30

Innovation and Entrepreneurship – with a Sino-Danish twist

The UCPH China Staff Association is pleased to invite colleagues at the University of Copenhagen to our annual event, which, this year focuses on innovation and entrepreneurship.

14 Dec. 2016, 12:30-13:30

Asia brown bag lecture - Sanae Suzuki

Newly arrived guest researcher at NIAS, Sanae Suzuki, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization (JETRO), will be presenting on "Conflict management by regional organizations".

16 Dec. 2016, 11:00-12:30

Europe in Crisis

Chinese Perspectives on European Crisis and the Common Environmental Crisis.

16 Dec. 2016, 13:30-15:30

OPEN SEMINAR: 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.