2017

19 Jan. 2017, 14:00-15:30

Chinese Culture in the Modern Globalized World

Guest lecture by Torbjörn Lodén

20 Jan. 2017, 9:30-17:30

TRODITIES: Research Workshop

ERC research workshop 'Trust, Global Traders, and Commodities in a Chinese International City’ to discuss preliminary findings and the future directions of research on Yiwu, China, based on the project participants' fieldwork. 

31 Jan. 2017, 16:30-18:00

Political Parties and Democracy in South Korea

Guest lecture by Erik Mobrand, Graduate School of International Studies, Seoul National University. 

1 Feb. 2017, 15:00-17:00

Roundtable: Scandal in South Korea: Democratic Victory or Cancer in the System?

Presentations by: Hyejin Kim, National University of Singapore; Jinsun Bae, CBS; Erik Mobrand, Seoul National University and Geir Helgesen, NIAS

6 Feb. 2017, 15:00-17:00

More than mouthpieces: The other side to Southeast Asian journalism

SEASS lecture by PhD fellow Emilie Tinne Lehmann-Jacobsen, Department of Media, Cognition and Communication, University of Copenhagen.

3 Mar. 2017, 10:00-12:00

Korean nurse “guest workers” in Germany: Nursing care work as emotional labor

Korean studies talk on Korean nurse “guest workers” in Germany by Yonson Ahn, Goethe University of Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

9 Mar. 2017, 15:15-16:45

JapanSessions: Jakob Halskov og Philip Philipsen

Japanstudier alumne-event med Jakob Halskov, Fronteo Inc. og Philip Philipsen, LanguageWire A/S.

10 Mar. 2017, 14:00-16:00

#Ambassador1Day

SEASS academic meet & greet seminar

10 Mar. 2017, 17:00-19:00

Why do K-pop fans hate Psy's 'Gangnam Style'?

Join us for the next Korean Studies Seminar with Professor Keith Howard, SOAS, University of London.

14 Mar. 2017, 12:30-13:30

Asia brown bag: States of Emergence

ADI and NIAS welcome you to an Asia brown bag talk with Peter Marcus Kristensen from the Dept. of Political Science. 

20 Mar. 2017, 15:00-17:00

Kinas nationale sikkerhedsstrategi – hvad indeholder den og hvad er konsekvenserne for omgivelserne?

Center for Militære Studiers Kinaprogram og ThinkChina.dk inviterer til forelæsning om Kinas sikkerhedsstrategi med Liselotte Odgaard, lektor ved Forsvarsakademiet.

20 Mar. - 21 Mar. 2017

Viewing Each Other

A two-day conference celebrating the 150th anniversary of the treaty between Japan and Denmark

24 Mar. 2017, 15:00-17:00

Courtly Culture and the Question of Cosmopolitanism in Medieval India

Public guest lecture by Dr. Daud Ali, South Asia Studies, University of Pennsylvania.

30 Mar. 2017, 12:30-13:30

Asia brown bag: The independence of NOCs in Chinese foreign policy

Asia brown bag lecture by Kasandra Behrndt-Eriksen: "The independence of NOCs in Chinese foreign policy – looking at the cases of Angola and Sudan".

30 Mar. - 8 Apr. 2017

Food, health and philosophy in East and West 2017

International and interdisciplinary PhD course 'Food, health and philosophy in East and West' taking place in Hong Kong, Shenzhen and Guangzhou.

6 Apr. 2017, 12:30-13:30

Asia brown bag: Legacies of Detention in Myanmar

NIAS and ADI are pleased to invite you to an Asia brown bag lecture by Dr. Andrew M. Jefferson and Dr. Tomas Max Martin from the Danish Institute Against Torture.

27 Apr. 2017, 15:15-17:00

JapanSessions: Toshio’s Movie Castle

Public guest lecture by Dr Shiro Yoshioka, University of Newcastle, who is currently writing a research monograph on the life and works of Miyazaki Hayao.  

28 Apr. 2017, 14:00-16:00

ChinaTalks: China and Russia: Assessing Strategic Convergence

ThinkChina.dk and Center for Military Studies UCPH invite you to ChinaTalks with Professor Lora Saalman, China and Global Security Programme, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute. 

5 May 2017, 13:30-17:30

Cross-Strait Relations and East Asian Peace

Pre-Shanghai Forum 2017 at Asia House organised by Fudan-European Center for China Studies and NIAS-Nordic Institute of Asian Studies. 

11 May 2017, 13:00-15:00

Public Lecture: Labor and Money in Yachen Gar

Talk by Dr. Yasmin Cho on how the invisible labour and economic activities conducted by Tibetan nuns contribute to the contemporary Tibetan Buddhist revivalism in China.

9 June 2017, 14:00-16:30

Award of the Ester Boserup Prizes

Open lectures with the recipients, Timothy Mitchell and Emilija Zabiliūtė: 'How Capitalism Captured the Future' and 'Living with Others: Illness, Health Ecologies and Relations among Urban Poor in Delhi'

10 June - 11 June 2017

Buyer’s Paradise

Buyer’s Paradise - NIAS research project as theatre performance. 

26 June 2017, 10:00-11:00

The politics of the handloom: craft, technology and the modern nation in China and India

Keynote lecture by Professor Francesca Bray, University of Edinburgh, at the 9th annual ADI conference.

26 June - 28 June 2017

ADI Conference 2017

Asia in Circulations, the 9th annual international ADI conference, takes place at the University of Copenhagen on 26-28 June 2017.

27 June 2017, 11:15-12:15

A Mahatma on the March: Towards an Aesthetics of the Ambulatory

Keynote lecture by Professor Sumathi Ramaswamy, Duke University, at the 9th annual ADI conference.

28 June 2017, 11:15-12:15

Southeast Asian Artists' Global Networks

Keynote lecture by Professor Nora Taylor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, at the 9th annual ADI conference.

28 June 2017, 15:30-17:30

Filmscreening: Guli's Children

Filmscreening of 'Guli's Children', a Joe Thomas Karackattu film, at the 9th annual ADI conference.

4 July - 14 July 2017

Newday Summer Course

A 10-days summer course in Lillehammer for students from East Asia and the Nordic countries: NEWDAY – the Nansen East–West Dialogue Academy - Creating better relations by seeking mutual understanding and harmony in diversity.

14 Aug. 2017, 14:15-17:00

Open lecture on health innovation: Engineering Solutions for Health Systems Strengthening

School of Global Health invites you to a lecture with Professor Muhammad H. Zaman, Howard Hughes Medical Institute Professor of Biomedical Engineering and International Health at Boston University. 

7 Sept. 2017, 15:00-16:30

Chinese Literature and the writer in the 21st Century

Four of contemporary China’s most renowned writers: Ge Fei, Bi Feiyu, Yang Hongying, and Dong Xi share their views on modernity in contemporary China’s literature. 

13 Sept. 2017, 14:15-16:00

ChinaTalks: Goodbye iSlave - A Manifesto for Digital Abolition

Guest lecture by Jack Linchuan Qiu, Professor, School of Journalism & Communication, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)

27 Sept. 2017, 15:00-17:00

ChinaTalks: Prospects for the 19th Party Congress and China's Future

Note: NEW VENUE! ChinaTalk with renowned China scholar, Professor David Shambaugh, on the upcoming 19th party congress. 

28 Sept. - 29 Sept. 2017

Care in Asia: beyond and across a clinic

Two-day-workshop on diversified care extended beyond and across a multiplicity of health institutions in Asia.

29 Sept. 2017, 12:15

BBB lecture series: The 'Tibetan' Singing Bowl

The significance of place attachment for a souvenir in motion. Guest lecture by Dr. Emma Martin, University of Manchester.

3 Oct. 2017, 12:00-14:00

Reading Ramayana in present-day contexts

Join us for a public guest lecture by Dr Arshia Sattar from Mahindra United World College of India, Pune.

3 Oct. 2017, 16:00-18:30

Myths and Women in Modern India - How to Understand Sita read from Valmiki’s Ramayana today

Public guest lecture by Dr Arshia Sattar, renowned Indologist, translator, facilitator, author, and director.

6 Oct. 2017, 12:30-13:30

Asia brown bag talk: Sarah Swider

Sarah Swider from  the Dept. of Sociology will give a talk on "Building China: informal and precarious workers in China’s construction industry"

11 Oct. 2017, 14:00-16:00

The Reasons Behind the Rise of Western Europe from an “Indian Perspective”

Public lecture by Dr. Kaveh Yazdani, University of Bielefeld.

19 Oct. 2017, 9:00-12:00

Recent Work in the Prehistory of Southwest Asia

A series of four guest lectures on recent research into the prehistoric archaeology of southwest Asia organized by the Centre for the Study of Early Agricultural Societies.

19 Oct. 2017, 14:30-16:00

Transnational Man: the life and trial of Cho Un Kuk, war criminal

Public guest lecture by Robert Cribb, Professor of Asian History at the Australian National University.

23 Oct. 2017, 13:30-16:30

Fudan-UCPH seminar on Chinese history and historical writing

Afternoon seminar where scholars from Fudan University and the University of Copenhagen meet for a series of enriching talks and discussions on contemporary issues.

26 Oct. 2017, 14:45

The Economization of the Individual - Changes in Buddhist Inspired Practices of Meditation

Public talk with Professor Inken Prohl, Universität Heidelberg

27 Oct. 2017, 10:00-12:00

China’s Local Governance in a Comparative Perspective

The Fudan-European Centre in collaboration with ThinkChina are happy to facilitate a roundtable seminar.

27 Oct. 2017, 16

Technical knowledge in the late Chosǒn dynasty

Guest lecture Dr. Florian Poelking (Ruhr-Universität Bochum).

30 Oct. 2017, 8:30-10:00

The New International Economic Order seen from Japan

Join us for a public talk by Professor Fukunari Kimura, Keio University, Chief Economist at the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA). Kindly register

30 Oct. 2017, 13:00-16:00

Public lecture: Screening of 'Nowhere to Call Home' and Q&A with director Jocelyn Ford

Journalist, filmmaker and educator, Jocelyn Ford provides a rarely heard analysis informed by her 17 years in Beijing, along with suggestions for engaging the next generation on social justice issues.

2 Nov. 2017, 13:00

Inside a contested profession:

Emilie Tinne Lehmann-Jacobsen defends her PhD thesis.

3 Nov. 2017, 14:00-16:00

Public lecture: A Sino-Jewish Encounter, A Humanitarian Fantasy

Public guest lecture with Professor Haiyan about the tens of thousands of European Jews who fled the Nazi genocide to Shanghai. 

4 Nov. - 5 Nov. 2017

Collaboration and Community-Building in Contemporary Art in Japan and Denmark

The seminar will include scholars, critics and artists that have knowledge about or experience with collaborative and community-based art practice in Japan, Denmark, and other places.

6 Nov. 2017, 14:30-16:00

Buddhism, Youth and Economics

Please join us in a new series of research seminars on Religion at Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (ToRS). The second seminar features a presentation by Elizabeth Lane Williams Ørberg.

20 Nov. 2017, 9:00-16:00

Dissertation Workshop: Ethnography of Connections

The workshop critically addresses a number of questions related to new emerging south-south connections in an increasingly globalized world.

20 Nov. - 24 Nov. 2017

NNC Conference 2017

Environmental Asia, the 10th Annual Nordic NIAS Council Conference and PhD Course, takes place at Voksenåsen on 20-24 November 2017.

22 Nov. 2017, 12:30-13:30

Asia brown bag talk: Andreas Møller Mulvad

In his talk Andreas Møller Mulvad predicts that there will be a new popular movement for democracy before the PRC turns 100 in 2049.

22 Nov. 2017, 13:00-16:00

Book Discussion Seminar: Religion as Critique

Book discussion Religion as Critique: Islamic Critical Thinking from Mecca to the Marketplace  with author Dr Irfan Ahmad, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Studies, and scholars from ToRS.

24 Nov. 2017, 13:00-17:30

CECS & CRS Workshop - Towards Pax & Lex Sinica?

The unstable situation in the Western world during the later years has pushed China and relations with China to the forefront of global and geopolitics as well as in international agreements, not least the Paris Accord on Climate Change from 2016, from which the US resigned in 2017.

27 Nov. 2017, 13:15-15:00

Zen and the art of magic, amulets and funerals

Public JapanSessions talk by Jørn Borup, Aarhus University: Zen and the art of magic, amulets and funerals - introduction to Japanese religion past and present.

27 Nov. 2017, 15:00-17:00

ChinaTalks: Rural Land Transfer Reforms and Chinese Urbanization

Migration and China’s Urbanization is not only influenced by hukou system and related institutional/social exclusions in host cities, but also by rural land factors in their sending places. 

27 Nov. 2017, 15:30-17:30

Workshop: Theory and the Anthropocene

Workshop with Professor Nils Bubandt, School of Culture and Society and co-director of Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA), Aarhus University.

27 Nov. 2017, 16:00-18:00

Philosopher Kings and Oriental Despots

Public lecture by Eric S. Nelson, Associate Professor of Humanities, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

27 Nov. 2017, 16:15

The Tear-Drenched Tumen

Public guest lecture by Dr. Jerôme de Wit, Junior Professor in Korean Studies, Universität Tübingen, Germany.

28 Nov. - 29 Nov. 2017

Fairytale & Silk Road: Seminars and Animation Show from the Chinese Film Delegation

A joint event by the Department of Media, Cognition and Communication and ThinkChina, University of Copenhagen.

4 Dec. 2017, 15:15-17:00

JapanSession: Dick Stegewerns

Public guest lecture on the history of Japanese cinema by Dick Stegewerns, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, UiO.

4 Dec. 2017, 16:15

Eating the “Spirit of the Grasslands”

The BBB-lecture series: Public talk with Séagh Kehoe, University of Nottingham, on “Eating the “Spirit of the Grasslands”: ”

8 Dec. 2017, 16:15

Mourning through Protest in Seoul

Public guest lecture by Dr. Liora Sarfati, Department of East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University.

14 Dec. 2017, 9:00-16:00

Conference: Made by China - China’s new era as an innovative nation

Many companies and organizations tend to look to Silicon Valley in the US for new innovation. At the MADE BY CHINA conference, you will learn why you should also look towards China when it comes to invention of new technologies and solutions.

14 Dec. - 16 Dec. 2017

Second Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association

Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies will be co-hosting the Second Annual Conference of the Memory Studies Association at UCPH.

15 Dec. 2017, 10:00-13:00

ChinaTalks: The Birth of a Community Movie-Screening Circuit in Post-Umbrella Movement Hong Kong

ChinaTalks with Evans Chan, one of the most singularly innovative and diverse figures in the Chinese cultural world, with screening of two films films and a lecture on some of the censorship issues created by China’s tightening control of Hong Kong’s political culture.