2020

• 16 Jan. 2020, 13:00-14:30

  Tracking Routes: Imperial Competition in the Late 19th Century Burma–China Borderlands

  Public talk by Gunnel Cederlöf, Professor of History at the Linnaeus University, Centre for Concurrences in Colonial and Postcolonial Studies.

• 27 Jan. 2020, 12:30-13:30

  A New Chapter in Cross-Strait Relations? Lessons from the Taiwan Presidential Elections

  Lunch talk by Arthur S. Ding, Emeritus Professor from the National Chengchi University in Taipei.

• 30 Jan. 2020, 13:00

  PhD defence - Mikkel Dehlholm

  The title of the dissertation is  "Global capitalism and the Rise of the Market-Leninist Developmental State – A methodological globalist analysis of China’s economic and social development since 1978."

• 4 Feb. 2020, 11:00-13:00

  Democracy and its discontents

  A public seminar/teach-in on India’s recent controversial legislation and popular dissent.

• 4 Feb. 2020, 14:00-17:00

  Policing Southeast Asia: Challenges for Field Researchers

  This event features researchers who have been studying how the police operates in Burma/Myanmar, the Philippines and Thailand, and facilitates discussion about the challenges they have faced.

• 12 Feb. 2020, 13:00-15:00

  South Asian Currents: Delhi 2020 – How to Read an Indian Election

  Discussion on how to read the election results and what they reveal about the nature of contemporary Indian politics.

• 12 Feb. 2020, 14:30-17:00

  The hidden history of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century

  Public talk by historian, former diplomat, and presidential advisor, Thant Myint-U on his book ‘The hidden history of Burma: Race, Capitalism, and the Crisis of Democracy in the 21st Century’.

• 13 Feb. 2020, 16:00-17:30

  ChinaTalks: Cold Games - The Emergence of Sino-American Strategic Competition in the Arctic

  Guest lecture with Marc Lanteigne, Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Tromsø: The Arctic University of Norway.

• 18 Feb. 2020, 15:00-17:00

  Pradip Sarkar, tabla maestro and Shubham Sarkar, violin exponent

  Join us for a music event on classical Indian music including performances by renowned artists.

• 21 Feb. 2020, 10:00-11:00

  Transformations of Tibetan Sacred Landscapes: Modernisation, Buddhist Economics, and State Secularism

  Public guest lecture by Anna Sehnalova, Oriental Studies at the University of Oxford.

• 21 Feb. 2020, 12:00-13:30

  Migrants, Minorities, and Populism in Asia

  Lunch lecture by Tom Pepinsky, Professor of Government and Director of the Southeast Asia Program at Cornell University.

• 25 Feb. 2020, 9:15-10:45

  Translation, Transcoding, Code Switching? Linguistic Interfaces in Korean Poetry of Chosǒn times

  Guest talk by Dr. Marion Eggert, Korean Studies, Ruhr University Bochum.

• 10 Mar. 2020, 10:00-16:00

  Re-launch of the Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies

  The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies has returned to UCPH, where it first started. Join us for the re-launch event with presentations by scholars from UCPH, CBS and beyond.

• 12 Mar. 2020, 16:00-17:30

  CANCELLED!! The Meaning and Function of Apologies in Danish and Chinese; Intercultural Clashes and Crisis Communication

  CANCELLED! Public lecture by Xia Zhang from Copenhagen Business School. All are welcome

• 17 Mar. 2020

  CANCELLED! Keeping the ghosts alive: Everyday negotiations with and resistance to illiberal peacebuilding in Indonesia

  The event is postponed until further notice.

• 24 Mar. 2020, 15:00-16:30

  CANCELLED! Falling fertility: a cause for concern?

  CANCELLED! Sustainability lecture on falling fertility rates. Speakers: Prof Hagai Levine, Prof Rémy Slama and Prof Ayo Wahlberg.

• 25 Mar. 2020, 10:00-16:00

  CANCELLED! Ultra-Low Fertility: is reproductive sustainability possible in the 21st century?

  CANCELLED! Sustainability Science Centre and Low Fertility Research Platform present a sustainability symposium on falling fertility rates.

• 2 Apr. 2020, 10:00-11:00

  CANCELLED! The cost of dying alone: Nōkotsudō, memory and the afterlife of human remains in contemporary Japan

  CANCELLED! Center for Contemporary Buddhist Studies invites you to a guest lecture by Dr. Paulina Kolata.

• 3 Apr. - 31 May 2020

  Identities Virtual Symposium: The Viral Condition

  Explore short essays, think pieces, reflections and field notes from the state of the COVID-19 lockdown that help think through the profound social-political effects of this twenty-first century viral condition.

• 23 Apr. 2020, 15:00

  Fighting for Virtue

  Online launch of the book "Fighting for Virtue: Justice and Politics in Thailand", written by Duncan McCargo and recently published by Cornell University Press.

• 6 May 2020, 15:00-16:30

  Virtual Book Talk: Disenfranchised

  Joel Andreas, Professor of Sociology, Johns Hopkins University will present his latest book "Disenfranchised: The Rise and Fall of Industrial Citizenship in China".

• 14 May 2020, 16:00-17:30

  CANCELLED! China Goes Green - Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet

  CANCELLED! ChinaTalk by Judith Shapiro from the School of International Service, American University, Washington, DC.

• 26 May 2020, 14:00-15:00

  Chinese Peace in Africa – Peacekeeper or Peacemaker?

  Virtual book talk with Steven C.Y. Kuo, Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, South Africa.

• 28 May 2020, 11:00-12:00

  Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World

  Virtual book talk in which Daniel A. Bell and Wang Pei will present their latest book Just Hierarchy: Why Social Hierarchies Matter in China and the Rest of the World, published by Princeton University Press.

• 28 May - 29 May 2020

  POSTPONED - SANR 2020

  The 4th annual meeting of "South Asia across the Nordic Region" will take place at the University of Copenhagen.

• 29 May 2020, 11:00-12:00

  Combating COVID-19: The Chinese and Danish Perspectives

  This webinar will feature presentations by Prof. Dr. Zhu Chouwen, Vice President of Shanghai’s Zhongshan Hospital, and Prof. Flemming Konradsen, director of the School of Global Health, University of Copenhagen.

• 27 Aug. 2020, 16:00-17:30

  Book launch: Brand New Nation

  Register here for the virtual book launch of Ravinder Kaur’s "Brand New Nation - Capitalist Dreams and Nationalist Designs in Twenty-First-Century India".

• 3 Sept. 2020, 16:00-17:15

  Book launch: South Asian Sovereignty

  Online book launch of South Asian Sovereignty: The Conundrum of Worldly Power (Edited by David Gilmartin, Pamela Price, Arild Engelsen Ruud).

• 23 Sept. 2020, 18:30-19:30

  Rallying for Democracy? Thailand's Latest Student Protests

  Webinar with NIAS Director Duncan McCargo, Senior Researcher (PRIO) Marte Nilsen, and foreign news journalist and former Asia correspondent for Aftenposten Kristoffer Rønneberg.

• 24 Sept. 2020, 2:00

  What Happened To The 'New Malaysia'? Politics Since The 2018 Elections

  Webinar sponsored by the New York Southeast Asia Network, NYU Wagner and NIAS. NOTE: This virtual event will take place on 24 Sep at 2AM in Denmark.

• 19 Oct. - 20 Oct. 2020

  PhD workshop

  Two-day intensive NNC PhD workshop for doctoral students from various disciplines focusing on a diverse range of Asia related topics. 

• 23 Oct. 2020, 10:15-11:30

  China’s New Minority: Africans in China, Their Identities and Well-Being

  Online seminar with presentations by Padmore Adusei Amoah, Obert Hodz and Roberto Castillo.

• 3 Nov. 2020, 14:00-15:00

  Gender, Resistance and Transnational Memories of Violent Conflicts

  Pauline Stoltz, Aalborg University in conversation with Duncan McCargo, NIAS about transitional justice and memory politics.

• 16 Nov. 2020, 13:30

  Future Forward: The Rise and Fall of a Thai Political Party

  Online launch and discussion of Duncan McCargo and Anyarat Chattharakul's book "Future Forward: The Rise and Fall of a Thai Political Party"

• 18 Nov. 2020, 18:00

  Thailand’s New Political Generation – From Future Forward to Youth Protests

  Forum for Asian Studies webinar with Duncan McCargo, Director of NIAS and Petra Desatova, Postdoctoral Researcher at NIAS.

• 30 Nov. 2020, 18:00

  Thailand's New Political Generation: Forward to the Future?

  Online lecture with Duncan McCargo, NIAS moderated by Andrew Nathan, Columbia University

• 2 Dec. 2020, 14:00-15:30

  East-West Reflections on Demonization

  Virtual book launch of "East-West Reflections on Demonization" edited by Geir Helgesen and Rachel Harrison.

• 4 Dec. 2020, 14:00-15:00

  Against Political Equality: the Confucian case

  Virtual book talk with Professor Tongdong Bai on his newest book ‘Against Political Equality: the Confucian case’.

• 7 Dec. 2020, 16:00-18:30

  Min(d)ing the methods

  Department of Anthropology will host a 2,5 hour debate on the possibilities and possible pitfalls of decolonial methods in the social sciences.

• 16 Dec. 2020, 10:00-13:00

  Yi Ma defends his PhD thesis

  Yi Ma defends his PhD thesis "Soft law implementation in the European Union and in China".

• 17 Dec. 2020, 14:00-15:30

  Forbidden Memory and Rediscovered Images: Violence, Erasure, and the Cultural Revolution in Tibet 

  ADI-Inalco event based on Forbidden Memory by Tsering Woeser, edited and introduced by Robert Barnett. They will be joined by historians and social scientists to discuss political violence, photography and historical erasure.