2021

• 3 Feb. 2021, 12:00-13:30

  Asian Futures

  First in a series of events on Asian futures in the twenty-first-century. Presentations by Asia scholars from the Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

• 4 Feb. 2021, 15:00-16:30

  Making Sense of Myanmar’s 1.2.21 Military Coup

  Academic discussion of the unfolding crisis in Myanmar with Helene Maria Kyed, Stein Tønnesson, Myat The Thitsar, Matthew Walton, and May Sabe Phyu.

• 26 Feb. 2021, 16:00-17:30

  Perils and Promises of Democracies in Southeast Asia

  How has the January 6th event been understood within 5 different Southeast Asian countries with variable levels of democracy: Myanmar, Cambodia, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines.

• 2 Mar. 2021, 15:00-16:30

  Nine-Tenths of the Law. Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia

  Online book launch and discussion of Christian Lund's "Nine-Tenths of the Law: Enduring Dispossession in Indonesia", Yale University Press 2021.

• 4 Mar. - 6 Mar. 2021

  Chronic Living

  International conference on vitality and quality of health in the 21 century. 

• 5 Mar. 2021, 16:00-17:30

  How to Get Published in an Asian Studies Journal

  How do you go about publishing an article in the field of Asian studies? This question and many more will be addressed by experienced editors: Julie Chen, Hyung-Gu Lynn, and Duncan McCargo.

• 15 Mar. - 16 Mar. 2021

  Thailand Update: Protests Revisited

  A two day conference on mass student-led rallies and political protest in Thailand.

• 16 Mar. 2021, 12:00-13:15

  Asian Futures: India's China Challenge

  Asian Futures seminar series: Join us for a virtual talk by Ananth Krishnan and a discussion of his book India's China Challenge - A Journey through China’s Rise and What It Means for India.

• 15 Apr. 2021, 14:00-15:15

  Asian Futures: Making It Count - Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China

  Asian Futures series: Virtual talk by Arunabh Ghosh (Harvard University) and discussion of his book Making It Count.

• 28 Apr. 2021, 15:30-16:30

  Political Violence in Southeast Asia since 1945: Cases from Six Countries

  Online book talk by Eve Zucker and Ben Kiernan.

• 5 May 2021, 15:00-16:30

  The Bishan Commune and the Practice of Socially Engaged Art in Rural China

  Launch and discussion of Mai Corlin's book about the Bishan Commune established in 2011 by artist, editor and filmmaker Ou Ning.

• 10 May 2021, 15:00-16:00

  Perceptions of Climate Change from North India

  A book launch of Aase J. Kvaneid's Perceptions of Climate Change from North India: An Ethnographic Account.

• 19 May 2021, 14:30-16:00

  Unpacking Myanmar's Failed Coup?

  Online roundtable discussion with Ardeth Maung Thawnghmung, Myat The Thitsar, Helene Maria Kyed and Liv Stoltze Gaborit.

• 27 May 2021, 15:45-16:45

  SANR keynote: Nosheen Ali

  Nosheen Ali (NYU) will give the keynote address "Sarzameen-e-Be-Aain (My Land without the Constitution): Nature and Delusion in Gilgit-Baltistan" at SANR 2021.

• 27 May - 28 May 2021

  South Asia across the Nordic Region 2021

  The 4th annual meeting of SANR will be hosted  by the University of Copenhagen. Programme now available.

• 28 May 2021, 13:00-14:00

  Cut, Pleated and Draped - National Dress and Monastic Attire in Bhutan

  Join us online for a talk with Mareike Wulff from Humboldt University, on Bhutanese monastic and national dress in comparison.

• 28 May 2021, 16:00-17:30

  Asian Futures: The Viral Condition

  Panel debate focusing on infrastructures of inequality in relation to vaccines and public health with Dwai Banerjee, Emilija Zabiliute and Ayo Wahlberg.

• 16 June 2021, 10:00-11:30

  Asian Futures: From the Asian to the Indo-Pacific Century?

  Panel discussion with Akio Takahara (Tokyo University), Premesha Saha (ORF) and S.D. Muni (JNU).

• 28 June 2021, 11:30-12:30

  Global China and its Discontents: Lessons from Zambia and Hong Kong

  Ching Kwan Lee, Professor of Sociology, UCLA, will give the inaugural keynote address at the conference "Asia and Africa in Transition" 

• 28 June 2021, 18:00-19:00

  Emerging Economies, International Order and International Law: Continuities, Changes and Challenges

  Professor Uche Ewelukwa Ofodile, School of Law, University of Arkansas will give one of the keynote addresses at the conference "Asia and Africa in Transition"  

• 28 June - 30 June 2021

  Asia and Africa in Transition

  12th annual ADI conference, and 13th NNC conference organized jointly by Asian Dynamics Initiative, NIAS, School of Global Health, Sustainability Science Centre, ThinkChina, Global Development

• 29 June 2021, 11:15-12:15

  Demographic challenges and opportunities in Asia and Africa

  Reiner Klingholz, former director of the Berlin Institute for Population and Development, will give a keynote address at the conference "Asia and Africa in Transition" 

• 30 June 2021, 11:15-12:15

  Deciphering the meantime in an era of climate change

  Jonathan Rigg, Professor in Human Geography, University of Bristol is the final keynote speaker at the conference "Asia and Africa in Transition".

• 9 Sept. 2021, 14:00-16:00

  Asian Futures: After the War

  Roundtable discussion with regional perspectives on Afghanistan by scholars from the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

• 21 Sept. 2021, 15:00

  The Best We Share. Nation, Culture and World-Making in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena

   Join us for a book talk with Christoph Brumann from the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology, Halle

• 23 Sept. 2021, 15:15-16:30

  Taming the City: Urbanisation, Buddhism, and new Religious Topographies in Post-Soviet Buryatia

  Public lecture by Dr. Kristina Jonutytė, Vilnius University organized by the Center for Contemporary Buddhist Studies.

• 13 Oct. 2021, 15:15

  JapanSessions: Kenneth Johansen

  Alumni career talk by Kenneth Johansen, ZeroNorth. 

• 26 Oct. 2021, 12:30-13:30

  Lunch talk: Petra Desatova

  Join us for a talk on "Authoritarian Electoral Management: Lessons from the 2019 Thai election" by Petra Desatova from NIAS. 

• 28 Oct. 2021, 10:15-12:00

  When South Korea Became Super Corporate

  Join us for a talk by Dr. Mike Prentice from University of Sheffield. 

• 3 Nov. 2021, 15:15-17:00

  JapanSessions: Takuya Kondo, Mitsui

  Guest lecture with Takuya Kondo from the Copenhagen branch of Mitsui & Co., Ltd. on Japanese economic and work culture.  

• 4 Nov. 2021, 12:30-13:30

  Lunch talk: Terese Gagnon

  "From Seed Sovereignty to "Self-Reliance": Shifting Relationships Between People and Plants in Mae La Camp" by Terese Gagnon, Postdoc at NIAS. 

• 9 Nov. 2021, 12:00-13:00

  Enlightenment and the Gasping City

  Lunch talk by Dr Saskia Abrahms-Kavunenko on "Enlightenment and the Gasping City: Pollution, Purification and Buddhism in Postsocialist Mongolia".

• 18 Nov. 2021, 12:30-13:30

  Lunch talk: Kuan-Jen Chen

  "The Imminent Proto Cold War Standoff in the Western Pacific Rim, 1945-1949" by Kuan-Jen Chen, Postdoc at ADI and NIAS.

• 26 Nov. 2021, 10:00-12:00

  Sexual Violence & War in East Asia

  Hybrid conference with presentations by Yonson Ahn, Louise Edwards, Na-Young Lee, and Vera Mackie. All are welcome!

• 2 Dec. 2021, 12:30-13:30

  Lunch talk: Myunghee Lee

  "Authoritarian Successor Parties, Their Supporters, and Mass Mobilization: Lessons from Taiwan, South Korea, Mongolia, and Indonesia" by NIAS postdoc Myunghee Lee

• 8 Dec. 2021, 15:15-17:00

  JapanSessions: Karen Ejersbo Iversen

  Public guest lecture "Japan needs to accelerate digital transformation - but how?" by Dr Karen Ejersbo Iversen from the Danish Digitization Agency.

• 9 Dec. 2021, 14:15-17:30

  Annual CJAS event

  The Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies' Event 2021 in honour of Professor Emeritus Jørgen Delman, China Studies, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.