Archive

23 Mar. 2018, 9:00

Workshop: The Housing of Technology in Art

The workshop aims to explore the intersections and tensions between art and technology in the early modern era.

21 Mar. 2018, 10:30

The Nomos of World Literature

Public lecture by Prof. Aamir Mufti, University of California, Los Angeles. Note: location change to meeting room 4th floor

19 Mar. 2018, 18:00

Japan’s Gay Empire: Wartime Militarism and Sex Tourism on the Korean Peninsula

Talk by Dr. Todd A. Henry (UCSD), Associate Professor, Modern Korean/East Asian History, Director, Program in Transnational Korean Studies

16 Mar. 2018, 15:00-17:00

Film screening of 'My Father's House' and Q&A with filmmaker Zhao Dayong

ThinkChina presents the Chinese filmmaker, Zhao Dayong, who will be screening the movie "My Fathers House", which offers a rare glimpse into an immigrant African community in China. 

14 Mar. 2018, 10:00-12:00

Beastly Identification: separating out innocent from murderous big cats in South Asia

Public talk by Nayanika Mathur, Associate Professor in the Anthropology of South Asia, University of Oxford. Emerging Worlds Series organized by Centre of Global South Asian Studies.

8 Mar. 2018, 15:00-17:00

ChinaTalk: China and the Re-Centering of Asia

ThinkChina and the Department of Political Science invite you to a Chinatalk by Professor Brantly Womack, University of Virginia.

7 Mar. 2018, 15:00-17:00

ChinaTalk: The Silk Road Trap - How China Damages Europe's Position in the Global Order

ThinkChina and Centre for Military Studies at University of Copenhagen invite you to a Chintalk by Jonathan Holslag, on the Belt and Road Initiative and its consequenses for Europe's position in the global order.

6 Mar. 2018, 15:00-17:00

Asymmetric Parity and the Allison Trap

Guest lecture with professor Brantly Womack, University of Virginia on the asymmetric rivalry of the U.S. and China, and his concept of the "Allison Trap".

2 Mar. 2018, 10:15-12:00

Surveilled, re-educated and assimilated on the New Silk Road. China’s continued Muslim Challenge in Xinjiang

Public talk by Ildikó Bellér-Hann and Rune Steenberg. The talk will provide an insight into the current state of affairs in Xinjiang against a historical backdrop and address the extreme difficulties faced by local people in everyday life.

28 Feb. 2018, 13:30-15:00

The New Geopolitics of Gas

Guest lecture by Dr Agnia Grigas. In her critically acclaimed book The New Geopolitics of Natural Gas, Dr Grigas argues that we are in the midst of an energy revolution. How does this new reality influence the strategic relations amongst the US, the EU, Russia and China?

27 Feb. 2018, 16:00-17:30

Energy- and Geopolitics in China and USA

Public lecture by Professor Jørgen Ørstrøm Møller organized by ThinkChina, the Danish Foreign Policy Society and the Centre for Military Studies.

23 Feb. 2018, 15:15

From Logogram to Phonogram: A Sumero-Japanese Comparison

Public guest lecture by Dr. Fumi Karahashi from Ancient Oriental Studies, Chuo University, Tokyo.

23 Feb. 2018, 13:30-17:30

Japan Alumni and Researcher Assembly 2018

The assembly aims to promote networking within the Japan-related research communities in Denmark, and to provide a forum for Danish and Japanese researchers, business people and students to meet, discuss new ideas, and to promote Japan-related research and student scholarships.

23 Feb. 2018, 11:00

How India Became Democratic

Public talk by Dr Ornit Shani, Senior Lecturer, Department of Asian Studies, University of Haifa. Emerging Worlds Series organized by Centre of Global South Asian Studies (time changed to 11:00)

16 Feb. 2018, 13:00-17:00

Fake News/Bullshit in Time and Space

Seminar addressing themes of ‘fake news’ and ‘bullshit’ from a range of different disciplinary angles, as well as cultural and regional-historical perspectives

8 Feb. 2018, 12:30-13:30

Death in the Philippines: corruption, drugs and contraception

Asia brown bag talk by Steffen Jensen, DIGNITY and Dept. of Culture and Global Studies, Aalborg University and Astrid Krabbe Trolle, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, UCPH

6 Feb. 2018, 11

India's Role in Asia-Pacific and the World

Centre for Global South Asian Studies and Dept of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, are pleased to invite you to a talk by Mr. Ajit Gupte, Ambassador of India to Denmark.

31 Jan. 2018, 14:00-15:30

Comparative perspectives on the transformation of religious space in China

Public event with professor Fan Lizhu and Chen Na of Fudan University, who will each be giving a lecture on the transformation of religious space in China.

30 Jan. 2018, 12:30-13:30

Asia brown bag talk: Lai Sze Tso

Lai Sze Tso, Global Health and Medical Humanities Initiative, MIT on Using innovative technologies to improve personal and community health--with China as a case-study .

19 Jan. 2018, 11:00-13:00

China in International Economic Law: New Horizons

This seminar is a highly focused, open seminar with top international experts, commenting on most recent developments regarding China in international economic law.

17 Jan. - 18 Jan. 2018

International Conference "China in International Economic Dispute Resolution"

Major international conference with globally renowned academics and practitioners who will offer in-depth analyses of China’s contemporary policies and involvement in trade, investment, commercial and energy disputes.

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.

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.

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.

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”: ”

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.

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.

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.

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, 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, 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, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

2 Nov. 2017, 13:00

Inside a contested profession:

Emilie Tinne Lehmann-Jacobsen defends her PhD thesis.

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.

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

27 Oct. 2017, 16

Technical knowledge in the late Chosǒn dynasty

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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"

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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)

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. 

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

10 June - 11 June 2017

Buyer’s Paradise

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

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'

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.

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. 

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. 

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.  

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.

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.

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.

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

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. 

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.

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

#Ambassador1Day

SEASS academic meet & greet seminar

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.

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

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.

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

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. 

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. 

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

Chinese Culture in the Modern Globalized World

Guest lecture by Torbjörn Lodén

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.   

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

Europe in Crisis

Chinese Perspectives on European Crisis and the Common Environmental Crisis.

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".

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.

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.

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 

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.

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.

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.

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"

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.

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"

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.

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

Talking with the Pakistani Taliban

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

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.

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.

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. 

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.

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

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.

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"

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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

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.

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

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.

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" 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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). 

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" 

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.

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.

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". 

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".

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.

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.

17 June 2016, 14:30

An Anthropology of -isations

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

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.

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".

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 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 - 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.

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'.

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.

13 May 2016, 14:00-16:00

JapanSessions: Career Talk with Carina Bastlund Woollhead

Carina Woollhead presents her experience with life beyond academia

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. 

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.

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."

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

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

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

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

Daniel Bell: The China Model

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

13 Apr. - 15 Apr. 2016

International conference: EAKLE

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

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

International workshop - Understanding the Other Korea: North Korea

One day workshop on North Korea.

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.

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”

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

8 Feb. 2016, 13:00

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

PhD defence by Irina Kristensen.

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. 

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"

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.

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.

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. 

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)

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. 

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.

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, 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, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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

ADI research day

Research presentations and discussions.

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. 

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.

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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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.

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

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

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’. 

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.

13 Aug. 2015

NordMedia: Media Presence – Mobile Modernities

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

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.”

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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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?

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"

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.

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"

4 June 2015, 9:30-11:00

ChinaTalks: Andrew Scobell

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

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.

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

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

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. 

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

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.

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

28 Apr. - 29 Apr. 2015

New India's World

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

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

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”.

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.

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.

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?

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

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”.

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.

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

Himlens Søn og Velstandsguden: Religion i Kinas historie

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

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.

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. 

2 Mar. 2015, 12

Lunch seminar by Assistant Professor Jun Liu

12.00-13.00 at NIAS

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

Four more years for Abe

Lunch lecture at NIAS by freelance journalist Asger Røjle Christensen.

10 Dec. 2014, 9:00-16:30

Law and Transitional Society: Chinese and Global Perspective

Conference on the Chinese legal system's response to social transition and the role China plays in the global legal environment.

5 Dec. 2014, 8:30-19:30

Financing the future - Analytical and policy challenges in Europe, China and in an interdependent world

International conference in honour of Niels Thygesen "Financing the future - Analytical and policy challenges in Europe, China and in an interdependent world". The conference will bring together academic, central bank and other financial sector economists working in areas of macroeconomics and finance.

5 Dec. 2014, 14:00-16:00

ToRS Urban Studies - Urban Culture Lab

Urban Culture Lab is a cross-faculty, interdisciplinary initiative to map, develop and publicize urban studies at Copenhagen University’s Faculty of Humanities. 

2 Dec. 2014, 14:00-16:00

State Failure and Civil Society Efforts in Addressing Historical Injustice in Indonesia

Public guest lecture by Dr. Vannessa Hearman, Acting Head of the Department of Indonesian Studies at the University of Sydney, Australia.

2 Dec. 2014, 10:15-12:00

Who can be killed with impunity and who cannot be impugned in Thailand

Public guest lecture by Tyrell Haberkorn, Department of Political and Social Change at the School of International, Political, and Strategic Studies, Australian National University.

28 Nov. 2014, 19:00

Not by Love Alone - The Violin in Japan, 1850-2010

Book launch with lecture and recital by Margaret Mehl, hosted by the Dansk-Japansk Selskab

26 Nov. 2014, 17:00-19:00

Grundtvig's Dream has come true in Korea

Korean Studies Seminar 2014 at Copenhagen University by Ambassador Young-sam Ma, Embassy of the Republic of Korea (Denmark).

20 Nov. 2014, 13:15-15:00

Yiwu: Arab Supermarket or Global Trading Centre? Perspectives from the Afghan Diaspora

Public guest lecture by Professor Magnus Marsden, University of Sussex, on the significance of the Chinese city Yiwu for the global trade in low-grade commodities.

18 Nov. 2014, 12:00-13:00

Lunch lecture by Dr Atreyee Sen

Lunch lecture by Dr Atreyee Sen, University of Manchester, on Torture and laughter: Political incarceration and the art of performing happiness in an urban Indian prison.

12 Nov. 2014, 12:00-13:00

Asia brown bag lecture: Ravinder Kaur

ADI and NIAS invite you to a lunch lecture on Remixing History - Some Notes from Post-Exotic India by Ravinder Kaur from the Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

11 Nov. 2014, 13:00

PhD defence by Nikolaj Vendelbo Blichfeldt

Nikolaj Vendelbo Blichfeldt defends his PhD thesis "Making Sense of Climate Change - Encounters with Low-Carbon Life in an Urban Community in China".

6 Nov. - 7 Nov. 2014

PhD course: Comparative Studies in Migration and Memory

Students with varied disciplinary interests from across the humanities and social sciences are welcome to attend. Registration deadline: 3^rd October. Abstract submission deadline: 24 October.

6 Nov. 2014, 14:15-16:00

Monks and milk mothers

Public guest lecture and video screening by Dr Rita Langer, Buddhist Studies, University of Bristol.

5 Nov. 2014, 15:00-17:00

Lecture on the early Buddhist ideas about "final liberation"

How only Buddhists can stop thinking and get away with it: a theory of ‘the attainment of cessation’ (nirodha-samāpatti) in early Buddhist literature. By Rupert Gethin, University of Bristol

24 Oct. 2014, 16:15-17:00

Keynote lecture by Willem van Schendel

As part of the 6th Intl. ADI Conference Intra-Asian Connections: Interactions, flows, landscapes Professor Willem van Schendel will be giving a keynote lecture entitled "Mapping Quirky Linkages: Asia beyond the continental straitjacket".

23 Oct. 2014, 16:15-17:00

Keynote lecture by Adam T. Smith

As part of the 6th Intl. ADI Conference Intra-Asian Connections: Interactions, flows, landscapes, Professor Adam T. Smith delivers a keynote lecture entitled "Barbarians, Backwaters, and the Civilization Machine: Integration and Interruption Across Asia's Early Bronze Ages."

22 Oct. 2014, 15:15-16:00

Keynote lecture by Shalini Randeria - cancelled!

Cancelled - As part of the 6th Intl. ADI Conference "Intra-Asian Connections: Interactions, flows, landscapes" Professor Shalini Randeria will give a keynote lecture entitled "Travelling norms and transnational entanglements".

22 Oct. 2014, 10:45-11:45

Keynote lecture by Prasenjit Duara

As part of the 6th Intl. ADI Conference  Professor Prasenjit Duara will give a keynote lecture entitled Circulatory and Competitive Histories: Temporal Foundations for Cosmopolitan Theory.

22 Oct. - 24 Oct. 2014

Intra-­Asian Connections: Interactions, Flows, Landscapes

The 6th annual International ADI Conference spans three days and features distinguished keynote speakers as well as interdisciplinary panels emphasizing intra-Asian connections.

21 Oct. 2014, 13:00-15:00

States of Democracy - Some Perspectives from India

Centre for Global South Asian Studies is pleased to invite you to a public lecture by Dr. Aniket Alam.

13 Oct. - 17 Oct. 2014

8th Annual NNC Conference and PhD Course: A Multitude of Encounters with Asia - Gender Perspectives

The 8th Annual NNC Conference and PhD course will take place from 13-17 October 2014 at the University of Iceland. Deadline for submitting abstracts: 1 June 2014.

8 Oct. 2014, 14:15-16:00

Guest lectures by Daniel A. Bell and Xiao Jialing

Two leading specialists on Chinese affairs, Dr. Daniel A. Bell from Tsinghua University in Beijing and Dr. Xiao Jialing from Fudan University in Shanghai will share their perspectives on China’s new forms of governance and foreign policy process.

7 Oct. 2014, 14:15-16:00

China Talks: Ding Chun

China Talk on "The New Horizon of China's Socioeconomic Development" by Professor Ding Chun, Fudan University.

7 Oct. 2014, 10:00-12:00

Caste in Contemporary India by Surinder Singh Jodhka

Centre of Global South Asian Studies is pleased to invite you to a debate seminar to release a new book on Caste in Contemporary India by Surinder Singh Jodhka.

3 Oct. 2014, 13:15-15:00

Confucianism to Save the World! China Talk by Dr. Bai Tongdong

Confucianism to save the world! The cultural messages of a rising China, and how a Confucian hybrid regime can address issues that democracies are not structured to  address.

2 Oct. 2014, 12:00-13:00

Asia brown bag lecture: Ayo Wahlberg

NIAS and ADI invite you to a brown bag lecture on Routinising reproductive technologies in China by Ayo Wahlberg from the Department of Anthropology.

30 Sept. 2014, 14:15-16:00

Restless Urban Landscapes in China - China Talk by Dr. Shen Jie

Restless urban landscapes in China - Examining the effects of urbanization and urban lifestyles in post-reform China 

25 Sept. - 26 Sept. 2014

Southern Futures: Thinking Through Emerging Markets

Two-day workshop that critically traces the idea and the moment of 'emerging markets' within the broader history of the South. Leading international scholars will attend, among others John Comaroff and Jean Comaroff, Achille Mbembe, David Goldberg, and Keith Hart.

16 Sept. 2014, 12:30-14:00

The European Union's Pivot to Asia

Guest lecture at the Centre for European Politics by Professor Philomena Murray from the University of Melbourne.

12 Sept. - 14 Sept. 2014

Cultural Connections Between ancient Mesopotamia and India

Three-day conference on Mesopotamia, the 'land between the rivers'.

11 Sept. 2014, 12:00-13:00

Asia brown bag lecture: Anders Blok

NIAS and ADI invite you to another brown bag lecture on Asia. Worlding cities through their climate projects? Urban ecological experiments in Europe and Asia by Anders Blok, Dept. of Sociology.

10 Sept. 2014, 13:15-15:00

China Talks: Ou Ning

"Bishan Project: Cultural Production and Social Engineering". Ou Ning, Chinese thinker, artist, editor, and activist will give a talk about Bishan Commune, an art community founded by him in 2010, where artists and intellectuals advocate for ruralism and anarchism.

4 Sept. 2014, 13:00-15:00

Consumer Citizenship, Food Practices and Social Aspirations

Public guest lecture by Amita Baviskar, Institute of Economic Growth, University of Delhi. Organized by the Centre of Global South Asian Studies.

25 Aug. 2014, 14:15-16:00

China Talks: Dr. Shen Yifei

"The iFamily: Self, Family and State in the Risk Society" by Dr. Shen Yifei, Department of Sociology, Fudan University.

14 Aug. 2014, 12:30-13:30

Harmony in Sino-Western Joint Ventures in China: the Role of Guanxi and Constructive Controversy

Lunch lecture at NIAS by Dr. Nancy Chen, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

4 Aug. - 15 Aug. 2014

Summer School: The Chinese Dream

Anthropological Approaches to Understanding Contemporary China. Summer School at the University of Copenhagen (week 32+33) organised by the Dept. of Anthropology and ADI.

20 June 2014, 17:00

Japanese One Man Comedy Show (Rakugo)

We are proud to present Master Tōgetsuan Hakushu, one of the most popular “rakugo-ka” (rakugo actor) in Japan today.

17 June 2014, 12:00-13:00

Asia brown bag lecture: Chunrong Liu

NIAS and ADI invite you to the first of a series of brown bag lectures on Asia. Governing China’s Urbanization by Chunrong Liu, Fudan-European Centre for China Studies

11 June 2014, 15:00-17:30

China Talks: Professor Yu Kongjian

China Talks: Sustainable Urbanization in China.

10 June 2014, 10:00

The Long Ride Mission arrives at ToRS

How come breast cancer in Asian women has risen sharply during the past decades? Why do Asian women often fail to seek treatment until it is too late? What are the cultural impediments in relation to breast cancer?

2 June 2014, 15:00-16:30

The 2014 General Elections in India: Results and Consequences

Three India observers and a student of democracy will share their observations and expectations: Rasmus Fonnesbæk Andersen, Jeppe Matzen, Mrutyuanjai Mishra, and Kenneth Bo Nielsen.

27 May 2014, 15:00-18:30

Public guest lectures: Ideology Post Cold War

Two public guest lectures: Prof. Dr. Vedi Hadiz on Class and Islamic Populism and Dr. Carool Kersten on Indonesian and Islamic Studies.

27 May 2014, 13:00

PhD defence by Wenjie Li

Wenjie Li defends her PhD thesis "A Study of Chinese Translations and Interpretations of H.C. Andersen's Tales: History and Influence".

27 May 2014, 12:15-13:30

Confronting caste-based sexual violence in India

Discussion led by Asha Kowtal, the General Secretary of the All India Dalit Women’s Rights Forum, and filmmaker Thenmozhi Soundararajan.

27 May - 28 May 2014

PhD Seminar: Ideology Post Cold War

Leftism, Political Islam, Authoritarian Nationalism, and its Convergences/Divergences: the Future of Political Ideology in Indonesia and the Global South and its Regionalizations. NEW APPLICATION DEADLINE: 19 May 2014
The panel on 27 May and the guest lecture on 28 May with Prof. Dr. Vedi Hadiz (Murdoch University, Perth) and Dr. Carool Kersten (King's College, London) are open to the public. 

21 May 2014, 13:00-15:30

Confrontation in Asia? The United States, China and its neighbors

The US and China and the managing of the Asian regional order by Prof. Robert Ross, and alliance policies and the Asian regional order by Associate Prof. Wang Dong.

12 May 2014, 14:15-16:00

China Talks: Professor David Lampton

Coping with Calamities: China’s Leaders and the Dilemmas of Reform by Professor David Lampton, Director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.

12 May 2014, 10:15-12:00

Asian Security Dynamics: Energy Vulnerabilities, Military Capabilities and New Structures of Decision Making

Public guest lecture by Professor Michael Wesley organised in collaboration with the Australian Embassy. Michael Wesley is Professor of National Security and Director of the School of International, Political and Strategic Studies at the Australian National University. Kindly register by 9 May.

9 May 2014, 17:00

PhD Thesis Defence: Jacob Ki Nielsen

Public defence by Jacob Ki Nielsen: Fictions of Kinship: Representations of Multicultural Family-making in the South Korean Cine-and dramascape. Supervisor: Jørgen Delman

9 May 2014, 15:00-17:00

Won Il: My compositions and work

Korean Studies Seminar: Won Il, Artistic Director of the National Orchestra of Korea talks about his compositions and work.

8 May 2014, 17:00-19:00

South Korean Cinema: Finding Success in the Post-Cinematic Era

Korean Studies Seminar with Professor Kyung Hyun Kim, University of California at Irvine.

8 May - 9 May 2014

PhD seminar and public lectures: Place in the Global South

The PhD seminar aims to examine how everyday practices, political processes and power relations produce places in the Global South. Keynote Lectures (open to the public) by: Ursula Rao, professor, Leipzig University & John Gledhill, professor, University of Manchester.

6 May - 7 May 2014

PhD Course: Environmental History and Identity

This PhD workshop is open for all those who are interested in looking at different cultural groups, and situating them within their surrounding landscape, and to rethink and reconceptualise the study of environment and identity. Keynote speaker: Dr Timothy P. Barnard, National University of Singapore.

5 May - 7 May 2014

Copenhagen Master Class in Gender and Body Dynamics

Professor Aihwa Ong, UC Berkeley, US, is keynote speaker and main discussant at the first Copenhagen Master Class in Gender and Body Dynamics. The course is composed of two lectures and two dialogue sessions over three days. The lectures are open to the public.

2 May - 3 May 2014

Urban Life Across the Globe - Provincializing 'the Western Metropolis'

The purpose of this mini-seminar is to inspire debates on ways to conduct nuanced and truly global studies of urban culture and politics.

30 Apr. 2014, 14:15-16:00

China Talks: Richard Herd

China Talks: How long can China's economy continue to grow rapidly? Demographic and environmental challenges.

25 Apr. 2014, 17:00-19:00

New Perspectives on Korean History: the Role of Elite Descent Groups

Korean Studies Seminar with Professor Martina Deuchler, Professorial Research Associate, SOAS, University of London.

9 Apr. 2014, 13:00-15:00

Human Rights and India's Diversity

Public guest lecture by Susan Vishvanathan, Professor of Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University.

8 Apr. 2014, 14:15-16:00

Gender Dynamics of Politics in Asia from a Comparative Perspective

Public guest lecture by Chiharu Takenaka, Professor at the College of Law and Politics, Rikkyo University.

5 Apr. 2014, 9:30-17:00

Sustainability Without Borders? Energy in Asia and the World

An international student conference about Asia’s current and future developments in sustainable energy generation, the manufacturing of goods and how demographic changes and consumer habits may affect these parameters.

3 Apr. 2014, 14:15-16:00

China Talks: Anthropologist Vanessa Fong

Paradise Redefined: Transnational Chinese Students and the Quest for Flexible Citizenship in the Developed World - Seminar co-hosted by Dept. of Anthropology, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, and ThinkChina.dk

3 Apr. 2014, 13:15-15:00

China and gender group meeting

The China/gender group has researcher and PhD student members from the humanities, law and social sciences faculties, UCPH. The group meets to discuss the work of members and to exchange information on China/gender research related activities.

27 Mar. 2014, 15:00-17:00

Indonesia's Democracy and the Road to Elections 2014

Public debate on the topic of Indonesia's elections in 2014 organised by the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia in Copenhagen in cooperation with NIAS and NISN. Kindly register by 25 March.

26 Mar. 2014, 14:15-16:00

China Talks: Professor David Zweig

Staying in Power: Why the Communist Party of China Will Continue to Rule - public guest lecture by Professor David Zweig, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.

25 Mar. 2014, 15:00-17:00

Multiculturalism in Indonesia Today

Public guest lecture with Professor Azyumardi Azra organised jointly by the Embassy of the Republic of Indonesia and ADI. NOTE: Change of venue

25 Mar. 2014, 11:00-13:00

Roundtable: Is anyone listening? Authority and authenticity in a fragmented public sphere

Centre of Global South Asian Studies is pleased to invite you to a roundtable with: Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen, Kristin Veel, Nils Holtug, Ravinder Kaur (moderator), Thomas Blom Hansen, William Mazzarella.

25 Mar. - 27 Mar. 2014

Designing Robots - Designing Humans

A three-day public seminar on how robots will engage human beings as learners and cultural beings in the future. The first day of the seminar focuses on 'Robots in Japan'. Registration deadline: 21 March.

24 Mar. 2014, 13:00

Who the Hell Do the Censors Think They Are?

Public guest lecture on Publicity and Censorship in Bombay Cinema by William Mazzarella, Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences, University of Chicago.

21 Mar. 2014, 17:00-19:00

Trade, Sex, and Diplomacy

Boundaries and images of Japan in Chosŏn Korea and boundaries and images of Korea in Tokugawa Japan. Korean Studies Seminar with Dr James B. Lewis, University of Oxford.

21 Mar. 2014, 14:00-16:00

The Sacrificial Self - Recasting Renunciation in South Asia

Centre of Global South Asian Studies is pleased to invite you to the Honorary Professor Inaugural Lecture "The Sacrificial Self - Recasting Renunciation in South Asia" by Thomas Blom Hansen.

21 Mar. 2014, 14:00-16:00

The Rise of China's Military Forces: How much is enough?

Conference organised by the Centre for Military Studies. Presentations by analyst Dennis J. Blayko (former senior fellow, National Defense University in Washington D.C.), and Liselotte Odgaard, Royal Danish Defence College. 

14 Mar. 2014, 17:00-19:00

K-Pop and the foundations of Korean Wave

Korean Studies Seminar with Professor Keith Howard, SOAS University of London.

13 Mar. 2014, 13:15-15:00

The Future of the Left in Southeast Asia

Public guest lecture by Dr Walden Bello, senior analyst of the Bangkok-based institute Focus on the Global South and professor of sociology at the University of the Philippines.

7 Mar. 2014, 13:15-14:30

Shinzo Abe and Japan's New Nationalism

Presentation IN DANISH by Asger Røjle Christensen, experienced journalist and writer in the field of Asia, especially Japan.

7 Mar. 2014, 10:00-12:00

Fieldwork in the Humanities

Presentation by Mark Philip Stadler, PhD fellow, ToRS/ADI: "New Ideologues. The Development of Alternative Political Ideology and its Effects on Social Change in Post-Suharto Indonesia".

4 Mar. 2014, 17:30-19:30

Japan's Emergence as a Musical Power: The Introduction of Western Music in Nineteenth- and Early Twentieth-Century Japan

Associate professor Margaret Mehl from Japanese studies at ToRS examines the rise of western style classical music in Japan and the causes of Japan's worldwide influence on classical music today. Registration is required.

21 Feb. 2014, 17:00-19:00

Uses and Abuses of Ancient History in South Korea

Korean Studies seminar with Dr Vladimir Tikhonov (박노자) University of Oslo.

21 Feb. 2014, 16:00-18:00

Japan's Ise Shrines - Ancient yet New

Public lecture by Svend M. Hvass. The Ise shrines are rebuilt every 20 years, and Svend Hvass has had the privilege of following the many preparations and ceremonies accompanying the 62nd reconstruction.

3 Feb. 2014, 15:30-18:00

Global Careers - MSc in Security Risk Management & MSc in Global Development

At this event you will have the chance to get more information about the two new Master's programmes, hear about career opportunities and talk to the teachers from the two programmes.

31 Jan. 2014, 1 pm (doors will be closed after this time)

PhD defence - Stine Simonsen Puri

Stine Simonsen Puri defends her PhD thesis "Speculation in Fixed Futures - An Ethnography of Betting in between Legal and Illegal Economies at the Delhi Racecourse".

27 Jan. 2014, 16:00-17:30

Guest lecture by Dr. Otsuka Natsuhiko

NIAS invites you to an afternoon with Dr. Otsuka, a Japanese specialist on the Northern Sea Route. The event "Will the Northern Sea Route see a bright tomorrow" is a part of the ongoing NIAS research project "Asia and the Changing Arctic".

23 Jan. - 24 Jan. 2014

Japanese Photography from the Meiji period

A 2-day seminar about Japanese photography from the Meiji period and its rich cultural historical and artistic significance.

16 Dec. 2013, 15:00-17:00

US Rebalancing Policy and China-India Relations, including maritime issues (by invitation only)

Talk by Dr. Satu Limaye, director of the East-West Center in Washington, DC, on China-India relations in light of US rebalancing, followed by roundtable discussion.

12 Dec. 2013, 10:15-12:00

Law Reform in Pakistan

Public guest lecture by Dr. Osama Siddique, Department of Law & Policy, Lahore University of Management Sciences.

10 Dec. 2013, 8:30-18:15

Law and Art: European And Global Perspectives

Workshop organized by Centre for European Constitutionalization and Security, Faculty of Law & Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Faculty of Humanities.

5 Dec. 2013, 15:30-19:30

Emerging Priorities of the Xi-Li Administration

NOTICE: TODAY'S EVENT "EMERGING PRIORITIES OF THE XI-LI ADMINISTRATION" HAS BEEN POSTPONED DUE TO THE STORM FORECAST

5 Dec. 2013, 10:00-12:00

China's Overseas Resource Extraction

Seminar with Dr. Jill Shankleman: China’s growing demand for resources has led to large-scale investments in oil, gas, and mining industries across the world. But what are the social, political, and environmental challenges of these activities, and how are they being addressed?

4 Dec. 2013, 14:15-16:00

Dalit Political Mobilization and Cultural Identity Politics

Public guest lecture by Dr. Heinz Werner Wessler, Department of Linguistics and Philology (Indology) at Uppsala University.

29 Nov. 2013, 15:00

PhD defence - Annette Thorsen Vilslev

Annette Thorsen Vilslev defends her PhD thesis "Affective World Literature. The Continuity of Consciousness in the Literary Theory and Novels of Japanese Writer Natsume Sõseki"

26 Nov. 2013, 14:30-15:45

Beggars of Lahore - film screening by Sheba Saeed

Dr. Sheba Saeed, PhD from Birmingham University and director of the film will talk about her work and answer questions after the screening.

21 Nov. 2013, 14:15-17:00

Prophecy and Protest in the Age of Globalization

Guest Lecture by Professor Torkel Brekke, Pembroke College, Oxford

20 Nov. 2013, 16:15-17:00

Spinning a Yarn - A Tapestry of Danish Colonial Narratives?

Guest lecture by Josefine Baark, Department of History and Art, University of Cambridge organized by ToRS and the Tranquebar Initiative of the National Museum.

7 Nov. - 8 Nov. 2013

Social Mobility and Inequality in post-reform India

International conference in Delhi on 7-8 November jointly organised by University of Copenhagen and University of Delhi.

6 Nov. 2013, 10:15-12:00

Agency and Social Change: What Value Heritage?

Public guest lecture by Professor Amareswar Galla, Executive Director of the International Institute for the Inclusive Museum. The lecture is organised by the Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. All are welcome.

4 Nov. 2013, 15:15-16:45

The Idea of Science in Modern China

CECS is hosting a series of international lectures on Global Constitutional Struggles this autumn. Our second guest is Wang Hui, who will speak on The Idea of Science, the Reclassification of Knowledge and the Question of Culture in Modern China.

4 Nov. - 8 Nov. 2013

7th Annual NNC Conference

This year's NIAS/NNC conference and PhD course "The Power of Knowledge: Asia and the West" will take place at SDU on 4-8 November 2013. Deadline for submitting abstracts is 20 October 2013.

29 Oct. 2013, 10:15-12:00

Rabindranath Tagore's Rural Reconstruction Experiment: Present Intervention

Public guest lecture by Dr. Sujit Kumar Paul, Associate Professor at the Department of Lifelong Learning and Extension at Visva Bharati University.

25 Oct. 2013, 9:00-17:00

Concept India Competences

As part of the UCPH India Action Plan, Asian Dynamics Initiative invites academic and administrative staff at UCPH working with India to participate in the course Concept India Competences.

24 Oct. 2013, 11:15-13:00

Money, Marriage, and Gender: Dowry in India

Public guest lecture by Dr. Ranjana Sheel, Department of History at Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, India.

9 Oct. 2013, 1:15-3:00

Against the Consensus - Reflections on the Great Recession

Guest lecture by Professor Justin Lin, Peking University (Beida) organised by DERG, Department of Economics.

23 Sept. 2013, 2:30-5:30

The Balance of Power in Asia

The Centre for Military Studies invites you to participate in the seminar: "The Balance of Power in Asia".

10 Sept. 2013, 9:45

Copenhagen South Asia Workshop 2013

Annual Copenhagen South Asia Workshop (CSAW) on 10th September 2013 with keynote address by Professor Kavita Philip, University of California, Irvine and special session with Indian Ambassador to Denmark Niraj Srivastava.

6 Sept. 2013, 14:00

Inauguration Lectures in Social Anthropology

This year the Department of Anthropology has appointed three professors. Colleagues, students, family and friends are invited to a joint inauguration event held by the three new professors: Tine Gammeltoft, Henrik Vigh and Morten Axel Pedersen. 

2 Sept. 2013, 1 pm

The Fukushima Nuclear Disaster and Democracy in Japan: Attempting to Harmonize Diverse Voices

Guest lecture at NIAS by Mikiko Eto, Professor of Political Science, Hosei University.

20 Aug. 2013, 10:00

Building to feel - Space and emotion in Delhi in the 1840s

Guest lecture by Professor Dr. Margrit Pernau, Center for the History of Emotions, Max Planck Institute for Human Development, Berlin.

15 Aug. - 24 Aug. 2013

State Formation, State Development, and State Challenges. Denmark and South Korea compared

Summer school at the Dept. of Political Science on "State Formation, State Development, and State Challenges. Denmark and South Korea compared", 15-24 Aug 2013.

11 July 2013, 1 pm - precisely

Public Defence of PhD Thesis: Katja Rangsivek

Katja Rangsivek, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, defends her PhD thesis "TRAKUN, POLITICS AND THE THAI STATE".

2 July 2013, 11:00-14:00

PhD defence - Nina Elisabeth Torm

Nina Torm, Department of Economics, defends her PhD thesis “Firms and Workers in Transition: A Series of Micro Studies on Vietnam”.

17 June 2013, 9:15-11:00

China's cities and climate change

The workshop explores sustainable city development in China, presenting three cases from Hangzhou and Shanghai that relate to China’s attempted transition towards a low-carbon society. Registration is required.

13 June - 14 June 2013

Growth: Critical Perspectives from Asia

ADI's 5th international conference 13-14 June with keynote lectures by Professor Edward Farmer and Professor Danny Quah as well as interdisciplinary panels on green growth, cultural growth, ecomonic growth and more.

10 June 2013, 10:00-12:00

Guest Lecture: Queer Filmmaking and Queer Politics in Contemporary China

Public lecture by Dr Hongwei Bao, Lecturer in Asian Media, Nottingham Trent University, UK and visiting researcher at NIAS 10-14 June 2013. (New venue)

30 May 2013

Photo Exhibition: How to Win Elections in Indonesia?

Photo exhibition by Vera Altmeyer running from 30 May to 31 August 2013 in the Faculty Library of Social Sciences. Extended online version of the exhibition, featuring photographs, videos and other visual material at NIAS Lincs Asiaportal InFocus Blog.

24 May 2013, 14:00

PhD defence by Rune Bolding Bennike

Rune Bolding Bennike defends his PhD thesis "Governing the Hills. Imperial Landscapes, National Territories, and Production of Place between Naya Nepal and Incredible India".

23 May 2013, 16:00

Global Lectures - Ha-Joon Chang

Ha-Joon Chang, Cambridge University, will give a talk in the Global Lectures series on 23 thing they don’t tell you about capitalism - and what they mean for our economic prospects.

17 May 2013, 12:15-14:00

Pre-defence seminar: Fictions of Kinship. Representations of the Multicultural Turn in (S) Korean Cinema and TV Drama

Most welcome to the third pre-defence seminar at ToRS where we will discuss 
Jacob Ki Nielsen’s project: Fictions of Kinship. Representations of the Multicultural Turn in (S) Korean Cinema and TV Drama. 

16 May 2013, 9:00-12:30

Howard Goldblatt and Sylvia Lin: keynote lectures on 'World Literature and the World of Literature'

Prof. Howard Goldblatt, University of Notre Dame and Prof. Sylvia Lin, University of  Notre Dame gives public keynote lecture for PhD course 'World Literature and the World of Literature'.

3 May 2013, 13:00-15:30

Late Neolithic, Multi-species Resettlement Camp as a template for 'Development'

Public lecture by Professor James Scott, Yale University, organized by the Centre of Global South Asian Studies and the Centre for Development Research, UCPH.

2 May 2013, 13:15

Double lecture by Surinder Jodhka and Anna Lindberg

CGSAS invites you to a double lecture: Indian Village in neoliberal times: Changing Economies, Power and Identities by Surinder Singh Jodhka, JNU and Paradise Limited: Marriage and Dowry in Kerala by Anna Lindberg, Lund.

29 Apr. 2013, 14:15

The Folk Memory Project: Talk and film screening with filmmaker Wu Wenguang

Wu Wenguang, China’s pioneering independent documentary filmmaker and co-founder of the Caochangdi Workstation in Beijing, will present his ‘Folk Memory Project’.

23 Apr. 2013, 12:30-14:00

Religious Extremism and Modernity - Mapping the New Pakistan

Centre of Global South Asian Studies and the Swedish Network of South Asian Studies (SASNET) are pleased to invite you to a public lecture by Ayesha Siddiqa. PLEASE NOTE: Venue has changed.

18 Apr. 2013, 9:00-10:30

Prospects for China's foreign policy

China has a new leadership, but what bearing will this have on Beijing's foreign policy priorities, if any? This talk by dr. Linda Jakobson, a leading scholar in the field, explores the prospects for China's post-transition foreign policy. 
Registration required.

18 Apr. 2013, 18:30

Between tradition and modernity: Socialist development among the Uyghurs of Xinjiang

Talk by Ildikó Bellér-Hann, associate professor at the Department of Cross-Cultural based on her latest fieldwork and research.

18 Apr. 2013, 15:15-17:00

Newness, Ritual and Globalization in Urban Hindu Temple Publics

Public lecture on "Newness, Ritual and Globalization in Urban Hindu Temple Publics" by Tulasi Srinivas, Associate Professor of Anthropology at Emerson College, Boston.

18 Apr. - 19 Apr. 2013

Network of South East Asian Studies

Founding meeting for Danish scholars working on Southeast Asia as a first step towards building a Scandinavian Network of South East Asian Studies. (Participation by invitation)

17 Apr. 2013, 14:00-17:00

Conference on China's Arctic ambitions

Conference on China's ambitions in the Arctic region with dr. Linda Jakobson, the East Asia Program Director at Lowy Institute for International Policy, as the keynote speaker, and a panel of scholars on issues pertaining to China and the Arctic. Registration is required. 

16 Apr. 2013, 14:00-15:00

Copenhagen climate change seminar

Mohamed Nasheed, the former Maldives President, will give a talk on 'How can we build a carbon neutral world economy?'

15 Apr. 2013, 14:00

Chinese media and the 4th estate

Guest lecture by PhD student Laura Dombernowsky, Department of Culture and Society, Section for Asian Studies, University of Aarhus.

15 Apr. - 16 Apr. 2013

Opening of Fudan European Centre for China Studies at UCPH

A new and exciting collaboration between Fudan University, Shanghai, and University of Copenhagen has resulted in the establishment of a new China centre at UCPH, the first of its kind in Europe. The opening will be celebrated over two days, with the conference “Creative Spaces: Seeking the Dynamics of China’s Development” and an opening ceremony. Registration is required.

11 Apr. 2013, 9:15-11:00

Stranded Britons: Hong Kong and Falkland Islanders at Empire's End

Seminar on "Stranded Britons: Hong Kong and Falkland Islanders at Empire's End" with Mark Hampton, Lingnan University and Ezequiel Mercau, University of Copenhagen.

8 Apr. 2013, 14:15-16:00

A Tale of Two Amnesties: 6 October 1976 and the misplacement of accountability in Thailand

Guest lecture by Tyrell Haberkorn, research fellow at the Department of Political and Social Change, Australian National University.

4 Apr. 2013, 15:00-17:00

China's leadership and the consequences for China's political system

A leading scholar on human rights in China, Dr. Zhang Wei is the co-director of Institute of Human Rights at China University of Political Science and Law. Registration required.

2 Apr. 2013, 10:15-12:00

From World History to World Literature: Reflections on a New Comparative Method

Public lecture by Professor Shu-mei Shih, UCLA. All are welcome!

21 Mar. 2013, 14:15-16:00

The Passion for God in Gendered Islamism

Pre-defence seminar of Iram Asif's project The Passion for God in Gendered Islamism. A Study of Education, Authority and Jihad in the Red Mosque and Jamia Hafsa in Urban Pakistan.

15 Mar. 2013, 13:00-16:30

AMIS inauguration

Official opening of the Centre for Advanced Migration Studies (AMIS) on 15 March 2013 at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Copenhagen.

28 Feb. 2013, 14:00

Mumbai as Dreamscape: Poverty, Media, Property

Public Lecture by  Prof. Arjun Appadurai,  Department of Media, Culture, Communication, New York University

28 Feb. - 2 Mar. 2013

Speculation in India: Imaginaries of Indian economies

3-day seminar on speculation - including keynote lecture by Prof. Arjun Appadurai.

27 Feb. 2013, 11:00-12:00

Low Carbon Green Growth Strategy In East Asia in Practice: A Critical Review

Seminar at NIAS with Dr. Akihisa Mori, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Global Environmental Economics, Kyoto University

26 Feb. 2013, 3 pm

Materializing Culture: Design, Technology and Community in an Artisanal Textile from India

Guest lecture by Aarti Kawlra, Fellow at the International Institute of Asian Studies, Leiden, Netherlands.

20 Feb. 2013, 14:00-15:00

Asia and Europe Connected: Asia in Europe, Europe in Asia

Lecture by Dr. Byung H. Kim, Korean Ambassador to Denmark. The lecture is followed by a reception.

11 Feb. 2013, 13:00

PhD defence by Jun Liu

"Mobilized by Mobile Media. How Chinese People use mobile phones to change politics and democracy" PhD defense by Jun Lui.

7 Feb. 2013, 12:00-14:00

Narrativity and Indian Historiography

Guest lecture by Anthony Cerulli, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, NY, and Research Fellow at Institut d'Études Avancées de Paris.

6 Feb. 2013, 15:00-17:00

Tradition-Making and Education in Modern Ayurveda

Guest lecture by Anthony Cerulli, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges, NY, and Research Fellow at Institut d'Études Avancées de Paris.

29 Jan. 2013, 12:00-18:45

China Studies: PhD Workshop

Six PhD students present their papers on a number of subjects ranging from low-carbon life in Dongpingxiang to urban activists in rural China.

17 Dec. 2012, 16:00-17:45

ThinkChina.dk - Green Growth

ThinkChina.dk is organizing an event on development of renewable energy technologies and solutions in China and opens the floor to discussions on what Denmark's part in this process could be.

13 Dec. - 15 Dec. 2012

Selective reproductive technologies – routes of routinisation and globalisation

Keynote speakers: Sarah Franklin, University of Cambridge - Lene Koch, UNICPH - Rayna Rapp, New York University - Margaret Sleeboom-Faulkner, University of Sussex.

11 Dec. 2012, 10:00-12:00

Chinese Literature and the Writings of Exile

Guest lecture "Chinese Literature and the Writings of Exile" by Chinese writer Ma Jian.

7 Dec. 2012, 13:00

PhD defence - Peter Damgaard

Peter Damgaard defends his PhD thesis "Visions in Exile. Inroads to a 'Counter-System' of Contemporary Chinese Literature".

7 Dec. - 8 Dec. 2012

State regulation and social capital – comparative approaches to India and Denmark.

Workshop "State regulation and social capital – comparative approaches to India and Denmark", 7-8 December 2012. Deadline for submitting abstracts (max 250 words) 10 November.

4 Dec. 2012, 14:00-16:00

Growth and Fall of Environmental Values

Two lectures on Chinese thoughts about climate challenges in past and present by China studies associate professor Bent Nielsen and China studies professor Jørgen Delman.

3 Dec. 2012, 15:00

Valg på kinesisk

Bliv klogere på kinesisk politik og landets nye ledere, når Københavns Universitet og Politiken inviterer til debat om det kinesiske magtskifte.

29 Nov. 2012, 14:00-15:30

The Global Crisis and the Impact on Emerging Economics

Sustainability Science Centre invites to a talk by Dr. Kaushik Basu, Chief Economist of the World Bank. Registration is necessary.

27 Nov. - 30 Nov. 2012

China's Economy and Society: Regional and global implications of a growing Chinese influence

Annual NNC conference and PhD course organised by NIAS, the Center for Markets in Transition (CEMAT) and the Department of Management and International Business at Aalto University School of Business.

22 Nov. 2012, 15:15-17:00

Shadows, Zombies, and Animated Weapons in Kashmirian Tantra

Guest lecture by David Gordon White, University of California, Santa Barbara.

20 Nov. 2012, 15:15-17:00

On Food and Commensality

ADI and ToRS invite you to a series of late afternoon lectures this autumn. The third double-lecture will be on Food and Commensality by Manpreet Janeja and Stig Toft Madsen.

16 Nov. 2012, 14:00-16:00

Seminar on "The Act of Killing"

Seminar at DIIS on the documentary "The Act of Killing". Note: The film will not be screened at the seminar.

15 Nov. 2012, 19:30

Guest lecture by Dr. Pattana Kitiarsa

Of Men and Monks: Boxing-Buddhism Nexus and the Production of National Manhood in Contemporary Thailand by Dr. Pattana Kitiarsa, National University of Singapore, jointly hosted by the Asian Dynamics Initiative and the Department of Cross-cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen.

5 Nov. 2012

Abandoned places. Atmospheres of ruins and ghost towns

Seminar to explore the role of abandoned places as sites that offer a lens into people’s perception of past and future.

29 Oct. 2012, 14:15-15:30

NATO after Afghanistan

Seminar at the Centre for Military Studies. All are welcome. Registration is required.

26 Oct. 2012, 14:15-16:00

Mini-course on Ayurvedic Medicine in India (part III)

The treatments used in Ayurveda, with some practical demonstration of basic diagnosis techniques, where students can participate.

25 Oct. 2012, 15:15-17:00

Mini-course on Ayurvedic Medicine in India (part II)

On the Ancient Indian Massage Technique "Chavuttithirumal". Note: new venue

23 Oct. 2012, 15:15-17:00

On Pilgrimages and Chariot Festivals

ADI and ToRS invite you to a series of late afternoon lectures this autumn. The second double-lecture will be on Pilgrimages and Chariot festivals by Erik R. Sand and Peter B. Andersen.

22 Oct. 2012, 13:00-15:00

Mini-course on Ayurvedic Medicine in India (part I)

Basic principles and the history of Ayurveda in India.

16 Oct. 2012, 13:00

PhD defence by Karen Asta Arnfred Vallgårda.

Karen Asta Arnfred Vallgårda defends her PhD thesis "Bringing Children into the Fold. Danish Missionaries in Colonial South India 1864-1918".

5 Oct. 2012, 14:00

Governing the Global Economy: States, Networks, and the Rise of East Asian Economies

Guest lecture by Professor Henry Wai-chung Yeung, PhD, Professor of Economic Geography at the National University of Singapore.

3 Oct. 2012, 14:00-16:00

Writing Transcultural Spaces

Seminar and readings with scholars on Indian literature and two Indian writers: Mridula Garg and Githa Hariharan as part of the India Today/Copenhagen Tomorrow programme.

25 Sept. 2012, 9:30-12:30

Workshop on Japanese research tools

Workshop on Japanese online research tools held at the Faculty Library of Humanities, Amager, Copenhagen. The workshop will be a demonstration of three of the most important Japanese databases and a presentation of Japanese e-books.

24 Sept. 2012, 16:00-18:00

Writers Exchange, Denmark - India

As part of the India Today/Copenhagen Tomorrow project the University of Copenhagen and Gyldendal are organizing a panel discussion between three Indian and three Danish writers.

20 Sept. 2012, 2pm

The clash of nationalisms in Northeast Asia

Roundtable event on the 2012 Diplomatic Dispute between China-­Japan at the Department of Political Science.

17 Sept. 2012, 9:30-17:30

Copenhagen South Asia Workshop 2012

The 4th annual CSAW is entitled "Worlds of South Asia". The aim is to showcase the wide variety of worlds – social, political, cultural, financial, developmental, historical, mythical, regional and/or global assemblages – that make the idea of South Asia.

11 Sept. 2012, 15:15-17:00

On Ayurveda and Yoga

ADI and ToRS invite you to a series of late afternoon lectures this autumn. The first lectures will be on Āyurveda and Yoga by Ken Zysk and Anusuya Kumar.

5 Sept. 2012, 15:00

PhD defence - Dan Hirslund

Dan Hirslund will defend his PhD thesis "Sacrificing Youth - Maoist Cadres and Political Activism in Post-war Nepal".

3 Sept. 2012, 14:00-17:00

Imaginaries of Modern India

Seminar at Aarhus University on "Imaginaries of Modern India" with Saloni Mathur and Ravinder Kaur.

31 Aug. - 1 Sept. 2012

Workshop: Sikh Identity Formations

Two day Nordcorp workshop on "Sikh Identity Formations" from 31 August. First day is open for all.

29 Aug. - 30 Aug. 2012

Spectacle of Globality

India’s makeover as a global power calls for a rethinking of theoretical debates and discourses of belonging, citizenship, national identity, popular politics and the contested place of its colonial past in this present moment of globality. Two-day workshop addressing the social-political processes at work in shaping India as a global power.

22 Aug. - 24 Aug. 2012

Rethinking Japanese Studies from Practices in the Nordic Region

Nichibunken’s Overseas Symposium from 22-24 August 2012. The symposium will take place at UCPH and is co-organised by The section of Japanese Studies (ToRS) and ADI, University of Copenhagen.

10 Aug. 2012, 2pm

The Rise of China and how to deal with it

Public lecture at the Dept. of Political Science. “How to assess the Rise of China empirically and theoretically? Chinese soft power – is there a Beijing model being promoted?” by Dr. Shogo Suzuki, University of Manchester and “6 truths from 2006 - the search for a post-financial crisis paradigm for globalization and interaction with China” by Former Associate Prof. Tim Mondorf, UCPH.

10 Aug. - 1 Sept. 2012

Gender and Body Dynamics Denmark-China

Summer school in August 2012 on 'Gender and Body Dynamics Denmark-China' in Copenhagen and Beijing. Applications must be submitted by 10 June 2012.

1 Aug. - 10 Aug. 2012

Summer school: The Rise of China in Domestic, Regional and Global Contexts

The Department of Political Science is organizing a summer school on "The Rise of China" from 1-10 August 2012. Application deadline: 1 May 2012.

27 June 2012, 13:00-15:00

The Innovation of a Chinese School of IR

At this CAST Research Seminar a forthcoming book chapter entitled "'You need to do something that the Westerners cannot understand' - The Innovation of a Chinese School of IR" by Peter Marcus Kristensen and Ras Tind Nielsen will be discussed.

25 June - 26 June 2012

The Internationalisation of Dalit and Adivasi Activism

Luisa Steur, Dept. of Anthropology, is co-organsing a conference on 'Internationalisation of Dalit and Adivasi activism'. The conference will take place in London. Deadline for registration is 18th June 2012.

19 June 2012, 10:00-12:00

What's next for democracy in Myanmar?

Join us for a public debate on what the future holds for democracy in Myanmar, and what the past year's reforms may mean for the country's media. Panel debate with editor in chief of Democratic Voice of Burma and a high-ranking representative of the Myanmar government.

13 June 2012, 14:15-16:00

Political Functions of Security Speech in the People’s Republic of China

Guest lecture on the relationship between security arguments and social mobilization in the People’s Republic of China by Juha Vuori, University of Turku. Organized by the Centre for Advanced Security Theory (CAST).

11 June 2012, 16:00

Burma book launch

Book launch at NIAS Press: The Authority of Influence : Women and Power in Burmese History by Jessica Harriden.

10 May - 12 May 2012

Kashgar Revisited

3-days' workshop from 10-12 May 2012 in commemoration of the 10th Anniversary of the Death of Ambassador Gunnar Jarring.

2 May - 3 May 2012

Rising Asia, Anxious Europe

The 4th international ADI conference will take place at the University of Copenhagen on 2-3 May 2012. There will be keynote addresses by Prof. Peter van der Veer, Prof. Ulrich Beck, Isabel Hilton, Prof. Wang Gungwu, and Prof. Aihwa Ong.

29 Mar. 2012, 12:00-13:30

Japan's African Policy: An Overview of A Century of Japan-Africa Relations

NIAS and Nitteian Kenkyukai are hosting a workshop on "Japan's African Policy: An Overview of A Century of Japan-Africa Relations" with Professor Jun Morikawa from Rakuno Gakuen University, Japan.

8 Mar. 2012, 13:00-16:00

Symposium Commemorating '311'

One Year On: A Symposium Commemorating '311', the Great East Japan Earthquake of 2011. What challenges have the Japanese faced over the past year? How are they coping with and responding to them? What did they learn? What insights and implications can they share with us, and what can we share with them?

24 Feb. 2012, 14:00-17:00

PhD defence by Jesper Schlæger

Jesper Schlæger, Dept. of Political Science, defends his PhD thesis "E-government in China. Digital information and communication technologies in local government organisational reforms in Chengdu".

23 Feb. - 24 Feb. 2012

Three guest lectures by Geir Heierstad

The lectures "Pakistan - nation building in the shadow of Bhāratīya Thalasēnā", "India - er "political society" makt for de fattige?" and "India - jakten på det sivile samfunn og dets framtid" will take place on 23 and 24 February.

21 Feb. 2012, 15:15

SOHR DAMB: A New Perspective on Prehistoric Baluchistan

Guest lecture by Dr. Ute Franke, Islamic Museum Berlin.

20 Feb. 2012, 15:15

Archaeological Research and Heritage Projects in Afghanistan: Ancient Herat and Bagh-e Babur

Guest lecture by Dr. Ute Frank, Islamic Museum Berlin.

20 Jan. 2012, 13:30-16:10

The Status and Challenges of Economic Integration in Europe and Asia: with focus upon Regional Currency Cooperation

Guest lecture by Professor Eiji Ogawa, Vice President of the Graduate School of Commerce and Management, Hitotsubashi University, Tokyo.

12 Dec. 2011, 3 pm

The making of a new folk art

Guest lecture by by Associate professor Roma Chatterji, Department of Sociology, University of Delhi.

8 Dec. 2011, 17:00-18:30

Sacralizing the State and De-Sacralizing Islam: Islamists and the Democratic Deficit in Pakistan

Roundtable discussion on "Sacralizing the State and De-Sacralizing Islam: Islamists and the Democratic Deficit in Pakistan" with Farhat Haq, Professor of Political Science, Monmouth College.

8 Dec. 2011, 15:15-16:30

Postsocialist Publishing: Internet Literature in China

Cross-Cultural Seminar at ToRS by Michel Hockx, School of Oriental and African Studies, London.

8 Dec. 2011, 13:15-14:30

Guest lecture on Hip-hop in Japan

Guest lecture on "Hip-hop Japan: Creativity and Identity within Cultural Globalisation" by Kiku Day, SOAS, University of London.

7 Dec. 2011, 19:30

Gender and Culture in China

Talk in the Danish-Chinese Association by Denise Gimpel, associate professor in China Studies at the University of Copenhagen.

7 Dec. 2011, 13:15-15:00

What should we Learn from China?

Guest lecture at NIAS by Associate Professor Josef Gregory Mahoney, East China Normal University.

25 Nov. 2011, 11:15-13:00

Krudt og kugler i Kina

Åbent foredrag ved forfatter Simon Rom Gjærø "Krudt og kugler i Kina: Dansk våbenekspert i tjeneste hos Kinas mest magtfulde krigsherre i de kaotiske 1920ere". Efter foredraget vises dokumentarfilm.

24 Nov. 2011, 15:15-16:30

Shaping modern knowledge on Islam

Cross-Cultural Seminar by Dietrich Jung from the University of Southern Denmark. Title of the presentation: "Max Weber and Sheikh Ahmad ibn Zayni al-Dahlan: Shaping modern knowledge on Islam".

21 Nov. - 22 Nov. 2011

ADI Workshop

A 2-day workshop on the recently initiated research clusters: 'Urban Imaginaries and power in Asian mega-cities', 'Bodies and Boundaries', 'State, Society and Marginality', and 'Asia-Europe Encounters'.

18 Nov. - 20 Nov. 2011

Halfdan Siiger and Danish Central Asian Research

Conference on Danish Central Asian Research in commemoration of Halfdan Siiger. The conference is organized jointly by Aarhus University, University of Copenhagen, the National Museum and Moesgård Museum.

17 Nov. 2011, 15:15-16:30

Mapping national anxieties: Thailand's southern conflict

Guest lecture by Professor Duncan McCargo, University of Leeds. The lecture will be immediately followed by a reception at NIAS launching Professor McCargo's new book.

17 Nov. 2011, 13:15-14:30

Health Inequity and Democratic Deficit: Learning by India from India

Guest lecture by Dr. Manabi Majumdar, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata.

16 Nov. 2011, 13:15-15:00

Politics of Human Development in an Indian State

Guest lecture by Dr. Manabi Majumdar, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Kolkata.

16 Nov. 2011, 9:00-12:30

Japan Today: Challenges and Responses to Globalization

Symposium at CBS with Professor Toshiya Ozaki, Rikkyo University, Professor Takehiko Kariya, University of Oxford, and Professor Anthony P. D'Costa, Asia Research Centre, CBS.

10 Nov. 2011, 15:15-16:30

Sacred Money. Faith and Finance in a Global Sufi Order

The Cross-Cultural Seminar series has invited Nils Bubandt, Aarhus University, to present a paper on "Sacred Money. Faith and Finance in a Global Sufi Order".

28 Oct. 2011, 10:15-20:50

Workshop on Queer Theory and Activism in China

The workshop is made up of three parts combining theoretical discussion with case studies: 1) Queer Activism in China, 2) Queer theory in China and 3) Queer documentaries. Deadline for registration: 21 October 2011.

26 Oct. 2011, 12:15-13:00

From Pusher Street to Purulia: Legal Monism versus Legal Pluralism

Lunch lecture by Stig Toft Madsen, Fil.Dr., Senior Research Fellow at NIAS. All are welcome. Feel free to bring your own lunch.

13 Oct. 2011, 15:15-16:30

Cross-Cultural Seminar: Ayo Wahlberg

Cross-Cultural Seminar with Ayo Wahlberg, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen, on "Banking viability - reproduction and the sperm crisis in China".

11 Oct. 2011, 10:15-12:00

Religious Charity, Secular Law, and NGO Regulation India

Guest lecture by Erica Bornstein, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. All are welcome.

10 Oct. 2011, 12:15-13:30

Buddhist Economics and Thailand's Sufficiency Economy

Guest lecture by Professor Donald K. Swearer, Harvard Divinity School.

6 Oct. - 9 Oct. 2011

Commensality and Social Organisation

Workshop on food, identity and globalisation organised by the Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies

4 Oct. 2011, 14:15-15:30

Guest Lecture by Penny van Esterik

Penny van Esterik, Professor of Anthropology, York University will give a lecture entitled "Hindsight, Oversight and Insight into Ban Chiang Neolithic Burial Pottery, northeast Thailand; a personal trajectory through interdisciplinary research in Southeast Asia".

29 Sept. 2011, 15:15-16:30

Cross-Cultural Seminar: Brian Moeran

Cross-Cultural Seminar with Brian Moeran, Copenhagen Business School, on "Japanese Merchants of Culture: The Publishing Business in Japan".

29 Sept. 2011, 13:15-14:30

Indian Economy under the Reforms: Growth, Poverty and Inequality, 1991 to 2010

Guest lecture by Professor Venkatesh Athreya on "Indian Economy under the Reforms: Growth, Poverty and Inequality, 1991 to 2010".

23 Sept. 2011, 1pm

PhD defence by Jens Tue Sejrup

Jens Sejrup defends his PhD thesis "Returns of the Other. The Roles of Repetition and Representation in Mass Media Coverage of Japan-Taiwan Relations".

23 Sept. 2011, 14:00-17:00

PhD defence by Winnie Bothe

Winnie Bothe defends her PhD thesis "Forming Local Citizens in Bhutan: The Traditionalization of Participation - Empowerment, Domination or Subjugation?".

22 Sept. - 24 Sept. 2011

Indonesian Minorities - Rights, Plights and Positions

Nordic Indonesia Studies Network (NISN) Third Annual Workshop, NIAS, Copenhagen, 22-24 September 2011.

19 Sept. 2011, 10:00-16:00

Rabindranath Tagore

Conference in commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) - poet, educationist, composer and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.

16 Sept. 2011, 9:00-17:15

ECCS 10th anniversary

The European Centre of Chinese Studies (ECCS) located at Peking University will celebrate its 10th anniversary on 16.9.2011 by conducting two workshops on: "China Studies" and "Philosophy in Action".

15 Sept. 2011, 15:15-16:30

Cross-Cultural Seminar: Oscar Salemink

Seminar with Oscar Salemink, Professor of Anthropology, University of Copenhagen on "Sex and the Temple: Interlocking categorizations of sexuality, gender and the sacred in post-secular Vietnam".

8 Sept. - 10 Sept. 2011

ETSG 2011 Copenhagen

The 13th European Trade Study Group (ETSG) conference will be held in Copenhagen and hosted by the Dept. of Economics, University of Copenhagen and the Dept. of Economics, CBS.

22 Aug. 2011, 1 pm

Urban imaginaries and power in Asian mega-cities

ADI and Jørgen Delman, Professor, Chinese Studies, invite researchers at the University of Copenhagen to the initial meeting on Urban imaginaries and power in Asian mega-cities.

6 July 2011, 14:30

Danish expeditions along the Silk Road

Public lecture on "Danish expeditions along the Silk Road - Collecting objects from the Steppes to the High Pamirs 1896-1899" at the National Museum followed by a short presentation in the exhibitions of objects from Central Asia by Dr.phil. Esther Fihl, Professor mso.

4 July 2011, 14:15-15:45

Two keynotes on Central Asia

ADI's summer school on Central Eurasia will open with two keynote addresses: "The Mongol Empire (13th and 14th centuries) - a starting point of 'Early Modern Times' in a global perspective?" by Prof. Bert Fragner and  "The nomadic legacy in Central Asia: Empires, trade and political culture" by Prof. Thomas Barfied. All are welcome!

4 July - 15 July 2011

ADI Summer School on Central Asia

Asian Dynamics Initiative is organizing a summer school on ‘History, Identity and Religion in Contemporary Central Eurasia' to be held in Copenhagen, 4-15 July 2011.

21 June 2011, 14:30-15:30

Crossing cultural borders then and now - In the fish market at Tranquebar and in the archive

Guest lecture "Crossing cultural borders then and now - In the fish market at Tranquebar and in the archive" by Professor Will Sweetman, Department of Religion, University of Otago, New Zealand.

17 June 2011, 14:00

Inaugural lecture - Oscar Salemink

The Department of Anthropology and ADI are pleased to announce Professor Oscar Salemink's inaugural lecture "Framing Religion: The Human Rights Encounter and the Transformation of Religion in Vietnam".

10 June 2011, 1 pm.

Guest Lecture by Richard Upward

Guest lecture at the Dept. of Economics entitled "Quantity Restrictions and Price Adjustment of Chinese Textile Exports to the US" by Richard Upward, University of Nottingham.

5 June - 6 June 2011

PhD workshop "Writing Difference"

ADI and the Institute of Public Knowledge, New York University are co-organizing a dissertation workshop for PhD Fellows at the two universities.

30 May - 31 May 2011

A World of Translation

International PhD course organized by The Research School of Regional Studies. Read more about the programme, format and the deadlines for registrating, submission of abstracts and papers.

23 May 2011, 1 pm

The worship of young virgin girls as goddesses in the secular state of Nepal

Guest lecture by Michael Allen, Emeritus Professor, Dept. of Anthropology, University of Sydney.

20 May - 21 May 2011

Challenging the Harmonious Society - Tibetans and Uyghurs in Socialist China

Workshop on "Challenging the Harmonious Society - Tibetans and Uyghurs in Socialist China". NOTE: This workshop is a closed event. Participation by invitation only.

17 May 2011, 13:15

PhD defence by Thao Thi Vu

Thao Thi Vu, Dept. of Geography and Geology, defends PhD thesis "When Women Make "Houses": Female Labour Migration and Family Transition in Rural Vietnam".

9 May 2011, 14:00-15:30

Guest Lecture by Nobel Prize winner Gao Xingjian

Gao Xingjian, Nobel Prize winner in Literature, will give a lecture on "Literature and Ideology". Registration closed (full). 

3 May 2011, 12:15-13:30

ADI Lunch Lecture - Ravinder Kaur

Next in the ADI lunch lecture series is Ravinder Kaur, associate professor at the Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies. The title of her talk is "Design of a Nation: Making India Global".

2 May 2011, 15:15-17:15

China-SEC: Seminar with Dr. Holslag

China-SEC, Centre for Military Studies invites you to a seminar on "Trapped Giant: China's Troubled Military Rise" with Dr. Jonathan Holslag.

29 Apr. 2011, 14:30

LARM Artist Talks: Miya Yoshida

LARM Artist Talk: Miya Yoshida, a media/art researcher and a curator from Japan currently living and working in Berlin, Germany.

28 Apr. 2011, 12:15-13:15

Guest lecture by Dr. Richard Baxstrom

Dr. Richard Baxstrom, University of Edinburgh, will give a talk at NIAS entitled "Power, Planning, and the Emergence of Baroque Forms of Life in Urban Malaysia". All are welcome.

14 Apr. 2011, 9:30

Managing Diversity: The Indian Experience

SASNET organises a full-day  seminar on "Managing Diversity: The Indian Experience". The keynote speaker is Professor Zoya Hasan from the Centre for Political Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in Delhi.

14 Apr. 2011, 13:00-15:00

The 'authentic' other on display: living ethnographic exhibitions - past and present

Lecture by Anne Folke Henningsen, Saxo Institute, in the CGSAS' seminar series on Post/Colonial Identities.

13 Apr. 2011, 13:00

Bombay's Entangled Modernities, c. 1700-1900

The World History Workshop and the Saxo-Institute are organizing a lecture followed by a masterclass in Global History with Professor C. A. Bayly.

12 Apr. 2011, 15:00-16:00

Guest lecture by Prof. Shereen Ratnagar

The Management of Water and Waste Water in some Towns of the Harrappa Civilization of South Asia.

11 Apr. 2011, 15:00-17:00

Seminar: Is a Peaceful Rise of China Possible?

China-Sec at Centre for Military Studies is pleased to announce the seminar "Is a Peaceful Rise of China Possible?" with Professor Barry Buzan, London School of Economics.

7 Apr. - 8 Apr. 2011

What's in a word? The minority concept revisited

Conference and PhD course over two days. Read more about the format, programme and deadlines for registrations, abstracts and papers.

30 Mar. 2011, 17:00-19:30

Visual Anthropology: Awakening Giant - the Cultural Revolution in the People´s Republic of China

Jens Bjerre, Danish nestor of ethnographic documentaries, presents a film from 1960s China. Introduction by Ida Nicolaisen. Deadline for registration: 23 March. 

25 Mar. 2011, 9:15-16:00

Heroes and Exemplary Lives in Modern Japan

The Asian Studies Section, Japanese Studies, invites you to a workshop with Dr. Kweku Ampiah from the University of Leeds.

23 Mar. 2011, 13:00

A Passage to India: Film and Discussion

We will watch the cinematic depiction of E.M. Forster's classic novel 'A Passage to India' as part of our seminar ‘Post/Colonial Identities'.

21 Mar. 2011, 2:15

Tagore's Legacy

Guest lecture by Dr. William Radice, School of Oriental and African Studies, London on "Tagore's Legacy - Rabindranath Tagore's Literature and its Relevance in Modern India". All are welcome.

17 Mar. 2011, 17:00

The Impact of Connectivity on Market Interlinkages; Evidence from Rural Punjab

Presentation by Mahvish Shami, University of Copenhagen.

24 Feb. 2011, 2:30

Minicoy - A Muslim Atoll society where women own the homes

Guest lecture by NIAS associate Nils Finn Munch-Petersen.

21 Feb. 2011, 12:30

Lunch talk: Dimensions of Social Cohesion

Professor Olli Kangas, Social Insurance Institution of Finland, will present and discuss methodology and findings from an extensive comparative study of social cohesion in parts of Asia and Africa. 

17 Feb. 2011, 12:30

Lunch talk: On Hatred: Concept, Crime, Culture

Lunch talk at NIAS by Thomas Brudholm, Associate Professor, Minority Studies, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

10 Feb. 2011, 9:30

PhD course

PhD course on "Ritual, Aesthetics, Performance and agency in Pakistan" at the Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

24 Jan. 2011, 15:00

Guest lecture by Professor Geoffrey Benjamin

Guest lecture on "Cooking, Eating and Orientation: The Malay and Chinese and Cultural Regimes Compared" by Professor Geoffrey Benjamin, Nanyang Technological University i Singapore.

20 Jan. 2011, 10 am

Chinese Pension Reform

Guest lecture by Fabrizio Zilibotti, University of Zurich on "Chinese Pension Reform in the Face of Demographic Transition and Financial Imperfections" at the Dept. of Economics.

8 Dec. 2010, 16:00-17:00

The First Chinese Diaspora: China and Southeast Asia , 1100-1365

Guest lecture by Professor John Miksic from the National University of Singapore to celebrate 50 years of Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen. Organizers: Southeast Asian Studies and ADI.

8 Dec. 2010, 12:15-13:30

ADI Lunch Lecture

"Junk Empire. A preliminary take on Chinese construction projects and timber extraction in Mozambique" by Morten Axel Pedersen, Mikkel Bunkenborg and Morten Nielsen, Dept. of Anthropology.

7 Dec. 2010, 1 pm

Dynamic Labor Demand in China: Public and Private Objectives

Econometrics seminar at the Dept. of Economics with Russell Cooper, University of Texas: "Dynamic Labor Demand in China: Public and Private Objectives"

6 Dec. 2010, 15:15-16:15

Shipwrecks in the Java Sea: Ancient Ships and Modern Treasure Hunters

Guest lecture by Professor John Miksic from the National University of Singapore. This lecture is the first of two and is organized by Southeast Asian Studies and ADI.

6 Dec. 2010, 14:30

Rethinking China’s New Documentary Movement: Engagement with the Social

Lu Xinyu, Professor and Director of the Broadcasting and Television Department, School of Journalism, Fudan University, Shanghai will give a talk on the New Documentary Movement.

2 Dec. 2010, 17:00-19:30

Visual Anthropology: Awakening Giant - the Cultural Revolution in the People´s Republic of China

CANCELLED! Jens Bjerre, Danish nestor of ethnographic documentaries presents a film from 1960s China.

16 Nov. 2010, 11:00-13:00

Towards a new literature? Women writers in contemporary Japan

Guest lecture at ToRS with Prof. Anne Sakai-Bayard, INALCO, Paris.

11 Nov. - 13 Nov. 2010

Asian Diversity in a Global Context

The annual, international ADI conference 2010 is a big three-day event: a grand opening at the Ceremonial Hall followed by two days with panels and workshops focusing on a wide variety of Asia related topics.

12 Oct. 2010, 10:00-12:00

Nepal Today

Nepal Today: A Conversation on Development, Governance and Politics - with Professor Mahendra Lawoti, University of Michigan.

5 Oct. 2010, 13:00-15:00

Goa - An Internal Exotic in South Asia

Guest lecture: Goa - An Internal Exotic in South Asia. Discourses of Colonialism and Tourism by Pamila Gupta, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, Johannesburg.

4 Oct. 2010, 2:30

Danish Media and Pakistani Islam

Guest lecture at NIAS by Uzma Rehman, who has a PhD from the Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

28 Sept. 2010, 9:30-17:30

Copenhagen South Asia Workshop

A one-day workshop on South Asia with paper presentations and keynote speech by Tanika Sarkar, professor of history at Jawaharlal Nehru University.  

24 Sept. 2010, 10:00-11:30

National attitudes and politics in Japan

Guest lecture on "National attitudes and politics in Japan" with Professor Akihiko Tanaka, Managing Director & Executive Vice President of the University of Tokyo. All are welcome, but registration is required. 

23 Sept. 2010, 9:15-11:00

Energy Diplomacies of East Asian States

Guest lecture at NIAS "Understanding the Energy Diplomacies of East Asian States" with Professor Christopher Dent, University of Leeds.

23 Sept. 2010, 15:15-16:30

The British Empire c. 1800-1950: between reform and repression

Christopher Bayly, St. Catharine's College, Cambridge, has been appointed adjunct professor at the SAXO Institute. "The British Empire c. 1800-1950: between reform and repression" is his inaugural lecture.

22 Sept. 2010, 15:15-16:30

Free trade agreements in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific

Guest lecture at the Dept. of Economics "Free trade agreements in East Asia and the Asia-Pacific" with Professor Christopher Dent, University of Leeds.

21 Sept. 2010, 15:15-17:00

Shiroki - Calligraphy Workshop

Calligraphy workshop with visual artist, Shiroki.

21 Sept. 2010, 15:00-16:30

Guest lecture - Thai Ghosts Go Modern

Guest lecture "Thai Ghosts Go Modern: Production, Circulation, and Consumption of the Horror in Contemporary Thailand" by Pattana Kitiarsa, Southeast Asian Studies Programme, National University of Singapore.

15 Sept. 2010, 12:15-13:30

ADI Lunch Lecture - Ildiko Beller-Hann

Ildiko Beller-Hann, Associate Professor, Dept. of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies will give a lunch lecture on "Household economy and community cohesion in rural Xinjiang".

3 Sept. 2010, 14:00

PhD defence - Susanne Bregnbæk

Susanne Bregnbæk, Dept. of Anthropology, defends her PhD thesis "Family, State and the Quandaries of Education. The Tension between Self-sacrifice and Self-actualization among University Students in Beijing."

1 Sept. 2010, 14:30-16:00

Research seminar with Prof. Charles F. Keyes

Research seminar at the Department of Anthropology. "From Peasant to Cosmopolitan Villagers: Refiguring the ‘Rural' in Northeastern Thailand" with Prof. Charles F. Keyes, University of Washington.

17 June 2010, 13:15

PhD defence - Helle Jørgensen

Helle Jørgensen, Department of History and Area Studies, Aarhus University, defends her PhD thesis "Tranquebar - Whose History? Transnational Cultural Heritage in a Former Danish Trading Colony in South India".

16 June 2010, 9:30-17:30

The Ethnic Crises in Burma/Myanmar: 2010 and Beyond

This seminar aims at taking a close look at the most significant recent developments concerning ethnic conflict in Burma/Myanmar as well as the international community's dilemmas and possibilities to respond. Venue: NIAS

27 May 2010, 13:00-14:30

Seminar - Digital governance in Chengdu

Seminar on 'Digital governance in Chengdu: Urban management systems and government affairs service centres' with Jesper Schlæger, PhD fellow at the Department of Political Science. All are welcome!

19 May 2010, 12:15-13:30

ADI Lunch Lecture - Jakob Roland Munch

Next in the ADI lunch lecture series is Jakob Roland Munch, Professor at the Department of Economics. The title of his lecture is "Trade with China - Are there reasons to be concerned?"

5 May 2010, 14:00-17:00

Special Seminar on Diplomacy in East Asia

The Asia Research Centre, CBS and the Embassy of Japan in Copenhagen are pleased to announce a Special Seminar on Diplomacy in East Asia: Japan, US and China relations in the 21st century.

21 Apr. 2010, 12:15-13:30

ADI Lunch Lecture - Søren Ivarsson

The next ADI Lunch Lecture "Policepower and the formation of the modern Thai state: The Thai Provincial Gendarmerie and its Danish Officers, 1897-1926" is by Søren Ivarsson, Saxo Institute.

12 Apr. 2010, 15:00-17:00

China and India as development actors

Guest lecture with Peter Kragelund organized by Camilla Sørensen, Dept. of Political Science.

12 Apr. 2010, 1:15-2:45

Guest lecture - Helmut Morsbach

ADI is pleased to invite you to a guest lecture with Professor Helmut Morsbach on "The psychological importance of ritualized gift exchange in modern Japan".

8 Apr. 2010, 2 pm.

The Process of Resolution of Conflict in Aceh: Are there Lessons To Be Learned

Lecture by Professor Timo Kivimäki, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen. All are welcome.

30 Mar. 2010, 9:00

Focus Asia

Twice annually the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, arranges a series of public lectures entitled "Focus Asia". The theme of the next Focus Asia lectures is "The Rule of Law in Asia".

25 Mar. 2010, 12:30

Masculinities: Perspectives from the South

Dr. Ajay Bailey, University of Groningen, will visit NIAS and ADI to take part in a roundtable discussion on "Masculinities: Perspectives from the South".

22 Mar. 2010, 3 pm.

Guest lecture - Jonas Parello-Plesner

The Department of Political Science is organising a guest lecture with Jonas Parello-Plesner on "The New Rising Powers, China and India - responsible stakeholders of the international system?"

17 Mar. 2010, 12:15-13:30

ADI Lunch Lecture - Ayo Wahlberg

Ayo Wahlberg, Dept. of Anthropology, will give the next ADI lunch lecture on "Family secrets and the industrialisation of herbal medicine in Viet Nam". All are welcome.

16 Mar. 2010, 14:00-16:00

Guest lecture - Erica Bornstein

Erica Bornstein, Assistant Professor in Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, will be giving a lecture entitled 'Philanthropy and Empathy in New Delhi' at the Dept. for Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies.

15 Mar. 2010, 10:00-12:00

ADI South Asia Lecture - Dr. Nikita Sud

Nikita Sud, Department of International Development, University of Oxford, will give a lecture on 'Liberalisation, Hindu Nationalism and the State'. All are welcome.

5 Mar. 2010, 2 pm.

PhD defense - Mikkel Rytter

Mikkel Rytter, Department of Anthropology, will defend his PhD thesis "Family Upheaval - Generation, Mobility and Relatedness among Pakistani Migrants in Denmark". 

17 Feb. 2010, 12:15-13:30

ADI Lunch Lecture - East Asian Peace

Timo Kivimäki, professor at the Dept. of Political Science, will give the first ADI lunch lecture. The title is 'East Asian Peace'.

16 Feb. 2010, 13:00

PhD defense

Mads Clausen, Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, defends his PhD thesis "The Vortex is here: Asia and Australian Post-Imperial Nationhood".

10 Feb. - 11 Feb. 2010

Cultural Cities - International Seminar

"Cultural Cities: Creativity and Social Inclusion in Osaka and Copenhagen" is an international 2-days seminar that will address issues of artistic and creative practices within city planning and local communities in Osaka and Copenhagen.

21 Jan. 2010, 13:00-14:30

Guest Lecture - Nils Finn Munch-Petersen

Nils Finn Munch-Petersen will give a guest lecture entitled "The Maldive Islands - Cultural Implosion" on 21 January at NIAS. All are welcome. 

17 Dec. 2009, 2 pm.

China - The Resilience of the Authoritarian State

Börje Ljunggren, former Swedish ambassador to China and Vietnam, visits NIAS to give a lecture on 'China - The Resilience of the Authoritarian State'. All are welcome!

10 Dec. 2009, 2 pm.

PhD defence - Ann Fenger Benwell

PhD Fellow Ann Fenger Benwell defends her PhD Thesis entitled Keeping up Appearances. Gender and Ideal Womanhood in Postsocialist Mongolia.

8 Dec. 2009, 2 p.m.

Climate Change - Perspectives on Asia

With COP15 - the UN Climate Change Conference - taking place in Copenhagen from 7-18 December 2009, NIAS and ADI have taken the opportunity to arrange an inter-disciplinary climate seminar with a focus on Asia.

7 Dec. - 9 Dec. 2009

ADI South Asia lectures with Professor Rajesh Kochhar

Professor Kochhar from the Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Chandigarh will visit ADI, University of Copenhagen and the National Museum to give a series of guest lectures. 

2 Dec. 2009, 10:00-17:30

ADI South Asia Workshop - Reimagining Pakistan

Register for the one-day workshop on 'Reimagining Pakistan' organized by ADI and the Centre of Global South Asian Studies. Invited speakers include Tariq Ali, Dr. Markus Daechsel and Michael Jarlner.

26 Nov. - 27 Nov. 2009

ADI Workshop

ADI invites you to participate in a two-day museum workshop. The workshop brings together anthropologists, area studies specialists and museum professionals working within the fields of Asian material culture and museum studies. Registration is required.

13 Nov. 2009, 1 p.m.

Monastic Warriors as Villains: Constructing Cultural Paradigms in Early Modern and Modern Japan

Dr. Mikael Adolphson from the University of Alberta will visit the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies to give a guest lecture on 'Monastic Warriors as Villains: Constructing Cultural Paradigms in Early Modern and Modern Japan'.

12 Nov. 2009, 10 a.m.

ADI South Asia lecture - Abhijit Roy

Centre of Global South Asian Studies invites you to ADI Public Lectures on Popular Culture, Television and Globalization.

2 Nov. 2009, 10:15-12:00

The Study of International Relations Around the World

Seminar in occasion of the publication of "International Relations Scholarship Around the World" edited by Arlene B. Tickner & Ole Wæver; Routledge 2009, 368 pages.

28 Oct. 2009, 3:15

Guest lecture with Guoxiang Peng

ADI has the pleasure of announcing the guest lecture 'Inside the Revival of Confucianism in Mainland China: the Vicissitudes of Confucian Classics in Contemporary China as an Example' with Professor Guoxiang Peng from Tsinghua University.

6 Oct. 2009, 12:30-15:30

Round table discussion

NIAS invites you to a round table discussion on "What Could the Aceh Experience Contribute to Our Understanding of Conflict Resolution and Post Conflict Development?"

1 Oct. 2009, 10:15-12:00

The state and public sector performance in China

ADI is pleased to announce the guest lecture "The state and public sector performance in China" by Christine Wong, Oxford University. 

18 Sept. 2009, 2 pm (sharp)

PhD Defence - Mikkel Bunkenborg

PhD defence "Porous Persons and Empty Disorders - Producing Healthy People in Rural North China" by Mikkel Bunkenborg, Department of Anthropology. 

17 Sept. 2009, 1:30-5:30

Soft Power Impact of Asia

Asian Dynamics Initiative is pleased to announce the high profile conference 'Spheres of Influence - Soft Power Impact of Asia'. The conference is open to everyone interested. Registration is required.

11 Sept. 2009, 1 p.m. (sharp)

PhD Defence - Morten Oxenbøll

PhD Fellow Morten Oxenbøll, Saxo Institute, will defend his PhD thesis: "Akutō. Images of Medieval Japanese Banditry".

26 Aug. 2009, 16:30-18:30

Culture and Contrition: Apology in Dispute Resolution in Japan and North America

Professor Annalise Acorn will visit the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies on 26 August to give a guest lecture entitled "Culture and Contrition: Apology in Dispute Resolution in Japan and North America". 

25 Aug. 2009, 2 p.m.

Guest Lecture - Doris Jedamski

Dr. Doris Jedamski from Leiden University will visit NIAS to give a guest lecture entitled "The Chinese Malay contribution to the Understanding of a National Culture in Indonesia".

10 Aug. 2009

Long Peace of East Asia and West Europe

The Peace and Conflict Studies Network of the ASEM Education Hub together with Yonsei University will organize a full day conference in Seoul on "Long Peace of East Asia since 1979 and West Europe since 1945: Comparison and Implications".

10 Aug. - 14 Aug. 2009

Doing Business in China

Nordic Centre, Fudan University, Shanghai organizes a one-week course on 'Doing Business in China' from 10-14 August 2009. Application deadline: 1 June 2009

6 Aug. - 9 Aug. 2009

East Asian Peace since 1979 - Panel

NIAStogether with its alliance partners will organize a panel on "East Asian Peace 1979-" for the 6th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS) in August 2009 in Daejeon, Korea.

19 July - 26 July 2009

South Asian Migration and Diaspora

The second workshop on 'South Asia in the 21st Century' at the summer session of the Nordic Summer University will be held in Tyrifjord, Norway, from 19-26 July 2009. Registration is due 30 March 2009.

6 July - 24 July 2009

Summer course: Introduction to Modern China

The highly popular three-week summer course ‘Introduction to Modern China' at the Nordic Centre in Shanghai is now open for applications.

26 June 2009, 1 p.m. (sharp)

PhD defence - Frida Hastrup

Frida Hastrup defends her PhD thesis 'Weathering the World - Recovery in the Wake of the Tsunami in a Tamil Fishing Village'.

18 June - 19 June 2009

South Asia Network Conference

The first Copenhagen South Asia Network Conference will take place 18-19 June 2009. The title of the conference is 'South Asian Drama: Old Actors, New Scripts'. 

8 June - 10 June 2009

Alternative Spaces and Cultural Translation

As part of the Alternative Spaces research project, an international conference on alternative spaces is held from 8-10 June 2009. A PhD course will run in the afternoon as a parallel programme.

3 June 2009

China's Economy, Environment and Education

Nordic Association of China Studies (NACS) and the Nordic NIAS Council (NNC) are pleased to invite you to a joint conference and PhD course in Reykjavik 3-6 June 2009.

18 May 2009, 2 p.m.

Japan's role in peacebuilding in Asia

ADI, NIAS and the Embassy of Japan are pleased to announce the guest lecture 'Japan's role in peacebuilding in Asia' with Professor Toshiya Hoshino from Osaka University, Japan.

13 May - 15 May 2009

Ten Years of Democracy in Indonesia (1998-2008)

Nordic Indonesia Studies Network's inaugural workshop 'Ten Years of Democracy in Indonesia (1998-2008)' aims at facilitating discussion of research on or relating to Indonesia within the social sciences in the Nordic countries.

12 May 2009, 14:00-15:30

Riots and Elections in India

Professor Dipak Malik will visit Copenhagen on 12 May to give a lecture on India's national elections. The talk will consist of certain features of the ongoing general elections in India as well as the underlying political processes.

23 Apr. - 24 Apr. 2009

Guest lectures with Pranab Bardhan

Professor Pranab Bardhan, UC Berkeley  visits DERG, University of Copenhagen to give lectures on "Awakening Giants, Feet of Clay: A Comparative Economic Assessment of the Rise of China and India".

3 Apr. 2009, 2:15

Inaugural lecture: China's new civil society - heading anywhere?

The new professor in China-studies at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies (ToRS) at the University of Copenhagen, Jørgen Delman, will give his inaugural lecture "China's new civil society - heading anywhere?" on 3 April 2009.

1 Apr. 2009, 10 a.m.

Tensions in Freefall? The Study of China-Tibet Relations Today

Guest lecture with Professor Robert J. Barnett, Director of The Modern Tibetan Studies Program, Columbia University. All are welcome.

31 Mar. 2009, 2 pm (sharp)

PhD defence - Trine Brox

Trine Brox defends her PhD-thesis 'The Enchanted Gift of Democracy. Imagining and Negotiating Democracy in the Tibetan Diaspora'.

31 Mar. 2009, 1 p.m.

The Ideology of Shari'a Implementation in Contemporary Aceh

Michael Feener, Associate Professor, NUS, will give a guest lecture at ToRS addressing the articulation of the particular reformist re-conceptualizations of Islam underlying state projects for the implementation of Islamic law in Contemporary Aceh, Indonesia.

28 Mar. 2009

Visualising Asian Modernity

Visualising Asian Modernity is a series of events - two academic seminars and two In Situ Art Talks.

17 Mar. 2009, 2 p.m.

Guest Lecture by Dr. Pun Ngai

Anthropologist Pun Ngai, Deputy Director of the joint Peking University and Hong Kong Polytechnical University, will give a guest lecture on Chinese Female Workers at the University of Copenhagen.

13 Mar. - 15 Mar. 2009

Democratic Values and Political Practices in South Asia

The Nordic Summer University cluster ‘South Asia in the 21st Century' is pleased to invite you to the first of six workshops focusing on South Asia.

5 Mar. 2009, 1 p.m.

Soft Power Superpowers in Asia

Japan's Ambassador, Seiichi Kondo, will visit the section for Japan Studies at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, to give a guest lecture. The title of the lecture is 'Soft Power Superpowers in Asia'.

26 Feb. - 27 Feb. 2009

Focus Asia in Lund

Twice annually the Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University organises a series of public lectures entitled 'Focus Asia'. The lectures are given in English, and admission is free of charge. The coming event has the overall theme 'Media in Asia'.

24 Feb. 2009, 2pm

Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region

NIAS and ADI are pleased to announce the seminar 'Ningxia: Introduction to a Province in Western China' with Jesper Schlæger, PhD Fellow at the University of Copenhagen, Department of Political Science.

19 Feb. 2009, 3:15-4:30

Regional Development and the Competitive Dynamics of Global Production Networks: An East Asian Perspective

Professor Henry Yeung from the Department of Geography at the National University of Singapore will give a guest lecture at the Department of Geography & Geology.

18 Feb. - 19 Feb. 2009

Seminar and Guest lecture on Confucianism

Professor Daniel A. Bell will visit Denmark to take part in two events: A one-day seminar on 'Confucianism, Past and Present' hosted by the University of Aarhus and a guest lecture on 'China's New Confucianism' hosted by NIAS and the Section for China Studies, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies at the University of Copenhagen. 

9 Feb. 2009, 1 p.m.

Lunch talk with Dr. Ren Xiao

Dr. Ren Xiao from Fudan University Shanghai, will give a talk at NIAS on the relationship between China, North Korea and South Korea.

9 Dec. 2008, 3:15

Guest lecture: Writing for Socialisme

The Chinese Section at the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies organizes the guest lecture 'Writing for Socialism' by Dr. Richard King.

28 Nov. 2008, 9:15

The Growth of Media in China - its impact on political and economic development in China

The Danish National Commission for UNESCO, International Media Support (IMS) and Copenhagen Business School (CBS) are hosting the conference 'The Growth of Media in China - its impact on political and economic development in China'. Participation is free, but registration is needed.

25 Nov. 2008, 1 p.m.

Tibet Seminar

NIAS is hosting a seminar with a delegation of Tibetan studies scholars from China on 25 November 2008. Participation by invitation only.

24 Nov. 2008, 2 p.m.

PhD defence

'The Contingent Rise of China. The Development in Chinese Post-Cold War Security Policy'. PhD defence by Camilla T. N. Sørensen, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen.

21 Nov. 2008, 10:15-12:00

Governance in India

Visiting Professor Amit Prakash from Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi will give a seminar on 'Governance in India: Assessments of an Empirical Survey'.

19 Nov. 2008, 10 a.m.

Introduction to the electronic edition of the Census of India

The Tranquebar Initiative at the National Museum of Denmark, and the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen are organizing an introduction course to The Census of India.

19 Nov. 2008, 1 p.m.

Seminar on Indigenous Peoples in Southeast Asia

NIAS - Nordic Institute of Asian Studies and the Department for Asian Studies at the University of Copenhagen invite to an open seminar on 'Ethnic Minorities and Indigenous Peoples in Southeast Asia' with Chris Duncan, Ida Nicolaisen, Katja Kvaale and Mikael Gravers.

18 Nov. 2008, 10:00-12:00

Guest lecture: Franco-Lao cultural hybridity at play

Simon Creak from the Australian National University guests the Saxo Institute to give an open lecture entitled 'Franco-Lao cultural hybridity at play: How writing the traditional game of tikhi made modern Laos.'

13 Nov. - 30 Nov. 2008

East and West PhD course at LIFE

The Faculty of Life Sciences at the University of Copenhagen is running an annual PhD course on the topic 'Food, Medicine & Philosophy in East and West'.

7 Nov. 2008, 1 p.m.

Un-finished nations in Southeast Asia

CIDES at the Institute of Society and Globalization, Roskilde University and NIAS -
Nordic Institute of Asian Studies are pleased to invite you to an open seminar with Max Lane, National University of Singapore and Søren Ivarsson, University of Copenhagen.

6 Nov. - 7 Nov. 2008

Conference on Human Rights and Business

The University of Copenhagen - the Institute of Food and Resource Economics, Faculty of Life Sciences; and Copenhagen Business School (CBS) - the Centre for CSR and the Department of Law organises and hosts the conference 'Corporate Social Responsibility, Business Responsibilities for Human Rights, and International Law: Where do we go after the final report of the SRSG on Human Rights and Business?'

4 Nov. 2008, 1 p.m.

PhD defence

PhD defence 'Breaking the Silence: Understanding reproductive Tract Infections among Abortion Seeking Women in Vietnam' by Huong My Nguyen.

30 Oct. 2008, 3 p.m.

Guest Lecture - Indian Village

Professor Dr. Rana P. B. Singh, Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi guests the Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies to give a lecture entitled 'Indian Village: System and Tradition in Space, Modernity & Change'.

29 Oct. 2008, 8 a.m.

How does the EU deal with a rising China?

The Department of Political Science invites to the guest lecture 'How does the EU deal with a rising China?' by Jonas Parello-Plesner, Senior advisor on Asian Regional Affairs and EU-Asia Relations, Department for Asia and Latin America, Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

28 Oct. 2008, 3:15

Popculture in Japan

Professor Hamano Yasuki guests the University of Copenhagen to give a lecture with the title 'Popculture in Japan and its Cultural Roots'.

24 Oct. 2008, 1 p.m.

The Contrasting Cases of Nepal and Bangladesh

The Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) and NIAS - Nordic Institute of Asian Studies are organizing a seminar with David Ludden on: Inequality and Development Regimes: The Contrasting Cases of Nepal and Bangladesh.

21 Oct. 2008, 11:15-12:45

The Moral World of Minangkabau Adolescents

NIAS is pleased to invite you to a seminar with Lyn Parker from the University of Western Australia.

10 Oct. 2008, 10:15

Workshop - Translocal Religious Devotion

The History of Religions Section conducts an international workshop on Religion, Ritual and Politics in North India and Pakistan on 10 October 2008.

7 Oct. 2008, 10:15

Family in Crisis: Perceptions of Single Women in Beijing

Arianne M Gaetano, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Centre for East and Southeast Asian Studies, Lund University, visits NIAS in October and will give the talk 'Family in Crisis: Perceptions of Single Women in Beijing'.

3 Oct. 2008, 1:15

Tranquebar - then and now

Section for the History of Religions, University of Copenhagen and the Tranquebar Initiative, National Museum of Denmark hosts the lecture 'Tranquebar - then and now. A personal reflection as pastor in Tranquebar, South India'.

1 Oct. 2008, 4:15

The Post-Tsunami Impact on Women in Tranquebar

Centre for Comparative Cultural Studies, University of Copenhagen and the Tranquebar Initiative, Ethnographical Collections, National Museum of Denmark invites to a lecture entitled 'The Post-Tsunami Impact on Women in Tranquebar, India'.

27 Sept. 2008, 9:00

PhD defence

Karl Jakob Krogness defends his PhD-thesis 'The Koseki System and "Koseki Consciousness". An Exploration of the Development and Function of the Modern Household Registration System and how it influences Social Life'. 

16 Sept. 2008, 13:30

Kick-off conference

To mark the Asian Dynamics Initiative's kick-off, the University of Copenhagen is hosting a high profile conference in The Ceremonial Hall, Frue Plads on 16 September 2008.