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Seminars

Forthcoming seminars for 2009


DateTitlePresenter
Tuesday, 24 November
PSC Reading Room, 4.27 Hedley Bull building
3.00pm-4.30pm
(Ref no: 755)
Governing Educational Desire: Culture, Politics and Schooling in ChinaDr Andrew Kipnis

Profile

Joint seminar with Department of Political and Social Change

Past seminars in 2009


DateTitlePresenter
Thursday, 19 February
Baldessin E4.44
2.00pm
(Ref no: 437)
Sinology Old and New: A Forum
Whither Chinese Studies?
Professor John Minford with Professor Anthony Yu
Thursday, 26 February
Theatrette, Old Canberra House
1.30pm
(Ref no: 438)
In Conversation: Anthony Yu joins John Minford on The Story of the StoneProfessor Anthony Yu and Professor John Minford
Friday, 27 February
McDonald Room, Menzies Library
10.30am
(Ref no: 442)
Uncertainty, Governance and Rights: Intellectual Strategies and Conflicting Frames of Reference in ChinaProfessor David Kelly, UTS
Tuesday, 17 March
McDonald Room, Menzies Library
1.30pm-3pm
(Ref no: 468)
Tragedy of the Nomenklatura: Career Incentives and Political Radicalism during China’s Great Leap FamineProfessor James Kai-Sing Kung & Chen Shuo
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Thursday, 26 March
Seminar Room A
1pm-2.30pm
(Ref no: 473)
China's New Urban Poor: Mollified Anti-Emblem of Urban ModernizationProfessor Dorothy Solinger
University of California - Irvine
Friday, 27 March
Seminar Room A
10.30am-12pm
(Ref no: 474)
Economic and Political Reform in China and the Former Soviet Union Professor Thomas Bernstein
Professor Emeritus of Political Science
Columbia University
Thursday, 23 April
Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
1.00pm-2.30pm
(Ref no: 533)
Han Dynasty Funerary Figurines: An Alternative ViewProf Chen Yantang
Henan Provincial Administration of Cultural Heritage
Friday, 17 July
Baldessin E4.44
3.00pm-4.00pm
(Ref no: 632)
Chinese history, New Qing History and New SinologyProfessor Mark Elliot, Harvard University

Profile

Wednesday, 26 August
Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
2.00pm-4.00pm
(Ref no: 633)
The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in ChinaA/Professor Joan Judge, York University

Profile

Thursday, 27 August
Hedley-Bull Seminar Room (HB3, ground floor)
10.00am-11.30am
(Ref no: 634)
The Mysterious Gold Seal of 57 C.E. and the Debate over Its Authenticity and Meaning over the Past Two CenturiesProfessor Joshua Fogel, York University

Profile

Tuesday, 1 September
Seminar Room A
11:00am-12:00pm
(Ref no: 687)
The Qing Withering State and Its ConsequencesDr Kent Deng, LSE, University of London

Profile

Joint seminar with Division of Pacific and Asian History

Thursday, 17 September
ANU China Institute, 4th floor, Baldessin Precinct Building
2.30pm-4.30pm
(Ref no: 703)
Searching for the Dream: Performing the Peony PavilionTang Yuen-ha
Artistic Director of Jingkun Theatre

Profile

Friday, 25 September
ANU China Institute, 4th floor, Baldessin Precinct Building
2.30pm-4.30pm
(Ref no: 704)
The Aesthetics of Kunqu TheatreTang Yuen-ha
Artistic Director of Jingkun Theatre

Profile

Wednesday, 18 November
PSC Reading Room, 4.27 Hedley Bull building
3.30pm-5.00pm
(Ref no: 761)
China and the Environment – Tempest in a Teapot?Professor Thomas G. Rawski, University of Pittsburgh

Profile

Joint seminar with Department of Political and Social Change

Seminars in 2008


DateTitlePresenter
Thursday, 1 May
Finkel Lecture Theatre, JCSMR
5.30pm-6.30pm
(Ref no: 395)
Forum: Tibet - Beyond the ProtestsProfessor Geremie R. Barmé, Dr Ben Hillman, Dr Katherine Morton
Friday, 8 August
McDonald Room, Menzies Library
3.00pm-4.30pm
(Ref no: 307)
International NGOs and the Development of Civil Society in China: A Case Study of the NGO 'Pacific Environment'
    Prof Thomas Gold
    University of California, Berkeley

    Profile

    Wednesday, 24 September
    Seminar Room A
    1.30pm-3pm
    (Ref no: 314)
    A Year in Tibet
      Sun Shuyun
      Film and television producer
      Monday, 10 November
      McDonald Room, Menzies Library
      10.30am-12pm
      (Ref no: 312)
      Fragmented Authoritarianism 2.0:
      What China's Hydropower Politics May Portend
      Dr Andrew Mertha
      Cornell University

      Profile

      Thursday, 13 November
      Seminar Room B (Arndt Room)
      3.30pm-5pm
      (Ref no: 357)
      Participatory Budgeting in ChinaProf He Baogang
      Deakin University

      Profile

      Tuesday, 2 December
      Seminar Room A
      11:00am-12:00pm
      (Ref no: 371)
      Beijing, an Invisible City and an Intangible HeritageProf Geremie Barmé

      Joint seminar with Division of Pacific and Asian History