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News and events

The Global China Research Centre organises a variety of seminars, talks, conferences, workshops, lectures and symposia. Our upcoming events are displayed below.

Seminars will usually take place between 3 and 4pm, unless otherwise stated. Locations may vary.

Forthcoming seminars

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Call for Abstracts - Graduate and ECR Seminar Series - Spring Term 2023

The University of Exeter Global China Research Centre would like to welcome proposals for the inaugural session of our graduate and early-career researcher seminar series in China Studies. This series will open with a keynote lecture by Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford, Pembroke College), a leading scholar in Chinese history and Sinology and, most recently, author of The Perils of Interpreting: The Extraordinary Lives of Two Translators between Qing China and the British Empire (Princeton University Press, 2021).

For the series of graduate and ECR seminars which is to follow Professor Harrison’s keynote lecture, we welcome proposals for presentations on not only modern history and translation studies, but also any work which falls under the rubric of China Studies. This includes but is not limited to comparative literature, visual culture, film and media studies, as well as museum studies, to name just a few. Interdisciplinary approaches with a strong historical, cultural, or linguistic focus are particularly welcome.

We invite fellow graduate students and early-career researchers to submit proposals for seminar presentations on any topic pertaining to China Studies. The convenors are interested in a wide range of topics, including but not limited to PRC history, public history in China, the maintenance and management of heritage sites, Sino-Anglo literary entanglements, the influence of feminism on contemporary Chinese media, and the culture and dissemination of Chinese artforms and artefacts.

Our keynote lecture will be open to the public, and the subsequent graduate and ECR seminar series will be open to students and staff of any affiliation. All convenors are current graduate students or early career researchers, and the seminar series is intended to provide an environment in which speakers may present research at any stage of completion to an audience of peers. This session of seminars will be held in person and/or online (depending on the availability of the selected presenters) during the University of Exeter’s spring term, which is between 9 January and 31 March 2023. Presentations are expected to last between 15 and 20 minutes and will be followed by Q&A to be moderated by the convenors.

Those interested in presenting their research are invited to send a provisional title, an abstract no longer than 300 words, and a short biographical note to exgcrc-seminar@outlook.com by 9 December 2022. Any queries should be directed to the same address.

Global China Research Centre Graduate and ECR Seminar Series Convenors:

  • Dr Thomas C. Burnham
  • Ms Lin Zhang
  • Ms Qi Zhou
  • Ms Jingjing Cao
  • Ms Yang Lu
  • Dr Yue Zhuang (GCRC Director)

Past seminars

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26 April 202314:00

Missionaries and Diplomats

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21 November 2022TBC

Learning from pictures? Illustrations of porcelain manufacture as ‘how to’ guides.

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17 February 202112:30

Learning from pictures? Illustrations of porcelain manufacture as ‘how to’ guides.

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26 - 27 June 201910:30

Lecture series and workshop on ‘Translating Chinese Poetry’

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30 January 201912:30

Dubious Distinctions: Why Europe, not China was Responsible for the Great Divergence?

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5 December 201815:00

Translation as a Lingua Franca. The East Asian Response to Global English

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5 December 201815:00

Global China Research Centre Seminar Series: Translation as a Lingua Franca, the East Asian Response to Global English

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21 November 201815:30

Chinese and European Perspectives on Architecture and Heritage

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29 June 201812:00

Translating Chinese Classics Tao Te Ching

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24 January 2018TBC

Historical Links between Indochinese Islam and China

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16 - 17 December 2017TBC

The First International Conference on Global Discourse and Chinese Experience

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13 July 201710:30

China's Belt and Road Initiative

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16 June 2017TBC

Postutopian Returns: The Peach Blossom Spring in Contemporary Chinese Landscape Aesthetics

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10 May 201716:00

Reviving the past, civilising the modern: cultural governance and hegemonic discourse in China

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8 March 2017TBC

How China Sees Global Governance

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11 June 2016TBC

“China in the Modern World: Paradigms and Methodologies”

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27 January 201615:00

Eating food in China, Greece, India: taste, the humours and the Cosmos

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15 - 18 May 2015TBC

Advanced International Workshop on the Senses in Sino-Western Cultural Exchanges in the Early Modern Period

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16 March 201515:00

Chinese Studies Seminar Series

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4 March 201516:00

Russian emigres in Shanghai

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25 February 201516:00

Sex in the cloister: cross-cultural perspective of late imperial Chinese anticlerical literature

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16 February 201516:00

From Constitutionalisation to Revolution: The Politics of "Fa-Tong" and the Disenchantment of Constitutionalism in China, 1912-1925

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14 January 201516:00

The Mid-Eighteenth-Century Novel: A Dream of Red Mansion in Comparison with Clarissa and Tom Jones

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25 November 201415:00

Workshop: Body, Medicine and Landscape: China and Europe, 17-19th centuries

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11 November 201415:00

Displacing the Western Powers in the Gulf: the Strategic Implications of China's Growing Role in the Arab/Persian Gulf Region

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