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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13 December 2023	12:00	Global China Research Centre Graduate and Early-Career Research Seminar Series	Add event

Past seminars

When	Time	Description	Add to your calendar
29 November 2023	16:00	Global China Research Centre Graduate and Early-Career Research Seminar Series	Add event
15 November 2023	15:00	Global China Research Centre Graduate and Early-Career Research Seminar Series	Add event
15 November 2023	15:00	Global China Research Centre Graduate and Early-Career Research Seminar Series	Add event
18 October 2023	TBC	The Global China Research Centre's Graduate and ECR Seminar Series	Add event
3 October 2023	11:45	Keynote lecture for the Global China Research Centre's Graduate and ECR Seminar Series 2023-24	Add event
26 April 2023	14:00	Missionaries and Diplomats	Add event
9 January 2023	TBC	Keynote lecture for the Global China Research Centre's Graduate and ECR Seminar Series 2022-23	Add event
7 December 2022	16:30	Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio	Add event
17 February 2021	12:30	Learning from pictures? Illustrations of porcelain manufacture as ‘how to’ guides.	Add event
26 - 27 June 2019	10:30	Lecture series and workshop on ‘Translating Chinese Poetry’	Add event
30 January 2019	12:30	Dubious Distinctions: Why Europe, not China was Responsible for the Great Divergence?	Add event
5 December 2018	15:00	Translation as a Lingua Franca. The East Asian Response to Global English	Add event
5 December 2018	15:00	Global China Research Centre Seminar Series: Translation as a Lingua Franca, the East Asian Response to Global English	Add event
21 November 2018	15:30	Chinese and European Perspectives on Architecture and Heritage	Add event
29 June 2018	12:00	Translating Chinese Classics Tao Te Ching	Add event
24 January 2018	TBC	Historical Links between Indochinese Islam and China	Add event
16 - 17 December 2017	TBC	The First International Conference on Global Discourse and Chinese Experience	Add event
13 July 2017	10:30	China's Belt and Road Initiative	Add event
16 June 2017	TBC	Postutopian Returns: The Peach Blossom Spring in Contemporary Chinese Landscape Aesthetics	Add event
10 May 2017	16:00	Reviving the past, civilising the modern: cultural governance and hegemonic discourse in China	Add event
8 March 2017	TBC	How China Sees Global Governance	Add event
11 June 2016	TBC	“China in the Modern World: Paradigms and Methodologies”	Add event
27 January 2016	15:00	Eating food in China, Greece, India: taste, the humours and the Cosmos	Add event
15 - 18 May 2015	TBC	Advanced International Workshop on the Senses in Sino-Western Cultural Exchanges in the Early Modern Period	Add event
16 March 2015	15:00	Chinese Studies Seminar Series	Add event
4 March 2015	16:00	Russian emigres in Shanghai	Add event
25 February 2015	16:00	Sex in the cloister: cross-cultural perspective of late imperial Chinese anticlerical literature	Add event
16 February 2015	16:00	From Constitutionalisation to Revolution: The Politics of "Fa-Tong" and the Disenchantment of Constitutionalism in China, 1912-1925	Add event
14 January 2015	16:00	The Mid-Eighteenth-Century Novel: A Dream of Red Mansion in Comparison with Clarissa and Tom Jones	Add event
25 November 2014	15:00	Workshop: Body, Medicine and Landscape: China and Europe, 17-19th centuries	Add event
11 November 2014	15:00	Displacing the Western Powers in the Gulf: the Strategic Implications of China's Growing Role in the Arab/Persian Gulf Region	Add event