20 December 2024
Dr Thomas P. Barrett's latest article, 'Qing Diplomacy’s Scottish Face: Halliday Macartney, Yamen Culture, and Diplomatic Transformation in China’s London Legation, 1877-1905' has just been published in volume 45, issue 2 of Late Imperial China.
10 December 2024
We are delighted to announce that Queens College is offering The Yen Ming Deh Scholarship - this scholarship is open to applicants starting a PhD or MPhil course at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern studies in October 2025, and preference may be given to candidates specialising in Chinese studies.
09 December 2024
The project is entitled "The image and perceptions of Armenia in the Arab world through the eyes of Arabic media" and begins in January 2025, led by Dr Mushegh Ghahriyan of Yerevan State University.
06 December 2024
Aishwarj Kumar has translated an English novel into Hindi, and the title of the novel is 'Never Never Land'. The novel is by the esteemed Indian author Namita Gokhale.
06 December 2024
We are very excited to announce the acquisition of a large series of facsimiled Buddhist texts titled Zhongguo fojiao banhua quanji 中國佛教版畫全集.
06 December 2024
This has included various news media outlets such as Channel 4 News, the Sky News Podcast, CNN, the Times and the Guardian
03 December 2024
Professor Christine van Ruymbeke will feature as a specialist on the 12th Century Persian Poet Nezami of Ganje.
29 November 2024
Roel Sterckx, Directeur d’Études Invité at the École Pratique des Hautes Études (Section Sciences Historiques et philologiques) in Paris, gave a lecture series on the theme “Penser l’agriculture dans la Chine ancienne
18 November 2024
Professor Moretti will deliver lectures as part of the museum's online course The Artist and the Book.
12 November 2024
Diachronic Diversity in Classical Biblical Hebrew
16 September 2024
With the support of the Cambridge-DAAD Fund, Professor Barak Kushner (AMES Faculty) and Professor Kerstin von Lingen (University of Vienna) recently co-hosted a day-long workshop: Mapping the end of empire: coming to terms with the Pacific War - Shanghai as a hub of displacement and resettlement.
The full schedule of speakers and topics can be viewed below.
10 September 2024
Prof Laura Moretti has been invited to give a lecture at the University of Pennsylvania's Workshop
30 August 2024
Watch Dr John Nilsson-Wright's recent appearance on Arirang TV's 'Within the Frame' where he discussed Washington's nuclear strategic plan and the response from Pyongyang.
30 August 2024
Peter Han's article on ‘Why North Korea may find the South’s new vision for unification provocative’ is available to read in The Conversation, published on 21 August. The article has also been republished as a commentary by Singapore’s state-owned media CNA on 23 August.
30 August 2024
The Fitzwilliam Museum is currently displaying a collection of ukiyo-e prints, providing an exciting opportunity to take a closer look at these rarely displayed works.
FAMES PhD student Helen Magowan undertook a 3-month internship at the Fitzwilliam museum at the beginning of the year, which has now materialised into the current display in the Shiba Gallery.