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CIS Public Talks, Lent 2021
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Genealogy, Critique, and Decolonization:Ibn Khaldun and Moving Beyond Filling the Gaps
"Policing Infitah": Economic Liberalisation, Security and Social Order in Egypt
Inter-Asia through Inland Eyes: Afghan Trading Networks across Land and Sea
China Research Seminar, Lent 2021
China Research Seminar, Lent 2021 overview
Not Dreaming and Other Techniques of the Body
A Scroll for One or Two?
Reclaiming Autonomy and Diplomatic Agency
Plan, manage, track: Resource Management in a Sixteenth-Century Porcelain Kiln
Tracing Japanese Influence in Chinese Revolutionary Ballet
Blue Is Where the Message Is
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Lent 2021
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Lent 2021 overview
Contours of Early Sogdian History as Revealed by Recent Numismatic and Archaeological Research (4th century BCE-6th century CE)
Beyond the Silk Road: Yiwu and Commercial Connectivities across Eurasia
A Han Primer in Jingjue Kingdom: Its Identification and Contextualization
Remnants of Old Uyghur Literature in the Berlin Turfan Collection
Silk Roads seen from Kroraina: The Economic Landscape of an Oasis Kingdom in the Tarim Basin in the Third and Fourth Centuries CE
Chang’an, Damascus, and Venice: Tracing the Cultural Legacy of Tang Spherical Incense Burners
East Asia Seminar Series, Lent 2021
East Asia Seminar Series, Lent 2021 overview
Book launch: Pleasure in Profit | Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan
East Asia Seminar - Dr Chelsea Szendi Schieder
East Asia Seminar - Dr David Atherton
East Asia Seminar - Dr Will Bridges
East Asia Seminar - Prof Thomas Conlan
Rakugo Performance by Tatekawa Shinoharu
MES Public Talks Seminar Series, Lent 2021
MES Public Talks Seminar Series, Lent 2021 overview
Collections Within Collections: A Study of Tipu Sultan’s Library
[CANCELLED] MES Public Talk by Sussan Babaie
The King is Dead. Long Live the King! Stories of Succession and Accession in the Medieval Islamic West
The Thousand and One Nights and World Literature in the Twentieth Century
The Ra Jong-Yil Lecture
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China Research Seminar, Easter 2019
China Research Seminar, Easter 2019 overview
Confucius Unearthed: New Perspectives on the Master from the Shanghai Museum Manuscripts
Other Cosmopolitans: China and Beyond
Making China Modern
China Research Seminar, Lent 2019
China Research Seminar, Lent 2019 overview
Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them: Social Stratification through Human-Animal Metamorphosis on the Sino-Russian Border
Vaccination and Immunology in the PRC as Part of a World Wide Discourse
A Review of China’s Early Modern and Modern Transition and Growth Performance
Chen Di’s Record of Formosa: A Chinese Anti-Imperial Text in Comparative Perspective
Toward a Comprehensive Map of Power: A Panoramic Overview of Female Emperor Wu Zhao’s Political Authority
Elegant and Militarized: Ceremonial Volunteers and Gendered Nationalism in China
Transformations Manifested: Foxes and Shape-shifters in Early Imperial Literature
China Research Seminar, Lent 2020
China Research Seminar, Lent 2020 overview
Legal Liberal Resistance: The Experience of China's Human Rights Lawyers
Legal Mutilation and Moral Exclusion: Disputes on Integrity and Deformity in Early China
Back to Cambridge again: Translating The Verse of Shao Xunmei
The Great Cataclysm: Reconstructing Buddhist Monasteries in the Wake of the Taiping War
Divine Landscapes: Hagiography as Geography in the Zhenwu Cult
Crowning China’s “Hog Bristle King”: American Demand for Bristles and the Wartime Transformation of the Chinese Countryside
Déjà Vu? Photography as Metaphor: Repurposing Archival Photographs of Mao
China Research Seminar, Michaelmas 2018
China Research Seminar, Michaelmas 2018 overview
The Politics of Financialization in East Asia: Preliminary Observations from the Field
Telluric Currency Flows: The Coin, the Party, and the Jianghu
From the needle to the sword: Chinese heroines and exemplar women before and after the May fourth Movement
Building Anshan: Factory, City, and Countryside in the early PRC
Beyond Rebels and Sages: Islam and Muslims in the Landscape of Popular Religion in China
Religious Change and Social Change in Contemporary China
The changing moral economy of diasporic relations in a former emigrant village (Shenzhen, China)
The Politics of Chinese Media: Consensus and Contestation
China Research Seminar, Michaelmas 2019
China Research Seminar, Michaelmas 2019 overview
The ‘Old Man of Ten Victories’ (shiquan laoren 十全老人) Makes His Case: Qianlong 乾隆 as Frontier Conqueror and Self-Publicist
Debating the China Dream in the Age of Xi Jinping
From Miserable Patients to Competent Organizers: An Ethnographic Study on the Role of Women in the Confucian Congregation
The Politics of Illness in Early China
Is the Soul Coming Back? Confucianism in Contemporary China
Below the Summit: How Physicists, Acrobats, and Seismologists Remade US-China Relations, 1969-78
China Research Seminar: title TBA
Divine Landscapes: Hagiography as Geography in the Zhenwu Cult
Crowning China's 'Hog Bristle King': American Demand for Bristles and the Wartime Transformation of the Chinese Countryside
China Research Seminar, Michaelmas 2020
China Research Seminar, Michaelmas 2020 overview
A Chinese Novel from the Wilhelmine Empire: Alfred Döblin's The Three Leaps of Wang Lun
‘The Most Expensive Item in the World’ Online Marketing and the E-commercialisation of Charitable Projects in Contemporary China
Transmission Along the Southwest Silk Road: The Cultures of Sanxingdui, Jinsha and Dian
Please Don’t Laugh: Learning to Speak the “Common Language” in 1950s China
A Multitude of Objects: re-materialising the study of Chinese religious life
Materials, Design and Revolution in the Early People's Republic of China
Protestant Christian Names, Naming and Religious Legitimacy in Contemporary China
The Divine Ox: The Draft Animal as Incarnate Deity in Chinese Religion and Literature
Chuan Lyu Lectures 2019
Chuan Lyu Lectures 2019 overview
Religion and Resistance in Colonial Taiwan: The Ta-pa-ni Incident of 1915
Judicial Rituals in Postwar Taiwan
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, 2018
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Lent 2020
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Lent 2020 overview
Spread of Paper-making Technology along the Silk Road
The pre-Islamic Sogdian Painted Program at Afrasyab (Samarkand, Uzbekistan)
The Scripture of Laozi Ascending in the West and Reforming the Aliens: Taoism, Manichaeism and Imperial Propaganda in Two Tang Manuscripts from Dunhuang
Do we (mis)understand "iconic images" from Dunhuang? The “Sogdian deities” Reexamined
Revisiting the “Whirlwind Binding”: Evidence from the Dunhuang Manuscripts
Reading the Shi (Verses) Manuscripts of Anhui Daxue
Strange Gods and Strange Objects: Dice Divination along the Silk Roads
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2019
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2019 overview
The Topos of the World Upside Down Turned Rightside Up: Liu Xiang and the Evolution of Political Rhetoric in Early China
Letters from and to Xuanzang (602-664), Famous Chinese Pilgrim and Translator
Sogdian Manuscripts and the Religions of the Silk Road
Pure Land Paintings of the Silk Road: Medium and Materiality
Dunhuang Seminar - title TBA
Fun and Funerals: Acrobatic Entertainments on Eastern Han Stone Sarcophagi from the Southwest
Towards Building A Typology of Chos grub's Calligraphy: Paleographical Studies of Several Tibetan Manuscripts found in Dunhuang
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2020
Dunhuang & Silk Road Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2020 overview
The Silk Road and Erya
Afterlife of a Poem from Dunhuang
Han and Qiang Interactions in the Hexi Region as visible in Texts from Xuanquanzhi
Travelling on the Buddhist Road: Aspects of a Research Programme to Explore the Spread of Buddhism in Eastern Central Asian
Maitreya dwelling on the top of Mt. Sanwei: Transmission of a Buddhist image of the Song Dynasty
Textual Bonding in Early Chinese Manuscripts
Elite Uighurs as Cultural Middlemen of Buddhist Books and Woodcuts in the Mongol Empire
Dunhuang Studies Conference 2019
East Asia Seminar Series, Lent 2019
East Asia Seminar Series, Lent 2019 overview
East Asia Seminar Series - Professor Annmaria Shimabuku
East Asia Seminar Series - Professor Araragi Shinzo
East Asia Seminar Series - Dr Daniel Schley
East Asia Seminar Series - Professor David Ambaras
East Asia Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2018
East Asia Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2020
Faculty Research Day, 2019
Hebrew Studies Seminar Series, Lent & Easter, 2020
Hebrew Studies Seminar Series, Lent & Easter, 2020 overview
The First Hebrew Gay Detective: Sexuality, Identity Politics and the Enigma of the Self in the Detective Novel
Modern Hebrew Annual Lecture 2020 and Short Film Festival
Shall we call it Shoah? The politics behind the name
Sad Zionists: The Mental Cost of State Building
Graffiti on the Western Wall
Hebrew Studies Seminar Series, Lent, 2019
Hebrew Studies Seminar Series, Lent, 2019 overview
The Glow that Illuminates and the Glare that Obscures: Habitual Media As Warfare In Israel And Palestine
Sweet Capitalism: Hebrew Poetry Readings and Discussions with the Israeli Poet Tahel Frosh
The Halakha of Unheard voices: Jewish law Between Acceptance, Rejection and Ignorance
Hebrew Studies Seminar Series, Michaelmas, 2018
Hebrew Studies Seminar Series, Michaelmas, 2018 overview
National alternatives to Zionism: the case of the Young Hebrews, 1939-1976
The Yehuda Amichai Poetry Festival
Removing the Mask: Women-Only Haredi Arts as Spaces of Female Empowerment and Social Change in Israel
L2 Chinese Linguistics Seminar, Easter 2019
L2 Chinese Linguistics Seminar, Easter 2019 overview
Transfer at initial stages of L3 Mandarin: the acquisition of temporal-aspectual sentence final particles by English-Cantonese bilinguals
Encoding of anaphoric and associational definiteness in English speakers’ L2 Mandarin grammars
L3 acquisition of Mandarin sentence-final question particles ba and ne by Cantonese-English bilinguals
Indefinite NPs as Subjects in L2 and L3 Mandarin Grammars: Empirical Evidence for the Sources of Transfer in L3A
A processing problem or a representational problem? L2 acquisition of syntax-semantics interface in the Chinese ba construction by English-speaking learners
Covert subjects and objects resulting from TP ellipsis in English speakers’ L2 Chinese: Evidence of the declarative/procedural model
Cinese L2 Linguistics Seminar 7 - title TBC
Cinese L2 Linguistics Seminar 8 - title TBC
L2 Chinese Linguistics Seminar, Lent 2019
L2 Chinese Linguistics Seminar, Lent 2019 overview
L3 acquisition of Mandarin sentence-final question particles by Cantonese-English bilinguals
Interfaces in the Chinese Ba Construction and Their Representations in English-Speaking Learners’ L2 Chinese Grammars
Covert objects and VP ellipsis in English speakers’ L2 Chinese: Evidence of the incremental model of L2 speech production mechanisms
Definiteness in Heritage, L2 and L3 Mandarin grammars: Empirical evidence for the source of transfer in L3A
Absence of L1 transfer of ellipsis at L2 Chinese initial stages: Evidence from L2 Chinese oral production by English and Korean speakers
Temporal-Aspectual Sentence Final Particles in English and Cantonese Speakers’ L3 Mandarin Chinese
L2 acquisition of gapping constructions in Mandarin Chinese by English speakers
L2 Chinese Linguistics Seminar, Michaelmas 2018
L2 Chinese Linguistics Seminar, Michaelmas 2018 overview
The processing of mandarin Chinese reflexive dependency structures in bilingual contexts
Interfaces in the Chinese Ba Construction and Their Representations in English-Speaking Learners’ L2 Chinese Grammars
MES Public Talks Seminar Series, Lent 2020
MES Public Talks Seminar Series, Lent 2020 overview
Arabic and Romance influences on late Judaeo-Arabic orthography
MES Public Talk (title TBC)
Freedom Fields
The Unexpected Love Objects of Dunya Noor
Utopia and Civilisation in the Arab Nahda
Mimesis and the Representation of Reality in the Qurʾan
MES Public Talks Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2019
MES Public Talks Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2019 overview
‘Let Me Take Your Pain Away’: Female Shamanism and Music in Central Asia
Queer Writing and Cultural Production in Palestine Today
British Orientalism from an Iraqi perspective: the work of H.A.R. Gibb
Post-Partition and the Predicament of Individual and Collective Rights in Israel/Palestine
Re-discovering a Literary Treasure: The Anvar-e Sohayli written by Vaʿez Kashefi in Fifteenth- Century Herat
MES Public Talks Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2020
MES Public Talks Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2020 overview
Agents of the Hidden Imam between Myth and History
Why Hebrew ‘Shoah’? A Conceptual History and Two Narratives of Antisemitism
Afterlife of a Poem from Dunhuang
Land, Law, and Identity in the Late Ottoman Gulf
MES Seminar Series, Lent 2019
MES Seminar Series, Lent 2019 overview
History of the Ottoman Public Education and Paradigm Shifts
The Rise oft he Egyptian Middle Class: Economic Mobility and Public Discontent from Nasser to Sadat
The Classical Arabic Hunting Poem
Defining a Minority: the Construction of the Copts in the Earliest Arabic Historical Texts
MES Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2018
MES Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2018 overview
The development of Israel Studies in the Arab world: Cairo University as a Test Case
City Chauvinism and Eroto-panegyrics: the profane poetics of post-Mongol Shiraz
Arabic Language Ideology: A Case of Language Anxiety?
Literature as Magic, Magic as Literature
Summer Modern Hebrew Ulpan, 2021
The Grammar of Classical Ethiopic: its history and problems
China Careers: Opportunity and the Middle Kingdom
Summer Modern Hebrew Ulpan, 2019
2nd International Conference on Teaching Persian Language and Literature
2nd International Conference on Teaching Persian Language and Literature overview
2nd International Conference on Teaching Persian Language and Literature
Biblical & Rabinic Hebrew Conference
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