Chinese Studies Thursday lectures 2025-2026
All lectures take place on Thursdays at 14:00 in Room 8/9 at FAMES.
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Date |
Speaker |
Lecture Series |
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Oct 9 |
Henrietta Harrison (Oxford): “Popular Songs of the 1949 Revolution” |
China Research Seminar
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Oct 16 |
Shirley Chan (Macquarie University): “Crisis and Disorder in Early China: From the Great Yu to the Lüshi Chunqiu” |
China Research Seminar |
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Oct 23 |
Giovanni Vitiello (Universita di Napoli L’orientale): “Tales of Faulty Retribution: Rhetorical Conventions and Their Transgression in Seventeenth-Century Pornographic Fiction” |
China Research Seminar |
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Oct 30 |
YANG Yingchuan (Cambridge): “Wired for Revolution: How Workers, Amateurs, and Blackmarketeers Built China’s Sonic Infrastructure” |
China Research Seminar |
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Nov 6 |
LIU Yunou (Southwest University of Political Science and Law, China) |
Book Culture in Buddhism and Beyond |
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Nov 13 |
Julia Keblinska (Cambridge) |
China Research Seminar |
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Nov 20 |
HAO Chunwen (Capital Normal University): “The Typology, Classification, and Structure of Dunhuang Manuscript Liturgies” |
Book Culture in Buddhism and Beyond |
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Nov 27 |
Romain Graziani (École normale supérieure de Lyon) : “Ruling by Numbers: Calculation and Cosmology, from Early China to Mao's slogans” |
China Research Seminar |
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Dec 4 |
Jack Chia (National University of Singapore): "Buddha's Diplomats: Figures of Buddhist Diplomacy in Modern Asia" |
Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lectures on Buddhism |
Lent 2026
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Date |
Speaker |
Series |
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Jan 22 |
Sébastien BILLIOUD (Université Paris Cité) |
China Research Seminar |
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Jan 29 |
Roel Sterckx (Cambridge) |
China Research Seminar |
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Feb 5 |
Valentina (Linyang) Yang (KU Leuven): “Intercultural morality books (善書): A new lens on Chinese-Christian encounters in late Ming and early Qing China”
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China Research Seminar |
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Feb 12 |
Henning von Mirbach (Cambridge): "Fresh Water and Tender Leaves: The Art of Tea Drinking in Ming China amid the Scarcity of Natural Resources"
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China Research Seminar |
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Feb 26 |
Charles Sanft (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
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China Research Seminar |
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Mar 5 |
Joachim Gentz (Edinburgh University)
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China Research Seminar |
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Mar 19 |
Stephen Teiser (Princeton) |
Book Culture in Buddhism and Beyond |
Easter 2026
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Date |
Speaker |
Series |
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Apr 30 |
Daniela Campo (Inalco): "Instructions for meditation as mediums for autobiographical expression in the Chan Buddhist tradition" |
Book Culture in Buddhism and Beyond |
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May 7 |
Henning Klöter (Humboldt-Universität Berlin)
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Chuan Lyu |
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May 14 |
James Robson (Harvard University) |
Book Culture in Buddhism and Beyond |
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May 21 |
Benjamin Brose (University of Michigan)
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Book Culture in Buddhism and Beyond |
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May 28 |
Barbara Mittler
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China Research Seminar |