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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
Below the Summit: How Physicists, Acrobats, and Seismologists Remade US-China Relations, 1969-78
China Research Seminar: title TBA
Dunhuang Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2019
Dunhuang 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
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
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
The Ra Jong-Yil Lecture
2nd International Conference on Teaching Persian Language and Literature
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2nd International Conference on Teaching Persian Language and Literature
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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, 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
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 Studies Conference 2019
EAS Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2018
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
Faculty Research Day, 2019
Hebrew Studies Seminar Series, Lent, 2019
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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, 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 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
The Grammar of Classical Ethiopic: its history and problems
China Careers: Opportunity and the Middle Kingdom
Dunhuang Seminar Series, 2018
Summer Modern Hebrew Ulpan, 2019
Biblical & Rabinic Hebrew Conference
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MES Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2018
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
China Research Seminar, Easter 2019
China Research Seminar, Lent 2019
China Research Seminar, Michaelmas 2018
Chuan Lyu Lectures 2019
Dunhuang Studies Conference 2019
EAS Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2018
East Asia Seminar Series, Lent 2019
Faculty Research Day, 2019
Hebrew Studies Seminar Series, Lent, 2019
Hebrew Studies Seminar Series, Michaelmas, 2018
L2 Chinese Linguistics Seminar, Lent 2019
L2 Chinese Linguistics Seminar, Michaelmas 2018
MES Seminar Series, Lent 2019
The Grammar of Classical Ethiopic: its history and problems
China Careers: Opportunity and the Middle Kingdom
Dunhuang Seminar Series, 2018
Summer Modern Hebrew Ulpan, 2019
Biblical & Rabinic Hebrew Conference
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