• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Pak Hei (Patrick) Hao (University of Oxford) , Simon Lam (University of Oxford) , Weihan Sun (University of Oxford) , Ivi Fung (University of Oxford) , Zhang Ning (University of Oxford) , Zhou Fang (University of Oxford)
• Timing: 5pm on Wednesday (Weeks 2, 3, 4, 7, and 8) at the Lucina Ho Seminar Room at the University of Oxford China Centre
• Web Address: https://en-gb.facebook.com/OxIHEAS/

Monday 23 January 2017

• 17:00 - Transformation of the Regional Order during the Cold War
  Christian Talley (University of Oxford), Federico Pachetti (University of Hong Kong)

Monday 6 February 2017

• 17:00 - East-West Interactions and their Impact in the 19th century
  Josepha Richard (University of Sheffield), Yu Qiong (SOAS, University of London)

Monday 13 February 2017

• 17:00 - Special Film Screening Session at China Centre Lecture Theatre
  Chun-yu Liu (Independent Artist)

Monday 20 February 2017

• 17:00 - The Flow of Goods, People, and Ideas within and beyond East Asia
  Ander Permanyer-Ugartemendia (Universitat Pompeu Fabra), Casper Wits (Doshisha University)

Monday 27 February 2017

• 17:00 - State-building in China and India during the 20th Century
  Meiying Li (King's College London), Anton Harder (London School of Economics)

Monday 6 March 2017

• 17:00 - Empires and the International System at the Turn of the Century
  Thomas Barrett (University of Tokyo), Noriko Unno-Yamazaki (University of Tokyo)

Monday 24 April 2017

• 17:00 - Transnational Actors and the State in the Sino-Russian and Sino-American Contexts
  Yuexin Rachel Lin (National University of Singapore), Pete Millwood (University of Oxford)

Monday 8 May 2017

• 17:00 - International Solidarity and Intervention in 20th Century East Asia
  Edwin Michielsen (University of Toronto), Alex Ferguson (University of Southampton)

Monday 22 May 2017

• 17:00 - New Perspectives on International Dimensions of Late Qing Reforms
  Jiani He (University of Cambridge), Jiani He (University of Oxford)

Monday 5 June 2017

• 17:00 - Rethinking Sino-British Interactions in the 19th Century
  Ching-Yin Nathan Kwan (King’s College London and University of Hong Kong), Michael Yeo Chai Ming (University of Oxford and Nanyang Technological University)

Monday 16 October 2017

• 17:00 - Rethinking the Opium War and Fascism in East Asia
  Various Speakers

Monday 30 October 2017

• 17:00 - Conflicts and Security among the Regional Powers in the Asia Pacific
  Various Speakers

Monday 13 November 2017

• 17:00 - China, Nation-state, and Cultural Diplomacy in Historical Perspectives
  Various Speakers

Monday 27 November 2017

• 17:00 - Sino-Japanese Wars: Communications, Cartoons, and Diplomacy
  Various Speakers

Monday 22 January 2018

• 17:00 - Transnational Exchanges in the Asia-Pacific
  Ruth de Llobet-Franch (Universitat Pompeu Fabra-GRIMSE, Barcelona), Giles Scott-Smith (Leiden University)

Monday 5 February 2018

• 17:00 - Gendered Experiences of Christianity and Nationalism during the Second World War in East Asia
  Alexandria Dugal (University of Oxford), Jennifer Bond (SOAS, University of London)

Monday 19 February 2018

• 17:00 - Cold War Variations in the Representation of China
  Hao Chen (University of Cambridge), Nelson So (University of Oxford)

Monday 5 March 2018

• 17:00 - Spies in East Asia
  Amanda Zhang (University of Oxford), Miriam Matejova (University of British Columbia)

Monday 30 April 2018

• 17:00 - New Perspectives on Hong Kong & Sino-British Relations in the Early 20th Century
  Vivian Kong (University of Bristol), Woody Di Wu (University of Oxford)

Monday 14 May 2018

• 17:00 - Cold War Competition and Cooperation in East Asia
  Natalia Matveeva (SOAS, University of London), Sheng Peng (University of Oxford)

Monday 21 May 2018

• 17:00 - Legal Controversies & State-Building in Late 19th Century East Asia
  Takahiro Yamamoto (University of Heidelberg), Jonathan Chappell (London School of Economics)

Monday 4 June 2018

• 17:00 - The Development of Transna'onal Thought in East and Southeast Asia
  Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz (Harvard University & University of Cambridge)

Monday 15 October 2018

• 17:00 - Medicine, Empire, and War in China: The Transnational and the Local
  Meilin Zhou (SOAS), Mo TIAN, (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg)

Monday 5 November 2018

• 17:00 - Japanese Non-State Actors in the Age of Empire
  Maj Hartmann (KU Leuven), Yongkeun Chun (Royal College of Art)

Monday 12 November 2018

• 17:00 - Japan and Korea: Building and Dismantling Empire
  Hannah Shepherd (Trinity College, Cambridge), Deokhyo Choi (University of Sheffield)

Monday 26 November 2018

• 17:00 - China and the World: International Connections in Technology and Counter-Insurgency
  Tan Ying Jia (Wesleyan University), Xiu Guangmin (Sichuan University)

Monday 21 January 2019

• 17:00 - Migration and Citizenship in Qing China and British Hong Kong - “Anglo-Chinese”: Transimperial Exchange and the Location of International Law in Qing China
  Nicholas McGee (University of Toronto)
• 17:00 - Migration and Citizenship in Qing China and British Hong Kong - Negotiating Informal Racial Divides: The “Portuguese Collaborators” in British Hong Kong, 1840-1880
  Catherine Chan (University of Bristol)

Monday 4 February 2019

• 17:00 - Islands in Empires in Modern East and Southeast Asia: New Perspectives - Camphor, Celluloid and Posthuman Imperialism: The Dutch East Indies and Colonial Taiwan in Comparative Perspective
  Faizah Zakaria (Leiden University and Nanyang Technological University)
• 17:00 - Islands in Empires in Modern East and Southeast Asia: New Perspectives - Island Pioneers: A Study of the Profile, Activities and Legacy of Early Settlers in the Disputed Islands of East and South China Seas
  Katherine Bandanwal (National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, Japan)

Monday 18 February 2019

• 17:00 - Art, Anarchism and Transnational Friendship: Cultures of Exchange in Northeast Asia - The Rediscovery of Traditions and Trans-Cultural Dialogues: Chen Shizeng and the Art Salon of the Early Republican Beijing, 1912-1923
  Zi Wang (University of Edinburgh)
• 17:00 - Art, Anarchism and Transnational Friendship: Cultures of Exchange in Northeast Asia - Vassily Eroshenko in Japan: the Subversitve Meaning of Friendship Across Borders
  Ian Rapley (University of Cardiff)

Monday 4 March 2019

• 17:00 - Sino-Indian Connections: New Perspectives on 20th century Conflicts
  Yang Han (University of Oxford), Zhaodong Wang (University of Edinburgh:)

Monday 13 May 2019

• 17:00 - Families Across Borders in the Asia-Pacific
  Y.J. Hwang (University of Pittsburgh), Kanako Kuramitsu (University of Birmingham)

Monday 27 May 2019

• 17:00 - Rethinking Class in Interwar China and Japan
  Jamyung Choi (Yanbian University), Peter Kwok-Fai Law (SOAS, University of London)

Monday 17 June 2019

• 17:00 - Cultures of Occupation in Beijing and Hong Kong
  L. Odila Schröder (University of Nottingham), Vivien Chan (University of Nottingham)

Monday 21 October 2019

• 17:00 - Industrial Management and Technical Development in the DPRK and China During the 1950s and 1960s
  Charlotte Webb (SOAS, University of London)
• 17:00 - Land Reform from Above or Below: A Comparative Study on Land Reform in North Korea and North Vietnam
  Hyunjong Noh (Seoul National University)

Monday 4 November 2019

• 17:00 - A New Woman: Yamei Kin’s Contributions to Medicine and Women’s Rights in the U.S. and China, 1864-1934
  Xiao Li (Southern Illinois University)
• 17:00 - Another Way to Shape Cantonese Cultures: Missionaries’ Cantonese Language Books in the 19th Century
  Sixing Chen (University of Hong Kong)

Monday 18 November 2019

• 17:00 - Post-war Constructions of Southeast Asia through Social Welfare and Urban Development
  Michael Sugarman (University of Bristol)
• 17:00 - Japanese Mediation in the Indonesia-Malaysia Confrontation (1963-66): The View from London
  Giulia Garbagni (University of Cambridge)

Monday 2 December 2019

• 17:00 - International “Experts” in Relief and Rehabilitation: the Failure of the UNRRA in Immediate Post-WWII China
  Jiayi Tao (University of Bristol)
• 17:00 - The Soviet Sinologists and USSR’s Response to the Normalization of U.S.-China Diplomatic Relations, 1977-1981
  Sheng Peng (University of Oxford)

Monday 27 January 2020

• 17:00 - Moving Bodies: Post-War Dance, Women, and Protest in Japan
  Alice Baldock (Oxford)
• 17:00 - How the National Ballet of China’s 2017 Tour of Australia Forged an Interracial Far Right Alliance
  Ellan Lincoln-Hyde (SOAS)

Monday 10 February 2020

• 17:00 - Across, Between and Beyond Nation States: Overseas Chinese Private Remittance Networks, 1850s-1930s
  Ania Gricuk (LSE)
• 17:00 - Another War: China’s Struggle for Financial Aid during WWII
  Lin Ma (Oxford)

Monday 24 February 2020

• 17:00 - Write Well, Work Well: Script Reform, Efficiency Movements, and Nation Identity in Japan and Germany, 1919-1945
  Toshiki Kawashima (University of Pennsylvania)
• 17:00 - A Chinese in the Dark: Infrastructure and Illumination in German Qingdao, 1898-1914
  Mimi Cheng (University of Rochester)

Monday 9 March 2020

• 17:00 - Visions of Profit: American Commerce on the Yangtze River during the Taiping and American Civil Wars
  Thomas Larkin (University of Bristol)
• 17:00 - The Cadiz Affair, Zhenjiang (1874-1878): Jurisdictional Competition and Foreign Influence in Late Qing China
  Georges Moraitis (Queen's University, Belfast)

Monday 11 May 2020

• 13:00 - Colonial Contradictions: Wartime Refugees in Neutral Hong Kong and Macau, 1937-1945
  To attend this presentation, please register to receive the Zoom link by emailing mark.baker@history.ox.ac.uk
  Helena F. S. Lopes (University of Bristol)

Monday 18 May 2020

• 13:00 - The Morals of Modernity: Travelling Yinshu (Obscene Books) between Shanghai and Colonial Singapore, 1920s-1930s
  To attend this presentation, please register to receive the Zoom link by emailing thomas.barrett@orinst.ox.ac.uk
  Yushu Geng (University of Cambridge)

Monday 25 May 2020

• 13:00 - In between the ‘Continents’: Japanese Tango Musicians in China, 1920s-1940s
  To attend this presentation, please register to receive the Zoom link by emailing lin.ma@orinst.ox.ac.uk
  Yuiko Asaba (Osaka University/University of Huddersfield)

Monday 1 June 2020

• 17:00 - Imperium inter Imperia: The Catholic Church in Modern Chinese and Global History
  To attend this presentation, please register to receive the Zoom link by emailing thomas.burnham@history.ox.ac.uk
  Steven Pieragastini (Loyola Marymount University)

Monday 8 June 2020

• 13:00 - ‘With a mill-stone about her neck’: China’s Participation in the 1924-1925 Geneva Opium Conferences and its Impacts
  To attend this presentation, please register to receive the Zoom link by emailing lin.ma@orinst.ox.ac.uk
  Yun Huang (University of Strathclyde)

Monday 15 June 2020

• 13:00 - A ‘Bridge’ from China to the Eastern Malay Archipelago: Sojourners and Smugglers in Early Twentieth-Century Sandakan, North Borneo
  To attend this presentation, please register to receive the Zoom link by emailing thomas.burnham@history.ox.ac.uk
  Michael Yeo (University of Oxford/Nanyang Technological University, Singapore)

Monday 22 June 2020

• 13:00 - Nishihara Kamezō and the Origins of Developmentalist East Asia: State Socialism, WWI, and the East Asian Economic League
  To attend this presentation, please register to receive the Zoom link by emailing di.wu@history.ox.ac.uk
  Ernest Leung (Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Monday 12 October 2020

• 13:00 - Voting with your hooves: waves of flight of herdsmen from Hulun Buir to the Mongolian People's Republic, 1962-1964
  TBA

Monday 19 October 2020

• 13:00 - Chinese Propaganda Policy and Wartime Publicity in Australia, 1937-1945
  Bolin Hu (University of Auckland)

Monday 26 October 2020

• 13:00 - Hokkaido as “Eastern America”: Towards a Critique of Transcolonialism
  Michael Roellinghoff (University of Tokyo)

Monday 2 November 2020

• 13:00 - Gender-Sound in Wonderland: Zhao Yuanren’s Nonsensical Pronouns, Literary Translation, and the Limits of the National Language Movement
  Coraline Jortay (University of Oxford)

Monday 16 November 2020

• 13:00 - Marriage of Convenience: Constructing a Japanese Model of Empire Through Intermarriage, 1919-1937
  Genevieve Tan (University of Pennsylvania)

Monday 23 November 2020

• 13:00 - Touring China’s Underground "Great Wall": From the 1969 Sino-Soviet Border Clashes to Shelter Diplomacy
  Katrin Heilmann (King's College London)

Monday 30 November 2020

• 13:00 - Forgotten Leader of a Forgotten Alliance: Abdurresid Ibrahim and his Vision of Japan as the Leader of Muslims
  Time may change as yet to be confirmed
  Muhammed Cihad Kubat (Bilkent University and Inonu University)

Wednesday 20 January 2021

• 13:00 - Atlas in Motion: Visualising Manchuria in Moving Images
  Yufei Li (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 27 January 2021

• 13:00 - Global Trade and Translingual Contact in Sinophone Asia: The English and Portuguese Languages in Chinese Everyday Life, 1800-1840
  Carl Kubler (University of Chicago)

Wednesday 3 February 2021

• 13:00 - Legitimated Rule through Minority Liberation: China’s Incorporation of Muslim Minorities as Presented at Bandung
  Arianne Ekinci (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)

Wednesday 10 February 2021

• 13:00 - Treaty-making and Colonization in East Asia: Korea and Vietnam in the 19th Century
  Jeeve Song (University of Florida)

Wednesday 17 February 2021

• 13:00 - The World of Science and the Chinese Reader: Negotiating Nation and Universe in Popular Science Publications, 1933-1945
  Noa Nahimias (York University)

Wednesday 24 February 2021

• 13:00 - The Legal Life of Women in the Shanghai’s Concessions (1845-1943)
  Lu Yu (Zhejiang University)

Wednesday 3 March 2021

• 13:00 - Visible ‘Races’: Constructing Boundaries in Chinese Press Photographs (1907-1913)
  Giulia Pra Floriani (Heidelberg University)

Wednesday 10 March 2021

• 13:00 - A Journey to the other Pacific Shore: A Study on the Chinese-Ecuadorian ‘Mestizaje’ Phenomenon, 1900-1930
  Luis-Felipe Borja (MIT Sloan School of Management), Maria Jose Borja (Renmin University), Christian David Mejia (Northwestern Polytechnical University)

Wednesday 28 April 2021

• 13:00 - Mexican Japanese: Experiences of Mestizaje, Ethno-Racial Exclusion and Strategies to Attain Equality
  Jessica A Fernández de Lara Harada (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 5 May 2021

• 13:00 - One Empire, One Nation: Imperial Reconfiguration Projects in Britain and China (1880-1920)
  Asier Aguirresarobe (University of the Basque Country)

Wednesday 12 May 2021

• 13:00 - Multiple Jeju(s): Representation of the U.S. Occupation on Jeju Island during Jeju 4.3
  Youjoung (Yuna) Kim (Johns Hopkins University)

Wednesday 19 May 2021

• 13:00 - From Harbin to Paris: A Transnational History of Russian Refugees during the Great Famine in China 1958-1962
  Yuqing Qiu (Centre d’histoire de Sciences Po)

Wednesday 26 May 2021

• 13:00 - W.A.P. Martin, Naturalism and the Translation of International Law in Late Qing China
  Jingjian Wu (Yale Law School)

Wednesday 2 June 2021

• 13:00 - Evolution of a Hybrid Typology: Christian Churches Built in Huế, Vietnam in the 20th Century
  Phi Nguyen (École Polytechnique fédérale de Lausanne and Haute École d'art et de design, Geneva)

Wednesday 9 June 2021

• 13:00 - Reinscribing Diplomatic Protocol: The Case of Chile During Korean Détente, 1970-1973
  Eilin Rafael Perez (University of Chicago)

Wednesday 16 June 2021

• 13:00 - Debating Chinese Cruelty: Legal Orientalism, Summary Execution, and Extraterritoriality
  Yuan Tian (University of Chicago)

Wednesday 19 January 2022

• 17:00 - Missionaries, Civil Servants, and Military Officers: Competition and Entanglements in East and Southeast Asia
  Dong-Yu (Donny) Lin (National Taiwan Normal University), Sebestyén Hompot (University of Vienna)

Wednesday 2 February 2022

• 13:00 - Health and Hygiene in Late Modern Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Singapore
  Loretta Lou (University of Macau), Po-Hsun Chen (University of Manchester)

Wednesday 16 February 2022

• 17:00 - Militarizing Atomic Energy across the Taiwan Strait in the Cold War and Challenging the Nuclear Family in 19th Century Korea
  Laura Pflug (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Young-Chan Choi (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 2 March 2022

• 17:00 - Between and Beyond Nation-Building and Self-Representation
  Maria Sobotka (Freie Universität zu Berlin), Yiwen Liu (Cleveland Museum of Art)

Wednesday 4 May 2022

• 17:00 - Internal Mindsets of Change and Progress in Revolutionary and Cultural Revolutionary China
  Yaowen Dong (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Ying Tong (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 18 May 2022

• 17:00 - Modernity and Marginalisation
  Aylin Yilmaz Şaşmaz (Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University), Çile Maden Kalkan (Ankara Hacı Bayram Veli University), Tak Wai Hung (University of Hong Kong)

Wednesday 1 June 2022

• 17:00 - Pacifists and POWs
  Bingyi Gong (Osaka University), Gundė Daukšytė (Heidelberg University)

Wednesday 15 June 2022

• 17:00 - Nationalistic Discourses Beyond National Borders
  Tycho van der Hoog (Leiden University), Duy Tan La (Vietnam National University and Academy of Korea Studies)

Wednesday 26 October 2022

• 17:00 - Revisiting the Early Modern Era
  Rômulo da Silva Ehalt (Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory), Niamh Calway (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 9 November 2022

• 16:00 - Crossing the Iron Curtain: North Korea’s and Japan’s Connections to the World during the Cold War
  Please note this seminar is at 16:00
  Camilo Aguirre Torrini (University of Sussex), Paul Kreitman (Columbia University)

Wednesday 16 November 2022

• 17:00 - New Worlds and New Connections in East Asia
  Please note this seminar is online via Zoom
  Annabel Storr (Durham University), Hae Uk Ko (University of Chicago)

Wednesday 30 November 2022

• 17:00 - Intellectual Visions of Nations and Peoples in Interwar East Asia
  This event is hybrid
  Andrea Bourgogne (King's College London), Hanzhi Dai (University of Edinburgh)

Wednesday 8 February 2023

• 17:00 - Civilians and non-combatants during war and conflict in modern East Asia
  This talk will occur in-person and also be available online - If you would like to attend online, please register here: https://teams.microsoft.com/registration/G96VzPWXk0-0uv5ouFLPkQ,mGpyTF6qF0KqX_vIaXUDJA,CQdGCXSjFUKM4Hng2DOiiQ,oAzvs5OpnkKn_Q2s9wA5fg,7DeXDCVKBkCwS-a4UBIjUg,Ww6rLjhisEy2NLVQ5-swHg?mode=read&tenantId=cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91
  Federica Cicci (Ca' Foscari University of Venice and Heidelberg University), Dr. Danny Orbach (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Wednesday 15 February 2023

• 17:00 - Food in Motion in East Asia
  Xie Zhentian (University of St Andrews), Aaron Molnar (University of British Columbia)

Wednesday 22 February 2023

• 17:00 - Translating Modernity: Construction and Imagination of the West in 20th China
  Qi Cheng (Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz), Yunxia Li (University of Cologne)

Monday 6 March 2023

• 13:00 - Competition of Lifestyles during the Cold War
  Will Sack (Harvard University), Karina Khasnulina (University of Leipzig)

Wednesday 17 May 2023

• 17:00 - Sino-Western Trade during the early Cold War
  Yi Liu (Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies), Ka-shing So (Binghamton University, SUNY)

Wednesday 31 May 2023

• 17:00 - Exhibiting China and de-Colonization: Archaeology and Museology across East Asia and the World
  Shing-Kwang Chan (Princeton University), Reynold K. W. Tsang (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 7 June 2023

• 14:00 - Personal Experiences and Connections within the Japanese Empire
  Agnese Dionisio (Waseda University), Merle Kartscher (Harvard University)

Wednesday 14 June 2023

• 17:00 - Borderlands and Soviets: PRC Nationalities Policy and Nuclear Deterrence
  Duanyi Yi (University of Glasgow), Chendong Pi (University of California, Davis)

Monday 23 October 2023

• 17:00 - Colonial Administration and Modern China
  Please contact us if you would like a Teams link for our sessions streamed online - https://en-gb.facebook.com/OxIHEAS/
  Yimeng Cheng (University of Macao), Qingrou Zhao (University of Edinburgh)

Wednesday 1 November 2023

• 17:00 - Intersection across the Pacific: Race, Migration, and the Environment in Modern East Asia
  Zelin Pei (University of Arizona), Rory Qianqing Huang (Texas A&M University)

Wednesday 15 November 2023

• 17:00 - Western Imports, Asian Agency: Encounters between Nationalism and Transnationalism in East Asia
  Kyrie Vermette (University of British Columbia), Andrew Ka Pok Tam (University of Glasgow)

Wednesday 29 November 2023

• 17:00 - Transcending the "Bamboo Curtain": Cultural diplomacy and tourism across the Taiwan Strait
  Po-Hsun Chen (University of Manchester), Cho-kiu Li (Hang Seng University of Hong Kong)

Wednesday 14 February 2024

• 16:00 - Alternative Modes of Sino-Japanese Relations: Party Movement and Japanese Writings
  Yingzi Feng (University of Edinburgh), On I Lam (University of Cambridge)

Wednesday 21 February 2024

• 17:00 - Population and Identity in the PRC and ROC during the 1950s
  Adrian Kwong (University of Oxford), Zhelun Zhou (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

Wednesday 28 February 2024

• 17:00 - Making Modern Chinese Women with Global Cultural Flows
  Julia Haoran Ni (The University of Kansas), Mengjin Xue (University of York)

Wednesday 6 March 2024

• 17:00 - Business and Economic Developments in Modern China
  Menggelisha (University of Oxford), Mingke Ma (University of Oxford)

Thursday 9 May 2024

• 17:00 - Localising and Resisting Western Knowledge and Colonial Ideas: Encounters and Trajectories in Twentieth-Century China
  Mengliu Chang (University of Pennsylvania), Henoch Gabriel Mandelbaum (University of São Paulo)

Wednesday 29 May 2024

• 17:00 - Late Imperial China's Informal Connections to the World: Globalisation in the Networks Literati and the Commercial Settlement
  Dan Knorr (University of Cambridge), Zheng Chen (University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA))

Tuesday 4 June 2024

• 17:00 - Transnational Literary and Infrastructure Connectivity in Modern China
  Weikang Zhang (University of Oxford), Xinyi Chi (Durham University)

Wednesday 12 June 2024

• 17:00 - Reassessing Republican China and the Taiwan Strait Crises
  Yi-Chuan (Nicholas) Chiu (University of Oxford), Qiang Zhang (University of Nottingham)

Wednesday 23 October 2024

• 17:00 - “Connecting the Clouds”: Port City Lianyungang and Dutch Economic Interests in China, 1899-1937
  Cao Mingran (Leiden University)

Wednesday 30 October 2024

• 17:00 - The Entanglement of Domestic Politics and International Interests: A New Perspective on the Diplomatic History of Modern China
  Zhang Gong (The School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences (EHESS)), Zhang Zhen (University of Edinburgh)

Wednesday 6 November 2024

• 17:00 - Samurai in Siam: Miyazaki Tōten’s Utopian Farming Community (1895-96)
  Joel Littler (Harvard University)

Wednesday 27 November 2024

• 17:00 - Transnational Networks and Contestations: 20th Century Territorial Conquest and the Cold War
  N.B. UPDATE - This session is now ONLINE ONLY on MS Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_ZDQwYzcxMDQtZDJjYi00OTUzLWE2YTgtYzU4NDJlY2FhZjZj%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22e97dbd5f-c58e-4e1a-baee-1d31ff07e256%22%7d
  Jiang Zhifeng (National University of Singapore), Clara Galzerano (University of Trento)

Wednesday 4 December 2024

• 16:00 - Constructing Thought and Infrastructure: The Interplay of Ideology and Development across East Asia
  Huo Changwei (SOAS University of London), Ha Jaeyoung (Peking University)

Wednesday 5 February 2025

• 14:00 - Subaltern labour in colonial Singapore and the Western Front
  Online ONLY via MS Teams: MS Teams link - https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetup-join/19%3ameeting_NWY5MThjZWEtNTlhYi00NjRjLTg3NjgtODQzOGRiZTkxZjgz%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%22Tid%22%3a%22cc95de1b-97f5-4f93-b4ba-fe68b852cf91%22%2c%22Oid%22%3a%22e043e052-d190-40e8-aad0-0c66a10f59ad%22%7d
  Dr. Hema Kiruppalini (National Univeristy of Singapore), Julia Godart (Universite du Quebec a Montreal and Universite Paris Cite)

Wednesday 19 February 2025

• 17:00 - Economic Autonomy and State Control in 20th Century East Asia
  Gus Tsz-kit Chan (University of Erlangen-Nuremberg), Man-Sing Cheung (Marco) (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 5 March 2025

• 17:00 - Colonial Projects and Local Realities in East Asian ‘Peripheries’
  Scott Ma (University of Zurich), Surigage (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven)

Wednesday 12 March 2025

• 17:00 - Designing for Scarcity, Navigating Decline: Architecture, Industry, and Global Economic Transformation in Twentieth-Century China
  Huirong Cheng (University of Edinburgh), Niall Chithelen (University of California, San Diego)

Wednesday 7 May 2025

• 17:00 - Anti-Fascist and Human Rights Movements in the 1930s and 60s
  Ferran de Vargas (University of Edinburgh), Wolfgang Thiele (Free University of Berlin)

Wednesday 21 May 2025

• 17:00 - Reframing Modern China: Deaf Education and the Sensory Politics of Race and Empire
  Shu Wan (University of Buffalo), Gemma McLean-Carr (University of Edinburgh)

Wednesday 4 June 2025

• 17:00 - The Ties that Bind: Military and Revolutionary Networks Across Asia
  Zachary Clark (Pennsylvania State University), Ning Zhang (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 18 June 2025

• 13:00 - Colonial intersections and global connections: China, Japan, and Manchuria in the early 20th century
  This hybrid seminar will be held at the TS Eliot Lecture Theatre in Merton College - Please either come to the Merton College Lodge and ask for directions, or come to the Rose Lane gate into Merton (https://maps.app.goo.gl/5fW1vpN2TUTFuR6Z7) and email pakhei.hao@merton.ox.ac.uk to be let in, thanks!
  Zhenyan Lu (King's College London), Dr. Gloria Yu Yang (Kyushu University)