Oxford China Centre
Talks:

Tuesday 3 June 2025

Central Asian Christian perspectives on Mongol Chaghatai Rule
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Benjamin Sharkey (Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Organisers: Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford), Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Animation Thinks: A Story of Media Entanglements in China
Date: 3 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Panpan Yang (SOAS)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 June 2025

The Ties that Bind: Military and Revolutionary Networks Across Asia
Date: 4 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker s: Zachary Clark (Pennsylvania State University), Ning Zhang (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room
Organisers: Zhou Fang (University of Oxford), Zhang Ning (University of Oxford), Ivi Fung (University of Oxford), Weihan Sun (University of Oxford), Simon Lam (University of Oxford), Pak Hei (Patrick) Hao (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Simon Lam (University of Oxford), Weihan Sun (University of Oxford)

Thursday 5 June 2025

Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in East Asia
Date: 5 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (King's College London)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre, Dickson Poon Building, University of Oxford
Organiser: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)
Host: Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme

Friday 6 June 2025

Southern Encounters: Nanyang and New Cultural Regionalities in Chinese Studies
Date: 6 June 2025, 10:30 - 15:00
Speaker Various Speakers
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)

Monday 9 June 2025

Baillie Gifford Distinguished Speaker lecture
Date: 9 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 10 June 2025

The Physics of Chinese Qi Cosmology in seventeenth-century Japan
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Matthais Hayek (EFEO)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Organisers: Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford), Julian Geissler (Queens College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

The Art of Anti-Utopia: Visual and Poetic Narratives on Russia’s War against Ukraine across the Taiwan Strait
Date: 10 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Daria Berg (University of St.Gallen)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)

Thursday 12 June 2025

‘Non-People’ in the People’s Republic: Class Enemies in Maoist China
Date: 12 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Mark Czellér (University of London)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)

Friday 13 June 2025

Sustaining Continuity: Conservation Approaches to Placemaking for Chinese Voluntary Associations
Date: 13 June 2025, 14:00 - 15:00
Speaker
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Baillie Gifford Distinguished Lecture
Date: 13 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 16 June 2025

Is Taiwan Leading Asia in Women’s Political Representation?
Date: 16 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Chang-ling Huang (National Taiwan University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 17 June 2025

Reports of a Lesser Sign: The Intertwining of Strange Trees with Political and Religious Authority in Early Imperial China
Date: 17 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Oliver Hargrave (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre
Organisers: Lewis Ebert (St Cross College, Oxford), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

I Film, Therefore We Are: Chinese Labourers, UGC, and the New Collective Documentary
Date: 17 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Jing Wang (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)

Wednesday 18 June 2025

Colonial intersections and global connections: China, Japan, and Manchuria in the early 20th century
Date: 18 June 2025, 13:00 - 14:30
Speaker s: Zhenyan Lu (King's College London), Dr. Gloria Yu Yang (Kyushu University)
Venue Details: Location TBC
Organisers: Zhou Fang (University of Oxford), Zhang Ning (University of Oxford), Ivi Fung (University of Oxford), Weihan Sun (University of Oxford), Simon Lam (University of Oxford), Pak Hei (Patrick) Hao (University of Oxford)
Hosts: Zhang Ning (University of Oxford), Pak Hei (Patrick) Hao (University of Oxford)

Friday 20 June 2025

Constructing Chinese Plans: China’s Multi-Tiered and Diverse Approaches to Global Governance Reform
Date: 20 June 2025, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Professor Bowen Yu (Fudan University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Rethinking Hong Kong’s Laissez-Faire Myth
Date: 20 June 2025, 14:00 - 16:00
Speaker
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 26 June 2025

Burnout Market Feminism: Urban Chinese Businesswomen in the Internet Age
Date: 26 June 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Ling Tang (University of Melbourne)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford), Professor Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford), Dr Chigusa Yamaura (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Ruoxi Liu (University of Oxford)

This list contains talks from the following series:
China Centre talks
China Studies Seminar series
International History of East Asia Seminar
Oxford China Reading Group
Oxford Seminar in the Pre-Modern History of East Asia
Oxford Taiwan Studies Programme
Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China