Oxford China Centre
Talks:

Friday 25 April 2025

Governing Digital China
Date: 25 April 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Prof Daniela Stockmann (The Hertie School)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room (first floor)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 29 April 2025

The Intercultural “Morality Books” (善書) of Seventeenth Century Chinese Christian Converts
Date: 29 April 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Valentina Yang (KU Leuven)
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

Wednesday 7 May 2025

The Unfinished Modernisation: Women’s Cinema in China’s Reform Era
Date: 7 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Associate Professor Lidan Hu (Sichuan 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 Maria Jaschok (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 13 May 2025

Why Marco Polo did not go to China: Lessons for Art History
Date: 13 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Shane McCausland (SOAS)
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

Tuesday 20 May 2025

Everything I Learned, I Learned in a Chinese Restaurant
Date: 20 May 2025, 15:00 - 16:30
Speaker : Curtis Chin (Writer, Producer, Director)
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 Anna Lora-Wainwright (University of Oxford)

Merchants and Early Modern Capitalism in the South China Sea
Date: 20 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Anne Gerritsen (University of Warwick)
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

Monday 26 May 2025

Institutional Genes: The Origins of China’s Institutions and Totalitarianism
Date: 26 May 2025, 12:00 - 13:00
Speaker : Dr Chenggang Xu (Stanford University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Verna Yu (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 27 May 2025

The “Unmoved Heart” of Mengzi 孟子 2A2 Revisited
Date: 27 May 2025, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Professor Jeffrey Riegel (UC Berkeley)
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

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

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

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