Oxford China Centre
Talks:

Friday 23 January 2025

Cooperating, Challenging, Communicating: Reflections on Five Years of Diplomacy in Beijing
Date: 23 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dame Caroline Wilson
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)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 26 January 2025

Tifa as Discursive Infrastructure: Silkroadism and the Commercialisation of Authoritarian Governance
Date: 26 January 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Giulia Sciorati (LSE)
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 27 January 2025

The Logic of Provocative Propaganda in the Shadow of Democratic Uprisings: Evidence from Hong Kong’s Anti-Extradition Movement
Date: 27 January 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Eddy S. F. Yeung (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 January 2025

Immunity on Trial: Ethiopian Courts, Chinese Corporations, and Contestations over Sovereignty
Date: 29 January 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Miriam Driessen (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford), Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford), Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
Host: Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)

Friday 30 January 2025

Field, Archives, and Society: Reconstructing Rural Transformation in Shanxi during the Era of Collectivization （田野·档案·社会：集体化时代山西乡村变迁的多维重构）
Date: 30 January 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Professor Ma Weiqiang (Shanxi University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room (first floor)
Organisers: Dr Yang Han (University of Oxford), Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Monday 2 February 2025

Chinese Buddhist Ethics of Belief: An Introduction to Sanlun Philosophy
Date: 2 February 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Rafal K. Stepien (Austrian Academy of Sciences)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Ho Tim Seminar Room (first floor, turn left at top of stairs/coming out of lift)
Organiser: Professor Todd Hall (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Jessica Frazier (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 February 2025

Great Ming as Dynasty and Family
Date: 3 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Craig Clunas (Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre
Organisers: Sophie Lam (St John's College), Paul Napier (Christ Church), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 4 February 2025

Crossings in the Real: Ethnographic and Documentary Voices in Sinophone Cinema (Session 1: Covid-19)
Date: 4 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
Venue: Pembroke College, St Aldates OX1 1DW
Venue Details: Pichette Auditorium
Organisers: TBA
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 February 2025

This is What we Must Transform First: Translation and Imperialism in Taiwan (1935-1947)
Date: 5 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:00
Speaker : Dr Aoife Cantrill (University of Oxford)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford), Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford), Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 17 February 2025

Epidemics and Politics: Relieving the People in Post-Imjin War Korea
Date: 17 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Baihui Duan (Lancaster University)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre
Organisers: Sophie Lam (St John's College), Paul Napier (Christ Church), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 19 February 2025

Politics in the Peripheries: The Spatial and Relational Dimensions of China’s ‘Democratic Parties and Groups'
Date: 19 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Henrike Rudolph (University of Göttingen)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organisers: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford), Dr Cheuk Yee Wai (University of Oxford), Professor Tian Yuan Tan (University of Oxford), Dr Bo-jiun Jing (University of Oxford), Dr Zhe Wang (University of Oxford), Dr Evelyn Chan (University of Oxford), Professor Denise van der Kamp (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 24 February 2025

Emotions in the Politics of Water: China–India Tensions over Tibetan Rivers
Date: 24 February 2026, 12:00 - 13:15
Speaker : Dr Antonina Łuszczykiewicz-Mendis (Jagiellonian University)
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)

Divine Beasts as Translational Agents: Figurist Renderings of Dao and the Prophetic Recasting of the Yijing
Date: 24 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Prof Sophie Ling-chia Wei (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre
Organisers: Sophie Lam (St John's College), Paul Napier (Christ Church), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

'Steel is the most romantic thing in the world': Industrial party time-travel novels and the digital fantasy fiction boom
Date: 24 February 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Jessica Imbach (University of Freiburg)
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: Dr Bingbing Shi (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 3 March 2025

Songs of Life and Death: Musical Communications Between the Dead and the Living in Early China
Date: 3 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker : Dr Avital Rom (University of Cambridge)
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Lucina Ho Seminar Room, Oxford China Centre
Organisers: Sophie Lam (St John's College), Paul Napier (Christ Church), Ross Moncrieff (All Souls College, Oxford)
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 5 March 2025

Ma mère as Journal intime and Sheng Cheng’s Journey of Self-Realization in France
Date: 5 March 2026, 17:00 - 18:30
Speaker
Venue: Dickson Poon Building, Canterbury Road OX2 6LU
Venue Details: Kin-ku Cheng Lecture Theatre (lower ground floor)
Organiser: Dr Mark Czeller (University of Oxford)
Host: Dr Mark Czeller (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