Category: Public Lectures

Engaging with China in the Asian Century

Australian Institute of International Affairs Victoria Australia’s Public Diplomacy Challenges: Engaging with China in the Asian Century Professor John Fitzgerald FAHA, Swinburne University of Technology 6pm – 7.30pm, Wednesday 27 April Dyason House, 124 Jolimont Road, East Melbourne Like other…

Understanding Good Order and Chaos

The Role of Books, Libraries and Jesuits in the Globalised Early Modern World Dr Jeremy Clarke 6pm, Thursday 28 April 2016 Conference Room, National Library of Australia Marco Ricci, the pioneering sixteenth-century Jesuit missionary to China, noted that books enabled…

After the Deluge

Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Melbourne The longer term impacts of the Three Gorges Dam Dr Brooke Wilmsen La Trobe University 5.30-7.00pm Thursday 5 May 2016 Evan Williams Theatre (G03), Richard Berry Building, Monash Road , University of…

China’s Foreign Aid

Asia Institute Lunchtime Seminar, University of Melbourne China’s Foreign Aid Caught Between Core National Interests and a Global Agenda Ms Marina Rudyak, Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University 1.00pm-2.00pm, Wednesday 13 April 2016 Room 321, Level 3, Sidney Myer Asia…

Religion in Qing Society

National Library of Australia Dr Nathan Woolley 6pm-7pm, Thursday 7 April 2016, Conference Room, Level 4, National Library of Australia, Canberra Dr Nathan Woolley, curator of Celestial Empire, introduces the religious landscape under the Qing dynasty, and some of the…

Workers in China

Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, Asia Institute, University of Melbourne Comparing regular and agency workers’ working conditions, attitudes and resistance: A case study of Chinese auto joint ventures Professor Anita Chan Australian National University 5.30-7.00pm, Thursday, 21 April 2016 Evan…

Who were the Manchus?

National Library of Australia David Brophy University of Sydney 6pm-7pm, Thursday 31 March 2016 Conference Room, Level 4, National Library of Australia, Canberra Dr David Brophy, Lecturer in Modern Chinese History at the University of Sydney, discusses the distinctive historical…