Guest lectures and seminars - Page 9

With a proportion of 43 percent of women in its national legislature since 2020, Taiwan has arguably become Asia's leader in women's political representation. Dr. Chang-Ling Huang offers some perspectives on how and why that is.

Talk by Barbara Siller, lecturer in the Department of German and the Programme Director of the MA Applied Linguistics within the School of Languages, Literatures and Cultures at University College Cork. 

Join us for the book launch of Sunni City: Tripoli from Islamist Utopia to the Lebanese Revolution. Tine Gade (NUPI) discusses her study of the political history of Tripoli, and how it reflects upon wider national and regional dynamics of Lebanon and the Middle East, in conversation with Brynjar Lia.

Carsten Hjort Lange (Aalborg)

This lecture aims to introduce and discuss the important and fruitful connection between social epistemology and critical theory to understand forms of injustice.

Oliwia Szymańska (Postdoctoral Fellow, MultiLing) will present and discuss the results of metaphor training carried out with psychiatrists during an intensive Norwegian course.

Diane Cuny (Université de Tours, France)

Democratisation is arguably Taiwan’s most significant achievement since 1945. This lecture addresses the impact of cultural democratisation by using Taiwan cinema as a case study.

Saeedeh Salimifar talks about presupposition projection:

Join us for a CIMS seminar with Professor Jakob Skovgaard-Petersen from the University of Copenhagen, reflecting upon the cultural and historical trajectories of the Prophet. The conversation will be led by Ragnhild J. Zorgati.

In this lecture, the German philosopher Christian Grüny will reflect upon the concept of Performance Art, exploring its possible relevance within contemporary art and music practices.

The religious landscape of Taiwan is made of a large variety of denominations. Buddhism, Daoism, Yiguandao, and also Christianity, Islam, aboriginal religions: These are just some of the faces of Taiwanese religion. These beliefs and practices also appear in society in different forms and on several platforms.

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In this DynamiTE lunchtime seminar, Jamie Draper will be presenting his paper ‘Climate Change and Territorial Sovereignty’.

Join us for the book launch of The Modern Arabic Bible: Translation, Dissemination and Literary Impact, exploring how nahda translations of the Bible transformed Arabic language and literature. Rana Issa discusses her book, published by Edinburgh University Press in 2023, in conversation with Ingeborg Amadou Fossestøl.

The actress, director and producer Agnete Haaland shares her reflections on the intersection between performance practice and academic study of Henrik Ibsen's works and stage legacy.

Sayragul Sauytbay will give unique insight into what is happening in Xinjiang concentration camps, and what the Communist Party's ideology and strategy is.

Elena Dahlberg (Uppsala University)

Taiwan as the cradle of Austronesian expansion is a widely accepted hypothesis. This lecture discusses the significance of Taiwan as an island.

In this lecture, Matthew Fuller (Goldsmiths University) will discuss "investigative aesthetics", or the role of sensing and sense-making in investigative practices in art, journalism and law.

The Emergence of the Modern United States, 1896-1929

The whale is held to have great symbolic meaning, as an environmental emblem, as food, as tourist attraction, and more. In Andenes, Vesterålen, two anthropologists, Britt Kramvig and Sadie Hale talk about their search for different kinds of whales and the particular ways that the whale-as-symbol is contested in this place.

In this talk, Agnieszka Kałdonek-Crnjaković (Assistant Professor, University of Warsaw) will discuss the effect of Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) on additional language learning considering theoretical assumptions and her recent research findings.

Hege Randi Tørressen will visit the Centre for Ibsen Studies to talk about her profession as a dramaturg at the National Theatre.  This industry talk will be informative and provide a unique perspective about the National Theatre.  There will be a Q&A session afterwards. Light refreshments will be served.