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Previous events

Time and place: , Physical meeting at PAM360, online option. Click here to sign up for Zoom.

In this lecture, Dr. Stefania Travagnin will trace the role of women in Taiwan in crafting local history, discussing how listening to their voices and experiences will help us rethink agency in the discourse of Buddhism on the island.

Time and place: , Sophus Bugges hus, aud. 1

Join us for a CIMS conversation with Palestinian Human Rights Defender, Omar Barghouti. 

Time and place: , CEST, Auditorium 3, Sophus Bugges hus or Zoom

The first Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture of the year will be given by Professor Britt Kramvig and Postdoctoral Research Fellow Tarja Salmela at the Department of Tourism and Northern Studies, UiT - The Arctic University of Norway.

Time and place: , Physical meeting in PAM360, online option. Click here to sign up for Zoom.

In this lecture, Professor Yih-Ren Lin will address the issue related to the conflict between indigenous peoples’ natural resources rights and nature conservation in Taiwan.

Time and place: , PAM 389 and Zoom

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in China studies Minh Khai Mai-Thi. To comment on the candidate's work, we have invited Associate Professor TJ Hinrichs from Department of History at Cornell University.

Time and place: , Zoom only, click here to sign up.

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.

Time and place: , Georg Sverdrups hus

The Cultural Heritage Day is a day for dialogue and inspiration for everyone who studies and works with cultural heritage. 

Time and place: , Georg Sverdrups hus: Undervisningsrom 3

The techno-politics of the ‘China Model’ of development

Time and place: , PAM 489 9-12

The seminar invites PhD fellows to reflect on the emic-etic relationship in their own text

Time and place: , in PAM 489 and Zoom

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Cultural Studies Ingrid Kvalvik Sørensen. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Assistant Professor Anne Brædder from the Department of Communication and Arts at Roskilde University 

Time and place: , NUPI, Norsk utenrikspolitisk institutt

The world is rife with conflict and China and USA are engaged in intensified competition and rivalry. What will it take to steer the two superpowers from ending in armed conflict?

Time and place: , Georg Sverdrups hus: Undervisningsrom 2

Insights from EV Lithium-ion Battery Technological Innovation System in China

Time and place: , Zoom only, click here to sign up.

In this lecture, Dr. Saša Istenič Kotar will provide an overview of Taiwan’s foreign relations and the key factors influencing the formulation of Taiwan’s foreign policy.

Time and place: , Zoom only, click here to sign up.

In this lecture, Dr. Julia Christine Marinaccio will discuss transnational ties between Taiwanese political parties and overseas communities and other constituencies abroad.

Time and place: , PAM 489 and Zoom

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Cultural History studies Zsolt Györegy. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Professor Lisa Voigt from the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Yale University.

Time and place: , PAM 389

We want to invite you to an open evaluation with our PhD-fellow in Environmental studies Nhung Lu Rots. To comment on the candidates work, we have invited Researcher Arve Hansen at Centre for Development and the Environment (SUM) at the University of Oslo

Time and place: , Håndbiblioteket, Niels Treschows Hus

A talk by Elena Kochetkova, Associate Professor in Modern European Economic History at the University of Bergen. 

Time and place: , Sophus Bugges hus, Auditorium 2

Master Sonja Irene Åman at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages will defend her dissertation Governing the People of the Whale: History and Politics of Aboriginal Subsistence Whaling for the degree philosophiae doctor (PhD).

Time and place: , Seminar room 1, P.A Munchs hus

Lecture by Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London. 

Time and place: , PAM489 and Zoom

Welcome to this semester's fifth Friday seminar, where Dr. Mary Elston will will present a part of her book manuscript that deals with the complex temporalities of the concept of tradition (ar. turath) as used in the oldest Arab university, al-Azhar. The event is open for all.

Time and place: , seminar room 3, Sophus Bugges house

Advanced course in Research Ethics: Course participants will learn about and discuss various kinds of fieldwork in different social and political settings. This includes attention to how we navigate the sometimes conflicting demands between open science and the ethical imperative of protecting informants and anyone else contributing to data gathering in the field.

Time and place: , Seminarrom 2, P.A Munchs hus

Book presentation with Alessandro Rippa. 

Time and place: , seminar room 3, Sophus Bugges house

In this course, PhD fellows are acquainted with the ethical dilemmas and controversies arising from four interpretative approaches.

Time and place: , Harriet Holters hus, room 201

In this CIMs lecture, Dr. Eirik Hovden will give an overview over how to understand changes in Islamic law in institutions, genres and rules, ca. 1200-1800 CE.

Time and place: , P.A.Munchs Hus, seminarrom 2

Lecture by Sera Yeong Seo Park, associate lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews.