Guest lectures and seminars
Upcoming
Join us for a CIMS conversation with Palestinian Human Rights Defender, Omar Barghouti.
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.
In this lecture, Henning Klöter will discuss whether Taiwanese is linguistically distinct from Mandarin as well as its history of ideological linguistic emancipation.
In this lecture, Dr. Hung-yi Chien will discuss China-Taiwan relations in a colonial perspective.
Legitimacy, espionage, and nation branding in the Apple v. Samsung “smartphone patent wars”. Lecture by Irina Lyan.
In this lecture, Dr. Chin-yi Lee will discuss the economic relations between mainland China and Taiwan.
The second Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture of 2024 will be led by Dr. Rahul Ranjan, writer and Assistant Professor of Climate/Environmental Justice at the Department of Human Geography, University of Edinburgh.
In this lecture, Professor Bi-yu Chang discusses state policies and interventions in constructing ideas of identity and nationhood in Taiwan's educational system.
In this lecture, Dr. Ming-yeh Rawnsley will present and discuss Taiwanese-language films (taiyupian) and port city cinema.
Our third Welcome to the Anthropocene Lecture will be given by Alison Sperling, Assistant Professor of English at Florida State University.
The fourth and final Welcome to the Anthropocene lecture by Laura Mai, Postdoctoral Researcher at Tilburg University.
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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.
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.
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.
The techno-politics of the ‘China Model’ of development
Insights from EV Lithium-ion Battery Technological Innovation System in China
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.
In this lecture, Dr. Julia Christine Marinaccio will discuss transnational ties between Taiwanese political parties and overseas communities and other constituencies abroad.
Lecture by Kerry Brown, Professor of Chinese Studies and Director of the Lau China Institute at King’s College, London.
Book presentation with Alessandro Rippa.
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.
Lecture by Sera Yeong Seo Park, associate lecturer at the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of St Andrews.
In this Environmental Humanities Lecture, anthropologists Nayanika Mathur, Professor of Anthropology and South Asian Studies at the University of Oxford, and Radhika Govindrajan, Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at the University of Washington, Seattle, present their research on human-animal relationships, climate change, and religious ecology in India. What form might the environmental humanities take if considered from the place of the Indian Himalaya?
Welcome to a CIMS Friday lecture By Prof. Vemund Aarbakke who will introduce us to the Muslim-Turkish minority in contemporary Greece.
In this CIMs lecture, Prof. Stephan Guth explores what a Norwegian National Library manuscript tells us about the everyday life of a Levantine merchant in the mid-18th century.