Upcoming events
January 2021
Writing Chinese History with Images
- Date
- Wednesday 27 January 2021
- Time
- 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm
- Location
- _
Join Gregory Lee (Department of Chinese Studies) as he discusses the use of an image archive in his ongoing research project "A Cultural History of China 1975...
February 2021
European and American Poetries and the Creation of a Modern Chinese Lyric Discourse
- Date
- Thursday 4 February 2021
- Time
- 05:30 pm to 07:00 pm
- Location
- _
Gregory Lee is the Founding Professorship of Chinese Studies at the University of St-Andrews, a writer and a broadcaster who has lived and worked in the UK, the...
Deconstructing 'The Chinese Dream'
- Date
- Wednesday 10 February 2021
- Time
- 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm
- Location
- Online
Miao Ying is an artist whose practice addresses the politics of the internet in China, and the circulation of online ideologies, values, and aesthetics. Her wor...
The Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute (CIMS) webinar on 'Caribbean migration to Britain'
- Date
- Thursday 11 February 2021
- Time
- 01:00 pm to 03:30 pm
- Location
- Online via Zoom
The Cultural Identity and Memory Studies Institute (CIMS) presents a webinar on 'Caribbean migration to Britain' on Thursday 11 February 2021 at 13:00 (GMT)...
On the Outside of the Language Forest: Reading, Writing, and Translating Poetry
- Date
- Thursday 18 February 2021
- Time
- 04:00 pm to 05:30 pm
- Location
- Online via MS Teams
A literary critic, translator and poet, Gianluca Rizzo teaches at Colby College (Waterville, ME), where he is the Paul D and Marilyn Paganucci Associate Profess...
Children's Literature without Borders
- Date
- Wednesday 24 February 2021
- Time
- 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm
- Location
- Online via MS Teams
Clémentine Beauvais writes children's and young adult fiction in French and English. She is the best-selling author of In Paris with you, Piglettes, Les Roya...
April 2021
Quackery Throughout History
- Date
- Wednesday 7 April 2021
- Time
- 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm
- Location
- Online via MS Teams
Roll up! Come witness the astounding benefits of Dr Ted L L Bergman's amazing cure-all! Now that we have your attention... Dr Ted L L Bergman, is a lecturer i...
Shades of Meaning: Translation and Jennie Erdal
- Date
- Wednesday 21 April 2021
- Time
- 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm
- Location
- Online via MS Teams
The 'Missing Shade of Blue', by the local author, Jennie Erdal, relates the social, linguistic and amorous encounters of a translator on a trip to E...
Queer Epistemicides: Languages, Knowledges, Sexualities
- Date
- Thursday 29 April 2021 to Friday 30 April 2021
- Time
- 12:00 pm to 06:00 pm
- Location
- Online via MS Teams
In 2020, queer theory celebrates its thirtieth birthday. This contentious and contested body of thought has come a long way since Italian feminist theorist Tere...