Asia Research Institute

All Events

2024

Trans Pasts, Trans Presents

Date
14 February 2024
Location:
Djanogly Recital Hall University Park

 

2023

Works-in-Progress Workshop

Date
09 March 2023
Location:
D09 Monica Partridge
Description
The University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute is hosting a workshop for colleagues across the network to discuss works-in-progress.

A Conversation on Authoritarianism in Asia: Special focus on Iran and Burma

Date
30 March 2023
Location:
Online
Description
A webinar hosted by UoNARI Malaysia.

Tri-campus ARI/IAPS Virtual Workshop

Date
02 - 03 May 2023
Location:
Online
Description
An opportunity for UoN colleagues from all three campuses to present and receive feedback on research papers in progress

Ten Years Since the Bangladesh Rana Plaza Tragedy

Date
04 May 2023
Location:
D04 Monica Partridge Building (UP), hybrid event - online and in person
Description
Panel discussion to mark the 10-year anniversary of the Rana Plaza factory collapse in Bangladesh

Emotional Diplomacy: Margaret Thatcher, Indira Gandhi, and Post-Imperial UK-India Relations

Date
18 May 2023
Location:
D08 Monica Partridge Building
Description
The Asia Research Institute are delighted to be hosting this research seminar with ARI member Dr Paul McGarr.

Meet the Editors

Date
25 May 2023
Location:
C17 Monica Partridge, University Park
Description
Hosted by the University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute.

Family Policies in Asia - Comparative Perspectives

Date
04 July 2023
Location:
E07 Monica Partridge Building, University Park
Description
This international event brings together scholars from across Asia to discuss current developments in family policy in China, South Korea, India and beyond.

Book Launch: Roundtable Conference Geographies: Constituting colonial India in Interwar London

Date
05 October 2023
Location:
D12 Monica Partridge
Description
With author Professor Stephen Legg.

Annual Tomlinson Lecture

Date
25 October 2023
Location:
B63 Law & Social Sciences Building
Description
With the Asia Research Institute

Roundtable on Diversity and Inclusion in Asia

Date
26 October 2023
Location:
A21 Trent Building
Description
With the Asia Research Institute

Reflections on Indian democracy on Indira Gandhi's death anniversary

Date
02 November 2023
Location:
Trent A21 (Council Room)

Making India Work: The Development of Welfare in a Multi-Level Democracy

Date
30 November 2023
Location:
Monica Partridge D12

 

2022

Gender+ and elections in India's most populous state

Date
18 March 2022
Location:
MS Teams
Description
The University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute is delighted to be hosting a special International Women's Day 2022 event, entitled 'Gender+ and elections in India's most populous state', on Friday 18th March, 12-1.30pm (UK/GMT) / 5.30-7pm (IST).

Asia Research Institute Networking Event

Date
06 October 2022
Location:
D08 Teaching and Learning Building
Description
An opportunity to meet members of the centre.

Webinar and Book Launch: Contemporary Chinese Queer Performance

Date
08 November 2022
Location:
Online
Description
With Dr Hongwei Bao.

Challenges of researching (in) Asia in a global pandemic

Date
17 November 2022
Location:
A3 Law and Social Sciences
Description
Roundtable event chaired by Dr Carole Spary.

Malaysia's New Villages: Visuality, History and Heritage

Date
08 December 2022
Location:
A02 Highfield House
Description
A seminar with Dr Jeremy Taylor.

End of Term Event

Date
15 December 2022
Location:
C10 Monica Partridge building
Description
Hosted by the Asia Research Institute

Subaltern Frontiers: Agrarian City-Making in Gurgaon

Date
15 December 2022
Location:
D04 Monica Partridge Building (UP)
Description
Book launch for Dr Tom Cowan's new publication.

 

2021

Gender and India's State Elections 2021

Date
18 February 2021
Location:
MS Teams

 

2020

Bridging Policy and Academia: Translating Research into Impact

Date
13 February 2020
Location:
A21 Trent Building
Description
University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute panel discussion with Honorary Professor Dr Champa Patel.

University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute careers session

Date
14 February 2020
Location:
A21 Trent Building
Description
With Honorary Professor Champa Patel

CEACS Seminar: 'Cityscape, Sensescape, and Mediascape: A Critical Reading of Nanjing Road'

Date
26 February 2020
Location:
B46, Trent Building, University Park
Description
With Dr Xuelei Huang (Edinburgh).

CEACS Seminar: The Two Lives of Ermao (2019): Film Screening and Talk

Date
04 March 2020
Location:
A40, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
With Dr Kiki Yianqi Yu (QMUL).

The Tomlinson Lecture 2020 Disaster relief after the Nepal earthquake

Date
26 March 2020
Location:
A40 Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
The Tomlinson Lecture 2020: Disaster relief after the Nepal earthquake with Haushala Thapa.

Disasters Roundtable

Date
27 March 2020
Location:
B14, Engineering and Science Learning Centre, University Park
Description
A roundtable on disaster relief with distinguished speaker, Haushala Thapa.

Sub-state actors and the BRI: exploring the role of local agency in (re-)interpreting, contesting and shaping China's Belt-and-Road initiative

Date
22 October 2020
Location:
Microsoft Teams
Description
The University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute is delighted to announce their first event of the 2020/21 academic year.

Roundtable on Kashmir

Date
12 November 2020
Location:
Microsoft Teams
Description
The University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute is delighted to be hosting this virtual roundtable event to discuss Kashmir.

Nottingham Digitally Engaged 2020: Tri-Campus Roundtable, chaired by Vice Chancellor Prof Shearer West

Date
17 November 2020
Location:
Microsoft Teams online event
Description
As part of the Institute for Policy and Engagement's "Nottingham Digitally Engaged 2020" fortnight, Chaired by Vice Chancellor Prof Shearer West, this session will hear from colleagues from each of Nottingham's campuses in Malaysia, China and the UK.

 

2019

Dr Joy Spiliopoulos (UNNC) - Filipino nurses on the move: old and new destinations, old and new challenges

Date
07 November 2019
Location:
b7, The Hemsley, University Park
Description
On Thursday 7 November, the University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute is delighted to be inviting Dr Joy Spiliopoulos (UoN Ningbo/UNNC) to deliver a talk on the topic of Filipino nurse migration, Brexit and the NHS.

Professor Ian Hall (Griffith) - Narendra Modi and the Uses of Foreign Policy: Diplomacy, Reputation, and the Domestic Audience

Date
31 October 2019
Location:
b7, The Hemsley, University Park
Description
On Thursday 31 October, the University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute is delighted to be inviting Professor Ian Hall (Griffith University, Australia) to deliver a talk on the topic of India Prime Minister Narendra Modi.

Book launch: 'The Struggle for Democracy in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan' (Dr Andreas Fulda, Nottingham)

Date
17 October 2019
Location:
Five Leaves Bookshop 14A Long Row
Description
On Thursday 17 October, the University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute's very own Dr Andreas Fulda will be hosting the launch of his book, The Struggle for Democracy in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.

Dr Liz Chatterjee (QMUL) - Soft Targets: Solar Energy and the New Federalism in India

Date
10 October 2019
Location:
b7, The Hemsley, University Park
Description
On Thursday 10 October, the University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute is delighted to be inviting Dr Liz Chatterjee (QMUL) to deliver a talk on the topic of the politics of solar energy in India.

Asia House: 'Cultural and Intellectual Histories of Japanese-occupied China' workshop

Date
16 September 2019
Location:
63 New Cavendish Street, Asia House, London W1G 7LP
Description
This one-day workshop will bring together scholars from the Europe, Asia and North America to discuss cultural production and intellectual debates in Japanese-occupied China.

The Irish and Indian Constitutions in International Comparative Perspective: from de Valera to Modi

Date
14 June 2019
Location:
B1, The Hemsley, University Park
Description
This workshop brings together leading scholars from Ireland, India and the UK and from across disciplinary boundaries (Law, Anthropology, History, Politics) for a two-day workshop at the University of Nottingham Asian Research Institute.

India's 2019 Elections: Majoritarianism, Pluralism, and Democracy

Date
11 - 12 June 2019
Location:
University of Bristol
Description
The workshop will assess the 2019 Indian General Election as a democratic exercise.

UoN ARI-CSPI presents: Populism and the Discourse of Malaysia's Pakatan Harapan (Alliance of Hope) - Dr Khairil Ahmad (University of Nottingham - Malaysia)

Date
28 May 2019
Location:
A21, Trent Building, University Park
Description
The University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute is delighted to be hosting a joint event with the Centre for the Study of Political Ideologies (CSPI) on Tuesday 28 May.

China Transformed

Date
23 May 2019
Location:
A40, Sir Clive Granger Building
Description
CEACS is delighted to be inviting Dr. Howard Chiang (UC Davis) to deliver a talk entitled 'China Transformed'.

Liberalism and Democracy in Myanmar - Professor Ian Holliday (Vice-President, University of Hong Kong)

Date
22 May 2019
Location:
A21, Trent Building, University Park
Description
The University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute is delighted to be inviting Professor Ian Holliday, Vice-President at the University of Hong Kong to deliver a talk for their Seminar Series.

India and Indonesia's Personal Data Grab - Dr Jacqueline Hicks (University of Nottingham)

Date
16 May 2019
Location:
b7, The Hemsley, University Park
Description
The next instalment of the ARI seminar series. Speaker TBC.

Macabre Social Capital: The Families of Pakistan's Lashkar-e-Taiba

Date
01 May 2019
Location:
A21, Trent Building, University Park
Description
The University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute will be hosting a joint event with the Centre for Conflict, Security and Terrorism, inviting Professor Christine Fair (Georgetown).

Asia Research Institute Seminar Series: Dr Diego Maiorano (National University of Singapore) - Title TBC

Date
11 April 2019
Location:
A21, Trent Building, University Park
Description
The University of Nottingham Asia Research Institute is delighted to be inviting Dr Diego Maiorano (National University of Singapore)

Another Look at the 'Masculinisation' of Women in the Cultural Revolution

Date
27 March 2019
Location:
a41, Sir Clive Granger Building
Description
CEACS is delighted to be inviting Professor Harriet Evans (University of Westminster) to deliver a talk entitled 'Another Look at the 'Masculisation' of Women in the Cultural Revolution'.

A Question of Class? Relations between the People's Republic of China and the Algerian Front Libération Nationale (1955-1963) - Dr Anton Harder (Nottingham)

Date
21 March 2019
Location:
A21, Trent Building, University Park
Description
The next instalment of the ARI seminar series, inviting Dr Anton Harder.

The Domestic Roots of Cross-Strait Relations: China and Taiwan in the Evolving Asian Context - Professor Joseph Fewsmith (Boston)

Date
14 March 2019
Location:
A48 Clive Granger, University Park
Description
Public lecture by Professor Joseph Fewsmith on The Domestic Roots of Cross-Strait Relations: China and Taiwan in the Evolving Asian Context.

'Tibet Fever' in Chinese Cinema Today - Professor Chris Berry (King's College London)

Date
27 February 2019
Location:
a41, Sir Clive Grainger Building
Description
CEACS is delighted to be inviting Professor Chris Berry (King's College London) to deliver a talk titled ''Tibet Fever' in Chinese Cinema Today'

COTCA-Asia Research Institute Seminar: Manchukuo/wartime iconography (Title TBC)

Date
21 February 2019
Location:
B2, The Hemsley, University Park
Description
Dr. Kari Shepherdson-Scott (Macalester College) is to deliver a talk on the topic of Manchukuo/wartime iconography for a joint COTCA-ARI seminar.

China's Evolving Foreign Policy and Implications for Cross-Strait Relations - Prof Rumi Aoyama (Waseda University)

Date
14 February 2019
Location:
B1, The Hemsley, University Park
Description
The Taiwan Studies Programme (TSP) is delighted a to announce a seminar by Professor Rumi Aoyama Waseda Institute of Contemporary Chinese Studies, Waseda University, Japan talking on China's Evolving Foreign Policy and Implications for Cross-Strait Relations.

Asia Research Institute Seminar Series: TBC

Date
14 February 2019
Location:
b7, The Hemsley, University Park
Description
The next instalment of the ARI seminar series. Speaker TBC.

Affective Media and Intimate Geography Conference

Date
06 - 07 February 2019
Location:
Lakeside Arts Centre, University Park
Description
On Wednesday 6 and Thursday 7 February, 3-8pm on both days, CEACS will be inviting a number of Chinese queer filmmakers for a conference titled 'Affective Media and Intimate Geography'.

The Developmental Citizen: Hindu Refugees and India's Post-colonial Governmentalities

Date
30 January 2019
Location:
B2, The Hemsley, University Park
Description
Dr. Uditi Sen (Nottingham) is to deliver a talk entitled 'The Developmental Citizen: Hindu Refugees and India's Post-colonial Governmentalities' for the next instalment of the ARI seminar series.

COTCA-Asia Research Institute: Mapping China under Japanese Occupation: Spatial Configurations of State Power during Wartime (1937 - 1945)

Date
24 January 2019
Location:
b7, The Hemsley, University Park
Description
Dr. David Serfass (EHESS-Paris) is to deliver a talk entitled 'Mapping China under Japanese Occupation: Spatial Configurations of State Power during Wartime (1937 - 1945)' for a joint COTCA-Asia Research Institute seminar.

CANCELLED: COTCA-Asia Research Institute Joint Seminar: Vietnam environmental history, title TBC

Date
28 March 2012
Location:
A21, Trent Building, University Park
Description
Professor David Biggs (UC Riverside) will deliver a talk on the topic of the environmental history of Vietnam for a COTCA-Asia Research Institute joint seminar.

 

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