Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies

Events

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

Date
26/02/2020
Location:
Trent B46
Description
Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies research seminar series (Spring 2020) with speaker: Dr Xuelei Huang (University of Edinburgh) on 'Cityscape, Sensescape, and Mediascape: A Critical Reading of Nanjing Road'

Reconfiguring Chinese Independent Documentary in a Global Context

Date
04/03/2020
Location:
Sir Clive Granger Building A40
Description
Public lecture and screening of The Two Lives of Ermao (2019) by Dr Kiki Tianqi Yu (Queen Mary University of London) at the Sir Clive Granger Building A40, University of Nottingham University Park Campus.

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

Date
04/03/2020
Location:
A40, Sir Clive Granger Building, University Park
Description
With Dr Kiki Yianqi Yu (QMUL).

What's in a Jacket? Another Look at the 'Masculinisation' of Women in the Cultural Revolution

Date
27/03/2019
Location:
Clive Granger A41
Description
A Public Lecture by the Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies (CEACS) with Harriet EVANS, Professor Emerita of Chinese Cultural Studies (University of Westminster) and Visiting Professor of Anthropology (LSE).

The Emerging "National Husband" in Contemporary Chinese Entertainment Media

Date
05/02/2019
Location:
B65 Trent Building
Description
This talk inspects the discursive formation of a neologism called "national husband" in contemporary China.

Transnational Radical Film Cultures: An International Conference on Film, Aesthetics and Politics (Radical Film Network Conference 2019)

Date
03 - 05/06/2019
Location:
University Park Nottingham
Description
Call for Papers: This conference aims to bring together the political and aesthetic avant-gardes, with a particular focus on the transnational nature of contemporary radical film cultures.

Writing and Curating Taiwan Art

Date
12/12/2018
Location:
A19 Trent Building, University Park
Description
A seminar on Writing and Curating Taiwan Art by Dr Sophie McIntyre, Centre of Taiwan Studies, SOAS University of London.

Global Media and China (Sage): Meet the Editors

Date
07/11/2018
Location:
A21 Trent Building
Description
The Institute for Screen Industries Research and the Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies (CEACS) host a public lecture with Professor Zhang Lei, "Domestic Space, Television Sets and the Change of Everyday Life in China since 1970s" (lecture) and Ms. Ren Tainwei, "Introduction to Global Media and China" .

Free film screening: Arrival (dir. Denis Villeneuve, USA, 2016)

Date
13/11/2018
Location:
Djanogly Art Gallery Lecture Theatre
Description
Co-organised by the Nottingham Confucius Institute (NCI) and the Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies (CEACS) and Lakeside Arts.

Kangurus and Gavagais: Rethinking Language, and Ethnocentrism through Villeneuve's Arrival

Date
22/11/2018
Location:
A39 Sir Clive Granger Building
Description
Nottingham Confucius Institute (NCI) and Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies (CEACS) Public Lecture
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In the Press

  • Randian-Online
    The centre works closely with Randian, an online journal publishing critical writing on contemporary Chinese art and culture   http://www.randian-online.com/#
  • Sébastien Le Belzic, 'A Djibouti, « la Chine commence à déchanter »', Le Monde, 5 February 2018 (Benjamin Barton) 
  • Sébastien Le Belzic, 'Ces marques chinoises qui débarquent en Afrique', Le Monde, 22 January 2018 (Benjamin Barton) 
  • Hongwei Bao, interviewed by the New Books Network, June 2018
    http://newbooksnetwork.com/hongwei-bao-queer-comrades-gay-identity-and-tongzhi-activism-in-postsocialist-china-nias-press-2018/
  • Hongwei Bao, interviewed by the Centre for Modern East Asian Studies, University of Göttingen, April 2018
    https://www.cemeas.de/cemeas-conversations-bao-hongwei/
  • Hongwei Bao, interviewed by New York Times on queer culture and activism in China, 2018
  • Hongwei Bao, Interviewed by City Weekend on Queer Shanghai, 2017
  • Hongwei Bao, interviewed by the BBC World Service on the legal battle against gay conversion therapy in China, 2017
  • Hongwei Bao, interviewed by Global Times on LGBT culture in Shanghai, 2016
  • Zhang Ziyu, '大国角力非洲: 丰富资源和新兴市场引发投资热潮' ('The Big Power Struggle in Africa: Emerging Markets Triggering an Investment Boom in Abundant Energy Resources'), The Time Weekly (时代周报), 16 September 2014, p. 9  
  • Zhang Ziyu, '中国人在非洲:挑战才开始' ('Chinese in Africa: Let the Challenge Begin'), The Time Weekly (时代周报), 31 May 2012, p. 11  
  • Hongwei Bao, interviewed by Timeout, Lisbon, on queer cinema in China, 2013
  • Hongwei Bao, interviewed by Kinabladet, Copenhagen, on queer politics in China, 2012
  • Hongwei Bao, interviewed by Kulturissse, Vienna, on queer politics in China, 2011 

Centre for Contemporary East Asian Cultural Studies

The University of Nottingham
University Park
Nottingham, NG7 2RD


telephone: +44 (0) 115 951 5757 or 84 66437
email:hongwei.bao@nottingham.ac.uk or ting.chang@nottingham.ac.uk