Month: May 2015

Three Films for June 4

ANU – Asia and the Pacific Screens – Special Event The Australian Centre on China in the World, ANU, Canberra http://ciw.anu.edu.au/events/asiapacificscreens/   Wednesday 3 Jun, 5:30 pm Black Cannon Incident 黑炮事件 (1985, 94 mins, China) Directed by Huang Jianxin 黄建新…

China & ANU — Diplomats, Adventurers, Scholars

Friday, 29 May – Friday, 18 September 2015, and selected weekends Gallery hours: 9:00am – 5:00pm, Monday to Friday Australian Centre on China in the World, Australian National University, Canberra The Pacific War and its aftermath radically transformed Australian perceptions…

Rio Tinto-ANU China Update 2015

China’s domestic transformation in a global context 9.00am–5.30pm, Friday 10 July 2015 Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, Canberra In collaboration with the Rio Tinto–ANU China Partnership, the China Economy Program presents the fifteenth China Update. The…

InterculturAdelaide

InterculturAdelaide is a major public policy summit and action research project to be held at the Adelaide Convention Centre on 9 July 2015, aiming to bring together scholars, policymakers and other stakeholders to consider the idea of ”interculturality”—broadly defined as…

Looking into cinematic otherness

School of Humanities and Creative Arts, Flinders University 6.00pm – 7.30pm, Tuesday 26 May 2015 Flinders University, Victoria Square (Level 2) Looking into cinematic otherness: Italian filmmakers in China and the case of Carlo Lizzani’s La muraglia cinese / Behind…

Territorial Urbanization and the Party-State in China

China Studies Centre, University of Sydney Carolyn Cartier 12.00pm – 1.30pm, 2 June 2015 Room 310, Old Teachers College (A22) University of Sydney NSW 2006 This seminar develops the concept of territorial urbanization in China through the historical conditions and…

Sydney Film Festival

The Chinese Mayor 10am Friday 5 June: State Theatre 12.30pm Sunday 7 June: Dendy Opera Quays Cinema Though it was once the capital of Imperial China, little of Datong’s former glory remains. It’s now the most polluted city in the…

Lessons in Dissent

Co-presented with Department of Media and Communications, the University of Sydney, and USYD HKPASS (Hong Kong Public Affairs and Social Service Society) 2.30pm – 5.00pm, 22 May 2015 S226 MECO Seminar Room, Level 2, John Woolley Building (A20) Lessons in…

National Library of Australia Fellowships

Applications for the 2016 National Library of Australia Fellowships are now open. Closing date: 17 May 2015. These Fellowships are open to Australian and international researchers and established and emerging scholars. The Fellowships support researchers to make intensive use of…

Local Governance

Local Governance:The Roles of People’s Congresses and the People’s Political Consultative Conferences Dr Minglu Chen China Studies Centre, University of Sydney 12.00pm – 1.30pm, 15 May 2015 Room 310, Old Teachers College (A22)  University of Sydney This seminar aims to…