Month: April 2016

Engaging with China in the Asian Century

Australian Institute of International Affairs Victoria Australia’s Public Diplomacy Challenges: Engaging with China in the Asian Century Professor John Fitzgerald FAHA, Swinburne University of Technology 6pm – 7.30pm, Wednesday 27 April Dyason House, 124 Jolimont Road, East Melbourne Like other…

Understanding Good Order and Chaos

The Role of Books, Libraries and Jesuits in the Globalised Early Modern World Dr Jeremy Clarke 6pm, Thursday 28 April 2016 Conference Room, National Library of Australia Marco Ricci, the pioneering sixteenth-century Jesuit missionary to China, noted that books enabled…

After the Deluge

Centre for Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Melbourne The longer term impacts of the Three Gorges Dam Dr Brooke Wilmsen La Trobe University 5.30-7.00pm Thursday 5 May 2016 Evan Williams Theatre (G03), Richard Berry Building, Monash Road , University of…

Uyghur Nation

The Melbourne launch of David Brophy’s new book Uyghur Nation 2.00pm-3.30pm Friday 6 May 2016 Education Boardroom ED2-318 Bundoora Campus, La Trobe University The meeting of the Russian and Qing empires in the nineteenth century had dramatic consequences for Central…

Position: Lecturer in Chinese @ Swinburne

Swinburne University of Technology – Melbourne Australia Department of Education and Social Sciences, Faculty of Health, Arts and Design Academic level B: $89,087 plus 17% superannuation Ongoing position based at Hawthorn campus Swinburne University of Technology has been promoted into…

China’s Foreign Aid

Asia Institute Lunchtime Seminar, University of Melbourne China’s Foreign Aid Caught Between Core National Interests and a Global Agenda Ms Marina Rudyak, Institute of Chinese Studies, Heidelberg University 1.00pm-2.00pm, Wednesday 13 April 2016 Room 321, Level 3, Sidney Myer Asia…

Position: Chinese Studies @ USyd

Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Chinese Studies Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, University of Sydney Reference no. 543/0416 Opportunity for a scholar in modern and contemporary Chinese literature or cultural studies Join a comprehensive and diverse School of Languages and Cultures…

Religion in Qing Society

National Library of Australia Dr Nathan Woolley 6pm-7pm, Thursday 7 April 2016, Conference Room, Level 4, National Library of Australia, Canberra Dr Nathan Woolley, curator of Celestial Empire, introduces the religious landscape under the Qing dynasty, and some of the…