Thursday 30 January 2025

• 17:00 - A China Reporter's Notebook - Watching a Great Power Open and Rise, then Turn Inwards
  Mr David Rennie (The Economist)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 31 January 2025

• 12:00 - Infrastructure Provision and Local Violence: Evidence from Georeferenced BRI Projects
  Dr Chong Chen (Tsinghua University)

Monday 3 February 2025

• 17:00 - Great Compassion in Art: The Guanyin Mural of Tang Dynasty Dunhuang
  Irene Lok (University of Cambridge)
  Glorisun Buddhist Studies Lecture Series

Tuesday 4 February 2025

• 17:00 - Transforming the Way of Water: Yvonne Owuor’s The Dragonfly Sea and Zao Wou-Ki’s Paintings
  Shuangyi Li (University of Bristol)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Thursday 6 February 2025

• 17:00 - A Nosedive into Medieval China: Smells, Identities and the Writing of the Olfactory Past
  Dr Flavia Xi Fang (University of London)
  China Studies Seminar series

Monday 10 February 2025

• 17:00 - The Māṇavikā Chapter in the Uttaragrantha of the Mūlasarvāstivāda Vinaya
  Hyebin Lee (Norwegian Institute of Philology)
  Glorisun Buddhist Studies Lecture Series

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 12:00 - The Art of State Persuasion: China's Strategic Use of Media in Interstate Disputes
  Dr Frances Yaping Wang (Colgate University)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - Botanical remediations: Farming, Plants and Contemporary Arts in Hong Kong
  Dr Minna Valjakka (University of Helsinki)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Wednesday 19 February 2025

• 12:00 - Pathways to Conflict in the South China Sea
  Professor David A. Welch (University of Waterloo)
  China Centre talks

Thursday 20 February 2025

• 17:00 - Diaspora Chinese and Modern China: Transnationalism and Class of the Chinese of the British West Indies, the 1880s–1970s
  Professor Setsuko Sonoda (Ritsumeikan University)
  China Studies Seminar series

Friday 21 February 2025

• 14:00 - Dharma Without Borders How Tzu Chi Created a “Pure Land on Earth” in the Middle East
  To register for in-person attendance, please contact pyi.kyaw@ames.ox.ac.uk. Online attendance via Teams. Meeting ID: 349 653 895 088, Passcode: yB2Qs7Aw
  Stefania Travagnin (SOAS), Emma Tomalin (University of Leeds)
  Yin-Cheng Distinguished Lecture on Buddhism

Thursday 27 February 2025

• 17:00 - Remorse-Proneness, AI Alignment, and Artificial Moral Psychology
  Places limited for in-person attendance. To register for in-person attendance, please contact pyi.kyaw@ames.ox.ac.uk. Online attendance via Teams. Meeting ID: 354 964 053 222 Passcode: 4Sm2zg66
  Charles Goodman (Binghamton University)
  Colloquium on Buddhism and AI

Friday 28 February 2025

• 10:00 - Panel discussion on Buddhism and AI
  To register for in-person attendance, please contact pyi.kyaw@ames.ox.ac.uk. Online attendance via Teams. Meeting ID: 354 964 053 222 Passcode: 4Sm2zg66
  Various Speakers
  Colloquium on Buddhism and AI

Tuesday 4 March 2025

• 17:00 - Anthropocene Urbanity and Surreal Imagery: Hong Kong in Contemporary Sinophone Fiction
  Professor Xiaofan Amy Li (UCL)
  Visual Culture in Modern and Contemporary China

Tuesday 11 March 2025

• 12:00 - From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-commerce in China
  Dr Lizhi Liu (Georgetown University)
  China Centre talks
• 17:00 - The End of Engagement: America's China Experts and US Strategy Since 1989
  Professor David M. McCourt (University of California Davis)
  China Centre talks