Past events
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China’s Diplomacy and Influence in the Pacific: Chinese and Pacific Perspectives
Date: Thursday 20 July, 2023, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Join us for this online-only event via Zoom to hear Dr Denghua Zhang, from the ANU, for an overview of Chinese mainstream scholars’ views on China-Pacific relations and a discussion of the perceptions of Pacific island scholars, university students and NGOs regarding China’s diplomacy and influence.
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China and the Liberal International Order (1978-2018)
Global China Seminar
Date: Thursday 13 July, 2023, 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Location: AM102, Alan MacDiarmid Bldg VUW
What drove the inability to bring China and the Liberal International Order (LIO) into a full integration or incorporation as in the case with Japan?
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Southeast Asia between China and the United States
Global China Seminar
Date: Thursday 29 June, 2023, 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Location: MY401, Murphy Building VUW
This talk will discuss the region’s exposure to spillovers from increased rivalry between the United States and China.
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China's Economic Steerage: Beyond Industrial Policy
Date: Thursday 15 June, 2023, 10:00am – 11:00am
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Join us for this online-only event via Zoom to hear Professor Barry Naughton, one of the world’s most highly respected economists working on China, present an
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China's Multipolarity Discourse and US-China Rivalry
Global China Seminar
Date: Tuesday 6 June, 2023, 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Location: MY 401 Murphy Building 21d Kelburn Parade, Kelburn, Wellington 6012
The concept of polarity, a shorthand for the number of great powers in the international system, is of both practical and academic interest. What is China’s view of polarity since 1949?
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The Chinese Economy in Xi’s Era: Fact, Fiction, Faith and Flexibility
Date: Thursday 25 May, 2023, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Join us for this online-only event via Zoom to hear Professor Jane Golley reflect on the competing narratives surrounding complex questions, to provide her own assessment of Xi’s policy priorities and what they mean for China’s economic growth prospects in the decade ahead.
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2023 Sir Howard Kippenberger Lecture: 'Identity, Race, and US-China Conflict'
Global China Seminar
Date: Wednesday 24 May, 2023, 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Location: Hunter Council Chamber, Level 2, Hunter Building Kelburn Parade, Kelburn, Wellington 6012
Claims about differences in identity pervade foreign policy discourses in the United States and China. What role might these claimed differences in identity play in the intensification of the US-China rivalry?
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China’s Approaches to International Orders
Date: Wednesday 26 April, 2023, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: GBLT 3 Govt Buildings, Victoria University Law School, 55 Lambton Quay, Pipitea, Wellington 6011
Join Harvard University Laine Professor of China in World Affairs, Alastair Iain Johnston, for an overview of China’s approaches to international orders.
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Cross-strait relations in 2023
Date: Wednesday 15 March, 2023, 10:00am – 11:00am
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Join us for this online-only event via Zoom to hear internationally renowned analyst, Bonnie S. Glaser, present an overview of what we might anticipate in cross-strait relations in the coming years.
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The Jaishankar Doctrine and Indian Strategy
Global China Seminar
Date: Tuesday 14 March, 2023, 10:30am – 12:00pm
Location: Room 101, 16 Kelburn Pde, Victoria University of Wellington
Since 2015, Dr S. Jaishankar has crafted a new strategy for India and a new narrative about India's role in the world, first as the head of the Ministry of External Affairs and now as foreign minister.
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China - competition, collaboration or conflict in 2020s?
Date: Tuesday 21 February, 2023, 10:00am – 11:00am
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Join us for this online-only event via Zoom to hear Professor Rana Mitter of the University of Oxford discuss China in the 2020s.
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Truth still matters: cinema and the ‘ethical frame’ in and out of China
Global China Seminar
Date: Thursday 17 November, 2022, 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Location: AM102, Alan MacDiarmid Building, VUW
The digital turn was seen as, if not a determining cause, certainly as a key supporting factor in the growth of new “independent” cinematic practices in China. Today, in the current postdigital turn, any claim to “truth” seems to have become increasingly problematic.
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Into the Future with Xi Jinping
Date: Tuesday 15 November, 2022, 10:00am – 11:00am
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Join us for this online-only event via Zoom to hear Professor Anthony Saich explore China’s direction into the future with Xi Jinping.
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China’s economy in 2022: end of the miracle or another bump in the road?
Date: Wednesday 2 November, 2022, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: RHMZ03 Rutherford House, 33 Bunny Street, Pipitea, Wellington 6011
Join Professor James Laurenceson as he discusses China’s economy in 2022 and whether it is going to be the end of the miracle or another bump on the road.
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Recreating Beijing: A Changing City and Citizenry, 1914-1984
Global China Seminar
Date: Tuesday 18 October, 2022, 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Location: AM101, Alan MacDiarmid Building, VUW
Drawn from a current book project on leisure in Beijing since 1949, this talk will examine the display of modernity in one public park from the 1910s to the 1970s and the curious case of the invention of leisure in 1980.
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Human Rights in China in the Age of Xi Jinping: Implications for New Zealand
Date: Thursday 29 September, 2022, 10:00am – 11:00am
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Join us for this online-only event via Zoom to hear Dr Sophie Richardson explore the human rights trends in China in the age of Xi Jinping and their implications for New Zealand.
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China Learns Sanskrit
Global China Seminar
Date: Wednesday 14 September, 2022, 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Location: AM103, Alan MacDiarmid Building, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6011
China (Re)learns Sanskrit: Alexander von Staël-Holstein and Comparative Philology in Peking, 1917-1937
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A Lily in the Barnyard of Politics
Global China Seminar
Date: Thursday 18 August, 2022, 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Location: AM104, Alan MacDiarmid Building, Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington 6011
The Institute of Pacific Relations in China, and the New Zealand economists who were brought to central roles through shameless cronyism.
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Horticulture in Southwest China: Experiences and Reflection
Date: Wednesday 10 August, 2022, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: RHLT3 Rutherford House, 33 Bunny Street, Pipitea, Wellington 6011
Join Lew Dagger as he discusses the key drivers of horticulture in China and what New Zealand businesses and government agencies might be doing at the grass-roots level to ensure enhanced levels of activity and success.
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Chinese History: Why You Need to Know
Date: Thursday 28 July, 2022, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: Aronui Lecture Theatre, Royal Society, 11 Turnbull Street, Thorndon, Wellington
Join Linda Jaivin to learn about how Chinese history informs the present.
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