Past events
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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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America's nutjob China hawks, useful idiots and the disappearing ground between them
Global China Seminar
Date: Thursday 7 July, 2022, 5:00pm – 6:00pm
America's nutjob China hawks, useful idiots and the disappearing ground between them
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Demise of Pragmatism? Resetting Australia’s China Policies
Date: Wednesday 22 June, 2022, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: RHMZ03, Rutherford House, 33 Bunny Street, Pipitea, Wellington
Join Bec Strating as she discusses the resetting of Australia’s China policies.
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China and Southeast Asia: complex interdependence in a Sino-centric economic region
Date: Thursday 19 May, 2022, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
Location: Lecture Theatre 3 - GBLT3, Government Building, Pipitea Campus, VUW, Bunny Street, Wellington
Join us as Professor Natasha Hamilton-Hart illustrates the confluence of forces as they play out in Southeast Asia and discusses the ways in which regional states are responding to the incentives created by the emerging regional trade structure.
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Albany – An ethnoburb to study subethnicities of new Chinese immigrants from China in New Zealand
Global China Seminar
Date: Wednesday 4 May, 2022, 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Location: Rutherford House Room 103, 33 Bunny Street, Pipitea, Wellington 6011
Albany – An ethnoburb to study subethnicities of new Chinese immigrants from China in New Zealand
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'From positive to negative history: The shifting use of history in China’s diplomacy.'
Global China Seminar
Date: Tuesday 26 April, 2022, 4:30pm – 5:30pm
Location: KK203, Kirk Building, Kelburn Campus, Victoria University of Wellington
'From positive to negative history: The shifting use of history in China’s diplomacy.'
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Researching Tibet
Date: Wednesday 13 April, 2022, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Join us for this online-only event via Zoom with Robert Barnett, a longstanding researcher of modern Tibetan history, politics and culture, as he discusses the challenges and opportunities of doing remote research in Tibet.
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‘My experience as a Chinese kiwi journalist.’
Global China Seminar
Date: Tuesday 12 April, 2022, 4:00pm – 5:00pm
Location: ZOOM
‘My experience as a Chinese kiwi journalist.’
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New Zealand and China: different worlds?
Date: Thursday 31 March, 2022, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Join us for this online-only event via Zoom to hear John review the New Zealand - China relationship, comment on its current state, and assess how it might evolve in the future.
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Foreigners in the Chinese Criminal Justice System
Global China Seminar
Date: Tuesday 29 March, 2022, 1:00pm – 2:00pm
Location: ZOOM
Foreigners in the Chinese Criminal Justice System
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Transnational Crime in the Pacific and the China Nexus
Date: Thursday 17 March, 2022, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Join us for this online-only event via Zoom to hear Jose explore the key players, strategies and modus operandi, the nodes of convergence or “grey zone” between state and non-state interests, and the potential trajectory of the crime-security nexus in the Pacific.
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How are New Zealand companies managing through COVID-19 in China?
Date: Thursday 3 March, 2022, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Join us for this online-only event via Zoom to hear Fiona present the perspective of New Zealand companies on the ground in China, and the people based there on how they are managing though COVID-19 while travel restrictions remain.
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Deterring the United States: China and Multidomain Strategic Stability
Date: Tuesday 22 February, 2022, 12:30pm – 1:30pm
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Join us for this online-only event via Zoom to hear Lora explore the current state of Chinese multidomain deterrence through the lens of strategic stability, active defence, and proactive defence.
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Religious revival in China: a threat to the Party?
Date: Wednesday 17 November, 2021, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Join us for this online-only event via Zoom to hear Ian probe issues and implications of religious revival for the Communist Party of China.
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Rethinking New Zealand’s China dilemma
Global China Seminar
Date: Thursday 11 November, 2021, 5:30pm – 6:30pm
Location: Lecture Theatre 2 (RHLT 2), Rutherford House, Pipitea Campus, Victoria University of Wellington
Rethinking New Zealand’s China dilemma
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The problems of Gung Ho
Global China Seminar
Date: Thursday 28 October, 2021, 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Location: AM103, Alan MacDiarmid Building, Kelburn Campus, Victoria University of Wellington
The problems of Gung Ho: Rewi Alley and the Chinese Industrial Cooperatives (CIC) Movement, 1938 – 2021
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China and the World in Xi Jinping’s New Era
Date: Thursday 21 October, 2021, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Join us for this online-only event via Zoom to hear Bert break down China’s past growth and extrapolate from current trends to consider how the country’s future development might look.
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Power and Authority?
Global China Seminar
Date: Thursday 14 October, 2021, 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Location: AM105, Alan MacDiarmid Building, Kelburn Campus, Victoria University of Wellington
Power and Authority? People's Daily Writing on the US-China Trade Dispute
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China and Afghanistan: What opportunities does the Taliban takeover offer Beijing?
Date: Thursday 7 October, 2021, 3:30pm – 4:30pm
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Join us for this online-only event via Zoom to hear Shyam discuss the risks and opportunities for China of the Taliban takeover in Afghanistan.
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