Past events
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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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China Capable Masterclass
Date: Monday 31 October, 2022, 9:00am – Friday 4 November, 2022, 3:00pm
Location: Wellington
Highly interactive five-day masterclass immersing knowledge workers in the complexities of engaging with China in the context of the New Zealand-China relationship.
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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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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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