This new university-wide lecture series seeks to bring together all scholars and students engaged in Asian Studies across the campus. Speakers for each lecture in the series will come from a different disciplinary background and share their research and knowledge of Asia. It is organized by the Asian Studies Program in School of Languages and Cultures. We hope anyone interested in Asia, past and present, from all different disciplines will attend and meet each other.
All seminars (except 1 September) will take place
4.30 - 6.00pm
in various seminar rooms (noted below) of the
Education Building
Manning Road, University of Sydney
Contact person: Professor Mayfair Yang, Director, Asian Studies
Wednesday 6 August | Seminar Room 508
International NGO's and Civil Society in China
Pacific Environment : A Case Study
Dr Thomas Gold
Sociology Department
University of California, Berkeley
Respondent : Dr Michele Ford, Chair of Indonesian Studies
Wednesday 27 August | Seminar Room 508
What Was the Skeleton Doing in Eighteenth Century Beijing? On Luo Ping's Ghost Amusement
Professor Eugene Y. Wang
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art
Department of History of Art and Architecture
Harvard University
Monday 1 September, 6:00 - 7:30pm | Woolley Common Room, Woolley Building - NB Please note changed venue and time for this lecture -
Leading to Paradise : Buddhist Paintings of the Koryo Period in the 13th-14th centuries.
co-sponsored with the Australasian Association of Buddhist Studies
Dr Pak Youngsook
Centre for Korean Studies
School of Oriental and African Studies
University of London
Wednesday 10 September | Education Seminar Room 325
The Idea of the Chinese Capital Plan : The transformation of Chinese Principles of Urban Design in 7th Century East Asia
Dr Peter Armstrong
Faculty of Architecture, Design, & Planning
The University of Sydney
Respondent: Dr. Matthew Stavros, Department of Japanese Studies
Monday 22 September | Education Seminar Room 325
New Perspectives on Angkor Wat
Professor Roland Fletcher
Department of Archaeology
The University of Sydney
Respondent: Professor Jeffrey Riegel, School of Languages & Cultures
Friday 26 September | Education Seminar Room 325
Challenges of Good Governance & Promotion of Civil Society in the Philippines
Mayor Jesse Robredo
Naga City, Camarines Sur
Winner of Ramon Magsaysay Award for Government Service
Philippines
Tuesday 14 October | Education Seminar Room 459
Open Hands, Crossed Fingers, Polite Smiles and Furrowed Brows : The Tokyo-Beijing-Washington Strategic Triangle and the Future of East Asian Regionalism
Dr Malcolm Cook
Director, Asia-Pacific Program
Lowy Institute, Sydney
Respondent: Professor Rodney Tiffen, Department of Government & International Relations
Wednesday 29 October | Education Seminar Room 325
Australian Media and Indonesia
Professor Rodney Tiffen
Department of Government & International Relations
The University of Sydney
Respondent: Professor Adrian Vickers, Southeast Asian Studies
Wednesday 5 November | Seminar Room 325
Researching the Garment Industry in the Asia-Pacific
Professor Adrian Vickers
Director, Southeast Asian Studies
Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney
Respondent : Professor Elspeth Probyn, Department of Gender and Cultural Studies
