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LIAS Lunch Talk Series
The LIAS Lunch Talk Series provides a platform for faculty members and PhD candidates within the LIAS to present their research to a diverse academic community and to engage in discussions with peers in an informal atmosphere. Lunch is on us! Please find the programme for 2024 (spring semester) below. Lectures take place on Wednesdays (13-14h). Registration is not required.
Sanne Dokter-Mersch: And then it stopped – the impact of print culture on the perception and growth of Purāṇas
Fan Lin: A Social History of Elephant Watching and Elephant Keepers in Early Modern China
Sarah Cramsey: “This Way to the Gas...": Children and their Caretakers at Auschwitz-Birkenau
Carwyn Morris: “Let’s go to the Wanghong Restaurant…”: Following the wanghong as an aspect of global China
Andrea Giolai: Sounding Out Ecological Precarity and Musical Heritage in Asia: Some Early Ideas
Rogier Creemers: The Great Rectification: A New Paradigm for China’s Online Platform Economy
Jonathan London: The Politics of Education in Contemporary Vietnam
Elena Paskaleva: The China Pavilion (chīnīkhāna) of Ulugh Beg in Samarqand
Tsolin Nalbantian: A ‘Little Armenia’ in the Caribbean
Nira Wickramasinghe, Sanayi Marcelline and Pouwel van Schooten: Slavery in the Indian Ocean World and the Work of Forgetting: Some Preliminary Thoughts
Elena Burgos Martinez: Of Monsters and other Men: green Islam and the tidalectics of ecological crises in maritime Asia
Angelika Koch-Low: Blood, Tears and Samurai Love: A Tragic Tale from Eighteenth-Century Japan
Florian Schneider: Playing China’s University Entrance Exam: The Videogame 'Chinese Parents' and Its Political Potentials
Berthe Jansen: Johan Van Manen’s Tibetan and Himalayan Collection: The Challenges of Multi-media Research