Nordic Perspectives - Your Nordic view on Asia

The Research Network on 'The Indian Ocean as Visionary Area: PostMulticulturalist Approaches to the Study of Culture and Globalisation' invites to its third conference on "Religion, Law and Regimes of Control around the Indian Ocean", to be held in Sandvig, Bornholm, Denmark, 1-4 September 2010. The aim of the Indian Ocean network project is to develop collaboration between researchers in Denmark, India and South Africa - as well as Nordic and European colleagues - engaged in studies of transnationalism and cultural exchanges around the Indian Ocean.

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Asia Research Centre is pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by
Dr. Tirthankar Roy from London School of Economics on:

The Historical Roots of Economic Resurgence in India - a discursive but informed speculation on how economic history might enable us to understand present-day India better.

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Foredrag i Dansk-Kinesisk Forening af lektor Bent Nielsen

I begyndelsen af det 20. århundrede fik Konfucius (Kongzi) og kongfuzianismen skylden for Kinas manglende moderniseringer og tilbageståenhed i forhold til Japan, USA og Europa. I slutningen af samme århundrede fik kongfuzianismen æren for den eksplosive økonomiske fremgang – først i Taiwan, Hong Kong, Singapore og Korea, og senere i Folkerepublikken Kina. De seneste to årtier har set en ikke mindre eksplosiv fremkomst (eller tilbagevenden) i Folkerepublikken af artikler, bøger, institutter, konferencer, som beskæftiger sig med Konfucius og kongfuzianismen. Hvad sker der? Og hvad betyder det?

Bent Nielsen, som er lektor i kinesisk civilisation og kultur ved Institut for Tværkulturelle og Regionale Studier ved Københavns Universitet, har beskæftiget sig med Kinas intellektuelle historie i et kvart århundrede og har deltaget i flere af de sidste års konferencer om kongfuzianisme i Kina. Han er bl.a. forfatter til A Companion to Yi jing Numerology and Cosmology: Chinese Studies of Images and Numbers from Han (202 BCE – 220 CE) to Song (960-1279), London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003.

Entré: Medlemmer af Dansk-Kinesisk Forening 20 kr., andre 30 kr.

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En billedfortælling af Antropolog og rejseleder Ellen Bangsbo

De højtbeliggende områder i Himalaya plateauet på mellem 3.500 til 4.500 m kan ikke opdyrkes og tibetanske nomader har igennem århundreder levet her med traditionel hyrdedrift af yakokser og får.

Mange tibetanere lever stadig af traditionel hyrdedrift. Det "frie" liv på steppen værdsættes dog ikke af myndighederne, og myndigheder påskynder til, at nomader bliver bofaste, ofte gennem omfattende tvangsforflyttelser. Livet som nomade på det tibetanske plateau er derfor en livsform under forandring.

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Professor Christopher M. Dent, Professor of East Asia's International Political Economy, Department of East Asian Studies, and White Rose East Asia Centre (WREAC), University of Leeds, gæster Københavns Universitet for at indlede et samarbejde med Professor Jakob R. Munch fra ØI og Professor Jørgen Delman fra ToRS.

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Professor Christopher M. Dent, Professor of East Asia's International Political Economy, Department of East Asian Studies, and White Rose East Asia Centre (WREAC), University of Leeds, gæster Københavns Universitet for at indlede et samarbejde med Professor Jakob R. Munch fra ØI og Professor Jørgen Delman fra ToRS.

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Asia Research Centre is pleased to invite you to a guest lecture by Akihiko Tanaka
Professor, Executive Vice President and Managing Director, Tokyo University on:

Community-building in East Asia: prospects and challenges.

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The purpose of the PhD course is to bring speakers from different disciplines and analyses of Asian labour together to get an understanding of ongoing research in different fields: sociology, anthropology, labour history, industrial relations, human resource development, cross-cultural organisation, gender relations, corporate social responsibility etc. The focus will be on interdisciplinary research, differences in theories and methods analysing Asian labour. Participants must be enrolled as PhD Students in an institution of tertiary education.

Among the issues to be addressed are the following questions:
– What is the role of labour in the global economy?
– How is Asian labour governed?
– Asian Labour in the domestic, regional and global economy: The case of the football industry in Pakistan, India and China.
– How can the role of Asian labour be empirically researched at firm, sector, national, regional and global levels of development?
– What is the effects and impact of Asian labour governance for the future of socio-economic development in Asia and the wider global economy?

The course coordinators are Associate Professor Daniel Fleming, Roskilde University, and Associate Professor Peter Wad, CBS.

The synopsis must be submitted electronically no later than 11 August 2010 together with a short abstract (max 100 words) of the paper to be presented. The final paper deadline is 10 September 2010.

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The main conference days are October 16-18, but with a possibility for workshops one day before or after - to be announced later depending on interest.

We are happy to welcome you - for the 4th time to Lund University - for the 43rd conference in an unbroken line!

The conference will be organized in similar manner to the previous conferences in Lund; with dinners together all evenings for those who want to. We plan to have a Bernhard Karlgren symposium for half a day or so. The idea came up during the SOAS conference inspired by the longed-for biography of Karlgren written by professor emeritus Göran Malmqvist at Stockholm University - in Swedish! Some sinologists have tried - but failed - to read it with the help of a Swedish-English dictionary. It now fortunately turns out that professor Malmqvist has translated his work into English, and it luck is with him and us the translation will be published in time for the conference. Professor Malmqvist is also willing to come to the conference and give a talk about being a student of Karlgren. The idea is to assess the contribution of Karlgren to the reconstruction of old Chinese and his importance today. What is still valid in this era of a rapidly growing field of Sino-Tibetan linguistic science.

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The pursuit of the creative industries is no longer limited to the developed world. Emerging markets and the developing world are also engaged in promoting various creative industries. While brick and mortar remain important, policy makers are aware that innovation and creativity are significant economic driving forces both now and in the future. Creative industries prize ideas and knowledge, translating creativity into economic value. Creative activities take on a spectrum of guises, ranging from films and paintings to city branding and new media development.
The creative industries as areas of research are also getting popular.

This conference gathers researchers from around the world to discuss and further their knowledge on the creative industries. Shanghai is the perfect setting. It will host Expo 2010 and is a highly vibrant, rapidly growing city. During this conference, participants will not only experience aspects of Shanghai but also visit creative industry sites and companies.

Abstract submission deadline: 30 June 2010

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On Friday 22 October 2010, a one-day SASNET seminar on Micro-credits in India and Bangladesh will be held at Lund University. The seminar will be co-organised by The Swallows India Bangladesh section, an NGO based at Lund. The seminar will be moderated by Dr. Anna Lindberg, SASNET; Dr. Alia Ahmad, Dept.of Economics, Lund University; and Dr. Ranjula Bali-Swain, Dept. of Economics, Uppsala University.

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5th Annual Nordic NIAS Council Conference: Asia in the 21st Century: Business, Politics and Regional Dynamics, 28 - 29 October 2010
&
Nordic and International PhD Course: Business, Politics and Regional Dynamics in Contemporary Asia: New Theoretical and Methodological Perspectives, 30 October - 1 November 2010

The following international keynote speakers will inspire our proceedings:
• Sebastian Heilmann, Trier University
• Ashwani Saith, Institute of Social Studies, The Hague
• T.J. Pempel, University of California, Berkeley
• Peter Ping Li, Asia Research Centre, Copenhagen Business School

Deadline for both Conference and PhD Course is 13th September 2010

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Forevisning af filminstruktør Nanna Frank Møllers dokumentarfilm fra 2009 "Shanghai-Space" med indledning af og diskussion med instruktøren

Om sin film siger Nanna Frank Møller: "Jeg bliver ved med at vende tilbage til det samme udgangspunkt: billedet af Shanghais berømte havnefront. Billedet der indikerer en både urovækkende og besnærende transformation. En manifestation af den kinesiske supermagts evne til at gennemføre forvandlingen fra stagnerende planøkonomi til dynamisk markedsøkonomi.

I Shanghai ses den kinesiske supermagts evne til forvandling i byens arkitektur og struktur. Hver anden dag tilføjes en ny skyskraber til de endeløse geledder af skyskrabere. Hvor i denne forvandling findes det, der ud over bedriften ikke kan sås tvivl om? Hvori består det kinesiske menneskes integritet? Hvis alt kan laves om, og alt bliver lavet om, hvad er det da, der gør, at vi ikke enten bryder sammen eller bliver tossede? Hvordan finder man plads i en by, hvor der ingen plads er?"

Nanna Frank Møller er uddannet som filmklipper fra Den Danske Filmskole og debuterede som filminstruktør i 2007.

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An International Symposium entitled ”Education For Rural Tranformation (ERT)” will be held in Stockholm 8–10 November 2010. The symposium will build upon results from an ongoing research project at IIE led by Prof. Vinayagum Chinapah, comparing the ERT situation in India and China, but also on the ERT report that was prepared by researchers under the auspices of UNESCO International Research and Training Center for Rural Education (INRULED) in 2001.

The papers and contributions from this ERT Symposium will later be published.
Papers should be submitted before October 15, 2010. IIE will sponsor some 8-10 international participants mostly from India and China and selected invited resource persons.

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The Gendering Asia Conference is the 4th conference held by the Gendering Asia Network and is open to students and scholars working primarily within the postdisciplinary field of gender studies, and also to those whose main focus is not gender, but who include a gender perspective in the study of Asia. It is part of the larger ADI conference titled "Asian Diversity in a Global Context", 11-13 November 2010.

Conference themes:

• Effects of gendered Asia
• Gendered processes constructing Asia
• How does the application of gender theory make a difference to the knowledge we construct of Asia?

The conference will include keynote speeches by Thu-Huong Nguyen-vo and Penny van Esterik(tentative) and paper presentation sessions.

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The opening day of the conference will be a public event with invited keynote speakers. The following two days will be made up of 10-12 parallel panels and workshops under the common theme of the dynamics of diversity in Asia. The goal is to generate deeper and fuller insights into the political, social, cultural and economic changes facing Asia in the 21st century. Finally, PhD students will have the opportunity to participate in an intensive PhD course over two days from 14-15 November.

Studies of Asia have a long tradition at the University of Copenhagen. 2010 celebrates the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Asia Section. In continuation of its commitment to Asian Studies, the University of Copenhagen in 2008 launched the "Asian Dynamics Initiative" (ADI) - an interdisciplinary research priority area based in the Faculties of Humanities and Social Sciences. ADI aims at expanding research and teaching on Asia as well as strengthening the university's global networks in studies of Asia.

Deadline for submitting abstract: 1 March 2010

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Foredrag i Dansk-Kinesisk Forening af arkitekt Lotte Bech, lektor i design Kirsten Hyttel Larsen og ingeniør Sten Langvad

De tre oplægsholdere har på en arkitekturrejse til Kina i maj 2010 besøgt Expo 2010 i Shanghai. De vil fortælle om deres indtryk fra verdensudstillingen. Med temaet "Bedre By Bedre Liv" har Kina inviteret verdens lande til at fremvise kreativitet og innovation inden for industri og håndværk, design og arkitektur, hvor bæredygtig udvikling af byerne er i fokus og kulturforståelse fremmes.

Den Danske Pavillon har stor succes med fremvisning af Den Lille Havfrue i en elegant pavillon, der med temaet Welfairytales har referencer til H.C. Andersens eventyr og samtidig fortæller et moderne eventyr om livskvalitet og miljø i vore byer. Her kan de besøgende selv cykle og lege sig igennem udstillingen.

Entré: Medlemmer af Dansk-Kinesisk Forening 20 kr., andre 30 kr.

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DevNet Conference November 25-26, 2010, CSD Uppsala, Sweden
DevNet, the Development Research Network on Nature, Poverty and Power, invites to an inter-disciplinary conference that explores the interrelationship between natural resource use, poverty and power. We call for presentations that address the challenges to globally sustainable development posed by conflicts of interest and an unequal distribution of power.

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Multinational companies from emerging and developing economies (EMNCs) are becoming major players in the globalized world economy and are likely to wield growing influence on economic dynamics in OECD, emerging, and developing countries alike. Host OECD countries will increasingly need to engage with the array of challenges and opportunities presented by emerging-economy multinationals seeking access to their markets and assets. A number of recent high-profile and controversial cases illustrate that the ascent of EMNCs onto the world stage will not necessarily be entirely without frictions.

Yet, in spite of the media attention towards investments into the OECD, important immediate impacts of outward direct investment from emerging and developing economies (OFDI) are likely to be felt also in developing host countries, where investments from other emerging and developing economies constitute more and more important complements to investment flows from OECD countries (South-South investments). No less important will be the effects in the home countries of the outward investing firms themselves. The rise of outward investment from emerging and developing countries requires further and continuous analysis, both empirically and theoretically.

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