Seminar with Qin Shao

Historian Qin Shao, who works at The College of New Jersey, discussed with ALTER members her new research project and a forthcoming text, “The Pursuit of Transitional Justice from Below. A Case Study from Shanghai”.[…]

Bill Hayton, The Invention of China (Yale UP, 2020).    

Inés Arco Escriche of Barcelona CIDOB on the project “SHAPEDEM-EU: Rethinking and Reshaping the EU’s Democracy Support in its Eastern and Southern Neighbourhood“.

In April 21, Carles Brasó-Broggi took part in the Chinese Business History Webinar series, organized by the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong.  Brasó-Broggi discussed the[…]

Zhao Tingyang, Tianxia: una filosofía para la gobernanza global. Trans. of Chonggou Tianxia (2019), by Manuel Pavón-Belizón, Herder, 2021.

Organized by Mònica Ginès, the Institut d’Asie Orientale at Lyon, and the Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies, the conference Concealing Agents: Intentional Processes of Invisibilization in Modern Asian History brought together (April 27-28)[…]

UPF professor and recent ALTER member, Raquel Bouso Garcia, and professor Rebeca Maldonado (UNAM) discussed with group members their research in Japanese philosophy, issues of translation and the activities of the International Association of Japanese[…]

On 22 March, ALTER predoctoral fellow Enrique Mora Roás presented the objectives and work plan of his ongoing dissertation, titled Gendering revolution. Masculinity in left-wing collectives in Late Meiji (1898-1912) and Taishō’s (1912-1926) Japan, to fellow group[…]

Hosted on February 2 at Barcelona CCCB, ALTER members Maialen Marin-Lacarta and Xavier Ortells-Nicolau, along with journalist and researcher Javier Borràs (IESE Business School) and Irene Masdeu Torruella (UAB), discussed different angles of contemporary China. […]

On the ocasion of the publication of a Catalan translation of Capital in the Anthropocene (人新世の「資本論」) by Kohei Saito (Una nova manera de viure, Tigre de Paper, 2022), Ferran de Vargas has written a prologue[…]