research seminars

On November 24, ALTER hosted a dual seminar with Yan He (Chinese Collections, Cambridge University library) & Xin Fan (Modern Chinese History, Cambridge University). Both were different yet utterly fascinating sessions in which they discuss[…]

  Last week, David Ownby visited Barcelona and stopped at UOC to discuss with ALTER members our future projects and his own research. In particular David commented at large the origins, context and development of[…]

In collaboration with DigiTrans China, ALTER held two seminars with Lucas Klein (Arizona State University), Chinese-to-English literary translator specialized in Chinese poetry. Klein delivered two seminars on June 22 and 23 under the titles “En[…]

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“.

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

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[…]

Jordi Serrano-Muñoz, currently a Guest Researcher at Waseda University, has given us a talk about his recent publication: East Asia, Latin America, and the Decolonization of Transpacific Studies, a book recently published that Jordi has[…]