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A final event in ALTER’s seminar series before the summer break. On July 26, ALTER will host a seminar with Tatiana Linkhoeva, Associate Professor of Japanese History in the Department of History at New York[…]

Once again, on July 1 ALTER members met for a day of merriment and conversation, drinks and a paella…and to find out this year’s awardee of the enigmatic Lemon Award (it fell on Mònica Ginès,[…]

Xavier Ortells-Nicolau delivered a lecture on the media response to the Shanghai Incident of 1932 at the Confucius Institute in Barcelona on June 6. You can access here a recording of the talk (in Catalan).

On April 2, Xavier Ortells delivered a talk at the La Madraza in Granada, Spain, about Catholic missionaries in China.  

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[…]

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. […]

Members of ALTER have met again in person after quite some time, and virtually with members away from Barcelona, to update activities and research related to the project “Taphonomies of Cross-Cultural Knowledge: Interactions between Europe[…]

The ‘Repertori de Col·leccionistes i Col·leccions d’Art i Arqueologia de Catalunya’ (Database of Catalan art and archaeology collections and collectors) has included a biographical skech of Juan Mencarini, and a notice of his contributions to[…]

On April 14, ALTER member Mònica Ginés Blasi delivered a talk at MUHBA (Museum of History of Barcelona) about the presence of Chinese art in Catalan collections of the 19th and early 20th century. You[…]

ALTER member Siwen Ning has just published Fragmentos del Celeste Imperio. La representación de China y su imagen literaria en la España del siglo XIX (Iberoamericana, 2020). Based on Ning’s doctoral dissertation, the book traces[…]