2007 - 2008

Women and home ownership in the context of Japan's home-owning democracy

Dr Misa Izuhara (School for Policy Studies )

Oct 8


Discord and Integration in East Asia: Japan Bounded by the United States and Asia

Professor Go Ito (Department of Political Science, Meiji Univeristy, Japan )

Nov 5


China and the future of the developing world: The Emerging Global-Asia Era and its Consequences

Professor Jeffrey Henderson (Leverhulme Research Professor of International Economic Sociology, University of Manchester )

Nov 19


Sex education in modern and contemporary China: interrupted debates across national and international boundaries

Dr Alessandra Aresu (Department of Human Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca )

Nov 26


Industrial Upgrading in China

Eric Thun (Said Business School, Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford)

Dec 1


Hunger and War in Early Twentieth-Century China: From Natural to National Disaster

Dr, Andrea Janku (SOAS, University of London)

Jan 21


Shanghai, sci-fi and rendering China's future

Dr Mark Harrison (Centre for the Study of Democracy, University. of Westminster)

Feb 11


Icons of Power: Mao Zedong on Postage Stamps

Professor Robert Benewick (University of Sussex)

17 March


Institutions and Institutional Purpose:  Welfare Reform in East Asia

Professor Joseph Wong (University of Toronto)

21 April


The Battle for China's Past: Mao and the Cultural Revolution

Professor Mobo Gao (Adelaide Confucius Institute at the University of Adelaide)

13th May