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IICS Public Lecture Series

IICS Public Lecture Series

A New Answer to The Needham Question: Language, Mathematic Thinking and Brain Function 30Apr
A New Answer to The Needham Question: Language, Mathematic Thinking and Brain Function

Speaker: Professor Liming Wang, Director of Irish Institute for Chinese Studies and UCD Confucius Institute for Ireland
Obsessed With Reading: Reading Translated Love Stories In Early Twentieth-Century China 27Mar
Obsessed With Reading: Reading Translated Love Stories In Early Twentieth-Century China

Speaker: Dr Qian Liu, Translation and Chinese Studies, University of Warwick
The Eye/I in Ancient Chinese Thought 27Feb
The Eye/I in Ancient Chinese Thought

Speaker: Professor Quan Wang, English and Comparative Literature, Beihang University

Appropriation, Acculturation and Hybridity: Shakespeare and Traditional Chinese Theater 28Nov
Appropriation, Acculturation and Hybridity: Shakespeare and Traditional Chinese Theater

Speaker: Professor Jiangnan Xie Chinese Director, UCD Confucius Institute Theater Studies, Renmin University of China
Demystifying the Chinese Writing System; What is it that learners need to know? 30Mar
Demystifying the Chinese Writing System; What is it that learners need to know?

Speaker: Mr Andrew Scrimgeour. Adjunct Research Fellow at the University of South Australia. Thursday 30 March 2023
Human Stem Cells and Genome Editing for Chinese Medicine 09Feb
Human Stem Cells and Genome Editing for Chinese Medicine

Speaker: Professor Sanbing Shen. School of Medicine, University of Galway. Thursday 9 February 2023
Western Countries in Chinese Jesuit Sources of the 17th Century 17Nov
Western Countries in Chinese Jesuit Sources of the 17th Century

Speaker:Associate Professor Paolo De Troia.The Italian Institute of Oriental Studies, Sapienza University of Rome.Thursday 17 November 2022
The Inescapable China in Japanese Democracy: Writing East Asia in the Cambridge History of Democracy
The Inescapable China in Japanese Democracy: Writing East Asia in the Cambridge History of Democracy

Speaker: Professor Kiri Paramore. Professor of Asian Studies in the National University of Ireland, University College Cork. Thursday 20 October 2022

What is Chinese
What is Chinese

Speaker: Professor Gregory Lee. Founding Professor of Chinese Studies at University of St Andrew's. Thursday 7 April 2022
Marx\'s Theory of Absolute Rent and its Role in Explaining the Divergence of Prices from Values
Marx's Theory of Absolute Rent and its Role in Explaining the Divergence of Prices from Values

Speaker: Professor Nathan Hill Director of the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies. Thursday 10 March 2022.
The Irish Economy and the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic
The Irish Economy and the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic

Speaker: Professor Liming Wang Director of Irish Institute for Chinese Studies and UCD Confucius Institute for Ireland. Thursday 4 November 2021.

Forthcoming Lectures

  • Professor Sanbing Shen, 9 February 2023. Title "Human Stem Cells and Genome Editing for Chinese Medicine"
  • Mr Andrew Scrimgeour, 30 March 2023. Title "Demystifying the Chinese Writing System; What is it that learners need to know?"