Catholic missionaries in China

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

On March 7, ALTER member Xavier Ortells hosted a round table discussion with three China experts after their journeys to China last summer, generously sharing their insights.  At Jaume Fuster Library, Barcelona, with journalist Javier[…]

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[…]

We are extremelly happy and proud to share that Carles Brasó-Broggi has been awarded the 2023 ICAS Book Prize Spanish Language Edition for his book Los médicos errantes. De las Brigadas Internacionales y la revolución[…]

ALTER member Carles Brasó-Broggi joined Florentino Rodao (Universidad Complutense de Madrid) in Barcelona’s Ateneu to talk about their respective books, Los médicos errantes. De las Brigadas Internacionales y la revolución china a la guerra fría[…]

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“.