Seminars
ALTER Group examines how East Asian social realities have been and are represented and self-represented from a critical and interdisciplinary perspective. In this regard, ALTER members view research as a collective process aimed at building knowledge, in which seminars are one of the most direct manifestations. Holding regular research seminars has, as a result, become one of the most fundamental and effective tools for communicating the Group’s findings.
9/02/2024
Seminar: predoctoral research by Raquel Cruz and Robinson Campos.
24/11/2023
Seminars with Yan He (Chinese Collections, Cambridge University library) & Xin Fan (Modern Chinese History, Cambridge University)
22-23/11/2023
Seminars with David Ownby, Reading the China Dream
8/11/2023
China & Sinophone Working Group #7
Shu-mei Shih, “What is Sinophone Studies”
25/10/2023
China & Sinophone Working Group #6
Geremie Barmé, “In a Retro Mood”
11/10/2023
China & Sinophone Working Group #5
Julian Gewirtz, Unlikely Partners (Harvard UP, 2017) & Isabella Weber, How China Escaped Shock Therapy (Routledge, 2021)
23/06/2023
DigiTrans China and ALTER seminar with Lucas Klein (Arizona State University), “Contemporary Chinese Poetry Translation into English: Translators & Publishers”.
22/06/2023
DigiTrans China and ALTER seminar with Lucas Klein (Arizona State University), “En Face & the Face of the Other: On Intersubjectivity and Equivalence in Translating Contemporary Poetry from Chinese”.
31/05/2023
China & Sinophone Working Group #4
Bill Hayton, The Invention of China (Yale UP, 2020).
16/05/2023
China & Sinophone Working Group #3
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“.
03/05/2023
China & Sinophone Working Group #2
Zhao Tingyang, Tianxia: una filosofía para la gobernanza global. Trans. of Chonggou Tianxia (2019), by Manuel Pavón-Belizón (Herder, 2021).
19/04/2023
China & Sinophone Working Group #1
Ivan Franceschini & Nicholas Loubere, Global China as Method (Cambridge UP, 2022)
07/02/2023
Seminar with Nick Admussen (Cornell University).
25/01/2023
Manuel Pavón-Belizón (UOC) “The Translation and Circulation of Contemporary Chinese Humanities and Social Sciences in European and North American Contexts (1989-2018): The Case of Wang Hui”.
16/12/2022
Alessandra Coppari (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), “El Chinatown en el contexto español”.
25/11/2022
Ferran de Vargas (ALTER-UOC), “History and Ideology of the Japanese New Left”.
26/10/2022
Etienne Lock (ALTER-UOC), “L’expérience du diaconat permanent à Douala, Cameroun (1964-1992)”.
20/04/2022
Christian G. de Vito (Bonn Center for Dependency and Slavery Studies): “Discussing Scale, Taphonomies and Circulation in Global History.”
25/03/2022
Ivan Gonzàlez-Pujol (Senshu University): “What can IR power politics learn from Physics?”
28/01/2022
Jordi Serrano Muñoz (Waseda University): “East Asia, Latin America, and the Decolonization of Transpacific Studies.”
21/01/2021
Seminar with Agnès Garcia-Ventura (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona)
9 and 10/05/2019
Seminars with Margaret Hillenbrand (University of Oxford)
12 and 14/03/2019
Tom Mullaney (Stanford University): “Taxonomy and Taphonomy: The Sedimentation and Erosion of Worlds.”
11/12/2018
Alba Torrents (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): “L’anime com a objecte tècnic: materialitat, temporalitat i identitat”
14/09/2018
Rosario Hubert (Trinity College): “The Scattered Catalog. Maoism and Translation in Latin America”
13/06/2018
Mònica Ginès, Evelyn Hu-DeHart (Brown University): “The network of Spanish interests behind Chinese immigration in the Philippines”
09/01/2018
Cristina Guillén Arnáiz (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): “La imagen de Filipinas en la literatura española de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX (1868-1898). Presencia y representación de las islas en La Ilustración Española y Americana.”
18/04/2017
Yue Zhang (Universitat Autónoma de Madrid): “China en la poesía de Lorca”
Manuel Pavón-Belizón (UOC- ALTER): “La recepción internacional de la obra de Wang Hui”
30/03/2017
Irene Masdeu (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): “Immigració xinesa i noves formes de mobilitat”
Marta Catalán (University of Hong Kong): “Neoliberalismo y el capital chino: la transformación urbana española (2000-2017)”
16/03/2017
Lluc López, Iván González (UOC- ALTER): “El papel de las teorías no occidentales en los debates actuales de la disciplina de las Relaciones Internacionales”
09/11/2016
Carles Brasó (UOC- ALTER): “Wounds of War: International Medical Volunteers in Spain and China (1936-1949)”
04/11/2016
Rocío Ortuño (University of the Philippines): “Relacions culturals i literàries entre Espanya i Filipines i la formació d’una identitat nacional (1898-2016)”
12/05/2016
Devin Fitzgerald (Harvard University): “New Qing history: methodological issues”
Oriol Regué (Johns Hopkins University): “Imperial competition and collaboration in the coolie trade”
31/03-01/04/2016
Seminars with Robert Bickers (University of Bristol)
28-29/01/2016
Seminars with Maurizzio Marinelli (University of Sussex)
19/11/2015
Seminar with María Dolores Elizalde (Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas)
16/07/2015
Ning Siwen (East China Normal University): “La representación de China y su imagen literaria en la España del siglo XIX”
28/05/2015
Workshop on The North China Herald
30/04/2015
Rafael Caro (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): “La opera china en la investigación del Music Technology Group (UPF)”
Mònica Ginès (UOC-ALTER): “Col·leccions privades d’art xinès a Barcelona”
09/04/2015
Workshop on Gaudencio Castrillo’s El comercio de Extremo Oriente
27/02/2014
Jon Howlett (University of York): “Foreign Communities in Shanghai and the Transition to Socialism”
13/11/2014
Jesús Sayols (Hong Kong Baptist University): “Les traduccions de Lorca al xinès”
23-24/10/14
Seminars with James Hevia (University of Chicago)
13/02/2014
Workshop on Naoki Sakai’s “The Dislocation of the West and the Status of the Humanities”
06/02/2014
Workshop on James L. Hevia’s Chinese Lessons.
29/01/2014
Workshop on Gayatri Spivak’s “Can the subaltern speak?” (participation in a Grup GRECS – UOC Seminar)
16/01/2014
Workshop on Ai Qing’s Nostalgia imperial: crónicas de viajeros españoles por China (1870-1910) and S. Piastra’s “ Italians in the Old Shanghai”
4/07/2013
C. Brasó, M. Crespín, M. Marín, X. Ortells (UOC-ALTER): Discussion of working papers
23/05/2013
R. Carrillo, D. Martínez, C. Prado (UOC-ALTER): Discussion of working papers
17/01/2013
Mònica Ginés (Universitat de Barcelona): “Eduard Toda i el col·leccionisme d’art xinès a Catalunya”
27/09/2012
Workshop on “Interaccions Espanya-Xina en el món contemporani”
05/06/2012
Rubén Carrillo (UOC-ALTER): “La implantación asiática en México en el siglo XVII”
01/03/2012
Montserrat Crespín (UOC-ALTER): ““Mapearse a sí mismo”: algunas notas sobre la autoconciencia en el primer Nishida.”
07/07/2011
Antonio Paoliello (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): “Identity and Memory in Contemporary Malaysian Chinese Literature”
26/05/2011
Xavier Ortells (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): “El viatge de les ruïnes”
14/04/2011
Begonya Enguix (UOC): “Sobre l’alteritat, l’autoritat i les fronteres?”
24/03/2011
Workshop on Hegel’s Lectures on the Philosophy of World History
03/03/2011
David Martínez-Robles (UOC-ALTER): “La reterritorialització de la llengua i l’empresa imperial europea: el cas de la Xina en el segle XIX”
27/01/2011
Montserrat Crespín (UOC-ALTER): “Pasajes reversibles de la modernidad. Reflexiones en torno a la división Oriente/Occidente en la filosofía de Nishida Kitarõ”
29/10/2010
Maialen Marín (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): “La recepción de traducciones literarias como documentos socio-históricos: el caso de la literatura china moderna y contemporánea en España”
6/10/2010
David Martínez-Robles (UOC-ALTER): “Més enllà dels tractats desiguals: concessions i reciprocitat en el tractat sino-espanyol de 1864″
10/06/2010
Carles Brasó (Universitat Pompeu Fabra): “Shanghai y la industralización algodonera en China: el caso de la empresa Dafeng”
27/05/2010
Antonio Paoliello (Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona): “Mahua Literature Goes Pop: Urban Pop Culture in Li Zishu’s Prose Writings”
13/05/2010
David Martínez-Robles (UOC-ALTER): “China by numbers: aproximacions a una anàlisi quantitativa de la història xinesa”
15/04/2010
Montse Crespín (UOC-ALTER): “Comentari sobre la producció i el consum del nou orientalisme i les seves pseudofilosofies”
25/03/2010
Carles Prado (UOC-ALTER): “A Critical Return: From Multiculturalism to Creolization in Lao She’s Fiction”