Delta on the Move Lecture Series (Feb 9): Gina Anne Tam - How Fangyan Became Dialects: Language Politics, Identity and Power in China, 1900-Today
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
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Delta on the Move Lecture Series (Feb 9): Gina Anne Tam - How Fangyan Became Dialects: Language Politics, Identity and Power in China, 1900-Today
Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences
(Online talk) Democracy, Civil Society, and Infrastructural Power: How Construction Workers in Beijing and Delhi fight against Precarity by Dr. Irene Pang
Univeristy of California, Davis East Asian Studies coridally invites you to this Zoom talk on comparative research on Chinese and Indian labor.
Time: 21 February 2023 (Tuesday) from 4:10 to 5:30 pm PST
Zoom link: https://ucdavis.zoom.us/j/9328529016
Feb 9th: Dr Mrinalini Venkateswaran (Royal Holloway) On Partition, Museums And Identity In Independent India
The Royal Asiatic Society invites you to join us at 6.30pm on Thursday February 9th for a talk by Dr Mrinalini Venkateswaran (Royal Holloway) entitled Partition, Museums and Identity in Independent India.
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Call for Applications: Virtual Title VIII Funding, Open Research Laboratory at Illinois
Call for Applications
The Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center and the Slavic Reference Service at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign are pleased to announce that they will continue to accept applications for Virtual Title VIII Associates to participate in the Spring 2023 Open Research Laboratory (ORL) on a rolling basis through April 5, 2023 or until all awards are made.