Upcoming Events

Empire & Decolonisation

Thursday, July 9, 2020 - 09:00 to Friday, July 10, 2020 - 17:00

Online

Keynote: Dr Matthew Whittle

The PGLRG collaborated with the Ferguson Centre in July 2020 on an interdisciplinary conference on ‘Empire and Decolonisation’. Convened by Alex Tickell and John Slight, the conference was held online

British Chinese Studies Network: Critical Reading Group

Wednesday, September 16, 2020 - 14:00 to 15:30

Online

​This will be an informal opportunity to outline the work of the network and to focus our critical discussion a little in a reading of a chapter by Diana Yeh titled "The Cultural Politics of In/Visibility: Contesting 'British Chineseness' in the Arts". 

Online Launch of David Johnson’s Dreaming of Freedom in South Africa. Literature between Critique and Utopia

Tuesday, November 10, 2020 - 14:00 to 15:30

via Zoom

Focusing on well-known and obscure literary texts from the 1880s to the 1970s, as well as the many manifestos and programmes setting out visions of the future, this book charts the dreams of freedom of five major traditions of anti-colonial and anti-apartheid resistance: the African National Congress, the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union, the Communist Party of South Africa, the Non-European Unity Movement and the Pan-Africanist Congress.

Webinar book launch: Suman Gupta and Peter Tu, What is Artificial Intelligence? A Conversation between an AI Engineer and a Humanities Researcher

Thursday, November 19, 2020 - 14:00 to 15:00

Online, via Zoom

We are delighted to invite you to a webinar celebrating the launch of 'What is Artificial Intelligence?'. As the title suggests, the book engages with this question by putting two very different standpoints into conversation.

BCSN: Creative Writing series with Hannah Lowe and Jane Yeh

Monday, April 25, 2022 - 10:45 to 15:00

Costa Prize winning poet Hannah Lowe will be in (online) conversation with Jane Yeh, as part of the British Chinese Studies Network’s creative writing series. 

Contemporary Debates in Postcolonial, Decolonial and Global Literary Studies Conference

Saturday, July 2, 2022 - 10:00 to 16:00

University of Bristol

As part of the conference, PGLRG Postgraduate students Sophie Montebello and Anita Schwartz will present papers.

Research in the Arts and Humanities: Current work in colonial, postcolonial and decolonial studies

Wednesday, September 28, 2022 - 10:00 to 15:00

Alex Tickell and David Johnson will convene a postgraduate conference with colleagues at the University of Southampton, where two of our postgraduates, Tom Probert and Anne Wetherilt, will give presentations.

Chinese Britain: Culture and History – New Directions Conference

Saturday, December 17, 2022 - 10:00 to Sunday, December 18, 2022 - 16:00

Online

The conference will be themed around new research on ‘Chinese Britain’ with a focus on the culture and history of East and Southeast Asian and Chinese migrant and diasporic communities in Britain.

The British Empire and the Chinese Diaspora

Monday, February 13, 2023 - 19:30 to 20:45

Online

The British Library panel discussion ’The British Empire and the Chinese Diaspora’. This is event is part of the 'Chinese and British: Exploring Communities and Culture’ exhibition. 

The Chinese in Britain: A Long History

Thursday, March 9, 2023 - 19:30 to 20:45

Online

British Library panel discussion ’The Chinese in Britain: A Long History’. This event is part of the 'Chinese and British: Exploring Communities and Culture’ exhibition.