Week 0 (26 April) 2:00 PM
Priests and Diplomats: Reconsidering Diplomacy and Russian Orthodox Religious Practice in the Late Qing and Republican China
Dr Anastasiia Akulich (University of Manchester); Thomas Barrett, DPhil (University of Cambridge)
Week 1 (3 May) Noon
Contemporary Literature and Documentary Filmmaking: The Narrative Styles of Immigrant Writers and Pandemic Documentaries as a Medium of Emotional Communication
Wang Hongying (University of Carlos III Madrid); Xiao Zhan (University of Exeter)
Week 3 (17 May) 2:00 PM
Material Culture: A Comparative Study of Chinese and Mayan Pottery and Art Students’ Education in Sustainable Heritage
Li Lu (Jingdezhen Ceramic University); Ning Nanke (University of Salford)
Week 5 (1 June) Noon
The Transformative Politics of Literature: Translation as a Tool of Governance in Taiwan and Orientalism in Paul Auster’s Moon Palace
Aoife Cantrill, DPhil (University of Manchester); Cao Jingjing (University of Exeter)
Week 7 (14 June) 2:00 PM
Modern Literature and Archaistic Book Culture: Gu Mingdao’s Martial Heroes and the Curious Case of the Woodblock Edition of The Communist Manifesto
Dr Chen Yiran (Fudan University); Dr Lara Yang (University of Freiburg)