Previous Monday Lectures

2025

Monday lecture: Queer Fun in Shanghai: The Social Lives of Elderly Working-Class Chinese Men
Monday lecture: The symbolic end of Hong Kong stories is just the beginning
Monday lecture: Hong Kong Identity Conundrum
Monday lecture: Imagery in Classical Chinese Poetry: Li Qingzhao’s Song Lyrics and the Chrysanthemum

2024

Monday lecture: Politics of fear in China’s Cultural Revolution
Monday lecture: Mongolian language and cultural heritage in Inner Mongolia
Monday lecture: Chinese futures: An introduction to Chinese Science Fiction
Monday lecture: Translating Liu Xiaobo’s June Fourth Elegies
Monday lecture: Same Game, New Playbook: Regulating Religion under Xi Jinping
Monday lecture: The Presence of the Communist Party in Chinese Business
China Rising: identity discourse shaping the foreign policy of an emerging superpower
Monday lecture: China's relation with Taiwan

2023

Monday lecture: "Ethnic minority philosophy and ethnic psychology in the People's Republic of China"
Monday lecture: Alumni-talk by Hillevi Pårup
Monday lecture by Jan Romgard
Monday lecture: Alumni-talk by Lin Engdahl
Monday lecture: Interview with Film Director Wei Tesheng

2022

Monday lecture: Academic Writing for students in Asian and Middle Eastern studies
Monday lecture: Jin Ping Mei - acclaimed, famous and banned for 400 years
Alumni Talk: A lecture on sinology in working life
Monday lecture: Xi Jinping and the return of a personality cult in China?

Spotlight Taiwan 2022

Contact Professor Irmy Schweiger, if you have questions about the Monday lectures.