Lecture:Changing Cultures and Sociospatial Restructuring in Urban China: Shanghai Deljana Iossifova, University of Manchester Thursday, December 5, 2013  6 pm KWZ, Room 0.602 The talk explores closely linked processes of urban restructuring in China – rural-to-urban migration, urban redevelopment (including demolition and resettlement) and the ‘worlding’ of cities – through the lens of sanitation infrastructure …

LECTURE: U.S. Pivoting to Asia: Is there a real change in the American Foreign Policy towards China and the Asia- Pacific? Marcin Grabowski, Jagiellonian University Thursday, December 12, 2013, 6 pm KWZ, Room 0.603 G.W. Bush’s policy towards Asia-Pacific region was often perceived and described as neglectful. Occupied with other regions, especially Iraq and Afghanistan, …

LECTURE The Social Basis of Taiwan’s Liberalizing Cross-Strait Policies, 2008-2012 Chih-Jou Jay Chen of the Institute of Sociology, Academia Sinica Time13.12., 12-14 Uhr Room: VG 2.101 http://www.ios.sinica.edu.tw/fellow/chihjoujaychen/

LECTURE: The Internationalization of China’s Uyghur Issues Julie Yu-wen Chen, University College Cork Tuesday,  December 17,  2013 · 6 pm, KWZ,  Room 0.607 This lecture explores the operation and coalition-building of Uyghur diasporic organizations in democratic countries. Since some Uyghur organizations have been lent notable legitimacy by liberal democracies and international governmental organizations, they can …