BCCN Lecture Series WS26/27: Global China Today

Winter term 2026/27

Oct 27, 2026, 16:00-17:30 CET (online)
Which Global China: Current Debates, Open Frontiers
Panel discussion with Ching Kwan Lee (University of California, Los Angeles), Erik Baark (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) and Tim Summers (The Chinese University of Hong Kong)

Nov 17, 2026, 14:00-15:30 CET (online)
Global China and Post-Cold War Global Temporalities
Hasan Karrar (Lahore University of Management Sciences)

Dec 8, 2026, 14:00-15:30 CET (online)
Jamaican Chinamaxxing: Caribbean Yellow Peril, the Plantation, and Chinese Debt as Possibility
Tao Leigh Goffe (City University of New York)

Jan 12, 2027, 14:00-15:30 CET (online)
China's Rise in Global Environmental Governance
Yixian Sun (University of Bath)

Feb 16, 2027 (in person, location TBD)
Whose Global China: Cultures, Chineseness, and Chinamaxxing
Panel discussion with Ien Ang (University of Western Sydney), Kimiko Suda (Humboldt University of Berlin), and Siqi Tu (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)

The winter term 2026/27 Berlin Contemporary China Network (BCCN) Lecture Series Global China Today is hosted by the Lise Meitner Research Group "China in the Global System of Science" (LMRG). For further information, please contact the organizers Dr. Franziska Marliese Fröhlich (fmfroehlich@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de) and Fiona Bewley (fabewley@mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de) from the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.