Ian Johnson Copyright: Sim Chi Yin Dec 16, 2025, 17:30-19:00 10-322, 3F, building 10, Sophia University In person and on ZOOM Please register from here: https://forms.office.com/r/HDsqJ8AEYJ This coming May marks the Cultural Revolution's 60th anniversary, which will result in a barrage of media reports of what is often portrayed as modern China's greatest tragedy--an event on par with Pol Pot's atrocities and even the Holocaust. The Cultural Revolution was hugely important:

KASA Sustainability's Fall 2025 Environmental Change Workshop supported by ICC and GPGS. What counts as central, and what is marginal in Southeast Asia? In this talk I will look at several places that have appeared in foundational literature that are considered to be "marginal" in the region, and why that ascription seems to have worked in making such a designation. By moving between the Sino-Burmese frontier, the uplands of Luzon in the Philippines, the Vietnamese cordillera

Reclaiming a Woman’s Life Story Intermedially Fabien Arribert-Narce (University of Edinburgh)    December 15th, 2025, 17:30-19:00  Room 301. 3F. building 10, Sophia University  No registration required / In person only    This talk will analyse intermedial (self-)reappropriation processes between images, words and sounds in Annie Ernaux’s The Super 8 Years . Directed by her son David and narrated by Ernaux herself, this 2022 documentary film is made up of archival family foot