May is a busy month filled with preparations for final exams and submissions of theses, but also with the promise of summer holidays not being far ahead. The last events for the semester focuses on China and include a film screening on labour activism and an event commemorating two sensitives anniversaries, namely May 4th and June 4th.
Our photo exhibition, Visualising Asian cities, with the winners from the photo contest are on show in the Asia library until May 31st. So please come and get inspired! We plan to announce a new photo contest in the next academic year.
Finally a reminder about our international conference Digital Asia, with deadline 7 June. We have four excellent keynotes and look forward to the conference and to the Ph.D. workshops that we also organise.
In Swedish we have the phrase ”mellan hägg och syren (between the bird cherry and lilac flower),” which refers to the wonderful time between mid-May and June when nature is at its best in Sweden. I hope you all have a wonderful May!
Marina
Upcoming events in May
We the Workers
Screening of We the Workers (174 minutes), and Q&A with the producer Zeng Jinyan
Shot by the director Huang Wenhai over a six-year period (2009-15) mainly in the industrial heartland of south China, a major hub in the global supply chain, this film follows labor activists as they find common grounds with workers, helping them to negotiate with local officials and factory owners over wages and working conditions.
This year is the 100th anniversary of the May Fourth Movement in China and the 30th anniversary of the 1989 democracy movement.
The complex legacies of these two movement and their relevance for contemporary China will be discussed and parts of the documentary film The Gate of Heavenly Peace that documents the 1989 democracy movement will be screened at the event.
The Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies is co-organising the 12th Annual Nordic NIAS Council Conference and PhD Course 2-6 December 2019 to be held in Lund.
