Programme

12.30-2pm: Session 1

Dr Isabella Jackson (TCD): The Shanghai International Settlement Administration as a site of Sino-British (and -Irish) interconnections’

Dr David Bell (Queen’s): Chinese seals in Ireland: The phenomenon of the “ancient” Chinese porcelain seals found in Ireland

Dr Emma Reisz (Queen’s): ‘Sir Robert Hart and Sino-Irish-British knowledge networks’

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2.15-4.15pm: Session 2

Prof. Jerusha McCormack (Beijing Foreign Studies University, TCD): ‘Staging the Revolution: Terence MacSwiney and Guo Moruo’
Dr Aglaia De Angeli (Queen’s): ‘The end of empire and the revolutions in China and Ireland’
Siyi Du (TCD): Chester Beatty and his Chinese collections: representing and exchanging cultures and value in the early 20th Century

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4.30-5.30pm: Keynote lecture
Prof. Henrietta Harrison (University of Oxford)
‘The Stauntons of Galway: Links between Ireland and China in the 18th and early 19th Centuries’

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5.45-6.30pm: Drinks reception and launch of new project ‘The past and present of Sinology and Chinese Studies in Ireland’ (Queen’s University Belfast and National Taiwan University)

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