New Lenses on China Colloquium: A gathering of leading scholars in the field of the history of photography in China Dr Marine Cabos Cross-posted from Photography of China Between 23 and 24 June 2017, Queen’s University in Belfast (Northern Ireland) planned an academic conference gathering international scholars from various disciplines ranging from history, art history, history of photography, to sinology. Entitled New Lenses on China: Photography in Modern Chinese History and Historiography, this conference’s successive papers reflected on the impact of photographic sources on our understanding of Chinese history, while assessing the state of the field and considering its future…
Month: June 2017
PhD studentship starting Jan 2018 [updated]
A fully funded PhD studentship at Queen’s Belfast is available starting 1 January 2018 on “Chinese Customs Houses and Sino-Western Encounter in the Unequal Treaty Era”. Deadline: Friday 11 August 2017 (amended 18 July). Entrance to the old offices, Tengyue (Tengchong), 1909. This studentship is within SPaRK, the Queen’s doctoral training programme funded by the EU Marie Skłodowska Curie scheme. All tuition fees will be paid (including for non-EU students) and students will receive a stipend of £25,576.45 per annum and access to a generous training programme. More information. Applicants must: – satisfy the Marie Skłodowska Curie mobility rule, which…