TOChina Spring Seminars are held, in English or Italian, every year in the context of the graduate courses of the Master’s degree in International Studies (CdLM in Scienze Internazionali, profilo China & Global Studies) at the University of Torino. Seminars are held at the “Luigi Einaudi” Campus, Lungo Dora Siena 100/a, and are open to interested members of the public. 

A number of seminars will be held also online, and can be accessed upon registration via email at virginia.mariano@unito.it
80+
Average number of participants of each TOChina Spring Seminar
TOChina Spring Seminars 2023:
FEBRUARY 22, 2023
H. 14.00-16.00 CET | CLASSROOM C1
The People's Liberation Army and China's foreign policy process
Simone DOSSI (University of Milan & T.wai - Torino World Affairs Institute)
Discussant: Prof. Giovanni B. Andornino
MARCH 1, 2023
H. 14.00-16.00 CET | CLASSROOM C1
Beyond hyphenated identity labels: the Chinese-Italian minority as work in progress and as aspiration
Daniele BRIGADOI COLOGNA (University of Insubria & T.wai)
Discussant: Prof. Giuseppe Gabusi
MARCH 8, 2023
H. 14.00-16.00 CET | CLASSROOM C1 & Webex
US-China relations as seen from South-East Asia: trends and prospects
LI Mingjiang (Nanyang Technological University)
Discussant: Prof. Giovanni B. Andornino
MARCH 15, 2023
H. 14.00-16.00 CET | CLASSROOM C1 & Webex
China’s path to modernisation: opening up, rejuvenation, projection
ZHANG Jian (Peking University)
Discussant: Prof. Giovanni B. Andornino
MARCH 20, 2023
H. 16.00-18.00 CET | CLASSROOM b1 & Webex
US financial warfare on China: new type of Cold War
Gregory T. CHIN (York University & Mayling Birney Global Scholar, London School of Economics and Political Science)
Discussant: Prof. Giuseppe Gabusi
MARCH 22, 2023
H. 14.00-16.00 CET | CLASSROOM C1 & Webex
Generation matters: the shifting attitudes of the Taiwanese public towards cross-Strait relations
Frank LIU (National Sun Yat-Sen University)
Discussant: Prof. Giovanni B. Andornino
MARCH 29, 2023
H. 14.00-16.00 CET | CLASSROOM C1
Justice after carbon: environmental justice in the wake of global Chinese hydropower
Andrea PIA (London School of Economics and Political Science)
Discussant: Prof. Giovanni B. Andornino
APRIL 5, 2023
H. 14.00-16.00 CET | CLASSROOM C1
The exemplary society: model learning, model heroes, and propaganda in PRC history and today
Børge BAKKEN (Visiting Professor at University of Naples “l’Orientale”)
Discussant: Prof. Giovanni B. Andornino
APRIL 12, 2023
H. 14.00-16.00 CET | CLASSROOM C1 & Webex
Human knowledge, local disciplines? The case of Chinese anthropology
CHEN Jin (Tongji University)
Discussant: Prof. Giovanni B. Andornino
APRIL 19, 2023
H. 14.00-16.00 CET | CLASSROOM C1 & Webex
Assessing China’s footprint in the wider Mediterranean region: the ChinaMed project
Andrea GHISELLI (Fudan University & T.wai)
Discussant: Prof. Giovanni B. Andornino
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