Events Calendar

Exhibition
A Dubliner's Collection of Asian Art: The Albert Bender Collection
This exhibition of Asian art displays material donated by Albert M Bender to the National Museum during the 1930s. Permanent exhibition from 18 November 2008 onwards. Gallery talk on the 29 November by Audry Whitty.

Venue: National Museum of Ireland, Collins Barracks, Benburb Street, Dublin 7
Contact: Audrey Whitty, t. +353 1 6777444, www.museum.ie

Chinese Opera
Go to the website of the London Jingkun Opera Association for various events around London between April and July 2009.
They organise events particularly suited to families and children. 

Contact: tel. 020 8540-2661, info@londonjingkunopera.co.uk, www.londonjingkunopera.co.uk/upcoming.htm

Teacher Training

Chinese as a Foreign Language: Teacher Training Workshop

Venue: St Anne’s College, University of Oxford
Tickets: £55 for each day, £100 for both days
Contact: Dan Holloway, Administrator, British Inter-university China Centre, 74 Woodstock Road, Oxford, OX2 6HP, www.bicc.ac.uk/ConferencesandEvents/ForthcomingEvents/TeacherTrainingWorkshop/tabid/600/Default.aspx

Conference
China and the Changing Landscape of the World Economy
Organised by the Chinese Economic Association (UK)
This will be the inaugural conference of the newly constituted CEA (Europe), and the 20th annual conference of the CEA(UK) 
Speakers: will include among others: Thomas Rawski (Pittsburgh), Dwight Perkins (Harvard), Yu Yongding (CASS)
CALL FOR PAPERS, deadline 29 May 2009

Venue: University College Dublisn, Ireland
Contact: www.ceauk.org.uk/conference-dublin/. Papers to Dr Zheng Jinghai jinghaizheng.cea@gmail.com

Conference
CALL FOR PAPERS - deadline 1 Feb 2009
Provision of Public Services in Modern Urban China and Changing Modes of Governance
International workshop organized by the Centre for East Asian Studies, University of Turku, Finland
Contact: rban@utu.fi, http://urban.utu.fi
(The city of Turku is west of Helsinki)

Conference
2nd Conference of the International Forum for Contemporary Chinese Studies (IFCCS)
Beyond the Revolution and Reforms: the People's Republic of China at 60

Organised by School of Contemporary Chinese Studies (with its China Policy Institute and Nottingham Confucius Institute), University of Nottingham

Venue: University of Nottingham
Contact: General enquiries and further details, Dr Bin WU at bin.wu@nottingham.ac.uk, www.nottingham.ac.uk/chinese

Conference
4th Conference of Joint East Asian Studies Associations (JEASC)

The JEASC is a triennial conference held by the three academic associations representing East Asian Studies in the UK (The British Associations for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Studies – BACS, BAJS, and BAKS).
CALL FOR PAPERS, 16 April 2009

Venue: Halifax Hall, The Edge, University of Sheffield
Contact:
For conference information: www.bajs.org.uk/JEASC%20Announce.doc, for conference booking information Lynn Baird bajs@bajs.org.uk 

Art Festival
Asian Art in London's annual festival in October \ November 2009

for more information go to www.asianartinlondon.com/

Conference 

14th International CHIME Conference
Theme: Chinese and East Asian Music: The Future of the Past 
CALL FOR PAPERS - deadline for paper 15 April 2009

Venue: Musical Instruments Museum (MIM), Brussels
Contact: for general information Claire Chantrenne claire.chantrenne@mim.fgov.be, http://home.wxs.nl/~chime, or via post to Musical Instruments Museum (MIM), 1 rue Villa Hermosa, B-1000, Brussels, Belgium.
Please email abstracts to: chime@wxs.nl