Events Calendar

Lecture
Neighbouring China in Northern Nepal: Hidden Valleys, New Road and Remote Cosmopolitans
Speaker: Martin Saxer (Oxford and NUS)
Organised by the Inst of Social and cultural Anthroplogy, Oxford

Venue: Pitt Rivers Museum, Lecture Theatre, Oxford
Date: 25 May 2012
Time: 3.30pm
Contact: www.anthro.ox.ac.uk

Calligraphy
Calligraphy Workshop
This workshop is hosted by Chinese painting artist Aili Purdy, who is currently exhibiting her latest works at the Museum. Learn basics of Chinese calligraphy and get firsthand experience on the art of calligraphy. 

Venue: Museum of East Asian Art, 12 Bennett Street, Bath BA1 2QJ
Date: 26 May 2012
Times: 2-4pm 
Tickets: £10, Museum friends £7 
Contact: tel. 01225 464-640, info@meaa.org.uk, www.meaa.org.uk 

Organised by Christ Church, a founder member of the Conference Oxford Consortium

Henrietta Harrison (Harvard University), "Catholic Visionaries in Maoist China"
Jiang Jin (East China Normal University), "Urbanism in Socialist China"
Organised by the British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS)

Venue: Wadham College, Oxford
Dates: 3-5 September 2012
Contact: 
Paper submissions to: taotao.liu@chinese.ox.ac.uk
For further information on the academic organisation of the Conference, please contact Michel Hockx president@bacsuk.org.uk).
For further information on the administrative organisation of the conference, please contact Tao Tao Liu taotao.liu@chinese.ox.ac.uk tel 01865 80387 for messages. 
www.bacsuk.org.uk/BACS_CONFERENCES.php

Workshop
Chinese Instruments and Western Museums
The aim is to share and exchange information in the realm of Chinese musical instruments, in an open, informal atmosphere. The meeting should be of interest to museum curators and others who work with instrument collections, and scholars active in the realm of Chinese instruments and instrumental music.
Organised by CHIME and the University of Leiden

Venue: Leiden, The Netherlands
Dates: 13-16 September 2012
Contact: 
For more information about submitting a paper  ciwm2012@gmail.com 
General enquiries thtsai@mac.com and/or Frank Kouwenhoven chime@wxs.nl
http://home.wxs.nl/~chime 
www.mimo-international.com

Conference - Chinese Medicine
The 5th British Conference of Acupuncture & Oriental Medicine
Organised by the British Acupunture Council

Venue: Beaumont Estate, Old Windsor, Berkshire SL4 2JP
Dates: 28-30 September 2012
Contact: 020 8735 0400, janicebooth@ntlworld.com,
conference@acupuncture.org.uk, www.acupuncture.org.uk/

Asian Art in London is an event which involves London's leading Asian art dealers from Kensington Church Street, Mayfair and St James's, joining together for a series of selling exhibitions during the week of Asian Art in London. At the same time, the major auction houses of Bonhams, Christie's and Sotheby's hold auctions and gallery talks. In combination with this, the premier London Museums and Institutions present exhibitions and lectures.