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Jacob Dalton -- Managing Secrecy: Early Tibetan Imperial Attitudes toward Tantric Buddhism
Thursday, 31 October, 5-6pm,
TRiSS seminar room
This talk will explore the Tibetan empire's approach to tantric Buddhism during the mid-to-late eighth century, when the empire was at the peak of its power. Jacob Dalton is the Khyentse Foundation Distinguished University Professor in Tibetan Buddhism at UC Berkeley. Click here for more details
TRiSS seminar room
This talk will explore the Tibetan empire's approach to tantric Buddhism during the mid-to-late eighth century, when the empire was at the peak of its power. Jacob Dalton is the Khyentse Foundation Distinguished University Professor in Tibetan Buddhism at UC Berkeley. Click here for more details
Hiroshima & Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition: 22-25 October 2024
Trinity College Dublin is honoured to host the Hiroshima & Nagasaki Atomic Bomb Exhibition, co-organized by the Embassy of Japan in Ireland and the School of Religion, Theology, and Peace Studies. Click here for more details
Adrian Tien Prize awarded to Min Chen
We are delighted to announce that Min Chen has been awarded the Adrian Tien Prize for her exceptional dissertation titled, "Research on the Tones and Tone Sandhi of the Deyang Dialect in Sichuan
Congratulations to the 2024-25 Chinese Studies scholarship recipients
These scholarships are a testament to the dedication and excellence of our students, and we look forward to the remarkable contributions they will make to our academic community. Warmest congratulations to Yile Gu, Siyuan Liu, Earl Mok, and Wenxuan Yang on their remarkable achievements
Joanna Bialek to join TCAS with a Marie Curie project on ancient Tibetan funerary rituals
Joanna Bialek has been awarded a postdoctoral fellowship under the Maria Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) for the project “Tibetan Obsolete Mortuary practices and afterlife Beliefs. Language conservatism of religious writings in the service of Proto-Bodish reconstruction” (TOMB), which will run for the next two years.
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Swami Balabhadrananda -- The Self and Divinity in Vedantae
Tuesday 10 September, 2-3pm,
venue: room 2026, Arts Building Annex (across from Douglas Hyde Gallery)
This talk will delve into the core concepts of Advaita Vedanta, a non-dualistic school of Hindu philosophy that posits the essential oneness of the Self (Atman) and the ultimate reality (Brahman). Swami Balabhadrananda will explore how this tradition accounts for the relationship between the individual soul and the divine.
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venue: room 2026, Arts Building Annex (across from Douglas Hyde Gallery)
This talk will delve into the core concepts of Advaita Vedanta, a non-dualistic school of Hindu philosophy that posits the essential oneness of the Self (Atman) and the ultimate reality (Brahman). Swami Balabhadrananda will explore how this tradition accounts for the relationship between the individual soul and the divine.
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TCAS hosts two lectures by Visiting Professor Kirill Solonin (Renmin University of China)
Kirill Solonin (Renmin University of China) - Tangut Synthesis: Sino-Tibetan Buddhism during 11th-13th centuries
Monday 20 May, 10am-12pm,
venue: TRiSS Seminar Room, Arts Building, sixth floor.
Kirill Solonin (Renmin University of China) - Who were the Tanguts and Why study them.
Friday 17 May, 2-4pm, venue: TRiSS Seminar Room, Arts Building, sixth floor.
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Monday 20 May, 10am-12pm,
venue: TRiSS Seminar Room, Arts Building, sixth floor.
Kirill Solonin (Renmin University of China) - Who were the Tanguts and Why study them.
Friday 17 May, 2-4pm, venue: TRiSS Seminar Room, Arts Building, sixth floor.
Click here for more details of both lectures
Webinar: Ruiqing Shen (National University of Singapore) - Inland Min in a historical perspective
Friday 17 May 10:30am-12:00pm (Dublin) ,
Venue: Zoom
note: this event is in Chinese
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Venue: Zoom
note: this event is in Chinese
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Webinar: John Carlyle (University of Washington) - Some Remarks on the Development of OC *a in Min Chinese
Friday 3rd May 10:30am-12:00pm (Dublin),
venue: Zoom
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venue: Zoom
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Webinar: Kwok Bit-Chee (The Chinese University of Hong Kong) - 從比較音韻的角度看莆仙片方言在沿海閩語中的位置
Friday 10 May 10:30am-12:00pm (Dublin), 17:30pm-19pm (Hong Kong),
venue: Zoom
Note: This event is in Chinese.
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venue: Zoom
Note: This event is in Chinese.
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New approaches to computational historical linguistics in the Asian context
Monday 29 April, 2-4pm ,
venue: TRiSS Seminar Room, Arts Building, sixth floor
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venue: TRiSS Seminar Room, Arts Building, sixth floor
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Simone O’Malley Sutton - The Chinese May Fourth Generation and the Irish Literary Revival: Writers of Modernism and Fighters against the Colonial Condition
Thursday 11 April, 5-5:45pm,
venue: TRiSS Seminar Room, Arts Building, sixth floor
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venue: TRiSS Seminar Room, Arts Building, sixth floor
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Martin Worthington (Trinity College Dublin) - How consistent is Akkadian idiom? Attributive adjectives and the attributive construct state
Tuesday 9 April, 4-5pm,
venue: TRiSS Seminar Room, Arts Building, sixth floor
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venue: TRiSS Seminar Room, Arts Building, sixth floor
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Jobymon Skaria (St Patrick's Pontifical University) - St. Thomas Christians'encounter with the caste system in South India
Thursday 21 March, 5-6pm,
venue: TRiSS Seminar Room, Arts Building, sixth floor
This lecture examines the scandalous history of St Thomas Christians’ encounter with the caste system. Click here for more details
venue: TRiSS Seminar Room, Arts Building, sixth floor
This lecture examines the scandalous history of St Thomas Christians’ encounter with the caste system. Click here for more details
Dieter Gunkel (University of Richmond) - The syntactic expression of polarity focus in Vedic prose
Tuesday 19 March, 4-5pm, ,
venue: TRiSS Seminar Room, Arts Building, sixth floor
This presentation explores how polarity focus is expressed in Vedic Sanskrit prose texts, especially the Aitareya-Brāhmaṇa (AB) and the Jaiminīya-Brāhmaṇa (JB). Click here for more details
venue: TRiSS Seminar Room, Arts Building, sixth floor
This presentation explores how polarity focus is expressed in Vedic Sanskrit prose texts, especially the Aitareya-Brāhmaṇa (AB) and the Jaiminīya-Brāhmaṇa (JB). Click here for more details
Webinar: Binbin Xu (Xiamen University) - 论闽南方言多功能词“kaʔ”的音义共变模式 / The Coevolution of Form and Meaning of the Multifunctional Word kaʔ in Southern Min Dialects
Friday 15 March, 10:30 am-12pm (Dublin), 18:30 pm - 20:00 pm (Beijing).
Note: This event is in Chinese,
venue: Zoom Click here for more details
Note: This event is in Chinese,
venue: Zoom Click here for more details
International conference: What We Talk About When We Talk About Haruki Murakami’s Translators: Their Roles and Significance (村上春樹の翻訳者について語るときに我々の語ること)
29 May 2024, 09:45AM-18:00PM (Tokyo), venue: Hydrid Format- The Haruki Murakami Library, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan (in Japanese/English).
30 May 2024, 09:45AM-18:30PM (Dublin) venue: Hydrid Format- Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation (TCLCT), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (in English).
These conferences shed light on Murakami’s translators and the significance of their roles in the publication and circulation of his novels. Click here for more details
30 May 2024, 09:45AM-18:30PM (Dublin) venue: Hydrid Format- Centre for Literary and Cultural Translation (TCLCT), Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (in English).
These conferences shed light on Murakami’s translators and the significance of their roles in the publication and circulation of his novels. Click here for more details
Muhammad Ilyas (Trinity College Dublin) - Light Verb Constructions in Balti, Tibetan
Tuesday 12 March, 4-5pm, venue: TRiSS Seminar Room, Arts Building, sixth floor. This presentation explores the light verb constructions of Balti, a Tibetan language spoken in northern Pakistan. Click here for more details
Webinar: Jonathan Smith (Christop her Newport University) - New digital resources for the study of historical and comparative Mǐn
Friday 8 March, 3:30-5pm (Dublin), 10:30am-12pm (Virginia), venue: Zoom. Data on modern Mǐn languages is increasingly plentiful, and Romanized materials dating to the 19th century bear important early witness to the languages of Amoy, Teochew, Hokchiu, and others. However, many of these resources are difficult to access and leverage. In this talk, I aim to describe (1) key sources and their nature; (2) some of my recent efforts at organization and digitization; and also (3) a few notable language features thus rendered more amenable to study. Click here for more details
Japan and Ireland: A Conversation with Ambassador Maruyama Norio
Thursday 7 March 2024, 6.15pm , venue: Neill Lecture Theatre, Trinity Long Room Hub, Trinity College Dublin. The Trinity Centre for Asian Studies and the Trinity Long Room Hub are pleased to host a special discussion with His Excellency, Maruyama Norio, Ambassador of Japan to Ireland. The Ambassador will be welcomed by Professor Emma Stokes, Vice President for Global Engagement, and the discussion hosted by Professor Lorna Carson, Head of the School of Linguistic, Speech and Communication Science, Trinity College Dublin. Click here for more details
Webinar: Yang Wanglong (Xiamen University) - 沿海闽语强化类方位词重叠的共性特征 / Some universals of localizer reduplication with intensified meaning in inshore-Min dialects (note: this event is in Chinese)
Friday 1 March-10:30am-12:00pm (Dublin), 6:30-8pm (Beijing) , venue: Zoom. Click here for more details
Year of the Dragon, podcast with Professor Isabella Jackson
Professor Isabella Jackson, Assistant Professor in Chinese History, here at TCD was recently interviewed by Newstalk about the Chinese New Year. Please click here for link to the interview
TCAS hosts workshop on automatic speech recognition for minority Asian languages
On 19 January 2024, TCAS hosted a hands-on training in the development of automatic speech recognition (ASR) studied languages. The training was led by Dr Alexander O’Neill and Liam Lonergan. Alexander is a postdoctoral researcher at SOAS University of London specializing in Sanskrit Buddhist texts and Newar language processing. Liam is a PhD student at the Trinity Phonetics and Speech Laboratory, who is developing an Irish ASR model as part of his doctoral research. The event provided participants with valuable skills in data normalization, model training, and data augmentation techniques. An attendee, Dr Tim Bodt, successfully created a model for Kusunda, a language isolate from Nepal with only one remaining speaker; great progress as also made on models for Khroskyabs and Tujia, two endangered Tibeto-Burman languages spoken in China.
Sichuan: Diversity, Heritage, and Transformation
Thursday 1 February 2024, 12:30-4:30pm, Trinity Long Room Hub, Neill Lecture Theatre
Yunfan Lai awarded the Anna Siewierska Award by Societas Linguistica Europaea
Yunfan Lai, post-doctoral researcher and Principal Investigator of the GyU-LHA project under the SFI-IRC Pathway Programme at TCAS, has been awarded the 2023 Anna Siewierska Award for his paper entitled "When internal reconstruction goes further: Proposing the vowel system of Pre-Khroskyabs through examining bound state apophony,"
Alexander James O’Neill (SOAS University of London) – Breaking the Textual Fourth Wall: On Paratextuality and Self-Referentiality in Mahāyāna Sūtra Literature
Thursday 18 January 2024, 5:30-7pm, Arts Building, Room 4050A
Adrian Tien Prize awarded to Joseph Mossop
We are delighted to announce that Joseph Mossop has been awarded the Adrian Tien Prize for his exceptional dissertation titled, "An Investigation into China’s Past, Present, and Future in Global Environmental Politics."
Congratulations to the 2023-24 Chinese Studies scholarship recipients
These scholarships are a testament to the dedication and excellence of our students, and we look forward to the remarkable contributions they will make to our academic community. Warmest congratulations to Chen Min, Wu Yingru, Lei Mingyang, and Kim Eunseon on their remarkable achievements
Mario De Grandis (University College Dublin) - Mapping the Central-Peripheral Dynamic: Literary Platforms in the Field of Huizu wenxue
Thursday 9 November, 5-6pm, TRiSS Seminar Room, Arts Building, sixth floor.
Jingqi Ying (TCD) - The Old Chinese Sound Change *-ps > *-ts > -jH: Insights from Zhou Excavated Documents
Tuesday 7 November, 4-5:30pm, TRiSS Seminar Room, Arts Building, sixth floor.
Wenqing Kang (Cleveland State University) - Reemergence of Public Discussion on Homosexuality in 1980s and 1990s China
Thursday 19 October, 5-6pm, TRiSS Seminar Room, Arts Building, sixth floor.
William Marotti (UCLA) - The Performance of Police and the Theater of Protest, from Japan 1968 to BLM
Thursday 28 September, 5-6pm, TRiSS Seminar Room, Arts Building, sixth floor
Muhammad Zakaria (Independent researcher) - The Historical Development of Causative/Applicative and Middle Constructions in Southeastern and Southwestern Kuki-Chin
Tuesday 26 September, 4-5:30pm, TRiSS Seminar Room, Arts Building, sixth floor
Dr Chiu and Dr Ip make a donation to the Trinity Centre for Asian Studies for scholarships in the MPhil Chinese Studies for students from China and Hong Kong
Dr Jonathan KS Chiu, Trinity medical alumnus from the class of 1966 and his wife Dr Margaret Sau-Sheung Ip have kindly established a scholarship fund to support students from China and Hong Kong to come to Trinity to enroll on the MPhil in Chinese Studies over the next 5 years.
Tristan Brown (MIT) - The Unlikely Audiences of a Muslim King’s Shrine in China
Tuesday 16 May, 4-5pm, Trinity Long Room Hub, Neill Lecture Theatre
Tristan Brown (MIT) - Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China
Thursday 11 May, 4-5pm, Arts Building sixth floor, TRiSS Seminar Room
Sojin Lim (University of Central Lancashire) - International Aid and Sustainable Development in North Korea
Thursday 13 April, 6:30-7:30pm, Trinity College Dublin, Arts Building, Room 4047
Lingzi Zhuang (University of Toronto Mississauga) - A preliminary “mix-ology” of messy Tibetan verb paradigms
Wednesday 12 April, 4-5pm, Trinity Long Room Hub, Galbraith Room
Hannes A. Fellner (University of Vienna) - 名不正,則言不順– Language contact in the borderlands of the Western Regions
Friday 31 March, 4-5pm, Galbraith Room, Trinity Long Room Hub
Nathaniel Sims (CRLAO-CNRS) - A roadmap to reconstructing proto-Rma
Wednesday 22 March, 4-5pm, Arts Building, Room 4073
First Person Singular by Haruki Murakami, translated by Philip Gabriel
Tuesday 21 February 2023, 6:30-7:30pm, online
Mel Cousins (Trinity College Dublin) - Getting old before getting rich? Challenges to the sustainability of the Chinese pension system
Friday 2 December 2022, 12-1pm, Trinity Centre for Asian Studies, Arts Building Annex, Room 2012
Lecture: Raymond J. Davidson Jr. (Trinity College Dublin & Rowan University) - Zhuangzi and Rorty: Contingency, Irony, and Cruelty
Friday 4 November 2022, 12-1pm, Trinity Centre for Asian Studies, Arts Building Annex, Room 2012
A paleogenomic time travel to pre- and proto-historic Japan
Friday 21 October 2022, 12-1pm Trinity Centre for Asian Studies, Arts Building Annex, Room 2012
The changing pronunciation of Chinese during the Han dynasty: applying graph theory to poetic rhymes
Friday 14 October, 10am-4pm, Trinity Long Room Hub, Neill Lecture Theatre
Sino-African Relations and the War in Ukraine
Wednesday 28 September 2022, 12-1pm, Trinity Centre for Asian Studies, Arts Building Annex, Room 2012
Understanding the Constitution of Japan: comparison and analysis
Tuesday 30 August, 1:30-4:15pm
Webinar: Isabella Weber (University of Massachusetts Amherst) - Price Controls versus Economic Warfare: Hyperinflation and the Communist Revolution
Friday 1 April, 12-1pm
Webinar: Rebecca E. Karl (New York University) - The Socialist Law of Value and the Rural Economy: Wang Yanan and Marxism in China, 1950s
Friday 25 March, 12-1pm
Webinar: Edwin Michielsen (University of Toronto) - Celebrating the Proletariat: May Day Strikes and Syntheses of Solidarity
Friday 4 March, 12-1pm
PhD position in Gyalrongic (Sino-Tibetan) descriptive and historical linguistics
Deadline for application: 31st March 2022
Viren Murthy (University of Wisconsin Madison) - Back to the Future: Reflections on Tamil Marxism, Anti-Colonial Nationalism and Identity Politics
Friday 25 Feb, 4.30-5.30pm
Webinar: Li Shang (Swansea University) - A fresh look at Marx's understanding of the Asiatic mode of production
Friday 4 February 2022, 12-1pm
Webinar: Dr Yushu Geng - From Wise Mother/Good Wife to Tiger Mom: women in 20th century China
Tuesday 1st February 2022, 6pm
Webinar: Professor Nathan Hill - The word for 'tiger' in Chinese and other Asian languages
Monday 31st January 2022, 6pm
Webinar: Dr Dong Jin Kim - Global Health Diplomacy and North Korea: Ending the Quarantine of Humanitarianism in 2022
Friday 28 January 2022, 6pm
Webinar: Alexander Statman - Ancient Wisdom and Unhistorical History: Hegel's Encounter with Chinese Philosophy
Thursday 27 January 2022, 6-7pm
Webinar: Gerald Roche (La Trobe University) - Language Oppression in China: What Does it Look Like?
Friday 26 November, noon-1pm
Webinar: James Leibold (La Trobe University) - Taming Mongolia: Xi Jinping’s Agenda for Coercive Nation Building in the Inner Mongolian Autonomous Region
Friday 19 November, 11am-noon
Webinar: Dr Qi Zhang (Dublin City University) - The trilingual education for ethnic minorities: field studies of the Tujia, the Uyghurs and the Inner Mongolian
Friday 12 November, noon-1pm
Webinar: Naomi Yamada (Meiji) - Changing approaches to positive discrimination in education in China
Friday 5 November, noon-1pm
Webinar: Wenyu Du (Beihang) -- AI-enabled digital transformation and innovation in China
20th October, 12pm-1pm
Webinar: Lin Boqiang (Xiamen University) Evolution of China’s Energy Policy
Thursday 14 October, 12pm
Webinar: Linda Tsung (Sydney) - Multi-model approaches in multilingual education in China
Friday 8 October, noon-1pm
Webinar: Julia C. Schneider (Cork) - Who belongs to the Chinese nation? Inclusion and exclusion in Chinese Republican historiography
Friday 1 October, noon-1pm