China Seminar

September 11, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Mānoa Campus, Tokioka Room (Moore Hall 319)

Thursday, Sep 11, 12:00 noon

Tokioka Room (Moore Hall 319)

"China and Europe: From the Early Modern History to the Present Day"

Daniel TOPINKA, Jakub HAVLICEK

Department of Sociology and Cultural Anthropology, Palacký University, Olomouc, Czech Republic

The presentation by Daniel Topinka and Jakub Havlíček deals with the topic of contacts and interactions between China and Europe. It treats not only the history and development of Chinese studies, particularly at Central European universities, but it is particularly focused on the topic of Chinese migration to European countries. Chinese international migration will be discussed, together with new trends and profiles of Chinese immigration into the European Union. Key factors affecting immigration of Chinese citizens to the EU will be treated as well, along with similarities and differences of Chinatowns in Europe and in the USA, with the issue of /il/legal migration of the Chinese to Europe.

Daniel Topinka studied sociology and religious studies at Brno Masaryk University. He defended his doctoral thesis on the topic of “Integration of Muslims into Czech society” at Olomouc Palacký University in 2008. He works as an assistant professor at the Department of Sociology and Andragogics of the Olomouc Palacký University‘s Faculty of Art. His studies are concerned with social inclusion, sociology of migration, integration of migrating and ethnic groups, and sociology of religion.

Jakub Havlíček works as assistant professor at the Department of Sociology and Cultural Anthropology, Palacký University in Olomouc, Czech Republic. Havlíček graduated in History, in French Language and Literature and in the Study of Religions from Masaryk University where he also completed his Ph.D. in the Study of Religions. He studied at Kansai Gaidai University, Osaka, Japan, at University of Vienna, Austria, and at Tamkang University, Taipei, Taiwan as international student. Havlíček lectured as visiting scholar at University of Vienna, Austria, at Vytautas Magnus University, Kaunas, Lithuania, at Leipzig University, Germany, and at Comenius University, Bratislava, Slovakia. His research interests include: religions and national identities, religions in Japan, theoretical and methodological approaches towards the study of religions, theories and methods in the study of religions in cultural anthropology.


Event Sponsor
Center for Chinese Studies and Confucius Institute at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Mānoa Campus

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(808) 956-8891, china@hawaii.edu

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