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Understanding Asia Colloquium Series


Winter Semester 2025/26 - Transforming Families

Reproductive Citizenship in a Time of Demographic Anxiety: Assisted reproductive technology access and LGBT childbearing in Taiwan

A crowd celebrating LGBT rights on the street in Taiwan.

Presented by Prof. Sara Friedman (Indiana University)

Date: 28. October 2025

Time: 16:15 - 17:45

Join in person: X-C3-107, Building X

Or online via Zoom: Register here

TBC

A green square

Presented by Prof. Helle Rydstrom (Lund University)

Date: 25. November 2025

Time: 16:15 - 17:45

Join in person: X-C3-107, Building X

Or online via Zoom: Register here

Gurkhas and Their Families in the Diaspora: Examining parameters of bracketed belonging

Diverse daily products on the shelf of a grocery shop.

Presented by Prof. Kelvin Low (National University of Singapore)

Date: 09. December 2025

Time: 16:15 - 17:45

Join in person: X-C3-107, Building X

Or online via Zoom: Register here

A Family Affair: The rise of the Djojohadikusmo dynasty in Indonesian politics

A green square.

Presented by Dr Jemma Purdey (Monash University)

Date: 20. January 2026

Time: 12:15 - 13:45

Join online via Zoom: Register here


Previous Understanding Asia Colloquiums

  • Summer Semester 2025 Religion and Society (Poster)
  • Winter Semester 2024/2025 Gender and Power (Poster)
  • Summer Semester 2024 Ideas, Democracy and Rights (Poster)
  • Winter Semester 2023/2024 Inter-Asian Mobilieties (Poster)
  • Summer Semester 2023 Living and Dying 
  • Winter Semester 2022/2023 Youth and Society (Poster)
  • Summer Semester 2022 Social Movements (Poster)
  • Winter Semester 2021/2022 Transnational Care (Poster)
  • Summer Semester 2021 Bridging Margins (Poster)
  • Winter Semester 2020/2021 Negotiating the Social in Collective Constellations (Poster

The Understanding Asia colloquium series is a joint cooperation of four working groups (WG MissbachWG NguyenWG Vasilache, and WG Winkel) of the Faculty of Sociology, Bielefeld University.

Coordinators:

  • Dr. Phill Wilcox (phill.wilcox@uni-bielefeld.de)
  • Nguyen Vo (nguyen.vo@uni-bielefeld.de)
Understanding Asia Colloquium Series

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