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The George Ernest Morrison Lecture series was founded by Chinese residents in Australia and others in honour of the late Dr G. E. Morrison (1862-1920), a native of Geelong, Victoria, Australia.

The Morrison Lecture series is organised by the School of Culture, History and Language at the College of Asia and the Pacific. 

Introduction

An Appreciation

List of Past Lectures

Morrison Lectures
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Leigh Jenco Banner
Tue, 5 Nov 2024

Theorizing Transmission in Chinese Political Thought

The 85th George E. Morrison Lecture In Ethnology
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Yuri Pines
Thu, 9 Nov 2023

Class Traitors? The Assault on Intellectuals’ Power in the 'Book of Lord Shang and Han Feizi'

The 84th George E. Morrison Lecture In Ethnology
Mittner
Thu, 3 Nov 2022

Internationalism, identity, and ideology in the shaping of postwar China

The 83rd George E. Morrison Lecture in Ethnology
Evelyn Goh
Thu, 28 Apr 2022

Living with China’s Resurgence in East Asia

The 82nd George E. Morrison Lecture in Ethnology
Benjamin Elman
Wed, 11 Mar 2020

The Role of Shanghai in Building Modern Science in China in the 19th Century

Historians of “Chinese science” until recently have spent much of their time researching issues in pre-modern natural studies and trying to explain why modern science, technology, and medicine arri
John Makenam
Wed, 6 Nov 2019

Chinese Philosophy and Universal Values in Contemporary China

Consistent with its growing economic, political and military might, China wants due recognition by and engagement with the global community of nations.
One hundred years of the morrison collection
Tue, 23 Oct 2018

The 79th George E. Morrison Lecture: One Hundred Years of the Morrison Collection at the Tōyō Bunko (Oriental Library)

In October 1917, the collection of the Asiatic Library in Beijing, founded by G. E. Morrison, arrived in Tokyo.
Decipherment of dead languages
Thu, 19 Oct 2017

The decipherment of dead languages in China: the case of Kitan

Many visitors to Xi’an go to the Tomb of Empress Wu 武則天 (624-705), where their attention may be brought to a tall stele, the Wu zi bei 無字碑 (Stele without an inscription).