TOChina Spring Seminars are held, in English or Italian, every year in the context of the graduate courses of the Master’s degree in International Studies (CdLM in Scienze Internazionali, profilo China & Global Studies) at the University of Torino. Seminars are held at the “Luigi Einaudi” Campus, Lungo Dora Siena 100/a, and are open to interested members of the public. 
80+
Average number of participants of each TOChina Spring Seminar
TOChina Spring Seminars 2024
March 20, 2024
16.00 -18.00 CET | Classroom F4 & ONLINE
Digital Yuan, from local to global? RMB internationalization in the making
Gregory CHIN (Johns Hopkins SAIS & University of York)
Discussant: Giuseppe Gabusi
March 25, 2024
08.30 - 10.00 CET | ONLINE
China and Southeast Asia in international development cooperation
XUE Gong (Nanyang Technological University)
Discussant: Giuseppe Gabusi
March 27, 2024
10.00 – 12.00 CET | ONLINE
China and Asia-Pacific security: the cases of Taiwan and South China Sea
LI Mingjiang (Nanyang Technological University)
Discussant: Giuseppe Gabusi
March 29, 2024
10.30 – 12.30 CET | ONLINE
China’s economic relations with North Africa and implications for the EU
Enrico FARDELLA (University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’ & T.wai) and ZHANG Chuchu (Fudan University)
Discussant: Enrico Fardella
April 5, 2024
10.30 – 12.30 CET | ONLINE
The real BRI: bondage, reconstruction & integration
Enrico FARDELLA (University of Naples ‘L’Orientale’ & T.wai) and Ali BORHANI (3Sixty Strategic Advisors)
Discussant: Enrico Fardella
April 15, 2024
10.00 – 12.30 CET | Classroom F2
Neither god nor law…but what about ethics? The regulation of gene editing in the People’s Republic of China
Simona NOVARETTI (University of Turin)
Discussant: Virginia Mariano
April 15, 2024
16.00 – 18.00 CET | Classroom C4
The political economy of the CCP
Giuseppe GABUSI (University of Turin & T.wai)
April 16, 2024
14.00 – 16.00 CET | Classroom E4
Xi's statecraft in governing a plateauing China
ZHANG Jian (Peking University)
Discussant: Giuseppe Gabusi
APRIL 18, 2024
09.30-13.30 CET | CLASSROOM H7
China's trajectory in the global political economy: socialism or/and capitalism with Chinese characteristics
Anastas VANGELI (University of Ljubljana)
Discussant: Virginia Mariano
APRIL 19, 2024
09.30-13.30 CET | CLASSROOM H7
Europe's turbulent relationship with China
Anastas VANGELI (University of Ljubljana)
Discussant: Virginia Mariano
APRIL 30, 2024
14.00-16.00 CET | CLASSROOM B3 & ONLINE
The Chinese Communist Party. A 100 years trajectory
Chloe FROISSART (INALCO), Jérôme DOYON (Sciences Po Paris) and Shaun BRESLIN (University of Warwick)
Discussant: Prof. Giuseppe Gabusi
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