Nordic NIAS Council/NACS/University of Helsinki China Studies PhD Workshop
Online CLOSED EVENT
Convenors: Duncan McCargo and Monique Taylor
Assistant Convenor: Adele Kataja
Participants and Topics
China’s rise and geopolitical strategies
Xiao (Alvin) Yang, University of Kassel
Topic: Theorizing Chinese Variegated Capitalism: A Culturally-Socially Embedded Approach to Global Political Economy
Yue Wang, Tampere University
Topic: Developing a Theoretical Framework of Unintended Effects of International Cooperation: Taking China’s Polar Silk Road as a Case
Tabita Rosendal Ebbesen, Lund University
Topic: Fragmented Power: Contemporary Chinese Governance Practices of the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road
Keegan Elmer, University of Helsinki
Topic: China’s Rise and the Spectre of Inter-imperialist Rivalry
Arctic Region and China
Guobjörk Ríkey, University of Iceland
Topic: China-Russia Military Co-operation
Liisa Kauppila, University of Turku
Topic: Becoming a Primary Node: The Making of the China-Arctic Economic Region
Literature
Tero Tähtinen
Topic: “In a Mountain Forest I Lose My Self:” The Lyrical No-Self in Wang Wei’s Landscape Poetry
Gender Studies
Jona Barabas, University of Hong Kong
Topic: Strategies and Influences: Articulating Gender Diversity in Taiwanese Families
Sanna Eriksson, University of York
Topic: Motherhood in Contemporary Chinese Notions of Female Citizenship
Innovation
Junhua Zhu, University of Turku
Topic: Re-Present the Underrepresented: Discourses on the Ethics of AI from China
Naja Morell Hjortshøj, Aarhus University
Topic: Embracing Instability, Enjoying Freedom: Chinese University Students’ Motivations for Pursuing an Entrepreneurial Career
Academic Commentators and Participants
Julie Yu-Wen Chen, Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Helsinki
Petra Desatova, Postdoctoral Fellow, NIAS
Halvor Eifring, Professor of Chinese, University of Oslo
Andreas Bøje Forsby, Postdoctoral Fellow, NIAS
Lisa Indraccolo, Associate Professor, Chinese Studies, Tallin University
Gerald Jackson, Editor-in-Chief, NIAS Press
Timo Koivurova, Research Professor, Arctic Centre, University of Lapland
Marc Lanteigne, Associate Professor, Political Science, Arctic University of Norway
Duncan McCargo, Director, NIAS; Professor, Political Science, University of Copenhagen
Pia Polsa, Researcher, Hanken, Helsinki
Dusica Ristivojevic, Kone Bold Initiatives Researcher, University of Helsinki
Monique Taylor, Senior Lecturer, World Politics, University of Helsinki