Programme
Tuesday April 21, 2020
9:15-12:00 Language Center Room 115 (Fabianinkatu 26)
9:15 Julie Yu-Wen Chen opens the meeting
9:25 Sound, History and Memory in Modern China (Andreas Steen, Associate Professor, Aarhus University)
9:40 Welfare and Living Conditions in Western China (Kristin Dalen, Researcher, Fafo)
9:55 Chinese Origins, Chinese Civil Society Development (Marina Thorborg, Professor, Sodertorn University)
10:10 Propaganda and Appropriation: Religious-Like Discourses in Contemporary China (Fredrik Fällman, Associate Professor, University of Gothenburg)
10:25 Popular Environmental Attitudes in China (Hedda Flatø, Researcher, Fafo/University of Oslo)
10:40 Of Grasshoppers and Golden Geese - Framing Chinese Tourism in Europe (Ane Bislev, Associate Professor, Aalborg University)
10:55 Overseas Chinese Nationalism and its Clash with Indigenous Nationalism in Malaya in the early 20th Century (Pi-chun Chang, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, National Taiwan Normal University)
11:10 Chinese Philosophy: Contradiction in Terms (Geir Sigurðsson, Professor, University of Iceland)
11:40 -13:00 Lunch Break
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13:15-14:30 Kaisa Library Room 7062, Fabianinkatu 30
13:15 Sinophobia in India’s Foreign Policy (Thongkholal Haokip, Assistant Professor, Center for the Study of Law and Governance, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
13:30 China and the Arctic Region of Relations (Liisa Kauppila, PhD candidate, University of Turku)
13:45 China-Mongolia Relations: Contextualising BRI in Terms of Myth or Reality (Sharad K. Soni, Professor & Chairperson, Center for Inner-Asian Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University)
14:00 The Localized Approach to Studying BRI (Julie Yu-Wen Chen, Professor, Department of Cultures, University of Helsinki)
14:15-14:30 Coffee