BACS 2018 Schedule  

12-14 September at the Lau China Institute, King’s College London 

 

WEDNESDAY 12 SEP  

Location:  Safra Lecture 

Theatre (King’s Bld) 

S2.28 

(Strand Building) 

S2.29 

(Strand Building) 

S3.31 

(Strand Building) 

S3.32 

(Strand Building) 

K2.40 Friends of the 

Lau China Institute 

Terrace Cafe 

(Macadam Bldg) 

12:00 - 13:00   *** Registration ***  Coffee/Pastries 

13:00 - 13:30  Welcome Address       

13:30 - 15:00  PANEL 1 The Territorialisation of Xinjiang  THUM, Rian HARRIS, Rachel McMURRAY, James SMITH FINLEY, Jo 

PANEL 2 Translations and re-interpretations of classical themes   CANALE, Massimiliano DONG, Yufei NORDVALL, Lars Christian HUANG, Yingjie 

PANEL 3 Refugees and Revolutionaries, Scientists and the ‘Overseas’   LIN, Yuexin Rachel LOPES, Helena F.S. MILLWOOD, Pete HARDER, Anton 

PANEL 4 Urban China: Lives, Images, Stories  LIU, Mingqian MASSEY, Annabella MORRIS, Carwyn WU, Ka-ming  

PANEL 5 E-China: from cyber-governance to e-commerce  MIAO, Ying MINGAY, Alice MA, Yiben ZHANG, Xiaoling   

Friends of the LCI  WANG Ping

ZHAO Shu

Transcultural cooperation in Chengdu - Tianfu culture and  civilization  

 

15:00 - 15:30              Coffee/Biscuits 

15:30 - 17:00  Carrie Gracie keynote speech            

17:00 - 19:00  BACS Annual General Meeting            

19:00  *** Drinks reception and ECR prize announcement at Eight Floor North, Bush House ***   

 

THURSDAY 13 SEPTEMBER - Morning session 

Location:  Nash LT (King’s 

Bldg, 1st floor) 

S2.28  S2.29  S3.31  S3.32  K2.40  Terrace Cafe 

(Macadam Bldg) 

08:30 - 09:00              Coffee/Pastries 

09:00 - 10:30  PANEL 6 International Relations and China: Concepts, Conflicts, Cases  GRIES, Peter CHU, Monique Ming-chin STOCK, Brad NORDIN, Astrid  

PANEL 7 China's New 3rd World Diplomacy  SHEN, Wei HARPER, Tom BEHRNDT-ERIKSEN, Kasandra   

PANEL 8  Dawn of the modern:cultural exchanges between China and the West  JANSEN, Thomas HUANG, Yun McGEE, Nick  

PANEL 9 Interrogating the patriarchy? Women’s lives in contemporary China  WANG, Shuo XIE, Kailing LIU, Chiu Wan Sarah  

  

PANEL 10 Narratives and policy between the Republican and Communist Chinas   LEVERINGHAUS, Nicola ZHAO, Yang LI, Wankun CHEUNG, Olivia  

 

10:30 - 11:00              Coffee/Biscuits 

11:00 - 12:30  Jie Yang keynote speech           

12:30 - 13:30              Lunch break 

     

             

THURSDAY 13 SEPTEMBER - Afternoon session           

Location:  Nash LT  S2.28  S2.29  S3.31  S3.32  K2.40  Terrace Cafe 

13:30 - 15:00  PANEL 11 Varieties of Genre Fiction in 21st Century China  INWOOD, Heather XU, Shuang SARTORETTI, Nadia NI, Zhange GONSETH, Morgane 

PANEL 12 Taiwan and the East China Sea  CHAPPELL,  Jonathan CHEN, Chia-hwan Eric CHIEN, Hung-yi ISHIWI, Nozomu 

PANEL13 The Many Meanings of Reform: Making policy work   WEBER, Isabella OFTEDAL, Siv GOMES, Alexandre 

PANEL14 Generations New and Old: Childhood and Parenthood  CIORASTEANU, Anca LIU, Fanxi LIU, Haoran NI, Shibei 

PANEL15 Memory and Tradition: Colonial Hong Kong  YEUNG, Man Shun RAWCLIFFE, Dalton KWAN, Ching-yin 

Friends of the LCI  Peter GORDON  The Silver Way: China, Spanish America and the Birth of Globalisation, 1565–1815 

 

15:30 - 16:00              Coffee/Biscuits 

16:00 - 17:30  PANEL 16 (Re)defining literature and performance   TEODORESCU (PASCARU), Paula FERRARI, Rossella FUSINI, Letizia CHIRITA, Andrea 

PANEL 17 Movements and campaigns in Republican China  DING, Yiyun HUANG, Ruoze LEE, Seung-joon  

PANEL 18 The BRI: Cases and lessons  SOYLEMEZ, Ozge SAHAKYAN, Mher LI, Mingjiang 

PANEL 19 Encounters Abroad: Tourism and Diaspora  O'BRIEN, David PENDRAKOWSKA, Patrycja TANG, Fang 

PANEL 20 Film in China: from ellipses to hyperbole  ZHU, Zhaoyu LIU, Jin AI, Qi YOUNG KAUFMAN, Francesca BONG, InYoung 

Friends of the LCI  Ivan KENNEDY  The Peking Man: What it means to be human 

 

17:30  *** Workshop on fundraising for China-related research and engagement activities - K2.40 ***   

18:00  *** LCI Book Launch: 19th Party Congress - Anatomy Lecture Theatre K6.29 ***   

*** 20:00 Conference dinner: Golden Phoenix, 37-38 Gerrard St., Chinatown, W1D 5QB - £30pp *** 

Register at: https://goo.gl/fVEyDY  

FRIDAY 14 SEPTEMBER 

 

Location:  Nash LT   S2.28  S2.29  S3.31  S3.32  K2.40  Terrace Cafe 

09:00 - 11:00      PANEL 25 (9am!)  Coffee/Pastries 

09:30 - 11:00  PANEL 21 LGBTQ and gender perspectives: coming in from the fringes  BAO, Hongwei QIU, Shuang GOWAN, Hollie YANG, Wei 

PANEL 22 Doing Business: Overestimated opportunities or lost chances?   VITTING, Simon HILL, Simon THORLEY, Martin  

PANEL 23 Chinese art from zen to dadaism  WANG, Zi BECHER, Angela WANG, Yibo JARRY, Remy   

PANEL 24 The Belt and Road Initiative: Narratives and ideas  GONG, Xue BACHULSKA, Alicja ZENG, Jinghan ZHENG, Yixiao 

Friends of the LCI  Duncan BARTLETT  The Information  War Between Chinaand Japan: Has there been a ceasefire in the Propaganda battle? 

Politics beyond the State  LU, Cheng FULDA, Andreas ZHAO, Hailing LAW, Victor Pui FungWANG, Hairong  

 

11:00 - 11:30              Coffee/Biscuits 

11:30 - 13:00   PANEL 26 New Republican Lives: Discovering the modern, changing the past  JACKSON, Isabella BARRENTO, Antonio LAW, Kwok-fai PeterKORPIJARVI, Anna-Leena 

PANEL 27 Views on contemporary Chinese society  WIELANDER, Gerda CIORASTEANU, Sabina HUNT, Pamela   

PANEL 28 Early and Classical China  FOSTER, Christopher PURSEY, Lance CHEN, Xue    

PANEL 29 Learning and teaching: didactic and societal perspectives  WANG, Canglong ZHOU, Hongfen CHANG, Xiangqun   

  PANEL 30 Managing the party: Cadres under Xi Jinping  LIN, Rongrong ZHOU, Yunyun ENTWISTLE, Phil DOYON, Jerome KUBAT, Aleksandra 

 

*** 劇終 *** 

Surrey St entrance

Strand entrance