Rising Asia - Anxious Europe > Programme

Rising Asia, Anxious Europe 2-3 May

Preliminary programme

2 May 2012

The Ceremonial Hall, University of Copenhagen, Frue Plads, Copenhagen
Registration from 11.30

Moderator: Marie H. Roesgaard, Associate Professor in Japanese Studies, and Chair of the ADI Steering Committee

 
The conference will be recorded and streamed live.

3 May 2012

Faculty of Humanities (Building 22 and 27), Njalsgade 120-136, 2300 Copenhagen S

Panel sessions

Keynote presentation

Professor Aihwa Ong, University of California, Berkeley
"Science as the Heart of “World-Class” Cities in Asia"

Chair: Jørgen Delman

Panel 1A: Business, markets and enterprise in Asia-Europe encounters

1. Anne Schreiter: “Managerial worlds. Cultural constructs in Chinese-German business settings”
2. Annelise Ly: “Shifts in intercultural business communication following the rise of Asia as an economic superpower”
3. Adrian Favell: “Rise and Decline: Japan as the Model of the ‘Post-Bubble’ Society”
4. Vincent Wai-kit Ho: “Bridging Europe and China by a Postcolonial Casino City : Macau’s Cultural Capital, Enterprise Diversity, and Mentality Transformation in 21st Century”

Chair: Oscar Salemink
Discussant: Rune Bennike
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Panel 2A: Global resource competition, international aid and global consequences

1. Evan Thompson: “Central Asia: A site for a Europe-China ‘Great Game’?”
2. Luis Mah & Raquel Freitas: “European responses to Asia´s enhanced role as aid donor”
3. Luisa Steur & David Mosse: “Confronting the global land grab in South India: The struggle over the Thervoy SIPCOT Industrial Park in Tamil Nadu”

Chair: Mikkel Bunkenborg
Discussant: Oscar Salemink
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Panel 3A: Resource competition and consequences for food security and rural livelihoods

1. Renata Grochowka & Katarzyna Kosior: “Implications of changes in agricultural policies in Asia for regional and global food security”
2. Anders Riel Müller: "Korea’s Overseas Food Security Policy: Global food crisis and domestic contestations food and agricultural policy"
3. Edyta Roszko: “How global conflict becomes local, and how local fishermen become global players: Tracing the consequences of the South China Sea dispute for local fisheries”

Chair: Mikkel Bunkenborg
Discussant: Cynthia Chou
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Panel 1B: Orientalism, Asian values and perspectives

1. Anders Törnvall: “Asian Value Systems and European Ideologies and Education – A Comparative Analysis”
2. Susanne Bregnbæk & Ayo Wahlberg: “Ambiguous Ambitions in the New Knowledge Economy Education and Science between Freedom and Constraint”
3. Shogo Suzuki: “Is China a unique state? Orientalism in Sino-African relations literature”
4. Manuela Ciotti: “Pavilion of mind: ‘India-out-of-India’ at the 54th Venice Biennale”

Chair: Ravinder Kaur
Discussant: Marie H. Roesgaard
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Panel 2B: Anxieties and accounts

1. Ravinder Kaur: "Asia: geographies of anxiety in a flat world"
2. Signe Overgaard Ptaszynski: “Responding to the Rise of China – attraction or compulsion?”
3. Madhulika Banerjee: “Rising Ayurveda and the Anxious European Union: What Happens When the Twain do Meet?”
4. Ronojoy Sen: “India’s Parliament: Re-imagining a European idea?”

Chair: Susanne Bregnbæk
Discussant: Ayo Wahlberg
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Panel 3B: Languages and forms of Asia-Europe Comparison

1. Michala Hvidt Breengaard: “Mater matters”
2. Hilda Rømer Christensen: “(Re)making middle Class Families”
3. Rudolph Ng: “From Coolie Trade to Shoes Trade: A Comparison of Sino-Spanish Encounters”

Chair: Marie H. Roesgaard
Discussant: Ayo Wahlberg
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Panel 1C: Changing Security Dynamics

1. Tunsjø, Øystein: “Europe in the coming of a bipolar system”
2. Veena Ravikumar: “Rising Asia, Anxious Europe: The Problem of Security”
3. Kim Nødskov: "China's Military Rise"
4. Niels Thygesen & Bertel Heurlin: "The Chinese Security Policy-Economic Policy Nexus, a research project"

Chair: Bertel Heurlin
Discussant: Ras Tind Nielsen
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Panel 2C: Trade and investment flows between Europe and Asia

1. David Chiavacci: “New Economic Ties between Europe and East Asia: Background and Trade Effects of the Free Trade and Economic Partnership Agreement (FTEPA) between Switzerland and Japan”
2. Jonas Parello Plesner: “China’s helping hand in the eurocrisis”
3. Fredrik Sjöholm: “Foreign Ownership and Employment Growth”
4. Damoun Ashournia: “The impact of Chinese import penetration on Danish firms and workers”

Chair: Jakob Roland Munch
Discussant: Daniel Nguyen
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Urban Imaginaries

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Panel 1D: Urban ecology, transformation and negotiations

1. Anders Blok: “Worlding European and Asian cities through their climate projects? On eco-housing assemblages, cosmopolitics and comparisons”
2. Nikolaj Vendelbo Blichfeldt: “Low-Carbon Life with Chinese Characteristics: Connecting with Climate Change in an Urban Community in Hangzhou”
3. Lau Blaxekjær: “China’s two dragon images and other contradictions of climate politics”
4. Tommaso Bobbio: “The will to appear global: urban development, marginality and territorial transformation in the narratives of slum dwellers of Ahmedabad (West India)”

Chair and discussant: Jørgen Delman

Panel 2D: Urban identity, space and everyday life

1. Jun Liu: “Mobile Phone Rumors as “Weapons of the Weak”
2. Manpreet Janeja: “Re-Imagining Urban Intimacies: Domestic Anxieties and Culinary Aesthetics”
3. Mai Corlin: “Transforming Urban Spaces: Meishi Street and the battle of the narratives”
4. Elena Kilina: “Public space for Japanese “nomads” (who don’t go home): Interaction between people and space”

Chair and discussant: Anders Blok

Panel 3D: Xindu case and Discussion of Urban Imaginaries and Power

1. Jan Annerstedt: “Xindu in Chengdu, China: Practical case of innovation driven urban development”
2. Tina Schilbach: "Between the worlds: the emotional geographies of class and cosmopolitanism in global Shanghai"
3. Jørgen Delman: “Urban Imaginaries and Power" - where do we move from here?

Chair TBA / Discussant: Aihwa Ong