Thursday 16. June
08.45 - 09.00 Coffee / tea / mingling
09.00 - 09.05 Welcome, Dr. Marius Korsnes, on behalf of KULT, NTNU
09.05 - 09.15 Opening remarks from Network for Asian Studies, Dr. Arve Hansen, University of Oslo
9.15 – 10.45: Session 1: China as Development Actor in the Global South.
Chair: Elling Tjønnesland, CMI
• Chinese development assistance in a comparative perspective
• Explaining the relations between commercial expansion, economic diplomacy and development aid in China’s development support
• Chinese assistance to African industrialisation: the case of Ethiopia • Mozambique’s huge debt to China: Still win-win?
• China in South Sudan: How does US-China relations affect peace diplomacy?
10.45 – 11.00: Break
11.00 - 12.30: Parallel sessions
Session 2: The Ecology of Place-Making
Chair: Aase J. Kvanneid, University of Oslo
• Towards zero plastic waste in the Mekong Delta: the contribution of Hòa Hảo Buddhism
• Disaster Citizenship in Rural China: a case study in disaster affected villages in eastern China
• Lucid Dreaming? Reconfiguring Place and Prospects during the ‘Everything Change’
• Shifting Relations, Shifting Terrain. Reconfigurations of Place in the Zomian Highlands
• Religious Ecology: Rights of the Ganga river and the spectre of Anthropocene
Session 3: Repressive governance, environmental protection, and political legitimacy
Chair: Hedda Flatø, Fafo
• The Autocratization of Environmental Governance in India
• China’s Regulatory Response to Plastic Pollution: Trends and Trajectories
• Citizen perceptions and environmental risk reduction
• Perceived risk acuteness and political support in an authoritarian state
• A search for soft or hard Chinese legal enforcement mechanisms in building ecological civilization: A legal study of Chinese Communist Party Regulations
Room: A31 (3078)
12.30 – 13.30: Lunch break
13.30 – 14.30: Keynote: China’s (Re)turn to Eurasia: The Drive Toward Regional Development Pathways, Professor Xiangming Chen
Xiangming Chen is the founding Dean and director of the Center for Urban and Global Studies, Trinity College and the Paul E. Raether Distinguished Professor of Global Urban Studies and Sociology, as well as a distinguished guest professor at Fudan University in Shanghai.
Discussants: Heidi Østbø Haugen, UiO and Hans Jørgen Gåsemyr, NUPI
14.30 – 14.45: Break
14.45 – 16.00: Session 4: Meat consumption and meat avoidance in China, India and Vietnam
Chair: Arve Hansen, University of Oslo
• Probing the concept of Sufficiency through studying Meat and Milk in China
• Bovine Contradictions: The Politics of (de)meatification and Hindutva Hegemony in Neoliberal India
• Contested meatification: Food cultures and meat-reducing practices in Vietnam
18.00 – 19.30: Roundtable: Asian academic culture and tradition interacting with Norwegian academic culture, led by dr. Wang Yu, NTNU
Victoriasalen Ringve, Lade alle 60, 7041 Trondheim
19.30: Conference Dinner
Victoriasalen Ringve, Lade alle 60, 7041 Trondheim
Friday 17. June
8.45 – 9.00: Coffee / tea / mingling
9.00 – 10.30: Session 5: New Dynamics of Popular Contention across East and Southeast Asia
Chair: Van Tran, NIAS, University of Copenhagen
• Social media as double-edged sword: The digital evolution of repression and contention in post-coup Myanmar
• Anti-Democratic Protests in Thailand and South Korea
• Online media coverage of the 2020 Thai Youth Protests
• Images of the Frontliner –The 2019 Hong Kong Protes
10.30 – 10.45: Break
10.45 – 12.15: Parallel sessions
Session 6a: Home and away: Diverging Cross-Cultural Practices
Chair: Shuhua Chen, NTNU
• Tracing the boundaries of the home through the material and sociocultural framework of the domestic window: Reflections on Japan and Norway
• Promoting new urbanism in Gulf cooperation council States (GCCs) urban region
• Same but different? Transnational research and educational collaboration in gender equality and diversity education
Session 7: China: Regional politics, regional studies and multilateralism
Chair: Marius Korsnes, NTNU
• Changes in Central-Local Relations in Xi’s China
• Managing Narrative Contestation: The Case of China’s Regional Engagement in Europe
• Chinese academic resources in regional studies: The case of the Greater Bay Area initiative
• Chinese Multilateralism and its Impact on Environmental and Democratic Governance in Africa and Latin America (MultiChina)
Room: A31 (3078)
12.15 – 13.00: Lunch break
13.00 – 14.30: Parallel sessions
Session 6b: Home and away: Diverging Cross-Cultural Practices
Chair: Shuhua Chen, NTNU
• Queer Cinemas of the Sinosphere: Queer China Goes Out
• Journeying toward home? Everyday life experience of homeawayness among rural migrants in urban China
• Evolving Identities: South Asian Zoroastrian Migration Stories
• New Updated Renewable Energy in Cambodia: Challenges, Opportunities and Relations Recommendations
Session 8: Socio-political transformation, work, and automation
Chair: Thea M. Valler, NTNU
• Conceptualising Social Movements of Bangladesh Post-2013: A Qualitative Case Study of Two Movements
• Coffee robots in Korea: from sociotechnical imaginaries to localised practices
• Industrial work and the sustainability of the social security system in Vietnam
• The Last of Frontline Workers: The Growing Precarity among sanitation and Waste Workers during Covid-19
Room: A31 (3078)
14.30 – 14.45: Concluding remarks