China's Global Impact

Conference Website: http://wiki.vm.rub.de/uvu/index.php/China's_Global_Impact. - Secure part of the website: (access for organizing committee only).

Chinese Studies Conference at UVU, March 23-25, 2012

Submission deadlines

(no extensions, if not ready, send draft, but keep deadline)

• Jan 29 Call for papers sent out: additional speakers needed!
• Feb 6 topic, speaker photo for website and evtl. proceedings
• Feb 13 abstracts (150 words), c.v. (100 words), c.v. (1 page)
• Feb 27 paper drafts due (for presentation of 20 minutes, i.e. approx. 7 pages without footnotes and references)
• Mar 5 internal review decision
• Mar 12 final papers due, will be submitted to same reviewers again for final approval
• Mar 20 discussants’ notes due
• Mar 23-24 conference
• Mar 25 hiking excursion to nearby mountains
• May 31 submission of revised papers for proceedings
• Jul 31 proceedings

Schedule

Friday, March 23, 2012

8:30-8:45 Opening

I China’s Economical Impact

8:45-10:15 Panel 1: The historical and geographical macro perspective: Involution and De-Involution, Innovation and India

10:15-10:30 Break

10:30 – 12:00 Panel 2: Know-How Transfer, case studies of a medium sized Western enterprise and a Chinese global player

12:00 – 1:00 Lunch Break

1:00 – 2:30 Panel 3: Issues in Contemporary Chinese Economy and an Outlook

2:30 – 2:45 Break

II China’s Cultural Impact

2:45 – 4:15 Panel 4: Invisioning China: Sinologists in transition and the international Perception of the Chinese Film

Saturday, March 24, 2012

II China’s Cultural Impact

8:30-10:00 Panel 5: The world speaks Chinese - China’s Softpower, Cultural Melting-Pots, and Dual Immersion Programs

10:00-10:15 Break

10:15 – 11:45 Panel 6: Panel 6: China as a leading factor in web literature, comparative writers’ fates and the global validity of Chinese poetry asthetics

11:45 – 12:45 Lunch Break

III China’s Political Impact

12:45 – 2:15 Panel 7: Chinese nationalism, modernization and foreign policy

2:15 – 2:30 Break

2:30 – 3:30 Panel 8: Perception of China in Western Media

3:30 – 3:45 Break

3:45 – 4:15 Interdisciplinary Panel Discussion: China’s impact on world economy, politics and culture

4:15 – 4:30 Final Remarks, official end of conference

Sunday, March 25, 2012

9:00 – 9:30 Breakfast

9:30 – 1:00 pm Hiking excursion to nearby mountain

afternoon Individual return, airport shuttle service