IAL Opening Seminar: Inventing Chinese Society

Speakers: Béatrice Zani, Yong Li, Marie Bellot, Jean Tassin, Oscar Truong, Raphaël Louvet

Discussants: Laurence Roulleau-Berger, research director at CNRS ; Grégory Giraudo-Baujeu, Ph.D. in sociology ; Verena Richardier, Ph.D. in sociology.

9h30-10h00: Introduction. Laurence Roulleau-Berger,

10h00-10h20: Béatrice Zani, postdoctoral fellow, University of Tübingen, “Women Migrants in Southern China and Taiwan. Mobilities, Digital Economies and Emotions”.

10h20-10h50: Discussions and questions

10h50-11h10: Yong Li, postdoctoral fellow, Triangle, "Student Mobility: Business Creation by Chinese Graduates in Rouen".

11h10-11h40 : Discussions and questions

11h40-12h00: Marie Bellot, postdoctoral fellow, French Study Center on Contemporary China (CEFC) Hong Kong, "Professional Experiences of Chinese Skilled Young People, "Sense of Right", and the Making of Public and Social Problems".

12h00-12h30: Discussions and questions

12h30-14h30 : Lunch break

14h30-14h50: Jean Tassin, Ph.D. candidate, Triangle, "King Pitaya and the Peregrinations of Dried Bananas: Negotiating the Worlds of Peasant Agroecology in Contemporary China".

14h50-15h20 : Discussions and questions

15h20-15h40: TRUONG Oscar, Ph.D. candidate, Triangle, "What Place for a Critical Youth in Urban China? The Example of SJT, an Artistic Space against Art Markets".

15h40-16h10 : Discussions and questions

16h10-16h30: Raphaël Louvet, Ph.D. candidate, Triangle, "Memory Fictions, Politics of Ethnicity, and Muslim Identities: The Case of the Patrimonialization of Sufi Saints’ Tombs in Northwest China".

16h30-17h00: Discussions and questions

17h00-17h30: Conclusion and group discussion