Mobility in Contemporary China

Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
WORKSHOP
Mobility in Contemporary China:
Imaginaries, technologies and power
29 – 30 September 2016
Organisers: Meixuan Chen (Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology)
Li Zhang (University of California, Davis)
PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME
Wednesday, 28th September 2016
19.15
Informal get-together at “Nexus”
Thursday, 29th September 2016
8.30 – 9.15
Registration
9.15 – 9.30
Welcome address by Chris Hann
9.30 – 10.30
Panel I:
Chair: Helena Obendiek
Guo Yuhua, Jianhua Wang
Tsinghua University, Beijing, China
The Consumer and User as Subject: The new generation of peasant workers
and new media technology
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
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Venue: MAIN SEMINAR ROOM of the MPI for Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36, Halle (Saale), Germany
Phone: +49 (0)3 45 29 27 - 0
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Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
11.00 – 12.00 Carlo Inverardi Ferri
School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK
Anna Lora-Wainwright
School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford, UK
Geographies of Invisibilities: Livelihood strategies, informal labour, and
worker agency in China
Discussant: Li Zhang, (University of California, Davis)
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch break
13.00 – 15.00 Panel II
Chair: Minh Nguyen
Roberta Zavoretti
Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale)
Hypergamy in Practice: The ideal husband in Maoist and post-Mao China
Eona Bell
School of Oriental and African Study, London
Social Mobility Within Hong Kong Chinese Families in Scotland
Discussant: Susanne Brandtstädter (University of Cologne)
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break
15.30 – 16.30 Cheuk, Ka-Kin
Leiden University
The Specter of ‘National Security’: G20 and international mobilities in a local
Chinese market
16.30 – 17.30 Wrap-up discussion
18.30 – 19.30 Dinner
19.30 – 20.30 Discussion of results
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Venue: MAIN SEMINAR ROOM of the MPI for Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36, Halle (Saale), Germany
Phone: +49 (0)3 45 29 27 - 0
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Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
Friday, 30th September 2016
9.30 – 10.30
Panel III:
Chair: Fan Zhang
Meixuan Chen
Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle (Saale)
Overseas Visits, Local Imaginaries of Mobilities and Fixity
10.30 – 11.00 Coffee break
11.00 – 12.00 Anne-Christine Trémon
Université de Lausanne
Sociodicies of Mobility in a Shenzhen Emigrant Village
Discussant: Frank Pieke (Leiden University)
12.00 – 13.00 Lunch break
13.00 – 15.00 Panel IV
Chair: Meixuan Chen
Shuli Wang
Leiden University and International Institute for Asian Studies
Heritage, Mobility and Place Making: How do relocated Huayuanzhuang
villagers make a new home?
Wang Cangbai
University of Westminster, UK
The ‘Material Turn’ in Migration Studies
Discussant: Matthew Kohrman (University of Stanford)
15.00 – 15.30 Coffee break
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Venue: MAIN SEMINAR ROOM of the MPI for Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36, Halle (Saale), Germany
Phone: +49 (0)3 45 29 27 - 0
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Max-Planck-Institut für ethnologische Forschung
Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
15.30 – 16.30 Zhou Yongming
University of Wisconsin-Madison
On the Move: A Hmong village by the Kunming-Bangkok Highway in Northern
Laos
16.30 – 17.30 Wrap-up discussion
Discussants:
Nina Glick Schiller (University of Manchester)
Yang Shengmin (Minzu University of China, Beijing)
18.30 – 19.30 Dinner
19.30 – 20.30 General discussion and planning
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Venue: MAIN SEMINAR ROOM of the MPI for Social Anthropology, Advokatenweg 36, Halle (Saale), Germany
Phone: +49 (0)3 45 29 27 - 0
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