The Role of Discourse as the Interface between various Disciplines studying Chinese Society November 5th 2010 Royal Academies for Science and the Arts of Belgium (KVAB) Hertogstraat 1, B-1000 Brussels 09:00 – 10:00 Opening Session Introduction - Lutgard Lams (HUB - Hogeschool Universiteit Brussel, Belgium) - Frank Gotzen (HUB; Center of IPR Studies, KU Leuven, Belgium) Keynote speech: “THE UBIQUITY OF DISCOURSE IN PUBLIC LIFE: Some pragmatic principles for an interdisciplinary approach”, Jef Verschueren, University of Antwerp, Belgium; Secretary General, International Pragmatics Association (IPrA) 10:00 – 11:20 Session I: Discourse & Society: Language and Politics 1) Rethinking the idea of Chinese nation-Assessments of Chinese policies toward ethnic minorities, Chen Mu-min, Graduate Institute of International Politics, National Chung Hsing University, Taiwan 2) Language strategies in official Chinese discourse as disseminated in the state media, Lutgard Lams, HUB, Belgium 3) A case study on China’s (re-)securitization discourse along the institutionalization of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, Xavier Liao, Dept. Political Science, Université Libre de Bruxelles (ULB), Belgium 11:20 – 11:40 Coffee break 11:40 – 13:00 Session II: Discourse & Society: Culture 1) Changing Chinese Modernity and Discourse of Culture Chang Pi-Chun, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan 2) Ambivalence in Western thinking, an echo to the Eastern way of thinking? Martine Van Goubergen, HUB, Belgium 3) “Chinese particularisms” theory seen from China and from France, Catherine Legeay-Guillon, Director of CPEI Studies, INALCO, Paris, France 13:00 – 14:00 Working lunch 14:00 – 15:20 Session III: Discourse & Society: Law 1) “Experiences from 30 years of intellectual property discourse with China- preparation of legislative reforms through personal and scientific relations and exchange”, Adolf Dietz, Max Planck Institute for Intellectual Property, Competition and Tax Law, Germany 2) “Law in China, to believe or not to believe”, Brian Jun Yao, Beijing Normal University Zhuhai Campus, China 3) “Conflict and Fusion of Western and Chinese Discourses in Copyright Law”, Zhao Kexiang, Intellectual Property School, Jinan University, China 15:20 – 15:40 Coffee break 15:40 – 17:00 Session IV: Discourse & Society: Discourses of Human Rights and Democracy 1) China’s Human Rights and Neo-Confucianism, Chou Chih-chieh, National Cheng-kung University, Taiwan 2) Democrats without Democracy. Contemporary Chinese Democratic Thought and Practice in Comparative Perspective, Christian Göbel, Centre for East and South-East Asian Studies, Lund University, Sweden & Andreas Fulda, Nottingham University, UK 3) Hegemony and discourse in political systems with single-party rule, Henrieta Serban, Romanian Academy, Institute of Political Science and International Relations, and Institute of Philosophy and Psychology, Bucharest, Romania 17:00 – 17:15 Wrap-up session: Conclusion and perspectives 17: 15 Closing speeches: Martine de Clercq, Acting Vice-Chancellor KUB (Catholic University of Brussels) |
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