BCCDS Outreach

Keynote Speech "Representing the Chinese Self and the Foreign Other 

in the English-Language Press Editorials in China" 

Lutgard Lams

International Conference "Asia in the mirror: self-representation, self-narratives,

 and perception of the other”

Venue: Univ. of Cagliari, Italy

Date: 18-20 March 2024

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Presentation "Decoding Discourse on the EU-China Relations 

in the Chinese Official Press"

Lutgard Lams

European Association for Chinese Studies (EACS) 25th Biennial Conference 2024

Venue: Univ. of Tallinn, Estonia

Date: 27-30 August 2024

2023

    Presentation “Taiwan’s position in the geopolitical struggle 

with Covid-19 as a tool for health diplomacy” 

Lutgard Lams

Taiwan Chair Studies Seminar, KU Leuven, Fac. of Social Sciences

“Social Life and Governance in/after the Covid 19 Pandemic: A Comparison between Taiwan and the EU"

3 May, 2023

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Hong Kong Studies Association Conference 

29-30 May 2023

Lutgard Lams: Discussant PhD papers

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Presentation "Framing in Chinese and American Press Editorials about 

the Sino-US Trade Conflict: A Cross-Cultural Pragmatic Analysis"

Lutgard Lams and Ying Xu

18th Int'l IPrA Conference, ULB,  Brussels, July 2023 

(Panel: Cross-Cultural Pragmatics of Language and Politics, Prof. D. Kadar and Prof. J. House)

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Presentation “Striving for Discourse Power: Strategic Narratives 

in Contemporary Official Chinese Discourse”  

Lutgard Lams

EU Commission, EEAS, JRC Disinformation Workshop

(Panel: Chinese disinformation operations)

 27-28 Sept 2023

  2022

            International Workshop on 'Narratives in East Asia and Beyond: 

debating 'narrative's limits, prospects and linkages across disciplines' 

University of Duisburg, Essen

Online,  14-15, 21-22 March

Public Roundtable "Strategic Narratives and IR: Narrating Great Power Politics" (featuring Lutgard Lams, Runya Qiaoan, Will Walldorf, Nele Noesselt)

2020

BCCDS co-organizes the 17th International European Association of Taiwan Studies (EATS) Conference 

in cooperation with EASt (ULB),  Brussels, 2020 

'Narrating Taiwan: Re-imagining, re-writing, and re-connecting Taiwan'

• Venue: ULB, Brussels

• Date: 6-8 April 2020

 THE EVENT WAS CANCELLED BECAUSE OF CORONA-VIRUS HEALTH MEASURES

Follow the news on: https://www.eats-taiwan.eu/conference/eats-2020-conference

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Presentation "Where fandom meets nationalism: Propaganda as a state-society concerted effort in China"

Lutgard Lams & Wendy Weile Zhou

24th DiscourseNet Conference “Discourse and communication as propaganda: 

Digital and multimodal forms of activism, persuasion and disinformation across ideologies”

Venue: Université Saint-Louis, Brussels

Date: 18-20 May 2020

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International BCCDS Workshop on 'Discourse in and about China'

December 11, 2020, 14:00-16:30 hrs, online

The 11 December 2020 international workshop, which was to gather the institutional partners and individual scholarly contributors in Brussels, was transformed into a virtual webinar, in which the participants engaged in an exchange of thoughts about their current research in the domain of 'Discourse in and about China'.

Discourse ‘in’ China was covered in a presentation by Ying Xu, PhD Candidate and Prof. Lutgard Lams (KU Leuven, Belgium) on how Chinese media narratives portray the 2018 Sino-US trade conflict, and how presuppositions greatly contribute to implicit meaning making. The second contribution to this angle of ‘discourse in China’ was brought by Prof. Qing Cao (Durham University, UK), who shared his fascinating latest insights on how political terms in modern China were translated from Western concepts. 

The studies on discourse ‘about’ China were presented by Damien Ng (Julius Baer Bank, Zurich), who explored the portrayal of the 2010 trade dispute between China and its major trading partners in Western Newsmagazines’ headlines. His insights were very much echoed in the study by Prof. Shasha Wang (Bangor University, Bangor, UK), who outlined the images of China through the lens of British TV documentaries.

Although the meeting was originally planned for two hours, the lively exchange among this core group of researchers, sharing similar interests, went on for four hours and we still had the feeling so many aspects were still waiting for further discussion. This enthusiastic scholarly discussion led to the idea that the ‘to-be-continued’ panel discussion could become a full-fledged public BCCDS event in Brussels, November 2021. This eventually was organised as a hybrid event, because of travel restrictions from the UK. But dr. Damien Ng gave an in-situ presentation to the Brussels public and the students of the MA in Journalism.                                               

Examining Strate Narratives in Chinese Official Discourse under Xi Jinpin

Presentation "Democracy: Quo Vadis? An Empirical Analysis of Word Clusters and Argumentation Patterns 

in the Taiwanese English-language Opinion Press Articles about Democracy"

Lutgard Lams, Charlotte Maekelberghe, Frank Liu (NSYSU, Kaohsiung)

Global Forum on Democracy

Taichung, Taiwan,  October 2019*********************

******al Forum on Modern Direct Democracy, 

14th Int'l Conference of the European Assoc. of Taiwan Studies (EATS)

Venue: Co-Foscari Univ, VENICE, ITALY

Date: 2-4 March 2017

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Presentation "Humor as a discursive vehicle for political and social critique in Chinese society"

Lutgard Lams and Wendy Weile Zhou

International IPrA Conference

2014

Strategies of Symbolic Meaning Construction in Chinese Official 

Book presentation "Totalitarian and Authoritarian Discourses: a Global and Timeless Phenomenon?" 

(eds. Lutgard Lams, G. Crauwels, H. Serban) 

International Literary Festival

Venue: Mandalay, Myanmar

Date: February 2014

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Presentation "China: economic magnet or rival? Framing of China in the Dutch- and French-language 

quality press in Belgium and the Netherlands"

Lutgard Lams

International Conference 'Mass Communication and EU-China Relations', 

College of Europe

Venue: EU Committee of the Regions, Brussels

Date: April 3-4, 2014

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Presentation "Linguistic Engineering in the Institutional EU Discourse on China/Taiwan issues"

Lutgard Lams

Workshop Academia Sinica, Taipei (organized by D. Huang)

     Venue: Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Date: April 2014 

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Presentation “Hegemony and resistance in the Chinese context”

Lutgard Lams

International Conference on Freedom of Expression

Venue: University of Helsinki

Date: May 8-9

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Presentation "The pot calling the kettle black? Exploring discursive practices of Othering 

in Chinese and Japanese press narratives" 

Lutgard Lams

5th Critical Approaches to Discourse Analysis across Disciplines Conference (CADAAD), 

Venue: ELTE University, Budapest

Date: September 1-3, 2014 

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2014: BCCDS International Seminar 

"Totalitarian/Authoritarian Discourse Across Time and Space"

    Venue: EU Commission, Berlaymont building, Salle Cinéma, Brussels

                                                      Date: November 13, 2014, 4:30-6:30 pm  

Guest speakers:   Rüta Petrauskaité, Ko Ko Thett, Lutgard Lams

At this seminar, three contributors to the book “Totalitarian/authoritarian discourses; a global and timeless phenomenon?", edited by Lutgard Lams, Geert Crauwels, and Henrieta Serban presented their views on totalitarian/authoritarian discourse in China, Myanmar, and the former Soviet Union, addressing the following questions. What are the common characteristics and main functions of the totalitarian/authoritarian discourse? In what form does totalitarian/authoritarian discourse survive after democratization and to what extent can it impede democratization? Why is deciphering discourse important for policy-makers? The authors discussed how totalitarian/authoritarian discourse contains an explicit emphasis on the Party's or Leader's monopoly on truth and aims at creating a collective identity directed towards a common enemy.

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Presentation "Parody, cynicism and irony as discursive ways of resistance in China and Myanmar”  

Lutgard Lams

VIOT Annual Conference

Venue: KULeuven, Fac. of Arts

Date:  16-18 December 2014 

2013 International Conferences in China

In the Fall Semester, two presentations concerning 'Communication and China' were given by Lutgard Lams at two consecutive conferences in China.

 In September, she participated in the 2013  China Communication Forum and the First  Central Asia Communication Forum in Urumqi. In the panel on "Media, Xinjiang, and Central Asia", chaired by prof. Moritz, Lutgard Lams gave a talk on the Belgian press representation of Xinjiang. Kevin Peters from Web International English discussed shifting traditions in Xinjiang and Milica Pesic from the Media Diversity Institute, London presented a speech on "professional Journalism and the Question of Ethnicity". 

The second conference,  the Fourth International Conference of Multicultural Discourses, was held from 24 to 26 October at the enchanting West Lake in Hangzhou (Institute of Discourse & Cultural Studies, Zhejiang University). Lutgard Lams shared her views on how the Chinese press frames the US and Japanese Other in sensitive times of diplomatic standoffs. 

Lutgard Lams

ECREA 2012 Int’l Conference

Lecture: "Presenting the Chinese Self and the Foreign Other in China’s English-Language Press Editorials"

Lutgard Lams

Venue: University of Milan, Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Mediations 

Date: 9 May 2024

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Lecture "Representations of the Cultural and Political Self and the Other in Chinese Media Accounts"

Lutgard Lams 

Venue: University of Bologna, Department of ModernLanguages, Literatures, and Cultures

Date: 10 May 2024

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The Presentation "The role of narratives in the official discourse of the contemporary Chinese leadership"

Lutgard Lams 

Venue: ULB, Centre de Recherches en Information et Communication (org. Prof. J. Zienkowski)

Date: 15 May 2023

 Lecture 'Examining Strategic Narratives in Chinese Official Discourse under Xi Jinping'              organized by Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation International Sinological Center, Charles University, Prague         

Lutgard Lams            

Date:  25 Feb, 2020, 4 pm

          Venue: Charles University, Prague

On 29 May 2018, the Department of Informatics and Media of Uppsala University (Sweden) hosted a ’higher seminar’ by dr. Lutgard Lams, entitled “Examining strategic narratives in the Chinese official discourse under Xi Jinping's rule”. Lutgard Lams presented her study about the ways China has, in recent years, used its soft power to spread the ’China story’ internationally and how its strategic narratives differ depending on the targeted audience, either international or domestic or both. She also looked into divergences/convergences with the political discourse of previous generations of leadership by examining argumentation patterns and discursive strategies used in speeches and texts produced by top-level officials and their ‘core’ leader, Xi Jinping. The focus lay on Xi Jinping’s hallmark slogans, such as ‘the China dream’, the ‘new normal’ and the ‘Four Comprehensives’. 

The presentation was followed up with an interesting discussion on how these ideas are spread through the Chinese and foreign media.

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In June 2018, Lutgard Lams gave a seminar on EU discourse on Taiwan at the ULB Summer School on EU Studies  

Lecture Series in Taiwan

 'Sinicization and Taiwanization processes during Ma Ying-jeou’s first term in office'      

Lutgard Lams

Date: March 24, 2016

          Venue: Chung Hsing University, Graduate Institute of International Relations, Taichung, Taiwan

'The interplay of language and ideology in political communication --

Case study: Taiwan 2016 Election Campaigning'

Lutgard Lams

Date: April 11, 2016

             Venue: National Sun Yat-sen University, Graduate Institute of Political Science, Kaohsiung, Taiwan

2013: BCCDS Lecture Series in Anhui, China

'The Recent Developments of IP Protection in China'

Prof. Frank Gotzen / Prof. Lutgard Lams

In the second half of April, Frank Gotzen and Lutgard Lams were invited by the School of Public Affairs at the University of Science & Technology of China (USTC), Hefei (Anhui Province) to give a series of lectures to the Ph.D. students of Public Affairs. Frank Gotzen also visited the Chinese Intellectual Property Office, Anhui Branch and discussed recent developments of IP protection in China with the Director of the Office. Lutgard Lams met with the Head of the International Office of USTC  and the Vice-Dean of the USTC News Center and  Deputy-Director of USTC Center for Science Communication.

2012

On Feb 27, 2012, at the book launch of "European Perspectives on Taiwan" in Brussels,  experts on Taiwan discussed issues and questions related to various perspectives from Europe on Taiwan. Lutgard Lams presented an in-depth elaboration of her contribution to the book with the chapter "Cross-Strait Relations from a Linguistic Perspective".