BCCDS Outreach conferences

Joint Presentation “Framing climate change in Australian, British, and Canadian Children’s News: An Ecolinguistic Study” 

Wout van Praet and Lutgard Lams

DiscourseNet Conference (Sustainability and Education: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Climate and Communication) 

Venue: Università degli Studi Internazionali di Roma (UNINIT), Rome 

Date:  25-26 March 2026

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Joint Presentation “Contesting ZhongZheng: Between Cultural Heritage and Democratic Reinvention in Taiwan”  

Jennifer Wei and Lutgard Lams

23rd EATS Conference 

Venue: University of Portsmouth, Portsmouth 

Date:  1-3 April 2026

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Presentation “Consolidation of ‘Xi Thought’ Through Sustained Strategic Narratives and New Initiatives”   

Lutgard Lams

Symposium “Re-interpreting Tradition in Contemporary China (II) for Francqui Chair, UGhent

Venue: UGent, Ghent  

Date: 22 May 2026

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Joint Presentation “Japanese English-Language Media Coverage of Taiwan Strait Tensions” 

Lutgard Lams and José-Lorenzo Vallès-Brau

5th Annual Conference JAGR (Japan Association for Geopolitical Research) 

Annual Conference on Geopolitics and International Affairs 

Venue: Ryu Koku University, Kyoto

Date: 18-20 September 2026  

Presentation "Narrating the EU in the Chinese English-Language State Press at Times of EU-China Summits" 

Lutgard Lams

2025 Social Sciences International Seminar, Westpoint Academy

Venue: Westpoint Academy, New York

Date:  6-7 February 2025

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Presentation “The Chinese and Taiwanese Perspectives on the 2024 Presidential Elections in Taiwan” 

Lutgard Lams

Conference on “2024: The year of elections and their impact on world (dis)order” 

organised by European University Institute and King’s College London, EUI, Robert Schuman Centre, Florence 

Venue: European University Institute, Robert Schuman Centre, Florence

Date:  13-14 March 2025 

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Presentation “Framing the 2024 Taiwan Presidential Elections in the Chinese and Taiwanese News media” 

Lutgard Lams

The 5th World Congress of Taiwan Studies "Taiwan in a Changing World: Past, Present, and Future" 

Venue: Academia Sinica, Taipei

Date:  18-21 May 2025

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Presentation “An Indo-Pacific View of the Cross-Strait Tensions through a Japanese Media Prism” 

Lutgard Lams

22nd EATS Annual Conference

Venue: Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic 

Date:  20-22 June 2025

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Presentation “Reconnecting Chinese Tradition and Modernity through Official Strategic Narratives and Initiatives” 

Lutgard Lams

Symposium on ‘Politics/Philosophy and the Chinese Nation’ (for Francqui Chair), UGhent

Venue: UGent, Ghent  

Date:  4 July 2025

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Joint presentation “Not Just a Territory: The Role of Historical Memory in Russian and Chinese Narratives 

on Crimea and Taiwan” 

Lutgard Lams and Olena Snigyr

18th EISA (European International Studies Association) Conference

Venue: Univ. of Bologna, Bologna   

Date:  25-29 August 2025

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Presentation “Information Warfare and Chinese Interference in Taiwan”

 Lutgard Lams

JRC Disinfo workshop, EEAS (European External Action Service, EU) 

Venue: EEAS, Brussels

Date:  24-25 September 2025

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

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******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