Dear Colleagues,
Please find below and attached flyer about a workshop on ‘Happiness as political and ideological category in today’s China’ at the University of Westminster, London, on 7th November.
Best wishes,
Gerda
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Happiness as political and ideological category in today’s China
Workshop @
The University of Westminster
Friday 7 November 2014 10am – 5pm
309 Regent Street, Room 604
This one-day event brings together scholars from different disciplines, whose new research shares an interest in the concept of ‘happiness’ as an ideological category in official discourse and counter-discourse in China today.
The workshop is planned as the first, small-scale step in what we hope will become a larger project, incorporating more scholars from China, the US and elsewhere. We are inviting a limited audience of scholars with an interest in the subject matter to attend the workshop and actively contribute to the discussions of the individual papers, which are explorative and developing pieces of research. Individual discussants will follow presentations before opening up to the floor.
If you would like to attend please register with Helena Scott [log in to unmask] by Tuesday 4 November. There are 20 places available; the event is free of charge.
9:45 – 10:00 Welcome
10:00 – 12:30 Morning Session
“The Revolution is not just about eating and dressing better” – 65 years of ‘happy, prosperous’ Chinese socialism’, Dr Gerda Wielander (University of Westminster)
Smile yourself happy: the spread of ‘positive energy’ in China, Dr Derek Hird (University of Westminster)
“Happiness” as a media discourse in China’s Tibet, Jigme Yeshi (Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi)
12:30 – 1:15 LUNCH
1:15– 4:30 Afternoon Session
The Olympic Moment: Smiling Outwards from Within the Chinese Dream, Dr Alison Hulme (Goldsmiths) TBC
Moments of "Chinese Flavour Happiness": Exploring the TV PSA Chopsticks (kuaizi pian 筷子篇), Dr Giovanna Puppin (University of Westminster)
Sleeptalking for Losers: Happiness and the ‘China Dream’ in Chinese Popular
Fiction”, Dr Heather Inwood (University of Manchester)
“Lao you suo le” – state endorsed pursuits of happiness for older people, Dr Anna Boermel (King’s College London)
4:30 – 5:00 CONCLUSION
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