Multiple speakers

Program rundown - Day I // - Oct 27, 2023

12:00 – 12:15 Opening Remarks

Panel I – Religious and Secular Utopias and China

Chair: Yana Pak || Discussant: David A. Palmer

12:15 – 13:15 Paper presentations and discussants’ comments

When Sacred Fire Meets Revolution: Female Workers’ Evening Schools in 1930s Shanghai, by Miao Feng (The Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)

W.E.B. Du Bois on China and Pan-African Utopia: From Afro-Orientalism to Afrofuturism, by Saheed Yinka Adejumobi (Seattle University)

BRI Projects as Secular Faiths, by Pengfei Hou (Xinjiang University)

13:15 – 14:00 Discussion

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Panel II – Sri Lanka and Pakistan

Chair: Orlando Woods || Discussant: Bhagya Senaratne

18:00 – 19:00 Paper presentations and discussants’ comments

Buddhist Diplomacy of China: From Religious Diplomacy to Economic Partnership – A Sri Lankan Experience, by Anuththaradevi Widyalankara (University of Colombo-Sri Lanka)

China’s Belt and Road Initiative and Sri Lanka: ‘Buddhist Diplomacy’ as a Strategic Soft Diplomacy Tool, by Asantha Senevirathna (General Sir John Kotelawala Defence University)

Religious Dimensions of China’s Global Rise in Pakistan: Circulations, Frictions, and Implications, by Sania Muneer (SOAS University of London)

19:00 – 19:45 Discussion

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Panel III – Religion and bilateral relations

Chair: Michel Chambon || Discussant: Jianping Wang

20:00 – 20:30 Paper presentations and discussants’ comments

Balancing Christian Nationalism and Pro-China Policies: Hungary’s Viktor Orbán and His “Opening to the East” Program, by Armin Langer (University of Florida)

20:30 – 20:45 Discussion

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 Program rundown - Day 2// - Oct 28

12:00 – 12:15 Opening Remarks

Panel IV – India and Himalayan region

Chair: Qian Junxi || Discussant: Tansen Sen

12:15 – 13:15 Paper presentations and discussants’ comments

Contesting Footprints of Buddha: India and Japan’s Responses to China’s Buddhist Diplomacy in South Asia, by Ranjana Mukhopadhyaya (University of Delhi)

Mapping the Terrain of an Alienated Borderland: Territorial disputes in the Eastern Himalayas and the re-invention of Buddhism, by Georgios T. Halkias (The University of Hong Kong)

China’s Religious Promotion Along the Borders in the Trans-Himalaya Region, by Abhigya Langeh (Central University of Jammu)

13:15 – 14:00 Discussion

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Panel V – Islamic world

Chair: Bhagya Senaratne || Discussant: Maria Adele Carrai

18:00 – 19:00 Paper presentations and discussants’ comments

China’ Quest to Build a Religious Soft Power in the Middle East, by Ahmet Üçağaç (Sakarya University)

China and the Islamic World: A Religious Perspective in the New Cold War, by Jianping Wang (Shanghai Normal University)

Religiosity and Attitudes towards China in the Arab World: An Analysis of the Arab Barometer Survey Data, by Marko Jovanović (Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia)

19:00 – 19:45 Discussion

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20:00 – 21:00 Closing Remarks

 

The ASIAR research cluster at HKIHSS is delighted to invite you to attend our upcoming International conference on "Global China in a Religious World", online Session III, co-organized by Center for Global Asia, NYU Shanghai.

The conference will take place on October 27-28, 2023, you are welcome to join us via Zoom.

For any further inquiries, please contact the ASIAR Research Cluster (asiar@hku.hk).