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PROGRAM

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Thursday 3rd December 2009
09.00-09.30     Registration
09.30-10.00     Welcome addresses
10.00-12.00     Workshops 1 and 2

W1 The Chinese Economy
in the Aftermath of the Financial Crisis
(org. BICCS,www.vub.ac.be/biccs and BCECC www.bcecc.be)

Chair | Roel Nieuwdorp (Professor, Antwerp University)

• Sylvain Plaschaert (Honorary Professor, Universiteit Antwerpen and K.U. Leuven and BICCS lecturer on Bilateral Relations), The modest impact of the world crisis on China’s real economy
• Daniël Van den Bulcke (Emeritus Professor, University of Antwerp) : The global crisis, foreign direct investment and China : developments and implications
• Dominique Yernaux (BICCS lecturer on Portfolio Investment in China) : The influence of the current crisis on China’s capital markets and its aftermath on portfolio investment in China

W2 Rural China : Health, Education and Local Politics

Chair | Catherine Vuylsteke (Author and China editor at De Morgen)

• Björn Alpermann (University of Würzburg, Contemporary Chinese Studies) - Rural governance in times of economic stress
• Mette Halskov Hansen (University of Oslo, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages) - Recent trends in Chinese rural education : the disturbing rural-urban divide and the measures to meet it
• Bruno Meessen (Institute of Tropical Medecine, Antwerp) - Health sector in rural China : some of the challenges faced by the policy Makers

12.00-13.30     Lunch
13.30-15.30     Workshops 3 and 4

W3 Labor and Welfare Issues in Urban China

Chair | Eric Florence (Researcher at CEDEM, University of Liege)

• Linda Wong (City University of Hong Kong) - Improving the Chinese welfare state in the new millennium
• Yu Xiaomin (Beijing Normal University) - The impacts of china’s reforming migrant labour regime on rural migrants’ industrial citizenship
• Gilles Guiheux (University Paris VII) - The new labour regime and the promotion of entrepreneurship

W4 Business Practices in China
(org. BCECC, www.bcecc.be and BICCS www.vub.ac.be/biccs)

Chair | Henri Lederhandler (DLO Dewitt Law Office)

• Jeanne Boden (Director ChinaConduct and BICCS Lecturer on Intercultural Management’) : Eurocentrism and Sinocentrism in doing business with China
• Li Xia (BICCS lecturer on Marketing in China) : Selling in China
• Wang Jiann-Yuh (Consultant) - Unhappy or happy China : new challenges and new responsibilities. How to do business with the world’s second largest economy ?

15.30-16.00    Tea/coffee break

16.00-17.30    Panel 1 : Corporate Social Responsibility in China

Chair | Liu Kaiming (Executive Director of the Institute of Contemporary Observation, Shenzhen)

• Yu Xiaomin (Beijing Normal University)
• Michel Doucin (Ambassador of France in charge of bioethics and corporate social responsibility)
• Leïla Choukroune (Assistant Professor, Law Department, HEC Paris School of Management)

18.00-22.00    Europalia evening (Palais des Beaux-Arts)

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Friday 4th December 2009
10.00-12.00    Workshops 5 to 7

W5 Civil Society in China

Chair | Guy Massart (Independent researcher and Professor of anthropology at the Mindelo International School of Art)

• Kin-Man Chan (Director of the Centre for Civil Society Studies, Associate Professor of sociology, Chinese University of Hong Kong) - The rise of civil society in China
• Liu Kaiming (Executive Director of the Institute of Contemporary Observation, Shenzhen) - Strives to balance : a labour NGO’s survival Art in China
• Chloé Froissart (University of Rennes 2) - Is there a NGO model ? Comparing NGO supporting migrant workers in Beijing and in the Pearl river delta
• Kevin Latham (School of Oriental and African Studies, London) - New media in China : problematising the public sphere

W6 China and the World Economy
(org. Madariaga College of Europe Foundation, www.madariaga.org)

Chair | Pierre Defraigne (Executive director of the Madariaga College of Europe Foundation)

• Françoise Lemoine (Senior Economist, CEPII, Paris) - The rise of China in international economy
• Jean Christophe Defraigne (Lecturer at Facultés universitaires Saint-Louis, Centre for research in economics) - An assessment of China’s technological capabilities and its implication in the development of a green economy
• Doris Fischer (Economist, German Development Institute) - The challenge of being "big" : China’s economic rise and her demeanor in global governance

W7 Recent Trends in Chinese International Migration
(coll. CEDEM, ULg, www.cedem.ulg.ac.be)

Chair | Marco Martiniello (Research Director at the National Fund for Scientific Research)

• Xiang Biao (University of Oxford) - Making order from transnational migration : labor, recruitment agents and the state in Northeast China
• GAO Yun (International Labor Organization) - Chinese undocumented migrants and the european labor market
• Florence Levy (University of Neuchatel) - Legal restrictions and coping strategies of undocumented migrant women from northern China in Paris

 
12.00-13.30     Lunch

13.30-15.00     Panel 2 : Green Shanghai, a green China ?

Chair | Rachel Delcourt (Sinologist, author of Shanghai l’ambitieuse)

• Keynote speeches on China's overall environmental situation: Duncan Freeman (Lecturer at BICCS) - Wang Xin (Researcher at IDDRI, Paris)
  

Following debate with :

• Michel Genet (Executive Director Greenpeace Belgium)
• Marc Mangin (Journalist and author of Chine, l’Empire Pollueur)

15.30-17.30     Final Panel : Eu-China Relations (org. Madariaga College of Europe Foundation, www.madariaga.org)

• Song Xinning (Senior Research Fellow at UNU-CRIS and Jean Monnet Professor at Renmin University of China)
• Men Jing (InBev-Baillet Latour Chair of European Union - China Relations, College of Europe and Senior Researcher of Chinese Foreign Policy, Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies)
• François Godement (Professor and Director, Asia Centre at Sciences Po and Senior fellow, European Council on Foreign Relations)

17.30-18.00     Concluding remarks

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In collaboration with
the Brussels Institute of Contemporary China Studies, the Madariaga College of Europe Foundation, the Centre for Ethnic and Migration Studies and the Belgian-Chinese Chamber of Commerce.