This event is organized under the auspices of the Work Package 2 of the European Horizon funded consortia Dealing With A Resurgent China (DWARC). The conference is organized into two thematic panels to present and discuss key findings from Work Package 2 of the DWARC program.  

Panel 1, “How opinions are expressed and controlled in Chinese public sphere” examines the dynamics of communication, control, and critique within China’s evolving public sphere. 
Panel 2, “Cultural movements in China: Voice? Exit? and Loyalty?” focuses on lived experiences and cultural practices, exploring how cultural actors and social groups navigate questions of belonging, resistance, and change. 

The event concludes with a roundtable discussion that brings together perspectives on the norms and values that do count and do not count for Chinese people today.

Program

9:30 – 10:00 : Welcome coffee and introduction
 

Moderator：Jean-Louis Rocca (CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS, DWARC)

Speakers:
Weronika Krupa (Jagiellonian University) - “The Queer Firewall of China - Exploring LGBT+ (in)visibility in the Chinese digital sphere”
Tang Lingyue (CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS) - “Between Pragmatism and Nationalism: Chinese Online Discourses on the EU”
Marcin Jacoby, Piotr Machajek (SWPS University, DWARC) - “In defense of the lao baixing: non-dissident social critique in Chinese visual arts and literature”

Commentators:
Judith Audin (Prodig, CNRS)
Flora Lichaa (Université Rennes 2)

12:30 - 14:00 - Lunch
 

Moderator：Marcin Jacoby (SWPS University, DWARC)

Speakers:
Jean-Louis Rocca (CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS, DWARC) - “Tangping (lying flat): Lifestyles and subjectivation among young Chinese people”
Gladys Nieto (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, DWARC) - “Feminisms in China and Its Relationship with the State and Political Power”
Giorgio Strafella (Palacký University Olomouc) - “Ambition, Precarity and Protest in Songzhuang Art Village”

Commentators:
Jérôme Doyon (CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS) 
Susanne Brandtstädter (University of Cologne)
 

16:30 - 17:00 : Coffee break
 

Moderator：Gladys Nieto (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, DWARC)

Speakers :
Marcin Jacoby (SWPS University, DWARC), Taciana Fisac (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, DWARC), Jean-Louis Rocca (CERI-Sciences Po/CNRS, DWARC)

Susanne Brandtstädter (University of Cologne)
 

The project “Dealing with a Resurgent China” (DWARC) has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe research and innovation programme under grant agreement number 101061700.
Views and opinions expressed are, however, those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.