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Narrating China & the Health Humanities: Telling Futures
3 October 2023
Friday 10 Nov 2023 9:15am ¨C 6pm GMT, in person at Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ and online (Zoom). A day of talks and conversations to celebrate the past ten years of China & Health Humanities at Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ in collaboration with Peking University, and explore future cross-cultural landscapes. All warmly welcome.
Location:
IAS Common Ground, Room G11, Ground floor, South Wing, Wilkins Building, Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
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Online (Zoom)
Registration (free but essential!) via :
In this celebratory conference, we will discuss the themes that our Centre and related programmes have developed and shaped into a unique Health Humanities profile linked to the Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Grand Challenges. Key members of the Centre, associates, students and alumnae/i will showcase their work in conversation with colleagues and talk about the future of the cross-cultural Health Humanities in a digital world.
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Provisional schedule
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9:15? WELCOME and COFFEE
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9:20? WELCOME ADDRESS
Professor Vivienne Lo (Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ CCHH)
9.30? OPENING THE CONVERSATION
Dr Michael Spence, Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾'s President & Provost
From 9:37 TRANSLATION ACTIVITY
Dr Brandon Yen and Penelope Barrett (Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾)?¨C online during the day
9:45? PANEL 1, Global Health: Talking about Ageing in China
Convenor:? Dr Paul Kadetz (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh)
Li Ran: Transitional and Integrated Aftercare for Elderly Patients after Discharge from Tertiary Hospitals
Dr Wang Xinyuan: Celebrating her Book Launch ¨C Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China (Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Press 2023, Open Access)
10:30 SIGNING FUTURES IN CHINA
Dr Theresia Hofer (University of Bristol), Dr Junhui Yang (University of Central Lancashire), and Tom Holroyd, interpreter
11:00 KEYNOTE 1
Professor Therese Hesketh (KCL): Health and Well-being in China: The Xi Jinping Decade
11:30 ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL THERAPEUTIC EXERCISES
Led by Dr Dolly Yang and Professor Vivienne Lo
12:00 PANEL 2, Meditating on Asian Minds
Convenor: Professor Sonu Shamdasani (Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾)
Dr Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira: A Science for the Spirit
Dr Christina Lee: Buddhist Meditation Memoirs as Narratives of Active Healing
Dr Zhou Dangwei: Richard Wilhelm and the Book of Changes
12:45 PANEL 3, Digitising Futures
Convenor: Professor Michael Heinrich (Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾)
Dr Michael Stanley-Baker: Representing Polyglot Asian Medicine:
Dr Daniel Vuillermin: Shaping the Future of YiMovi: Phase 3:
13:30 LUNCH AND CATCHING UP
Lunch-time conversation with the alumnae/i
14:30 PANEL 4, Tapping into the Life Force: A Conversation about Trees, Art, and Literature
Convenor: Dr Brandon Yen (Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾)
Bai Xi: Traditional Chinese Paintings as a Mode of Art Therapy
Ouyang Sanyi: Belonging and Tree Culture in Qiandongnan, China
15:15 PANEL 5, Food and Environmental Activism in China
Convenor: Professor Vivienne (Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾)
Flavia Cruciani: Waterways and Activism on the Yangzi
Wang Haowen: Comparing Quality of Life and Vegetarian Practices
16:00 PANEL 6, Discourses on the History of Medicine
Convenor: Dr Andrew Wear (Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾)
Dr Dolly Yang: Horse Medicine in Ancient China
Deborah Woolf: Numerology and Innovation in Ancient China
Dr Yang Yi: A Transnational History of Five-Element Acupuncture
17:00 PANEL 7, Talking with Pictures,
Convenor: Professor Chris Berry (KCL)
Li Hui: Curable or Incurable? Neurasthenia in Chinese Cinema
James Serieux: Dynasty Warriors: Adapting Chinese Heroes for Japanese Gaming
Wang Nashuyuan: A Tribute to Pema Tseden
Tian Ruifan: On Pema Tseden¡¯s Balloon (2019)
18:00 KEYNOTE SPEECH
Professor Guo Liping, Dean of the School of Health Humanities, PKU: An overview of Narrative Medicine in China
The conference is convened with the kind support of Â鶹´«Ã½ÊÓƵÍøÕ¾ Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)
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Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Steeped in geomantic symbolism, this painting visualises the flow of qi through the cosmos and individual life forms.
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