Date: 13 March 2026 (Friday)
Time: 12:00–14:00 (UK time)
Format: Online (Teams)
Chinese Cultural Subjectivity and International Communication of ‘National Narrative’ Films: A Perspective from the Community with a Shared Future for Mankind
Shiyu Wang (University of Exeter)
Imagined Encounters and Circulating Narratives: China as Method in Transnational Lala Self-Labelling
Tianyi Han (University of Strathclyde)
Identity Crisis and Taiwanese intellectuals: Taking Orphan of Asia as an example
Yuhong Li (Nanjing Normal University)
Jinghong Zhang (Hunan First Normal University)
The Positive Presence: Westerners in Chinese Films on the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945)
Zhuojun Huang (City University of Hong Kong)
Host
Host: Yizhou Feng (University of Exeter)
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Date: 26 March 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 12:00–14:00 (UK time)
Format: Online (Teams)
Staging Authenticity: The Changing Visibility of Stagehands in Chinese Opera
Chengjin Su (Zhejiang University)
Between Faith and Heritage: Negotiating Authenticity and Modernity through a Food Offering Ritual in Coastal China
Mengping Liu (Seoul National University)
Architecture as Mass Media: Mediated Pastness and Public Reception at Luoyang’s Reconstructed Heritage Site
Hanchun Li (University College London)
Host
Host: Yining Fu (University of Exeter)
Date: 30 April 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 12:00–14:00 (UK time)
Format: Online (Teams)
China as Method: Rethinking Encounter and Knowledge in Marco Polo’s Travels
Xinyao Zhang (University College London)
Cultural Encounters between China and the Nordic Region since the Late 17th Century: An Approach through Selected Culturally Resonant Elements
Dongning Zhang (Fudan University)
From Bencaogangmu to Historia naturalis Sinarum: Chinese Knowledge and Natural History in Hans Sloane’s Collection
Siqing Sun (University of Leeds, Beijing Normal University)
“Chinese Columbianites” in The China Foundation
Sally Chengji Xing (Nankai University)
Host
Host: Shunran Tu (University of Exeter)
Date: 14 May 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 12:00–14:00 (UK time)
Format: Online (Teams)
The Pleasure and Pain of Eating and Abjection in Amy Tan’s The Joy Luck Club (1989)
Jiachen Zhang (Fudan University)
“What does an American look like?”: Negotiating Belonging in Charles Yu’s Interior Chinatown (2020)
Valentina López Liendo (University of Heidelberg)
How Magic Tells Reality: An Unnatural Wingbeat into Remembrance in Emily X.R. Pan’s The Astonishing Colour of After (2018)
Shuyue Liu (University of Nottingham)
Host
Host: Yizhou Feng (University of Exeter)
Date: 28 May 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 12:00–14:00 (UK time)
Format: Online (Teams)
Governing Heritage by Genre: The Silk Roads and Quanzhou
Jieyi Xie (Hong Kong Shue Yan University)
Heritage as “Common Recognition”: The Expansion of Macanese Food Heritage Lists and the Disappearance of Local Subjectivities
Chang Xu (Sun Yat-sen University, Heidelberg University)
Host
Host: Yining Fu (University of Exeter)
Date: 11 June 2026 (Thursday)
Time: 12:00–14:00 (UK time)
Format: Online (Teams)
Two Images of China in the 1960s: Eileen Chang and the Politics of Translation in the USIS “Heritage Press”
Rachel Yifei Liu (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
The localisation strategies of Chinese streaming services outside the mainland: using a walkthrough method to examine iQIYI and WeTV applications
Xiao Yang (University of Macau)
Anubha Sarkar (University of London)
Drone Visual Culture and the Reshaping of Global Technology Narratives: A Visual Power Analysis with China as Reference
Jiujian Zeng (Loughborough University)
Techno-Spiritual Encounters: When ChatGPT Refuses to Read Fengshui
Yuan Zhang (University of Oxford)
Host
Host: Yizhou Feng (University of Exeter)