BBQ Lectures: Mobility and Integration

With the title Migration and Mobility: Towards Diversity and Transnationalisation, Prof. Janine Dahinden will draw a picture of what migration and mobility means today under conditions of globalization and transnationalisation, her speech about different types of mobilities will be followed by a debate what all this means for modern societies, while Mr. Wu is going to discuss with us how mobility and integration affects culture and lifestyle of Shanghai during the past decades.

Please note the time and venue below:

Time: Registration starts at 6.15pm 30th Sep.

Venue: Minsheng Art Museum,
           Building F, No. 570 Huaihai Rd (W), cross Kaixuan Rd, Shanghai

Program:

18:15-18:30    Registration

18:30-18:40    Welcome speech
              (Dr. Flavia Schlegel, MD, MAS, Executive Director, Vice Consul General)

18:40-19:00    Presentation
              (Prof. Janine Dahinden, Vice Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, University of Neuchâtel)

19:00-19:20    Presentation
              (Mr. Wu Liang, Art Critic, Chief Editor of Shanghai Culture Magazine) 
 
19:20-20:00    Questions & Answers
             1) Speakers will answer 1 question from each other
             2) Q & A for audience

20:00-21:00    BBQ

Speakers:

Prof. Janine Dahinden
Since 2007 Prof. Janine Dahinden is holding a chair in Transnational Studies at the Center for the Understanding of Social Processes at the University of Neuchâtel, Switzerland. Her research approach represents a contemporary social anthropology that places the understanding of processes of mobility, transnationalism and social and symbolic boundary making in the realm of ethnicity, religion and gender. She had conducted empirical research in Kosovo, Albania and Switzerland using qualitative methodologies, social network analysis and quantitative comparative surveys. From 2005-2006 she was member of the board of directors of the Swiss Forum for Migration and Population studies. She has taught at different Universities and published in German, English and French mainly on topics regarding mobility, migration, transnationality, ethnicity, social networks and culture. Now she is the Vice Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Science, University of Neuchâtel.

Mr. Wu Liang
Mr. Wu Liang, a literary critic and art critic. Similar to those who were famous in Chinese literary field in the 1980s, his widely reading contributed to his later unique and creative style. Mentality of free and despises of materialism can be easily recognized in his works.
He obtained the Shanghai Youth Literature Award and Award for Literary Criticism in the 1980’s. And he was chosen as the chief editor of Shanghai Culture Magazine in 2009. During the past years, he had published more than 30 books, e.g.: Choice of Literature, Discovery of Criticism, Notes of Cities, Painter in the Studio, Arts in Shanghai, Old Shanghai: A Lost Age, Another City, etc.

For more information, please call at 021-62351889 or email to BBQLectures@swissnexchina.org