Night view of modern China (Image from Casa Àsia website)
Casa Àsia's headquarters in Barcelona is organizing an interesting one-day seminar about China - European Union policies on Friday, January 13th, 2012, between 10 am and 2 pm at the Confucius Room. The growing global power and influence of China has changed the way international relationships have been held in the recent decades and it is important for the European Union to establish a cooperative relationship with the Asian superpower. Apart from several top-level presentations by European and Chinese keynote speakers, the seminar will present the results of a survey-based research project that was co-funded by the European Union’s 7th Framework Program and that was aimed at understanding what are the perceptions of the Chinese society towards Europe.
This seminar is held in different European Union countries and is conducted by a six-member consortium led by the China Policy Institute of the School of Contemporary Chinese Studies at the University of Nottingham (United Kingdom) with Jacobs University in Bremen (Germany), the Graduate School of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Renmin University in Beijing (China), the Leiden University (Netherlands), and the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House in London (United Kingdom). The seminar will be conducted in English, with simultaneous translation into Spanish.
Program
10am – 10.30 am - Registration over coffee
10.30 am - Welcome by Casa Asia and Introduction by the Chair
Ricardo Pascoe, former director of the China Policy Institute at the University of Nottingham.
10.35 am - Introduction
Dr. Simona Ardovino, Scientific Officer, European Commission.
10.40 am - Chinese Views of the European Union: Project Overview and the Key Policy Implications
Dr. Zhengxu Wang, Project Coordinator, Deputy Director and Senior Research Fellow, China Policy Institute, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, Nottingham University.
11.10 am - Chinese Citizens’ Attitudes towards the European Union and their Origins
Henk Dekker, Professor of Political Socialization and Integration, Leiden University.
11.25 am - Chinese Trust in Europeans, and Chinese Affect towards European Culture –Research Findings and Policy Implications
Timo Graf, Research Associate, Jacobs University, Bremen (his co-author Jan Delhey, Professor of Sociology at Jacobs University, will join the panel discussion).
11.40 am - Opinions of the Chinese Elites on the Most Controversial Issues Affecting the European Union’s China Strategy and the Policy Implications
Profesor Dong Lisheng, Graduate School, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
11.55 am – 12.15 pm Break
12.15 pm - Fragile Friendship: How Chinese Perceive the European Union; analysis of Six Focus Group Interviews and the Policy Implications
Richard Pascoe on behalf of Dr. Tang Haihua, Renmin University.
12.30 pm - Europe in current Chinese history textbooks and options for cultural exchange between China and the European Union
Alexander Thies, Research Associate, Jacobs University.
12.45 pm - Communicating the EU as an Environmental Actor and EU-China Environmental Cooperation
Dr. Li Zhang, Research Fellow, China Policy Institute, School of Contemporary Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham.
1 pm - 2 pm Panel Discussion, questions and answers
Useful information
Date: Friday, 13 January 2012, from 10 am to 2 pm
Venue: Casa Àsia, Confucius Room, Avinguda Diagonal 373, Barcelona
Ticket: Free admission with prior registration (contact yparicio@casaasia.es)
Organizers: Casa Àsia, European Commission, 7th Framework Program of European Union and Nottingham University.
For more information, download this pdf document.
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