Monday 7 November

Venue: Asia House, Indiakaj 16

10:00-10:45

Registration (coffee & tea is available)

10:45-11:00

Words of welcome and an introduction to the 9^th Annual Nordic

NIAS Council Conference by Geir Helgesen, NIAS’ Director

11:00-12:00

Keynote lecture followed by a Q & A session

Kerstin Sahlin, Professor University of Uppsala, Secretary General of Humanities and Social Sciences Swedish Research Council, Stockholm:

Research Funding and Research Cooperation for Asian Studies

Current Developments in the Swedish Research Council

     Chair: Senior Researcher Cecilia Milwertz, NIAS

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-15:00

Status on current Nordic Asia research:

Country presentations followed by group discussion.

Presenters:

• Denmark: Johannes Schmidt, Associate Professor, Aalborg University
• Finland: Teemu Naarajärvi, PhD Candidate, University of Helsinki
• Iceland: Geir Sigurdsson, Dean & Associate Professor, Univ. of Iceland
• Norway: Kenneth Bo Nielsen, Assistant Professor, University of Oslo
• Sweden: Eva Hansson, Associate professor, Stockholm University

Chairs: Professor Jørgen Delman, University of Copenhagen (UCPH) & Geir Helgesen

15:10

Bus departs to the Nordic Council of Ministers (NCM)

15:30-17:00

Visit to headquarters of the Nordic Council of Ministers

Welcoming address by Secretary General of the NCM

Mr. Dagfinn Høybråten.

Briefing on the current Nordic cooperation in an era of Globalization

by representatives from The Secretariat for Education and Research

17:30 – 18.30

Reception at the premises of NCM:

Networking, Refreshments and Snacks

Tuesday 8 November

Venue:  Asia House, Indiakaj 16

9:00-9:30

Morning Coffee/Tea

9:30-11:30

Keynote Presentations followed by Q & A and plenum discussions:

Ummu Salma Bava, Professor of European Studies, Centre for European Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi
East and West – Coming Together or Drifting Apart? The Relevance of Area studies in the Age of Globalization

Jong-kun Choi, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science and International Studies, Yonsei University, Seoul

The Nordic Region from an East Asian Perspective

Chair: Geir Helgesen

11:30-12:30

Paper Panel 1:

Childhood and Education:

• Reflections on Disadvantaged Childhood in India
  Dr. Bhavna Negi, University of Delhi
• Regionalizing Higher Education and Repositioning Southeast Asia Dr. Que Anh Carlsen, University of Bristol
  

Discussant: Stig Thøgersen, Professor, University of Aarhus

12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30-14:30

Paper Panel 2:

Ideology and reality: Social Rights, Ethnicity and Gender:

• Multiple pathways of Vietnam’s ethnic minority development:  Analysis from an integrated assets-access framework.
  Dr. Thai Thi Minh, UCPH
• Chinese Communist Party’s Policy on Gender in a Wider Perspective.
  Professor Marina Thorborg, Södertörn University

Discussant: Chunrong Liu, Fudan – European Centre for China Studies/NIAS

14:30-15:00

Coffee break

15:00-16:30

FUDAN Roundtable:

      The Struggle for Normative Order in East Asia

Introductions followed by Q & A / plenum discussion

James Wertsch, Professor, Washington University in St. Louis

Sebastian Bersick, Professor, Ruhr-Universität, Bochum

Chairs: Chunrong Liu, Fudan-European Centre for China Studies/NIAS and Geir Helgesen, NIAS

Short walk in the neighborhood (incl. the Little Mermaid) for those interested

18:00 – 20:00

Conference Dinner at Asia House

Wednesday 9 November

Venue: Asia House, Indiakaj 16

9:00-9:30

Morning Coffee

9:30-11:30

Keynote Presentations followed by Q & A and plenum discussion:

Pingtjin Thum, Visiting Fellow at Green Templeton College, University of Oxford; Research Associate at the Centre for Global History, University of Oxford; and coordinator of Project Southeast Asia

Putting Southeast Asia on the Agenda: Experiences and Reflections from the Oxford’s Project Southeast Asia

Tansen Sen, Professor of History, City University New York (CUNY) and NYU Shanghai Campus.

Asian Studies in the 21st Century: Issues of Coverage, Methodology, and Pedagogy

Chair: Professor Ravinder Kaur, University of Copenhagen (UCPH)

11:30-12:30

Paper Panel 3:

China in Regional Cooperation:

• Triple Helix Knowledge-based Sino-Nordic Arctic collaboration for Managing Power Transition
  Professor Rasmus G. Bertelsen, University of Tromsø

Economic development and ecological governance:

• Nordic Private Sector Development Cooperation with Asian Varieties of Capitalism: A Research Agenda on Contemporary Nordic-Asia Relations
  Dr. Bonn Juego, University of Jyväskylä, Finland

Discussants: Associate Professors Chunrong Liu & Uffe Jakobsen, UCPH 

12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30-15:00

Business Panel with presentations and plenum discussion:

Moderators: Professor Jørgen Delman, UCPH & Geir Helgesen, NIAS

Knowledge about Asia/Asia insights: WHO CARES?

Henning Kristoffersen, Public Affairs Director Asia, DNV·GL, Shanghai

Arnar Steinn Þorsteinsson, Asia Team Supervisor - Sales and Marketing, Iceland Travel

15:00-15:30

Summing up and closure of the conference by the organizers and the conference participants. What did we learn, and where are we heading?

Goodbye coffee

Thursday 10 November

Venue: NIAS, Øster Farimagsgade 5, building 18.1

9:30-10:30

Welcome and introduction to the PhD course by the commentators

10:30-12:00

Paper presentation 1.

The History of Local Governance and Business Relations.

Japan and China

• When Tobacco Became Cool in China
  Peter Harmsen, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Copenhagen
• The Impact of Local Development Projects on Enhancing Local Administrative Capacities
  Kei Namba, Ph.D. Candidate, Free University of Berlin

Discussant: Chunrong Liu, Executive Vice Director, Fudan-European Centre

12:00-13:00

Lunch

13:00-15:15

Paper presentation 2.

Welfare and Social Rights:

• Welfare state attitudes, legitimacy and perception surveys in China.
  Kristin Dalen, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Bergen
• The Politics of pension reform in Taiwan
  Liu, Yu-Ting, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Copenhagen
• Reflections on Disadvantaged Childhood in India
  Bhavna Negi, Ph. Candidate, University of Delhi

Discussant: Eva Hansson, Associate Professor, Stockholm University

15:15-15:30

Coffee Break

15:30-16:30

“Getting Published” by Gerald Jackson, Editor-in-Chief, NIAS Press

Introduction by the publisher and a Q & A session

Friday 11 November

Venue: NIAS, Øster Farimagsgade 5, building 18.1

9:00-9:30

AsiaPortal by NIAS Linc

The AsiaPortal – a Nordic platform for information resources on Asia
Presentation by Inga-Lill Blomkvist, Head of NIAS LINC

9:30-11:00

Paper presentations 3.

Memory and Political Writing

• The Bangladeshi Liberation War and its Tribunal
  Jacco Visser, Ph.D. Fellow, Aarhus University

• Re-appropriating the voice: Liao Yiwu’s prison writings
  Serena De Marchi, Ph.D Candidate, Stockholm University

Discussant: Stig Toft Madsen, Senior Researcher, NIAS

11:00-12:30

Paper presentation 4

Modes of Governance and Capitalism:

• Where are Korean and Japanese Capitalism anchored?
  Jiwon Song, Ph.D. Fellow, Stockholm School of Economics

• Possible Role of Quality of Governance and Culture in Explaining Institutional Trust
  Hasan Muhammad Beniamin, Ph.D. Fellow, University of Bergen

Discussant: Lau Blaxekjær, Assistant Professor, Univ. of the Faroe Islands

12:30:-13:30

Lunch

13:30-14:15

“Asia in Focus”

Presentation of the New Online Journal
by Inga-Lill Blomkvist, Head of NIAS LINC

14:15-14:45

Summing up and Closure: NIAS staff and Ph.D. course participants