30.98, Confs: Applied Linguistics, General Linguistics, Translation/Norway

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Subject: 30.98, Confs: Applied Linguistics, General Linguistics, Translation/Norway

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Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2019 23:47:15
From: Guowen Shang [guowen.shang at uib.no]
Subject: 14th Biennial Nordic Association for China Studies (NACS) Conference

 
14th Biennial Nordic Association for China Studies (NACS) Conference 
Short Title: 14th NACS Conference 

Date: 13-Jun-2019 - 14-Jun-2019 
Location: Bergen, Norway 
Contact: Guowen Shang 
Contact Email: nacs2019 at if.uib.no 
Meeting URL: http://www.uib.no/fremmedsprak/118656/nordic-association-china-studies-conference-2019 

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; General Linguistics; Translation 

Meeting Description: 

The 14th Biennial Conference of Nordic Association for China Studies (NACS) 
(13-14 June 2019, University of Bergen, Norway)

When China Faces the World: Engagement or Disengagement?
Marking the Centenary Anniversary of the May 4th Movement

Modernization is a painful process for any nation with a great tradition. To
engage or not engage with the world is still a core question for present-day
China - even after one century’s vicissitudes since the May Fourth Movement of
1919 that marked elites’ consensus to revolutionize the core values of
indigenous traditions.

The question of how to engage with the world is increasingly urgent after four
decades of “opening and reform”. With China rapidly ascending to the center of
the international platform as one of the strongest economic powers in the
twenty-first century, it also wants to stand tall as an actor with soft power.
While China integrates itself more deeply into the global system, it, on the
one hand, strives to have a bigger stake in shaping the international system
and in formulating the game rules, but on the other hand, it also wishes to
assert its distinction more forcefully.

China’s ambiguous relations with the outside world is of consequence to a wide
range of study areas – not only international relations or politics, but also,
for example, language policy analysis. Should China researchers engage in
international academic debates, or should they aim for Chinese discourses to
shape the international ones?

During this two-day interdisciplinary conference, when contemplating various
challenges to China’s maintenance of identity amidst its rapid rise to
prominence, all participants are encouraged to take a nuanced view with the
aim to deepen and enrich the topic of China's interaction with the globalizing
world.

Although the conference has a theme, it should be treated broadly for
submissions under individual topics of interest, including, but not limited
to: 

Sociology and Anthropology
History
Politics and Law
Economics
Environmental Studies 
International Relations
Translation, Sinology and Linguistics
Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language
Cinema, Media and Performing Arts
Art and Archaeology
Gender Studies
Literature
Philosophy and Religion
 






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