Network Activities
Workshops and Conferences
The network has organized two workshops and a larger conference during the project period.
At the Nordic Association for China Studies conference in Reykjavik in June 2009, the network organized a panel on social and political organization in rural China for the Nordic members of the network - and other interested conference participants. The abstracts for our panel Organizing the Future: building blocks for post-socialist China can be found right here.
In May 2010 the network organized a symposium for the Nordic members at Klitgården.
And finally, in April 2011 Aarhus University hosted the biannual ECARDC conference (European Conference on Agriculture and Rural Development in China), where both Chinese and Nordic members of the network were invited to participate. Please see the conference website for more information.
Collaboration with The Center for Chinese Rural Studies, Central China Normal University
April 2011: Four delegates from Wuhan visited Aarhus to take part in the conference Rural China and its Global Connections. In the picture on the left, Professors He Donghang, Ma Hua, Liu Yiqiang and PhD student Xia Tian are shown with and Stig Thøgersen and Prasenjit Duara, a keynote speaker at the conference.
January 2010: Unn Målfrid Rolandsen spent four weeks at the CCRS, using their library facilities and interviewing charitable organizations in Wuhan.
October 2009: Stig Thøgersen participated in the official opening of the Center for Comparative Studies of Rural Areas in China and Europe. This new center is an extension of the existing cooperation between Aarhus University and the CCRS.
October 2009: Ane Bislev participated in a conference on land circulation at the CCRS.
Spring 2009: Unn Målfrid Rolandsen and Marina Svensson visited the CCRS.
October 2008: During a visit to Wuhan, Stig Thøgersen signed a formal agreement regarding future cooperation between Aarhus University and The Center for Chinese Rural Studies, Central China Normal University.
May 2008: Ane Bislev spent a month at the CCRS and conducted field research interviewing bank staff and borrowers about local credit sources in Suizhou County in Hubei, and Yiyang County, Hunan.
April 2008: Stig Thøgersen visited the CCRS, and interviewed cadres and villagers in different parts of Hubei on rural reconstruction projects.
September - December 2006: Morten Laugesen spent three months as a visiting scholar at the CCRS.
