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Academic Presentations

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Presentations in 2018

 

 

  • 8th of September, 2018: "Contentious values and heritage: the case of the Hanfu movement in contemporary China", in session 9 ‘Creation of heritage values’ at Suzhou University of Science and Technology, (SUST).  The 2nd International Conference on Heritage of China 2018, Suzhou, China.

  • 2nd of September, 2018: "Contentious values and heritage: the case of the Hanfu movement in contemporary China" (for Dr Yiwen Wang’s session Social values, the Pandora’s Box of heritagization in China? in the session theme entitled ‘Heritage and Social Justice’) at Zhejiang University, Hangzhou; 4th International Conference of the Association of Critical Heritage Studies.

 

 

Presentations in 2017

 

  • 4th of December, 2017: ‘Absent-present’ heritage: the cultural water heritage of dwelling and entanglements of humans and non-humans on the Changjiang (Yangtze) River’, paper given for the ‘Risks to life, heritage, and community on the Yangtze River’, Confucius Institute, Newcastle University.

  • 24th of June, 2017: “The role of history, nostalgia, and place in the construction of entrepreneurial Chinese cities” paper given to the ‘Asia in Motion: Beyond Borders and Boundaries’ conference, as part of the Association of Asian Studies (ASS) Asia Annual Conference, entitled 24th to the 27th of June, 2017. http://aas-in-asia2017.com/ at Korea University in Seoul, South Korea.

  • 26th of May, 2017: ‘The Hanfu movement?’ Short paper given to the GURU symposium for the Identities, Culture and Heritage theme (10 minutes, plus panel questions).

  • 1st of February, 2017: ‘Flooding and pollution: Risks to the physical, human and architectural (urban) heritage of the Yangtze River’, (The Yangtze River project), informal research presentation to the Department of Architecture, Construction and Engineering Built Environment at the Politecnico di Milano.

 

 

Presentations in 2016

 

  • 20th of December, 2016: ‘Social theory, social science and qualitative methods’, paper given to the School of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Xiamen University.

  • 6th of April, 2016: ‘Searching for “deep modernities” and constructing Chinese modern identities: using history and heritage in the indigenisation of global capitalist modernity in Chinese cities’. Paper given to the ‘Reclaiming Identity and (Re) Materialising Pasts, Approaches to Heritage Conservation in China’, at Xi’an Jiaotong Liverpool University (XJTLU) Suzhou, China. The 1st International Conference on Heritage of China 2018, Suzhou, China.

 

Presentations in 2015

 

  • 4th of December, 2015: ‘Referential reflexivity and access in China: the unsaid and positionality’, paper given to the ‘Doing International Fieldwork in Developing Contexts: Postgraduate Training workshop’, Newcastle University.

  • 14th of September, 2015: ‘Social theory, social science and qualitative methods’, paper given to the Faculty of Spatial Sciences, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University.

  • 30th of July, 2015: ‘Qualitative methodologies: theory, social science and methods’, paper for the International Design Summer School, Sino-US-Dutch weeks, School of Urban Design, Wuhan University.

  • 5th of March, 2015: ‘The construction of Historical imaginaries: Constructing Hankou merchant port nostalgia in Wuhan and Tang dynasty nostalgia in Xi’an’. Geography and Planning research seminars (Open to the public as well as academic staff); School of Geography and Planning, University of Liverpool.

 

 

Presentations in 2014

 

  • 4th of September, 2014: ‘The construction of Historical imaginaries: Remaking the Tang dynasty in Xi’an, framing heritage, land and Buddhism’, Faculty of Spatial Sciences, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University.

  • 4th of September, 2014: ‘The problem of the creative individual: How can we nurture creative individuals in China?’ International Cultural Trade Forum; Beijing International Studies University (BISU).

  • 18th of July, 2014: ‘The construction of Historical imaginaries: Remaking the Tang dynasty in Xi’an, framing heritage, land and Buddhism’ informal PUMAH workshop for our XUAT guests.

  • 10th of June, 2014: ‘The construction of Historical imaginaries: Remaking the Tang dynasty in Xi’an, framing heritage, land and Buddhism’ informal PUMAH workshop; the Beehive Newcastle University. 

 

Presentations in 2013

 

  • 24th of June, 2013: ‘The history of Mock Tudor and its relevance to the global middle classes today’, Xian University of Architecture and Technology. 

  • 28th of May, 2013: “The history of built conservation in the UK: emerging perspectives on conservation in the UK and China." Xian University of Architecture and Technology. 

  • 5th of May, 2013: “The problem of sustainability and the historic city: conservation cases in China”, Wuhan University of Technology

  • 15th of March, 2013: "Demolition, development or the heritage dividend? Forgetting and remembering the value of our own culture", Planning School, Wuhan University.

  • 8th of March, 2013: "Demolition, development or the heritage dividend? Forgetting and remembering the value of our own culture", Faculty of Spatial Sciences, College of Urban and Environmental Sciences, Peking University.

  • 1st of March, 2013: "Demolition, development or the heritage dividend? Forgetting and remembering the value of our own culture", Beijing Tsinghua Urban Planning and Design Institute, Department of Tourism and Scenic Area Planning.

 

Presentations in 2012

 

  • 11th of July, 2012: “Balancing commercial and heritagescapes: atmosphere, vitality and sterility in the Longtang’s in Shanghai” - AESOP 26th Annual Congress, Ankara Turkey

  • 5th of July, 2012: ‘Spirituality and Ontological Security in the work of Philip K Dick’; Geographies of Spirituality: Security, Wellbeing and the Extraordinary (1) RGS/IBG, Security of geography/geography of security; Edinburgh University.

  • 19th of June, 2012: ‘Historic Conservation, Nostalgia and China’, Sustaining Creative Economies, 3rd International Culture Trade Forum–Beijing: Newcastle University Business School, NUBS.

  • 13th of February, 2012: Talk on “Discussing Place” to the FINNISH INSTITUTE, Newcastle University.

 

Presentations in 2011

 

  • 17th-19th June, 2011: “Historic stagnation and the industrial city: New creative economic spaces in the production of alternative heritage and identity” 2nd International Culture Trade Forum–Beijing.

  • 26th of February 2011, 2011: ‘China’s middle classes and development’ - International Development Conference, Newcastle University.

 

Presentations in 2010

 

  • 7-8th of December, 2010: ‘Searching for entrepreneurial and economic legacies in the ‘Golden Age’ of the Tang dynasty’. International Conference on China Urban Development at the University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, China.

  • 15th of September, 2010: ‘The history of Mock Tudor and its relevance to the global middle classes today’. Department of Geography: Shanghai Normal University –

  • 2nd of April, 2010: School of Historical Studies, Newcastle University, organised by Dr Martin Farr and Dr Xavier Guegan.  “The role of classical Greco-Roman heritage in the construction of taste and distinction; The Grand Tour as a rite of passage for the young British aristocratic subject”.  Conference: ‘From the Grand Tour to Mass Tourism’

 

Presentations in 2009

  • 18th of September, 2009: ‘The history of Mock Tudor and its relevance to the global middle classes today’, Department of Sociology; Wuhan University.

  • 15th of September, 2009: ‘The history of Mock Tudor and its relevance to the global middle classes today’ Department of Architecture, Wuhan University.

  • 30th of June, 2009: Internal Departmental Seminar. ‘The new Chinese middle class: ‘Zhong Chan,’’ – the new hope for liberalism and a new political economy; China Away Day

  • 6th of May, 2009: ‘Newcastle: moving on, remembering and forgetting’ Postgraduate and Staff Workshop on Heritage and Diversity, Blekinge Institute of Technology, (BIT) Karlskrona, Sweden.

  • 2nd of April, 2009: ‘Tudoresque Architecture in South-East Asia’ – my focus was on the Thames Town development in Shanghai). 62nd Society of Architectural Historians (US) Annual Meeting in Pasadena. (With Professor Andrew Ballantyne).

 

Presentations in 2008

  • 17th of May, 2008: ‘Plots of Land for the People: Tudoresque’, THE Vernacular Architecture Group Annual Symposium 2008 BRITISH ARCHITECTURE AND THE VERNACULAR, Society of Architectural Historians of Great Britain. –

  • 12th of March, 2008: ‘The various histories of Mock Tudor architecture’ Architecture, Planning and Landscape seminar series; The University of Newcastle upon Tyne.

  • 26th of February, 2008: ‘The Various Histories of Mock Tudor Architecture’ Centre for Urban Theory (CUT) School of Environment and Society, the University of Swansea.

 

Presentations in 2005

  • 2nd of September, 2005 - Paper entitled: ‘Middle class identities: Built heritage conservation movements, voluntarism and paternalism’ - "Flows and spaces in a globalized world" London Royal Geographical Society with IBG; Session attended: Post-Fordist landscapes of activism, volunteering and citizenship.

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