Narrating China & the Health Humanities: Telling Futures
3 October 2023
Friday 10 Nov 2023 9:15am – 6pm GMT, in person at UCL and online (Zoom). A day of talks and conversations to celebrate the past ten years of China & Health Humanities at UCL in collaboration with Peking University, and explore future cross-cultural landscapes. All warmly welcome.

Location:
IAS Common Ground, Room G11, Ground floor, South Wing, Wilkins Building, UCL, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT
AND
Online (Zoom)
Registration (free but essential!) via Eventbrite:
https://UCL_CCHH_Narrating_China_and_the_Health_Humanities_registration.eventbrite.co.uk
In this celebratory conference, we will discuss the themes that our Centre and related programmes have developed and shaped into a unique Health Humanities profile linked to the UCL Grand Challenges. Key members of the Centre, associates, students and alumnae/i will showcase their work in conversation with colleagues and talk about the future of the cross-cultural Health Humanities in a digital world.
Provisional schedule
9:15 WELCOME and COFFEE
9:20 WELCOME ADDRESS
Professor Vivienne Lo (UCL CCHH)
9.30 OPENING THE CONVERSATION
Dr Michael Spence, UCL's President & Provost
From 9:37 TRANSLATION ACTIVITY
Dr Brandon Yen and Penelope Barrett (UCL) – online during the day
9:45 PANEL 1, Global Health: Talking about Ageing in China
Convenor: Dr Paul Kadetz (Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh)
Li Ran: Transitional and Integrated Aftercare for Elderly Patients after Discharge from Tertiary Hospitals
Dr Wang Xinyuan: Celebrating her Book Launch – Ageing with Smartphones in Urban China (UCL Press 2023, Open Access)
10:30 SIGNING FUTURES IN CHINA
Dr Theresia Hofer (University of Bristol), Dr Junhui Yang (University of Central Lancashire), and Tom Holroyd, interpreter
11:00 KEYNOTE 1
Professor Therese Hesketh (KCL): Health and Well-being in China: The Xi Jinping Decade
11:30 ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL THERAPEUTIC EXERCISES
Led by Dr Dolly Yang and Professor Vivienne Lo
12:00 PANEL 2, Meditating on Asian Minds
Convenor: Professor Sonu Shamdasani (UCL)
Dr Luis Fernando Bernardi Junqueira: A Science for the Spirit
Dr Christina Lee: Buddhist Meditation Memoirs as Narratives of Active Healing
Dr Zhou Dangwei: Richard Wilhelm and the Book of Changes
12:45 PANEL 3, Digitising Futures
Convenor: Professor Michael Heinrich (UCL)
Dr Michael Stanley-Baker: Representing Polyglot Asian Medicine:
https://www.polyglotasianmedicine.com
Dr Daniel Vuillermin: Shaping the Future of YiMovi: Phase 3:
https://www.yimovi.com
13:30 LUNCH AND CATCHING UP
Lunch-time conversation with the alumnae/i
14:30 PANEL 4, Tapping into the Life Force: A Conversation about Trees, Art, and Literature
Convenor: Dr Brandon Yen (UCL)
Bai Xi: Traditional Chinese Paintings as a Mode of Art Therapy
Ouyang Sanyi: Belonging and Tree Culture in Qiandongnan, China
15:15 PANEL 5, Food and Environmental Activism in China
Convenor: Professor Vivienne (UCL)
Flavia Cruciani: Waterways and Activism on the Yangzi
Wang Haowen: Comparing Quality of Life and Vegetarian Practices
16:00 PANEL 6, Discourses on the History of Medicine
Convenor: Dr Andrew Wear (UCL)
Dr Dolly Yang: Horse Medicine in Ancient China
Deborah Woolf: Numerology and Innovation in Ancient China
Dr Yang Yi: A Transnational History of Five-Element Acupuncture
17:00 PANEL 7, Talking with Pictures,
Convenor: Professor Chris Berry (KCL)
Li Hui: Curable or Incurable? Neurasthenia in Chinese Cinema
James Serieux: Dynasty Warriors: Adapting Chinese Heroes for Japanese Gaming
Wang Nashuyuan: A Tribute to Pema Tseden
Tian Ruifan: On Pema Tseden’s Balloon (2019)
18:00 KEYNOTE SPEECH
Professor Guo Liping, Dean of the School of Health Humanities, PKU: An overview of Narrative Medicine in China
The conference is convened with the kind support of UCL Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS)

Courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
Steeped in geomantic symbolism, this painting visualises the flow of qi through the cosmos and individual life forms.