Narrating China & the Health Humanities: Telling Futures

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)