This online mini-symposia series is hosted by the Chinese in Africa / Africans in China Research Network Conference Organising Committee in collaboration with the Centre for Cultural Research and Development at Lingnan University, Hong Kong.
Dec 2020 | African Mobilities in China Online Mini-Symposium
Feb 2021 | Contemporary Chinese Mobilities in East/Southern Africa
Mar 2021 | On Anti-Black and Anti-Chinese Sentiments
May 2021 | Relocating Africa: Representations and Memory of Africa in 20th and 21st Century China
May 2021 | Africa Looking East: A Global History of Africa-China Engagement
Jul 2021 | Ethnographies of Mobility: Circular Migration and Uneven Geographies
Sep 2021 | Shortcut English: A Pidgin Language and Racialization at a Chinese-Operated Mine in Zambia
Oct 2021 | Can Hong Kong Be Home?
Sub-Saharan Africans’ Experiences of Belonging/Not Belonging
Jan 2022 | Distances and Intimacies: African and Chinese Entanglements in Art, Heritage and Material Culture
Symposia
“Fake masks”: a reflection on the reception of African arts in China | CAAC2021 9th Online Mini-symposium : Distances and Intimacies | Jin XI
Carving out the lines of visual intimacy in the story of a Chinese artist and collector | CAAC2021 9th Online Mini-symposium : Distances and Intimacies | Binjun HU
Between “马丁” and “map”: Zambian artist Martin Abasi Phiri’s artistic practices and his experiences in China | CAAC2021 9th Online Mini-symposium : Distances and Intimacies | Lifang ZHANG
Re-burying the remains of Chinese martyrs: the rumours, controversies and revised solidarities of the new Tazara memorial park in Zambia | CAAC2021 9th Online Mini-symposium : Distances and Intimacies | Ruth SIMBAO
Can Hong Kong be home for sub-Saharan African asylum seekers? | CAAC2021 8th Online Mini-symposium : Can Hong Kong Be Home? | Gordon MATHEWS
Homing aspirations of African students in Hong Kong | CAAC2021 8th Online Mini-symposium : Can Hong Kong Be Home? Sub-Saharan Africans’ Experiences of Belonging/Not Belonging | Phillip THEBE
Foreign catering firm-owners and “home”: reflections on African catering services in Hong Kong | CAAC2021 8th Online Mini-symposium : Can Hong Kong Be Home? Sub-Saharan Africans’ Experiences of Belonging/Not Belonging | Fekadu Malede ABITEW
Shortcut English : a pidgin language and "racialization" at a Chinese-operated mine in Zambia | CAAC2021 7th Online Mini-symposium : Shortcut English: A Pidgin Language and Racialization at a Chinese-Operated Mine in Zambia | Justin Lee HARUYAMA
Q&A session on ethnographies of mobility | CAAC2021 6th Online Mini-symposium : Ethnographies of Mobility : Circular Migration and Uneven Geographies | Vivian Chenxue LU, Derek SHERIDAN, Mingwei HUANG, and Cheryl SCHMITZ
The Chinese century and the City of Gold : on race and labor | CAAC2021 6th Online Mini-symposium : Ethnographies of Mobility : Circular Migration and Uneven Geographies | Mingwei HUANG
Developing in Africa : Chinese migrants to Africa and the imagined geography of uneven development | CAAC2021 6th Online Mini-symposium : Ethnographies of Mobility : Circular Migration and Uneven Geographies | Derek SHERIDAN
Emplacing capital : import anxieties and profit politics in Nigerian south-south commerce | CAAC2021 6th Online Mini-symposium : Ethnographies of Mobility : Circular Migration and Uneven Geographies | Vivian Chenxue LU
The operating logic of Chinese capital in Africa from historical perspective : a case study of sisal industry in Tanzania | CAAC2021 5th Online Mini-symposium : Africa Looking East : A Global History of Africa-China Engagement | Junle MA
Transnational networks of Africans and Chinese : global South imaginaries, decolonisation and the Cold War | CAAC2021 5th Online Mini-symposium : Africa Looking East : A Global History of Africa-China Engagement | Jodie Yuzhou SUN
China’s role in global health : HIV/AIDS traditional Chinese medicine research and treatment in Tanzania from 1987 to 2014 | CAAC2021 5th Online Mini-symposium : Africa Looking East : A Global History of Africa-China Engagement | Andrea KIFYASI
Africa looking East : a global history of Africa-China engagement | CAAC2021 5th Online Mini-symposium : Africa Looking East : A Global History of Africa-China Engagement | Shaonan LIU and Jamie MONSON
Q&A session on Relocating Africa : Representations and Memory of Africa in 20th and 21st Century China | CAAC2021 4th Online Mini-symposium : Relocating Africa : Representations and Memory of Africa in 20th and 21st Century China | Ignatius SUGLO, Emily CHOW-QUESADA, Clifford PEREIRA, and Facil TESFAYE
Friend or foe? Africans at the door : twentieth century military encounters between the Chinese and various African nationals at the borders of China 1900-1950 | CAAC2021 4th Online Mini-symposium : Relocating Africa : Representations and Memory of Africa in 20th and 21st Century China | Clifford PEREIRA
Visualising Africa in Chinese posters 1950-1980 | CAAC2021 4th Online Mini-symposium : Relocating Africa : Representations and Memory of Africa in 20th and 21st Century China | Ignatius SUGLO
Understanding “Blackness” in Hong Kong : representations of Africa in Hong Kong popular media | CAAC2021 4th Online Mini-symposium : Relocating Africa : Representations and Memory of Africa in 20th and 21st Century China | Emily CHOW-QUESADA
Q&A session on anti-Black and anti-Chinese sentiments | CAAC2021 3rd Online Mini-symposium : On Anti-Black and Anti-Chinese Sentiments | Kun HUANG, Hairong YAN, Runako CELINA, and Jamie MONSON
Runako Celina on anti-Black racism in China | CAAC2021 3rd Online Mini-symposium : On Anti-Black and Anti-Chinese Sentiments | Runako CELINA
Yan Hairong on anti-Black and anti-Chinese sentiments | CAAC2021 3rd Online Mini-symposium : On Anti-Black and Anti-Chinese Sentiments | Hairong YAN
Anti-blackness in China : approach, aporia, action | CAAC2021 3rd Online Mini-symposium : On Anti-Black and Anti-Chinese Sentiments | Kun HUANG
Displacement and socio-economic (in)mobility of Chinese expatriates in Africa | CAAC2021 2nd Online Mini-symposium : Contemporary Chinese Mobilities in East/Southern Africa | Ding FEI
Medical diplomacy before and after COVID-19 : Chinese engagements in Zambia | CAAC2021 2nd Online Mini-symposium : Contemporary Chinese Mobilities in East/Southern Africa | Maggi W.H. LEUNG
Make a new friend, build a new road : opportunity, mistrust, and reliability in Chinese-Angolan collaborations | CAAC2021 2nd Online Mini-symposium : Contemporary Chinese Mobilities in East/Southern Africa | Cheryl Mei-ting SCHMITZ