International Symposium on Inequality and Well-being in China-African Relations​

(Re)Mediating “Blackness”: Absent Presence and Present Absence of Africa and Africans in Chinese Medium Print and Online Newspapers in HK

Dr. Emily Chow
Post-doctoral Fellow, African Studies HKU

Date: May 9 - May 10, 2019
Time: 9:00am – 5:00pm
Venue: Room AM310, 3/F, Amenities Building, Lingnan University, Hong Kong.

Promoting comparative research on social change and social policy, the Centre for Social Policy and Social Change organised an International Symposium aimed at examining the nature and implications of the Sino-Africa relations for inequalities and well-being from an interdisciplinary perspective. The Symposium was well-attended with over fifty participants and experts from around the world. They included Prof Adams Bodomo (University of Vienna), Prof Gordon Mattews (The Chinese University of Hong Kong), Prof Yoon Park (Georgetown University, SAIS-CARI), Prof Ka Ho Mok (Lingnan University), Prof Catherine Montgomery (University of Bath), Prof Ray Forrest (Lingnan University), Prof Barry Sautman (The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology), Dr Obert Hodzi (University of Helsinki), Dr Seyram Avle (University of Massachusetts), Dr Patricia Agupusi (Brown University), Dr Padmore A. Amoah (Lingnan University), Dr Liang Xu (Peking University), Dr Lina Benaddallah (Wake Forrest University), Miriam Driessen (University of Oxford), and Dr Emily Shun Chow (The University of Hong Kong). These scholars deliberated on some of the critical emerging questions around the growing relations between China and African countries, particularly at the micro level including:

How is China’s economic and social transformation agenda impacting well-being and social inequalities in Sub-Saharan Africa?
To what extent can recent changes in inequalities and well-being in China and Africa be attributed to rising migration trends?
How do we resolve growing tensions in natural resource interests and management for the well-being of the poor and disadvantaged?
Can the revitalised Sino-Africa relations address the critical infrastructural deficit in sub-Saharan Africa?

https://www.ln.edu.hk/spsc/news-2019may-china-africa.php