Presentations from the Conference "China’s Belt and Road Initiative and a New Era of Transcultural Networks?"
27-28 May, 2019
Location: Main University Building
‘The Belt and Road Initiative and a New Era of Transcultural Networks?’ is an international conference focusing on the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI), a grand multilevel cooperation platform actively promoted by the Chinese Government. The event will connect researchers across Europe, Asia and North America from a variety of disciplines to facilitate discussion on the cultural, political, and social implications of the current unfolding of the BRI in Eurasia.
To listen to the presentations, please click on the respective link. To help you navigate each audio file, please use start and finish times of respective presentation in the right column.
| Section | Start/finish time (hour:min:sec) |
| Opening remarks & Panel 1 | |
| Claes Levinsson (IRES) | 00:00:00-00:05:25 |
| Maria Danilovich (IRES) | 00:05:39-00:09:07 |
| Chair intro: Prof Stefan Hedlund | 00:09:18-00:11:43 |
| Xu Qinduo | 00:13:07-00:30:05 |
| Chair remarks: Stefan Hedlund | 00:30:06-00:31:06 |
| Roza Turarbekava | 00:31:48-00:46:56 |
| Chair remarks: Stefan Hedlund | 00:47:00-00:48:00 |
| Maria Kobzeva | 00:48:34-01:00:30 |
| Q&A session | 01:00:35-01:41:42 |
| Panel 2 | |
| Chair intro: Maria Danilovich | 00:00:00-00:01:00 |
| Afrasiab Khattak | 00:01:07-00:15:08 |
| Chair: Maria Danilovich | 00:15:13-00:15-53 |
| Bettina Ng'weno | 00:17:27-00:40:35 |
| Chair: Maria Danilovich | 00:40:39-00:41:34 |
| Neelima Jeychandran | see Roundtable discussion below |
| Oscar Almen | 00:41:34-00:57:26 |
| Q&A session | 00:57:30-01:27:39 |
| Panel 3 | |
| Chair intro: Corine Woon-Donnelly | 00:00:00-00:02:07 |
| Veena Ramachandran | 00:02:09-00:15:59 |
| Chair: Corine Woon-Donnelly | 00:16:05-00:16:54 |
| Roman Vakulchuk | 00:17:13-00:32-57 |
| Chair: Corine Woon-Donnelly | 00:33:04-00:33:45 |
| Igbal Abilov | 00:33:48-00:44:10 |
| Q&A session | 00:44:17-00:26:57 |
| Panel 4 | due to technical issues during the recording, this panel is unfortunately not available |
| Zhou Jiayi | |
| Corine Wood-Donelly | |
| Nikolai Fedorov | |
| Q&A session | |
| Roundtable | |
| Maria Danilovich | 00:00:00-00:01:20 |
| Neelima Jeychandran | 00:01:45-00:15:55 |
| Roundtable discussion | 00:16:10-01:31:06 |
For further information, please contact conference organizer Dr. Maryia Danilovich maryia.danilovich@ires.uu.se
The conference is organized with the generous financial support of the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences and Uppsala Forum on Democracy, Peace and Justice.