Conference Program
We kindly remind, that every participant will have not more than 20 minutes for the presentation. Each room is equipped with the computer and projector. Should you have any special requirements, pleae contact with Ms. Katarzyna Liwosz: conference.cikrakow(at)gmail.
All sessions are open to public.
Tuesday, September 22
14:00-16:00 | Sightseeing* |
16:00-18:00 | Registration |
18:00-19:30 | Opening Ceremony Prof. Wojciech NOWAK, PhD – Rector of the Jagiellonian University in Krakow; and Lecture by Prof. SHEN Wei, PhD: "EU-China 40 years: partners or competitors?" |
*The sightseeing is free for the active participants, who will be interested - please contact Ms. Katarzyna Liwosz (conference.cikrakow(at)gmail.com). Sightseeing will be provided in English, and in case of interest in Chinese as well.
Wednesday, September 23
9:00-13:30 | Conference session 1 and 2 |
13:45-15:45 | Lunch |
15:00-18:30 | Conference session 3 and 4 |
19:30 | Conference Banquet (by invitation only) |
Session 1A: Societies and Cultures in Transition I
Time: 9:00-11:00
Venue: Collegium Novum, room 52
Chair: Joanna WARDĘGA, PhD
Prof. CHEN Shu | Confucius and Europe in Transition: The Past and the Future. |
Dina CHIMENSON, MSc | Understanding the changing Russian culture through a Yin Yang perspective. |
Prof. Adam W. JELONEK, PhD | "Jews of the Far East". Evolving sociopolitical status of the Malaysian-Chinese. |
Prof. Krzysztof KOŚCIELNIAK, PhD | The Khoja Afaq Mausoleum in Kashgar as a symbol Uyghur's identity (ca 1640-2015). |
József POÓR, PhD | Idealism and Relativism in Ethics: China- Central Eastern Europe (CEE) Comparison. |
DISCUSSION |
Session 1B: Markets and Economies in Transition I
Time: 9:00-11:00
Venue: Collegium Novum, room 56
Chair: Matevž RAŠKOVIĆ, PhD
Jaka CEPEC, PhD | The Evolution of Insolvency Law in Slovenia and China – a lesson of transition from planned to market economy. |
Prof. Łukasz GACEK, PhD | Roadmap for moving to a low-carbon economy in China and Poland. Comparative analysis. |
Tanja ISTENIČ, MA | Changing patterns of transfers in Slovenia in the last three decades: transition from socialism to the market economy. |
Natalia WYŻYCKA, MA | China and the EU viz. Intellectual Property Rights Implementation. |
DISCUSSION |
Session 2A: Societies and Cultures in Transition II
Time: 11:30-13:30
Venue: Collegium Novum, room 52
Chair: prof. Adam W. JELONEK, PhD
Nikita MAKARCHEV, MSc | Cultural Transformation in Contemporary China: Processes, Structures and Behavioral Outcomes. |
Roxana RÎBU, PhD | Bridges and obstacles in "The way of the ideal government": the transition from "Mind Confucianism" to "Political Confucianism" from Jiang Qing's point of view. |
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Prof. Mateusz STĘPIEŃ, PhD | Conceptualizations of Constitutionalism in Recent China's Debates: A Preliminary Typologies. |
Prof. XUE Xiaojian, PhD | Foundation Stone of China's Social Transformation: On the Historical Status of the Chinese Constitution of 1982. |
DISCUSSION |
Session 2B: Markets and Economies in Transition II
Time: 11:30-13:30
Venue: Collegium Novum, room 56
Chair: prof. Luciano SEGRETO
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Ewa TROJNAR, PhD | CEE-China Cooperation in the Context of the Formation of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB). |
Prof. SHEN Wei, PhD Prof. Jörn-Carsten GOTTWALD, PhD | The ‘Belt and Road Initiative' A GameChanger or Wishful Thinking? |
DISCUSSION |
Session 3A: Education in Transition I
Time: 15:00-16:30
Venue: Collegium Novum, room 52
Chair: Prof. HUANG Xiaoming, PhD
Prof. Velimir STOJKOVSKI, PhD | The role of the Confucius Institute at Ss. Cyril and Methodius University in Skopje in promoting Chinese language, culture and business in the Republic of Macedonia. |
Prof. HUANG Xiaoming | The Functions of Confucius Institutes – An interpretations and practice from a Chinese director of Confucius Institute. |
Tina ILGO, PhD | Facing Challenges in Teaching Chinese through Confucius Classrooms in Slovenian Schools: current situation and prospects. |
Prof. Jaroslava KUBÁTOVÁ, PhD | Preparation of University Students from Western Countries for Cooperation with China: Reasons and Methods. |
DISCUSSION |
Session 3B: Markets and Economies in Transition III
Time: 15:00-16:30
Venue: Collegium Novum, room 56
Chair: Tomasz KAMIŃSKI, PhD
Matevž RAŠKOVIĆ, PhD | Attitudes towards business with China and Chinese FDIs in Central and Eastern Europe: a multi-country comparison. |
Rafał KOSZEK, MsC | Chinese economic influence on the Central and Eastern Europe countries. |
Ágnes SZUNOMÁR, PhD | Comparing Chinese, Japanese and South Korean FDI in Central and Eastern Europe: macroeconomic versus institutional factors. |
Magdalena POPOWSKA, PhD | Chinese Foreign Direct Investments in Europe. The Polish Case. |
DISCUSSION |
Session 4A: Education in Transition II
Time: 17:00-18:30
Venue: Collegium Novum, room 52
Chair: Adina ZEMANEK, PhD
Prof. Metka TEKAVČIČ, PhD | The role of creativity, innovation and entrepreneurship in education process: the exchange of best practices between Europe and China. |
Lucie LANIKOVA, MA | Teaching of Chinese Language at High schools and Elementary Schools in the Czech Republic. |
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Owais SUCCARI, Ph.D. | Bridging Cultural Gaps in China – CEE Bilingual Education Programs. A Neuroscience Perspective. |
Prof. ZHAO Gang, PhD | The development of Central and Eastern European languages talents. |
DISCUSSION |
Session 4B: Markets and Economies in Transition IV
Time: 17:00-18:30
Venue: Collegium Novum, room 56
Chair: Ewa TROJNAR, PhD
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Tomasz KAMIŃSKI, PhD | A Political Menace or Commercial Opportunity? Chinese Sovereign Wealth Funds' Investments in the European Union. |
DISCUSSION |
Thursday, September 24
9:00-13:30 | Conference session 5 and 6 |
13:45-14:45 | Lunch |
15:00-18:15 | Conference session 7 and 8 |
18:30-19:30 | Closing ceremony |
Session 5A: Markets and Economies in Transition V
Time: 9:00-11:00
Venue: Collegium Novum, room 52
Chair: prof. Jaroslava KUBATOVA, PhD
Tomasz BIELIŃSKI, MA | Development of Chinese Mobile Phone Game Market as an Export Opportunity for CEE Mobile Game Producers. |
Prof. Atanas KOCHOV, PhD | Smart specialization platform as a tool for developing the cooperation between China and CEE. |
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Alice REZKOVA | What can CEE countries and China learn from each other in innovation? |
Ciril KAFOL, PhD | Analysis of the development patterns of telecommunication systems among China and CEE. |
DISCUSSION |
Session 5B: Societies and Cultures in Transition III
Time: 9:00-11:00
Venue: Collegium Novum, room 56
Chair: Yevhen BARANCHENKO, PhD
Edmund BAKA, PhD | Martial arts as a place of meeting and dialogue between Chinese and European culture. |
Jarosław JURA, PhD | The image on China and Chinese in selected Polish periodicals and so called "new" Internet media. |
Katarzyna LIWOSZ, MA | The influence of floating population on condition of Chinese family and society – psychological view. |
Ágnes SZUNOMÁR, PhD | Perceptions of China among Central European University Students. |
Natalia OŻEGALSKA-ŁUKASIK, MA | Redefining Filial Piety in the 21stCentury China. |
DISCUSSION |
Session 6A: Societies and Cultures in Transition IV
Time: 11:30-13:30
Venue: Collegium Novum, room 52
Chair: Prof. Luminita BALAN, PhD
Marcin KRASNOWOLSKI, MA | The Image of the Nation in the New Chinese Cinema. |
Tomasz LANGNER, BA | The Changing Face of Chinese Nationalism as presented in the TV Series "Red Sorghum" (2014). |
LIN Wenshuang, PhD | The orientation of Balkan national identity – case study of the Bulgarian. |
Agnieszka MIKRUT-ŻACZKIEWICZ, PhD | The social and cultural impact of migration - China's economic migration through film. |
Adina ZEMANEK, PhD | "Speaking Bitterness" and Female Empowerment in the Film 《白毛女》 (1950) |
DISCUSSION |
Session 6B: The Importance of preserving the Significance of Jesuit Missionaries for improving intercultural and scientific Links between China and Central and Eastern Europe.
Time: 11:30-13:30
Venue: Collegium Novum, room 56
Chair: Prof. Mitja SAJE, PhD
Prof. HUANG Zhuoyue, PhD | A Key Link: Historic and Contemporary Significance of Early Missionaries to China. |
Prof. Stanislav JUŽNIČ, PhD | Education in Transition of China-Based Jesuits from Austrian Province. |
Prof. Mitja SAJE, PhD | Promotion of Jesuit missionary Augustin Hallerstein (刘松龄) and his historic achievements as an example of an almost forgotten and recently rediscovered top European scientist and Head of the Imperial Board of Astronomy under Emperor Qian Long. |
Prof. WANG Huiqin, PhD | Bilingual illustrated books about famous Jesuits as a tool to popularise cultural links between China and Europe. |
REN Zengqiang, PhD | An Approach to the Spread of Chinese Culture: The Story of Liu Songling. |
DISCUSSION |
Session 7A: Markets and Economies in Transition VI
Time: 15:00-16:30
Venue: Collegium Novum, room 52
Chair: Prof. Atanas KOCHOV, PhD
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Matej ČERNE, PhD | Contrasting expectations regarding employment relationship: Prospective psychological contracts of Asian and European young entrants to the job market. |
Balázs SÁRVÁRI, PhD | China's room for manoeuvre in the XXI. Century. |
DISCUSSION |
Session 7B: Societies and Cultures in Transition V
Time: 15:00-16:30
Venue: Collegium Novum, room 56
Chair: Prof. Bogdan GÓRALCZYK, PhD
Marceli BURDELSKI, PhD | The new Problems in the Sino-Polish relations. |
Michał LUBINA, PhD | The New Silk Road and Poland. How not to waste this chance? |
Wioletta MAŁOTA, MA | Chinese and Polish organisational cultures - what they have in common and how they differ? |
Radek PYFFEL, MA | Seven Asymmetries in Sino-Polish relations. |
DISCUSSION |
Session 8A: Societies and Cultures in Transition VI
Time: 17:00-18:15
Venue: Collegium Novum, room 52
Chair: Agnieszka MIKRUT, PhD
Prof. Luminita BALAN, PhD | Society in Change and the Reception of Mo Yan's Novels in Romania. |
Daniela ZHANG CZIRÁKOVÁ, PhD | Song of unending sorrow – contemporarity versus tradition. Comparing of Luo Fu´s poems with the poem bearing the same name by famous poet Bai Juyi. |
Prof. XIAO Jin | Contemporary Chinese Literature in Central and Eastern Europe (CEE): the Case for Translation and Dissemination of Mo Yan's Works. |
DISCUSSION |
Session 8B: Education in Transition III
Time: 17:00-18:15
Venue: Collegium Novum, room 56
Chair: Joanna WARDĘGA, PhD
Alison PEARCE, PhD | Educational Mobility in Transition: what can China, Ukraine and the UK learn from one another? |
Prof. DONG Xixiao, PhD | Opening the "Two-way fast lane" of China-CEE Cultural Exchange. |
MAO Rui, MA | Teaching Chinese language as a foreign language in Poland: the current situation and prospect for the future. |
DISCUSSION |
18:30 (Collegium Maius Aula): Closing ceremony
Prof. LIU Wansheng, I Secretary for Education, People's Republic of China Embassy in Warsaw
and Lecture by Prof. Bogdan Góralczyk, PhD "New Chinese Model of Development: Origins and Consequences".
Friday, September 25
Day trips for the participants:
- Auschwitz and Wieliczka Salt Mine
- "Poland unknown"
Trips are free for the active conference participants (lunch excluded). For details please contact Ms. Katarzyna Liwosz (conference.cikrakow(at)gmail.com)