Sarah Banet-Weiser (London School of Economics) – Empowered: Popular Feminism and Popular Misogyny In 2017, we are living in a moment in North America and Europe where feminism has become, somewhat incredibly, popular. It seems[...]

OPEN TO ALL Abstract: Based on one of the authors’ experiences in social scientific studies on China in the UK for more than two decades, we assert that Chinese social sciences have not been accorded[...]

Colin Sparks (Hong Kong Baptist University) – The Impact of Digital Technologies on the Newspaper Press in Mainland China This contribution reviews the impact of digital technologies on Chinese newspapers. The diffusion of the smartphone[...]

OPEN TO ALL Abstract: Across the globe, many countries are experiencing rapidly growing need for public provision of long-term care services. Compared to developed countries such as Germany and the U.S., this challenge is particularly[...]

Yasemin İnceoğlu – Media Coverage of Hate Speech and Discriminative Discourse in Turkey The synopsis of this seminar is to unveil the existence and the rise of hate speech in the absence of an independent,[...]