复旦-奥斯陆中心 | Climate, Health and the Imaginations of Human Futures
复旦大学智库周系列活动
CLIMATE, HEALTH AND THE IMAGINATIONSOF HUMAN FUTURES
Agenda of the Opening Seminar of Fudan-European Centre for China Studies (FECCS) at University of Oslo (UiO)
May 18th, 2021 (Tuesday)
Hosts:
University of Oslo
Fudan University
Organizers:
Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, UiO
Fudan Development Institute, Fudan University
About FECCS:
The Fudan-European Centre for China Studies (FECCS) serves as a bridge and platform for the promotion of academic collaboration between China and Europe, more specifically between Fudan University (FU) and Universities in Europe. Based at the University of Oslo (UiO), the Centre facilitates new and existing joint research projects involving scholars at FU and UiO, and use existing university networks at both universities, mainly in Asia and Europe, to further strengthen ChinaEurope collaborations with a focus on research, research-based communication in society, and post-graduate student exchange.
Part 1
Forum Agenda:
Time: 9:00-12:15 a.m. (CET)/15:00-18:15 p.m. (Beijing Time), May 18th, 2021
Venue at Fudan: Think Tank Building
Zoom link 1 (whole event, Session I and III):https://uio.zoom.us/j/65687362678?pwd=cWREWlh0b0NhdmF2eUJHeWZEME5KUT09
Meeting ID: 656 8736 2678
Passcode: 996422
Zoom link 2 (Session II):
https://uio.zoom.us/j/68605240952?pwd=VURLTGVHOEtuUmlHVWhiZWkzaXJRZz09
Meeting ID: 686 0524 0952
Passcode: 511092
09:00-09:10 (CET) / 15:00-15:10 (Beijing Time)
Opening Remarks
Chair:
Chen Zhimin
Vice President of Fudan University
Speakers:
Svein Stølen
Rector, University of Oslo
Xu Ningsheng
President, Fudan University
09:10-10:35 (CET) /15:10-16:35(Beijing Time)
Session I: Climate Change and Sustainability
10:35-10:45 (CET) /16:35-16:45(Beijing Time)
Coffee Break
10:45-12:05 (CET) /16:45-18:05(Beijing Time)
Session II: Understanding Brain Disorders
Session III: Fiction and the Future
12:05-12:15 (CET) / 18:05-18:15(Beijing Time)
Wrap up
Co-Chairs:
Rune Svarverud
Director, FECCS
Liu Chunrong
Executive Vice Director, FECCS
• Speeches by representatives of each session (2 mins/each)
• Wrap up by Mette Halskov Hansen (Vice Rector, University of Oslo)
Session I: Climate Change and Sustainability
Time: 09:00-10:35 (CET)/15:10-16:35 (Beijing Time)
Climate change has been recognized as an increasingly serious threat at the global level, together with concerns about environmental issues (e.g. air pollution) at the regional and local level particularly in cities. Energy systems and energy use play a significant role in producing both carbon emission and air pollutants, thus linking the two. China, Norway and others have made a commitment to achieve the goal of carbon peak and neutrality. Which sustainable energy approaches can achieve the goals of carbon peak and neutrality in China? What are the co-benefits of energy transition in tackling climate change? And are there potential negative effects? What is the role of cities in dealing with climate change and environmental issues at the local level? How can researchers from both countries learn from each other and work together with common interests?
Venue: Room 106, Think Tank Building
https://uio.zoom.us/j/65687362678?pwd=cWREWlh0b0NhdmF2eUJHeWZEME5KUT09
Meeting ID: 656 8736 2678
Passcode: 996422
Co-chairs
Vebjørn Bakken
Director, UiO: Energy, University of Oslo
Tang Xu
Professor, Executive Director of FDU-IRDR-ICoE on Risk Interconnectivity and Governance on Weather/Climate Extremes Impact and Public Health
Wang Lin
Dean, Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, Fudan University
09:10-09:20 (CET) / 15:10-15:20 (Beijing Time)
Opening remarks of the co-chairs
Vebjørn Bakken
Director, UiO: Energy, University of Oslo
Wang Lin
Dean, Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, Fudan University
09:20-09:30 (CET) / 15:20-15:30 (Beijing Time)
Wu Libo
Director, Research Center for Energy Economics and Strategy, Fudan University
09:30-09:40 (CET) /15:30-15:40 (Beijing Time)
Truls Norby
Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo
09:40-09:50 (CET) /15:40-15:50 (Beijing Time)
Jiang Ping
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, Fudan University
09:50-10:00 (CET) / 15:50-16:00 (Beijing Time)
Taran Mari Thune
Professor, Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo
10:00-10:10 (CET) / 16:00-16:10 (Beijing Time)
Molly Wang
Programme Manager for the Climate Action Planning China Programme, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
10:00-10:10 (CET) / 16:00-16:10 (Beijing Time)
Discussion
10:30-10:35 (CET) / 16:30-16:35 (Beijing Time)
Wrap up
Tang Xu, Professor, Executive Director of FDU-IRDR-ICoE on Risk Interconnectivity and Governance on Weather/Climate Extremes Impact and Public Health
10:35-10:45 (CET) / 16:35-16:45(Beijing Time)
Coffee Break
Session II: Understanding Brain Disorders
Time: 10:45-12:05 (CET)/16:45-18:05 (Beijing Time)
The human brain and its disorders remain a key challenge in health-related research. Recent technology development in brain imaging and genetics has provided novel opportunities for new insight, and together with population birth cohorts capturing environmental stressors it is now possible to revolutionize our understanding of brain-related traits and disorders. How can we obtain synergy between China and Norway in brain research, and which research projects can benefit most from collaboration?
Venue: Room 209, Think Tank Building
https://uio.zoom.us/j/68605240952?pwd=VURLTGVHOEtuUmlHVWhiZWkzaXJRZz09
Meeting ID: 686 0524 0952
Passcode: 511092
Co-Chairs:
Kan Haidong
Vice Dean, School of Public Health, Fudan University
Ole Andreassen
Director of the Center of Excellence NORMENT, University of Oslo
10:45-10:50 (CET) / 16:45-16:50 (Beijing Time)
Opening remark of the co-chairs
Topic I: Using imaging to understand abnormal brain development
10:50-11:00 (CET) /16:50-17:00 (Beijing Time)
Lars T. Westlye, Head of Research, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo
11:00-11:10 (CET) /17:00-17:10 (Beijing Time)
Feng Jianfeng, Dean of Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-inspired Intelligence, Fudan University
Topic II: How population cohorts can reveal gene-environmental interplay in brain disorders
11:10-11:20 (CET) / 17:10-17:20 (Beijing Time)
Ole A. Andreassen, Director of the Center of Excellence NORMENT, University of Oslo
11:20-11:30 (CET) / 17:20-17:30 (Beijing Time)
Gunter Schumann, (Chair in Population Neuroscience and Precision Medicine, Director, Centre for Population Neuroscience and Stratified Medicine (PONS) at ISTBI, Fudan University)
11:30-12:00 (CET) / 17:30-18:00 (Beijing Time)
Discussion
11:30-12:00 (CET) / 17:30-18:00 (Beijing Time)
Wrap up
Session III: Fiction and the Future
Time: 10:45-12:05 (CET)/16:45-18:05 (Beijing Time)
Human society is facing a shared anxiety of the future, in the context of a changing global order, spreading of disruptive technology, public health emergency and others. Fiction used to look back in history and seek for experiences or reflections, but now it casts more and more value in the future. What kind of futures have been imaged in various format of fiction? How can fiction help us to influence and share the future? How can we pursue multiple, diverse and rich futures instead of a single unified and linear one via fiction?
Venue: Room 106, Think Tank Building
https://uio.zoom.us/j/65687362678?pwd=cWREWlh0b0NhdmF2eUJHeWZEME5KUT09
Meeting ID: 656 8736 2678
Passcode: 996422
Chair:
Regina Kanyu Wang, Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo
10:45-10:50 (CET) / 16:45-16:50 (Beijing Time)
Opening remark
Rune Svarverud, Director, Fudan-European Centre for China Studies, University of Oslo
Roundtable discussion
10:50-11:40 (CET) / 16:50-17:40 (Beijing Time)
Roundtable discussion
Yan Feng, Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Fudan University
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay, Associate Professor, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo
Wu Yan, Professor, Humanities Center, Southern University of Science and Technology
Chu Jinyi, Assistant Professor, Yale University; Visiting scholar at International Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization (ICSCC), Fudan University
Astrid Møller-Olsen, Researcher of Chinese Studies, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University
11:40-12:00 (CET) / 17:40-18:00 (Beijing Time)
Q&A
12:00-12:05 (CET) / 18:00-18:05(Beijing Time)
Wrap up by Prof. Rune Svarverud
Registration
Opening & Closing Sessions
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Svein Stølen
Rector, University of Oslo
Svein Stølen is the Rector of University of Oslo. He is a professor of inorganic chemistry, and has had extended research stays in Nagoya (2 years) and Bristol. He chaired the Department of Chemistry for 4 years (2009-12), and the Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology. He has recently been member of the board of the Institute for Energy Technology, CIENS (the collaboration platform between UiO and the institute sector within environmental science), NANO2021 (the nanotechnology programme of the National Research Council (NRC), the board of the NRC Division for Science (2015-17). Before becoming rector, he chaired the board of the largest UiO strategic commitment ever, the UiO: Life sciences-initiative, and was board member of a second UiO strategic initiative, UiO:Energy. Earlier He has also chaired the board of the national centre Digital Life Norway.
Xu Ningsheng
President, Fudan University
Professor Xu Ningsheng is Member of Chinese Academy of Sciences and Academician of Academy of Sciences for the Developing World. His research interests include nanotechnology, new semiconductor material, micro nanoelectronics and optoelectronics. He holds Bachelor Degree from Sun Yat-sen University and Doctor Degree and Honorary Doctor Degree from Aston University, UK. He was President of Sun Yat-sen University and is now President of Fudan University.
Professor Xu serves as Representative to 12th and 13th National People’s Congress and Member to 13th National Five-year Plan National Expert Committee. Professor Xu is Chair of General Expert Committee for National Nanotechnology Key Project, and serves as Member of Expert Committee for National First-class University and First-class Discipline, Member of the 8th State Council Degree Committee, Member of Shanghai Municipality Technology and Innovation Advancement Committee, and Member of the University Grants Committee (UGC) of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region Government. Professor Xu has been Member of the Steering Committee of Association of Pacific Rim Universities (APRU), and Chairman of International Steering Committee (ISC) of International Vacuum Nanoelectronics Conference (IVNC), Chairman of International Steering Committee (ISC) of Vacuum and Surface Sciences Conference of Asia and Australia (VASSCAA).
Mette Halskov Hansen
Vice-Rector, University of Oslo
Professor Mette Halskov Hansen has a doctoral degree from Aarhus University, Denmark, and is currently Vice-rector, University of Oslo. She is also professor in China Studies at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages. She has published widely on topics such ethnic relations and education in China, internal migrations to ethnic minority areas, processes of individualization, and, most recently, on the social, political and human dimensions of air and other forms of pollution in China. She has served as head of two departments (2003-2006); dean of research at the Faculty of Humanities (2007-2010) at UiO.
More information about Halskov Hansen:
https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/people/aca/chinese-studies/tenured/mettehh/index.html
Chen Zhimin
Vice President, Fudan University
Dr. Chen Zhimin is Vice President of Fudan University, Shanghai, China. He is a Changjiang Scholar and a Jean Monnet Chair of European foreign policy. He is Vice President of Chinese Association of International Studies. His research interests include international relations theory, diplomacy studies, Chinese foreign policy and EU studies. His major publications in Chinese include: China, the United States and Europe: Cooperation and Competition in a New Trilateral Relation (2011, first author); Contemporary Diplomacy (2008, first author); Foreign Policy Integration in European Union: An Mission Impossible? (2003, first author); Subnational Governments and Foreign Affairs (2001). He also co-edited (with David Zweig) China's Reforms and International Political Economy (Routledge, 2007). Professor Chen received all his degrees from Fudan University. He was a visiting fellow at Harvard University (1996- 1997), also visiting scholar at Queen’s University, University of Durham, Lund University, Sciences Po. and Keio University. He was made a Chevalier dans L’Ordre des Palmes Academiques by the French Government in 2006.
Rune Svarverud
Director, Fudan-European Centre for China Studies, University of Oslo
Professor Rune Svarverud is the head of Department of Culture Studies and Oriental languages and will serve as the Director of FECCS. Rune Svarverud has a doctoral degree from the University of Oslo. His background in China Studies and Sinology reveals main academic interests in the language, history and intellectual history of China. Svarverud has published widely on topics such Chinese philosophy, textual history, language contacts and cultural encounters between China and the West, processes of individualization, and, most recently, on the historical, social, political and human dimensions of air and other forms of pollution in China. Svarverud has held several positions over the years: He has headed the Norwegian Academic Board for Asian and African Studies (2006-2010) and been a member of the PhD programme committee for History of Culture and Religion, Archaeology and Asian and African Studies (2007-2014). He has also served as deputy head of department and head of research at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages (2007-2014). More information about Svarverud: https://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/people/aca/chinese-studies/tenured/ runesva/index.htm
Liu Chunrong
Executive Vice Director, Fudan-European Centre for China Studies
Chunrong Liu is Associate Professor of political science at School of International Relations and Public Affairs (SIRPA), Fudan University. He obtained his PhD degree from City University of Hong Kong in 2005 and conducted post-doctoral research at Georgetown University. He has been serving as the Executive Vice Director of Fudan-European Centre for China Studies since 2013.
Dr. Liu’s research interests are in the areas of political sociology, comparative politics and regional cooperation. He has published widely on Chinese society, politics and diplomacy, and has authored or co-authored several books in Chinese, including Bring the Grassroots Back In (2019), Community Governance and Marginal Innovations in Chinese Politics (2018), Chinese Society along the Huangpu River (2016). He is a research associate at Nordic Institute of Asian studies (Denmark) and a visiting scholar at Kumamoto University (Japan) and University of Pavia (Italy). He sits in the management committee of CHERN (China in Europe Research Network) sponsored by European Cooperation in Science & Technology.
Session I Climate Change and Sustainability(In alphabetic order of surname)
Vebjørn Bakken
Director of UiO:Energy, University of Oslo
Vebjørn Bakken is a theoretical chemist with a doctoral degree from the University of Oslo. Since 2018 Bakken is the director of UiO:Energy, one of three strategic priority areas at the University of Oslo. UiO:Energy focuses on sustainable energy and the energy transition. Prior to that, from 2011-2018, Bakken headed the Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology (SMN). In addition to this he has also held several research and teaching positions, and for example contributed to establishing a research school in solar cell technology as part of The Norwegian Research Centre for Solar Cell Technology. Bakken currently holds a number of other positions/roles, including being the Chairman of the Board for the research centre Include (Research centre for socially inclusive energy transitions), member of SINTEFs Council, member of the Norwegian reference group for Horizon Europe Cluster 4: Digital, Industry and Space and member of the program committee of “Business for Climate” organized by the Municipality of Oslo.
More information about Bakken:
https://www.uio.no/english/research/strategic-research-areas/uio-energy/people/adm/vebjornb/index.html
Jiang Ping
Associate Professor, Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, Fudan University
Assistant to Director, Fudan Tyndall Centre
Jiang Ping is Associate Professor of Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, Fudan University; Assistant to Director of the Fudan Tyndall Centre. His research focuses on environmental sustainable development with co-benefits approach, low carbon sustainability which covers climate change, environmental management, energy saving technologies and social behavior, and low carbon management system in building low carbon communities. Before coming to Fudan, he was JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow of United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies in Japan. He received his Ph.D. of Environmental Sciences in University of East Anglia, England.
Truls Norby
Professor, Department of Chemistry, University of Oslo
Truls Norby is professor at the Department of Chemistry at UiO and is head of the section for Electrochemistry at the Centre for Materials Science and Nanotechnology. He has been a driving force in the development of materials for hydrogen as a fuel, with a particular focus on proton ceramic electrolysis cells and fuel cells (PCEC/PCFC). Other areas of interest include photocatalytic materials to utilize sunlight to make hydrogen from water, as well as thermoelectric materials for heat recovery. Recently he wrote a review paper on “Deep decarbonization efforts in Norway for energy sustainability.”
Tang Xu
Professor, Executive Director of FDU-IRDR-ICoE on Risk Interconnectivity and Governance on Weather/Climate Extremes Impact and Public Health
Tang Xu is a Professor of Fudan Development Institute (FDDI) and Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences/Institute of Atmospheric Sciences (AOS/IAS). He also serves as the Senior Scientific Advisor of the International Programme Office (IPO), Integrated Research on DRR (IRDR), jointly established by ISC/UNDRR.Before joining Fudan University, he served as Director of the Weather and Disaster Reduction Services Department of the World Meteorological Organization (WMO), the specialized agency of the United Nations. During his time at WMO, he coordinated the implementation of 6 WMO scientific and operational programs in weather forecasting, typhoon prevention, disaster risk reduction and public services, aviation and marine meteorology etc.). He organized the development and implementation of the WMO DRR Road Map for Action for implementing the UN SFDRR, SDGs, Paris Agreement and New Urban Agenda. He initiated, jointly with other 22 international organizations, the International Network on Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems (IN-MHEWS), in the third United Nations World Conference on DRR (WCDRR-III) in March 2015. Since then, he played a key role in organizing two International Multi-Hazard Early Warning Conferences (MHEWC-I, MHEWC-II) in 2017 (Cancun, México) and 2019 (Geneva) and in issuing several important documents including the Check List of MultiHazard Early Warning Systems and Guideline on Multi-Hazard Impact Based Forecasting and Warning Services.
Taran Mari Thune
Professor, Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo
Taran Thune is head of the innovation research group and professor of innovation policy studies at the Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture (TIK) at the University of Oslo. She has worked for more than fifteen years on studies related to research and innovation policy studies. For the last years, she has worked on a large empirical study of industrial transformation in petroleum economies, and on issues connected to diversification and resource redeployment from incumbent to emerging industries in energy sectors. She is currently director of the INTRANSIT Centre, an eight-year research centre (2019-2026), focusing on research and innovation policy for industrial transformation towards sustainability.
Wang Lin
Dean, Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, Fudan University
Dr. Wang Lin is the Dean and distinguished professor of Department of Environmental Science & Engineering, Fudan University. He obtained Ph.D. in environmental toxicology from UC Riverside, USA in 2006. Prior to joining Fudan, Dr. Wang worked as a postdoc and then assistant research scientist at UC Riverside and Texas A&M University, USA, respectively. His research interests in atmospheric chemistry and physics focus on the evolution of atmospheric volatile organic compounds and aerosols, and their impact on regional and global climate.
Dr. Wang has published over 90 papers in top-notch peer reviewed journals including Science. He is an associated editor of Environmental Science: Atmospheres and an editorial board member of Environmental Science & Technology Letters. He was a recipient of the Distinguished Young Scientist Project (2019) and the Excellent Young Scientist Project (2012) from the National Natural Science Foundation of China.
Molly Wang
Programme Manager for the Climate Action Planning China Programme, C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
Molly serves as the Programme Manager for the Climate Action Planning China Programme, within the Measurement and Planning Team. In this role, she supports Chinese cities to develop ambitious climate action plans in line with the Paris Agreement. Molly guides the development and delivery of the programme from a technical perspective, providing expert advice to cities and technical oversight on all deliverables. Previously in C40, Molly acted as the technical lead on greenhouse gas emissions accounting and monitoring, providing assistance to cities across regions. Prior to joining C40, Molly led energy procurement, building energy management and carbon reduction activities at a large local authority in the UK. She also brings experience of sustainable transport programmes from her time at the Energy Saving Trust, as well as knowledge of green financing from assisting the management of a significant government-funded energy efficiency recycling loan. Molly is a Certified Energy Manager with a MSc. in Climate Change from the University of East Anglia and a BSc. in Environmental Science and Engineering from Fudan University in Shanghai.
Wu Libo
Director, Research Center for Energy Economics and Strategy, Fudan University Fudan University
Wu Libo is Director, Research Center for Energy Economics and Strategy, Fudan University. She is also a professor at School of Economics.
She is the chief scientist of the key project of the National Social Sciences Program Fund, the assessment expert for Group Three of Intergovernmental Panel on climate change in NRDC, and the member of international committee of the Global Carbon Project (GCP). Her current works are published in Energy Economics, Energy Policy, Journal of Policy Modelling, Social Sciences in China, Economic Research Journal. She has published four books and over 40 papers in domestic and abroad journals. She has taken charge of the key project of the National Social Sciences Program, the 863 major project of the country, Technology R&D Program project for 12th-year-plan, the major project of national soft science research for Ministry of Science and Technology, the major base of Humanities and social science major project for Ministry of Education, the 12th-year-plan and the 13th-year-plan for Shanghai Municipal DRC. She has been selected in the first “Pujiang Talent Plan” and “Dawn Talent Plan” in Shanghai. She also gained the second prize of Chinese college humanities and social science research outstanding achievement paper, the second prize of the National Energy Administration soft science outstanding achievement, the second prize of decision-making consultation research results in Shanghai, the third prize of Shanghai philosophy and social sciences outstanding achievement, etc.
Session II Understanding the Development of Brain Disorders - with New Technology and Large Samples(In alphabetic order of surname)
Ole A. Andreassen
Director of the Center of Excellence NORMENT, University of Oslo
Ole A. Andreassen, Professor at the Faculty of Medicine. Andreassen has a doctoral degree from University of Bergen and a post doc from Harvard Medical School. He is a specialist in psychiatry from Oslo University Hospital. His research interests are psychiatric genetics, brain imaging genetics, somatic health and immunological factors in severe mental disorders, prediction tools and precision medicine, including pharmacogenetics. Andreassen is the Director of the Center of Excellence NORMENT at the Institute of Clinical Medicine and coordinates several international consortia and collaborative projects.
More information about Andreassen:
https://www.med.uio.no/klinmed/english/people/aca/olean/index.html
Feng Jianfeng
Dean of Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-inspired Intelligence, Fudan University
Feng Jianfeng is the chair professor of Shanghai National Centre for Mathematic Sciences, and the Dean of Institute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence in Fudan University. He has been developing new mathematical, statistical and computational theories and methods to meet the challenges raised in neuroscience and mental health research. Recently, his research interests are mainly in big data analysis and mining for neuroscience and brain diseases. He was awarded the Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award in 2011, as a scientist “being of great achievements or potentials”. He has made considerable contributions on modelling single neurons and neuronal networks, machine learning, and causality analysis with publications on Molecular Psychiatry, Brain, PNAS, PRL, J Neuroscience etc. He has proposed and developed BWAS method (Brain-wide association study), and successfully applied it to search the roots in depression, schizophrenia and autism; developed functional entropy method and applied it to the study of ageing, intelligence and creativity, etc.
Kan Haidong
Vice Dean, School of Public Health,
Fudan University
Dr. Kan Haidong obtained his Ph.D. degree in 2003 at Fudan University. He completed his postdoctoral training at the National Institutes of Health of the United States. He is now the Vice Dean, School of Public Health, Fudan University. He is the associate editor of the journals Environmental Health Perspectives and International Journal of Epidemiology, the editorial board member of the journal Epidemiology, and the member of the China National Advisory Committee of Environment and Health. He has been recipients of several important awards, including the US EPA Scientific and Technological Achievement Award, the David Bates Award of the American Thoracic Society, and the China Medical Board (CMB) Distinguished Professorship Award. His research is focused on the health impact of ambient air pollution and global climate change.
Gunter Schumann
Chair in Population Neuroscience and Precision Medicine, Director, Centre for Population Neuroscience and Stratified Medicine (PONS) at ISTBI, Fudan University
Prof. Gunter Schumann is an internationally renowned scientist who is shaping and coordinating European and global mental health research on prediction and neurobiological characterisation of mental disorders. In his research programme he investigates biological mechanisms underlying reinforcement-related psychopathology and the development of population neuroscience and precision medicine in Europe and globally. His interest lies in the identification of neurobehavioural phenotypes, for patient stratification. Prof. Schumann conceived and is coordinating the IMAGEN project, (www.imagen-europe.com), a collaborative study of 18 European partners initially funded by the European Commission. IMAGEN is internationally perceived as one of the most comprehensive and successful imaging genetics studies to date, has resulted in over 150 publications, including in Nature and Science and served as a model for subsequent longitudinal cohorts, including the American ABCD study. As part of the ERC advanced grant ‘STRATIFY’, which aims at creating a taxonomy of psychiatric disorders based on shared biological mechanisms, Schumann is instrumental in generating innovative techniques for the analysis of large scale multimodal datasets. He established the PONS network of cohorts including up to 200.000 participants and over 25.000 neuroimaging scans in Europe, China, India and the U.S.A. His innovative approaches have led to the identification of disease mechanisms and biomarkers for prediction and stratification in precision psychiatry.
Lars Tjelta Westlye
Head of Research, Department of Psychology, University of Oslo
Lars T. Westlye is a professor at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo and Core Researcher and group leader at the Norwegian Center for Mental Disorders Research (NORMENT), Oslo University Hospital/University of Oslo.
His research group utilizes various advanced MRI neuroimaging data and analysis approaches, with a particular emphasis on measures of structural (diffusion tensor imaging, DTI) and functional connectivity (functional magnetic resonance imaging, fMRI), and its integration using multimodal analysis approaches. By applying machine learning algorithms, the group investigates the clinical and cognitive sensitivity and specificity of various brain network-modeling approaches, including principles from graph theory.
Session III: Fiction and Future
(In alphabetic order of surname)
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay
Associate Professor, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental
Languages, University of Oslo
Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay is Associate Professor in Global Culture Studies at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo.
He mainly works on future fictions and science fiction from an STS and history of science perspective. He works on multiple media, including texts, graphic novels, films and tv, video games, and visual arts.
He is Principal Investigator (PI) of the European Research Council (ERC) project "CoFutures: Pathways to Possible Presents" and of the Norwegian Research Council (NFR) project "Science Fictionality". He runs the Holodeck (the Games Research Lab), which is the University of Oslo's first lab dedicated to research on video games. He is affiliated with the Norwegian Research Council (NFR) project Lifetimes. He is Fellow of the Imaginary College at Centre for Science and the Imagination, Arizona State University. He is founding book series editor for Routledge Studies in Global Genre Fiction. He has also served as co-Editor-in-Chief for Fafnir: Nordic Journal of Science Fiction and Fantasy Research.
Chu Jinyi
Assistant Professor, Yale University; Visiting scholar at International Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization (ICSCC), Fudan University
Chu Jinyi is Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Yale University. He obtained his Ph.D. in Slavic Languages and Literatures from Stanford University.
He specializes in Russian literature and culture of 1890s-1920s, the modernist period. His research revolves around the relationship between geopolitics and transnational aesthetics. Specifically, he works on the following topics: global modernism; Russo-Chinese cultural relations; late socialist culture; globalization and cosmopolitanism; geography and empire-building; World Literature; poetry and poetics; historical fiction; science fiction; the genre of memoirs; translation studies. He publishes scholarship in English, Russian, and Chinese languages, and Chinese translations of Russian and English literary and academic works.
He translated Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time and Smugglers, Rebels, Pirates: Itineraries in the Publishing History of Doctor Zhivago from English to Chinese. He is now working on a Book Project of Russian Modernism’s China: Fin-de-siècle Geopoetics (In contact with Columbia UP).
He is now a visiting scholar at International Center for Studies of Chinese Civilization (ICSCC), Fudan University.
Astrid Møller-Olsen
Researcher of Chinese Studies, Centre for Languages and Literature, Lund University
Astrid Møller-Olsen is currently International Postdoctoral Fellow in a shared position between Lund University (Sweden), University of Stavanger (Norway), and University of Oxford (UK) funded by the Swedish Research Council.
In her research, she looks at how contemporary Sinophone works of fiction use botanical characters, plant imagery and green environments to create alternative realities, explore possible futures and deal with traumatic pasts; colouring their writings, so to speak, with the green ink of literary plants. In a world where environmental concerns loom large in the media and classrooms alike, this project will help us understand how human beings imagine their plant others as monsters, saviours or parts of themselves. Her other research interests include literary sensory studies, urban Sinophone fiction, spacetime narratology, language and translation, world literature and memory studies.
Regina Kanyu Wang
Doctoral Research Fellow, Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo
Regina Kanyu Wang is a writer, researcher and editor, currently pursuing her PhD under the CoFUTURES project at the University of Oslo. Her research interest lies in Chinese science fiction, especially from the gender and environmental perspective. She writes science fiction, nonfiction and academic essays in both Chinese and English. She has published two story collections in Chinese, a short novel in Italian, a forthcoming collection in German, as well as critical essays on platforms such as Broken Stars, Clarkesworld, Korean Literature Now, Mithila Reviews and more. She has also co-edited the Chinese SF special issue of Vector, a critical journal of British Science Fiction Association, and The Way Spring Arrives and Other Stories, an all-women-and-non-binary anthology of Chinese speculative fiction, and worked as the English version editor of The Routledge Handbook of The Wandering Earth: Behind The Scenes and Film Production. She is or has served as co-secretary-in-general and standing council member of World Chinese Science Fiction Association, board member of Plurality University Network, cofounder of SF AppleCore and Asia Science Fiction Association.
Wu Yan
Professor, Humanities Center, Southern University of Science and Technology
Wu Yan is a science fiction writer and professor in the Humanities Center at Southern University of Science and Technology. He has also served as the Director of Science and Human Imagination Research Center since last year. Wu Yan has published several works of science fiction, including: China Orbiter (Zhongguo Guidaohao), Spiritual Quest (Xinling Tanxian), and Life and Death of the Sixth Day (Shengsi Diliutian). His short stories, such as “Mouse Pad”, have been translated into many different languages.
He has received numerous awards including: The Thomas D. Clareson Award, The China National Book Award, the Five Best Cultural Works Project Prize, the National Prize for the Popularization of Science, the Bing Xin Literature Award, the Chinese Nebula Award and the Galaxy Award for Science Fiction. He has also been engaged in academic research, contributing to publications such as the “Outline of Science Fiction Literature” (Kehuan Wenxue Lungang). He is the editor of numerous scholarly works and has co-edited in English with Kerry Mallan and Roderick McGillis on (Re)imagining the world: Children’s Literature's Response to Changing Times. He is also a guest editor of the Special Edition of Chinese Science Fiction in the journal of Science Fiction Studies (SFS). Wu Yan is the pioneer of science fiction education and created the first SF curriculum in 1991 at Beijing Normal University. He has been the Vice-Chair of the China Science Writers’ Association（CSWA) since 2017 and was the President of the World Chinese Science Fiction Association (WCSFA) from 2010-2017.
Yan Feng
Professor, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Fudan University
Yan Feng is Professor at Department of Chinese Literature, Fudan University. His research mainly focuses on transmedia art studies, modern Chinese literature, comparative literature, creative writing, etc.
He was visiting scholar at University of Oslo in 1997, associate professor in University of Tokyo from 1998 to 2000, visiting professor in University of Chicago in 2003, Harvard-Yenching Scholar in 2004, visiting professor in University of California, Davis in 2010, and director at the Confucius Institute of University of Sydney from 2014 to 2017. He has served as editor-in-chief of the Chinese version of SCIENCE&VIE, and published books like The Feast of Senses, The Century of Addiction and more.
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