Conference on the French Anthropology of the Chinese Worlds
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
9:00 am Welcome
Morning - Host Adeline Herrou
9:30 am-.10h Welcome and Introduction
10h-11h15
Panel 1 urban / displacement
Aurore Dumont: From the steppes to the city. Stratégies d'appropriation des espaces dans les microcosmes urbains de Mongolie-Intérieure
Katiana Le Mentec: Celebrating and commemorating displacement to better accompany it? The case of the Three Gorges Yimin Culture Festival in Yunyang
Anne-Christine Trémon: Unfinished urbanization: Doubts in the face of the crisis and class critiques in Shenzhen
11:15-11:35 Break
11:35-12:30
Panel 1 urban / displacement (continued)
Pascale Bugnon: Incorporating the past: fitness trails and sensory experiences of heritage in Qianmen (Beijing)
Sarah Defoin-Merlin: Singing in Shanghai: a cultural activity that participates in the construction of public spaces
12:30-13:30 lunch
Après-midi - Moderator Claire Vidal
13h30-15h10
Panel 2 Gender and religion
Maylis Bellocq : Gender roles in the afterlife: An analysis of the cult of the dead in the digital age
Catherine Despeux and Adeline Herrou: Affirming the place of women in Taoism: the case of the Youminguan temple in Tongzhou (Beijing region)
Ha Bin: Men and women in ritual - A case study from a particular perspective on the annual sacrificial ritual chigezhou among the Takape
15h10-15:30 pause
15:30-16:45
Panel 3 Worship
Marie Carmagnolle: Anthropology of religious beliefs and practices in Sichuan (China) around the Taoist cult to Doumu, the Mother of the Northern Bushel, an astral deity of Tantric origin
Guo Jingheng: Lalopa, minority nationalities, territorial worship, ritual practices, transmission of knowledge
Eva Salerno: Ancestor worship, from Taiwanese parishes to the Chinese Catholic diaspora: a (re)construction of identity?
16h45- 17h15
Film1 by Isabelle Ang (5' + presentation + discussion)
17h15-18h
Film 2 Nicola Schneider (25'+presentation+discussion)
Thursday, September 18, 2025
8:30am Welcome
Morning - Moderator Catherine Capdeville
9:00-10:40
Panel 4 ritual
Brigitte Baptandier: Presentation of the book "Que jamais le temps ne se brise. Journey to Flower Mountain, Huashan (Shaanxi, China)"
François Picard: Open your eyes and ears - Visual anthropology or anthropology
sonore, what anthropology for ritual?
Claire Vidal: When Buddhist reciters testify to the effectiveness of their voices
Zheng Qijun: The "nonchalance" in a Taoist temple in Huzhou: Emotions, Silence and Withdrawal
10:40am -11am pause
11am-12:40pm
Panel 5 Writing and Transmission
Laurent Chircop-Reyes: An ethnohistory of the "archive-less": what approaches for an anthropology of the past? The case of camel drivers (駝工) and armed guardians (女鏢师)
Yoann Goudin and Olivier Streiter: Au nom du nom: Origins, filiations and belonging through the prism of "Chinese"
Li Zihan: Transformation through writing: The acquisition of Yunnan Naxi manuscripts in contemporary China
12:40-14:00 lunch
Après-jourmidi - Moderator Gladys Chicharro
14h-15h15
Panel 6 Gender and kinship
Louison Delorme: Constructing a heterotopia: New understandings of heterosexual relational forms in feminist spaces in Chengdu, China
Florence Lévy: Family and migration, the place of divorce in the journeys of North Chinese migrants to France
Pascale-Marie Milan: "Paths" and "cycles" of kinship networks among the Na from China
15:15-16:05
Panel 7 Kinship
Hou Renyou: Asserting, marrying and becoming parents: Questioning the trajectories of homosexual people in contemporary Chinese worlds
Nausica Rivière: Same-sex marriage ceremonies in Taiwan: negotiations and arrangements
16:05-16:20 Pause
16:20- 18h
Panel 8 Photo
Caroline Laurent: Un regard qui (s')échappe. Of certain uses of photography in Taichung's Central Park
Zhao Shuting: Remembrances of "overprinting" : A dialogue between the images of Japanese soldiers' families in Manchuria and the collective memory of the inhabitants of contemporary Northeast China
Alberto Gerosa La Jetée de L'Eau Profonde (深水埗):phantascientific activation of the Hong Kong family archive
Hong Yi Memories of "overprinting": A Dialogue Between the Images of Japanese Soldiers' Families in Manchuria and the Collective Memory of People in Contemporary Northeast China
Friday, September 19, 2025
8:30amReception
Morning - Moderator Caroline Bodolec
9:00am-10:15am
Panel 9 Cosmology
Georges Favraud and Stéphanie Homola : Arts and Knowledge of the Body in Chinese Worlds
Huang Qiansheng: The cosmological logic of medical pluralism in China
10:15-11:30am
Panel 10 Environment
Lilya Gauthier: Affection and utility in the construction of interspecific relationships in capitalocene China: the example of cats in the city of Chengdu
Agathe Lemaitre: When Extinction Meets Specters: The Case of the Nebula Panther among the Paiwan of Taiwan
Hélène Trebuchet Maketon ko rayray no to'as, a broken transmission? Weaving ramie in indigenous pangcah villages in Taiwan
11:30-11:45 pause
11:45-13:00
Panel 11 Globalization of practices
Zheng Shanshan and Song Jinke: Between tastes and languages: identities in translation of Chinese fusion chefs in France
Wu Yue Public manual patrimonialization. Field investigation of the Ruan Yisan Foundation's volunteer workcamps in Shanxi and Guizhou
1pm-2pm lunch
2pm-15h40
Afternoon - Moderator Stéphanie Homola
Panel 12 terrains
Catherine Capdeville-Zeng: Retour sur vingt ans de terrain en milieu rural au Jiangxi
Sandrine Chenivesse : Aux frontières de l'au-delà, une ethnologie singulière du mont Fengdu, territoire des malmorts, lieu de dénouement transgénérationnel.
Gladys Chicharro:
Benjamin Taunay: Tackling tourism governance in Guangxi: Perspective from Hong Kong (2023- 2025)
15h40-16h pause
16h-17h15
Panel 13 Chinese Worlds
Marta Pavone: Towards an Anthropological Redefinition of "Chinese World(s) ": A Reflection on the Contributions of the 2017 and 2021 Assizes
Wu Jingxian Mobilities, Injustices and Administrative Identities: Experiences of Xinjiangese in Inland China
Sabine Trebinjac: Why are 10 small million Uighurs scaring China?
17:15-17:40
Caroline Bodolec The COREF project (platform for harvesting, archivage et analyse du web chinois) porté par le CNRS
17h40-18h15 discussion finale Les terrains après le Covid
18h15-20h pot de fin de colloque
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