Thursday, May 16, 2019

9:00-10:30 a.m. AFRICA-CHINA NEGOTIATIONS AND AFRICAN AGENCY

Chair: IAN SHAPIRO, Sterling Professor of Political Science and Professor in the Institute for Social and Policy Studies and of Management, Yale University

  1. FOLASHADÉ SOULÉ, Senior Research Associate, University of Oxford 
  2. CHRISTINA SEYFRIED, PhD Candidate, Political Science Department, Yale University
  3. DAPO OYEWOLE, PhD Candidate, International Relations Department, University of Sussex
  4. XIAOYANG TANG, Deputy Director of the Carnegie–Tsinghua Center for Global Policy and Associate Professor in the Department of International Relations at Tsinghua University

11:00-12:30 p.m. CHINA’S ENVIRONMENTAL FOOTPRINT IN AFRICA

Moderator: KAISER KUO, Social Media Producer, Co-Founder of the Sinica Podcast and Editor-at-Large of SupChina

  1. JINGJING ZHANG, Chairperson of the Environmental panel, Environmental Lawyer, and Adjunct Professor at the School of Law, University of Maryland
  2. CLAUDE KABEMBA, Executive Director, Southern Africa Resource Watch
  3. BINGYU LIU, Assistant Professor, School of International Law, China University of Political Science & Law
  4. IKAL ANGELEI, Friends of Lake Turkana and 2012 Goldman Environmental Prize Recipient

12:30-1:30 p.m. LUNCHEON - CHINA’S ROLE IN SECURITY IN AFRICA

Keynote Speaker: CHRIS ALDEN, Professor of International Relations, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) and Research Associate with the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA)

2:00-3:30 p.m. CHINESE AID AND INVESTMENTS IN AFRICA

Chair: LINA BENABDALLAH, Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs, Wake Forest University

  1. PHILIP ROESSLER, Associate Professor, Department of Government, College of Willliam & Mary
  2. ZHENGLI HUANG, Research Associate, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Sheffield University
  3. JOSH MAIYO, Lecturer of Politics of Development,Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam
  4. YUNNAN CHEN, PhD Candidate, School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) at John Hopkins University, China Africa Research Initiative

4:00-5:30 p.m. CULTURE, HISTORY AND MIGRATION

Chair: DANIEL MATTINGLY, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Yale University

  1. LINA AYENEW, Author, “The Complete Beginner’s Guide to China-African Relations” and “Introduction to Chinese for Amharic Speakers” 
  2. CHINYERE OKUNNA, Professor in Mass Communication, Nnamdi Azikiwe University
  3. ERIC TAGLIACOZZO, Professor, History Department, Cornell University
  4. VIVIAN LU, Postdoctoral Associate at the Macmillan Center, Council on African Studies, Yale University

7:00 p.m. DINNER