Event Recordings
Spring seminar 1. "SEZ@40: Shenzhen as a New Global Development Model."
This was the first seminar for the BROKEX spring seminar series, held on February 3, 2021.
Spring seminar 2. "New Type of Great Power Relations: Global Power and Chinese National Identity."
This was the second in line of the BROKEX spring seminars. It was held on March 3, 2021.
Spring seminar 3. "Assembling the New China: Labor Brokerage."
This was the third seminar for the BROKEX spring seminar series, held on April 7, 2021.
Spring seminar 4. "Brokers of Aspirations: Education and Cosmopolitanism"
This was the fourth seminar for the BROKEX spring seminar series, held on May 5, 2021.
Autumn Seminar 1. "China´s Economy: Challenges Created by the Reform Era"
This was the fifth seminar hosted as part of the BROKEX project, held on September 8, 2021.
Autumn Seminar 2. "Inequality in contemporary China"
This was the sixth seminar hosted as part of the BROKEX project, held on October 6, 2021.
Autumn Seminar 3. "China has Arrived as a Geopolitical Superpower"
This was the seventh seminar hosted as part of the BROKEX project, held on November 3, 2021.
Autumn Seminar 4. "Book Talk: One Belt One Road - Chinese Power Meets the World"
This was the eight seminar hosted as part of the BROKEX project, held on December 1, 2021.
2022 Spring Seminar 1. "China´s International Relations: South-South Perspectives"
This was the ninth seminar hosted as part of the BROKEX project, held on February 10, 2022.
2022 Spring Seminar 2. "100 Years of Communism with Chinese Characteristics"
This was the 10th seminar hosted as part of the BROKEX project, held on March 2, 2022.
2022 Spring Seminar 3. "China´s Restless Young Women: Negotiating Gender, Class, and National Identities"
This was the 11th seminar hosted as part of the BROKEX project, held on April 6th, 2022.
2022 Spring Seminar 4. "The Lives and Roles of Cadres in the Chinese Communist Party"
This was the 12th seminar hosted as part of the BROKEX project, held on May 4th, 2022.
BROKEX Blog
Called for an ERC interview and “wanna die”? 14 points to carry you through
By Heidi Østbø Haugen — May 31, 2019
The number 14 is avoided in China because it sounds like “wanna die”. I compiled interview tips to help fellow candidates move from procrastination to preparation. They happened to add up to 14, and I kept the numbering to acknowledge the hardship.
The language of economic development: "Greater Bay Area"
By Heidi Østbø Haugen — Apr. 26, 2019
The development plan for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area (粤港澳大湾区发展规划纲要) was published yesterday.
Conference surprise: Gene-edited children!
By Heidi Østbø Haugen — Jan. 18, 2019
Member of the BROKEX Advisory Group, Dr Joy Yueyue Zhang, told me that she’d present at the Second International Summit on Human Genome Editing in Hong Kong. I made a note in my calendar. Then I didn’t think more about it.
Contract with the ERC signed!
By Heidi Østbø Haugen — Jan. 18, 2019
As it turns out, signing a contract with the ERC is a marathon, not a sprint.
Brokers, brokers' brokers, and termites
By Heidi Østbø Haugen — Jan. 17, 2019
A foreigner hunting for a home in Guangzhou inevitably relies on brokers. The street that runs along Sun Yat-sen University’s North gate has more housing brokers than restaurants, many of them located right next door to each other.
Video Abstract - Circumstantial migration: how Gambian journeys to China enrich migration theory
Video Abstract - Circumstantial migration: how Gambian journeys to China enrich migration theory from Taylor & Francis on Vimeo.
“The Social Production of Container Space” video abstract
Logistics agents broker space in containers, trucks, and airplanes, and they are often middle men for more than logistics services. I started researching logistics as part of previous research projects. Part of this research was presented in the article “The social production of container space”, published in Environment and Planning January 2019.
"The Social Production of Container Space" video abstract from Heidi Haugen on Vimeo.