The ICLAC Millennium Nucleus together with the team of researchers from the ERC – Worlds of Lithium (WoL) of the University of Amsterdam, organized the “China Powers” webinar series, which will be addressed together with prominent academics and researchers, to address China's fundamental role in energy transitions.
The goal of these three seminars is to shed light on the complexities that shape China's role in the emerging world of electromobility, with special emphasis on the Chinese Ecological Civilization project, the global circulation of electromobility technologies, and the various factors driving electromobility in China.
The first seminar will invite researchers Anna Lake Zhu (Wageningen University), Steve Harrell (University of Washington), and Huang Ping (CUHK Shenzhen) to discuss the keynote topic: China's ecological civilization. Questions that will guide the meeting include:
What precisely constitutes Ecological Civilisation (生态文明)?
Which are the most suitable conceptual and technological tools to think and grasp its nuances?
Date: Friday May 10, 2024, at 9:00 a.m. (Chile time) (3:00 p.m. NL/ 9:00 p.m. CN)
The second seminar will feature the participation of researchers Gong Huiwen (Universitetet i Stavange), Juliana González Jauregui (ICLAC associate researcher and FLACSO academic), and Ágnes Szunomár (Budapest Corvinus Egyetem) and will focus on China's role in the global circulation of electromobility technologies. Questions that will guide this meeting:
How and which actors produce the global circulation of lithium-ion batteries for electromobility?
What is value and what is chain in the lithium-ion battery chain?
Date: Friday, May 24, 2024, at 9:00 a.m. (Chile time) (3:00 p.m. NL/ 9:00 p.m. CN)
Finally, the third seminar will invite researchers David Tyfield (Lancaster University), Pablo Ampuero-Ruiz (Universiteit van Amsterdam), and Haley Kwan Hiu–Lap (Hong Kong University) to discuss the drivers of electromobility in China. Questions that will guide the meeting:
What is work, time and space in the worlds of electromobility?
How technical objects and infrastructures constitute time, and what spatial considerations come into play within and through the diverse Chinese worlds of electromobility?
Date: Friday, June 7, 2024, at 9:00 a.m. (Chile time) (3:00 p.m. NL/ 9:00 p.m. CN)
((The seminars will be held in English))