The China in Europe Research Network has set out to facilitate the exchange among researchers, journalists, and policymakers. In this initiative, we identify significant events and provide the latter two groups with relevant insights from researchers from our network. We keep the briefings short and practical and leave it open to you whether you want to pursue a certain topic further on a one-on-one basis.
April 26, 11:00-11:45
The event is aimed at journalists and policymakers
In the first event, we deal with the China-Serbia Free Trade Agreement (FTA) which was signed in October 2023 and will enter into force in the coming months. This event will provide a unique opportunity to get a brief data-driven insight into various research around topics related to the China-Serbia Free Trade Agreement and its possible impact in Serbia and the EU.
SPEAKERS
Dušica Ristivojević
Dušica Ristivojević is a multidisciplinary China studies researcher affiliated with the China Studies team at the University of Helsinki. Dušica specializes in a longue durée dynamics of China’s global interactions, print and digital media, and social organizing in and out of China. She is finalizing her book manuscript on transnational links of China’s political movements and is observing China’s presence at Europe’s Eastern peripheries in the fields of dirty industry and digital technology.
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Alexandr Svetlicinii
Alexandr Svetlicinii is Associate Professor of Global Legal Studies at the University of Macau, Faculty of Law, where he also serves as Programme Coordinator of the Master of International Business Law in English Language. Prior to joining the University of Macau, Svetlicinii was a senior researcher at the Jean Monnet Chair of European Law at the Tallinn Law School, Tallinn University of Technology in Estonia. He published extensively on the subjects of international economic law, competition law, and commercial dispute settlement. In addition to his academic work, Svetlicinii serves as Co-Director of the Academic Society for Competition Law, South-East Europe chapter, and the Non-Governmental Advisor to the International Competition Network (working group Mergers). He has recently published the monograph Chinese State Owned Enterprises and EU Merger Control (Routledge, 2021).
Elena Jovičić
Elena Jovičić is a Researcher Associate at the Institute of Economic Sciences, the Department of Macroeconomics, Belgrade, Serbia. Elena’s research interests are in the field of international economics and international trade. Currently, she focuses mainly on China-Western Balkans trade and economic relations. Elena has been working at the Institute of Economic Sciences since 2009. Throughout her career, she has been involved in the implementation of several projects funded by international and domestic donors. Elena is the author of a significant number of scientific works in journals and monographs and has participated in numerous national and international conferences. Elena is the editor of the Journal of Women’s Entrepreneurship and Education (JWEE), indexed by SCOPUS. Since 2021, she has been a member of the team preparing the publication SEE-6 Economic Outlook, published by SEEA – the international association of economic institutes of Southeast Europe. She has been an MC member of the COST Action CA18215-CHERN since 2019.
Moderator: Jelena Gledić
Jelena Gledić is Senior Instructor at the University of Belgrade where she teaches a range of undergraduate courses in the field of Chinese language and culture at the Faculty of Philology. She also held a cross-appointment at Osaka University’s Graduate School of Language and Culture as Specially Appointed Associate Professor, and was Program Director at Petnica Science Center. Her recent research has mainly been focused on the Chinese presence in the Western Balkans and especially Serbia.
In addition to her research on China, she has been active in the field of teaching and learning innovation, doing extensive fieldwork at universities in the US, UK, China and Japan, and working as project assistant at the University of Zurich’s Language and Space Lab. She gave a workshop on Effectively Communicating Your China Research in the 1st cycle of CHERN’s Online Series and was part of the organization team and trainer of CHERN’s 2023 Training School.
