BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//sebbo.net//ical-generator//EN URL:https://lectures.london/london-school-of-economics/saving-the-world-on e-family-at-a-time-screening-and-discussion-of-gone-south-village/calender .ics NAME:Lectures London X-WR-CALNAME:Lectures London TIMEZONE-ID:Europe/London X-WR-TIMEZONE:Europe/London BEGIN:VEVENT UID:4d8252df-e51c-41ea-b46d-f97830bac638 SEQUENCE:0 DTSTAMP:20260613T071613 DTSTART:20260617T170000 DTEND:20260617T183000 SUMMARY:Saving the world one family at a time: screening and discussion of Gone South Village LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person public event (LSE campus) DESCRIPTION:Wednesday 17 June 2026 6pm - 7.30pmSpeakersProfessor William A CallahanDr Mia Chen MaDr Charlotte GoodburnKieran HansonChairDr Giulia Sc ioratiWith growing tensions between China and the United States\, new "thi rd spaces" are emerging beyond great-power competition. Gone South Village is a short documentary film that explores how overseas Chinese communitie s in Southeast Asia create social and global orders that are neither wholl y Chinese nor Thai.The film follows a Sino-Thai family as they travel from Bangkok to "Gone South Village"\, their late father's ancestral hometown in rural China. Through this journey\, the documentary reflects on what it means to be "Chinese" in Thailand and "Thai" in China\, and how transnati onal community ties are built through shared heritage. Rather than relying on elite or heroic solutions\, the film offers an intimate account of how global interconnections are sustained one family at a time.Meet your spea kers and chairProfessor William A. Callahan is a Professor of Political Sc ience at Singapore Management University and formerly Professor of Interna tional Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His research explores the intersection of theory\, culture\, and politics in China and Asia\, with a focus on visual global politics. His books incl ude Sensible Politics: Visualizing International Relations (2020)\, which won the ISA International Political Sociology Best Book Award.Dr Mia Chen Ma works across Chinese literary and cultural studies\, environmental huma nities\, medical humanities\, and digital culture. She received her PhD in Chinese and Inner Asian Studies from SOAS\, University of London\, and re cently completed a Wellcome Trust–funded Medical Humanities China–UK E arly Career Fellowship at the University of Strathclyde. Her research exam ines how Chinese-language literature\, media\, and everyday cultural pract ices reshape debates on ecology\, technology\, care\, and wellbeing\, gene rating new ways of thinking about ecological anxiety\, healing\, and commu nity-based world-making.Dr Charlotte Goodburn is Deputy Director of the La u China Institute and Reader in Chinese Politics and Development at King ’s College London. Her research focuses on migration\, labour\, and deve lopment in contemporary China. She previously held a postdoctoral position in Development Studies at the University of Cambridge\, where she also co mpleted her PhD.Kieran Hanson is an award winning director and editor at K enawa Films in Manchester. His speciality is in ethnographic documentary a nd much of his work involves collaborations with researchers\, artists and arts and heritage institutions. He has worked in the UK\, West Africa and China and is currently Lecturer in Film Practice at The University of Man chester.Dr Giulia Sciorati is a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of I nternational Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Sci ence. Her research examines how performative practices shape the construct ion\, reception\, and contestation of intersubjective meanings in internat ional politics\, with an empirical focus on Global China. Her work has app eared in the European Journal of International Relations\, the Internation al Journal of Cultural Policy\, and The International Spectator.More about this eventThis event is part of the LSE Festival: How to save the planet running from Monday 15 to Saturday 20 June 2026. This year's Festival expl ores how existential threats including the climate crisis\, conflict and A I are affecting all parts of the world\, transforming the way and where we live\, and how our societies function. With a series of events asking wha t can we be doing to save the Earth\, its people and environment? Booking for all Festival events will open on Monday 18 May.The Department of Inter national Relations at LSE is now in it's 98th year - one of the oldest as well as largest IR departments in the world\, with a truly international r eputation. We are ranked 2nd in the UK and 5th in the world in the QS Worl d University Ranking by Subject 2025 tables for Politics and International Studies.For any queries relating to this event please email events@lse.ac .uk.Hashtag for this event: #LSEFestivalLSE Blogs Many speakers at LSE eve nts also write for LSE Blogs\, which present research and critical comment ary accessibly for a public audience. 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