Trained as an urban planner in Shanghai Tongji Univeristy, Jiaying is currently pursuing her PhD as a scholarship holder at Dresden Leibniz Graduate School. She gradually entered the fields of political science and sociology while writing her dissertation on policy interactions of Healthy City program in Shanghai.
Her peace slam deals with several questions about identity issue in a multicultural environment, starting simply from her name, which often causes a lot of confusions since she moved to Germany three years ago. Stereotypes about people from a certain place, at a certain age, with a certain gender all contributed to the mess of questions she encountered with once in a while.
By sharing her own experience, she encourages everyone to accept different facades of their identity and get to know others from who they really are, respect them despite of their origins. Eventually, as the Chinese poem says: home is where the heart settles. With a peaceful mind, we can live peacefully together wherever we are.
Chinese version:
毕业于同济大学城市规划专业的林嘉颖，目前在德累斯顿莱布尼茨研究生院的奖学金资助下攻读博士学位。在研究上海健康城市政策互动的过程中，她也逐渐涉足了政治学和社会学的研究领域。
她的演讲涉及多元文化环境下的身份认同问题。自从三年前她来到德国，最简单的名字也变得复杂起来。还有诸多其他关于地域，年龄，性别的刻板印象给她带来了许多困扰。
通过分享自己的经历，她希望鼓励所有人接受自己的各种面向，同时也真正去了解和尊重他人，无论他们来自何方。最后，如苏轼在《定风波》里所言：“此心安处是吾乡”。只要做到内心平静，我们就可以在任何地方和平地生活在一起。