At the 13th biennial conference of the Nordic Association of China Studies (NACS), held on June 6 – 8, 2017 at Aarhus University, Denmark, Marina Svensson gave one of the keynotes entitled The Chinese heritage: Authorized heritage discourse, new voices, and local engagements, and also lectured at the Ph.D. workshop that followed the conference. Nicholas Loubere presented a paper entitled There and Back Again: Disentangling the Chinese Gold Rush in Ghana, and was also elected to the new board of NACS. The next NACS conference will be held in Bergen, Norway, in 2019.