From: Janelle McCarty [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: 23 November 2009 13:37
To: Janelle McCarty
Subject: Global Politics of China conference

There are still places available for BICC's conference "The Global Politics of China" to be held in London on 27 November. To register, please e-mail [log in to unmask]

 

Friday 27 November 2009

Cavendish Conference Centre, Duchess Mews, London

 

 

10am: Introduction: Frank Pieke, Director of BICC

 

10:30-11:15: keynote speech: TBA

 

11:15-11:45: Discussion

 

12 noon lunch

 

1-2pm:

Roundtable discussion (1): China’s role in the world: a new multipolar world of the EU, US, and China?

Chair: William A. Callahan

Panelists: François Godement (Science Po), Shi Yinhong (Renmin Univ.), Rod Wye (FCO), Rosemary Foot (Oxford)

 

2:15-3:15 pm

Roundtable discussion (2): China’s role in the world: BRICs as new poles?

Chair: Frank Pieke

Panelists: Shyam Saran (Prime Ministers Special Envoy, India), Alexei D. Voskressenski (Moscow State University of International Relations), Gonzalo Paz (George Washington Univ.), Jeffrey Henderson (Bristol)

 

3:30-4:30 pm

Roundtable discussion (3): China’s role in the world: nationalism, transnationalism and soft power

Chair: Robert Bickers

Panelists: Geremie R. Barmé (ANU), Wei Ling (China Foreign Affairs Univ.), Christopher R. Hughes (LSE), William A. Callahan (Manchester)

 

4.30-5.30pm Reception

 

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