IFCCS4 --- LSE Seminar Series (14-16 September)
On the occasion of the Fourth International Forum on Contemporary China Studies (IFCCS4, the University of Nottingham, UK), the China in Comparative Perspective Network (CCPN) invited several well-known Chinese scholars to LSE to give a series of seminars from the 14th to 16th September. The seminar series are sponsored by the Confucius Institute Business for London (CIBL), and will be held at Seligman Library (OLD 6.05), Old Building, LSE.
Time and Date: 15:00-17:00, 14th September (Wednesday)
Chair: Professor Stephan Feuchtwang (CCPN Director)
Speaker: Professor WEN Tiejun
Title: Eight financial crises and their ‘soft landings’ in China over the past six decades
Time and Date: 19:00-21:0014th September (Wednesday)
Chair: Professor Stephan Feuchtwang (CCPN Director)
Speaker: Professor LU Xueyi
Title: Construction of ‘society modernization’ is the major task in the next three decades
Time and Date: 19:00-21:00, 15th September (Thursday)
Chair: Dr Kent Deng (CCPN Co-Director, Reader in Economic history)
Seminar 1 Society Re-construction: Experience & Challenges, Prof ZHANG Jing (Dept of Sociology, Peking University)
Seminar 2: How to understand China’s politics, Professor JING Yuejin (Dept of Political Science, Tsinghua University)
Time and Date: 19:00-21:00, 16th September (Friday)
Chair: Dr Xiangqun Chang (CCPN Coordinator, Research Fellow)
Speakers: all speakers come from Department of Anthropology, School of Sociology and Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University
Seminar 1: Professor ZHU Jiangang: Relational Transition between NGO and Government -- Case studies of Three NGOs in contemporary China
Seminar 2: Professor LIU Zhiyang: Inheritance and Vicissitude of the Tibetan Diet —Anthropological Fieldwork in Tibetan Rural Community
Seminar 3: Dr DUAN Ying: Being Chinese in Burma: Ethnicity and Cultural Citizenship
Speaker 4: Professor ZHOU Daming: Department of Anthropology at Sun Yat-sen University and the Development of Anthropology in China
NOTES:
(1) Please see attachments for Abstracts and speakers biography in both English and Chinese versions.
(2) All seminars will be given in English, except Professor LU Xueyi who will give seminar in Chinese with English translation PPT.
All welcome!