WESLEYAN UNIVERSITY – SOCIAL SCIENCES IN CHINA PRESS FORUM ON GLOBALIZATION
MAY 18-19, 2017
Program schedule (tentative)
All panel sessions will be held in the Russell House on the Wesleyan campus
Thursday, May 18
8:40 - 9:20am
Session 1a
9:20 - 10:00am
Session 1b
10:00 - 10:40am
Session 2a
10:40 - 11:00am
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40am
Session 2b
11:40 - 12:20pm
Session 3a
12:20 - 1:00pm
Session 3b
1:00 - 2:00pm
Lunch
2:00 - 2:40pm
Session 4a
2:40 - 3:20pm
Session 4b
3:20 - 4:00pm
Session 5a
4:00 – 5:00pm
Session 6
Discussion leader: Ouyang Kang
Topic: "China and Globalization in Historical Perspective" (Wasserstrom)
Discussion leader: Jeffrey Wasserstrom
Topic: “The Change of Global Governance and the Construction of the Human Community of Shared
Future: China’s Mission and Possible Contribution” (Ouyang)
Discussion leader: Anand Yang
Topic: "The Structural Shift from "Eurocentrism" to Global Vision - The Mission of Research on
Globalization and Comparative Literature" (Li)
Discussion leader: Li Weifang
Topic: "China From Afar: Chin in the Popular Imagination in North India at the Turn of the Twentieth
Century" (Yang)
Discussion leader: Zhang Shunhong
Topic: "The Spirit of the Manila Galleon: Latin America and the Shifting Tides of the Pacific Ocean" (Park)
Discussion leader: Paula Park
Topic: "The Past and the Future of the Human Community" (Zhang)
Discussion leader: Don Moon
Topic: "The Governance of the Global Risk Society and China's Participation" (Fan)
Discussion leader: Fan Ruguo
Topic: "Globalization and Democracy" (Moon)
Discussion leader: Bing Zheng
Topic: "Expanding the Market for Foreign-Language Cinema in the United States: Two Studios, Two
Strategies" (Dombrowski)
Dang Shengyuan, Research Fellow, Party Secretary and Associate Director of the Institute of Foreign
Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Liu Wenming, Professor, School of History, Capital Normal University
Friday, May 19
8:40 - 9:20am
Session 5b
Discussion leader: Lisa Dombrowski
Topic: "Globalization and Compositeness of Cultures" (Bing)
9:20 - 10:00am
Session 7a
Discussion leader: Ye Xianming
Topic: "Historiography as Global Professional Field" (Sachsenmaier)
10:00 - 10:40am
Session 7b
Discussion leader: Dominic Sachsenmaier
Topic: "The Complexity of the ‘Community of Common Destiny for All Mankind’ Concept and Global
Governance: Constructing a new global governance philosophy" (Ye)
10:40 - 11:00am
Coffee break
11:00 - 11:40am
Session 8a
Discussion leader: Christopher Balme
Topic: "The Theoretical Essence of the Interaction between Global Governance and National Governance"
(Liu)
11:40 - 12:20pm
Session 8b
Discussion leader: Liu Zhenye
Topic: "The Five Faces of Theatrical Globalization" (Balme)
12:20 - 1:00pm
Session 9a
Discussion leader: Ding Yun
Topic: "Calling for a Practice Turn in Global History: Practices as Drivers of Globalization/s" (Epple)
1:00 - 2:00pm
Lunch
2:00 - 2:40pm
Session 9b
Discussion leader: Angelika Epple
Topic: "The Paradox Between Immigration and Political Correctness - Pluralism and Conservatism in the
Era of Globalization" (Ding)
2:40 - 3:20pm
Session 10a
Discussion leader: Vijay Pinch
Topic: "Urban Societies: Cultural Diversity and the Community of Shared Future" (Chen)
3:20 - 4:00pm
Session 10b
Discussion leader: Chen Zhong
Topic: "Global History and Microhistory: Some Reflections" (Pinch)
4:00 - 4:45pm
Closing remarks
Gary Yohe, Professor of Economics (Wesleyan University)
Wang Limin, Executive Vice Editor-in-Chief and Professor (Chinese Academy of Social Sciences)
SOCIAL SCIENCE IN CHINA PRESS INVITED PARTICIPANTS
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Bing Zheng, Professor, Executive Vice President; Jilin University (China)
Chen Zhong, Research Fellow; Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences (China)
Dang Shengyun, Research Fellow, Party Secretary and Associate Director of the Institute of Foreign Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
(China)
Ding Yun, Professor, Philosophy Department; Director of Center for the Study of Intellectual History; Fudan University (China)
Fan Ruguo, Professor, Economics and Management School; Wuhan University (China)
Li Weifang, Professor, Dean of Literature School; Henan University (China)
Liu Wenming, Professor, School of History, Capital Normal University (China)
Liu Zhenye, Professor, Associate Director of Globalization and Global Issues Institute; China University of Political Sciences and Law
(China)
Ouyang Kang, Director of the Institute of Philosophy; Professor, Director of the Institute of National Governance; Huazhong University of
Science and Technology (China)
Wang Limin, Executive Vice Editor-in-Chief and Professor; Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (China)
Ye Xianming, Distinguished Professor, Research Center of Marxism and Globalization; Zhejiang Normal University (China)
Zhang Shunhong, Research Fellow, Director General, Institute of World History; Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (China)
WESLEYAN INVITED PARTICIPANTS
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Christopher Balme, Professor, Department of Theater Studies; Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich (Germany)
Lisa Dombrowski, Professor, Film Studies; Wesleyan University
Angelika Epple, Professor of Modern History; University of Bielefeld (Germany)
Don Moon, Professor, Government, Environmental Studies; Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Professor in the College of Social Studies; Wesleyan
University
Paula Park, Assistant Professor of Spanish; Latin American Studies; Wesleyan University
William “Vijay” Pinch, Professor, History, Environmental Studies; Associate Editor of the journal History and Theory, Wesleyan University
Dominic Sachsenmaier, Professor of Modern History; University of Gottingen (Germany)
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, Professor of History; University of California-Irvine
Anand Yang, Professor of History; University of Washington
Gary Yohe, Huffington Foundation Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies; Wesleyan University