The 3rd Global China Dialogue (GCD III)

Sustainability and Global Governance for Climate Change

China and the Chinese people are currently making an important contribution to the new world order and shaping a global society. What are the important global issues that concern China? What are the Chinese ways of thinking and doing things with respect to global issues? We provide a platform engaging both Chinese and non-Chinese in dialogue with China on a range of common concerns for the future of our world, including development, education, economics, migration, the family, the environment, public health, human security and global governance. The Global China Dialogue series (GCDs) focuses on these issues to enhance public understanding of current global affairs and common interests through public dialogue and discussion between Chinese and non-Chinese academics, experts, professionals and practitioners and interested laypeople, from interdisciplinary and comparative perspectives. The GCDs also develop the rules of ‘civilized dialogue’, encouraging both sides to listen to the other, understand cultural differences, respect local customs, accept different perspectives and acknowledge the common destiny of humanity. In particular, they explore new global governance, encompassing national governments, international organizations, multinational companies, NGOs and citizens, with a mission to building a harmonious, symbiosis-based global community. Two dialogues have already been held in 2014 and 2015, the proceedings of which has been published by Global Century Press. Below is the details of the 3^rd GCD.

Date: Friday-Saturday, 2-3 December, 2016

Venues

• The British Academy
• The House of Commons
• UK Parliament, King’s College London

Themes

• Delivering the Sustainable Development Goals
• Reviewing the Paris Agreement from a governance perspective
• Sustainability in China’s green revolution
• Corpus-based discourse studies on climate change

Schedule

• Part one: A one-day event for the GCD III on Sustainability and Global Governance for Climate Change including the above themes, at the British Academy, Friday, 2nd December 2016.
• Part two: An evening event for networking at the House of Commons of the UK Parliament, on Friday, 2nd December 2016.
• Part three: A one-day workshop on Corpus Approach to Chinese Social Science (CACSS) at King’s College London, Saturday, the 3rd December 2016．

Organizing Committee (in alphabetical order)

Chairs

• Professor Kerry Brown, Director of Lau China Institute, King’s College London
• Professor Xiangqun Chang, Director of CCPN Global; Honorary Professor of UCL
• Professor Hugo de Burgh, Director of China Media Centre, University of Westminster

Keynote speakers

• Professor Lord Anthony Giddens, Emeritus Professor at the Department of Sociology, and former Director of LSE, UK

• Professor Dayong Hong, Vice-President, Renmin University of China; Vice-General Secretary of the Chinese Sociological Association, China

Panel chairs, speakers, and discussants (in alphabetical order):

• Emeritus Professor Martin Albrow FAcSS, Honorary Vice President of the British Sociological Association (BSA), UK; Senior Fellow of the Käte Hamburger Centre for Advanced Studies, Law as Culture, University of Bonn, Germany
• Lord  Michael Bates, DEputy Chairman of the House of Lords, the UK Parliament; Minister of State at the Department for International Development, UK 
• Professor Kerry Brown, Director of the Lau China Institute, King’s College London, UK
• Dr Qing Cao, Senior Lecturer in Chinese, Director of Studies in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Durham University, UK
• Professor Xiangqun Chang, Director of CCPN Global; Honorary Professor of UCL, UK
• Dr CHEN Yan, General Director of China Europa Forum, France
• Professor Olaf Corry, Department of Political Science, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
• Ms Ingrid Cranfield, Governor of CCPN Global Governing Board, President of Global Century Press, former Deputy Mayor of the London Borough of Enfield, UK
• Dr Carmen Dayrell, Senior Research Associate at CASS, Lancaster University, UK
• Professor Hugo de Burgh, Director of the China Media Centre, University of Westminster, UK
• Professor Robert Falkner, Associate Professor of International Relations, Co-Director, Dahrendorf Project, Academic Director, TRIUM Global EMBA, London School of Economics and Political Science
• Mr Charles Grant, Director of Centre for European Reform, UK; Trustee of CCPN Global
• Professor Yeguo Gu, Director, China Multilingual & Multimodal Corpora & Big Data Research Centre, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and Beijing Foreign Studies University, China
• Mr Philip Hao, President, YES Global; CEO, UVIC Group, UK; Vice-General Secretary, CCPN-Global
• Mr FU Jing, Deputy Chief of Europe Bureau of China Daily; Specialised jauntiest on studies of environmental and climate change (tbc)
• Mr Alex Kirby, Retired award-winning BBC journalist and UN trainer of journalists reporting on sustainability and climate change in the developing world
• Professor Jiaojiang Luo, Dean of the Institute of Social Development, Wuhan University, China; General Secretory of CCPN Global    
• Professor Tony McEnery FAcSS, Director and Investigator of ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University, UK
• Professor Kerstin Mey, Pro Vice-Chancellor of Westminster, Dean of the Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design, UK
• Mr Dennis Pamlin, Founder of 21st Frontiers Research Centre, Sweden
• Professor Geoffrey PLEYERS, Director of Global College, University of Louvain, Belgium
• Professor Yufang Qian, Director of Research Centre for Discourse and Communications, Zhejiang University of Media and Communications, China
• Dr Mike Scott, Aston University; Founder of the Lexical Analysis Software, UK
• Dr Fang Wang, Researcher, University of Birmingham, UK
• Mr XIANG Xiaowei, Minister counselor, Culture Office, Chinese Embassy to the UK
• Professor Letian Zhang, Director of the Center for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Director of Contemporary China Social Life Data and Research Center (CCSLC), Fudan University; and Co-Director of the CCPN Globa
• Dr Joy Zhang, Senior Lecturer in Sociology, School of Social Policy, Sociology and Social Research, University of Kent, UK

Organizers

• CCPN Global, UK
• Lau China Institute, King’s College London, UK
• The China Media Centre, University of Westminster, UK
• YES Global, UK

Supporters (in alphabetical order)

• Centre for Applied Linguistics, University College London, UK
• Centre for European Reform, UK
• Centre for Translation Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK
• China–Europa Forum, France
• Chopsticks Club, UK
• Contemporary China Social Life Data and Research Center (CCSLC), Fudan University, China
• ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, UK
• Global Century Press, UK
• Global China Unit, UK
• Journal of China in Comparative Perspective
• Lau China Institute, King’s College London, UK
• London Society for Chinese Studies, UK
• New World Press, China
• Research Centre for Discourse and Communications, Zhenjiang University of Media and Communication, China
• Research Centre for Social Cultural Anthropology, Fudan University, China
• Research Centre for Social Theory, Peking University, China
• Research Centre for Studies of Sociological Theory and Methods, Renmin University of China
• Society for Anglo–Chinese Understanding (SACU), UK
• The British Association for Chinese Studies (BACS), UK
• The British Postgraduate Network for Chinese Studies (BPCS), UK
• The British Sociological Association (BSA), UK
• The Chinese Sociological Association (CSA), China
• The Institute of Social Development, Wuhan University, China 

Sponsors (in alphabetical order)

• Cypress Books Co. Ltd, UK
• Institute of Suzhou Studies, Wuhan University, China
• Learning without Borders, China
• MyOffer® (Global University Web Portal) MyOffer ®
• UVIC Group, UK
• Vanishing Worlds Foundation, UK

Registration

• Free for the CACSS workshop, but registration is requested, Click HERE for registration
• £180 for the GCD III, Click HERE to register and pay for the fee
• £280 for the GCD III and Reception, Click HERE to register and pay for the fee.

Website: see updated info at www.dialogue.global-china.org

Contact: 

• CCPN Global: +442080994815
• or China Media Centre, University of Westminster:  +442083577354

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