The opening session 

From left to right: Martin Albrow, Charles Grant, Timothy Clement-Jones, and Xiang Xiaowei, who gave greeting speeches.

Hugo de Burgh (right), Director, China Media Centre, University of Westminster, chaired the opening sesion. Ingrid Cranfield and YU Shuo read out greeting messages in English and Chinese in turns.

Two keynote speakers talked to each other: Kerry Brown (left), Lau China Centre at King’s College in London gave keynote speeches and BING Zheng (right), Executive Vice-President of Jilin University

Panel I: Introducing ‘transculturality’ and new global governance. From left to right: Colin Bradford, Martin Albrow, Yu Shuo, Pierre Calame.

Panel II: Civilized dialogue– transcultural and comparative. From left to right: Sam Whimster, Lizhu Fan, Khalid Nadeem, David Feng, Fu Jing.

Panel III: Sustainable urbanization in Europe and China. From left to right: Scott Lash, David Feng, Pierre Calame, Chris Hamnett, Lizhu Fan.

Panel IV: Local governance, transcultural education and learning. From left to right: Philip Hao, Sun Gaopeng, Ingrid Cranfield, Xiangqun Chang.

Panel V: Social creativity, transcultural practice, new global governance. From left to right: Yao Wenfang, Liu Hong, Maurizio Marinelli, Isabel Hilton, Dongning Feng.

Ms. Costanza Pernigotti (right) served as an interpreter during the presentation

Dr. Ivan Hon acted as an interpreter for two Chinese-speaking speakers during the review and Q&A sessions.

Closing Ceremony From left to right: Professor Chang Xiangqun, Dr. Dongning Feng, Professor Gil Delannoi (giving the closing speech)

From left to right: Xiangqun Chang, Director of CCPN Global, and Gil Delannoi, Delannoi, Research Director of the FNSP, Centre for Political Research, Sciences Po, France, gave closing speeches. Dongning Feng, Director of Centre for Translation Studies, SOAS, University of London, chaired the closing session.

Audience during the event 

Participants interactive with spaekers

Participants interact with speakers

Chinese Cultural Minister Counsellor Xiang Xiaowei engages in a dialogue with panellists: (left to right) Colin Bradford (Brookings Institution), Martin Albrow, Yu Shuo and Pierre Calame (Hon- orary President of the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation for the Progress of Humankind and founder of the China–Europa Forum, France) . 

Global Century Press and Cypress Books Co.Ltd displayed their books at the Gallery. Mr Hans Seesaghur (bottom right), PhD Candidate in Public Administration, Wuhan University, flew to the UK from China specifically to attend this event.

Participants were networking during the breaks

Participants were networking during the breaks 

Group photos