GCD VII: Basic Information
The 7th Global China Dialogue (GCD VII)
Reforming Global Governance
Date: Friday 10 December, 2021
Venues
Dialogue Forum: 8:30-17:00, 10th Dec at Wolfson Room & Gallery
Reception (by invitation only): 18:30-21:30, 6th Dec., at Council Room The British Academy, 10-11 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AH
The 7th Global China Dialogue (GCD VII), with the theme ‘Reforming Global Governance’, will be held on 10th December 2021. This is the planned culmination of a series that began in 2014 with the aim of bringing together scholars and practitioners from China and the rest of the world to exchange their insights into the problems that challenge human existence on our planet today. Our aim is to yield proposals for the reform of global governance based on these insights.
We consider global governance in the broadest sense to cover the worldwide ordering of society to enable the peoples of the world to meet existential challenges, and to give the chance for human beings everywhere to lead fulfilling lives. China’s ‘community of a shared future for mankind’ also provided the world with a similar vision. Our panels of discussants from China and other countries will be invited to examine four areas of strategic significance for realizing these or, indeed, any visions for the governance of human society at this time of crisis.
GCD VII consists of four sessions:
Session 1: Transformations: Society and Environment. The intersection of global challenges, such as climate change, the pandemic and environmental degradation, has highlighted an underlying social instability arising from the polarization of wealth and income. What kind of cooperation can help deal with both these challenges and this underlying issue?
Session 2: Digital Security. The shift to the digital of power relations between states extends to their military capabilities, their intelligence systems and the colonization of space. Can the sharing of advanced information and communication technology contribute to confidence building and trust between nations in this networked world?
Session 3: Personal Identity, State and Corporation. The digital age intensifies the multiplication of both personal and collective identities. Responsibility detached from agency, ‘shell’ companies, anonymization and fake identities are paralleled by the growth of surveillance technology. The state/individual relationship plays out in the tensions between privacy and transparency. Can global society sustain individuality?
Session 4: Reforming Institutions. The post Second World War settlement placed an emphasis on cooperation through the United Nations. This spirit of cooperation had been supplemented by regular conferences such as the COP, commitment to goals like the SDGs, regional pacts and national leaders’ meetings. What further institutional changes could enhance a shared global response to the present crisis?
Organizers
- Global China Academy, UK
- ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, Lancaster University, UK
- School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, China
Languages
- English
- Chinese
Programme
8:30-9:00 Registration
9:00-10:10 Opening session
Room: Wolfson Room & Gallery
Chair: Professor Tony McEnery FAcSS, Distinguished Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University; Council Member, Academy of Social Sciences; Chair of Academic Council of Global China Academy
9:00-9:20 Greetings (5 minutes each)
- A senior official from the Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS), UK
- The Chinese Embassy to the UK
- One of Vice-Chancellors at a UK University
- One of Presidents, Tsinghua University, China
9:20-10:00 Keynote speeches (20 minutes each)
- China in the world today. Professor Martin Albrow FAcSS, Honorary President of Global China Academy; Honorary Vice- President of the British Sociological Association, UK
- Topic?Professor Peng Kaiping, Dean of Faculty of Social Science, Executive vice Director of Institute of Global Common Development, Tsinghua University, China
10:00-10:05 Certificate presentations
Presentation of thanks and appointment letters (Honorary Presidents retired and Chairs of Academic Council, etc.) by Mrs Ingrid Cranfield, Chair of the Board of Trustees of Global China Academy, and Professor Xiangqun Chang, President of Global China Academy
10:05-10:10 Group photo
All the speakers listed below are proposed speakers – to be invited
10:10-11:30 Panel I – Transformations: Society and Environment
Chair and discussant: Professor Peter Schröder, Department of History and European & International Social & Political Studies, University College London, UK.
Speakers (10 minutes each):
- Professor Jeffrey Sachs, Director of Center for Sustainable Development Columbia University, USA
- Associate Professor Giuseppe Feola, Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
Discussion, Q&A
11:30-11:45 Coffee/tea break
11:45-12:55 Panel II – Digital Security
Chair and discussant:
Speakers (10 minutes each):
- Mr Bruce Schneier, an internationally renowned security technologist, Adjunct Lecturer in Public Policy, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University
- Dr HUANG Hui, CEO of Shanghai Tenly Software Incorporated, China
Discussion, Q&A
12:55-13:55 Lunch
14:00-15:10 Panel III – Personal Identity, State and Corporation
Chair and discussant: Professor Julia C Strauss, Department of Politics and International Studies, SOAS, University of London; former Editor of the China Quarterly, UK.
Speakers (10 minutes each):
- Mr Taavi Kotka, former head of Estonian digital identity programme
- Professor Peter van der Veer, Professor and Director of the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Max Planck Institute, Germany
- Professor Carsten Herrmann-Pillath, Professor and Permanent Fellow at the Max Weber Centre for Advanced Cultural and Social Studies at Erfurt University, Germany
Discussion, Q&A
15:10-15:25 Coffee/tea break
15:25-16:20 Panel IV – Reforming the Institutions
Chair and discussant: Mr Charles Grant, Trustee of Global China Academy; Director of Centre for European Reform.
Speakers (8 minutes each):
- Professor Prasenjit Duara, Distinguished Professor and the Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies, Duke University, USA
- Professor Chenggang Xu, Honorary Professor, University of Hong Kong; Visiting Professor, Imperial College and the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), UK
Professor Robert Falkner (LSE)
Discussion, Q&A
16:20-17:00 Closing session
Chair: Mrs Ingrid Cranfield, Deputy Director of Global China Academy; President of Global Century Press, UK
Speeches (10 minutes each):
- Professor Martin Jacques, Senior Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, UK; Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, China
Chinese speaker
Book launch (5 minutes each):
- Editor of China and a Shared Human Future: Exploring Common Values and Goals, by Martin Albrow, Professor Xiangqun Chang FRSA, President of Global China Academy; Honorary Professor of University College London (2015-20); Distinguished Professor of Nankai University of China; UK
- Reviewer of the above book, by Professor Laurence Roulleau-Berger, Research Director of the French National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), France
18:00-22:00 Receptions
Room: Council Room
10:00-19:00 Network drinking reception
19:00-22:00 Book launch reception
Chair: Professor Elena Semino, Director of ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS), Lancaster University
Continuation of the book launch speeches (5 minutes each. Notes: this session is added owing to funding restriction and workload efficiency):
- Reviewer of the above book, by Professor Robin Cohen, Senior Research Fellow at Kellogg College, Emeritus Professor and Former Director of the International Migration Institute, University of Oxford, UK
- Reviewer of the above book, Professor Bettina Gransow-van Treeck, Institute of East Asian Studies, Graduate School of East Asian Studies, Free University of Berlin, Germany
Closing remarks: Professor Tony McEnery FAcSS, Council Member, Academy of Social Sciences; Chair of GCA Academic Council; Distinguished Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University; UK
Organizing Committee
Chairs
Professor Tony McEnery FAcSS, Distinguished Professor of English Language and Linguistics at Lancaster University; Council Member, Academy of Social Sciences; Chair of Academic Council of Global China Academy
- Professor LI Qiang, Lifetime Professor and Former Dean of School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University, China; Chinese Chair of Academic Council of Global China academy
- Professor Xiangqun Chang FRSA, President of Global China Academy (GCA); Honorary Professor of University College London (2015-20); Distinguished Professor of Nankai University of China
General Secretary
Mr Philip Hao, Vice-General Secretary, Global China Academy; President of YES Global; CEO of Learning without Borders, UVIC Group, UK
Members (in alphabetical order)
- Professor Martin Albrow FAcSS, Honorary President of Global China Academy; Honorary Vice- President of the British Sociological Association, UK
- Dr Yuan Cheng, Country Head of Russell Reynolds Associates Greater China; Member of the Board & CEO Advisory Practice and Financial Services Sector, Russell Reynolds Associates
- ?, Society for Anglo-Chinese Understanding, UK
- Professor Martin Jacques, Senior Fellow at the Department of Politics and International Studies, University of Cambridge, UK; Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, China
- Professor Wei Li FAcSS, FRSA Director and Dean of the UCL Institute of Education, University College London, UK
- Professor Peter Schröder, Department of History and European & International Social & Political Studies, University College London
- Professor Elena Semino, Director of ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science (CASS), Lancaster University
- Professor XIE Lizhong, Director of Research Centre for Social Theory, Peking University, China; Chinese President of Global China Institute
- Professor ZHANG Xiaodong, Dean of Institute of Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Nanjing University of Finance & Economics; ECO of Agile Think Tank, China; Vice-President of Global China Institute.
- Associate Professor ZHAO Yizhang, Department of Sociology, Tsinghua University, China
Supporters (in alphabetical order)
- Centre for European Reform, UK
- China–Europa Forum, France
- Chopsticks Club, UK
- Global Century Press, UK
- 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 Postgraduate Network for Chinese Studies (BPCS), UK
- The Meridian Society, UK
Sponsors
- Institute for Global Industry, Tsinghua University, China
- Agile Think Tank, China
- China National Publications Import & Export Co.,Ltd
- Learning without Borders
- UVIC Group, UK
Publications
The Global China Dialogue Series is the only international event in the world that publishes its proceedings in English and Chinese separately, and with a DOI number for each set of speech notes in both editions.
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