CeMEAS Lecture Series

Social Policy in China: Retrospect and Prospect Dr. Armin Müller (University of Göttingen) Wednesday, 01.11.2017, 18:00-19:30, KWZ 0.609 Abstract Since 1979, social protection in China has undergone fundamental institutional transformations. This presentation provides an overview of the state of the literature on social policy in the PRC, the institutional change which has characterized social protection …

Is Policy Innovation possible under the Xi Jinping Regime? Prof. Reza Hasmath (University of Alberta) Tuesday, 07.11.2017, 18:00-19:30, T0.136 Abstract: Despite playing a key contributory role in China’s recent economic reforms and the Party’s regime durability, there has been a noted reduction in central-level policy experimentation under Xi Jinping’s administration. Recent studies have further noted …

Prof. Mark Frazier (India-China Institute, The New School)

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Prof. Liu Tao (University of Duisburg-Essen)

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Lecture Series 2018: Chinese Exceptionalism: A Research Agenda Liu Kang (Duke University) Tuesday, April 24, 6pm (c.t.), VG 3.103 Abstract: This lecture explores the emergent Chinese exceptionalism in order to search for a possible research agenda from interdisciplinary approaches. It will focus on modern times from Mao to the present, especially the ideological formations of …

Lecture Series 2018: China and International Order: What Order? Which Order? Alastair Iain Johnston (Harvard University) Tuesday, May 15, 6pm (c.t.), VG 3.103 Abstract: The discourse about China's challenge to the liberal world order assumes that such an order exists. This talk argues that there are instead multiple orders in different arenas (military, trade, finance, …

Lecture Series 2018: Chinese culture and foreign policy decision (中国文化与外交决策) Qin Yaqing 秦亚青(China Foreign Affairs University) Tuesday, May 29, 6pm (c.t.), VG 3.103   Short Bio of the lecturer: QIN Yaqing is President and Professor of China Foreign Affairs University (CFAU) and Chancellor of China Diplomatic Academy, Executive Vice-president of China National Association for International …

Lecture Series 2018: The Senkaku Islands Dispute: A MacGruffin? Todd Hall (Oxford University) Tuesday, June 5, 6pm (c.t.), Waldweg 9.102 Short Bio of the lecturer: Prof Hall earned his PhD from the University of Chicago in 2008 and has held postdoctoral fellowships at Princeton and Harvard, as well as visiting scholar appointments at the Free …

Lecture Series 2018: The BRICS and Collective Financial Statecraft   Saori Katada (University of Southern California) Tuesday, June 12, 6pm (c.t.), VG 3.103 Abstract: In the first decade of the 21st century, five rising powers (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) formed an exclusive and informal international club, the BRICS.  Although neither revolutionaries nor …