Globalization and China: Challenging Cultural Boundaries

Hybridity of Culture: The Chinese Diaspora

 Adam Mckeown, Professor of History, Northeastern University; Author, Chinese Migrant Networks in Peru, Chicago and Hawaii in the Early Twentieth Century and "Conceptualizing Chinese Diasporas, 1842 to 1949"

June Mei, Consultant and Interpreter/ Facilitator for U.S. Presidents and secretaries of state and Chinese heads of state, including Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji

Jean Wu, Program and Education Director, Arts and Science Diversity Office and Senior Lecturer in American Studies, Tufts University

Moderators: Amy Kumpel, Tufts University and Lie Na Doris, University of Hong Kong

Migration and Globalization: The Silk Road

 Joan Lebold Cohen, Photographer; Art Historian; Author, The New Chinese Painting, 1949-1986 and Painting the Chinese Dream: Chinese Art Thirty Years after the Revolution

 Susan Gronewold, Professor of History, Marist College; Author, Beautiful Merchandise: Prostitution in China

 Gary Leupp, Associate Professor of History; Adjunct Associate Professor of Comparative Religion, Tufts University

 Beatrice F. Manz, Associate Professor of History, Tufts University; Author, The Rise and Fall of Tamerlane; Editor, Central Asia in Historical Perspective

Wing-kai To, Professor of History and Director of Asian Studies, Bridgewater State College; Visiting Lecturer in History, Tufts University; Author, "Maritime China: Culture, Commerce, and Society" and "The Making of Cantonese Society: Religion, Community, and Identity Formation in the Pearl River Delta"

Bruce Tomason, Participant, 2000 Around the World Classic Rally (Silk Road to Beijing); Education for Public Inquiry and International Citizenship Executive Board Member, Tufts University

• Moderators: Alison Fleisher, Tufts University and Ng Ka Ho Felix, University of Hong Kong

Mel Bernstein, Vice President for Arts, Sciences, and Technology, Tufts University

Sherman Teichman, Director, Institute for Global Leadership

Maria Speridakos, Tufts University and Lu Feng Susan, Peking University

Global Culture: Mediating the Unique and the Universal

Introduction: Esther Won, Director of Content and General Counsel, The Silk Road Project

Part I

Kwame Anthony Appiah (Via Video), Professor of Philosophy and Afro-American Studies, Harvard University; Co-Editor, The Dictionary of Global Culture; Author, In My Father's House: Africa in the Philosophy of Culture

Juan Enriquez, Author, As the Future Catches You: Making Sense of a Topsy-Turvy World; Researcher, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University

Michael M.J. Fischer, Professor of Anthropology, MIT; Coauthor, Anthropology as Culture Critique: An Experimental Moment in the Human Sciences; Associate, Center for Culture and Globalization, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong

Lawrence Harrison, Associate, The Academy for International and Area Studies Harvard University; Author, Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress and Underdevelopment is a State of Mind

Charles Shiro Inouye, Dean of the Colleges for Undergraduate Education and Professor of Japanese, Tufts University; Director, New England Regional Association of Asian Studies

• Moderators, Part I: Sarada Peri, Tufts University and Louisa Yan Mei Ling, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Part II

 Jerome A. Cohen, Senior Fellow for Asia Studies, Council on Foreign Relations; Professor of Law, New York University Law School; Author, People's China and International Law

Lionel M. Jensen, Associate Professor and Chair of East Asian Languages and Literature, University of Notre Dame; Author, Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization; Co-Editor, China beyond the Headlines

  David Landes, Professor Emeritus of History and Economics, Harvard University; Author, The Wealth and Poverty of Nations, Bankers and Pashas, The Unbound Prometheus, and Revolution in Time

Lucian W. Pye, Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, MIT; Author, Asian Power and Politics: The Cultural Dimensions of Authority and How China's Nationalism was Shanghaied

Tu Weiming, Harvard-Yenching Professor of Chinese History and Philosophy and of Confucian Studies at Harvard University; Director, Harvard-Yenching Institute; Author, Neo-Confucian Thought: Wang Yang-ming's Youth; Confucian Thought: Selfhood as Creative Transformation; and Wang, Learning, and Politics: Essays on the Confucian Intellectual

• Moderators, Part II: Dan Elman, Tufts University and Xiao Shijun Shawn, Peking University

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Bei Ling, Editor-in-Chief/Founder, Tendency Quarterly; Author, "Underground Poetry during the Cultural Revolution" and "China New Wave Poetry Movement"; Former Research Associate, Fairbank Center, Harvard University

Jingcao Hu, Director, China Central Television, Beijing; Nieman Fellow, Harvard University 

David J. Rothkopf, Director and Chief Executive Officer, Intellibridge Corporation, former Managing Director, Board of Directors Kissinger Associates; former Deputy Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, Clinton Administration

Danny Schechter, Founder and Vice President/Executive Producer, Globalvision Inc.; Emmy Award-winning Broadcaster; Author, Falun Gong's Challenge to China: Spiritual Practice or "Evil Cult"?; Former Executive Producer, "China Now"

Wing-kai ToProfessor of History and ?Director of Asian Studies at Bridgewater State College; Visiting Lecturer in History, Tufts University; Author, "Maritime China; Culture, Commerce, and Society" and "The Making of Cantonese Society: Religion, Community, and Identity Formation in the Pearl River Delta"

 Robert Weller, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University, Research Associate, Institute for the Study of Economic Culture; Author, Alternate Civilities: Chinese Culture and the Prospects for Democracy; Unruly Gods: Divinity and Society in China; Resistance, Chaos and Control in China: Taiping Rebels, Taiwanese Ghosts and Tiananmen.

• Moderators: Chris Panagos, Tufts University and Ho Mei Ling, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Values and Progress: Development and the Market Economy

David O. Dapice, Associate Professor of Economics, Tufts University; Faculty Associate in International Development and Economic Reforms; Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University

Lawrence Harrison, Associate, The Academy for International and Area Studies Harvard University; Author, Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress and Underdevelopment is a State of Mind

George Norman, Cummings Professor of Entrepreneurship and Business Economics, Tufts University 

Michael Santoro, Professor of International Business and Business Environment, Rutgers Graduate School of Management; Author, Profits and Principles: Global Capitalism and Human Rights in China

• Moderators: Ken Fan, Tufts University and Annie Szeto, The University of Hong Kong

The Global Environment: Negotiating Cultural Attitudes and International Regimes

William Moomaw, Professor of International Environmental Policy, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy; Director, Tufts Institute of the Environment, Tufts University; Convening Lead Author, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change 2000

 Judith Shapiro, Professor, School of International Service and Co-Director, M.A. Program in Environmental Policy, American University; Author, Mao's War Against Nature: Politics and the Environment in Revolutionary China (2001) 

Vaclav Smil, Professor of Geography, University of Manitoba; Author, China's Environmental Crisis; Recipient, 2001 American Academy of Arts and Sciences Award for Public Understanding of Science and Technology

 Robert Weller, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University, Research Associate, Institute for the Study of Economic Culture; Author, Alternate Civilities: Chinese Culture and the Prospects for Democracy; Coeditor, Power and Protest in the Countryside: Studies of Rural Unrest in Asia, Europe, and Latin America

• Moderators: Kelly Knee, Tufts University and Yang Qian Neo, Peking University 

Clash of Civilizations? Emerging Power Dynamics of Globalization

Warren I. Cohen, Professor of History, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Author, East Asian Art and American Culture and The Chinese Connection

 Lionel M. Jensen, Associate Professor and Chair of East Asian Languages and Literature, University of Notre Dame; Author, Manufacturing Confucianism: Chinese Traditions and Universal Civilization; Co-Editor, China beyond the Headlines

Kishore Mahbubani, Author, Can Asians Think?; Permanent Representative of Singapore to the United Nations and President of the United Nations Security Council

Lucian W. Pye, Professor of Political Science, Emeritus, MIT; Author, Asian Power and Politics: The Cultural Dimensions of Authority and How China's Nationalism was Shanghaied

 Sin-Ming Shaw, Columnist, Time Asia; Visiting Scholar, Fairbank Center, Harvard University

• Moderators: David Alexandre Chang, Tufts University Liu Lina Echo, Peking University and a Cadet Sukhdev Purewal United States Military Academy

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Continuities and Contradictions in Modern Chinese Culture

Part I 

Ethan Cohen, Curator/Director, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts Gallery

Joan Lebold Cohen, Art Historian; Author, The New Chinese Painting, 1949-1986 and Yunnan School: A Renaissance in Chinese Painting; Coauthor, China Today

 Gu Wenda, Artist, "United Nations---An Ongoing Global Art Project for the 21st Century"; Former Professor Central Fine Arts Academy, Beijing

Huajing Masake, Art Historian; Lecturer in Chinese Art and Calligraphy

Qin Feng, Artist; founder, Blue Village Painter Association; Co-founder, World Artists Camp, Beijing; Founder Director, Ammonal Gallery, Beijing (first privately owned gallery in China)

Eugene Yuejin Wang, Assistant Professor of History of Art and Architecture, Harvard University; Former Getty Fellow in the Humanities and History of Art; Former Ittleson Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC 

Xu Bing, Internationally-acclaimed Artist; "Introduction to New English Calligraphy", "Book from the Sky", " A Case Study of Transference"; Recipient, MacArthur "Genius" Award; Former Faculty Member, Central Fine Arts Academy, Beijing

• Moderators: Lisa Lake, Tufts University and Lui Oi Lun Irene, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Part II

Sudipto Chatterjee, Professor of Drama, Tufts University; Former Artistic Director, EPIC Actors' Workshop and Choir; Filmaker

Leo Ou-fan Lee, Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University; Author, A Tale of Two Cities: Shanghai and Hong Kong and their Cultural Relationship (forthcoming); Fellow, Center for Culture and Globalization, Department of Comparative Literature, University of Hong Kong

Bei Ling, Editor-in-Chief/Founder, Tendency Quarterly; Author, "Underground Poetry During the Cultural Revolution" and "China New Wave Poetry Movement"; Former Research Associate, Fairbank Center, Harvard University

Meng Lang, Chief Executive Editor, Tendency Quarterly; Author, Even the Sunrise is Stale, Founder, Modern Chinese Poetry Journal

Shujen Wang, Professor of Visual and Media Arts, Emerson College; President, Chinese Communication Association

• Moderators: Stephanie Mauterstock, Tufts University and Jin Jinping, Peking University

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