BRITISH INTER-UNIVERSITY CHINA CENTRE LAUNCH CONFERENCE

HOTEL RUSSELL, RUSSELL SQUARE, LONDON

27th JUNE 2007

The British Inter-university China Centre (BICC) is holding its inaugural conference on 27-29 June 2007, with a launch event in London on 27 June followed by series of 5 academic workshops, and a language learning workshop in Oxford. BICC, inaugurated in October 2006, is a collaboration between Oxford, Bristol, and Manchester Universities. BICC has been awarded a grant of £5m from the Higher Education Funding Council for England, the Economic and Social Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council as part of the UK government’s Language-Based Area Studies Initiative. This conference will set the direction of BICC’s research for the following years.

Panels will be held on the following topics:

The World’s Workshop

A New Hegemon?

Population, Resources and the Environment

The New Social and Political Order: Socialism, Neoliberalism, Nationalism?

Confirmed Speakers include:

Professor Shaun Breslin, University of Warwick,
Eugene Chang, China-Britain Business Council,
Professor Joshua Fogel, York University (Canada),
Professor Rosemary Foot, University of Oxford,
Professor Susan Greenhalgh, UC Irvine,
Will Hutton, The Work Foundation,
Dr Ma Jun, Sinoshere Corporation,
Professor Roderick MacFarquhar, Harvard University,
Geoff Mulgan, Young Foundation,
Professor Vivienne Shue, University of Oxford,
Sir Crispin Tickell, University of Oxford,
Dr Zhao Baige, Vice-Minister, Population and Family Planning Commission, PRC

Full details are available on
http://www.bicc.ac.uk/Conferences/tabid/319/Default.aspx

If you would like to attend, please e-mail biccconference@area.ox.ac.uk