Call for speakers and participants 

The 4th Global China Dialogue：
The Belt and Road (B&R) --
Transcultural collaborations for shared goals

The GCD IV is the only high-end forum in the world to take China’s ‘The Belt and Road’ as a global initiative and to discuss China and Chinese participation in building global society and comprehensive governance of global society.

Date: Thursday-Saturday, 30 Nov-2 December, 2017

Organizers:

• Global China Academy, UK
• Lau China Institute, King’s College London, UK
• China Media Centre of the University of Westminster, UK
• Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies at Renmin University of China (RDCY), China

Panels: 

• How the B&R connects different civilizations
• How people-to-people bonding operates through transcultural practice
• What are theoretical and legal bases of the B&R
• How the media can help to promote the B&R as a Chinese contribution to the human community.    

Schedule: 

• Thursday 30^th November, 14:00-17:00 Registration, Symposium of Globalization of Chinese for Social Sciences, University of Westminster
• Friday 1^st December, 08:30-17:00 The Dialogue, the British Academy
• Friday 1^st December, 18:00-20:00 Reception, the UK Parliament
• Saturday 2^nd December, 10:00-16:00 A workshop on Chinese for Social Sciences, King’s College London

Organizing Committee (in alphabetical order):

Chairs  

• Professor Xiangqun Chang Professor Xiangqun Chang, Director of Global China Academy; Honorary Professor of UCL
• Professor Kerry Brown Professor Kerry Brown, Director of Lau China Institute, King’s College London
• Professor Hugo de Burgh Professor Hugo de Burgh, Director of the China Media Centre, University of Westminster
• Professor WANG Wen, Executive Dean of Chongyang Institute for Financial Studies, Renmin University of China.

Members

• Professor Martin Albrow FAcSS, Honorary Vice-President of the British Sociological Association (BSA), Emeritus Professor of the University of Wales, UK 
• Dr Dongning Feng, Senior Lecturer, former Director of the Centre for Translation Studies, SOAS, University of London, UK
• Emeritus Professor Stephan Feuchtwang, Department of Anthropology, LSE, UK
• Mr Chris Henson, Membership Secretary, 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 LI Qiang, Dean, Faculty of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University; former President of Chinese Sociological Association, China    
• Professor Wei Li FAcSS, FRSA, Director, UCL Centre for Applied Linguistics, University College of London, UK
• Professor LUO Jiaojiang, Dean of Institute of Social Development, Wuhan University, China; Deputy Director of  Global China Academy, UK  
• Professor Tony McEneryFAcSS, FRSA, Interim Chief Executive and Director of Research, the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK 
• Professor ZHANG Letian, Director of the Centre for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Director of Contemporary China Social Life Data and Research Centre (CCSLC), Fudan University, China; and Co-Director of Global China Academy, UK 

Registrations and fees: 

• Free: to be a speaker to complete the form and submit abstract, click HERE 
• ​Free, click HERE for registrations of one or more events below: 

1) 30/11, participating in GCSS
2) 1/12, helping with the GCD IV without evening Reception
3) 2/12, participating in CSS  

• £180: 1/12 participating in GCD IV without evening Reception, click HERE to register and pay  
• £280: 1/12 participating in GCD IV with evening Reception, click HERE to register and pay
• £580: 29/11-3/12 5 days package including the above three day events plus tailor-made academic activities, download template HERE; click HERE to register and pay
• £680: 26/11-3/12 8 days package including the above three day events plus tailor-made academic activities, download templateclick HERE; click HERE to register and pay
• £780: 26/11-15/12 20 days package including the above three day events plus tailor-made academic activities, download template HERE; click HERE to register and pay

Please note that places are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

Deadlines:  

• 2 October for speakers 
• 15 October for participants

Contact：

Ms XIONG Yi info@gci-uk.org 

Website: http://dialogue.global-china.org

Related info：

• Events of The Belt and Road (B&R) or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) 
• Policy and research of the Belt and Road (B&R) or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
• Projects and practice of the Belt and Road (B&R) or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
• Transculture and the Belt and Road (B&R) or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
• A complete set of correct English translations for the Belt and Road (B&R) - in Chinese
• Events of the Belt and Road (B&R) or Belt and Road Initialtive (BRI)
• Policy and research of the Belt and Road (B&R) or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
• Projects and practice of the Belt and Road (B&R) or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)
• Transculture and the Belt and Road (B&R) or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)

Above collections are from Google 20 pages in key words one belt one road in both English and Chinese

More info:

• Belt and Road Portal (English), the State Information Center
• Belt and Road initiative (BRI) (English) by Xinhua Net
• One belt one road (OBOR) database (Chinese), by SSAP 
• Belt and road basics (English), by HKTDC
• Belt and Road videos (Chinese), CCTV
•  China Guiding Cases Project:Belt and Road initiative (BRI), Stanford Law School

Visit the GCD IV Home page 

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