9:00-9:15am 9:15-9:30am 9:30-11:00am Arrival and Refreshments Welcome and Introduction Rule of Law and Corruption Sue Trevaskes (Griffith University) June Wang Zhiqiong (Western Sydney University) 11:00-11:15am 11:15-12:45pm MORNING COFFEE Democracy, Civil Society and Governance Jeffrey Riegel (University of Sydney) John Keane (University of Sydney) 12:45-1:45pm 1:45-3:15pm LUNCH Remaking Chinese Culture Jon von Kowallis (University of New South Wales) Xu Jian (University of New South Wales) 3:15-3:30pm 3:30-4:30pm AFTERNOON TEA China in the World 4:30-5:30pm Senate Boardroom Lobby Q, Quadrangle University of Sydney Tuesday 12 April 2016 Colin Wight (University of Sydney) Chen Jianfu (La Trobe University) Sun Wanning (University of Technology, Sydney) Closing Remarks Yu Keping (Peking University) Yu Yang (interpreter)
Launched last year, the annual SDN Encounter at the University of Sydney aims to bring together scholars, practitioners and members of the public to examine in detail the work of a leading contemporary thinker, in her or his presence. The one-day SDN Encounter includes a day-long forum (mainly by invitation only), and an evening public lecture. The honoured guest of the 2016 SDN Encounter is. He is the new Director of the Research Centre for Chinese Politics and Dean of the School of Government, Peking University. He was previously Deputy President of the Central Compilation and Translation Bureau. Yu Keping is widely known for his commentaries on Chinese society and politics, and for his influential writings in the fields of political philosophy, law, globalisation, civil society, culture and democratic governance. Among his many books are The Globalisation Paradox (1998); Democracy is a Good Thing (2010); China in the Next 30 Years (2011); Happiness and Dignity (2012); Governance and Rule of Law in China (2012); Globalisation and Changes in China s Governance (2013); and On China s Cultural Transformation (2015). Yu Keping has written columns for such platforms as The New York Times, The Globalist and The Huffington Post. As a leading intellectual and advocate of democratic governance in China, he has earned honorary titles at many universities and was officially selected (in 2008) as one of the 30 most influential figures in the past 30 years of reforms in China. In 2011, he was ranked in the Global Top 100 Thinkers by Foreign Policy in the United States. Yu Keping was recently selected by the Chinese News Weekly as the Most Influential Scholar of 2015. Yu Keping will be present during the morning and afternoon workshops devoted to a critical assessment of his work on such key subjects as the rule of law and corruption; democracy, governance and civil society; China s global role; and the future of Chinese culture. Morning coffee/tea and lunch will be provided. 去年推出的一年一度悉尼大学 SDN Encounter 目的在于汇集学者, 从业人员和普通群众回顾与评论一位领先的当代思想家的学术成果, 并与其本人进行面对面交流 SDN Encounter 包括为期一天的研讨会, 一场公开讲演与后续的媒体报道 2016 年 SDN Encounter 的嘉宾是俞可平教授 现任北京大学讲席教授 北京大学中国政治学研究中心主任兼政府管理学院院长, 曾任中共中央编译局副局长 他对中国社会与政治的评论, 和在政治哲学, 法律, 全球化, 公民社会, 文化与民主治理等研究领域是广受关注的 著有 全球化悖论 (1998 年 ); 民主是个好东西 (2010 年 ); 中国未来 30 年 (2011 年 ); 幸福和尊严 (2012 年 ); 中国治理与依法治国 (2012 年 ); 全球化与中国治理的变革 (2013 年 ) 和 中国文化转型 ( 2 0 1 5 年 ) 俞可平在 纽约时报, The Globalist 和 赫芬顿邮报 上著有专栏 作为在中国领先的学者与民主治理的倡导者, 他曾在多所大学获得荣誉称号, 并于 2008 年被中国经济体制改革研究会等评为 改革开放 30 年 30 名社会人物 之一 在 2011 年被美国 外交政策 杂志评选为 2011 年度全球百名顶尖思想家 俞可平最近被 中国新闻周刊 评选为 2015 年最具影响力学者 俞可平教授将出席上午与下午的研讨会, 届时众来宾会重点评论其在依法治国与贪污腐败 民主治理与公民社会 中国在全球的角色与中国文化的未来等领域的学术成果 提供上午茶水咖啡与午餐
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Rule of Law and Corruption Professor Sue Trevaskes School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science, Griffith University Sue Trevaskes is a scholar working in the area of Chinese criminal justice at Griffith University. She is an Adjunct Director of the Australian Centre on China in the World (CIW) at the Australian National University, and head of the CIW China Justice research stream. She has made contributions to the field of contemporary Chinese criminal justice studies through her work on criminal law, punishment and policing issues in China. Trevaskes research contributions have been recognised by the award of a three-year ARC Fellowship in 2005 and a five-year ARC fellowship in 2009. These fellowships have resulted in a number of papers and books including the first scholarly book in English on criminal courts in contemporary China (2007), a book on policing serious crime in China (2010), and a book on the death penalty in China (2012). Her latest books are co-edited volumes on The Politics of Law and Stability in China (2014) and Legal Reforms and Deprivation of Liberty in Contemporary China (2016). Dr June Wang Zhiqiong School of Law, Western Sydney University June Wang Zhiqiong joined the School of Law at Western Sydney University as a lecturer in January 2010. She has an LLM from the University of Sydney (2003) and a PhD from the University of New South Wales (2010). Prior to her current appointment, she was an associate lecturer in the School of Business Law and Taxation at UNSW while completing her PhD. June formerly worked as a lawyer in Beijing specialising in foreign investment law, international trade regulation and intellectual property law.
Democracy, Civil Society and Governance Professor Jeffrey Riegel China Studies Centre, University of Sydney Jeffrey Riegel is Director of the China Studies Centre. He formerly served as Head of the School of Languages and Cultures at the University of Sydney from January 2007 to January 2015 and is now Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences as well as Louis B. Agassiz Professor Emeritus of Chinese at the University of California, Berkeley. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (1986), a Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Senior Scholar Research Grant (1999), and an Australia Research Council Discovery Project Grant (2010), he is the co-author of Chinese Archaeological Abstracts (UCLA, 1985), The Annals of Lü Buwei(Stanford, 2001), and Mozi: A Study and Translation of the Ethical and Political Writings (Berkeley, 2013) and the author of numerous articles on various aspects of Chinese thought, literature, and archaeology. Professor John Keane Sydney Democracy Network, University of Sydney John Keane is co-founder of the Sydney Democracy Network (SDN) and Professor of Politics at the University of Sydney and the Wissenschaftszentrum Berlin (WZB). His full-scale history of democracy, The Life and Death of Democracy (2009), was short-listed for the 2010 Non-Fiction Prime Minister s Literary Award, and recently ranked (by one of Japan s leading newspapers, Asahi Shimbun) within the top three non-fiction books published during 2013 in Japan. He writes a column for the London/Melbourne-based web platform The Conversation.
Remaking Chinese Culture Associate Professor Jon Eugene von Kowallis University of New South Wales Dr Jon Eugene von Kowallis is Convenor of the Chinese Studies Program in the School of Humanities and Languages at the University of New South Wales (UNSW). He studied Chinese language and literature at Columbia University (BA), Hawaii (MA), and the University of California, Berkeley (PhD). He has authored Wit and Humour from Old Cathay (on pre-modern Chinese humour), The Lyrical Lu Xun: a study of his classical-style verse and The Subtle Revolution: Poets of the Old Schools during late Qing and early Republican China. He is presently chief investigator on an ARC Discovery project concerning the development of Lu Xun s early thought during his Japan period (1906-1908). He was elected Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (London), Arch Professor of World Languages and Cultures (Georgia), and has served as Jaroslav Prusek Visiting Professor of East Asian Studies at Karlova (Prague). Dr Xu Jian University of New South Wales Xu Jian holds a PhD in Media and Communications from the University of New South Wales. He was a 2015 Endeavour Research Fellow in the School of International Studies, University of Technology, Sydney. He is a joint visiting scholar in the Centre for the Study of Contemporary China and the Centre for Global Communication Studies, University of Pennsylvania (2015-2016). Dr Xu researches digital communication in China with a particular focus on Internet activism, media events, Internet governance and philanthropy. He is the author of Media Events in Web 2.0 China: Interventions of Online Activism (Sussex Academic Press, 2016).
China in the World Professor Colin Wight Department of Government and International Relations, University of Sydney Colin Wight is Chair of the Department of Government and International Relations. His research interests originate in the desire to explore and understand the fragmented nature of International Relations Theory and to embed this understanding in wider intellectual and public debates. Although primarily interested in theory all his work is constructed around the desire to understand, and show, how theoretical work impacts on empirical research. His Cambridge University Press book, Agents Structures and International Relations, examines the manner in which differing theories conceptualise the key units of analysis that are claimed to contribute to the processes of International Relations, and attempts to show how these understandings play a role in substantive empirical research and the practice of international politics. He is also interested in all aspects of political violence and is currently completeing a book on Terrorism, Violence and the State. Professor Chen Jianfu La Trobe Law School Chen Jianfu is Professor of Law, School of Law, La Trobe University, Melbourne and Fellow of the Australian Academy of Law. He was previously Deputy Head of Law School (2006-2008) and Head of Law School (2008-2010, inclusive). He was selected as a 1000-Plan Scholar under the National Thousand Talents Plan, China, in 2011. Professor Chen is also an arbitrator of the China International Economic and Trade Arbitration Commission (CIETAC). Professor Chen specialises in international and comparative law, international business and trade law, human rights law, globalisation and law, and Chinese law.
China in the World Professor Sun Wanning University of Technology Sydney Sun Wanning is Professor of Media and Communication Studies at the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology, Sydney. Wanning researches and supervises research students in Chinese media and communication, social change and inequality in contemporary China, and diasporic Chinese media. Wanning is the author of Leaving China: Media, Migration, and Transnational Imagination (2002), Maid in China: Media, Morality and the Cultural Politics of Boundaries (2009), and Subaltern China: Rural Migrants, Media and Cultural Practices ( 2014). She has also edited a number of volumes including Media and the Chinese Diaspora (2006) and Rethinking Diasporic Chinese Media (2015). She is a member of the editorial board for Media International Australia (MIA),Communication, Culture & Critique (ICA), Asian Journal of Communication, and Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. Interpreter Yu Yang Department of Immigration and Border Protection, Australian Government Yang Yu is a Sydney-based freelance interpreter, poet and violinist, who graduated from the University of Sydney in 2015. Yang interpreted for the former Prime Minister Bob Hawke in 2013, and recited his poem on civil rights To Speak or Not To Speak at the 2014 University of Sydney Festival of Democracy. He is currently working with the Department of Immigration and Border Protection as well as Multicultural NSW.