Tsinghua University & Academia Europaea
“HSS, Globalization, and China”
Thursday 15 – Saturday 17 May 2014
Tsinghua University, Beijing
Organizers: Theo D’haen (AE/Leuven) , Wang Ning (AE/Tsinghua)
Erik De Corte (AE HERCULES/Leuven)
The international higher education landscape, in terms of numbers of students, student and
educator mobility, financing, volume and impact of publications, has been shifting
tremendously since the onset of the most recent wave of globalization. China has emerged
as perhaps the most important player in this game. If this much is clear in the field of the
exact and especially the applied sciences, and in medicine, it is perhaps less evident or at
least less easily charted in the humanities and social sciences. The present conference aims
to do precisely that. To this purpose we will bring together a number of speakers, in first
instance from China and Europe/the West, but also from other regions of the world likewise
impacted by the developments just sketched, to specifically review the position of the
humanities and social sciences in light of China’s entry on the world higher education stage.
PROGAM
May 14, 2014
Registration: Wenjin Hotel, Tsinghua Science Park, Haidian District, Beijing
May 15
09:30-10.00
Opening Ceremony
Reception Hall, 2nd Floor, Main Building, Tsinghua University
Chair: Wang Ning
1. Welcome remarks by Vice President Xie Weihe on behalf of Tsinghua University
2. Remarks by Professor Erik De Corte on behalf of Academia Europaea
3. Remarks by Professor Liu Kang on behalf of the Institute of Arts and Humanities, Shanghai
Jiao Tong University
4. Remarks by Professor Geoffrey Harpham on behalf of Non-European Scholars
Interval: Picture Taking
10.30-10:55
Keynote Speech 1
Chair: Svend Erik Larsen
Theo D’Haen: Worlding The Social Sciences and Humanities
11:00-11.25
Keynote Speech 2
Chair: Liu Shisheng
Wang Ning: China in the Process of Globalization: Mainly a Cultural Perspective
11:30-11:55
Keynote Speech 3
Chair: Liu Kang
Geoffrey Harpham: Intellectual Foundations of the Modern Humanities
Lunch Buffet: 12:00, Jiasuo Faculty Club, Tsinghua University
14.00-15.30
Meeting Hall, Wenjin Hotel
The role of the humanities and social sciences in higher education in Europe/the West and China:
their weight and impact
Chair: Geoffrey Harpham
a. Wilhelm Krull: “The Integrative Capacity of the Humanities in a Globalized World”
b. Liu Kang: “Interests, Values, and Geopolitics: The Global Public Opinion on China”
c. Mauro Dorato: “Science and democracy: plularism of theories and pluralism of opinions
are not an argument in favor of relativism”
16.00-17.30
Chair: Sheng Anfeng
d. Zhou Xian: “Humanities’ Crisis and Its Reinvention”
e. Jesús Mosterín: “Scholars East and West: A Comparison of the role of the Humanities in
the higher education of the West and the role of the rujia scholarship in traditional
China”
f. Youngmin Kim: “Globalization and Transcultural Convergence in the Humanities in Korea”
Dinner: 6:00-8:00 Restaurant, Wenjin Hotel
MAY 16
Meeting Hall, Wenjin Hotel
08:30-10:00
Funding research in the humanities and social sciences in Europe/the West and China: players,
procedures, scales
Chair: Feng Zongxin
g. Alain Peyraube: “A comparative analysis of funding research in the humanities and social
sciences in Europe and in China”
h. Michael North: “Funding research in the humanities and social sciences in Europe, with
different foci on Western, Central and Eastern Europe?”
i. Chen Hongjie: Chinese Humanities under the background of “Dissemination of Western
Learning to the East”
10.30-12.00
Mobility of humanities and social science researchers and teachers between Europe/the West and
China: numbers, kinds, durability
Chair: Alain Peyraube
j.
Ulrich Teichler: “The World Map of Academic Mobility and the Europe-East Asia Mobility
in the HSS”
k. Stig Thøgersen: ““Chinese Students in Europe: Research trends and case studies”
l. Yin Li: “Low-age Trend in the flow of Chinese students to the West: Promises and
Problems”
14.00-15.30
Teaching HSS in Europe/the West and China: curricula, methods, emerging models (MOOCS, distance
learning, etc.)
Chair: Ye Jun
m. Erik de Corte: “ Improving higher education students’ learning proficiency by fostering
their self-regulation skills”
n. Sheng Anfeng: “A Discussion of the Concept of ‘Intrinsic Development’” in Higher
Education”
o. César Domínguez: 'Teaching Spanish Literature to Chinese Students in Spain in a
Multilingual Environment.'
16.00-17.30
Chair: Gianvittorio Caprara
p. Feng Zongxin: “The Interface of Humanism and Scientificism in China’s Foreign
Language/Literature as a Human and Social Science”
q. Christoph Bode:” "From Event to Node: How Nodal Structures Impact on Teaching and
Research in HSS"
r. Cao Shunqing & Lin He: “Toward a New Theory of Comparative Literature”
s. Lars Engwall: “The Glocalization of Management Education
Dinner: 6:00-8:00 Restaurant, Wenjin Hotel
May 17
Meeting Hall, Wenjin Hotel
08:30-10:00
Cross-Cultural exchanges between Europe/the West and China: what happens to European/Western
humanities and social science paradigms, concepts, and methods when they “travel” to China, and
vice-versa?
Chair: Ulrich Teichler
t.
Milena Zic-Fuchs: “Inter/multi/transdisciplinarity: Bridging Differences in ‘Cultures of
Knowledge’”
u. He Chengzhou: Theorizing Intercultural Performance: An East-Asian Perspective
v. Ottmar Ette: “Magic Screens. Biombos, Namban Art and the Art of Globalization and
Education between China, Japan, India, Spanish America and Europe in the Seventeenth
and Eighteenth Centuries”
10.30-12.30
Chair: Longxi Zhang
w. Tao Dongfeng: “Understanding our own ‘Death by Amusement’: The Hijacking of a
Western Cultural Theory in China”
x. Wim Blockmans: “The contextualisation of translation”
y. Ye Jun: “Traveling Theory or Kiao-Iing of Ideas: A Focus on Georg Lukács, Lucien
Goldmann and Raymond Henry Williams”
12.30-12.45
Concluding Remarks: Wang Ning
13:00-14:00 Banquet Restaurant, Wenjin Hotel
Afternoon
A trip to the Summer Palace
14:30 Starting from the Gate of Wenjin Hotel
May 18
A trip to the Great Wall
08:00 Starting from the Gate of Wenjin Hotel