Anand Menon, from OpenDemocracy.net, reflects on the future of the European Parliament…
The campaign for the elections to the European parliament, being held across the European Union’s twenty-seven member-states on 4-7 June 2009, has made one thing clearer than ever. Insofar as people have any intention of voting at all, most will do so on the basis of the performance of national politicians in dealing with national problems within national political systems. More…
Common Ground Publishing have relaunched The Humanities imprint.
You can now submit proposals or completed manuscript submissions of:
Books should be between 30,000 words and 150,000 words in length. They will be published simultaneously in print and electronic formats.
Michael Zhao, Chinese Educational Consultin, Beijing, China
www.Humanities-Conference.com
Michael Zhao is both a Chinese educator and an American entrepreneur. He holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from American University, with a focus on socio-economic development. He has more than 20 years of experience working in education and business management in both China and the United States. For the past three years, Dr. Zhao was Director of China Programs for the Institute for the International Education of Students (IES Abroad), a leading study-abroad institute in the US with 33 centers in 17 countries globally and sending over 5000 students to study abroad annually. In addition to expanding the institute’s existing study abroad center in Beijing, he established IES’s second China center in Shanghai. He has taught at the China Fire Engineering Institute in Xi’an, and in the U.S. at Montgomery College Rockville, Maryland, and at the American University, Washington D.C. More…
Zhang Zhiqiang, Professor of Publishing Studies and Library Science, Director of the Institute of Publishing Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China.
Marcus Wood, painter, performance artist and film maker; Professor in the English department, University of Sussex, Falmer, UK.
Pre-Conference Beijing Tour – 29 May 2009 – 4 nights
Post-Conference Xi’an Tour – 06 June 2009 – 2 nights
Post-Conference Beijing Tour – 05 June 2009 – 4 nights
For more details regarding one or more of these optional 2009 Humanities Conference Tours, please see the Activies and Extras on the Conference website.
James R. Pusey, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA
www.Humanities-Conference.com
James R. Pusey is a professor of Chinese Studies at Bucknell University, Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses on Chinese language, philosophy, literature and their relations with intellectual thought. He is the author of Lu Xun and Evolution (State University of New York Press, 1998) and also of other books and essays on Wu Han, K’ang Yu-wei, Liang Qichao and the impact of Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution in China. The recent publication of a translation of his China and Charles Darwin (Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard UP, 1983) is attracting both widespread interest in China and renewed attention abroad. He has recently completed a book manuscript titled “Confessions of a Chinese History Teacher: Reflection on the 200th Anniversary of the Macartney Mission.” In celebration of Charles Darwin’s bicentennial, he will be editing a volume of essays on Darwin and the humanities and social sciences. More…
Enjoy a wonderful dinner full of flavor and distinctions true to Chinese tradition. For more information on the Humanities Conference Dinner, please see the Activities and Extras at the Conference website.
Harry Lewis, Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science in the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA.
Judy Lattas, Director of the Interdisciplinary Women’s Studies, Gender and Sexuality program in Sociology, Macquarie University, Macquarie, Australia.
