David Stork, Stanford University, Stanford, USA
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Dr. David G. Stork is Chief Scientist of Ricoh Innovations and Consulting Professor of Statistics at Stanford University. He is a graduate in physics of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Maryland at College Park; he also studied art history at Wellesley College and was Artist-in-Residence through the New York State Council of the Arts. More…
Douglas Kellner, University of California, Los Angeles, USA
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Douglas Kellner is George Kneller Chair in the Philosophy of Education at UCLA and is author of many books on social theory, politics, history, and culture, including Camera Politica: The Politics and Ideology of Contemporary Hollywood Film, co-authored with Michael Ryan; Critical Theory, Marxism, and Modernity; Jean Baudrillard: From Marxism to Postmodernism and Beyond; works in cultural studies such as Media Culture and Media Spectacle; a trilogy of books on postmodern theory with Steve Best; and a trilogy of books on the media and the Bush administration, encompassing Grand Theft 2000, From 9/11 to Terror War, and Media Spectacle and the Crisis of Democracy. Author of Herbert Marcuse and the Crisis of Marxism, Kellner is editing collected papers of Herbert Marcuse, four volumes of which have appeared with Routledge. More…
Accommodation for the 2010 Humanities Conference in Los Angeles, USA may now be booked. Please see the Conference Accommodation webpage for more information.
Michael Zhao, Chinese Educational Consultin, Beijing, China
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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
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James R. Pusey, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA
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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.
Accommodation for the 2009 Humanities Conference in Beijing, China may now be booked. Please see the Conference Accommodation webpage for more information.
Greg Clingham, Professor of English and Director of the University Press at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, USA.
Wu Qing, Beijing Cultural Development Center for Rural Women, Beijing, China.
2-5 June 2009
Beijing, China
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