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• Speakers

  28 July 2014

  Prof. Paolo Davide Farah
  West Virginia University (WV, USA), gLAWcal – Global Law Initiatives For Sustainable Development (United Kingdom), University Institute of European Studies, IUSE (Turin, Italy)

• Organization

  25 July 2014

  The event is organized by gLAWcal - Global Law Initiatives for Sustainable Development (United Kingdom) in collaboration with the University Institute of European Studies (Turin, Italy), Peking University, School of Government, Center for European Studies (China), Tsinghua University, Departement of Philosophy (China) in the framework of the European Union Research Executive Agency IRSES Project “Liberalism in Between Europe And China” (LIBEAC), Workpackages 2 and 4, coordinated by (…)

• Speakers

  25 July 2014

  Prof. Daniel Bell Professor at Department of Philosophy and Director of the Center for International and Comparative Political Theory at Tsinghua University
  Relevant Readings Books: Daniel Bell, China’s new Confucianism (Princeton University Press, 2008) Daniel Bell, Beyond Liberal Democracy (Princeton University Press, 2007)
  Articles: Daniel Bell, Meritocracy is a good thing, New Perspectives Quarterly, Fall 2012

• Location

  25 July 2014

  The School of Government of the Peking University is located in the Leo KoGuan Building 廖凯原楼.
  The address is Northern Zhongguancun Road 中村北大街.
  Take the subway Line 4 to East Gate of Peking University, Exit A.
  The lecture will be held in Room 505 at the 5th Floor of the Leo KoGuan Building.

• Agenda

  25 July 2014

  Introduction Prof. Paolo Davide Farah
  9.30 am - 12.30 am Part I: “On the Selection of Good Leaders in a Political Meritocracy” Part II: “What’s wrong with Political Meritocracy” Part III: “Models of Democratic Meritocracy” Prof. Daniel Bell
  Questions and Answers

• Concluding Remarks

  12 June 2014

  The research opportunities and experiences at AMU have turned out to be both challenging and constructive. We say “challenging” in the sense that we have never encountered with economic theories as seriously as here at AMU. A new field of research has been opened up. We say “constructive” in the sense that while learning from dialogue with economists, we find that there is something that we can contribute to intellectual development in general and LIBEAC in particular by drawing out the (…)

• Participation in ESHET Conference at Lausanne

  12 June 2014

  1) On May 28, 2014, we travelled to Lausanne, Swiss to participate in the ESHET 18th conference on liberalism. We are glad to report that we met many characteristic personalities through this international conference. First of all, Professor Alain Kirman who delivered the keynote speech was impressive in terms of the depth and broadness of his knowledge in economic thought as well as the style of presentation and response to questions. We had some opportunities to talk with him throughout (…)

• GREQAM Presentation

  12 June 2014

  Returning back to Aix-en-Provence, we worked together to prepare our joint paper to be presented, first, in GREQAM seminar and, secondly, in the upcoming ESHET conference. Reflecting from what we had learned from GREQAM seminars, namely the relevance of theories of justice for exploring a new dimension of liberalism with the focus on the economy, we paid attention to Habermas’ theory of communicative justice and began to explore its economic consequences with respect to a specific historical (…)

• Visit Munich, Germany to meet Prof. Ulrich Beck

  12 June 2014

  1) Professor Ulrich Beck invited us to Munich. So we flied to Munich on May 3 and stayed at Hotel Englischer Garten for 3 nights until May 6, 2014. Currently, he leads an ERC project called which held the first intensive workshop in Potsdam, Germany, late November 2013. Prof. Han joined this workshop as an East Asian partner. An agreement was made that time to hold the second intensive workshop in Seoul National University in July 2014 just before the Yokohama World Congress of Sociology in (…)

• Seminar at Lyon

  12 June 2014

  1) We were invited to LIA (Laboratory Internationally Associated), and Triangle of Ecole Normale Superiere of Lyon and CNRS from April 28 to April 30, 2014 by Professor Laurence Rolleau-Berger of ENS and CNRS whom we have known well since when we met in Beijing. She had prepared for these academic events carefully inviting many experts and advertising in the website. The host institute covered the full expense of this trip including hotel and TGV train.
  2) Upon arrival, on April 28, 2014, (…)