Events
International research project on the New Silk Road's implications for higher education and research cooperation between China and Europe
Final Conference, 2021
4 – 5 November 2021
Utrecht, Netherlands
Funded by:
International Higher Education and Global Science: Europe-China relations in a Changing World Order
Convenors: Prof. dr. Marijk van der Wende (Utrecht University), Prof. dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen)
Past events and lectures
Date: 16 – 20 August 2021
Place: Utrecht, Netherlands
Convenors: Prof. dr. Marijk van der Wende, Jelena Gledic
For more information on this Summer School on “Internationalisation Challenged – Rethinking Global Higher Education”, click here. For the program, click here.
Date: 25 February 2021
Place: Online
Speaker: Prof. dr. Marijk van der Wende
Convenor: Centre for Global Higher Education (CGHE)
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Date: 11 February 2021
Place: Online
Speaker: Prof. dr. Marijk van der Wende
Convenor: The League of European Research Universities (LERU)
For more information, including the video, click here.
Date: 6 November 2020
Place: Online
Pariticipants: Xueting Ban, Stijn van Deursen, Burcu Ermeydan, Ruobing Fang, Jelena Gledic, Hanwei Li, Qian Li, Hannes Thees, Lin Tian, Andreas Günter Weis, Bowen Xu, Lili Yang, Dongmei Zhang and Kena Zheng.
Convenors: dr. Dascha Düring, prof. dr. Marijk van der Wende, prof. dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier
For more information on this Young Scholars Workshop, click here.
Date: 5 November 2020
Place: Online
Speakers: Marijk van der Wende, William Kirby, Nian Cai Liu, Simon Marginson, Dominic Sachsenmaier, Futao Huang, Gerry Postiglione, Zheping Xie, Lynda Hardman, Stijn van Deursen, Barbara Sporn, Simon Baker, Ben Upton and Koen Jonkers.
Convenor: Prof. dr. Marijk van der Wende
For more information on this Book Launch Webinar, including the recording, click here.
Date: 14 May 2020
Place: Utrecht, Shanghai, Cambridge (MA), Oxford, Sydney, Göttingen
Speakers: Prof. dr. William Kirby, Simon Marginson, Dominic Sachsenmaier, Nian Cai Liu, Gerard A. Postiglione and Anthony Welch
Convenor: Prof. dr. Marijk van der Wende
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Date: 25 November 2019
Place: WU Vienna
Keynote speakers: Prof. dr. Marijk van der Wende
Convenor: Prof. dr. Barbara Sporn
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Date: 18 October 2019
Place: Harvard Center Shanghai
Keynote speakers: Prof. dr. Marijk van der Wende, prof. dr. Liu Niancai
Convenor: Prof. dr. William Kirby
For more information, click here. Also, click here (pdf) to view the programme.
Date: 19 – 23 August 2019
Place: Utrecht University
Keynote speakers: Prof. dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier, prof. dr. Chin lin Pang
Convenor: Prof. dr. Marijk van der Wende
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Date: 9 April 2019
Place: Tsinghua University Beijing
Keynote speakers: Prof. dr. Bill Kirby, prof. dr. Anthony Welch
Convenor: Dr. Zheping Xie
Powerpoints of various presentations are combined in this PDF. Click here to view the programme.
Date: 21 October 2018
Place: Oxford University, St Edmund Hall
Convenor: Prof. dr. Simon Marginson
Powerpoints of various presentations are combined in this PDF. Click here for the programme and audio registrations of this seminar.
Date: 26 June 2018
Place: Georg-August University Göttingen, Chinese Studies Department
Speakers: Prof. dr. Marijk van der Wende and prof. dr. Marcus Düwell
Convenor: Prof. dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier
Date: 29 May 2018
Place: WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Institute for Higher Education Management
Speaker: Prof. dr. Marijk van der Wende, Lunch Talk (programme)
Convenor: Prof. dr. Barbara Schachermayer-Sporn
Date: 24 May 2018
Place: Amsterdam University College
Speaker: Prof. dr. Marijk van der Wende
Lecture: The New Silk Road
A start seminar was organized on 19 March 2018 in Utrecht, the Netherlands.
The morning programme brought together UU scholars and international experts, with the aim to launch the research network as a platform for collaboration and exchange of relevant scholarly work, to explore contributions to the various areas of inquiry, to set out the path toward joint publications, and discuss opportunities for PhD training.
The afternoon programme was open to a wider audience. The closing remarks of the start seminar were made by Simon Marginson at Utrecht University on March 19, 2018. You can read them here (pdf).
Cancelled events and lectures (due to SARS-CoV-2)
Date: 29 June – 4 July 2020
Place: Shanghai, China
Keynote speakers: Prof. dr. Marijk van der Wende
Convenor: Prof. dr. Marijk van der Wende
Summer School: “The New Silk Road: Connecting Students and Universities from China and Europe“
THIS COURSE HAS BEEN CANCELLED BECAUSE OF THE SPREAD OF THE CORONA VIRUS. ALTERNATIVE (ONLINE) OPTIONS WILL BE ANNOUNCED IN DUE COURSE
Date: 13 – 15 May 2020
Place: Herrenhausen Castle, Hanover, Germany
Keynote speakers: Prof. dr. Marijk van der Wende, prof. dr. Liu Niancai, prof. dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier, prof. dr. William Kirby
Convenor: Prof. dr. Marijk van der Wende, prof. dr. Dominic Sachsenmaier
Dissemination conference: “China and Europe on the New Silk Road: Connecting Universities“
For more information, click here. Also, click here (pdf) to view the programme.
THIS EVENT WILL BE RESCHEDULED FOR AUTUMN 2021
Group photo at Tsinghua University
Marcin Grabiec at Tsinghua
Jiabin Zhu at Tsinghua
Bill Kirby at Tsinghua
Seminar at Tsinghua University
Isak Froumin at Tsinghua
William Kirby at Utrecht Universtiy
Opening by Sybe de Vries at Utrecht University
Marijk van der Wende at Utrecht University
Jie Gao at Utrecht University
Simon Marginson at Utrecht University
Niancai Liu at Utrecht University
Panel at Oxford University
Marijk van der Wende
Sybe de Vries at Tsinghua
Group picture at Utrecht University
Group photo, Summer School
Summer School in Utrecht
Henk Kummeling at Harvard Center Shanghai
Group discussion in Shanghai
Marijk van der Wende at Harvard Center Shanghai
Liu Niancai at Harvard Center Shanghai
Young Scholars perspectives on the future research agenda
Panel on Implications and dilemmas for open science, academic freedom, integrity, security
Panel on China and the changing world order
Opening Keynote by Prof. W. Kirby (Harvard University)
Opening by Prof. Marijk van der Wende
Opening address by Prof. Simon Marginson (University of Oxford)
Online Round Table on Reviewing and reframing the research agenda
Online panel on Evolving Euro-China relations in higher education and research
Audience in hybrid session
Closing Key Note by Prof. Johan van Benthem (Amsterdam, Tsinghua and Stanford Universities)
Closing panel on Universities’ role in a changing world order.
The project is carried out by an international consortium coordinated by Utrecht University’s Centre for Global Challenges (UGlobe).
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