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A one day satellite conference of the Battle of Ideas festival and part of CHINA NOW festival. This is an important day of debates in London designed to challenge assumptions and explore the rise of China in economic, cultural and political spheres. Various high profile speakers will be expressing their views and the audience will be encouraged to participate.
Saturday 12 July 2008
Saturday 12 July 2008
10am
6pm
Norton Rose- 3 More London Riverside- SE1 2AQ
Standard ticket: £15 Concessions: £10
Event
Sessions will examine whether the growth of China is a threat or an opportunity? Has China now gone from being a Yellow Peril to a Green Menace, choking on its growth? Or will it be the economic saviour of the 21st century?
Alongside rapid economic growth, is a new cultural revolution taking place in China? Could it be the hotbed of a new intellectual renaissance? Is China destined to be the next superpower? And is it the responsibility of the west to take every opportunity, including the Beijing Olympics, to pressurise China to improve its human rights record?
Speakers include: Professor Hugo De Burgh, director of China Media Centre, University of Westminster; Sarah Champion, CEO of Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester; Philip Cunliffe co-convenes the Sovereignty And Its Discontents (SAID) working group; Bill Durodie, Associate Fellow of the International Security Programme at Chatham House, London; Professor Deepak Lal, University of California; Claire Fox, Director, Institute of Ideas; Professor Frank Furedi, author of Invitation to Terror, Politics of Fear and Where Have All the Intellectuals Gone?; Simon Heale, CEO China Now; Professor Colin Lawson, Rector, Royal College of Music; Mark Leonard, author, What Does China Think?; Dr Rana Mitter, lecturer in Modern Chinese history and politics, University of Oxford; Brendan O’Neill, editor, Spiked; organiser, Beijing 2008 – Challenging China-Bashing campaign; Tao Wang, environmental economist and researcher; Guo Yue, Chinese bamboo flutes soloist and composer; author of Music, Food and Love, the first childhood memoir to have come out of Beijing's hutongs. And many more.
For Further Information see the event website:
http://www.battleofideas.org.uk/index.php/2008/strand/1138
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