China’s new leadership: Notre Dame examines what changes mean | News | Notre Dame News | University of Notre Dame Skip To Content Skip To Navigation Skip To Search University of Notre Dame Notre Dame News Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Home Contact Search Menu Home › News › China’s new leadership: Notre Dame examines what changes mean China’s new leadership: Notre Dame examines what changes mean Published: May 09, 2013 Author: Brittany Collins Assembled for the first time at an analytical forum at the University of Notre Dame, a distinguished group of journalists, activists and academics will move beyond conventional scholarly ways of framing debates and address the dramatic changes in China’s leadership in relation to the global community. To explore what those changes mean for ordinary Chinese citizens and for people around the world connected to China through globalization, “China, the Chinese and the World: Trajectories of Change,” will be held May 13 and 14 (Monday and Tuesday) at Notre Dame’s Kellogg Institute for International Studies. Unlike most scholarly conferences, the forum will not include paper presentations by scholars. Instead, it will take the form of a wide-ranging “global conversation” focused on the rapid change currently taking place in China and subsequent analysis of potential future trends. Gady Epstein, the China correspondent for The Economist since 2011 and former Beijing bureau chief for Forbes magazine; Xiao Qiang, founder and chief editor of China Digital Times, a bilingual China news website; and Elizabeth Perry, a Harvard University expert on popular protest in contemporary China and director of the Harvard-Yenching Institute, are among the participants. Both Xiao and John Kamm, the founder and executive director of the Dui Hua Foundation, have received MacArthur “genius” awards for their human rights work in China. Areas of participant expertise include Chinese politics, history, culture and law; censorship and the Internet; the environment and geography; HIV/AIDS, human rights, international relations, military and security issues; and popular protest. A complete list of participants and their biographies is available here. With China’s inequality skyrocketing and protests erupting in both urban and rural areas, participants in the forum will address issues such as the prospects for democracy 25 years after Tiananmen Square; what these dramatic changes in China’s leadership mean for the global community; and how the socioeconomic and environmental changes brought about by the country’s economic transformation are affecting its ordinary citizens. Contact: Lionel Jensen, associate professor of East Asian languages and cultures, 574-360-0857, ljensen@nd.edu Posted In: International Home Experts ND in the News Subscribe About Us Related September 30, 2022 Nanovic Institute to welcome former President of Croatia Kolinda Grabar-Kitarović September 29, 2022 Notre Dame, Ukrainian Catholic University launch three new research grants September 27, 2022 Notre Dame, Trinity College Dublin engineers join to advance novel treatment for cystic fibrosis September 14, 2022 Apostolic nuncio to Great Britain to deliver the 2022 Keeley Vatican Lecture September 12, 2022 Can you tell me how to get to Sesame Street … in different countries? For the Media Contact Office of Public Affairs and Communications Notre Dame News 500 Grace Hall Notre Dame, IN 46556 USA Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube Pinterest © 2022 University of Notre Dame Search Mobile App News Events Visit Accessibility Facebook Twitter Instagram YouTube LinkedIn