Digital Issue of the College of Transcultural Studies

The Initial Issue:NO.1

Issued:Oct.1,2017

Program:Key project of “ Research for Language,Character of Chinese and Folk Culture from the Perspective of Transcultural Studies”, hosted by the Center of Folklore, Ancient Writing and Chinese Characters, Key Social Science Research Base under the Ministry of Education of P.R.China
Keynote speakers:

Professor Michel Zink, College of France, France



Professor Antoine Compagnon, College of France, France



Professor Wang Bangwei, Peking University, China



Professor Wang Ning, Beijing Normal University, China



Professor Léon Vandermeersch, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, France



Professor Jin Siyan, University d’Artois, France



Professor Ülo Valk, University of Tartu, Estonia



Professor Li Qiang, Tsinghua University, China



Professor Dong Xiaoping, Beijing Normal University, China



Professor Wang Yichuan, Peking University, China



Professor Cheng Zhengmin, Beijing Normal University, China



Professor Taras Victorovich Ivchenko, Russian State University For The Humanities, Russia



Professor Li Zhengrong, Beijing Normal University, China



Professor John Lagerwey, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes,France



Professor Han Qi, Chinese Academy of Sciences, China


The topics discussed at the 2017 International Workshop of Transcultural Studies include: 1. The special features o Chinse social production. 2. Material capital and nonmaterial capital. 3. The cultural transfer. 4. The consciousness of self-awareness. 5. Resisting the interpretation. 6. The research space between material and spirit. 7. Urbanization.

Compared with the previous two international workshops, the 2017 International Workshop of Transcultural Studies has three extra topics: the transcultural society, the transcultural Russia and East European countries and Chinese technology history of natural sciences. The 17 professors home and abroad talk about their research achievements in the past decades and combine the authoritative lectures with dialogues between the east and the west, to make the students further understand the theory and practice and train the graduate students who have certain knowledge about their specific major to communicate with first-class international scholars to gain special transcultural spiritual treasure.