Faculty and students of Peking University have been at the forefront of China’s modern history.  The social impact of the university has been enormous.  Its educational philosophy needs to continually evolve, especially as China has developed in the last few decades at historically unprecedented rates.  President Wang will discuss these changes, how the university copes with new challenges, and how the globalization of Peking University fits into his vision for the future.

Wang Enge was appointed President of Peking University in 2013. He obtained his B.S. and M.S. in theoretical physics from Liaoning University in 1982 and 1985 respectively and received his Ph.D. from Peking University in 1990. He served as Director of the Institute of Physics (CAS) (1999-2007), Founding Director of the International Center for Quantum Structures (2000), Director of the Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics (2004-2009), CAS Deputy Secretary-General (2008-2009), and Executive President of CAS Graduate University (2008-2009).  President Wang is a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) and the Academy of Sciences for the Developing World (TWAS), as well as a fellow of the American Physical Society and the Institute of Physics (UK). He has been a JSPS professor of Tohoku University (Japan), an AvH Scholar of Fritz-Haber Institute der MPG (Germany), a KITP Visiting Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara (USA), a Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley (USA), a Visiting Professor at the International Centre for Theoretical Physics (Italy), and a GCEP Scholar at Stanford University.

A reception will follow immediately afer this talk

Copies of Professor Gumbrecht's latest book After 1945, Latency as Origin of the Present, will be available for purchase at this event by the Stanford University Press.

Co-sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center and the Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages.

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Sir Lawrence Freedman, Professor of War Studies at King's College London, will present on his new book, Strategy: A History (Oxford University Press, 2013).

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Sir Lawrence Freedman is Professor of War Studies at King's College London. Professor Freedman has held his appointment since 1982, and he has served as Vice-Principal at King's College since 2003. Prior to his time at King's College, Professor Freedman held research appointments at the Royal Institute of International Affairs, Nuffield College Oxford, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS). He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1995, awarded the Commander of the British Empire in 1996, and the Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George in 2003. Most recently, Professor Freedman was elected in 2009 as a member of the official inquiry into Britain and the 2003 Iraq War.

ABOUT THE TOPIC: Further details about this event will be posted shortly.

Haifa, the so-called "mixed city" of Jews and Arabs during the British Mandate period, also called the city of "co-existence" in the minds of its Jewish residents today, this city real and imagined will be the focus of this lecture, which suggests an archeology of memory of a conflict which is over and a conflict which still lingers.

Yfaat Weiss is professor in the department of the History of the Jewish People and Head of the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is the author of various studies on German and Central European History, as well as on Jewish and Israeli History.