The 3rd STU Global Studies Symposium: Global Perspectives
汕头大学第三届全球研究国际研讨会：全球视野
October 17-18, 2014 /2014年10月17日-18日
Global Studies, as its name indicates, is a field of study shaped by inquiries into phenomena and issues that have global effects. One of the ways that Global Studies programs attempt to define themselves is by claiming the ability to provide students with global perspectives. While the objects of Global Studies are routinely studied from local, national, to even exclusionist or chauvinist points of view, these orientations typically fail to meet the standards of what is broadly billed as “Global Studies.” Global perspectives require that students, instructors, and researchers re-think a world that is not reduced to national or even local interests and to highlight the interrelation and interdependence of our existence and our world.
It is not surprising then that many Global Studies programs in the world now aim to cultivate students’ global perspectives with a clear mission of preparing their students to become global citizens. But what are “global perspectives”? How do they differ from our other (e.g., personal, regional, national or international) perspectives? What would such perspectives enable us to see, to learn, and to create in today’s world? And how can we develop global perspectives among our faculty and students?
Continuing our effort to create a Global Studies program at STU and to bring Global Studies awareness to the STU community, the 3rd STU Global Studies Symposium invites scholars and educators to share their expertise and experience to further excavate this territory so central to the heart of an emerging discipline.
全球研究(Global Studies)，顾名思义，是一个致力于研究具有全球影响的现象和问题的跨学科专业领域。它的特点不仅体现在研究对象上，更关键之处在于研究视角/视野，即研究者是否能认识到发生在身边和世界上的各种现象及事件间的关联和相互作用，以及如何对其进行多元的读解。而这就取决于我们是否具备全球视野(Global Perspective)。尽管人们可以从本土的、民族/国家的、甚至沙文主义的等各种角度来认识世界上的现象和问题，但其研究目的、途径和效果都与“全球研究”相去甚远。全球视野要求我们的学生、教师和研究者能够以新的框架重新思考我们的世界，因为这样才能使我们不限于以一国或本土局部利益作为出发点，从而更有效地把握我们的存在与我们所处的世界之间的紧密关联和相互依赖。
如今世界上诸多全球研究项目都把培养学生的全球视野，造育全球公民亦即更好的本土公民作为目标。然而，什么是全球视野？全球视野与其它的（如个人的、区域性的、民族/国家的或者国际的）视野有何区别？相比于传统视角而言，全球视野能使我们在今天的世界里看到、学到，并创造出哪些新的东西? 如何能够在我们的教学中让教师与学生共同发展全球视野？
为在汕大创办全球研究项目，强化校园的全球意识，我们举办汕头大学第三届全球研究国际研讨会，邀请国内外的专家和学者来与我们分享他们的研究和经验，深入探讨此新兴学科之核心所在及其对于实现我们培养目标的重要性和有效的方法。
Time：October 17-18, 2014
时间： 2014年10月17日-18日
Venue： ACC #3 conference room, Shantou University
会场：汕头大学 学术交流服务中心 3号会议厅
Guest Participants 应邀参会嘉宾:
Dr. Patrick Mendis （Distinguished Senior Fellow, George Mason University美国乔治梅森大学卓越资深研究员; Commissioner, the US National Commission for UNESCO 联合国教科文组织美国全国委员会专员）
Dr. Kang LIU 刘康 (Professor and Director of China Research Center, Duke University, US美国杜克大学中国研究中心主任、教授)
Dr. Huw Lewis-Jones (Historian of Exploration; Director of PolarWorld, UK英国极地世界 负责人，探险史学家)
Dr. Changgang GUO 郭长刚 (Professor and Founding Director of Center for Global Studies, Shanghai University, China中国上海大学全球研究中心创办主任、教授)
Dr. Liwen LI 李莉文 (Professor and Vice Dean of School of English and International Studies, Beijing Foreign Studies University, China中国北京外国语大学英语学院副院长、教授)
Dr. Colin Sparks (Chair Professor of Media Studies in the Department of Journalism, Hong Kong Baptist University, China中国香港浸会大学新闻系媒体学特聘教授)
Symposium Schedule:
Oct 17 Friday
9:30~12:00 Morning Session
Opening Remark: STU Leader
Patrick Mendis: The New Type of Great Power Relations: “China Dream” or “American Dream”
Changgang GUO: Protests in the 21 Century–A Global Perspective
14:30~17:10 Afternoon Session
