Academic Program

The academic program of the Wellesley College & Peking University Partnership runs in Beijing from June 5 through June 14, 2013.

Academic Program Schedule

Empowering Women for Leadership: Challenges of an Urban Future
Wednesday, June 5
Afternoon

Lunch and guided tour led by Peking University student peers

Institute Overview
Yanjie Su (苏彦捷), Vice Dean of Yuanpei College, Peking University

Joanne Murray, Director, Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs, Wellesley College

“Our Urban Future: Common Problems, Different Solutions?”
Joseph Joyce, Professor of Economics and Faculty Director of Albright Institute, Wellesley College

Yali Hou (候娅丽), Bain Consulting
Session on group dynamics
Thursday, June 6
Morning

Announcements/Daily News Briefing

Yan-yun Man (满燕云), Director, Peking University-Lincoln Institute Center for Urban Development and Land Policy, and Professor in the Department of Urban and Environment, Peking University

  • Lecture on urbanization
Afternoon Guided Tour of Beijing City Museum
Friday, June 7
Morning

Announcements/Daily News Briefing

“Why Good People Make Bad Environmental Decisions”
Beth DeSombre, Camilla Chandler Frost Professor of Environmental Studies, Wellesley College
Lunch Ambassador Gary Locke and Mona Locke host luncheon at the U.S. Embassy
Afternoon Zhi Lv (吕植), Professor of Conservation Biology, Peking University
  • Lecture on impact of urbanization on wildlife preservation, especially pandas
Saturday, June 8
Morning

“The Liberal Arts in Dialogue: From the Christian Colleges of East Asia (1910s-40s) to Today”
Ellen Widmer, Mayling Soong Professor of Chinese Studies, Wellesley College

Secretary Albright has classroom session with students

Faculty session with Secretary Albright
Afternoon Welcome from President of Peking University

Wellesley College Provost Andrew Shennan
  • Remarks on the value of liberal arts education to train women for leadership


Dialogue on U.S.-China Relations
Madeleine Korbel Albright, U.S. Secretary of State, 1997-2001

Ming Yuan (袁明), Director of the Institute of International Relations, Deputy Dean in the School of International Studies, the Director of the Institute of International Relations, and Director of the American Studies Center of Peking University
Sunday, June 9
Morning Private brunch at National Museum of China

 

Afternoon

Visit to Forbidden City

Evening

Private meeting with Chinese contemporary classical composer Tan Dun (谭盾) and pianist Lang Lang (朗朗) at the Olympics Park (tentative)
Monday, June 10
Morning

Announcements/Daily News Briefing

“From Ancient Elephant Forests to the Three Gorges Dam: An Environmental History in Art”
Heping Liu, Associate Professor Art, Wellesley College
Afternoon Visit to Great Wall of China; accompanied by Heping Liu
Tuesday, June 11
Morning

Announcements/Daily News Briefing

“The Political Economy and Political Ecology of Food”
Samuel Barkin, Associate Professor of Global Governance, McCormack Graduate School of Policy and Global Studies, University of Massachusetts Boston; Associate Faculty, Madeleine Korbel Albright Institute for Global Affairs, Wellesley College
Afternoon/Evening Group Work/Office Hours
Wednesday, June 12

Morning

 

 

Afternoon

Announcements/Daily News Briefing

Dandan Zhang (张丹丹), Assistant Professor, National School of Development, Peking University

  • Lecture on migration

Akila Weerapana, Professor of Economics, Wellesley College

  • Lecture on global economic systems with emphasis on housing as it relates to increased urbanization
Thursday, June 13
Morning

Announcements/Daily News Briefing

Yingquan Song (宋映泉), Associate Professor at the China Institute for Educational Finance Research, Peking University

  • Lecture on education
Afternoon “Inequality: What’s the Problem?”
Helena de Bres, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Wellesley College
Friday, June 14
Morning GROUP PRESENTATIONS

Afternoon

Late Afternoon

GROUP PRESENTATIONS

Closing Ceremony and Presentation of Certificates

 

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