The New Silk Road in time of global pandemic: changing views on academic cooperation between China and the West?

Panelists:
Marijk van der Wende (Utrecht University), William Kirby (Harvard University), Simon Marginson (University of Oxford), Dominic Sachsenmaier (University of Göttingen), Nian Cai Liu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University), Gerard A. Postiglione (The University of Hong Kong) and Anthony Welch (The University of Sydney).

These principle investigators of the international research project on “The New Silk Road: implications for higher education and research cooperation between China and Europe”, discuss how the main trends and issues in collaboration between China and the West, as concluded from this study, may be affected by Corona impact. Which trends in academic cooperation with China will be sustained, enhanced, rebalanced, delayed, or even reversed? And what is most at stake in the changing geopolitical order: international collaboration, competition, trust, open science, globalization as such?

They also provide a preview of the book “China and Europe on the New Silk Road: Connecting Universities across Eurasia”, to be published by Oxford University Press and launched at the long-awaited dissemination seminar at Herrenhausen Palace (Hanover, Germany) which had to be postponed due to Corona-related circumstances.

For more information, visit “www.academicsilkroad.org”.

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