The Institute of Area Studies, Peking University (PKUIAS), held its first Yannan Roundtable on April 1 at No. 66 Yannanyuan. A total of 12 scholars from the School of Law, School of International Studies, School of Journalism and Communication, Department of History, School of Foreign Languages, School of Education, and Department of Sociology participated in the discussion.
The salon was moderated by Chen Yifeng, associate professor of Peking University Law School. Zhang Yongle from Peking University Law School gave a presentation entitled “Global Travel of the Monroe Doctrine Discourse: Hegemony and Resistance in the Modern World.” The “Monroe Doctrine,” which originated from President Monroe’s State of the Union Address, in 1923, has experienced profound changes in its interpretation with the continuous growth of American hegemony. The application of the “Monroe Doctrine” in Germany, Japan, China and other countries has aroused the attention and interest of academic circles. From the perspective of multiple disciplines, the participating scholars put forward their own opinions on the geopolitical concept of the “Monroe Doctrine.”
Yannan Roundtable is a new series of activities launched by PKUIAS. The salon focuses on the theme of “Global Governance and Development” in conducting interdisciplinary dialogues, which aim to promote exchanges, sharing, and learning among scholars from different faculties at PKU and respond to the increasingly interdisciplinary challenges of knowledge production under globalization.
The salon series is held one or twice every month, with each session, which takes the form of a luncheon meeting, lasting two hours. Each salon invites at most 12 attendees. It gathers young teachers and post-doctoral fellows from the faculties of the humanities and social sciences at PKU by means of targeted invitations and open registration, covering philosophy, history, law, political science, international relations, journalism, and economics, sociology and other disciplines. The salon is composed of keynote reports and discussion sessions. First, the presenter makes a keynote report, and then the participants engage in discussions relating to the presentation. The discussion content of each salon then gets transformed into various forms of academic achievements to be published.
Focusing on “global governance and development,” any topics involving transnational issues, globalization, regional development, and interdisciplinary issues can be included in the scope of discussion. In order to better organize each discussion, the salon has set up a team to be responsible for the overall operation of the event. The members of the team take turns to moderate the salon, determine whom to invite as presenters and contact them. PKUIAS provides administrative support, such as venues, publicity, records and proceedings, and the lunches for each event.
