演讲者: Professor Greg McCarthy

题目： Australia-China:cross-culture,multicultural,intercultural, and transculturalism

时间： 11月10日（星期四）下午3：30-5:00

地点： 崇远楼201 多语种口译实训室

专家简介：

Professor Greg McCarthy is the BHP Billiton Chair of Australian Politics at Peking University. This prestigious chair was established in 2012 with support of the Australia China Council, the Foundation for Australian Studies in China ((((FASIC), Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade ((((DFAT), the Australian Embassy in China and funded and backed by BHP Billiton. Its aim is to compliment the Australia studies centre at PKU but also to give sustenance to the near 40 Australian studies centres throughout China. Professor McCarthy concurrently holds a Personal Chair of Australian Politics at the University of Western Australia. His main research interests and extensive publications are on Australian politics and political culture. His research focuses on transitional change within and between nations, exploring how material, cultural and political forces create instability and how nations, institutions and people adapt to uncertainty. His seminal book Things Fall Apart: A History of the State Bank of South Australia, analysed the dynamic relations between global financial change and its dramatic effect on public banking in Australia. Recently, he has written on the internationalisation of Australian higher education effected by Chinese students studying in Australia, and the steady growth of Australian students studying in China. He has also explored the political implications of the conversion of Australian higher education from an elite to a mass education system. In addition, he has investigated the international relationship between Australia and China as read through the policies of contemporary Australia governments.