Friendship and International Community: Cross-Cultural Concepts

Start date: 1 January 2018
End date: 30 June 2018
Co-investigators: Dr Graham Smith
External co-investigators: Huang Chiung-Chiu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan Astrid H.M. Nordin, Lancaster University China Centre, UK

This workshop brought into conversation some of the interlocutors from the Chinese and Western traditions who have argued for the study of politics to turn its focus from the prevalence of enmity to the possibility of friendship.

Presenters included:

Graham M. Smith, University of Leeds
Philip Hsiaopong Liu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan
Astrid H.M. Nordin, Lancaster University China Centre, UK
John von Heyking, University of Lethbridge, Canada
Shih Chih-yu, National Taiwan University
Huang Chiung-Chiu, National Chengchi University, Taiwan.

Participants included:

Dibyesh Anand, University of Westminster
Felix Berenskoetter, School of African and Oriental Studies
Heather Devere, University of Otago, New Zealand
Paige Digeser, University of California Santa Barbara, USA
Kingsley Edney, University of Leeds
Chiho Maruoka, University of Leeds
Caroline Rose, University of Leeds
Evgeny Roshchin, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration.