Special Public Lecture and Q&A Event by Renowned Public Intellectual
Dr Martin Jacques
"Is China's Rise Inevitable? What might go wrong?"
Martin Jacques is the author of the global best-seller When China Rules the World: the End of the Western World and the Birth of a New Global Order, which has been translated into fifteen languages. His TED talk on how to understand China has had over 1.2 million views. He is a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at IDEAS, a centre for diplomacy and grand strategy at the London School of Economics, and a Visiting Professor at Tsinghua University, Beijing. He is also a Fellow at the Transatlantic Academy, Washington DC.
Martin has previously been a Visiting Professor at Renmin University, the International Centre for Chinese Studies, Aichi University, Nagoya, and Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto. He was a Senior Visiting Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore. He was formerly the editor of the renowned London-based monthly Marxism Today until its closure in 1991 and was co-founder of the think-tank Demos. He has been a columnist for many newspapers, made many television programmes and is a former deputy editor of The Independent newspaper. He took his doctorate while at King’s College, Cambridge.
| Date: | Tuesday 27 August 2013 |
| Time: | 6:00pm - 7:00pm, doors open at 5:30pm |
| Venue: | Cinema B, Gallery of Modern Art, Stanley Place, South Bank, Brisbane |
| Registration: | Please RSVP to Natasha Vary by 22 August at n.vary@griffith.edu.au |
Please note this event will also be held in Melbourne (Wednesday 28 August 2013) and Sydney (Monday 26 August 2013).
