LANCASTER CONFERENCE

The second colloquium of New Discourses in Contemporary China was held in Lancaster University on 20-21 September, 2007. About thirty people participated in the presentations and workshops.

Professor Chilton chaired the opening ceremony. He briefly introduced to the audience the project New Discourses in Contemporary China: Social Change and Anglophone Perceptions, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, and expressed his thanks to Professor Zhang Maizeng for his contribution to the first conference held in Nankai University in April 2006, as well as Professor Bob Jessop and Professor David Brown for their support to the organization of this event. Professor Jessop and Professor Brown also made welcoming speeches. Later that evening, at the conference dinner, Professor Anna Siewierska, head of the department of Linguistics and English Language welcomed the participants at the Colloquium in the context of the growing collaboration between the university and several universities in China.