Speaker: Julia Adams, Margaret H. Marshall Professor of Sociology, Yale University



At Yale she has chaired the Department of Sociology and the Council of Heads of College. In 2014-24, Adams was the last Master of Yale’s Calhoun College and the first Head of Grace Hopper College. Julia Adams teaches and conducts research in the areas of state formation; social theory and knowledge; family, sex and gender; early modern European politics, and colonialism and empire. Adams’ book The Familial State: Ruling Families and Merchant Capitalism in Early Modern Europe (Cornell University Press, 2005) won the Gaddis Smith Book Prize. 

Abstract: The Peking University Global Fellowship has invited Julia Adams for a visit and to conduct four seminars—focusing on topics concerning history, sociology, higher education, etc.

Seminar 1: 



Time: 15:00-17:00, May 30

Venue: M1, The Stanford Center at Peking University

Title: Familial States and the Early Making of Modern World

Chair: Wang Liping, Associate Professor, PKU Graduate School of Education

Participants: Zhang Changdong, Professor, PKU School of Government
                       Zhang Yongle, Associate Professor, PKU Law School
                       Tian Geng, Associate Professor, PKU Department of Sociology 

Seminar 2:



Time: 14:00-16:00, May 31

Venue: Room 112, PKU Graduate School of Education

Title: Historical Memory and the Future of Liberal Arts College in the United States

Chair: Wang Liping, Associate Professor, PKU Graduate School of Education

Participants: Sun Feiyu, Professor, PKU Department of Sociology
                       Shen Wenqin, Associate Professor, PKU Graduate School of Education

Seminar 3:



Time: 10:00-12:00, June 2

Venue: Room 269, PKU Department of Sociology

Title: Digital Dynamics: What Does Hybrid Academic Knowledge Look Like in the West?

Chair: Tian Geng, Associate Professor, PKU Department of Sociology

Participants: Dai Xin, Associate Professor, PKU Law School
                       Luo Wei, Assistant Professor, PKU School of Government
                       Fan Xinguang, Assistant Professor, PKU Department of Sociology

Seminar 4:



Time: 10:00-12:00, June 3

Venue: Room 269, PKU Department of Sociology

Title: Remaking Modernity: Politics, History, and Sociology

Chair: Tian Geng, Associate Professor, PKU Department of Sociology

Participants: Zhou Xueguang, Professor, Sociology Department of Stanford University
                       Ying Xing, Professor, School of Social Sciences, Tsinghua University
                       Wang Liping, Associate Professor, PKU Graduate School of Education
                       Luo Yinan, Associate Professor, PKU School of Government
                       Xie Wen, Associate Professor, PKU Department of Sociology
                       Zhou Yimang, Lecturer, School of Social Research, Renmin University of China