>> Nobel Lecture Symposium at Peking University

Speaker: Prof. Akira Suzuki of Hokkaido University, Prof. Ei-ichi Negishi of Purdue University, winners of the Noble Prize in Chemistry. 

Venue: Room A204-206, Chemistry Building

Date: Mar. 4, 2011 (Friday)

Time: 9:30-11:30

Organizer: PKU College of Chemistry and Molecular Engineering

>> Does it Help Teams to Differentiate LMX Relations Opposite Answers from East and West?

Speaker: Prof. Ray Friedman

Venue: Room 217, Guanghua Building No. 2

Date: Mar. 4, 2011 (Friday)

Time: 10:00-11:30

Organizer: PKU Guanghua School of Management

Intro: Ray Friedman is Brownlee O. Currey Professor of Management at the Owen Graduate School of Management, Vanderbilt University. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago, and his B.A. from Yale University. His research interests include social aspects of negotiation, inter-group conflict in organizations, and group differences in justice perceptions. His articles have appeared in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, Human Relations , and Human Resource Management . Prior to Owen, he was an assistant professor at Harvard Business School and a faculty member of Harvard's Program on Negotiation. He is the former president of International Association for Conflict management.

Using data collected from both the People's Republic of China and the United States, this study examined cross-cultural differences in the relationships between LMX differentiation and both individual and group performance. We found that the while high LMX differentiation can be beneficial to American teams it is detrimental to Chinese teams, lowering individual performance and OCB. Team collectivism fully accounted for these different relationships between LMX differentiation and individual and group performance in the US and China.

>> Entertaining Film of Nazi Germany

Speaker: Prof. Marc Silberman

Venue: Room 317, Classroom Building No. 2

Date: Mar. 4, 2011 (Friday)

Time: 18:30-20:30

Organizer: PKU Graduate School of Education

Intro: Prof. Marc Silberman, director of Center for Germany and Europe Studies of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a renowned expert in Brecht study, and he has been making an intensive study in German film and drama for many years.

>> After lifting the ban: 20 years' transformation of religion in Taiwan

Speaker: Associate Professor Lu Yunfeng

Venue: Room 401, Classroom Building No. 2

Date: Mar. 5, 2011 (Saturday)

Time: 19:00-21:00

Organizer: PKU Department of Sociology

Intro: Lu Yunfeng, Associate Professor of Department of sociology and one of the "Top Ten Teachers" in Peking University, is the executive director of Center for China Religion and Society Studies. He has written the book The Transformation of Yiguan Dao in Taiwan and published articles on The Sociological Quarterly, Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, and Social Sciences in China.

Since the late 1980s, some big changes have taken place in the way of control of religion by Taiwan authorities, which is called the "Religious Disinhibition." This lecture will use the data based on the "Society Transformation in Taiwan" survey to explain some content related to the "Religious Disinhibition."

>> Capitalism as a historical phenomenon

Speaker: Prof. Wolfgang Schluchter

Venue: Room 304, Classroom Building No.3

Date: Mar. 7, 2011 (Monday)

Time: 18:30-20:00

Organizer: PKU Graduate School of Education

Intro: Prof. Wolfgang Schluchter, who was born in 1938 and got his doctoral degree in Freie Universitat Berlin and professorship in Universitat Habilitation, is now a sociology professor in Universitat Heidelberg and has been to lots of world-famous universities to give lectures.

Prof. Wolfgang Schluchter has been studying Max Weber for quite a long time, which makes penetrating interpretation and critical development to Weber's theories. Due to his extraordinary work, he was called the No. 1 expert in Max Weber study. His research interests lies in extensive fields, such as sociology, history, and religion studies.

>> 2011 "Qiuzhi Xunshi" Academic Lecture Series: My way to economics

Speaker: Wang Xiaolu

Venue: Zhifuxuan, Langrun Garden, China Center for Economic Research

Date: Mar. 12, 2011 (Saturday)

Time: 19:30-21:30

Organizer: PKU National School of Development

Intro: Wang Xiaolu, deputy director of National Economic Research Institute, China Reform Foundation, who got his PhD from the Australian National University, is not only n consultancy expert of World Bank Project and United Nations Development Program, but also the guest researcher of China Society of Economic Reform and a member of Chinese Economists 50 Forum. His researches are mainly in the fields of macroeconomic, economic growth and development, system reform, and income distribution. This lecture will let you know more about this expert and also his unusual experience.

Translated by: Chen Meng

Edited by: Jacques

Source: Peking University Lecture Hall