The Art of Listening in Cultural Dialogues

Program

14:00–14:15	WELCOME AND OPENING REMARKS Wei He, CEO and Artistic Director, The Tianjin Juilliard School XU Changjun, Chancellor, The Tianjin Juilliard School OPENING REMARKS Damian Woetzel, President, The Juilliard School Representative from the Tianjin Municipal People’s Government
14:15–15:00	FIRESIDE CONVERSATION “CULTURAL DIALOGUES: THE ART OF MUSIC – WHY LISTENING MATTERS” Moderator: Mattie Bekink, Regional Director & Chief Representative for China, Ford Foundation Featured Speaker: Joseph W. Polisi, President Emeritus, The Juilliard School, and Editor-in-Chief of Cultural Dialogues and the Art of Music Responder: WANG Xiaohui, Vice President of the Translators Association of China, and Deputy Director of the China Academy of Translation
15:00–16:00	LEADERSHIP ROUNDTABLE “LISTENING AS LEADERSHIP: BRIDGING CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES” Moderator: Eric Zheng, President, American Chamber of Commerce in Shanghai Panelists: Wei He, CEO and Artistic Director, The Tianjin Juilliard School Cory Owen, Associate Dean, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University Jeffrey Lehman, Vice Chancellor, New York University Shanghai John Quelch, Executive Vice Chancellor and American President, Duke Kunshan University Eric Yang, Vice President for Academic Affairs, Wenzhou-Kean University Adam Webb, American Co-Director, The Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies WANG Yiwei, Professor, School of International Studies; Director of the Institute of International Affairs and the Center for European Studies, Renmin University of China
16:15–17:15	FACULTY PANEL DISCUSSION “LISTENING ACROSS CULTURES: BUILDING UNDERSTANDING AND TRUST” Moderator: Lola Woetzel, Senior Partner Emerita, McKinsey & Co. Panelists: CHENG Yue, Area Head of Performing Arts, Associate Arts Professor of Music, New York University Shanghai Scott MacEachern, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs, Duke Kunshan University Alexander S. English, Associate Professor in Psychology, Wenzhou-Kean University ZHENG Lu, Professor, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University Alvin Zhu, Resident Faculty, The Tianjin Juilliard School GUO Xinyu, Lecturer, School of English Studies, Tianjin Foreign Studies University
17:15–18:15	STUDENT PANEL DISCUSSION “LISTENING BEYOND BORDERS: SHAPING OUR SHARED FUTURE” Moderator: Katherine Chu, Dean, The Tianjin Juilliard School Panelists: Carly Nabinger, Student, Duke Kunshan University GUAN Yuechen, Student, Wenzhou-Kean University Stephanie Anderson, Student, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University Ari Harris, Student, New York University Shanghai ZHOU Zinan, Student, The Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies Roland Kahn, Student, The Tianjin Juilliard School NI Xiang, Student, The Tianjin Conservatory of Music
19:30	PERFORMANCE TIANJIN JUILLIARD ORCHESTRA: THE ART OF COLLABORATION TIANJIN JUILLIARD CONCERT HALL Ken Lam, Conductor Program: LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN – Symphony No. 5 in C Minor, Op. 67 SAMUEL BARBER – Second Essay for Orchestra, Op. 17 LEONARD BERNSTEIN – Symphonic Dances from “West Side Story”