Initiative for U.S.-China Dialogue on Global Issues

Over the past three years, the U.S.-China Research Group on Cosmopolitanism has brought together nine scholars from the United States and the Chinese cultural sphere who have met in successive years in China and the United States, writing, presenting, and discussing different accounts of what cosmopolitanism might mean in the modern, global, and multicultural world in which we live. Our most recent blog posting offers their latest views. These excerpts are taken from papers presented at a final research group meeting at Georgetown University in April 2024. Each paper was critically discussed by Owen Flanagan, the James B. Duke Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and professor of neurobiology emeritus at Duke University, and will subsequently be revised and published, along with Flanagan’s comments, in a special issue of the Journal of Confucian Philosophy and Culture.

Georgetown students reflect on participating in the first part of the 2023-2024 U.S.-China Student-to-Student Dialogue, in which they held a series of three dialogue sessions with student cohorts from Fudan University, Peking University, and the University of California San Diego.