From May 24-25, 2025, an international workshop on “From Globalization to Deglobalization or New Globalization?”, organized by the Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Sciences (Fudan IAS) and the Editorial Board of Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, was held in Fudan University. More than twenty scholars from China, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, Canada, Australia, etc. attended the workshop.
Prof. Sujian Guo, Dean and Distinguished Professor of Fudan IAS and Editor-in-Chief of Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences (FDHS), delivered a speech at the beginning of the conference. Prof. Guo first warmly welcomed all the scholars attending the conference and emphasized the context and significance of this important topic globalization. He then introduced an original project of Fudan IAS, the Global Justice Evaluation Index and Database Project. Launched in 2018, the project aims to conduct conceptual and quantitative research on the performance and contributions of different countries in global justice. In 2019, the Global Justice Index Report was released in English for the first time globally, and since then has published for 5 consecutive years. Prof. Guo further introduced the two research centers (Contemporary China Research Center and Research Center for Chinese Modernization at Fudan IAS), two international academic exchange programs (international visiting scholars and international conferences), two research book series in Chinese and English, and two international journals of Fudan IAS. He also expressed his expectation of strengthening in-depth and long-term academic exchanges with the participating scholars in the future.
The topic of the first session was Globalization: Transformation and Future Perspectives. Prof. Kate O'Neill from University of California, Berkeley, chaired this session.
Jean-Marc Coicaud, chair professor at Fudan University and distinguished professor at Rutgers university, gave a speech on Does Globalization Have a Future, and If So, What Is It?. Prof. Dong Wang from Peking university talked on Reglobalization: How Globalization Survives and Reinvigorates in the Post-Pandemic Era?. Dr. Tommaso Durante from Melbourne University spoke on Digital (Global) Capitalism and Re-Globalization.
Session two, Global Governance in the Age of Technological Change, was chaired by Prof. Jieli Li from Ohio University.
Prof. Ian Hurd from Northwestern University delivered a speech on After Globalization: From Classical to Hyper-Modern Global Governance. Prof. Jean-Michel Roy from école Normale Supérieure de Lyon talked on Globalizing the Ethics for AI.
The third session on Environmental Governance and Justice in a Changing World was chaired by Prof. Jean-Marc Coicaud, chair professor at Fudan University and distinguished professor at Rutgers University.
Porf. Kate O’Neill from UC Berkeley gave a speech on Environmental Justice, Globalization and Global Environmental Governance. Dr. Eva-Maria Nag from Durham University spoke on Environmental Governance in a Deglobalising World: Institutional Failures and Conceptual Innovations. Asst. Prof. Qinyi Xu from Peking University talked on Policy Space Conflicts in Global Trade Politics: Globalization, Green Development and Power Relations.
The fourth session of the conference, the Future of International Trade and Power Competition, was chaired by Dr. Eva-Maria Nag from Durham University.
Prof. Jieli Li from Ohio University talked on Trump's Tariff Offensive: A Break from Globalization or a Sign of an Emerging Structural Shift in Globalization?. Assoc. Prof. Nicolas Lamp from Queen’s University delivered a speech on Trading in (Dis)Order: The Crisis of Globalization and the Future of International Trade Law and Policy.
On the morning of May 25, the conference continued with the fifth session on Changing Landscapes of the International Order, chaired by Prof. Gallya Lahav from the State University of New York at Stony Brook.
Prof. Sarah Dadush from Rutgers University
talked on The Emergence of Mandatory Corporate Social Responsibility Laws
and Its Implications for Multinational Enterprises. Prof. Ning Wang from
Shanghai Jiaotong University made a presentation entitled Translating and
(Re)Constructing the Image of China in the Age of Globalization. Prof.
Zhenhua Yu from East China Normal University spoke on Globalization, World
Philosophy, and Robust Humanities.
The topic of the six session was Reimagining Globalization. Prof. Sarah Dadush from Rutgers University chaired this session.
Prof. Gallya Lahav from the State University of New York at Stony Brook made a presentation on The Effects of the Covid-19 Pandemic on International Human Mobility and Immigration Policies in Europe and the US: Managing a Global but Safe World. Prof. Xi Lin from Fudan IAS delivered a speech on Globalism Revisited: A New Paradigm?.
At the end of the two-day conference, Prof. Sujian Guo discussed with the participating scholars about the publication arrangement of the papers, and thanked all the scholars again for attending the conference. Prof. Guo looked forward to the publication of the papers in a special issue of the Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences after the review and modification. The conference was successfully concluded with a round of applause.
