同济大学政治与国际关系学院与同济大学德国研究中心定于1月13日（星期二）下午1时30分至3时共同主办“Planetary technological transformations and Sino-European relations in the 21st Century”报告研讨会。德国波恩大学全球研究中心马克西米里安（Maximilian Mayer）博士将作专题发言，然后进行讨论。敬请准时出席讲座。

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会议地点：同济大学（四平路1239号，轨道交通10号线同济大学站5号出口，开车请从赤峰路50号或国康路大门进校区）综合楼1402室。

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                    同济大学国际与公共事务研究院

                          2015年1月7日

报告内容简介：

Technological transformations are key to global politics. Digitalization, datafication, the new space race or the emerging new land-based interlinkages between Europe and Asia became crucial for every important policy aspect of bilateral and multilateral relations in this still young century. However, our theoretical understanding is limited. For instance, within global governance that evolves around climate change, the Internet, intellectual property rights or biodiversity among other fields, political negotiations are strongly interwoven with technical issues: almost to the point where both aspects are interchangeable. It is against this background, that new conceptual lenses are required for the analysis of Sino-European relations. Indeed, as much as technological transformations are promising because they may offer promising ways to collaborate and reinforce close relations or even integration among nations and regions, they can also turn into arenas of misunderstandings and intensifying mutual security concerns. This presentation will elaborate and compare different theoretical approaches to the politics of technological transformations. Based on various empirical examples, it will be argued that, in order to articulate sound policy choices for the future relations between China and European states and to realize the progressive development of a truly global community as a constitutive element of the former, we need to focus increasingly on 'common planetary visions', instead of talking about 'common global challenges'.