In China

Education in a Brave New World, Hong Kong

Through globalization, advancement of information technology and development of knowledge-based economies, education in the 21st century has evolved in both substance and method. In the face of rapid economic development as well as the impact of global economic restructuring, what are some of the worldwide trends of education and how has it changed our concepts of education? What are the consequences of this? How can educators adapt or take advantage of these changes, or should they be resisted? How will this shape our educational institutions as well as our education policies?

Date: Feb 23

Venue: 9 Justice Drive, Admiralty, Hong Kong

Website: asiasociety.org

International Trade Show for Sports Equipment and Fashion, Beijing

A trade event to generate success in the booming outdoor, snow-sports and sports fashion markets - for retailers, brands, distributors, rep groups, athletes and media.

Date: Feb 27 - March 2

Venue: China National Convention Center

Website: www.ispo.com/beijing/en/All-Sports/Home

China International Digital Printers & Engravers & Signage & LED Expo, Guangzhou

With more than 50,000 detailed databases from domestic and overseas professional buyers, the expo, along with authoritative industry website www.dpes.cn, provides value added services to exhibitors before, during and after the show, helping them to expand market share and performance. The expo is an influential communication platform for the sign equipment industry.

Date: Feb 25-28

Venue: Poly World Trade Center Expo, Guangzhou

Website: www.chinasignexpo.com

Conferences & Meetings

In Europe

Cell Culture World Congress, Munich

The 3rd annual Cell Culture World Congress is Europe's leading technical congress and exhibition focused on the development and optimization of cell culture bio-production. The conference will explore the problem-points for each stage in the bio-production cycle.

Date: Feb 26 - Feb 28

Venue: Hotel Sofitel Munich Bayerpost, Munich, Germany

Website: www.healthnetworkcommunications.com

Managing China in Transition - Can China's 5th generation leadership get China on a sustainable path, Brussels

Regardless of how China lands - hard, soft or in-between - the next 24 months will be transitional, for better or for worse. Contingency planning will be the key to sustaining growth, and to finding new growth opportunities, new investments, and new alliances. It will also be key to mitigating risks across a number of evolving scenarios.

Whether by design or unavoidable circumstances, slowing growth coupled with confluence of political and social factors is creating acute pressure for policy adjustment and structural change. How will this dynamic shape the operating environment for multinational corporations?

Date: March 15

Venue: The Conference Board, Chausse de la Hulpe 178, 1170 Brussels

Website: www.flanders-china.be

The East India Company, Japan and the Globalising World of the 17th Century , London

Professor Derek Massarella will talk on the relationship between the East India Company and Japan. Massarella is professor of history in the Faculty of Economics, Chuo University, Tokyo, where he has taught since 1981.

His research interests include early modern European-Asian relations, the history of globalization, and 17th-century English history.

He is the author of A World Elsewhere: Europe's Encounter with Japan in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (1990). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and the International Representative, Japan, for the Hakluyt Society.

Date: March 15, 7pm - 8:30 pm

Venue: Khalili Lecture Theatre, SOAS, Russell Square, London, WC1H 0HG, United Kingdom

Website: www.japan400.com

World Generic Medicines Congress Europe 2013 - The business of affordable medicines, London

The World Generic Medicines Congress addresses the key market trends, policy updates, strategic overview and future environment for the generics sector.

This conference is officially the largest strategic generic conference in the industry and will provide participants with a comprehensive review of business strategy for affordable medicines.

Date: Feb 26- March 1

Venue: Jumeirah Carlton Tower, Cadogan Place, London

Website: www.healthnetworkcommunications.com

Culture

In China

Marc Minkowski & Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble Concert, Shanghai

Founded in 1982 by Marc Minkowski, Les Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble breathes new life into the repertoires of the Baroque, Classical and Romantic eras, performed on period instruments.

Over the past 30 years, the orchestra has drawn attention with its reinterpretations of the works of Handel, Purcell, Rameau, Haydn, Mozart and recently Bach and Schubert.

Date: March 3

Venue: Shanghai Concert Hall

Website: www.chncpa.org

Alexandre Tharaud Piano Recital, Beijing

With his knack for creative programming and a keen ear for sonority, French pianist Alexandre Tharaud is gaining a reputation as an artist of rare distinction.

Date: March 15, 7:00pm-9:00pm

Venue: National Center for the Performing Arts

Website: www.cityweekend.com.cn

Marlis Petersen & Friends Lieder Quartetts, Shanghai

Born in Germany, Marlis Petersen studied music education at the Stuttgart Conservatoire whilst being instructed in classical singing by Sylvia Geszty. Remarkably, Petersen has twice been named "singer of the year" by the highly acclaimed opera magazine Opernwelt, for her impressive interpretation of Lulu in Hamburg in 2004 and Medea at the Vienna State Opera in 2010.

In March 2010 she jumped in for the opening night of Hamlet at the Metropolitan Opera with just two days of rehearsal, winning praise from the audience and media for her performance.

Date: March 22

Venue: Shanghai Concert Hall

Website: www.chncpa.org/" shanghaiconcerthall.org

Italian Metal Band Cave Insects 2013 Session, Shanghai

An Italian goth-metal band that fuses alternative folk, black throat and classical music to create a unique sound.

Venue: Mao Livehouse Shanghai

Dates: March 27

Website: www.en.piao.com.cn

Free Lantern Festival in Sanlitun, Beijing

On Feb 24 (the 15th day of first month of the lunar calendar), MY Chinese Study invites expats who live in Beijing to experience a traditional Chinese festival. Here you can taste glutinous rice balls, solve puzzles, and play party games.

Date: Feb 24, 3pm - 5pm

Venue: Room 3-323, 3/F, Retail Building No 3, Sanlitun SOHO, 8 Gongtibeilu, Chaoyang District

Culture

In Europe

Nina Yuen - First UK solo exhibition, Manchester

Nina Yuen is a Hawaiian-born artist who combines fictionalized personal memories and disparate accounts of the past to create alternative realities.

She uses video as her medium of choice to create striking assemblages of performance, montage and melodic voiceovers.

The works develop from a time consuming process, which sees Nina immerse herself in constructed environments specific to her characters, with often moving results.

Date: March 22-May 11

Venue: Chinese Arts Centre, Market Buildings, Thomas Street, Northern Quarter, Manchester

Website: www.chinese-arts-centre.org

The floating universe of Paul Jacoulet, Paris

The French artist, Paul Jacoulet (1896-1960) arrived in Japan in 1899, where he spent the greater part of his life.

He traveled to Korea, China and Micronesia, which he visited numerous times to paint portraits of the inhabitants. Through his engravings and drawings, he represented men and women he met in a way that is at one and the same time intimate, aesthetic and ethnographic.

Date: Feb 26-May 19

Venue: quai Branly museum, 37, quai Branly, Paris

Website: www.quaibranly.fr/en/musee

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(China Daily 02/22/2013 page31)