TOChina Summer School

With T.wai's support, the Faculty of Political Science, University of Torino launches the 6th edition of its renowned TOChina Summer School.

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TOChina is a uniquely effective educational venue that offers qualified young international scholars and budding professionals access to a world-class faculty of prominent China specialists in an intimate, small-group setting that encourages informal interaction and hands-on learning. I recommend it highly and without reservation.


Richard Baum

Distinguished Professor of Political Science, UCLA


  
The TOChina Summer School, a partnership of the Faculty of Political Science - University of Torino and T.wai - Torino World Affairs Institute, has been running with the support of Fondazione CRT since 2007 to help outstanding students, young scholars, engaged professionals and government officials harness the complexity of China’s development and return to global prominence. In 2012 the School is delighted to count the Australian Centre for China in the World (CIW) at the Australian National University among its partner institutions.

Based in Torino, united Italy’s first capital city in the Alpine region of Piemonte, the Summer School welcomes participants in a uniquely vivacious international environment, where an informal work style allows for free, in-depth discussion and first-rate networking.

Training runs Monday to Friday, from 9.30am to 5pm. It features lectures and extensive Q&A sessions with some of the world’s best academics sharing cutting-edge insights on their specific fields of expertise.

In 2012 the School will welcome the following faculty members: Geremie Barmé (ANU), Kent Deng (LSE), Maurizio Marinelli (UTS), John Ravenhill (ANU), Anja Senz (Universität Duisburg-Essen), David Shambaugh (GWU), Ashley Tellis (Carnegie Endowment for International Peace), Luigi Tomba (ANU), and Yu Yongding (CASS).

Participants to the program are selected through an intensive and highly competitive process, strictly based on academic merit, professional achievements and individual potential. Graduate and PhD students make up the bulk of the class every year. The working language of the School is English. The detailed programme is available online, with info being constantly updated.

Applications are accepted as from March 5th 2012. Students may apply for several ZEROTASSE scholarships, waving tuition costs completely. Those who do not live in the Torino area can alternatively apply for the FREETORINO scholarships, covering tuition, accommodation and, partially, meals for the duration of their stay in Torino.

All information on the School, including the themes being treated in 2012, fees, and application procedures are provided at www.to-asia.it/china, in the Summer School section.
- SALA CONFERENZE, 1ST FLOOR, DIPARTIMENTO DI STUDI POLITICI, VIA GIOLITTI 33, TORINO (IT)

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Partners

  • The Compagnia di San Paolo was founded in Torino in 1563 as a charitable brotherhood and it is now one of Europe’s most important private foundations. The Compagnia participates in society’s activities by pursuing ends that are of public interest and social utility, with the aim of favoring civil, cultural, and economic development in the community in which it is active.

  • The Istituto Affari Internazionali (IAI) was founded in 1965 on the initiative of Altiero Spinelli. The IAI's main objective is to promote an understanding of the problems of international politics through studies, research, meetings and publications, with the aim of increasing the opportunities of all countries to move in the direction of supranational organization, democratic freedom and social justice.

  • The Dipartimento di Culture, Politica e Società of the University of Torino was established in 2013. As centre of research and educational activities, the Department investigates how human beings think and shape the society they live in, how they organize and regulate social living, the types of political institutions they create to govern those society and the interaction between different cultures.

  • SIPRI is an independent international institute dedicated to research into conflict, armaments, arms control and disarmament. Established in 1966, SIPRI provides data, analysis and recommendations, based on open sources, to policymakers, researchers, media and the interested public.

  • The Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies supports research, teaching and outreach activities that advance international studies at Cornell, in order to contribute to our knowledge of the world. The Center is committed to multi-disciplinary and collaborative research, teaching and outreach promoting cross-cultural and cross-national understanding.

  • The German Marshall Fund of the United States (GMF) is a non-partisan American public policy and grantmaking institution dedicated to promoting transatlantic cooperation. GMF supports individuals and institutions working in the transatlantic sphere, convenes leaders of the policy and business communities, contributes research and analysis, and provides exchange opportunities.

  • The Centre Marocain des Sciences Sociales (CM2S), based in Casablanca, is an autonomous research association, aimed at engendering institutional research questions about social change and transformation. Up to present, the main research topics have concerned urban anthropology, historical sociology, migrations, electoral processes and entrepreneurship.

  • The Fonds d’analyse des sociétés politiques, created in 2003 by researchers at the French CNRS, is an autonomous research association. It aims at contributing to a better understanding of political societies, through an approach of historical sociology of politics and economics, by comparing the thematic fields of ‘world governance’ with the concrete historical situations to which they are applicable.

  • The East Asian Institute (EAI) is an autonomous research organization of the National University of Singapore. Its main mission is to promote academic and policy-oriented research on East Asian development, particularly the political, economic and social development of contemporary China (including Hong Kong and Taiwan), and China's growing economic relations with the region and the world.

  • The China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations is among China’s largest and oldest civilian research institutions for international studies.

  • The China Center for Contemporary World Studies (CCCWS), based in Beijing, was founded in 2010. Its main fields of research include international affairs, political systems and institutional architecture of foreign countries, China’s strategy towards the world, comparative studies on development models. It actively conducts exchanges and academic discussions with foreign think tanks and research institutes.

  • Established in April 2013, the Center for Italian Studies is located in Hangzhou (P.R.China), within Zhejiang University’s Yuquan campus. The CIS constitutes the most advanced outcome of the strategic partnership initiated in 2007 by the then Faculty of Political Science of the University of Torino and the Faculty of Arts and Humanities of Zhejiang University.

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