William Beinart, Rhodes Professor of Race Relations from University of Oxford, gave a lecture entitled “Political Revolution and Democratic Development in South Africa” at the conference hall of School of Animation, CUC, April 2, 2007. In his lecture, Bainart introduced briefly the political and economic situation in South Africa, and analyzed the background and the prospect of South Africa’s political development. Afterwards he answered students’ questions.

Beinart is from School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford. He is chair of the University African Studies Centre, based at St Antony’s College. He was invited to CUC to pay a two-week academic visit. About 40 graduate students joined his workshop seminar. And Professor Liu Liqun, Dean of School of International Communications, Professor Tian Zhihui, Vice Dean of Graduate School and Professor Liu Chang, Director of European Media Study Center, exchanged ideas with Beinart on topics such as academic exchange and collaboration.

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