【区域国别与发展讲坛（第29期）】【新发展知识讲坛（总第150期）】多重危机时代的区域国别研究知识生产：中德反思与比较
讲座题目：多重危机时代的区域国别研究知识生产：中德反思与比较
主讲人：梅飞虎 德国波恩大学国际关系与全球技术政治教授
主持人：徐秀丽 中国农业大学人文与发展学院 教授 /国际发展与全球农业学院 院长
讲座时间：2026年5月13日（星期三）19:00–20:00
讲座地点：中国农业大学（东校区）新图书馆7318室
讲座语言：英文
讲座内容：在多重危机交织的时代，区域国别研究的知识生产面临特殊压力，需回应逆全球化、气候变化、地缘政治动荡与技术加速变革等一系列相互关联的挑战。该领域亟需在理论创新、方法革新、实证基础与批判性全球视野上实现突破，以持续为政策界与公众提供前沿、可靠的知识与专业支撑。当前区域国别研究主要采用三种知识生产模式，折射出学界应对多重危机、满足复杂需求的差异化路径。讲座将系统梳理德国与中国区域国别研究在多重危机下的应对实践，探讨如何通过人工智能等方法创新、理论拓展、扎实田野调查与批判性世界观构建，推动区域国别研究高质量发展，为全球知识生产贡献中德经验与智慧。
主讲人简介：梅飞虎 德国波恩大学国际关系与全球技术政治教授。2009–2015年担任波恩大学全球研究中心常务助理、高级研究员，2015–2018 年任上海同济大学特聘研究员，2018–2019年任慕尼黑工业大学慕尼黑科技社会中心高级研究员，2018–2020年任中国人民大学研究员，2019–2020年任宁波诺丁汉大学助理教授，同时为哈佛大学肯尼迪学院访问学者；他曾担任国际研究协会（ISA）科技、艺术与国际关系部（STAIR）2014–2015年项目主席、2015–2017年联合主席，拥有德国波鸿鲁尔大学硕士学位与波恩大学博士学位，主要研究方向为科学、创新与技术的全球政治、中国外交与能源政策、全球能源与气候政治及国际关系理论，已出版包括2024年《Routledge Handbook on Global China》在内的专著7部。
Title: Knowledge Production in Area Studies in the Polycrisis Age: Reflections and Comparisons between China and Germany
Speaker: Maximilian Mayer Junior-Professor for International Relations and Global Politics of Technology, Center for Advanced Security, Strategic and Integration Studies (CASSIS), University of Bonn
Moderator: Xu Xiuli Dean of CIDGA, Professor of COHD, CAU
Time: 19:00–20:00, Wednesday, May 13th, 2026
Venue: Room 7318, New library, East Campus of CAU
Language: English
Overview:
In an era marked by overlapping multiple crises, knowledge production in area studies faces unique pressures, requiring responses to a series of interconnected challenges such as deglobalization, climate change, geopolitical turbulence, and accelerated technological transformation. The field urgently needs breakthroughs in theoretical innovation, methodological renewal, empirical grounding, and a critical global perspective to continuously provide policymakers and the public with cutting-edge, reliable knowledge and professional support. Currently, area studies mainly adopts three models of knowledge production, reflecting the academic community’s differentiated approaches to addressing multiple crises and meeting complex demands. This lecture will systematically review the practices of area studies in Germany and China under multiple crises, and explore ways to advance the high-quality development of area studies through methodological innovations including artificial intelligence, theoretical expansion, rigorous fieldwork, and the construction of a critical world outlook, so as to contribute Sino-German experience and wisdom to global knowledge production.
Introduction to the Speaker:
Dr. Maximilian Mayer is Junior-Professor for International Relations and Global Politics of Technology at the University of Bonn. He worked as managing assistant and senior fellow at the Center for Global Studies of the University of Bonn from 2009 to 2015, served as Research Professor at Tongji University in Shanghai from 2015 to 2018, senior researcher at the Munich Center for Technology in Society of the Technical University of Munich from 2018 to 2019, research fellow at Renmin University of China from 2018 to 2020, and assistant professor at the University of Nottingham Ningbo China from 2019 to 2020. He is a visiting scholar at the Harvard Kennedy School, and served as Program Chair (2014–2015) and Co-Chair (2015–2017) of STAIR (Science, Technology, Arts and International Relations) of the International Studies Association (ISA). He holds a master’s degree from Ruhr-Universität Bochum and a PhD from the University of Bonn. His research focuses on the global politics of science, innovation and technology, China’s foreign and energy policy, global energy and climate politics, and international relations theory. He has published seven books, including the Routledge Handbook on Global China (2024).