Several full-time and part-time researchers of the center attended and gave lectures at the academic meeting "humanities,socila sciences and the contemporary China" which was held by the Shanghai Society for the humanities and social sciences:
     1. Professor Yu Wujin: Be Careful of the extension of the cultural nihilism.(December 17th)
     2. Professor Wu Xiaoming: Subject, basis and path: the illustration of the contemporary meaning of Marxist philosophy.(December 17th)
     3. Professor Chen Xueming: On the contemporary meaning of "western Marxism"---from the perspective of its opposition to postmodernism.
     4. Professor Lin Shangli: political civilization and political development: Chinese Strategy