Program Coordinator, Berggruen China Center

What We Do:
The Berggruen Institute was established in 2010 and works across cultures, disciplines, and political boundaries, engaging leading thinkers to develop and promote long-term answers to the biggest challenges of the 21st Century. The Institute hosts reports and activities within four main research themes: The Transformation of the Human, The Future of Capitalism, The Future of Governance, and The Planetary.

The Berggruen China Center is a hub for East-West, cross-cultural, and interdisciplinary research and dialogue on transformations affecting humanity. Intellectual themes are focused on frontier technologies and philosophy, frontier technology and society, and the transformation of governance. The Berggruen Institute has committed $22.5 million to the Berggruen Research Center at Peking University, which was launched in December 2018, and it includes a fellowship program and houses program activities such as closed-door roundtables and symposia alongside a host of other public events.

About the Job:
You will be part of the China Center programs team. We hope you will continue to expand your skill set while working with us and become an expert in the field. You will be working in tandem with another program coordinator, and you will report directly to the Associate Director. We are looking for someone with initiative who is also a team player and possesses a high degree of professionalism.

The position is based in Beijing.

Responsibilities:

  • Take the lead on assigned projects. Liaise with relevant stakeholders including academics, policy advisors, and industry researchers.
  • Organize events related to the programs. Be proactive in designing topics and discussion formats as well as in all logistical arrangements, in collaboration with fellows and the Office Manager. Keep the events record updated.
  • Take the lead on producing reports, book volumes and other project products.
  • Provide program summaries for the Center’s annual reports and other marketing materials.
  • Attend events organized by partner organizations related to the programs.
  • Assist the Associate Director with communications strategy design and implementation.

Qualifications:

  • Experience in a role that required rigorous analytical problem solving and complex stakeholder management.
  • Good knowledge of the development of the Center’s intellectual themes in China, and awareness of global views on these topics.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication and interpersonal skills.
  • Ability to speak and write in English and Chinese fluently.
  • Ability to work in a fast-changing environment.
  • Master’s degree in related fields is an advantage.

What the Center can offer:

  • A competitive salary package depending on the applicant’s experience.
  • Opportunity to work closely with world leading researchers and policy advisors in the field of artificial intelligence, biotechnology, and ethics, as well as on new governance strategies in the digital era.
  • Opportunity to work closely with a dynamic and friendly team.

How to apply:

Please email resume and a cover letter to ChinaCenter@berggruen.org before August 9, 2021.

The Berggruen Institute is proud to be an equal opportunities workplace. We firmly believe employing a diverse workforce is important regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability, gender identity, or Veteran status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know. We make recruiting decisions based on your experience and skills. 

 

 

项目专员,博古睿中国中心

 

我们所从事的工作:

博古睿研究院成立于2010年,我们以跨文化、跨领域、跨地区的思维方式,促进激发伟大的思想,来制定并推动出台长远的解决方案,应对21世纪面临的各种挑战。博古睿研究院关注领域:人类变革——前沿科技和社会现代经济制度的未来数字环境下的治理制度以及行星思维体系

 

博古睿中国中心聚焦东西方对话,对影响人类变革的深刻变化开展跨文化、跨学科研究。中心的研究领域主要关注“前沿科技与哲学”、“前沿科技与社会”、“治理变革”。北京大学博古睿研究中心(以下简称“中心”)于2018年12月19日正式成立。中心由北京大学和博古睿研究院共同发起,博古睿研究院投入2250万美元用于中心建设,包括设立博古睿学者项目,举办政策研讨、学术讲座等,以及其他项目活动。

 

关于工作职位:

你将是中国中心项目组的一员。我们希望你能从项目中获取知识和能力,跟随项目成长,将来成为相关领域的专业人士。你将和另一位项目专员组成项目组,你们分工不同,但是要互相支持。你将直接汇报给中心副主任。我们希望你是一个工作主动,并且有团队合作精神的人,你能专业地看待你的工作职责。

 

工作地点在北京,这是一份全职工作。

 

职责:

  • 领衔项目。与相关领域的学者、政策建议人以及产业研究者合作
  • 组织关于领域相关会议。与中心研究专员合作设计会议议题、组织方式、总结报告等;与办公室主任合作,负责与会议有关事务性工作
  • 组织项目产出的如书籍、报告等管理工作
  • 为中心年度报告提供与项目相关的内容
  • 参加和题目相关的其他机构组织的会谈
  • 协助中心副主任设计、执行中心传播规划

 

要求:

  • 能够严谨地解决问题,并能够从事复杂的利益相关方管理工作
  • 熟悉了解国际上和中国关于中心研究领域的走向、政策
  • 具备出色的书面和口头沟通能力及人际交往能力
  • 具备流利的中英文说写能力
  • 能够在快速变化的环境中开展工作,勇于开拓进取
  • 如有在相关领域的硕士学位优先考虑,但非必须

 

在中心工作你可以获得:

  • 有市场竞争力的薪金,根据申请人的工作经验单独面谈。中心按照国家标准为员工缴纳五险一金以及补充医疗保险、年度体检等。
  • 与生物技术、人工智能和思想伦理等领域的世界一流研究人员密切合作的机会
  • 与学术界和各行业均有合作的中心里,与一个充满活力团队密切合作的机会

 

请在2021年8月9之前将求职信和简历发送至chinacenter@berggruen.org

 

博古睿研究院是一个以提供平等机会为宗旨的工作平台。我们坚信拥有一个多元化工作团队尤为重要,不会因种族、肤色、血统、宗教、性别、国籍、性取向、年龄、婚姻状况、残障、性别认同或退伍军人身份而予以区别对待。如果你在行动方面有特殊需求,敬请告知我们。我们会根据你的经验和技能作出招聘决定。

 

 

 


composed by Arswain
machine learning consultation by Anna Tskhovrebov
commissioned by the Berggruen Institute
premiered at the Bradbury Building
downtown Los Angeles
april 22, 2022

Human perception of what sounds “beautiful” is necessarily biased and exclusive. If we are to truly expand our hearing apparatus, and thus our notion of beauty, we must not only shed preconceived sonic associations but also invite creative participation from beings non-human and non-living. We must also begin to cede creative control away from ourselves and toward such beings by encouraging them to exercise their own standards of beauty and collaborate with each other.

Movement I: Alarm Call
‘Alarm Call’ is a long-form composition and sound collage that juxtaposes, combines, and manipulates alarm calls from various human, non-human, and non-living beings. Evolutionary biologists understand the alarm call to be an altruistic behavior between species, who, by warning others of danger, place themselves by instinct in a broader system of belonging. The piece poses the question: how might we hear better to broaden and enhance our sense of belonging in the universe? Might we behave more altruistically if we better heed the calls of – and call out to – non-human beings?

Using granular synthesis, biofeedback, and algorithmic modulation, I fold the human alarm call – the siren – into non-human alarm calls, generating novel “inter-being” sonic collaborations with increasing sophistication and complexity. 

Movement II: A.I.-Truism
A synthesizer piece co-written with an AI in the style of Vangelis’s Blade Runner score, to pay homage to the space of the Bradbury Building.

Movement III: Alarmism
A machine learning model “learns” A.I.Truism and recreates Alarm Call, generating an original fusion of the two.

Movement IV: A.I. Call
A machine learning model “learns” Alarm Call and recreates A.I.Truism, generating an original fusion of the two.


RAVE (IRCAM 2021) https://github.com/acids-ircam/RAVE