Some of the world's leading economists, historians, and social scientists will be gathering at the Oxford Union on Saturday 5 and Sunday 6 May for a conference on the "New Face of American Capitalism and its Impact on the World." The conference is being organised by Oxford University's Rothermere American Institute and is being held in honour of The New York Review of Books and its long time co-editors, Robert Silvers and Barbara Epstein, who died last year.

The Vice-Chancellor underlined the Oxford University's strong links with China in welcoming Li Yuanchao, Party Secretary for Jiangsu Province, China to Oxford last month. Spoken of in the UK media as a potential national leader, Mr Li led a delegation that included the President of Nanjing University, Chen Jun, and the Mayor of Wuxi, Mao Xiaoping.