2008年5月20日，南京大学中美文化研究中心Jan Kiely（杨凯里）教授做主题为"Communications and Miscommunications: A Century and Half of Chinese and Americans Together"学术前沿系列讲座。讲座由何宁副教授主持。

Jan Kiely (杨凯里) is the American Co-Director and Associate Professor of History  at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center for Chinese and American Studies. Dr.  Kiely’s experiences in China began as a visiting student at Chengdu Middle School Number Seven in 1982. He later lived and studied in Wuhan, Hong Kong, Beijing and Nanjing.  Kiely previously has taught at Central China Normal University, the Chinese University of Hong Kong, the University of Hawaii, the University of California at Berkeley, Nanjing University, Harvard University and Furman University and has directed study abroad programs at Beijing University, East China Normal University in Shanghai and Suzhou University. A former Yale-China Fellow, Kiely currently is a National Committee on United States-China Relations Public Intellectuals Program Fellow.  He also holds an associate professorship in history and Asian Studies at Furman University.

Kiely received his B.A. in East Asian studies from Yale University in 1988, an M.A. in Asian history from the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1993, and a Ph.D. in Chinese history from the University of California, Berkeley in 2001.  The author of several articles and a forthcoming book on moral education in Republican era Chinese prisons, Kiely primarily researches the institutional, cultural and social history of  twentieth century China.