Center for Chinese Studies: Conferences Archives

September 18, 2009

Twenty-First Century Urbanization: Social Science Perspectives on China's Urban Transformation

Conference Schedule
Updated September 29, 2009

Welcome: 9:00am-9:15am
Welcome by Mary Gallagher, Director of the U-M Center for Chinese Studies
Henderson Room ▪ 4th floor ▪ Michigan League

SESSION I: 9:15am-10:45am
Kam Wing Chan, University of Washington
Fundamentals of China's Urbanization and Policy
Michelle Huang, National Taiwan University
How Clusters of Chinese Cities Become Massive Regional Units

Discussants: Elizabeth Perry, Harvard University,
Ravi Sundaram, Centre for the Study of Developing Societies, and Visiting Professor, U-M

15 minute break

SESSION II: 11-12:30

Xuefei Ren, Michigan State University
The Chinese Urban Future: Lessons from China's Megacities
Robert Adams, University of Michigan
Extreme Urban Euphoria: Architecture in the Compression of Developmental Time

Discussants: Martin Murray, University of Michigan,
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, University of California, Irvine

Noon Break: 12:30-1:45

SESSION III: 1:45-3:15

Li Zhang, UC Davis
Patterns of Urban Sprawl and Emerging Spatialization of Class: The Real Estate Boom and Housing Reform in Kunming
Yue Zhang, University of Illinois at Chicago
The Politics of Urban Preservation in Beijing
Siming Li, Hong Kong Baptist University
Economic Integration between Hong Kong and the Pearl River Delta at a Crossroads: Mega-Urban Development under One Country, Two Systems

Discussants: Shivi Sivaramakrishnan, Yale University
Yuhua Wang, University of Michigan

15 minute break

SESSION IV: 3:30-4:30

Albert Park, Oxford University
Chinese Labor Markets, Rural Migration and the Informalization of Labor Markets
Scott Rozelle, Stanford University
Rural Migrants’ Educational Opportunities in Urban Areas

Discussant: Mary Gallagher, University of Michigan
Lijing Yang, University of Michigan

Wrap-up Roundtable: 4:30-5:15

Chair: Jeff Wasserstrom, UC Irvine
Panelists: Li Tiangang, Fudan University; Nguyen Thu Giang, University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi; Meredith Weiss, SUNY, Albany; Gilbert Rozman, Princeton University

Wrap up Discussion: 5:15pm-6:00pm - Where to go from here:

Chaired by Mary Gallagher, Director of the U-M Center for Chinese Studies

Posted by zzhu at 02:48 PM

February 16, 2009

Conference - Comparative Early Modernities

Posted by summert at 09:44 AM

February 05, 2009

19th Annual Asia Business Conference at the Ross School of Business - China Line-up

Please click on China-panel flyer or conference poster for more information.

Posted by zzhu at 10:50 AM

December 04, 2008

Tenth China Synergy Program

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Fourth WCILCOS International Conference on Chinese Overseas Studies, Guangzhou, China, May 9-11, 2009

Conference: 4th World Confederation of Institutes and Libraries for Chinese Overseas Studies (WCILCOS) International Conference, Jinan University, Guangzhou, China, May 9-11, 2009

Theme: Interaction and Innovation: Multidimensional Perspectives in Chinese Overseas Studies

Languages: Chinese, English

Date: May 9 - 11, 2009

Venue: Jinan University, Guangzhou, China

Co-sponsors: Jinan University, Ohio University

Organizers: Academy of Overseas Chinese Studies in Jinan University, Jinan University Libraries, Ohio University Libraries

It is our pleasure to announce that the 4th WCILCOS International Conference on Chinese Overseas Studies will be held in Jinan University in Guangzhou, China, from May 9 to May 11 2009.

It has been the aim of the World Confederation of Institutes and Libraries in Chinese Overseas Studies (WCILCOS) to promote the nexus between research and documentation and greater interaction between scholars, librarians, and archivists working on the Chinese overseas in different parts of the world. As such, this conference is open to all, and seeks to bring together librarians, archivists, institutes, collectors, scholars, students, and researchers in the field. The first three conferences had been held in the United States (2000), Hong Kong (2003), and Singapore (2005) respectively. This is the first in the series to be held in China.

For the participants and themes in our past conferences, please go to:

http://www.overseaschineseconfederation.org/main/conference.php

December 02, 2008

International Student Conference on US-China Relations

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October 02, 2008

China Plural: Local Identity, Contesting Visions, and Constructing Nation (October 17-18, 2008) at The Ohio State University

This conference is to communicate, elaborate, and expand an interdisciplinary discourse on a multifaceted view on China. Since the 1990s as an emerging world power beyond the East Asian region, China has been one of the most speculated, researched, and analyzed topics in academia, mass media, and policy debates in the United States. However, the majority of studies and analysis on the topic have been framed within a simulacrum of China based on the imagined homogeneity of its history, people, and culture. This monolithic image, an awakened dragon to the call of the global capitalism, has shaped not only the studies of China, but also dominated the policy debates and public imagination of China in this country. By convening scholars working on local, linguistic, and cultural diversity of China, this conference will highlight the heterogeneous and dynamic inner workings of China, and examine the representation, construction, and reproduction of "a homogeneous China" both inside and outside its national boundary.

This October conference will consist of three panels focusing on local identity, contesting visions, and constructing nation in China. Each panel will have three presenters and one discussant. The local identity panel will focus on the development of regional networks and identities in different parts of China during various time periods. The contesting visions panel will study the emergence of increasing economic, political, and social stratification among residents of China, and analyze its implications for the future unfolding of Chinese society. The constructing nation panel will analyze how the notion of “One China�? has been produced and circulated both in academic and public sphere throughout history and explore the construction of Chinese nationalism based on the notion of homogeneous “Han�? minzu. A discussant in each panel will provide a comparative perspective on the papers presented and suggest a possibility and direction of a further collaborated research in the future.

Dr. Dru Gladney, the author of “Dislocating China (Chicago UP: 2006) and president of the Pacific Basin Institute, will be a keynote speaker for the event and other leading scholars in history, anthropology, and literature will participate in the conference. As an end product of the conference, the organizer and East Asian Studies Center of OSU plan to publish either an edited volume on "Multi-China: the Past, Present, and Future (tentative title)" or a special guest-edited issue of the leading journal, Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, based on the presented papers, discussion, and follow-up communications.

OBJECTIVE:
This two-day conference aims to provide a combination of formal panel discussion and informal exchange of ideas among the participants and the audience. Unlike a large scale event, this conference will provide more intimate yet innovating venue for twelve to fifteen participants to engage in a scholarly conversation over the weekend. For this purpose, the organizer will also host two exclusive dinners for the participants in locally renowned restaurants where they can exchange personal experiences and preliminary research projects in a friendly and casual setting. The organizer hopes that the conference will not only provide a timely opportunity to underline multi-dimensional aspects of China, but also offer a juncture where scholars of China can share their visions and advance further collaborations in the future.

Posted by zzhu at 08:20 PM

September 23, 2008

19th Annual UM Asia Business Conference

Asia: Globalization and Transformation

Location: Stephen M. Ross School of Business
Date: February 6th and 7th, 2009

The 2009 Conference will feature more than 25 speakers from Asia and the United States and usually attracts nearly 600 business leaders, students, faculty and others interested in learning more about Asia.

The program will include regional panels on China, India, Japan, Korea and ASEAN, as well as functional panels on Finance, Energy, Environment, Technology, and Healthcare.

Past conferences have featured speakers from multinational corporation such as, Johnson & Johnson, Mitsubishi Motors, General Motors, Shell, Nike, Satyam, Northwest Airlines, Bear Stearns, Morgan Stanley, Dow Chemical, Baxter Healthcare, and Pfizer.

Prominent government officials such as the ASEAN Secretary General, the Singapore Ambassador to the United Nations, the Finance Minister of India, Finance Minister of Thailand, and the United Nations Assistant Secretary General for Economic Development have given keynote addresses.

Please refer to the 2008 Asia Business Converence (prior year's) website at www.rossabc.org to get an understanding of the conference format.

Posted by moyera at 02:11 PM

September 16, 2008

MPSA Conference, April 2-5, 2009, Chicago. Proposal Deadline is October 10, 2008.

Ask your favorite political scientist what the biggest political science conference is, and she'll tell you it's the American Political Science Association. Ask her what the best political science conference is and she'll tell you it's the Midwest Political Science Association meeting, held every April in the beautiful Palmer House in Chicago.

(Keep reading even if you're not a political scientist.)

The Midwest Political Science Association, like most academic associations, charges higher conference registration rates for nonmembers than to members. Hoping to continue to increase attendance by people outside of political science and related fields at its annual meeting, the Association will begin charging registrants who 1) have academic appointments outside of political science or related fields (policy, public administration and political economy) and 2) do not have a PhD in political science or the same related fields, conference registration rates equal to member registration rates.

In addition, the Association grants, on request, a substantial number of conference registration waivers for first time participants who are outside the discipline.

The call for papers for the 2009 meeting, due October 10, is at http://www.mpsanet.org/~mpsa/index.html.

Hope to see you in Chicago.

Sincerely,

Jeff Segal, President
Midwest Political Science Association
320 W 8th Street, #218
Bloomington, IN 47404
www.mpsanet.org

Posted by zzhu at 11:57 AM

September 15, 2008

Transformations: Researching Asia

York Centre for Asian Research Graduate Student Conference
York University, Toronto, Canada. September 26-27, 2008

Keynote speaker: Dr. Rey Chow (Brown University)
Film as Heterolingual Address: Some Remarks about Studying Asia in Postwar North America
5 PM, Friday, Sept. 26 at Price Family Cinema, Accolade East Building

York Center for Asian Research hosts the first International Graduate Student Conference on Asian Studies. Students from 16 universities in Canada, United States, Asia and Europe will present their on-going research projects in various fields such as politics of representations, gender and modernity, colonialism, globalization and regionalism, the arts of resistance, and education across Asia and the Asian Diasporas. Topics will be discussed in historical and theoretical contexts as a way of understanding the dynamics of social and cultural transformations in Asia and beyond. This multi-disciplinary conference will be a stimulating channel for scholars and academic communities from around the world to share knowledge and methodologies in researching Asia.

Dr. Rey Chow, Andrew W. Mellon Professor of the Humanities at Brown University, will deliver the keynote speech entitled "Film as Heterolingual Address: Some Remarks about Studying Asia in Postwar North America." This talk will explore some of the possibilities of Asian Studies in a global context in which the United States has been occupying the status of super power. Among the issues it will discuss are the utopian notion of the heterolingual address, the legacy of war, mourning, and the ways of engaging with the specifics of film language.

This conference is sponsored by the Hong Kong Economic and Trade Office (Canada), Office of the Vice-President Research and Innovation at York University, Faculty of Graduate Studies, Department of Film Norman Jewison Series, Graduate Program in Geography, Graduate Program in Women’s Studies, Graduate Program in Social and Political Thought, and York Centre for Asian Research.

All are welcome to attend.

Please visit the conference website at http://www.yorku.ca/ycar/Events/graduate_conference.html or email: transformationsasiaconference@gmail.com for further information
Registration for the conference is free. To register, email: transformationsasiaconference@gmail.com with subject line “Conference Registration�?, please indicate your institutional affiliation in the email.

Transformations: Researching Asia * www.yorku.ca/ycar/Events/graduate_conference.html

Posted by zzhu at 04:19 PM

September 09, 2008

Higher Education Forum Announcement and Last Call for Papers

September 15, 2008 is the submission deadline of upcoming International Conferences, e-CASE 2009 (e-Commerce, e-Administration, e-Society, and e-Education) (http://e-case.org/2009) and e-Technology 2009 (http://e-case.org/etech2009).

Meanwhile an International Forum, “Higher Education in the Asia-Pacific: Challenges for the future�?, will be held during the conference. The topics include “Changes in International Education Market�?, “Opportunities for Asia-Pacific Higher Education�?, “Forming an Asia-Pacific University Consortium�?, and many more. If you are interested in attending this forum or making a ten-minute speech or announcement at this international forum, please contact Dr. Chian-Son Yu via csyu@mail.usc.edu.tw.

If you are interested in organizing a special session, please contact Dr. Chien-Kuo Li via ckli@mail.usc.edu.tw. Amongst all of those submitted to these conferences, three papers will be selected to earn the Best Paper Award with a cash award of $500 USD, and around 8%-10% of the papers will be awarded as distinguished papers. Authors of the top 10%-20% of the papers presented at the conference will be invited to submit their papers for possible publications to one of the following journals: Emerging Markets Finance and Trade (an SSCI journal), International Journal of Business and Information (IJBI), and International Journal of Cyber Society and Education (IJCSE).

Look forward to seeing you in Singapore,

Conference Chairs
E. J. Ourso Professor Edward Watson
Louisiana State University (USA)

Professor Haruhisa Yamaguchi
Okayama University (Japan)

Professor Wenchang Fang
National Taipei University (Taiwan)

Professor Lutz M. Kolbe
University of Goettingen (Germany)

Local Committee Chair
Professor Hian Chye Koh
SIM University (Singapore)

Local Program Chair
Professor Yekta Mustafa
SIM University (Singapore)

International Committee Chair
Professor Kwei Tang
Purdue University (USA)

Posted by zzhu at 05:13 PM

Second Congress of the Asia-Pacific Council on Contraception (APCOC)

Deadline for the Submission of Abstracts: September 15, 2008

The Venetian Macao-Resort-Hotel, Macau, China, December 4-6, 2008
50 abstract submitters will be awarded hotel accommodation and complimentary registration

Please submit your abstracts via the Congress website at http://www.comtecmed.com/apcoc/2008/abstracts.aspx no later than
September 15, 2008

www.comtecmed.com

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