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Economic, Social and Political Sciences

Urbanization and Development in China Conference Programme Event

Time:
08:30 - 23:00
Date:
30 - 31 October 2014
Venue:
B38 Hartley Suite (Hartley Building 38 and 40 Lounge)

Event details

Conference Programme

Thursday, 30th October 2014 - B38 Hartley Suite (Hartley Building 38 and 40 Lounge)

8.30-9.00 Conference registration

9.00-9.30 Welcome tea & coffee networking

9.30-9.45 Welcome speech

  • Mark Cranshaw (Confucius Institute Director)
  • Susan Halford (Head of the Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology)
  • Derek McGee (Head of the School of Social Sciences)

9.45-10.30 Keynote speech 1

  • A new great leap forward?: the implications of China’s urbanization for food security and rural wellbeing Prof Ann Anagnost (Washington University)

10:30 - 10:50 Refreshments & networking

B38 Hartley Suite (Hartley Building 38 and 40 Lounge)

10.50 – 11.30 Keynote speech 2

  • Sustainable urbanisation, environmental governance and the struggle for an Ecological Civilisation Dr Sam Geall (University of Sussex)

11.30- 12.50 Paper session 1 Urbanisation and the environment in China

  1. China mega-urbanization in the 2000s and its environmental impact
    Dr Sorichetta A (University of Southampton), Nghiem S.V., Masetti M., Richter A., Linard C., Gaughan A.E., Stevens F.R. & Tatem A.J.
  2. China’s environmental pollution in the urbanization and industrialization process: an environmental index analysis Dr Jing GAO (Capital University of Economics and Business)
  3. Sustainable urbanisation and energy generation in Beijing
    Dr Urban, F. (School of African and Oriental Studies)

12:50 - 13:50 Lunch Finger Buffet

B38 Hartley Suite (Hartley Building 38 and 40 Lounge)

 13.50-15.30 Paper session 2 Health, ageing and care

  1. Individual and province inequalities in health among older people in China: evidence and policy implications Prof Maria Evandrou, Prof Jane Falkingham, Dr Athina Vlachantoni and Dr Zhixin FENG (University of Southampton)
  2. An analysis of time spent on informal care for disabled elderly: evidence from CHARLs Dr Xiaoting LIU (Zhejiang University)
  3. Social trust, interpersonal trust and self-rated health in China: a multi level study Dr Zhixin FENG (University of Southampton)
  4. Long term care service integrated with health care: definition, reclassified way and population forecasting in urban China Zhenzhen YANG (Northwest A&F University), Prof. Hong MI(Zhejiang University)

15:30 - 15:50 Conference Luxury Refreshments & networking

B38 Hartley B38 Hartley Suite (Hartley Building 38 and 40 Lounge)

15:50-17:20 Paper Session 3 Urban transformation, migration and poverty

  1. From village to city: the process of urban transformation from the 1840s to the 1940s Dr Yunlian CHEN (Takushoku University, Japan)
  2. New-type Urbanization and the Transition of Migrant Workers in China: A New Subject Prof. Lihua JIANG (Central China Normal University)
  3. A Study on Chinese urban poverty Prof. Hanwen LU (Central China Normal University)
  4. Selling and buying fresh vegetables in Beijing: food, markets, migration and the urban environment Dr Anna Boermel (King’s College London)

17:30 – 18.30 Public lecture Venue: tbc

Urban cultural heritage and the development of a creative industry business model in China Prof. Jiang GU (Nanjing University)

Drink reception

18:30 - 23:00 Conference Dinner

B38 Blue Room Building 38 and 40

 

Friday 31 Oct 2014

B38 Hartley Suite (Hartley Building 38 and 40 Lounge)

09:00 - 09:20 Welcome Tea & Coffee

B38 Hartley Suite (Hartley Building 38 and 40 Lounge)

9:20 – 10.40 Paper Session 4 Rural & urban change

  1. Marriage between ‘matching doors’: marital sorting between parental background in rural and urban China Yang HU (Cambridge University)
  2. The time use pattern and labour supply of left behind women and children in rural China Hao XU (University of Southampton)
  3. Informal employment in China: opportunity or last resort? Xiaoman LI (Capital University of Economics and Businss)
  4. International immigrants in China Prof. Pauline Leonard (University of Southampton)
  5. Competing Evaluation Logics: Exploring Social Impact in India and China Dr Pathik Pathak (University of Southampton)

10:40 - 11:00 Refreshments

B38 Hartley Suite (Hartley Building 38 and 40 Lounge)

11:00-12:00 Intensive research forum sessions

Workshop 1 Environment
Workshop 2 Health, ageing and care
Workshop 3 Migration, poverty and development

12:00-12:10 Conference Closing Speech

Mark Cranshaw (Confucius Institute Director)
Susan Halford (Head of Department of Sociology, Social Policy and Criminology)

12:10 -12.30 Guided walk around Highfield Campus

Meeting point: B38 Hartley Suite

12:30 - 13:30 Lunch Finger Buffet

B38 Hartley Suite (Hartley Building 38 and 40 Lounge)

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