Conference Schedule

Urban China in Transition

January 15-16, 2005

Note: all meetings are in room Audubon B, Park Plaza New Orleans (formerly the Radisson).

Every session is organized in the following way.� I am assigning for each chapter a discussant who will introduce the key ideas in the chapter, focusing on the issue of theoretical perspectives.� The discussant will have 10 minutes.� Then one or both co-authors will take 10 minutes to react to the discussant � to clarify their point of view or to deal with questions raised by the discussant.�

As in the Santa Monica conference, the discussant is not expected to have special knowledge about the topic, but instead has the job of making some initial observations � from a potential reader�s point of view � about how the co-authors have tackled their subject.��

On average, we will devote 45 minutes to each chapter, and we should have about 25 minutes for open discussion.� Hopefully as the conference moves forward we will continue to find common themes and increasingly make comparisons and contrasts across chapters.

I.� Saturday morning

9:00�� Welcome and introduction.� Interpreting the Changes in Urban China.� John Logan (Brown University) and Susan Fainstein (Columbia University).�

9:30�� Urban growth: fertility and migration.�

Discussant:� Cindy Fan (UCLA)

Authors:� Zai Liang (University at Albany), Hy Van Luong (University of Toronto), and Vincent Chen (DePaul University).

10:15� Class Inequality.

Discussant:� Fulong Wu (University of Southampton)

Authors: Yanjie Bian (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) and Ted Gerber (University of Wisconsin-Madison).

(Coffee, tea, and muffins will be served around 10:30.� We will not take a formal break.)

11:00� Women in the Labor Force.�

Discussant:� Jennifer Rudolph (University at Albany)

Authors:� Cindy Fan (UCLA) and Joanna Regulska (Rutgers University).

11:45� Urban poverty.

Discussant:� Ted Gerber (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Authors:� Lina Song (Nottingham University) and Simon Appleton (Nottingham University).

Lunch break at 12:30, on your own.

II.� Saturday afternoon

2:00� Criminal Victimization.�

Discussant:� John Logan (Brown University)

Authors:� Steven Messner (University at Albany), Susanne Karstedt (Keele University), and Jianhong Liu (Rhode Island College)

2:45� Spatial Inequality.

Discussant:� Susan Fainstein (Columbia University)

Authors:� Fulong Wu (University of Southampton), Michael White (Brown University) and Vincent Chen (DePaul University).

(Coffee, tea, brownies, and cookies will be served at 3:00.� We will not take a formal break.)

3:30� Suburbanization.

Discussant:� Hanchao Lu ((Georgia Institute of Technology)

Authors:� Zhou Yixing (Peking University) and John Logan (Brown University).

4:15� Exclusionary Housing.

Discussant:� Weiping Wu (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Authors:� Youqin Huang (University at Albany) and Setha Low (CUNY Graduate Center).

Dinner: Again on your own.

III.� Sunday morning

9:00� Neighborhood Associations.

Discussant:� Steven Messner (University at Albany)

Authors:� Ben Read (University of Iowa) and Robert Pekkanen (University of Washington).

9:45� Transformation of Organizations.�

Discussant:� Yanjie Bian (HKUST)

Authors:� Shahid Yusuf (World Bank) and Kaoru Nabeshima (World Bank).

�(Coffee, tea, and muffins will be served at 10:30.� We will not take a formal break.)

10:30� Migrant Workers' Adaptation to Urban Life. 

Discussant:� Zai Liang (University at Albany)

Authors:� Min Zhou (UCLA) and Guoxuan Cai (Sociology Institute of Guangzhou Academy of Social Sciences).

11:15� Migration and Housing.

Discussant:� Youqin Huang (University at Albany)

Authors:� Weiping Wu (Virginia Commonwealth University) and Emily Rosenbaum (Fordham University).

Lunch break at 12:00, on your own.

III.� Sunday afternoon

1:30� Migration, STD�s and HIV/AIDS.�

Discussant:� Min Zhou (UCLA)

Authors:� Chris Smith (University at Albany) and Graeme Hugo (University of Adelaide).

2:15� Urban Identity in Taipei and Shanghai.�

Discussant:� Benjamin Read (University of Iowa)

Authors:� Jennifer Rudolph (University at Albany) and Hanchao Lu (Georgia Institute of Technology).

Coffee, tea, brownies, and cookies will be served at 3 pm.� The remainder of the afternoon is free � an excellent time for coauthors to talk about revisions in their chapters.