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.
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).
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.
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.