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2018 ICSA Asia Conference, Hong Kong

Hong Kong

Conference Date: December 19-20, 2018

General Enquiries: icsa@caser.ust.hk.

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Forty Years of China’s Reform and Social Change


The 2018 Asia Conference of the International Chinese Sociological Association (ICSA)

Hong Kong ● December 19-20, 2018

Deadline for Submissions: October 14, 2018

Conference Venue: HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advanced Study, Lo Ka Chung Building, Lee Shau Kee Campus, The Hong Kong University of Science & Technology, Clear Water Bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China

We are pleased to announce that the first Asia Conference of the ICSA will be held on December 19-20, 2018 at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong SAR, China. The conference will be organized by the Center for Applied Social and Economic Research (http://caser.ust.hk/en/) and co-sponsored by the School of Humanities and Social Science (http://www.shss.ust.hk/) and the Institute of Advanced Study (http://ias.ust.hk/web/ias/eng/).

The program committee welcomes submissions on the conference theme: Forty Years of China’s Reform and Social Change. Papers offering comparative perspectives on the conference theme and of interest to ICSA members are also welcome. The committee is particularly interested in papers that analyze multiple waves of Chinese General Social Surveys (CGSS) or China Family Panel Surveys (CFPS) to address the following topics but not limited to these topics: 1) Community and local governance; 2) Education; 3) Gender, marriage and family; 4) Health and Well-being; 5) Migration, urbanization and development; 6) Stratification and inequalities; 7) Culture and value changes; 8) Organizations, social movements.

The International Chinese Sociological Association (ICSA) was recently renamed from the North American Chinese Sociologists Association (NACSA), a nonprofit organization established in 1981 to promote social scientific research on Chinese societies, cultures, and populations in the world. ICSA will continue to NACSA’s missions through organizing research symposiums and annual conferences to facilitate the interaction and collaboration between scholars in North American and scholars in the Greater China Region and elsewhere.

The first Annual Conference of ICSA was successfully held on August 10, 2018 at Princeton University. We received 163 abstract submissions. A total of 83 papers were presented in 19 panels of the one-day conference, with over 100 scholars and students joining us from 66 institutions all over the world.

Instructions for Paper Submissions

Online submissions will be made through the ICSA Paper Submission Site at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICSAAC2018. The submission site will open on September 14, 2018 and close on October 14, 2018.

Full paper submissions are particularly welcome. In case only abstracts or extended abstracts are available, they must be sufficiently detailed to allow the conference organizers to judge the merits of the paper. Typically, extended abstracts consist of statement of research question (and the underlying theory, if appropriate), the data and research methods, and the expected findings.

At the time of submission, if there are multiple coauthors, one must be identified as the author who will present the paper. This can be revised until the program is finalized on December 3, 2018.

Upon approval of the organizing committee, travel allowance will be awarded to a selected number of graduate students or junior scholars on the basis of merit and need.

Important Dates

September 14, 2018: Online submission site opens.

October 14, 2018: Deadline for online submissions.

October 20, 2018: Authors are notified of paper acceptance.

November 14, 2018: Deadline for confirmation of attendance.

November 20, 2018: Provisional program available on the website.

December 3, 2018: Final program available on the website.

December 19-20, 2018: Conference

Membership and Registration Fee

Membership Fee Registration Fee Total
Regular Member US$ 15 US$ 45 US$ 60
Student Member US$ 5 US$ 15 US$ 20
Lifetime Member US$ 300 US$ 45 US$ 345
Current Regular Member US$ 0 US$ 45 US$ 45
Current Student Member US$ 0 US$ 15 US$ 15
Current Lifetime Member US$ 0 US$ 45 US$ 45

Please note that conference participation requires membership in the ICSA. If you are not an active member yet, please become a member first through this link: https://nacsainfo11.wordpress.com/membership/ .

ICSA lifetime members or members who have already paid the membership fee for the 2018 Annual Conference will only need to pay the registration fee this time.

Enquiries

For technical enquiries, please contact Shaoping She at caser@ust.hk.

For general enquiries, please contact Maggie Ku at icsa@caser.ust.hk.

Collaborating Journals

Selected papers presented in the conference will be invited to submit to the following peer review journals, or contributions to special issues by invitation

1. Chinese Journal of Sociology (CJS) (eISSN: 20571518 | ISSN: 2057150X), founded in 2015 and published by SAGE, is a peer-reviewed, international journal issued by Shanghai University and co-sponsored with Princeton’s Center on Contemporary China (CCC), with an aim to building an academic platform for in-depth discussion of the issues facing contemporary Chinese society from the sociological perspectives.

2. China Review (ISSN: 16802012), published by Chinese University Press in Hong Kong, is the only China-based English journal devoted to the study of Greater China and its people. The journal’s SSCI Impact Factor 0.906 in 2016, being ranked in Q1, 16/69 in area studies.  

3. Chinese Sociological Review (CSR) (Print ISSN: 2162-0555 Online ISSN: 2162-0563), founded in 1968, now published by Taylor & Francis Inc. 530 Walnut Street, Suite 850, Philadelphia, PA 19106. The journal’s SSCI impact factor is 2.3 in 2017, being ranked in Q1, 21/146 in sociology.

        

      


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Instructions for Paper Submissions

Online submissions will be made through the ICSA Paper Submission Site at https://cmt3.research.microsoft.com/ICSAAC2018. The submission site will open on September 14, 2018 and close on October 14, 2018.

Full paper submissions are particularly welcome. In case only abstracts or extended abstracts are available, they must be sufficiently detailed to allow the conference organizers to judge the merits of the paper. Typically, extended abstracts consist of statement of research question (and the underlying theory, if appropriate), the data and research methods, and the expected findings.

At the time of submission, if there are multiple coauthors, one must be identified as the author who will present the paper. This can be revised until the program is finalized on December 3, 2018.

Upon approval of the organizing committee, travel allowance will be awarded to a selected number of graduate students or junior scholars on the basis of merit and need.


Important Dates

September 14, 2018: Online submission site opens.

October 14, 2018: Deadline for online submissions.

October 20, 2018: Authors are notified of paper acceptance.

November 14, 2018: Deadline for confirmation of attendance.

November 20, 2018: Provisional program available on the website.

December 3, 2018: Final program available on the website.

December 19-20, 2018: Conference


Please note that conference participation requires membership in the ICSA. If you are not an active member yet, please become a member first through this link: https://nacsainfo11.wordpress.com/membership/ .


Membership and Registration Fee

Membership Fee Registration Fee Total
Regular Member US$ 15 US$ 45 US$ 60
Student Member US$ 5 US$ 15 US$ 20
Lifetime Member US$ 300 US$ 45 US$ 345
Current Regular Member US$ 0 US$ 45 US$ 45
Current Student Member US$ 0 US$ 15 US$ 15
Current Lifetime Member US$ 0 US$ 45 US$ 45


ICSA lifetime members or members who have already paid the membership fee for the 2018 Annual Conference will only need to pay the registration fee this time.



ADDRESS OF CONFERENCE HALL

Lee Shau Kee Campus

The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology

Clear Water Bay, Kowloon

For Opening and Plenary Sessions

Lee Shau Kee Business Building (LSK)

For Parallel Sessions

HKUST Jockey Club Institute for Advance Study (IAS)

Lo Ka Chung Building


LOCATION OF CONFERENCE HALL


PROGRAMME OUTLINE

Wednesday December 19th – Day 1

*Note: IAS – Lo Ka Chung Building; LSK – Lee Shau Kee Business Building.

Time

Details

Venue

8:00 – 8:40 Registration and Reception LSK G012
8:40 – 9:00 Welcome and Opening Speech


Prof. Kellee Tsai & Prof. Xiaogang Wu

LSK G012
9:00 – 10:30 Plenary Session I: Keynote Address


Keynote Speakers:

Prof. Nan Lin (Guest of Honour)

Prof. James Lee

Chair: Prof. Xiaogang Wu

LSK G012
10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break and Group Photo Taking LSK Open Area
11:00 – 12:30 Parallel Sessions


1.1 The Rise of Urban China and Urban Governance

1.2 National Identity and Political Ideology

1.3 Health Inequality

1.4 Family and Domestic Labour

1.5 Status Attainment and Job Mobility

 


IAS 1038

IAS 2042

IAS 4042

IAS 5007

IAS 3/F Open Area

12:30 – 13:30 Lunch IAS 1/F Open Area
13:30 – 15:00 Parallel Sessions


2.1 Institutional Transformation and Social Change

2.2 Gender Norms and Attitudes I

2.3 Migrant Workers and Labour Rights

2.4 Medical Sociology and Public Health

2.5 Parenting and Child Outcomes

 


IAS 1038

IAS 2042

IAS 4042

IAS 5007

IAS 3/F Open Area

15:00 – 15:15 Coffee Break IAS 1/F Open Area
15:15 – 16:45 Parallel Sessions


3.1 Education and Elite Formation

3.2 Returns to College Education

3.3 Marriage and Assortative Mating

3.4 Migration and People’s Well-being

3.5  Internet Technology and Society

 


IAS 1038

IAS 2042

IAS 4042

IAS 5007

IAS 3/F Open Area

16:45 – 17:20 Coffee Break LSK 1/F Open Area
17:20 – 18:50 Plenary Session II: Nan Lin’s Contributions to Sociology


Panellists:

Prof. Ronald Burt

Prof. Lijun Song

Prof. Yanjie Bian

Open Discussion

Commentary Response: Prof. Nan Lin

Chair: Prof. Min Zhou

LSK G012
19:00 – 21:00 Conference Dinner Conference Lodge


Thursday December 20th – Day 2

Time

Details

Venue

8:30 – 10:00 Parallel Sessions


4.1 Comparative Study of Societies and Social Change

4.2 Gender Norms and Attitudes II

4.3 Fertility and Demographic Transition

4.4 Mental Health and Subjective Well-being

4.5 Housing and Home Ownership

 


IAS 1038

IAS 2042

IAS 4042

IAS 5007

IAS 3/F Open Area

10:00 – 10:15 Coffee Break IAS 1/F Open Area
10:15 – 11:45 Parallel Sessions


5.1 Intergenerational Relationship and Transmission

5.2 Governance and Civil Society

5.3 Political Attitude and Participation

5.4 Migrant Children

5.5 Consumption

 


IAS 1038

IAS 2042

IAS 4042

IAS 5007

IAS 3/F Open Area

12:00 – 13:00 Plenary Session III: Publishing in English Journals


Editors:

Prof. Xiaogang Wu, Chinese Sociological Review

Prof. Ying Lin, China Review

Prof. Xiulin Sun, Chinese Journal of Sociology

Chair: Prof. Yanjie Bian

LSK G012

End of Conference


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