20 Apr 2009

2009 Melbourne Conference on China
Asia Institute, Faculty of Arts, the University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia
Supplied note:
"Due to numerous requests, the 2009 Melbourne Conference on China abstract submission deadline has been extended to Friday, 1 May 2009.
Scholars and researchers from all disciplines are welcome to attend and/or present at this conference dedicated to exploring the transformations and challenges that China has been experiencing in the past 60 years. The conference has attracted an excellent list of keynote speakers and topics, including researchers from leading institutions in the United States, China, Hong Kong and Australia. Keynote speakers' profiles are available on our conference Website. Please do not miss this exciting opportunity for the exchange of information and ideas, and opportunity to meet leading international scholars and policy advisors. Please submit an abstract of up to 500 words, no later than Friday, 1 May 2009, to the following email address: Conference-on-China@unimelb.edu.au [...] Registration: All conference attendees need to download a registration form from http://www.chinastudies.unimelb.edu.au/conferences/2009/register.html and email it to Ms.Yangzi Sima at yangzis@unimelb.edu.au - ys."
Self-description:
"2009 Melbourne Conference on China: 60 Years of the People's Republic - Transformations and Challenges
Date: Monday, 13 July and Tuesday, 14 July 2009, Venue: The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia, Organiser: Asia Institute, Faculty of Arts, the University of Melbourne, [...]
Call for Papers
The Asia Institute at the University of Melbourne invites researchers, policy makers and advisers, educators, and specialists working in any area of China studies to spend a cool summer/winter in Melbourne, [...] to explore the many challenging questions posed by the ongoing and rapid changes that have occurred in China's economy, politics, culture, and society in the 60 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1949.
[...] The Melbourne 2009 Conference on China is designed to bring together China scholars, policy makers and advisers, educators and other specialists from throughout the world to discuss and analyse these 60 years of change from a combination of socioeconomic, sociopolitical, cultural, and institutional perspectives. The theme of this inclusive and interdisciplinary conference is: 60 Years of the People's Republic - Transformations and Challenges, and questions it will discuss include, but are not limited to, the following: 1. Cultural transformations and challenges [...] 2. Local transformations and challenges[...] 3. Political transformations and challenges [...] 4. Economic transformations and challenges[...] 5. Legal transformations and challenges [...] 6. Transformations and challenges in the field of higher education and research [...] 7. Social transformations and challenges [...]."
Site contents:
* Announcement and CFP; * Keynote Speakers (Professor Cheng Li, Professor Richard Baum, Professor Ross Garnaut, Professor Shaoguang Wang, Professor Zhenwu Zhai); * Register; * Accommodation options.
URL http://www.chinastudies.unimelb.edu.au/conferences/2009/index.html
Link reported by: Yangzi Sima (yangzis--at--unimelb.edu.au)
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