Urbanization and Development in China Conference Programme
Thursday, 30th October 2014
B38 Hartley Suite (Hartley Building 38 and 40 Lounge)
8.30-9.00
Conference registration
Conference registration desk
9.00-9.30
Welcome tea & coffee
networking
B38 Hartley Suite (Hartley Building 38 and 40
Lounge)
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)
A new great leap forward?: the implications of
China’s urbanization for food security and rural
wellbeing Prof Ann Anagnost (Washington
University)
9.45-10.30
Keynote speech 1
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 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
Drink reception
Urban cultural heritage and the development of a
creative industry business model in China Prof.
Jiang GU (Nanjing University)
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
1. Marriage between ‘matching doors’: marital
sorting between parental background in rural and
urban China Yang HU (Cambridge University)
Rural & urban change
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)
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)
Susan Halford (Head of Department of Sociology,
Social Policy and Criminology)