In addition to the regular speaker series and other co-sponsored events, CSCC convenes an informal “Weekly Forum,” noon on weekdays in the CSCC conference room. These sessions are envisioned as “brown-bag lunches” at which graduate students or faculty can informally introduce or present work in progress. This will be a great way for all of us to get to know one another and learn more about the kinds of work on contemporary China being done across Penn’s campus. Please email us your thoughts and suggestions on how to best organize the Friday Forum and to let us know when you would like to volunteer to discuss some of your work. Even on days when no discussion is scheduled, people are welcome to bring their lunch to eat with others in the CSCC conference room.
Past Weekly Forums
From Partner to Bully: Shifting Employment Conditions in Walmart, China
Eileen Otis, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Oregon
Eileen Otis is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Oregon. She is the author of the…
Performing Artivism: Feminists, Lawyers, and Online Legal Mobilization in China
Sida Liu, Associate Professor of Sociology and Law, University of Toronto
In authoritarian contexts where the state is the primary performer in the public sphere and legal mobilization is constrained…
Spatial Control and State Power in Disaster-stricken Cities: The Case of the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake in China
Huan Gao, CSCC Postdoctoral Fellow
How does the shape of our cities influence our political behavior and relations? This question is particularly important…
Symbolic Power and Subnational Identity in China and the USA
Jonathan Hassid, Associate Professor of Political Science, Iowa State University
Although studies of national patriotism are common, few scholars have examined how subnational (state, province,…
30 Years After: A Retrospection on the Spatial Evolution of a Super Mega-City, Shanghai.
Tong Ming, Professor of Architecture & Urban Planning, Tongji University
As an exceptional city in China, Shanghai has been experiencing continuous changes throughout its 180 years of developing…
China, Hong Kong and Taiwan: Reflections on a Reporting Trip
Trudy Rubin, Worldview Columnist, The Philadelphia Inquirer
Please join Trudy Rubin for a discussion on her recent reporting trip to China.
Trudy Rubin, Worldview columnist for The Philadelphia Inquirer, has been awarded the Flora Lewis award for commentary…
Discussion with Nathan Law
Nathan Law, Hong Kong democracy activist
Countering Capture: Elite Networks and Government Responsiveness in China's Land Market Reform
Junyan Jiang, Assistant Professor, Department of Government and Public Administration, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Government responsiveness is often viewed as a result of political pressure from the public, but why do politicians facing…
Avoiding A Thucydides Trap in Sino-American Relations (…and Eight Reasons Why That Might Be Difficult)
Gregory Moore, Associate Professor of International Relations, University of Nottingham, Ningbo, China
In 2015 Harvard’s Graham Allison wrote an evocative article discussing the “…
Lies to Friends, Truths to Strangers: Preference Falsification 2.0 in Authoritarian China
Haohan Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for the Study of Contemporary China
With new communication technologies, citizens in authoritarian regimes perform a new type of preference falsification in political talk: lying to friends and telling the truth to strangers. Extending the classic…
