The Civil Sphere in East Asia

Friday, May 5 & Saturday, May 6, 2017

University of Hong Kong ~ Hong Kong

This was the second in a series of conference-book projects to globalize civil sphere theory (CST). Examining the civil sphere in social settings outside the United States, these conferences not only apply CST but creatively elaborate and revise it.

Organized by Jeffrey Alexander of Yale University and David Palmer of HKU, with generous support from the Council of East Asian Studies at Yale University and The Center for Cultural Sociology at Yale University.

The Civil Sphere in East Asia ~ Cambridge University Press
The Civil Sphere in East Asia book cover

Participants:

Jeffrey Alexander ~ Yale University
David A. Palmer ~ University of Hong Kong 
Cheris Shun-ching Chan ~ University of Hong Kong
Jungryul Choi ~ Keimyung University, South Korea
Andrew Junker ~ University of Chicago
Peter Kivisto ~ Augustana College
Agnes Shuk-mei Ku ~ Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Hee-Jeong Lee ~ Ewha Womans University, South Korea
Yeseul Lee ~ Keimyung University, South Korea
Kuo-ming Lin ~ National Taiwan University
Sunwoong Park ~ Korea National University of Education
Pun Ngai ~ Hong Kong Polytechnic University
Giuseppe Sciortino ~ University of Trento, Italy
Mayumi Shimizu ~ University of Tokyo, Japan. 
Xiaoli Tian ~ The University of Chicago
Carlo Tognato ~ National University of Colombia, Bogotá 
Horng-luen Wang ~ National Taiwan University
Yoshie Yanagihara ~ Tokyo Denki University, Japan