THE CIVIL SPHERE IN EAST ASIA
A Conference and Book Project
Conference Programme
May 5-6, 2017, Hong Kong
Presentations and discussion will take place in Function room, Faculty of Social Sciences, 11/F, Jockey Club Tower
Time | Friday, May 5, 2017 |
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9:00 ~ 9:20 |
Welcome and introductions David A. Palmer, Jeffrey Alexander, Agnes Shuk-mei Ku, and Sunwoong Park |
9:20 ~ 11:00 |
Session I: Mainland China David A. Palmer: “Religion, Spheres of Solidarity and Civil Society in China” Pun Ngai & Kenneth Ng: “A Civil Repair? Challenging Digital Capitalism and SACOM’s Campaigns against Apple and Foxconn” |
11:00 ~ 11:15 |
Coffee Break |
11:15 ~ 12:05 |
Session I: Mainland China ~ Continued Tian Xiaoli: “Fantasy is More Believable: Justice and Solidarity in Chinese Online Fiction.” |
12:05 ~ 13:30 |
Catered Lunch |
13:30 ~ 15:10 |
Session II: Hong Kong and Taiwan Agnes Shuk-mei Ku: “Performing Civil Disobedience in Hong Kong” Cheris Shun-ching Chan & Andrew Junker: “Fault line in the Civil Sphere: Explaining New Divisions in Hong Kong’s Opposition Movement” |
15:10 ~ 15:30 |
Break |
15:30 ~ 16:20 |
Session II: Hong Kong and Taiwan ~ Continued Kuo-ming Lin: “Developing Communicative Institutions in Local Communities: The Practice of Participatory Budgeting in Taiwan” |
18:00 ~ 19:15 |
Dinner in Senior Common Room |
19:30 |
Jeffrey C. Alexander: Keynote speech ~ “The Societalization of Social Problems: Financial Crisis, Church Pedophilia, Phone Hacking” |
Time | Saturday, May 6, 2017 |
9:00 ~ 10:40 |
Session III: Korea Jongryul Choi and Yeseul Lee: “South Korea’s Presidential Scandal and Civil Repair” Hee-Jeong Lee: “Boundary Tension and Reconstruction: Credit Information Crises and Civil Sphere in Korea” |
10:40 ~ 11:00 |
Coffee Break |
11:00 ~ 11:50 |
Session III: Korea ~ Continued Sunwoong Park: “System Crisis and the Civil Sphere: Media Discourse on the Crisis of Education in South Korea” |
12:00 ~ 13:30 |
Catered Lunch |
13:30 ~ 15:10 |
Session IV: Japan Mayumi Shimizu: “An Emerging Contradiction: Change in the Boundary Relation between Civilizing and Uncivilizing Pressures in Japanese Policing” Yoshie Yanagihara: “What Constitutes ‘Women’s Autonomy’ in the Japanese Civil Sphere? The Struggle over Surrogacy” |
15:10 ~ 15:30 |
Break |
15:30 ~ 16:20 |
Session V: Trans-Asia Horng-Luen Wang: “Reconciliation through the Transnational Civil Sphere? Historical Dialogue and the Tri-National Joint History Project in East Asia” |
16:20 ~ 16:30 |
Break |
16:30 ~ 18:00 |
Session V: General discussion and Conclusion Peter Kivisto, Carlo Tognato, Trevor Stack, and Jeffrey Alexander General discussion |