Call for Papers: Hong Kong Conference on Globalization
Call for Papers International Conference
on “Globalization: Cultures, Institutions and Socioeconomics”
To be held in Hong Kong, December 12-13,
2008
Co-Sponsored by The Chinese University
of Hong Kong and Washington University in St. Louis
Along with recent trends of globalization,
a significant focal point of research has been issues related to “Greater China,”
a notion that originally entailed the potential economic integration of China, Taiwan,
and Hong Kong (including Macau) and has lately been broadened to include Singapore,
Southeast Asian Chinese communities, and overseas Chinese in other countries. Despite
some political repercussions, Greater China has become an indisputable economic
reality today. But economy is not the strongest element at play; rather, a more
prevalent and consequential factor is culture and its role in formal institutions
and informal social customs. This conference is designed to study the causes and
consequences of globalization from cultural, institutional and socioeconomic perspectives,
focusing particularly on topics related to Greater China. It invites scholars to
investigate questions such as these:
- What
perspectives can we deploy to investigate the different and yet similar cosmopolitan
cultures of Hong Kong, Taipei, Shanghai, Beijing, Singapore, Macau, Shenzhen,
and other cities? ·
- How
do the cultures of these cities work in practice and how are they embedded
in everyday-life situations as locatable phenomena? ·
- What
approaches can we use to explore the experience of place and space, the dynamics
between local and global, culture and economy, and the dilemmas of knowledge
in these cities? ·
- How
do states, empires and nations, corporations, shops and goods, literature,
music, film, etc., figure in our examination of the cultures of consumption
and production in these cities? ·
- How
do places develop meanings for people? What are the struggles over defining
who belongs in a place in these cities? ·
- What
role do travel, information technology, and other means of communication play
in shaping a global city network among these cities and beyond?
The conference will feature several
distinguished keynote and plenary-session speakers, including Nobel Laureate Douglass
North and Professors Michele Boldrin, Frank Dikötter, Robert Hegel, Chang-Tai Hsien,
Gordon Mathews, Hui Wang, and Shaoguang Wang. All sessions will be held on the Chinese
University of Hong Kong campus, while the conference dinner will be housed at the
world-renowned Hong Kong Jockey Club. Submissions of individual papers or organized
sessions are welcome. All submissions must be made through e-mail to all the co-chairs
of the program committee no later than June 30, 2008: Lingchei Letty Chen (llchen@artsci.wustl.edu), Ann Louise Huss
(ahuss@cuhk.edu.hk), Laikwan Pang (crsdept@cuhk.edu.hk), and Ping Wang (pingwang@artsci.wustl.edu). We anticipate
having the preliminary program posted by July 15, 2008.
