National School of Development, Peking University
The second annual meeting of the International Consortium for China Studies (ICCS) will be held at Oxford, England on August 6 and 7, 2015. This is an invitation to member institutions of ICCS to submit applications for presentation/ attendance.
The academic planning of the 2015 ICCS meeting is in the hands of a planning committee comprising John Knight (Oxford University, economics), Zhang Xiaobo (Peking University, economics), Lina Song (Nottingham University, sociology), and Kellee Tsai (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, politics). Submissions will be considered and academic decisions will be made by this committee.
The 2015 meeting will have as its titleChallenges Facing China. Our objective is to ensure that the topics covered are important ones for China.
We have a preference that there should be important themes which could be of interest to more than one discipline. Accordingly, without wishing to discourage any paper which fits the general titleChallenges Facing China, we could have a particular interest in papers which would fit (even loosely) into one, or more than one, of the following themes:
Social instability: causes, consequences, cures
Disparities in income, wealth, education, opportunities
Migration: problems, policies, well-being
The financial system: problems, dangers, policies
The reform process: drivers and brakes
Innovation, industrial upgrading, and relocation
The political economy of policy-making
Economic growth: past and future
Presenters are invited, where appropriate, to discuss the policy implications of their academic analyses.
Each member institution of ICCS (we have more than two dozen members) is invited to nominate one or more representatives to present a paper.
We request that you provide the following information to help with our preparation:
1. For each paper: title, abstract (at least 200 words), presenter’s name, title and institution
2.A brief introduction to your institution(unless this year’s description does not need to be altered). We will compile the entries and distribute a hard copy of the descriptions of all
Institutional members of ICCS.
3.A link to your official website(unless provided this year). We have created a web page for
ICCS (http://iccs.nsd.edu.cn/), which will contain links to all institutional members.
4. For each attendee from your institution: name, e-mail, short bio(unless provided this year), photo, arrival and departure dates.
The meeting will be held at St Edmund Hall, a college of the University of Oxford. St Edmund Hall has a memorandum of understanding with the, well-funded, Oxford Chinese Economy Programme(OXCEP), and OXCEP’s activities are based in the college. In line with the agreed ICCS rules, the host member institution (OXCEP) will fund all expenses within Oxford. There is a frequent coach service from Heathrow (and Gatwick) which will drop delegates practically at the door. OXCEP will fund accommodation for three nights: Wednesday 5thThursday 6th, and Friday 7thAugust.Delegates areadvised to arrive for the meeting on Wednesday5and to leave on Saturday 7
Depending on numbers and format, the meeting will be held either in the college or in the University Examination Schools (across the street). Accommodation is available in the form of 55 recently built en suite bedrooms nearby.
The eight (plenary) sessions (permitting up to 24 presentations) might correspond to eight themes (either those specified or ones which emerge), but there is a possibility that one or more sessions will be devoted to discipline-specific parallel sessions. The final session will provide enough time for the draft bye-laws of ICCS to be approved.
Application should be submitted to the ICCS secretariat, National School of Development (Irene Jing Lu, e-mail: iccs_secretariat@nsd.pku.edu.cn), and should ideally be submitted before 1 March 2015.
