ASC-Tagung 2016: Programm24.11.2016 {de}

Workshop des Arbeitskreises Sozialwissenschaftliche Chinaforschung der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Asienkunde 25. und 26. November 2016

Ruhr-Universität Bochum, Gebäude SSC, Raum 2/119

Friday, 25 November

13:00 – 13.15
Welcome
Jörn-Carsten Gottwald, Sebastian Bersick

13.15 – 14.45
Panel I: Social Innovations in a Changing China
Chair: Sebastian Bersick
Katja Levy (Freie Universität Berlin) – The Institutionalisation of Social Innovation in the PRC
Discussant: Doris Fischer
Andrea S. Funk (Universität Würzburg) – Crowdfunding as an Alternative to Informal Finance in China
Discussant: Jörn-Carsten Gottwald

14.45 – 15.15
Tea/Coffee Break

15.15 – 17.30
Panel II: Economic and Political Incentives of Local Cadres in China
Chair: Doris Fischer
Xuehua Zhang (Sichuan University) and Yuen Yuen Ang (University of Michigan) – Targets, Promotion, and Bonuses: Revisiting the Incentive System of Local Officials in China
Discussant: Ye Meng
Kyoung Shin (Wuhan University) – Is Getting the Incentives Right the Answer for China’s Environmental Governance?: A Case of Low- Carbon City Development
Discussant: Eva Sternfeld
Genia Kostka (Hertie School of Governance) and Sarah Eaton (Universtität Göttingen) – Is Chinese Authoritarianism Adaptive? State Responses to Trans-Jurisdictional Environmental Problems
Discussant: Elena-Meyer Clement

17.30 – 18.15
Individual Paper
Chair and Discussant: Björn Alpermann
Shuwen Bian (Universität Kassel) – Zwei methodologische Ansätze

18.15 – ca. 20.00
Workshop Dinner: Q-West, RUB Campus (see site plan ○2)

Saturday, 26 November

9.00 – 10.30
Panel III: The Socialist Market Economy in a State of Crisis? Theoretical Interpretations of Recent Economic Developments in the PR China
Chair: Carsten Herrmann-Pillath
Tobias ten Brink (Jacobs University Bremen) – The End of the Long Boom?
A Comparative Institutional Analysis of Long-Term Growth in China
Discussant: Jan Brzoska
Robert Pauls (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) – Capitalist Accumulation and Crisis in China, 1993-2012
Discussant: Gunter Schubert

10.30 – 11.00
Tea/Coffee Break

11:00 – 12:30
Panel IV: New Functions of the State and Legitimacy of the System
Chair: Jörn-Carsten Gottwald

Sarah Eaton (Universität Göttingen) and Reza Hasmath (University of Alberta) – What are the Duties of the Sovereign in the Marketplace in Contemporary China?
Discussant: Katja Yang

Franziska Plümmer (Universität Tübingen) – Border and Migration Management in Yunnan: Border Regimes in the Context of Regionalization and Localization
Discussant: Jessica Pflüger

12.30 – 13.45
Lunch Break: Summa cum Laude, University Center (see site plan ○3 )

13.45 – 16.00
Panel V: Analysen zu Ressourcenpolitik in China
Chair: Karsten Giese
Thomas Immervoll (Universität Wien) – Chinesische Debatten zu Dammbauprojekten in Yunnan und Myanmar – Fallstudie zum Oberen Mekong-Becken und Myitsone
Discussant: Ulrike Solmecke
Benjamin Steuer (Universität Wien) – How do institutional dynamics shape the Chinese Circular Economy? Examples from waste management Discussant: Carsten Herrmann-Pillath
Sabrina Habich (Universität Wien) – How do Central Control Mechanisms Impact Local Water Governance in China? The Case of Yunnan Province
Discussant: Robert Pauls

16.00
Conclusion of the Workshop

16.15 – ca. 17.00
Mitgliederversammlung des ASC

Location
The workshop will be held in the SSC-building, 2nd floor, room 119 (SSC 2/119) (see site
plan ○1 ) Please find the directions and a map here: in German or English.

Contact
Fakultät für Ostasienwissenschaften / Sektion Politik Ostasiens
Ms Anna Caspari, email: anna.caspari@rub.de / Tel. 0234/32‑ 26449
AKAFÖ-Building, Room 2/14, Universitätsstr. 134, DE-44780 Bochum (see site plan ○4 )