Protecting the Weak Concepts and East Asian Evidence An International Conference hosted at, Hong Kong 7-8 October 2016 Organizers: Sponsors: Department of Economics Pan Sutong Shanghai-Hong Kong Economic Policy Research Centre China Economic Research Programme CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Venue 1: Room AM-308, Paul S. Lam Conference Centre, 3/F Amenities Building, Venue 2: Room AM-312, 3/F Amenities Building, 6 October 2016 (Thursday) 6:00 7:45 pm Pre-conference Cocktail Reception Sponsored by Interdisciplinary Centre for East Asian Studies at Goethe University (Frankfurt, Germany) 7 October 2016 (Friday) Ideas, Discourses and Institutional Change 8:30 8:45 am Registration (Venue 1) 8:45 9:25 am Welcome Messages (Venue 1) Prof. Joshua Ka Ho MOK Vice-President of Opening Remark Prof. Iwo AMELUNG and Prof. Heike HOLBIG 9:25 9:30 am Group Photo (for invited guests) (Venue 1) 9:30 11:00 am Session 1: The Role of Ideas in Protecting the Weak (Chair: Prof. Iwo AMELUNG, Goethe University) (Venue 1) For the Sake of Morality and Civilization : Buddhist Activism and the Emerging Animal Protection Movement in Republican China Mr. Matthias SCHUMANN & Ph.D. Candidate, Heidelberg University Discussant: Prof. Shuk-wah POON,
The (In)Justice of Protection: Protecting the Weak in Contemporary Political Philosophy Mr. Stefan HUEPPE-MOON and Ms. Elisa HOERHAGER Ph.D. Candidates, Discussant: Prof. Chiu-Chun LEE, Hong Kong Shue Yan University 11:00 11:30 am Tea Break (Venue 2) 11:30am 1:00 pm Session 2: Gender and Sexuality in Discourses of Protection (Chair: Prof. Annie CHAN, ) (Venue 1) Whose Need for Help?: Prostituted Woman and Passionate Activism in South Korea Prof. Sealing CHENG Department of Anthropology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Rape Myth Acceptance among University Student Populations: A Case Study of India and the UK Prof. Ravinder BARN School of Law, Royal Holloway University of London Sexual Prejudice and Sexual Diversity Training for Chinese Teachers Preliminary Themes Identified from Qualitative Interviews Dr. Diana KWOK Department of Special Education and Counselling, The Education University of Hong Kong Discussant: Prof. Annie CHAN, 1:00 2:15 pm Lunch (for invited guests) (1/F, Lingnan House, ) 2:30 4:00 pm Session 3: The Role of Classifications (Chair: Prof. Cornelia STORZ, Goethe University) (Venue 1) Negative Classifications and the Symbolic Order of Social Inequality: Evidence from East Asia Prof. Sighard NECKEL Hamburg University Prof. Heike HOLBIG Categorizing Victims of Disaster Prof. Moritz BAELZ Discussant: Prof. Peter BAEHR, 4:00 4:30 pm Tea Break (Venue 2)
4:30 6:00 pm Session 4: Processes of Institutional Change (Chair: Prof. Moritz BAELZ, Goethe University) (Venue 1) Uncertainty over Labor Contract Duration: Evidence from Japanese Micro Data Dr. Markus HECKEL Discussant (TBC): Prof. Jesus SEADE, Local Appropriation of International Norms in East Asia: The Case of Cultural Heritage Ms. Christina MAAGS PhD Candidate, Dr. Ioan TRIFU Discussant: Prof. Iwo AMELUNG, Goethe University 6:30 8:00 pm Dinner (for invited guests) (2/F, Lingnan House, ) 8 October 2016 (Saturday) Policies of Protecting the Weak 8:30 9:30 am Keynote Speech (Venue 1) (Chair: Prof. WEI Xiangdong, ) Networks, Inequality and Development Prof. Mark ROSENZWEIG Yale University 9:30 11:00am Session 5: Labor Markets and Social Policy (Chair: Prof. Heike HOLBIG, Goethe University) (Venue 1) Who has a higher propensity of forming networks? Ms. Na ZOU PhD Candidate, Bounded Careers in Creative Industries. Surprising Patterns in Video Games Prof. Cornelia STORZ
How Corporate Restructuring Affects Workplace Performance: Evidence from a Retail Chain Prof. Nick ZUBANOV Discussant: Prof. Stanley SIEBERT, Birmingham Business School, 11:00 11:30am Tea Break (Venue 2) University of Birmingham, UK 11:30 am 1:00 pm Session 6: Education in Protecting the Weak or Intensifying Social Inequality (Chair: Prof. Joshua Ka Ho MOK, ) (Venue 1) Employability and Mobility in Valorization of Higher Education Qualifications: The Experiences and Reflections of Chinese Students and Graduates Prof. Joshua Ka Ho MOK Dr. Zhuoyi WEN Rising Urban-rural Inequality in College Attendance in China: State Policy Bias and Structural Exclusion Dr. Jin JIANG Protecting the Weak: Alleviation of Child Poverty and Promotion of Child Well-being in Hong Kong Dr. Maggie LAU City University of Hong Kong Discussant: Dr. Stefan KÜ HNER, 1:00 2:00 pm Lunch (for invited guests) (1/F, Lingnan House, ) 2:15 3:30 pm Session 7: Competition Policy (Chair: Prof. Ping LIN) (Venue 1) The Chinese Auto Dealer Size Distribution Prof. Junji XIAO The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Treatment of the Small and Medium-sized Enterprises under Hong Kong s Competition Ordinance Prof. Ping LIN Nuclear Energy and Competition Policy in the EU and Japan Mr. Julius WEITZDOERFER PhD Candidate, Max-Planck-Institute for Comparative and Private International Law, Hamburg ; University of Cambridge Discussant: Prof. Moritz BAELZ, 3:30 4:00 pm Tea Break (Venue 2) 4:00 5:30 pm Session 8: Income Inequality (Chair: Prof. Esra Burak HO, ) (Venue 1) Doing Gender Differently: India s Elite Professional Firms as Petri Dishes for Nouveau Essentialism Dr. Swethaa S. BALLAKRISHNEN Post Doctoral Associate, Division of Social Sciences, NYU Abu Dhabi Can reputational incentives reduce corruption? Ms. Diana DAKHLALLAH PhD Candidate, Stanford University Good Samaritans in Networks: An Experiment on How Networks Influence Egalitarian Sharing and the Evolution of Inequality Dr. Yen-Sheng CHIANG Assistant Professor of Sociology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Discussant: Prof. Esra Burak HO, 5:30 6:00 pm Final Discussion (Venue 1) Farewell