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The Second Call for Papers: The 2020 UCRN Conference

发布者:中国发展研究院    发布时间:2020-01-14

The Second Call for Papers

The 2020 UCRN Conference

The New Mission of Urban China Research

Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, June 12th – 14th, 2020

The Urban China Research Network (UCRN) will have its next conference at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, China, during June 12th – 14th, 2020. This conference is co-sponsored by the Center for Housing and Urban-Rural Development (CHURD), School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), China Institute for Urban Governance (CIUG) & Shanghai Institute for National Economy (SHINE) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, UCRN, the State University of New York at Albany, and the Committee of Urban-rural Governance & Policy Research, CACP (China Association of City Planning).

The conference organizing committee consists of Jie Chen (chenjie100@sjtu.edu.cn), Ming Lu(luming1973@sjtu.edu.cn), Zai Liang (zliang@albany.edu), Zhigang Li (zhigangli@whu.edu.cn), John Logan (john_logan@brown.edu), Steven F. Messner (smessner@albany.edu), Youqin Huang (yhuang@albany.edu), Jon Bannister (Jon.Bannister@mmu.ac.uk), Fulong Wu(fulong.wu@ucl.ac.uk), and Cheng Chen (cchen@albany.edu)

The UCRN2020 conference website is: https://churd.sjtu.edu.cn/  column: UCRN2020

Inquires of the UCRN 2020 conference should be sent to Email: UCRN2020@163.com

We will open other channels of communication, including Conference program contacts and logistics contacts after the deadline for paper proposal submission (February 28, 2020).

The theme of the conference is “The New Mission of Urban China Research”.

China has entered a new era that is characterized by the efforts to realize the “Dream of Beautiful China” along with people-oriented urbanization, targeted poverty alleviation, and rural rejuvenation. This new era presents both exciting new opportunities for China’s path toward sustainable development and some daunting challenges. It is high time for urban China scholars, especially the younger generation, to explore both theoretically and empirically intriguing issues/questions for urban China’s future. This conference would welcome papers from all social science perspectives including sociology, anthropology, economics, demography, geography, history, management, political science, public policy, urban planning and design, geography and urban studies.

At the 2020 Shanghai conference, UCRN will work together with Urban Studies journal, Sage (USJ) to name and award Best Paper prizes (explained below on pp. 4), and will recommend the winners to submit and hopefully publish their papers in USJ.

In particular, we encourage graduate students and junior faculty members to submit papers on topics that include but are not limited to:

Urban and regional governance research

Urban sustainability

Urban networks 

Migration and social-economic integration

Urban crime and public safety

Housing and financialization

Neighborhood, community and urbanism

Integration of urban and rural China

Urban historic preservation and identity construction

Healthy city and built environment

Urban development and economy

Urban labor market and labor mobility

Urban China research 2.0: new mission and new responsibility

The Great Bay Area research

 

The UCRN 2020 conference website: https://churd.sjtu.edu.cn/  column: UCRN2020

This is where you obtain information in greater detail about the conference. Please read it for registration, paper submission rules and related logistics information. After February 28, 2020, the conference website will be open for conference registration, hotel reservation, and local tour plans. Accepted papers will be available from the conference website after May 15, 2020 with the authors’ permission.

 

The conference calendar: June 11 for registration, June 12-13 for conference sessions, June 14 for field trip (optional).

The conference venue: the plenary and all concurrent sessions will be organized in the Xuhui Campus of Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

The conference registration fee is RMB 1,000 yuan or USD $120 charged to each conference participant. This fee covers two lunches, two dinners, and one conference banquet during the conference, and additional meal tickets will be available in a discount rate to the conference participants’ guests for lunches and dinners (price to announce in the acceptance letter). The registration fees partially cover other conference costs. The deadline to pay the conference registration fee is April 31st, 2020, and payment methods will be announced as soon.

The paper proposal submission deadline is February 28th, 2020.

Please submit your paper proposal on the UCRN 2020 conference website, or alternatively, by email to UCRN2020@163.com

Papers in English will be preferred, but papers in Chinese will also be considered. The proposal can take the form of a full paper or an abstract of approximately 250 words.  The cover page of the paper proposal should include every author’s name, institutional affiliation, mailing address, and email address. For a co-authored paper, the corresponding author must be identified. Papers with theoretical rigor and/or empirical richness will be given priority to be accepted for presentation at regular sessions, and papers not accepted for presentation may be included in a poster session. Decisions on acceptance will be announced by March 31st, 2020.

The organization of sessions: There will be (A) regular sessions and (B) panels from doctoral student paper competition.

The regular sessions are open for paper proposals from student and non-student researchers. We encourage former UCRN awardees to submit paper proposals to present their most recent research outcomes; a separate mailing will be sent to them. An UCRN board member or a senior researcher will be assigned to preside at the sessions and discuss the papers.

For panels from the doctoral student paper competition, please read the following.

Panels from Doctoral Student Paper Competition: The 2020 UCRN Conference is continuing its series of conferences highlighting research by doctoral students. The first was held in 2002 in Hong Kong, and the most recent ones were at the University at Albany in 2014, Brown University in 2015, Xi’an Jiaotong University in 2016, Shanghai University in 2017, Wuhan University in 2018, and Nanjing University in 2019.  UCRN counts on a core group of about 30 senior scholars from many disciplines who support the goal of encouraging promising research by the next generation of urban China scholars (see http://mumford.albany.edu/chinanet).

  Papers to be presented will be selected competitively by members of the UCRN International Advisory Board.  No more than 12 papers will be included, so that each presentation will receive full discussion and commentary by a selected mentor from the members of the UCRN Advisory Board. 

 Selected students will have their conference fee waived and their expenses covered for up to three nights of lodging and meals for presenters.  Students’ home institutions will be asked to pay the students’ transportation expenses (this may be through a department or institute, a research grant, or other institutional funding sources).  Institutional support is a prerequisite for this competition. 

 The proposed paper should be submitted to the conference secretary: Mr. Zhen Wang (URCN2020@163.com) by February 28th, 2020.  Decisions on acceptance will be announced by March 31st, 2020 by email.

  The cover page of the paper should include the author’s name, institutional affiliation, the program he/she is enrolled in, mailing address, and email address, plus the name and email address of the person who will send a recommendation letter on the student’s behalf.

  A recommendation letter from the student’s adviser and/or unit head should be addressed to the conference organizing committee including: 1) reasons why the paper merits consideration, and 2) affirmation that the student’s institution will cover round-trip transportation costs between origin city and Shanghai if the paper is selected.  The recommendation letter is the responsibility of the student and must be submitted along with the paper proposal.

  Eligible students are those in any discipline relevant to urban China research who have not received their Ph.Ds.’ by December 31st, 2019

  The paper must not have been published or accepted for publication at the time of submission. Co-authorship with fellow student(s) is permitted.  Papers co-authored with faculty are NOT eligible.

  Each selected paper will be assigned to a member of the advisory board for comments and suggestions for revision both at the conference and afterwards. There is a possibility for publication at a later stage.

  Promising but incomplete proposals will be provisionally accepted and given a deadline for a more complete proposal with the assistance of an assigned reader. The final version of the accepted papers must be submitted by May 15th, 2020.  Papers will be posted on the conference webpage. Papers should be no longer than 8,500 words (including references and footnotes) with no more than 10 tables and figures.

 The UCRN Advisory Committee will identify the best paper and the runner up.  These will be announced at the conference, and their authors will receive a certificate and a small cash prize. In particular, starting from 2019, UCRN has been working with Urban Studies journal (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/usj), Sage, to name and award the winners of this prize, with the recommendation that the winners submit their papers to USJ for consideration for publication. Details can be found at the website of USJ (https://journals.sagepub.com/home/usj).

ANNOUNCEMENT: Urban Studies journal & the Urban China Research Network - Doctoral Student Essay Competition 2020

Urban Studies journal (USJ) and the Urban China Research Network (UCRN) are delighted to announce the launch of a Doctoral Student Essay competition. The intention of the competition is to promote emergent scholarship on urban China. The competition is open to doctoral students who have submitted full papers to the UCRN 2020 conference in Shanghai (see above for submission details).  The winner will receive a stipend of £200 sterling. The winner and shortlisted candidates will then be offered mentoring to support the development of their paper towards journal submission.

ANNOUNCEMENT: URCN Best Research Article Award for Junior Scholars

The Urban China Research Network invites nominations (including self-nominations) for the Best Research Article Award for Junior Scholars.  Candidates for this award must have received Ph.D. after 2014 and can be the single author or the leader author of the article.  Nominated articles should be published in English in 2018 or 2019.  Nomination letters are required and should be no more than 2 pages stating the significance, innovations, and contributions of the article to the field of urban China studies.  Please send an electronic copy of the published article along with nomination letters to UCRN2020@163.com, by February 28th, 2020.