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• 16 jui 2011

  17 jui 2011

  Conference, symposium - Political studies

  From revolution to reforms: characterizing made-in-China transitions paradigms

  The 1911 revolution was motivated by anger at corruption in the Qing government, frustration with that government's inability to restrain the interventions of foreign powers, and resentment of the majority Han Chinese toward a government dominated by an ethnic minority. One hundred years later, after decades of wars and violent political thrusts, China has achieved significant progress toward becoming a major global power. How close (or how far) is China from eventually becoming what the nineteenth century Qing dynasty reformers envisioned for her, i.e. a rich and powerful state (fuguo qiangbing)?

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• 17 nov 2010

  18 nov 2010

  Taipei

  Conference, symposium - Sociology

  Social Critique and Mobilization: A Dialogue between French and Taiwanese Sociologists

  This conference will try to uncover the assumptions about social critique and mobilization and how sociology makes these things social. To say it more concretely, we will try to share our different fieldwork approach and theoretical understanding of widely used concepts such as, for example, civil society, labor movements, environmental protest… We will try to analyze the interactions between social protest and the media, the state, political parties, industries, etc.

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