Huamin Peng
Professor of Sociology, Nanjing University
“The Experience of Unemployment and Registered Long-term Unemployment in China: A Gender Perspective”
Discussant: John Logan, Professor of Sociology, Brown University
Junya Ma
Professor of History, Nanjing University
“A Sacrificed ‘Local’: Water-Control Decisions and the Transformation of the Huabei Social Economy, 1580-1949”
Discussant: Peter Perdue, Professor of History, Yale University
Hong Huang
Professor of French Literature and Gender Studies, Nanjing University
“A Critical Survey of Translation and Reception of the 20th Century French Literature in China”
Discussant: Gretchen Schultz, Associate Professor of French Studies, Brown University
Jun Liu
Professor of Chinese, Nanjing University
Director of the Confucius Institute, Waterloo University, Canada
“History, Memory, and Writing: North American Chinese Literature in the Homeland Images”
Discussant: Emma J. Teng, Associate Professor of Chinese Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Yajun Chen
Professor of Western Philosophy, Nanjing University
“Pragmatism in China”
Discussant: Paget Henry, Professor of Sociology and Africana Studies, Brown University
Chengzhou He
Professor of English and Drama, Nanjing University
Associate Director of the Institute for Advanced Studies in Humanities and Social Sciences
Co-Director, Nanjing-Brown Joint Program in Gender Studies and the Humanities
“Intercultural Theater: Adaptations and Staging of Western Plays in China”
Discussant: Haiping H. Yan, Professor and Director of the Graduate Field in Theatre Studies, Cornell University
