Brown Bag Lecture Rachel Murphy, Professor of Chinese Development and Society and Head of School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies, University of Oxford Professor Murphy’s research examines transformations in China due to inter-related processes of industrialization, urbanization, demographic transition, and marketization. She has conducted in-depth longitudinal … [Read more...]
“China’s Invisible Crisis: How the Urban-Rural Human Capital Divide Threatens China’s Growth and Stability”
Brown Bag Lecture Featuring Scott Rozelle, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow; Co-director of the Rural Education Action Program in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University Professor Rozelle’s research on agricultural policy as well as the economics of poverty and inequality focuses on rural education, health, and nutrition. Rozelle … [Read more...]
Fri. March 1st: “Computational Social Welfare: Application of Big Data in Research and Practice”
Brown Bag Lecture Featuring: Julian Chun-Chung Chow, Hutto-Patterson Charitable Foundation Professor, University of California, Berkeley In this talk, Professor Chow will extend the application of big data analysis to the field of social work and welfare such as access to services, organizational efficiency, quality of public and private programs and cost reduction. He will … [Read more...]
Fri. April 5th: “China’s Invisible Crisis: How the Urban-Rural Human Capital Divide Threatens China’s Growth and Stability”
Featuring Scott Rozelle, Helen F. Farnsworth Senior Fellow; Co-director of the Rural Education Action Program in the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Stanford University Professor Rozelle’s research on agricultural policy as well as the economics of poverty and inequality focuses on rural education, health, and nutrition. Rozelle received the 2008 … [Read more...]
Qin Gao to Give Keynote Address at FISS 25th Anniversary International Conference
We are pleased to announce that Qin Gao, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work and Director, China Center for Social Policy, at Columbia University, will give the keynote address "China's War on Poverty: Will it Succeed?" at the Foundation for International Studies on Social Security (FISS)'s 25th Anniversary International Conference, which will take place from June 4 to … [Read more...]