Programme
   
Dec 6 (Thu)  
08:45-09:00 Registration
   
09:00-09:30 Welcoming Remarks
  Chair: Raj Brown, Royal Holloway, University of London;
  Angela Leung, HKIHSS, The University of Hong Kong;
  Jiangang Zhu, Sun Yat-sen University;
  David Faure, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
   
09:30-11:45 Panel 1: Charities : The Invisible Hand in a Globalizing World
  Chair: Elizabeth Sinn, HKIHSS, The University of Hong Kong
   
09:30-09:45 Thomas DuBois, Australian National University
Public Health and Private Charity in Manchuria, 1905-1945
   
09:45-10:00 Jianxiong Ma, The University of Science and Technology of Hong Kong
  Building up Gentry Charity in Cities: The Dong Jing Assembly as a Religious Network for Elite to Shape Local Integration on Yunnan Frontier since the Sixteenth Century, Southwest China
   
10:00-10:15 Kin-man Chan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Lin Tao, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Qiu Haixiong, Sun Yat-sen University
Min-hsiu Chiang, National Chengchi University of Taiwan
  Trusting Civil Society in Chinese Context
   
10:15-10:30 Jiangang Zhu and Yanchun Jing, Sun Yat-sen University
  Lions Clubs International in China: a Case Study of Guangdong Lions Clubs
   
10:30-11:00 Discussants:
  Chi-cheung Choi, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
  Anthony Spires, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
   
11:00-11:45 Questions and Answers
   
13:30-15:30 Panel 2: Strategic Adaptation of Charities to the Local Environment
  Chair: David Faure, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
   
13:30-13:45 Justin Pierce, Exeter University
  Civil Society in South Africa: Beginnings, Transitions, Control and Disobedience
   
13:45-14:00 Oliver Walton, University of Birmingham
  Sri Lanka Unites? Transnational Reconciliation in Post-War Sri Lanka
   
14:00-14:15 Weijun Lai and Jiangang Zhu, Sun Yat-sen University
  “Incomplete Collaboration”: The Strategy for NGOs’ Collective Action, A Study of NGOs’ Collective Action during the Wenchuan Earthquake Relief
   
14:15-14:45 Discussant: Benoit Challand, New York University
   
14:45-15:30 Questions and Answers
   
15:45-17:45 Panel 3: Charities as Surrogates of the State or Competitors of the State
  Chair: Jiangang Zhu, Sun Yat-sen University
   
15:45-16:00 Ali Akbar Bushiri, Reconciliation Committee, Bahrain
  Raj Brown, Royal Holloway, University of London
  State, Shiism and Sunnism in Bahrain:Networks of Trust [Waqf,Ma’tam] and Normative Fluorescence in Kinship, Religion and Islamic Capitalism
   
16:00-16:15 Muhammad Zubair Abbasi, Oxford University
  Colonial State and Muslim Institutions: History of Regulatory Framework for Awqāf (Religious Endowments) in British India
   
16:15-16:30 Mine Eder, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
  Unpacking Politics of Charities: the Case of Two Educational Charity Organizations in Turkey
   
16:30-17:00 Discussant: Hilman Latief, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
   
17:00-17:45 Questions and Answers
   
   
Dec 7 (Fri)  
09:30-11:30 Panel 4: State and Charities: Legal Accountability and Local Transformation
  Chair: Raj Brown, Royal Holloway, University of London
   
09:30-09:45 Benoit Challand, New York University
  Comparative Perspective on the Growth and Legal Transformations of Arab (Islamic) Charities
   
09:45-10:00 Fulya Apaydin, Institut Barcelona D’Estudis Internacionals
  Philanthropic Activities of Financial Actors: Banks and Education in Turkey
   
10:00-10:15 Anthony Webster, Liverpool John Moores University
  Co-operatives and The State In Burma/Myanamar 1900-2012: A Case Study of Failed Top-Down Co-Operative Development Models?
   
10:15-10:45 Discussant: Mine Eder, Boğaziçi University, Istanbul
   
10:45-11:30 Questions and Answers
   
13:30-15:30 Panel 5: Political Impact of Charities: New Models of Relations with State and Global Partners
  Chair: Kin-man Chan, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
   
13:30-13:45 Hilman Latief, University of Utrecht, Netherlands
  ‘Defining Domestic Needs: Charity or Advocacy’ The Presence of International Islamic Relief Associations in Indonesia
   
13:45-14:00 Maren Ehlers, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
  Charity Reconstructed: The Transformation of Charitable Giving in Rural Japan After the Meiji Restoration
   
14:00-14:15 Raj Brown, Royal Holloway, University of London
  Charity and Global Uncertainties: Difficulties Associated with Grass Root Charity Operation
   
14:15-14:45 Discussant: Anthony Webster, Liverpool John Moores University
   
14:45-15:30 Questions and Answers
   
15:30-15:45 Break
   
15:45-17:00 Wrap-up discussion
  Chair: Thomas DuBois, Australian National University
   
   
Dec 8 (Sat)  
06:30-22:45 Fieldtrip (Guangzhou)
   
06:30 Gather at Hotel Lobby
   
07:00 Arrive at Hung Hom Train Station
   
07:25-09:20 Train to Guangzhou
   
10:00-12:00 Visit 1: Lions Clubs
   
12:20-13:30 Lunch
   
13:30-15:30 Visit 2: En-ning Road Concern Group
   
15:45-17:15 Visit 3: ICS, 807 Creative Space
   
17:30-19:00 Dinner
   
19:30 Gather at Guangzhou East Station
   
20:15-22:05 Train to Hong Kong
   
22:45 Arrive at Traders Hotel