都市研究与中国经验高级研修班

香港大学香港人文社会研究所

2014年8月18-24日

亚洲区域中的都市: 联系与比较

自2010年起，哈佛燕京学社、香港大学香港人文社会研究所与华东师范大学上海史研究中心联合举办“都市研究与中国经验”系列高级研修班。研修班邀请海内外相关领域内领先的专家学者讲授其所长，旨在向年轻一代的学者介绍当前国际学术前沿的研究方向与方法。今年的高级研修班将由香港人文社会研究所主办，于2014年8月18日-24日在香港举行。本次研修班的主题是“亚洲区域中的都市: 联系与比较”。

亚洲的城市经历了数百年的兴衰、社会转型、政治变革及文化交融。在21世纪，这些城市正以不同的方式参与到全球政治经济中去。同过去一样，这重新崛起的亚洲，区域间互相联系，充满活力，见证着区域内的都市人口流动和增长。他们文化多元，有着新的社会期望与权利诉求，不时民情激荡，这都给现行制度带来种种挑战。本次研修班意在运用不同学科的框架，把都市视作全球贸易、金融、政治、文化和族群的交汇之处，以此理解在城市空间重新布局下人们的生存及发展策略。授课专家来自历史学、人类学、政治学、都市设计、建筑学、社会学以及电影制作等不同领域。此外，为强化研修班效果 我们将组织两次田野考察，一次是考察有着殖民地背景、成为多元族群交汇枢纽的香港，另一次则侧重于考察当代人与物的跨境流动。与之相辅，我们还将放映一部关于新移民和小区建构的纪录片。这些活动充分利用香港这个在过去与现在都很独特的集大成之地，展现我们在跨学科研究中的种种分析要点。

本次研修班拟招收学员20名，进行为期一周的集中培训。招收对象是博士候选人以及年轻学者。报名者须提交一份与研修班主题相关的中文或英文研究计划，及中英双语的摘要。研修班结束后，学员可运用研修期间所获得的视角， 进一步修改研究计划，并提交哈佛燕京学社甄选。极少数优秀学员将有机会赴哈佛燕京学社访问一年。

研修班不收任何费用，研修期间学员的住宿及本地相关的交通费用由主办方负责。学员往返路费自理。个别有实际困难的学员，可申请部分交通费用补助。有关研修班详情及报名方式，请参阅香港人文社会研究所网址(www.hkihss.hku.hk/urban_china_studies) 。报名截止日期是2014年3月31 日。

URBAN STUDIES AND THE CHINA EXPERIENCE

ADVANCED TRAINING PROGRAM

Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong August 18th to 24th, 2014

Inter-Asian Urbanity: Connections and Comparisons

Since 2010 the Harvard-Yenching Institute, the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences at the University of Hong Kong, and the Shanghai History Research Center at the East China Normal University have jointly organized advanced training programs on Urban Studies and the China Experience. The program invites leading experts from overseas and China to address their areas of specialty, with the aim of introducing cutting-edge research approaches to a younger generation of scholars. This year, the training program will be held at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences from the 18th to the 24th of August. It will highlight “Inter-Asian Urbanity: Connections and Comparisons”.

Asian cities have undergone centuries of growth and decline, social transformations, political strife and cultural fusion. They also present diverse paths to engage the global political economy in the 21st century. As in the past, the re-emergence of a vibrant and inter-connected Asia sees the region’s urban populations mobile and growing. They are culturally diverse, at times volatile in their emotions and challenging in their claims for entitlements. The program attempts to use different disciplinary frameworks to position cities at global crossroads of trade and finance, politics, culture, and ethnicity, and to understand people’s strategies for survival and advancement as urban spaces are reconfigured. Speakers will involve historians, anthropologists, political scientists, urban designers, architectural scholars, sociologists, and film-makers. We shall reinforce the program with field trips, one on Hong Kong as a colonial, multi-ethnic hub, the other on contemporary cross-border logistics. A documentary film on new immigrants and community building will complement the trips. This utilizes the unique assemblage of the Hong Kong region, in historical and contemporary terms, to illuminate the analytical themes we would explore across disciplines.

The planned enrollment for this program will be 20 participants for one week of intensive training. The target trainees are PhD candidates and junior scholars. Applicants should submit a research proposal related to this year’s theme in Chinese or English, an abstract in both languages. Once the program has concluded, participants may submit their revised research proposals to Harvard-Yenching Institute using insights acquired during the training program. A very small number of outstanding trainees may be selected as visiting scholars for a one year residency at the Harvard-Yenching Institute in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

The organizing institutions of the workshop will cover the participants’ room and board, plus local travel connected to the program. Participants will need to arrange their own transportation to and from Hong Kong. Individuals with special needs may submit a request for assistance with transportation cost. For details, please see the program details at the Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences website (www.hkihss.hku.hk/urban_china_studies). The deadline for applications is March 31st, 2014.