“China and the World: 1950s Urban Culture and Planning”

A workshop for SUNY faculty and students

Sponsored by the SUNY Network of Excellence in Arts and Humanities, with support from the Confucius Institute, the Asian Studies Program, the History Department, and the Cities and Society Workshop of the Humanities Institute.

For information: Contact Kristin Stapleton at kstaple@buffalo.edu or 645-5645

Schedule

8:30                 Coffee and pastries

8:45                 Welcome

9 – 10:15         UB architecture students present their design work on Xixinan in Anhui, completed as part of a studio led by assistant professor Shannon Bassett in the Department of Architecture

10:15 -10:30    Coffee break

10:30-12          Roundtable on Urban Culture in the 1950s: Global Perspectives

Chair: Gail Radford, UB, History

Participants:

Carl Nightingale, UB, Transnational Studies

Megan Abbas, Geneseo, History

Ryan Jones, Geneseo, History

12 – 1              Lunch

1 – 2:30           Roundtable on China in the 1950s

Chair: Walter Hakala, UB, Asian Studies and English

Participants:

Xin Fan, Fredonia, History

Kristine Harris, New Paltz, History

Tze-ki Hon, Geneseo, History

Hua-yu Li, Oregon State, Political Science

2:30 – 2:45       Coffee break

2:45 – 4            Roundtable on Urban Planning in the Socialist World

                                    Chair: Carl Nightingale, UB, Transnational Studies

                                    Participants:

                                    Heather DeHaan, Binghamton, History

Kristin Stapleton, UB, History

Shannon Bassett, UB, Architecture and Planning

 4 – 4:15           Wrap-up session

The scholarly initiative “Building an Interdisciplinary Approach to Study Chinese Views of the Global Order” is funded by a grant from the SUNY Arts and Humanities Network of Excellence. The aim of the initiative is to build a community of scholars within and beyond the SUNY system to develop “a multi-dimensional perspective on the formation of Chinese worldviews by highlighting the confluence of factors that have informed the Chinese understanding of an increasingly dynamic but complicated world.”

About the SUNY Networks of Excellence
SUNY Arts and Humanities is one of six SUNY Networks of Excellence. Each network assembles scientists, scholars, and external partners from SUNY campuses to conduct collaborative research in high demand areas. The others are SUNY Health, SUNY Brain, SUNY 4E (Energy, Environment, Economics and Education), SUNY Materials and Advanced Manufacturing and SUNY Teaching, Learning and Assessment.