Events
Prof. Shangyi ZHOU, Professor of Department of Geography, Beijing Normal University, China, on “Scale Jumping: the planning of historic districts”.
Prof. Fenghua PAN, Professor and Vice Dean of Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, China, on “Stay or leave? US listed Chinese firms under financial decoupling push and the reshaping of globalfinancial networks”.
Faculty's Strategic Research Theme - "Urbanisation, Sustainability & Governance":
Symposium on "The Green/Smart Turn of China's Urbanisation”.
Prof. Xiaohui HU, Professor of School of Geography, Nanjing Normal University, China, on “Decoding just transitions on the Chinese ground: the case of Chun'an, Zhejiang”.
Prof. Canfei HE, Economic Geography Professor & Dean of the College of Urban and Environmental Sciences
Peking University, Beijing, China, on “How Chinese
Regions Cope with External Shocks?”.
Symposium on China Development Studies, “Hong Kong and China Devemopment Studies: Retrospect and Prospect”.
Prof. Raymond Yu WANG, Associate Professor of Center for Social Sciences, Southern University of Science and Technology (SUSTech), on “60 Years of the Dongshen Water Supply: Some Geographical Reflections”.
Professor Wei Li, Asian Pacific American Studies / School of Social Transformation, School of Geographical Sciences & Urban Planning, Arizona State University, USA, on “Intellectual Migration:
Skilled migrants between
China/India and North America”.
Professor Bingqin LI, Professor of Social Policy Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Australia, on “The Entrepreneurial Welfare Mix: Community-Based Old Age Services in China”.
Dr. Sarah Rogers, Senior Lecturer of Asia Institute, University of Melbourne, on “Critical Hydropolitics in China”.
Dr. Ivy Wong, Associate Professor of Department of Building and Real Estate, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, on “Governing China’s Great Urban Transformation: From “Decentralization of Governance” to “Governance of Decentralization””.
Dr. Karita Kan, Associate Professor of Department of Applied Social Sciences, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, on “New Frontiers of Rural-Urban Transformation in China”.
Professor Trevor J Barnes, Professor of Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Canada, on “The crusading geographical life of a radical American geographer:
William Bunge (1928-2013)”.
Dr. Calvin Chung, Assistant Professor of Department of Geography and Resource Management, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, on “Theorising with urban China: Methodological and tactical experiments for a more global urban studies”.
Dr. Huaxiong Jiang, Assistant Professor of Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, on “Smart urban governance: Governing cities in the “smart” era”.
Dr. Song Gao, Associate Professor with tenure in Geographic Information Science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, on “Development of Spatially Explicit Methods for GeoAI”.
Dr. Mengmeng Zhang, Assistant Professor of Faculty of Geographical Science, Beijing Normal University, on “Scalar Politics and Its Spatial Impacts: Planning for Inter-city Railways in China's Mega-city Regions”.
Professor David Meyer, Senior Lecturer in Management at Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, on “China’s policies support Hong Kong as the pivot of financial networks”.
Professor Zhu Liu, an Associate Professor and a Principle Investigator at Department of Earth System Science, Tsinghua University, on “Near-real-time Monitoring of Global Carbon Emissions”.
Professor Trevor Barnes, Professor and Distinguished University Scholar at the Department of Geography, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, on “Tales of the quantitative revolution in Anglo-American geography: English croquet lawns and US Highway 151”.
Professor Chen Jingming, Professor at the College of Geographical Sciences, Fujian Normal University & the Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto, on “Development and Application of Global Carbon Assimilation System”.
Professor Henry Yeung, Distinguished Professor at the Department of Geography, National University of Singapore, on “Explaining the Interconnected Worlds of Global Production Networks: East Asian Electronics Industry in the Post-Pandemic 2020s”.
Professor Rebecca Lave, Cyril & Tutta Vetter Alumni Professor and Associate Dean of the Graduate School, Louisiana State University, on “Four Methodological Themes in Computational Spatial Social Science”.
Professor Rebecca Lave, Professor of Geography at Indiana University and Vice-President of the American Association of Geographers, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, on “Critical physical geography in practice: Our depth perception improves when we combine biophysical and social lenses”.
Professor Weiping Wu, Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the Urban Planning programs in the Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation at Columbia University, on “China Urbanizing: Impacts and Transitions”.
Professor C Cindy Fan, Professor of Geography at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), on “Migration in the Global South: Householding, Gender and Intergenerational Perspectives”.
Professor Academician Chen Fahu, on “Pre-historic humans’ exploration of and adaptation to the adverse environment on Tibetan Plateau”.
Professor Hui Lin, Professor and Dean at the School of Geography
and Environment at Jiangxi Normal University of China, on “From Maps to GIS and VGE: The Evolution of Geographic Language”.
Professor Bo Huang, Professor in the Department of Geography and Resource Management at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, on “Geospatial big data for urban and environmental sustainability”.
Professor Shunlin Liang, professor in the Department of Geographical
Sciences, University of Maryland, on “Quantitative Remote Sensing and Global Environmental Change”.
Dr. Yang Xia, Senior Editor at Nature, on “Publishing Interdisciplinary Research in Nature Journals”.
Professor David Ley, Professor Emeritus of urban and social geography at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver, on “Housing Booms in Gateway Cities”.
Professor Lily Kong, President of Singapore Management University, on “ASEAN Smart Cities Network: the promises and challenges of scaling smartness”.
Professor Jason Dittmer, Professor of Political Geography and Head of the Department of Geography at University College London, on “On Subterranean Geopolitics: Relational space, value, and the tunnels of Gibraltar”.
Professor Michael Batty, Bartlett Professor of Planning at University College London, on “Digital Twins and Multiple Models: New Ways to Simulate and Invent the Future City”.
Professor Fulong Wu, Bartlett Professor of Planning and a joint
coordinator of China Planning Research Group at University College London, on “Beyond Growth Machines Dynamics: Rethinking State Politics in China's Urban Redevelopment”.
Professor John Logan, Professor of Sociology at Brown University, on “The Impact of Suburbanization on Racial Segregation at a Metropolitan Scale, 1940-1970”.
Dr. Karen P Y Lai, Associate Professor at the Department of Geography, Durham University, on “Emerging Economic Geographies of Fintech”.
Dr Yimin Zhao, Assistant Professor in Urban Planning and Management at Renmin University of China, on “Jiehebu Urbanism and the Translational Turn of Urban Studies”.
Professor Timothy O, Professor of Geography and Director of the Center for Asian Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder, on “The National New Area as an Infrastructure Space”.
Dr. Fangzhu Zhang, Associate Professor in The Bartlett School of Planning, University College London, on “Rethinking the City and Innovation: A political economic view from China's biotech”.
Dr. Gengzhi Huang, Associate Professor of Human Geography
in Sun Yat-sen University, on “A City of the Precariat: Struggles and Predicament of Dayworkers in Shenzhen, China”.
Professor Xuefei Ren, professor of sociology and global
urban studies at Michigan State University, on “Governing the Urban in China and India”.
Mr. Liam Reeve, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) Master of Arts in China Development Studies student, on “Chinese Outward Foreign Direct Investment in Financial Services”.
Dr. T C Chang,Associate Professor at the Department of Geography (National University of Singapore, NUS), on “Community Art & Creative Placemaking in Singapore". (Organized seminar)
Professor David R Meyer, Senior Lecturer in Management at Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, on “China’s "Belt & Road” Initiative in the Context of Global Restructuring". (Organized seminar)
Professor David R Meyer, Senior Lecturer in Management at Olin Business School, Washington University in St. Louis, on “China’s financial centres contend for global leadership in the 21st century” (Organized seminar)
Invited as Chairperson on “International Forum on Innovation and Regional Development for the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macau Greater Bay Area.” (Prof. George C.S. Lin)
Invited presentation on “Sustaining the Growth and (Re)Developmet of Chinese Cities: State, Society and Space in China’s Great Urban Transformation” at the “2019 International Geoinformatics Week.” (Prof. George C.S. Lin)
Invited presentation on “‘China’s Informal Housing Market’, Urban Rural Governance and Planning in Metropolitan Areas”, organized by Tsinghua University, 2 to 3 November 2019. (Dr. Shenjing He)
Invited presentation on “the Rural Renaissance and Reconstruction Movement in China: Culture-based Intervention, Post-rurality, Planetary Urbanisation” at the 2019 Royal Geographical Society –Institute of British Geographers Annual Conference in London, UK. (Dr. Junxi Qian)