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The 6th East Asian Social Policy research network (EASP)
'Global Economic Crisis and Welfare Restructuring in East and West'
University of Sheffield, 3-4 July.
If you wish to attend the conference (the conference outline is below),
please return your completed booking form by email to EASP conference
organising team at [log in to unmask] by 31st May. We have a
subsided price for PhD student.
Booking form can be downloaded from EASP conference website:
http://6th.welfareasia.org/
Looking forward to welcoming you at Sheffield.
Best wishes,
Junko Yamashita
EASP General Secretary
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The 6th EASP international conference
'Global Economic Crisis and
Welfare Restructuring in East and West'
3-4 July 2009
University of Sheffield, UK
Hosted by
East Asian Social Policy research network (EASP)
White Rose East Asian Centre(WREAC)
Sponsored by
Social Policy Association (U.K.)
Taiwanese Social Policy Association (Taiwan)
Supported by
Comparative Social Policy Network (Korea)
Council for Academies of Social Policy (Japan)
Taiwanese Association of Social Policy (Taiwan)
Plenary Speakers:
Professor Margarita Estevez-Abe (Harvard University , U.S.A.)
Professor Hsiao-Hung Chen (National Cheng-Chi University, Taiwan)
Professor Bob Deacon (University of Sheffield, U.K.)
Professor Jin-Young Moon (Sogang University, Korea)
Professor Kinglun Ngok (Sun Yat-sen University, China)
Professor Mari Osawa (University Tokyo, Japan)
Professor Alan Walker (University of Sheffield , U.K.)
Professor Yuegen Xiong (Peking University, China) t.b.c.
Conference Theme
East Asian Social Policy research network (EASP) conferences have attempted
to enhance the quality and quantity of research on fast changing East Asian
social policies, and to provide a forum for exchanging ideas for
researchers.
The main theme is 'Global economic crisis and welfare restructuring in East
and West'. East Asian countries and communities currently face (or expect
to face) new social challenges by unprecedented scale of global economic
crisis in decades. The effect of this current crisis could be more
significant in East Asia which already experienced a range of problems in
society along with globalisation and post-industrialisation ever
intensified since Asian financial crisis at the end of the 1990s. This
includes not only problems in conventional social policy areas such as
unemployment, inequality and poverty, family breakdown, and aging society,
but also, possibly, new wave of transformation of society. This conference
will address a range of issues relating to these challenges in East Asia,
identify future research agenda and discuss the role of social policy.
If you have any queries, please contact EASP at [log in to unmask]
For further information of the conference, please visit
http://6th.welfareasia.org/
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Junko Yamashita
Centre for East Asian Studies
University of Bristol
4 Priory Road, Bristol, BS8 1TY
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East Asian Social Policy research network (EASP)
http://www.welfareasia.org/
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