| DATE: | Friday, October 6, 2006 Saturday, October 7, 2006 |
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| TIME: | 8:30 AM to 5:00 PM 8:30 AM to 3:00 PM |
| PLACE: | IEAS Gallery, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor, Berkeley |
| FORMAT: | Workshop |
| SPONSORS: | Center for Chinese Studies, Institute of East Asian Studies, Walter H. Shorenstein Fund, Berkeley China Initiative, Department of Political Science |
Friday, October 6
2223 Fulton Street, 6th floor conference room
8:30 a.m. -- Coffee and registration
9:00 a.m. -- Opening remarks and welcome -- Kevin O'Brien (University of California, Berkeley)
9:15 Panel 1 -- Opportunities
Organization, Mobilization, and Comparative Perspectives on Opportunity -- Teresa Wright (California State University, Long Beach)
Rethinking the Concept of Political Opportunity Structure: Lessons from Popular Contention in China -- Xi Chen (Louisiana State University)
Discussant -- David Meyer (University of California, Irvine)
10:45 break
11:00 Panel 2 -- Recruitment
Attraction without Networks: Recruitment to Unregistered Protestantism in China -- Carsten Vala (University of California, Berkeley) and Kevin O'Brien (University of California, Berkeley)
Discussant -- Thomas Gold (University of California, Berkeley)
12:00 Lunch
1:15 Panel 3 -- Frames, Leadership, and Mobilization
The Reality of Perceptions: Structural Roots of Frames in Contentious Politics -- William Hurst (Oxford University and University of Texas, Austin)
Framing Contention: The Role of Worker Leaders in Factory-Based Resistance -- Chen Feng (Hong Kong Baptist University)
Protest Leadership in the Countryside -- Lianjiang Li (Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Kevin O'Brien (University of California, Berkeley)
Discussant -- Sidney Tarrow (Cornell University)
3:15 Break
3:30 Panel 4 -- Culture
Theorizing the Role of Culture in Social Movements (Illustrated by Contention in Modern China) -- Dingxin Zhao (University of Chicago)
Discussant -- David Meyer (University of California, Irvine)
4:30 adjourn
Saturday, October 7
2223 Fulton Street, 6th floor conference room
9:00 Panel 5 -- Tactics and Their Consequences
Lawful and Unlawful Strategies of Contention in Rural China -- Ethan Michelson (Indiana University) and Jennifer Choo (University of California Berkeley)
Disruptive Collective Action and Its Effectiveness in China -- Yongshun Cai (University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)
Discussant -- Sidney Tarrow (Cornell University)
10:30 Break
10:45 Panel 6 -- The Media and the Internet
Manufacturing Dissent in Transnational China: Boomerang, Backfire or Spectacle? -- Patricia Thornton (Trinity College)
Internet Protests in China: Opportunities and Challenges for Social Movement Theory -- Guobin Yang (Barnard College and Columbia University)
Discussant -- Rachel Stern (University of California, Berkeley)
12:15 Lunch
1:30 Panel 7 -- Summing Up
Informal Remarks by:
Rachel Stern (UC-Berkeley)
Sidney Tarrow (Cornell University)
David Meyer (UC-Irvine)
Kevin O'Brien (UC-Berkeley)
Followed by open discussion
2:45 – Conference ends
