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IEAS Conference on Contemporary European and American
Societies
The Institute of European and American Studies (IEAS) of Academia Sinica will hold the IEAS Conference on Contemporary
European and American Societies on 10-11 September 2009 in Taipei, Taiwan. This conference will be the first of a series
of biennial conferences providing a forum for social scientists from Taiwan and
around the world interested in contemporary European and American societies to
exchange ideas and research findings.
Professor Robert M. Hauser, Elected Member of the U.S. National Academy
of Sciences and a member of the IEAS advisory committee, will deliver the
keynote speech for the inauguration of the conference series.
Tentative Program click here to download (as of 2009/08/19)
Day 1 (Thursday,
September 10, 2009)
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8:40
– 9:10
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Registration
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9:10
– 9:20
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Opening
Ceremony
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Opening Remarks: Professor
Te-Hsing Shan（中研院歐美所單德興所長）
(Director, Institute
of European and American Studies,
Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
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9:20-10:10
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Keynote
Address
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Recent Developments in Longitudinal
Studies of Aging in the United
States
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Professor Robert
Mason Hauser
(Vilas Research Professor, University
of Wisconsin-Madison; and Member of the National Academy of Sciences, USA)
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10:10 – 10:30 Coffee Break
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Session
1
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10:30-11:50
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Presider:
Professor Dung-Sheng Chen（臺大社會系陳東升教授）
(Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University)
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Paper 1:
Inequality in the New Unified Theory of Sociobehavioral Forces
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Presenter: Professor
Guillermina Jasso
(Silver Professor, New York University;
and Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, USA)
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Paper 2: The Integration of Genetic Data into Social Inquiry
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Presenter:
Professor Jeremy Freese
(Professor of Sociology, Northwestern
University, USA)
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11:50-13:20 Luncheon
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Session
2
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13:20-15:20
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Presider: Professor Ruey-Ming Tsay（東海大學社會系蔡瑞明教授）
(Director, Department of Sociology, Tunghai University)
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Paper 3: Intergenerational
Racial Stratification and Black-White Achievement Gap
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Presenter: Professor
Wei-Jun Jean Yeung
(Professor of Sociology, National University of Singapore, Singapore,
and New York University, USA)
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Paper 4: The Labour Market Situation of Minority Ethnic
Groups in Britain and the USA
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Presenter: Professor Yaojun Li
(Professor of Sociology, Institute
for Social Change, School of Social Sciences, Manchester University, UK)
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Paper 5: Socioeconomic Status and Health in Later Adulthood: A Couple
Model Approach
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Presenter:
Dr. Hsiang-Hui Daphne Kuo
(Researcher, School
of Medicine and Public Health, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
Professor Alberto Palloni (coauthor)
(Board of Trustees Professor, Department
of Sociology, Northwestern University,
USA)
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15:20 – 15:40 Coffee Break
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Session
3
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15:40-17:00
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Presider: Professor Yia-Ling Liu (政大社會系劉雅靈教授)
(Department of Sociology, National Chengchi University, Taiwan)
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Paper 6: Does Parent’s
Gender Matter in the Relationships between Parenting and Delinquency?
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Presenter: Professor Shuping
Tzeng（中正大學犯罪防治所曾淑萍教授）
(Assistant Professor of Criminology, National Chung-Cheng University)
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Paper 7: Equality vs. Difference: Feminist Jurisprudence Debates in the US,
1970s and 1980s
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Presenter: Dr.
Yu-Wen Fan
(Ph.D., Department of Sociology, New
School for Social Research,
USA)
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Day 2 (Friday,
September 11, 2009)
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8:40– 9:00
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Registration &
Coffee Break
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Session
4
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9:00
–11:00
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Presider:
Professor Ray-May Hsung（政大社會系熊瑞梅教授）
(Department
of Sociology, National
Chengchi University)
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Paper 8: Tracking Persons
from High School though Adult Life: Lessons from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study
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Presenter:
Dr. Min-Hsiung Huang（中研院歐美所黃敏雄博士）
(Associate
Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
Mrs. Taissa S. Hauser
(Senior
Scientist, Center for Demography of Health and Aging, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
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Paper 9: Vietnamese Spouses in Transnational Marriages in Taiwan and the United States
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Presenter: Dr.
Chyong-Fang Ko（中研院歐美所柯瓊芳博士）
(Research
Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
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Paper 10: Becoming Foreign Employers: Western Migrant Entrepreneurs in Taiwan
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Presenter: Dr.
Rueyling Tzeng（中研院歐美所曾瑞鈴博士）
(Associate
Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
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Concluding
Remarks
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11:00-11:30
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Dr. Jui-Chung
Allen Li（中研院歐美所、社會所李瑞中博士）
(Assistant
Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies and Institute of
Sociology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan; Population Research Center, RAND, USA)
Dr. Min-Hsiung
Huang（中研院歐美所黃敏雄博士）
(Associate
Research Fellow, Institute of European and American Studies, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
(Organizers, IEAS Conference on
Contemporary European and American Studies)
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11:30~ Luncheon
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