Category: Capacity Building

My name is Leigh Lawrence, and I am a PhD student in the Faculty of Education at the University of Cambridge, St John’s College. I am currently working with a classmate to conduct research on Chinese higher education governance during the COVID-19 crisis. We are seeking survey participation from Chinese students enrolled in Chinese universities (at any grade level). We are aiming for diverse participation from students all around China; participation is completely anonymous, no personal information is requested, and participants can contact me any time with questions as to how this data will be used. There are 20 questions and the average response time is 4 minutes. We are aiming for a very tight timeline to get this survey out, so any help in sharing will be greatly appreciated!

Here is the link to the survey:

https://www.wenjuan.com/s/c/yhVIdrNCQgR_uzsfaOzkjw==/

亲爱的同学：
       你好！我叫罗葳，目前是英国剑桥大学教育学院的博士生。我研究的课题是：新冠肺炎期间高等教育管理的政策分析和学生视角：基于混合方法的研究。我需要就学生对新冠肺炎期间高等教育管理的看法收集一些问卷，希望你能在百忙之中花几分钟填写这份问卷。问卷所有的内容都是保密的，所有收集的数据都将保密并安全存储，参与者遵循匿名和自愿的原则，因此请你放心真写。所收集的信息只用于学术研究。如你有任何问题，请随时与我联系(lsl30@cam.ac.uk)。完成并交出该问卷即表示你同意参与。谢谢你的帮助！**此问卷只针对中国籍大学生**

Date: 3-4 December 2020

Location: Department of Anthropology, University of Amsterdam

Organisers: The ChinaWhite research team (www.china-white.org)

Aldina Camenisch, Ed Pulford and Willy Sier (postdocs) and Shanshan Lan (PI)

The current global COVID-19 pandemic has led not only to the closure of national borders and a near stand-still of international mobility but also to a resurgence of social ‘othering’ and related racist and nationalist narratives and practices. As much as the new COVID-19 virus has been perceived as an ‘outsider’ invading human societies rather than an inherent part of the human-animal ecosystem, racialised human ‘others’ have been blamed as the main carriers and spreaders of this zoonotic virus. For instance, within China people who are from Wuhan (where the pandemic first started) or who have travelled to the Wuhan area have been socially stigmatised and ostracised. At the international level, US-President Donald Trump was quick to frame COVID-19 as a ‘Chinese virus’ while Asian people around the world have been victims of an increased number of racial incidents and a related resurgence of the ‘yellow peril’ discourse. Meanwhile, the Chinese state has proclaimed internal control of COVID-19 and is externalising new infections as a merely imported phenomenon. An uptick in xenophobia targeting foreign populations has been evident in both state and public discourse in China, culminating in the recent media reports of severe mistreatment of Africans in Guangzhou.

In light of these recent developments, we seek to organise an international workshop that will investigate and theorise the ongoing processes of racialisation and social boundary-making in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. We understand racialisation as “the extension of racial meaning to a previously racially unclassified relationship, social practice or group” (Omi and Winant 1986: 64). We are interested in racialisation and boundary making practices based on multiple and intersecting factors such as skin colour, nationality, ethnicity, place of origin, citizenship and immigration status, language and accent, and previous travel experiences.

The workshop will address the following questions:

• How does the COVID-19 pandemic intensify and transform existing social relations/hierarchies and facilitates new forms of racialisation and boundary making practices in China and beyond?
• To what extent are internal and international borders both challenged and reinforced through mediated and restricted flows of racialised or stigmatised bodies, images, ideas, technologies, and goods?
• What are the connections (or disconnections) between the racialisation of overseas Chinese and Asian looking people in the global context and the racialisation of various groups of international migrants in the Chinese context?

Other topics may include:

• Resurgence of nationalist, xenophobic and/or discriminatory discourses of social ‘othering’ in relation to the COVID-19 outbreak in different societies
• Adaptations of migration regimes in response to the outbreak of the new COVID-19 virus and their uneven impact on the internal and international mobility of minority groups
• Shifting perceptions of Chinese and Asian-looking people outside China, and foreign populations and internally mobile populations inside China at different stages of the COVID19 crisis
• Media and social construction of dangerous and stigmatised mobilities
• Identity politics based on tensions between de-territorialisation and re-territorialisation

We welcome submission from scholars in various disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. Priority will be given to papers with empirically grounded qualitative data. In light of the difficulty of conducting onsite fieldwork during the COVID-19 pandemic, we also welcome papers based on media studies, discourse analysis, auto-ethnography, and online ethnography. Due to the unpredictability associated with cross-border travels in COVID-19 time, we will consider setting up one or two virtual panels for participants who cannot travel to Amsterdam in December 2020. If necessary, we may also consider the possibility of conducting the whole workshop online. There is no registration fee for the workshop. Participants are expected to arrange their own travel plans. We will provide food and drink for all presenters during the workshop. A one-night hotel will also be provided for presenters who are not based in Amsterdam (one person per paper).

Paper proposals should include a title, an abstract (maximum 250 words, specifying your main research question and methodology) and a brief personal biography (150 words) for submission by 30 May 2020. Please note that only previously unpublished papers or those not already committed elsewhere can be accepted. The organisers plan to publish a special journal issue that incorporates some selected papers presented at the workshop. Please submit your proposal to a.camenisch@uva.nl and e.s.c.pulford@uva.nl. Notifications of acceptance will be sent out around 20 June 2020. Participants will be required to send in a completed draft paper (6,000 words) by 15 November 2020.

Greetings from the STAR Scholars Network! We are writing to invite you to join the upcoming webinar series. 

Please take a minute to register in advance to attend the event: https://bit.ly/my_STAR 

Topic: STAR Webinar on COVID-19 (Public Health and Education in Transnational Society)
Register in advance for this webinar:

When: Apr 30, 2020, 10:00 AM (New York), 3:00 PM (London), 7:30 PM (Mumbai), 6:00 PM (Dubai), 4:00 PM (Paris) 10:00 PM (Singapore)

Bio of Sanjeeb Sapkota, MBBS, MPH

Dr. Sanjeeb Sapkota is a medical epidemiologist and works for the federal public health agency. He is the vice president of global health for STAR Scholars Network. He is also the chairperson of Health Committee of Non-Resident Nepali Association. After graduation from medical school in Nepal he worked for World Health Organization headquarters. He has been the consultant of public health to several health ministries in countries in Europe, Africa and Asia. He has published books related to pandemic that are available in amazon. 

Bio of Peiyi (Peggy) Hu, MD, PhD

Dr. Peiyi (Peggy) Hu is a Family Medicine doctor working in Indianapolis, Indiana, USA for 20 years. She graduated from Tongji Medical College in Wuhan, China. She had her PhD training in Cell Biology and Genetics/Biochemistry in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, and in St. Louis University, USA. She had her Family Practice residency training in Springfield, IL.  Dr. Hu is also actively involved in local community volunteer service. She is one of the leaders in campaign to obtain PPEs (Personal Protective Equipment) and donate them to hospitals and frontline fighters against Covid-19.

Please forward this information on to your colleagues or students who may be interested in attending—registration is free and open to anyone  with an interest in education, research and publication.

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STAR SCHOLARS NETWORK, an international forum of scholars that advances global social mobility by using research and advocacy, has been looking for research community members. Visit the website to register on the STAR roster. 

大家好! 感谢您参与本次问卷，该问卷是为了解中国留学归国博士回国动因及回国后的工作和生活状况，便于为政府研究改善留学归国人员的工作和生活条件以及完善相关政策，提供参考和依据。问卷匿名，用时约5分钟，数据仅供研究之用，绝不会泄露您的隐私和信息。感谢您的支持！问卷地址：https://www.wjx.cn/jq/64376185.aspx

中国人民大学社会学系

2019-2020学年教师招聘启事

为有效推进“双一流”建设，满足学院和学科发展需要，中国人民大学社会学系2019-2020学年拟面向海内外公开招聘教师4名和师资博士后1名。

一、岗位需求及条件

1、社会学方向：教师，3名

◆ 社会学专业博士学位，毕业于海内外一流高校。

◆ 49岁及以下，师德高尚、具备良好教学能力、富有团队合作精神、英语交流能力较强、科研发表突出。

◆ 能够承担社会学及相关学科教学与科研任务，积极参与学科建设；社会理论、社会政策、经济社会学、组织社会学、政治社会学等方向优先，其他社会学分支领域亦可。

2、人类学方向：教师，1名

◆ 人类学专业博士学位，毕业于海内外一流高校。

◆ 35岁及以下，师德高尚、具备良好教学能力、富有团队合作精神、英语交流能力较强、科研发表突出。

◆ 能够承担相关学科教学与科研任务，积极参与学科建设。

3、社会学方向：师资博士后，1名

◆ 社会学专业博士学位，毕业于海内外一流高校。

◆ 35岁及以下，师德高尚、具备良好教学能力、富有团队合作精神、英语交流能力较强、科研发表良好。

◆ 能够承担社会学及相关学科教学与科研任务，积极参与学科建设。科学社会学、大数据与互联网研究优先，其他社会学分支领域亦可。

二、招聘程序

有意向应聘者请访问中国人民大学人才招聘网（网址：zhaopin.ruc.edu.cn），在“教师招聘”和“师资博士后招聘”栏目中查看我院招聘岗位类型、招聘人数、岗位职责、任职条件、专业要求、招聘截止日期等重要信息。应聘者请在网站中注册并填写简历，根据网站提示上传相应材料。简历填写完成后，根据个人情况和岗位信息选择希望申报的岗位。

三、联系方式

联系人：李老师，010-62514984，summer8998@ruc.edu.cn；

朱老师，zhubin2015@ruc.edu.cn。

本招聘启事常年有效，招满为止。

关于所招聘教师的岗位类型、招聘对象、基本条件、招聘程序及其他具体事项，请详见“中国人民大学2019-2022学年教师岗位、师资博士后岗位招聘公告”（附件一）。

附件一：中国人民大学2019-2022学年教师岗位、师资博士后岗位招聘公告

【中国人民大学社会学系简介】

中国人民大学社会学系是具有国内领先水平、国际良好声誉、理论特色鲜明、师资实力雄厚、培育层次健全、基础条件优越、兼收并蓄包容、发展潜力巨大等特点的社会学教学与科研机构，在社会学学科领域中占据重要地位和拥有重大的影响力。

追溯既往，社会学在中国人民大学有近70多年的历史。20世纪50年代初，中国人民大学成立伊始，许多著名社会学家来到人民大学工作，例如陈达、李景汉、吴景超、赵承信、戴世光、陈文仙、全慰天等，为人民大学20世纪80年代初社会学的恢复和发展奠定了重要基础。

1984年，中国人民大学建立社会学研究所；1985年，建立社会学理论与方法硕士点；1987年，建立社会学系，同年开始招收本科生；1993年，建立社会学理论与方法博士点；1996年，被列为“211工程”重点建设学科；2002年，被列为国家重点学科；2007年，入选国家级特色专业；2016年，获得“双一流”建设资金支持。

中国人民大学社会学系拥有博士学位一级学科授予权，拥有博士、硕士和学士学位授予权。1998年，经国务院学位办批准始建博士后流动站，同时建立人类学硕士点；2001年，建立人类学博士点；2002年，建立民俗学硕士点。