SCHEDULE
09:30am – 10:00am
Registration
10:00am – 10:30am
Welcome Speech and Introduction to the Conference
10:30am – 12:00pm
MASTER CLASS: Professor Zlatko Skrbis
"Acceptance in Uncertainty: Findings from the Social Futures and Life Pathways of Young People in Queensland Project"
12:00pm – 12:15am
Announcement of the logistic arrangement
12:15pm – 2:00pm
Lunch
2:00pm – 3:30pm
PANEL 1: Lifestyle and Identity
"Acting as Journalists: Everyday Practice of Journalists in Post-socialist China, an Ethnographic Study at XX Press group"
WANG, Dan
Hong Kong Baptist University
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"‘Yinju’, a Better way of life? Lifestyle Migration in Domestic China"
WANG, Peng
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
3:30pm – 3:45pm
Afternoon Break
3:45pm – 5:15pm
PANEL 2: Insight to Policy
"Does medical tourism really contain component of pleasure? Conceptualization of Motivation and Intentions"
KHAN, Mohammad Jamal
Universiti Sains Malaysia
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"Controlling population growth: a safe way to control the future"
JAFARI, Saman
University of Tehran
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"Constructed social enterprise policy in Hong Kong: role of policy / social entrepreneurs"
LAI, Ka Wai
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
5:15pm – 5:30pm
Summary of Day 1
9:30am – 9:45am
Registration and Presentation of Day 3 program
9:45am – 11:15am
MASTER CLASS: Professor Anthony Elliott
"Digital Life: The Sociology of Digital Technologies, Robotics and Artificial Intelligence"
11:15am – 11:30am
Morning Break
11:30am – 1:00pm
PANEL 5: Digital Development
"Tapping into the Lifeworld through Online Cinema and Photography: A Case Study of Joni Gutierrez’ Lifeworld Series (2016)"
GUTIERREZ, Jose III
Hong Kong Baptist University
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"Direction of Future Employment of Educational Technology at an Age of Knowledge Society"
CHIU, Shui Kau Ivan
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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"In the midst of alienation, cynicism and Simulacra: Self-perception vs Social Image of Professional Gamers in Spain"
ALABARCE, Albert Garrich
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
1:00pm – 2:30pm
Lunch
2:30pm – 4:30pm
PANEL 6: Politics and future prediction
"The Challenges of Youth Participation in Politics: A Case Study of Burma / Myanmar"
ZHANG, Herbary
Lingnan University
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"Scenario Building for Iran Short-time Future (Results of Iran Futures Studies Projects)"
GHARARI, Farima
Researcher
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"Reflections on “Occupy Central”"
LEUNG, Tong Lit
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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"The Future of Security: Ideological Perspectives and (Un)certainties in the U.S National Intelligence Council’s Global Trends Reports (2010-2030)"
MCKEOWN, Jamie
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
4:30pm– 4:45pm
Final Words of the 6th International Postgraduate Conference
9:30am – 9:45am
Registration and Presentation of Day 2 program
9:45am – 11:15am
Workshop
11:15am – 11:30am
Morning Break
11:30am – 1:00pm
PANEL 3: Globalization-related issue
"Globalization, Inequality and Social and Economic Emancipation of Oppressed People: Can Dr. Ambedkar’s Buddhism Be a Way Out?"
Dr. KIRTIRAJ, D.C.
Bharti Vidyapeeth University
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"Barriers in Help-seeking for Carers with Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Background Looking After Relatives With Dementia"
WONG, Siu Wan Lisa
University of Technology Sydney
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"To go or not to go? Decision-making process of young people in the borderland Kinmen"
YANG, Chin Yi
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
1:00pm – 2:30pm
Lunch
2:30pm – 3:30pm
PANEL 4: China Studies
"The Future of The Family Planning Policy and Gender Inequalities in China"
NOWAK, Martyna
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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"Government, Peasant, Market: Paradigm Shifts in China’s Seed Governance"
XU, Siyuan
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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"Migrant Workers, Rurality, and Contemporary Social Imagination"
FENG, Lei
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University
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3:30pm – 3:45pm
Afternoon Break
3:45pm – 4:45pm
Sharing session
4:45pm – 5:00pm
Summary of Day 2