Seminars

2012 
Topic LuXun's influence on Malaysia-Singapore
Date Saturday, 12 May 2012
Time 10.00am to 1.00pm
Venue           HSS Auditorium

Topic Language and Evolution Theory
Speaker Prof William Shi-Yuan Wang
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date Friday, 13 April 2012
Time 4.00pm to 5.30pm
Venue           Executive Seminar Room 4 (S3.2-B3-07)

Topic “ A Mechanism for Booms and Busts in Housing Prices ”
Speaker Asst Prof Marten Hillebrand
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany
Date Wednesday, 28 March 2012
Time 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Venue           Meeting Room 5 (HSS-04-89)

Topic “Buddhist Philosophies of Mind”
Speaker Professor Brook Ziporyn
Professor in the Department of Religious Studies and the Department of Philosophy
Northwestern University, USA
Date Thursday, 22 March 2012
Time 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Venue           HSS Seminar Room 9 (HSS-B1-11)

Topic “Marshallian Externality, Industrial Upgrading, and Industrial Policies” (joint with Justin Lin and Jiandong Ju)
Speaker Assistant Professor Wang Yong
Hong Kong University of Science and Technology and the World Bank
Date Wednesday, 21 March 2012
Time 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Venue           HSS Meeting Room 5 (HSS-04-89)

Topic “Organized Community-Norm Shift: A Way to Realize Human Rights and Responsibilities”
Speaker Professor Gerry Mackie
Associate Professor of Political Science and Co-Director of the Center for Global Justice
University of California, San Diego
Date Monday, 19 March 2012
Time 4:00pm - 5:30pm
Venue           HSS Seminar Room 9 (HSS-B1-11)

Topic "An Emperor's Chemist at War and in Peacetime: Sakurai Joji during the Russo-Japanese and First World Wars"
Speaker Dr. Yoshiyuki Kikuchi
Date Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Time 3.30pm to 4.30pm
Venue           HSS Meeting Room 4 (HSS-04-71)

Topic “Efficient Wage Bargaining in a Dynamic Macroeconomic Model"
Speaker Professor Volker Böhm
Visiting Professor at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
Date Wednesday, 14 March 2012
Time 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Venue           HSS Meeting Room 5 (HSS-04-89)

Topic "Articulating the Past: Commerce and the Culture of Paleontology, 1870-1930"
Speaker Dr. Lukas Rieppel
Date Wednesday, 7 March 2012
Time 3.30pm to 4.30pm
Venue           HSS Meeting Room 4 (HSS-04-71)

Topic “Between Philosophy and Intellectual History: Reading Zhang Taiyan, Reading Zhuangzi”
Speaker Dr. Viren Murthy
Date Tuesday, 6 March 2012
Time 3.30pm to 4.30pm
Venue           HSS Meeting Room 4 (HSS-04-71)

Topic “ Yield Spreads as Predictors of Economic Activity: A Real-Time VAR Analysis ”
Speaker Assistant Professor Kundan Kishor
Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee
Date Friday, 24 February 2012
Time 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Venue           Meeting Room 6 (HSS-04-91)

Topic “ Hybridity and Mixed Regimes in Social Sciences: A Research Program on China’s Political Transformation ”
Speaker Professor He Baogang
Visiting Professor, Politics and Public Administration Group
School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University
Date Friday, 24 February 2012
Time 10:00am - 12:00pm
Venue           HSS Conference Room ( HSS-05-57 )

Topic Coping with the “Political Multiplier Effect”: Cadre Performance Evaluation in the PRC
Speaker Dr Gore Lance Liangping
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, East Asian Institute
Date Thursday, 23 February 2012
Time 10:30am - 12:00pm
Venue           HSS Seminar Room 3 ( HSS-B1-10 )

Topic “ Coping with the “Political Multiplier Effect”: Cadre Performance Evaluation in the PRC ”
Speaker Dr Gore Lance Liangping
Visiting Senior Research Fellow, East Asian Institute
Date Thursday, 23 February 2012
Time 10:30am - 12:00pm
Venue           HSS Seminar Room 3 ( HSS-B1-10 )

Topic “ Happiness and Productivity ”
Speaker Professor Andrew J Oswald
Visiting Fellow, and Acting Research Director, IZA, Bonn & Department of Economics, University of Warwick
Date Wednesday, 22 February 2012
Time 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Venue           Meeting Room 5 (HSS-04-89)

Topic “ Whose Opinion Counts? Political Processes and the Implementation Problem ”
Speaker Assistant Professor Rene Saran
Assistant Professor of Economics, Maastricht University
Date Tuesday, 21 February 2012
Time 10:30am - 12:00 pm
Venue           Meeting Room 5 (HSS-04-89)

Topic “ Moral Hazard in Expert Service Markets—Evidence from an Intervention to Reduce Health Care Spending in China ”
Speaker Bingxiao Wu
Ph.D. Candidate, Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Date Thursday, 16 February 2012
Time 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Venue           Meeting Room 5 (HSS-04-89)

Topic “ Trade and Interdependence in a Spatially Complex World ”
Speaker Michal Fabinger
Ph.D candidate, Harvard University
Date Tuesday, 14 February 2012
Time 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Venue           Meeting Room 6 (HSS-04-91)

Topic “ Mental Equilibrium and Rational Emotions ”
Speaker Professor Eyal Winter
Silverzweig Professor of Economics
Director, Center for the Study of Rationality
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Date Wednesday, 8 February 2012
Time 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Venue           Meeting Room 5 (HSS-04-89)

Topic “ An Analysis of Policy Effect on Equal Opportunity for Health: Evidence from U.K. and U.S. ”
Speaker Chen Jie, Yvonne
Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University
Date Tuesday, 7 February 2012
Time 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Venue           Meeting Room 4 (HSS-04-71)

Topic “ How Do We Analyze Global Catastrophic Risks Rationally? ”
Speaker Professor Yew-Kwang Ng
Department of Economics, Monash University
Date Monday, 6 February 2012
Time 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Venue           HSS Conference Room 5 (HSS-05-57)

Topic “ Developing Shared Knowledge ”
Speaker Dr Hongyi Li
Post-Doctoral Associate, MIT-Sloan School of Management
Date Thursday, 2 February 2012
Time 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Venue           HSS Meeting Room 6 (HSS-04-91)

Topic “ Reputation Turnaround through Voluntary Ownership and Management Turnover ”
Speaker Au Pak Hung
Department of Economics, Northwestern University
Date Tuesday, 31 January 2012
Time 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Venue           HSS Meeting Room 4 (HSS-04-71)

Topic “The Kyoto Protocol, the Copenhagen Accord, the Cancun Agreements, and Beyond: An economic and game theoretic exploration and interpretation”
Speaker Professor Parkash Chander
National University of Singapore
Date Thursday, 26 January 2012
Time 10:30 am – 12:00 pm
Venue           HSS Meeting Room 5 (HSS-04-89)

Topic “ Testing the Number of Components in Finite Mixture Models ”
Speaker Dr Katsumi Shimotsu
Department of Economics, Hitotsubashi University
Date Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Time 10:30 am - 12:00 pm
Venue           HSS Meeting Room 5 (HSS-04-89)

Topic “ Exposure Problem in Multi-unit Auctions ”
Speaker Assistant Professor Walter Edgar Theseira
Division of Economics, School of Humanities & Social Sciences
Date Wednesday, 18 January 2012
Time 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
Venue           HSS Meeting Room 5 (HSS-04-89)

Topic “Estimating Context-Independent Treatment Effects in Education Experiments”
Speaker Associate Professor Steven Lehrer
Department of Economics, Queen's University
Date Friday, 13 January 2012
Time 2:00 pm – 3:30 pm
Venue           HSS Meeting Room 5 (HSS-04-89)

Topic “Uncertainty and capital accumulation: Empirical evidence from a structural model with heterogeneous firms”
Speaker Professor Steve Bond
Department of Economics, Nuffield College
Said Business School, University of Oxford
Date Wednesday, 11 Jan 2012
Time 2:30 pm – 4:00 pm
Venue           HSS Meeting Room 5 (HSS-04-89)