Date: Mon, 17 Feb 97 17:43:55 CST From: "Dudley L. Poston, Jr." Subject: Population Workshop in Beijing, 10-11-1997 To: Progressive Population Network POPULATION WORKSHOP IN BEIJING, 10-11-1997 Research Committee 41 (Sociology of Population) of the International Sociological Association is holding an inter- session conference prior to the next meeting of the ISA in Montreal in July-August of 1998. This inter-session conference will be held in Beijing in October 1997. The International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) is holding its XXIIIrd General Population Conference in Beijing, China, from October 12th to October 17th. Research Committee 41 of the ISA is holding a pre- IUSSP one-day workshop in Beijing on October 11th. Demographers and sociologists are invited to submit papers to present at this one-day conference. The "ISA Research Committee 41 Workshop on Population" will start at about 9:00 AM on October 11th, and will conclude in the mid- to late-afternoon. The program will consist mainly of paper presentations, organized around several demographic themes. The session themes will depend on the topics of the papers submitted for presentation. If you want to present a paper at the "ISA Research Committee 41 Workshop on Population" in Beijing on October 11, 1997, please send, or FAX, a title and a brief abstract to Dudley Poston, Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas 77843, USA; FAX: 409-862-4057, by August 15, 1997. You do not need to be a member of the ISA Research Committee 41 to participate in the "ISA Research Committee 41 Workshop on Population" in Beijing on October 11, 1997. Moreover, you do not have to be a member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population (IUSSP) to attend and participate in their XXIIIrd General Population Conference in Beijing. The "ISA Research Committee 41 Workshop on Population" will be held in conjunction with the IUSSP and will use the IUSSP facilities in Beijing. All presentations and discussions at the Workshop on Population will be in English. We have no plans for simultaneous translation into other languages. Plan to attend our Workshop in Beijing on October 11, 1997, and send soon to Dudley Poston a title and brief abstract. As already noted, the IUSSP XXIIIrd General Population Conference in Beijing will be on 13-17 October 1997. The IUSSP program consists of two plenary sessions at the Opening and Closing of the Conference, 30 formal sessions, and 37 informal sessions. Also, a number of poster sessions and other types of meetings are being planned. The IUSSP Conference will take place at the Beijing International Convention Center; the official languages of the IUSSP Conference are English and French (simultaneous interpretation will be provided for the plenaries and for most of the formal sessions). Hotel accommodations are presently being negotiated by the IUSSP with the Chinese National Organizing Committee. Here are approximate room rates (in US$) for three of the hotels on the list: Continental Grand (4 star), $100/night Catic (3 star), $85/night Labor Building (2 star), $45/night. Plan to arrive in Beijing on no later than October 10th. Attend and participate in our "ISA Research Committee 41 Workshop on Population" on the 11th. Then attend and participate in the IUSSP Conference on the 12th to the 17th. Also plan to find time to visit, among other places, The Great Wall, Tien An Men Square, The Imperial Palace, the Mao Zedong Memorial Hall and Mausoleum (and view Mao's body), the Qing Tombs, the Summer Palace, the Temple of Heaven, and the largest MacDonald's Restaurant in the world. See you in Beijing in October 1997!