Event Description:
This was the third US-China Forum hosted by the University of Chicago and co-sponsored by the China-US Exchange Foundation. For this year's forum, we invited scholars, policymakers, and private-sector innovators to examine the way in which innovations in "rural" and "urban" settings are shaping our political, cultural, and economic dialogues. While scholars point to global urbanization as a leading force for social, environmental, and economic change in the coming century, less is known about how rural areas are experiencing similar disruption. Through a series of panel discussions among scholars and practitioners, the conference illuminated how innovations in technology, communication, commerce, and entrepreneurship are dissolving the boundaries between the urban and the rural. We ended by exploring how this dissolution, as well as the disproportionate powers of urban and rural actors, affect industry, civil society, and inevitably, international relations.
Event Highlights:
Watch the first panel about Bilateral Relations in the Trump/XI Era:
Event Details
Date: Thursday, October 12, 2017
Times: 9:00am-5:00pm
Location: Ida Noyes Hall, 1212 East 59th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
Agenda:
9:00am Refreshments
9:30am Opening Welcome
- Luis Bettencourt, Pritzker Director, Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, University of Chicago
9:35am Remarks
- Provost Daniel Diermeier, University of Chicago
- Consul General Hong Lei, Consul General of the People's Republic of China in Chicago
9:45am Session 1 | Bilateral Relations in the Trump/XI Era
- Steve Edwards, Vice President and Chief Content Officer, WBEZ
- Professor Cui Liru, Senior Advisor and Former President, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (CICR)
- David Rank, Former Chargé d'Affaires (Acting Ambassador), US Embassy in Beijing
11:20am Break
11:30am Session 2 | Entrepreneurship and the Urban/Rural Continuum
- Waverly Deutsch, Clinical Professor and Academic Director for University-wide Entrepreneurship Content,
- University of Chicago Booth School of Business
- Charlie Catlett, Director, UChicago Urban Center for Computation and Data, University of Chicago
- Senior Computer Scientist, Argonne National Laboratory
- Vince Chan, Co-Founder & Managing Partner, Creta Ventures
- Founder, Kaliber School
- Stonly Baptiste, Co-Founder and Partner, Urban US
12:30pm Lunch
1:45pm Session 3 | Built Environment and the Urban/Rural Continuum
- Anne Dodge, Executive Director, Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, University of Chicago
- Professor Annette Kim, Director, Spatial Analysis Lab, University of Southern California
- Professor Phil Enquist, Fellow, American Institute of Architects
- Partner in Charge of Urban Design and Planning Skidmore, Owings & Merrill LLP
- Chris Webster, Dean Faculty of Architecture; Chair Professor in Urban Planning and Development Economics, University of Hong Kong
3:00pm Break
3:15pm Session 4 | Opportunity and Social Standing on the Urban/Rural Continuum
- Luis Bettencourt, Pritzker Director, Mansueto Institute for Urban Innovation, University of Chicago
- Dali Yang, William Claude Reavis Professor of Political Science, University of Chicago
- John Eason, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology, Texas A&M University
- Chang-Tai Hsieh, Phyllis and Irwin Winkelried Professor of Economics, University of Chicago Booth School of Business
4:45pm Closing Remarks
- Balaji Srinivasan, Vice President, Global Initiatives and Strategy; Senior Associate Provost, University of Chicago