这两天在哈佛，参加了有关中国公民社会和非盈利组织的论坛，见到许多哈佛大学知名教授，论坛上有许多的碰撞，现场留出很多的时间让大家展开讨论，效果非常好。公益社会和非盈利组织话题很好，参加发言的知名学者和专家大都全部参加了论坛，而不是发完言就走，这是一种真正的交流。比起国内那种开完会就走人的会议，这种大家参与讨论形式更好。Agenda

Conference on Civil Society and Nonprofits in China
January 21-23, 2011

Friday, January 21, 2011

Location: Tsai Auditorium, Fairbank Center
(S 010, CGIS South Building, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138)

9:00 am-9:30 am Check in and Breakfast

9:30 am-10:00 am Welcome and Conference Introduction: Anthony Saich and Christopher Stone

10:00 am -12:00 pm Current Status of Civil Society and Nonprofits in China
Chair: Anthony Saich (Harvard University)
Guests from China:
• Wang Zhenyao (One Foundation Philanthropy Research Institute at Beijing Normal University) The Future of Philanthropy in China
• Zhuang Ailing (China Foundation Center Founder and NPO Support Center Shanghai) Support Organization: A New Constructive Force in Promoting Philanthropy in China
• Gao Bingzhong (Peking University) The Rising Associational Cooperation and the New Landscape of Civil Society in China

12:00 pm-1:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm-3:00 pm Historical Antecedents: Ming, Qing and the Republican Era
Chair: Peter Bol (Harvard University)
• Joanna Handlin Smith (Harvard University) Charity in Late Ming China
• Michael Szonyi (Harvard University) Traditional Lineage Corporate Trusts as Charitable Nonprofits
• Elisabeth Kőll (Harvard University) Nonprofit development in the context of business growth and new entrepreneurial agendas during the Republic era
• Peter Bol (Harvard University) A case study on the funding of education from 1050-1850 in one locale

Coffee Break

3:15 pm-5:15 pm Civil Society Groups in Contemporary China
Chair: Deborah Davis (Yale University)
• Guobin Yang (Columbia- Barnard) Virtual groups
• Merle Goldman: The Establishment of the China Democracy Party
• Bruce Dickson (George Washington University) Private entrepreneurs

5:15 pm Reception

Saturday, January 22, 2011

Location: Tsai Auditorium, Fairbank Center

8:30 am Breakfast

8:45 am-10:15 am Regulation of Nonprofits and Policy Evolution
Chair: Marion Fremont Smith (Harvard University)
• Karla Simon (Catholic University of America) The legal and policy environment for civil society in today's China–with an emphasis on philanthropy
• Nara Dillon (Harvard University) Managing Uncertainty: The Politics of Governing China's Civic Sector inn Comparative Perspective
• Mark Sidel (University of Iowa) Efforts toward self-regulation, transparency, and greater self-governance in the Chinese philanthropic sector

10:30 am-12:00 pm Professional Organizations
Chair: TBD
• Zhang Qi Peking University) The Transformation of Lawyers Association of PRC--From Dependence to Autonomy
• Ken Winston (Harvard University) The Problem of the Two Masters
• Peter Rowe(Harvard University) The Architecture Profession: Unique Arrangements Undergoing Change

12:00 pm-1:00 pm Lunch

1:00 pm-3:00 pm Grassroots Organizing
Chair: L. David Brown (Harvard University)
• Rob Weller (Boston University) Religion
• Arthur Kleinman (Harvard University) Mental health support groups
• Lily Tsai (MIT) Village solidary groups.
• Cui Fengming (Harvard University) Organizations of Persons with Disabilities

Coffee Break

3:15 pm-5:15 pm Transnational Movements and Foreign Influence
Chair: Anthony Saich (Harvard University)
• Peter Geithner: Foreign Foundations and Development of the Nonprofit Sector in China
• Joan Kaufman (Harvard University) China's evolving AIDS policy: The Influence of Global Norms and Transnational NGOs
• Mary Brown Bullock: Case of China Medical Board and Rockefeller Foundation.
• Chris Marquis (Harvard University) Introduction of the CSR concept to China

6:00 pm-8:00 pm Dinner at Charles Hotel (By invitation only)
Keynote Speaker: John Fitzgerald, Representative for China, The Ford Foundation

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Location: Inn at Harvard

10:00 am- 12:00 pm
Challenges and Opportunities for Nonprofits in China: Defining a research and teaching agenda (All speakers, moderators and invited scholars only)
Chair: Anthony Saich

12:15 pm Lunch (By invitation only)