Social and Economic Impacts of COVID-19 on East and Southeast Asia

COVID-19 has an unprecedented impact on Asia. The Contemporary China Research Cluster at HKU’s Faculty of Social Sciences invites you to a forum on the “Social and Economic Impacts of COVID-19 on East and Southeast Asia”. The forum will feature speakers from different Asian regions to shed light on the impact and lessons we are learning from COVID-19.

Co-organisers: College of Population Studies at Chulalongkorn University, Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) in Indonesia, Department of Sociology at the University of Macau, and the Center for Population and Gender Studies at National Taiwan University.

Date: Monday, June 8, 2020

Time: 2:30pm – 4:30pm

via Zoom

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Remembering Those on the Margins: Social Impact of COVID-19 in Hong Kong

Lucy Porter Jordan
Associate Professor
Department of Social Work and Social Administration, HKU
Associate Dean (Undergraduate Education)
Faculty of Social Sciences, HKU

Covid-19 Outbreak: Poverty Reduction and Social Protection Policy in Indonesia

Arisman
Executive Director
Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS), Indonesia

Social and Economic Impacts of COVID-19 in Macau

Jianhua Xu
Associate Professor, Department Head
Department of Sociology, University of Macau

Online Interaction and Social Relationship in the Context of COVID-19 in Mainland China

Xiaoli Tian
Associate Professor
Department of Sociology, HKU

COVID-19 Control – Lessons Learn from Taiwan

Chang-Chuan Chan
Dean
College of Public Health, National Taiwan University

COVID-19 and Its Impact on Thai Labour Market and Migration Trends

Ruttiya Bhula-or
Assistant Professor, Associate Dean
College of Population Studies, Chulalongkorn University
Director
Collaborating Centre for Labour Research, Chulalongkorn University

Moderator:

Eric Fong
Convenor
Contemporary China Research Cluster, Faculty of Social Sciences, HKU
Chair Professor
Department of Sociology, HKU

Sponsor: Contemporary China Research Cluster, Faculty of Social Sciences, The University of Hong Kong
Co-sponsors:
Collaborating Centre for Labour Research, Chulalongkorn University
Center for Southeast Asian Studies (CSEAS) in Indonesia
Department of Sociology, University of Macau
Center for Population and Gender Studies, National Taiwan University