Campus tour (optional) 11:00 a.m., bus leaving in front of The Fuqua School of Business

1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Welcoming Remarks, Nan Lin and Karen Cook

Session 1: Conceptual and Methodological Issues
Chair: Karen Cook, Stanford University

Speakers and Topics:
Ronald Burt, University of Chicago and INSEAD
The Network Structure of Social Capital

Russell Hardin, New York University
Conceptions of Social Capital

Nan Lin, Duke University; Ray-May Hsung(Tunghai University), and Yang-chih Fu (Academia Sinica)
The Position Generator: A Measurement for Social Capital

3:00 - 3:30 p.m. Coffee break, Faculty Lounge

3:30 - 5:30 p.m
Session 2: Social Institutions: Trust
Chair: Robert Keohane, Duke University

Speakers and Topics:
Robert Putnam, Harvard University
New Evidence on Trends in American Social Capital and Civic Engagement: Are We Really "Bowling Alone"?

John Brehm, Duke University
Who Do You Trust? People, Government, Both or Neither?

Margaret Levi, University of Washington
Do Good Defenses Make Good Neighbors? A Transaction Cost Approach to Trust and Distrust

8:30 p.m. Dinner at Brightleaf 905 (optional)

Speakers and Topics:
Yanjie Bian, University of Minnesota and Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Guanxi Capital and Social Eating in Chinese Cities: Thoretical Models and Empirical Analyses

Ray-May Hsung, Tunghai University, Taiwan
The Concepts of Social Networks and Guanxi: The Application to Taiwan Studies

10:00 - 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break

10:30 - 12:30 noon
Session 4: Labour Markets
Chair: Howard Aldrich, University of North Carolina

Speakers and Topics:
Henk Flap and Ed Boxman , University of Utrecht
Getting Started. The Influence of Social Capital on the Start of the Occupational Career

Peter V. Marsden and Elizabeth H. Gorman, Harvard University
Informal Social Ties and Social Capital in Employer Staffing Practices

Roberto Fernandez, Emilio Castilla and Paul Moore, Stanford University
Social Capital at Work: Networks and Hiring at a Phone Center

12:30 - 1:30 Lunch, Thomas Center

1:30 - 3:00 p.m.
Session 5: Organizations
Chair: Maura A. Belliveau, Duke University

Speakers and Topics:
Emmanuel Lazega, University of Versailles and LASMAS and Philippa E. Pattison, University of Melbourne
Social Capital and Organizations, Multiplex Generalized Exchange and Co-operation in Organizations: A Case Study

Brian Uzzi, and James J. Gillespie, Northwestern University
Social Embeddedness and Coporate Financing:
The Benefits of Social Networks in the Acquisition and Cost of Capital

3:00 - 3:30 p.m. Coffee break

3:30 - 5:30 p.m.
Session 6: Community and Communal Society
Chair: Tom DiPrete, Duke University

Speakers and Topics:
Alejandro Portes, Princeton University and Dag MacLeod, The Johns Hopkins University
Family Bonds and Immigrant Achievement: Some Recent Evidence

Bonnie Erickson, University of Toronto, Canada
Social Capital and Its Profits, Local and Global

Jeanne Hurlbert, John J. Beggs, Louisiana State University and Valerie A. Haines, University of Calgary
Exploring the Relationship between the Network Structure and Network Resources
Dimensions of Social Isolation: What Kinds of Networks Allocate Resources in the Underclass?

6:00 - 7:30 Reception (optional), Nan and Alice Lin's place
(Bus leaving in front of the Thomas Center, 5:45 p.m.)

8:30 p.m. Dinner at Mandarin House(optional)

Speakers and Topics:
Kenneth Frank, Michigan State University, and Barry Wellman, University of Toronto
Network Capital in a Multi-Level World: How Individuals,
Ties and Networks Provide Social Support in Contemporary Communities

Robert Angelusz and Robert Tardos, Eotvos Lorand University, Budapest, Hungary
Shifts in Access to Social Network Resources in Hungary under Transformation

Barry Markovsky, University of Iowa and National Science Foundation
Social Networks and Complexity Theory

11:00 - 11:30 p.m. Coffee Break

11:30 - 12:00 noon
Briefing on NSF Sociology and Allied Programs, Barry Markovsky

Closing Discussion, Presider: Nan Lin

12:30 noon Lunch (optional) Mandarin Restaurant - Dim Sum
(Bus leaving in front of the Thomas Center, 12:15 p.m.)