Join us for a free one-day workshop for educators at the Japanese American National Museum, hosted by the USC U.S.-China Institute and the National Consortium for Teaching about Asia. This workshop will include a guided tour of the beloved exhibition Common Ground: The Heart of Community, slated to close permanently in January 2025. Following the tour, learn strategies for engaging students in the primary source artifacts, images, and documents found in JANM’s vast collection and discover classroom-ready resources to support teaching and learning about the Japanese American experience.
The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization
Kevin Gallagher and Enrique Dussel Peters will speak about their books on China's relationship with Latin America.
When:
April 7, 2011 5:00pm to 7:00pm
Click here to watch the presentation.
Topic: The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization
Dr. Kevin P. Gallagher is an associate professor of international relations at Boston University, where he directs the Global Development Policy Program. He is also senior researcher at the Global Development and Environment Institute, Tufts University.
Professor Gallagher is the author of The Dragon in the Room: China and the Future of Latin American Industrialization, with Roberto Porzecanski (Stanford University Press, 2010); The Enclave Economy: Foreign Investment and Sustainable Development in Mexico's Silicon Valley, with Lyuba Zarsky (MIT Press, 2007); Free Trade and the Environment: Mexico, NAFTA, and Beyond (Stanford University Press, 2004); and editor of Putting Development First: The Importance of Policy Space in the WTO and IFIs (Zed Books, 2005).
He has served as visiting or adjunct professor at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University; Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government; El Colegio de Mexico in Mexico, and Tsinghua University in China.
He currently serves on the investment subcommittee of the US Department of State’s of the Advisory Committee on International Economic Policy, and the US Environmental Protection Agency’s National Advisory Committee for Mexico. Professor Gallagher writes regular columns on global economic and development policy for The Guardian, Financial Times, and POLITICO.
More about Gallagher: http://www.bu.edu/ir/faculty/alphabetical/gallagher/
Topic: Toward a Dialogue between Mexico and China
Enrique Dussel Peters, Director, Institute for China-Mexico Studies, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
Enrique received his B.A. and M.A. in Political Science at the Free University of Berlin (1989) and Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Notre Dame (1996). Since 1993 he works as a full time professor at the Graduate School of Economics at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). He has taught more than 90 courses at the B.A, M.A. and Ph.D. level in Mexico and internationally, and participated in more than 260 national and international seminars and conferences. His research has concentrated on theory of industrial organization, economic development, political economy, as well as on the manufacturing sector, trade and regional specialization patterns in Latin America and Mexico. He has collaborated and coordinated projects with Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), Economic Commission for Latin America and the Carribean (ECLAC), the International Labour Organization (ILO), Ford Foundation and the Interamerican Development Bank (IADB), among other institutions.
He has received several research distinctions in 2000 and 2004.
More about Peters: http://dusselpeters.com/
Discussant: Carol Wise, Associate Professor of International Relations, USC
Phone Number:
8188263128
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