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Past Events: public talk
Please join the USC U.S.-China Institute for a talk by Willy Lam on Xi's personal history, the factional politics through which he ascended, the configuration of power of the Fifth-Generation leadership, and the country's likely future directions under the charismatic "princeling."
Cyrus Chen, Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford's Center for East Asian Studies, gives a talk on the evolution of Manchuria into Northeast China.
Professor Rebecca Nedostup of Brown University gives a talk on the disorder of war in 20th century China.
Professor Matt Sparke and PhD Candidate Yanning Wei present a talk on how to navigate the challenging pathway between the Scylla and Charybdis of examples and exceptionalism.
Harvard's Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies presents a talk with Dr. Frederick William Crook on Chinese wall posters.
A/P/A Institute at NYU participates in The Literary Mews, part of the PEN World Voices Festival, for the third year in a row. Part-literary festival, part-street fair on the Washington Mews, the all-day 2015 Literary Mews presents readings and performances from the African Diaspora. Join us at 4PM for a reading and listening session highlighting the literary intersections between Asian and African diasporas in the Caribbean. Featuring writers Ifeona Fulani (Ten Days in Jamaica) and Kerry Young (Pao and Gloria). Moderated by Rishi Nath (York College).
Join UCLA's Center for Buddhist Studies as Wei-Cheng Lin explores the widespread practice of burying broken statues in a greater territory of China during the 10th through 12th centuries.
Julia Orell, postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Research Institute, gives a talk on landscape painting, cartographic practice, and geographical thought in Song-Dynasty China.
Tibet House presents monk Thupten Jinpa speaking about his book, "A FEARLESS HEART: How the Courage to be Compassionate Can Transform Our Lives".
Kate Merkel-Hess, Assistant Professor of History and Asian Studies at Pennsylvania State University, gives a talk on modernizing rural China.