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Past Events: public talk
The Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University presents a book launch on Sino-African relations.
The University of Texas at Austin presents a talk with Dr. Benoit Vernander, Associate Professor of Philosophy at Fudan University in Shanghai, that will try to make sense of contemporary relationships to “sacredness” in China such as fostered by this double reality– continuity of the “sacred territory” world-view and experience of the “desecration” of the soil.
Professor Thornber will examine how selected works of Chinese, Japanese, and Korean fiction engage with the phenomenon of ecoambiguity (environmental ambiguity.
The Johns Hopkins East Asian Speaker Series presents a talk with Adam Bronson on 1950s Japan and its role as the new China.
The Pacific Asia Museum presents a talk by Yangzom Brauen on her new book, a harrowing yet inspirational story of her grandmother and mother's life in Tibet and their subsequent escape and exile.
The Burdick-Vary Lecture Series: New Constructions of the Past in the Art History of China will host a talk with Maggie Bickford, Art History Professor at Brown University, on cultural patrimony in Song-dynasty China.
The Center for the Study of Global Change at Indiana University presents a talk with Michael Curtin.
The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University presents a talk with Joseph Dauben on the history of early mathematical thought and its applications in ancient China.
The Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University presents a talk with Professor Robert Sutter.
The American Enterprise Institute presents a discussion with Jared Bernstein and Grant Aldonas to examine how the results of this year's presidential election affect U.S. trade policy.