Past Events
The Johns Hopkins East Asian Speaker Series presents a talk with Eli Friedman on the segregated school system in China and teachers' role within that system.
The Sigur Center for Asian Studies at the George Washington University presents a book launch on Sino-African relations.
DePaul University presents a free public screening of the film, "The Revolutionary."
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 Kissinger Institute on China and the United States presents a book talk with author Merritt Cooke.
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 Momenta Quartet performs contemporary works by Asian American composers, and a composition by John Cage, for a program inspired by Buddhist art and thought. This performance is a part of the "Locating the Sacred Festival."
Portland Art Museum presents a special conference on early Chinese art.