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EASC Guest Speaker Series: Jessica Zu and Larry Ward
Thursday, April 8, 2021
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As part of the 2020-21 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Assistant Professor of Religion, Jessica Zu has invited Dr. Larry Ward, co-founder of The Lotus Institute and author of America’s Racial Karma: An Invitation to Heal.Engaged Buddhism is an important branch of new Buddhist movements that emerged around the world in the mid-twentieth century. However, in America today, engaged Buddhists seem to have poised to become the leaders in using Buddhist spirituality to fight for social justice, to cure collective racial trauma, and to dismantle lasting structural oppressions. This lecture will tie in Prof. Zu's REL 342: Buddhist Modernism.
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EASC Guest Speaker Series: Hao Chen and Yuhua Wang
Thursday, March 18, 2021
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As part of the 2020-21 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Postdoctoral Scholar and Teaching Fellow in the Department of Political Science & International Relations, Hao Chen has invited Yuhua Wang, Frederick S. Danziger Associate Professor in the Department of Government (Harvard University). This lecture, The Rise, Fall, and Rise of China, will tie in with Dr. Chen's IR 340; The Political Economy of China course. The course surveys the political and economic development of the People’s Republic of China from 1949 to very recently, the Xi Administration and highlights the interaction between the state and business in the reform era (1978 - present).
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EASC Guest Speaker Series: Stanley Rosen with Geoffrey Wiseman
Monday, March 1, 2021
As part of the 2020-21 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Professor Stanley Rosen has invited Geoffrey Wiseman, Professor and Director at the Asia-Pacific College of Diplomacy, Australian National University. Prof. Wiseman is a former practicing diplomat and a longtime academic who has published widely in this area of soft power generation and public diplomacy. This lecture is a part of Prof. Rosen's POSC 469: Critical Issues in Comparative Politics: Soft Power in Political Science and International Relations course.
*This is a private event for students enrolled in Professor Rosen's course, POSC 469: Critical Issues in Comparative Politics: Soft Power in Political Science and International Relations.*
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EASC Guest Speaker Series: Benjamin Uchiyama with Carol Gluck
Monday, November 9, 2020
As part of the 2020-21 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Professor, Benjamin Uchiyama has invited Carol Gluck, George Sansom Professor of Japanese History at Columbia University, to give a lecture on Japan and the politics of memory in the Second World War. She explores a summary of the five important changes that have taken place in war memory over 75 years, using the comfort women issue as an example.This lecture will tie in with Prof. Uchiyama's HIST 107: Introduction to the History of Japan and GESM 120: Anime, Comics and the Japanese Experience of the Second World War courses.
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EASC Guest Speaker Series: Joshua Goldstein with Keisha Brown
Monday, October 12, 2020
As part of the 2020-21 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Professor, Joshua Goldstein has invited Keisha Brown, Assistant Professor of History in the Department of History, Political Science, Geography, and Africana Studies at Tennessee State University, to give a lecture on the importance of Sino-Black relations to the Mao era and also to the larger context of modern Chinese history and China's current policies and actions around ethnicity and race. This lecture is a part of Prof. Goldstein's HIST 340: History of China Since 1800 course.
*This event is private for students enrolled in Professor Goldstein's course, HIST 340: History of China Since 1800*
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EASC Guest Speaker Series: Sonya Lee and Jin Xu
Wednesday, October 7, 2020
As part of the 2020-21 EASC Guest Speaker Series, USC Professor and EASC Director, Sonya Lee has invited Jin Xu, Assistant Professor of Art History and Asian Studies at Vassar College, to give a lecture on funerary art and architecture related to the Sogdians who lived in the heartland of China during the sixth century and how art was used to address experiences of migration on the Silk Road. This lecture will tie in with Prof. Lee's AHIS 125: Arts of Asia course.
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