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Calendar
Jan. 23, Happy Year of the Dragon!
Friday, Feb. 3, First of three History Department talks on China: "Politics as Entertainment: Propaganda, Market, and Pingtan Storytelling, 1952-1966," presented by Dr. Qiliang He, University of South Carolina Upstate.
Monday, Feb. 6, Second of three History Department talks on China: "Toward a New Perspective on State Building in China's West: Resource Exploitation in the Making of Xinjiang Province," presented by Mr. Judd Kinzley, University of California, San Diego.
Friday, Feb. 10, Third of three History Department talks on China: "Acquiring Antiquity: Inventing the Shanghai Museum, 1949-1956," presented by Ms. Di Yin Lu, Harvard University.
Monday, Feb. 13, campus visit by a delegation from the Harbin-based Northeast Agricultural University, led by NEAU President Xu Mei. This visit was hosted by the UW's College of Agricultural and Life Sciences.
Week of Feb. 20, UW sociologist Doug Maynard was in Guangzhou, China, to give a week of lectures at Sun Yat Sen University's Institute for Logic and Cognition.
Wednesday, Feb. 29, talk on the great classical Chinese poet Tao Yuanming. UW religion studies graduate student Thomas Noel Donnelly presented "Gazing at the Universe: Re-reading Landscape with Tao Yuanming" at noon in 336 Ingraham Hall. This talk is part of the Center for East Asian Studies Brown Bag Lecture Series.
Thursday, March 1, a guest scholar of comparative literature from UCLA gave a guest lecture on feminism in Taiwan. Shi-mei Shih, interim chair of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA, lectured on, "Is Feminism Translatable?" Her talk was sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies and by the Department of Gender and Women's Studies.
Thursday, March 1, Harvard anthropologist Dr. Rowan Flad guest lecture, "Bone Divination, Animal Sacrifice, and Power in Early China," starting at 6 p.m. in Room 5206 of the Social Sciences building. This lecture was sponsored by the UW Anthropology Department with funding from the Henry Luce Foundation.
March 1- 10, members of the Executive MBA program at the Wisconsin School of Business made a ten-day visit to Greater China, with stops in Hong Kong and Beijing. The 38-member group focused on the art of doing business in the Chinese market. A China visit is a regular feature of the two-year Executive MBA program. Contact the Center for International Business Education and Research to learn more.
Tuesday, March 13 - UW Physicist Karsten Heeger presented pathbreaking new findings from the Daya Bay neutrino experiment in Guangdong Province at a 3 p.m. seminar in 4272 Chamberlin Hall. For more information, click on the University Communication story, "Missing: Electron antineutrinos; Reward: Understanding of matter-antimatter imbalance"
Wednesday, March 14 - Chancellor David Ward held an information session about the UW-Madison Innovation Office (Shanghai).
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Monday, April 16 - UW-Madison Historian Shelly Chan (pictured at left) will give a talk, "When Diaspora meets the Motherland: Lim Boon Keng and Lu Xun at Amoy University, 1926-27." Her lecture will start at noon in room 336 of Ingraham Hall. Dr. Chan is an Assistant Professor of History. She is preparing a book manuscript titled Diaspora as Moments: Transnational Cultural Politics in Modern China. This talk is part of the Center for East Asian Studies Brown Bag Lecture Series. |
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Thursday, April 26, Dr. Yonglin Jiang (pictured at right) of Bryn Mawr College will give a lecture in the Global Legal Studies Center's Legal Pluralism series. Dr. Jiang's talk, "In the Name of Spirits: The Miao Priest as a Lawmaker-Lawfinder," will focus on how religious values and practices have played a significant role in shaping legal culture in China. This event is part of the Mellon Workshop on Comparative Religious Law at the Center for the Humanities and is co-sponsored by the Center for South East Asia, the East Asian Legal Studies Center and the Wisconsin China Initiative. Dr. Jiang's talk will be held in the Law School's Lubar Commons, from noon to 1:15 p.m. |
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Friday, April 27 - The China Economic Forum, a student group on campus, will holds its second annual spring conference looking at contemporary Sino-US economic topics. This year's conference will be held in the Red Gym, 1:30 - 5 p.m., with the following talks scheduled: John Ohnesorge, Law, on the UW and China; Mark Sidel, Law, on the development of China's philanthropic sector; Ian Coxhead, Agricultural & Applied Economics, on China's develpment trajectories; Robert Krainer, finance, on China's banking systems; and Ed Friedman, political science, on teh case of Bo Xilai. Register for the free event, and find more details, by clicking here.
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