This talk traces a seven-decade long process of the PRC's dismantling and destruction of nomadic Kazakh lifeways and demonstrates the ways it mirrors earlier and concurrent processes of settler colonialism elsewhere.
Tuesday, May 6, 20253:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific Time) Webinar
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Program on Central Asia, APC
Through the lens of philanthropic history, Ruisheng Zhang (Beijing Normal University) will give a talk on the International Harvester Company (IHC)'s “philanthropic” cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture of ROC during the 1940's. Founded in 1902, the IHC was an American manufacturer of agricultural and construction equipment.
Thursday, May 15, 20255:00 PM - 6:00 PM (Pacific Time) Webinar
Global Chinese Philanthropy Initiative, APC
Dingxin Zhao (University of Chicago) explores the origins of nationalism, its global expansion, the nature of nationalist ideology, and the current trends of nationalist movements in the Asia-Pacific region and beyond.
Wednesday, May 21, 20252:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time) Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
Asia Pacific Center
Yanfei Sun (Zhejiang University) presents insights from a forthcoming book that synthesizes two decades of ethnographic, archival, and historical comparative research to examine religious transformation in post-Mao China.
Thursday, May 22, 20252:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Pacific Time) Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
In his forthcoming book, Alvin K. Wong (The University of Hong Kong) examines queerness in Hong Kong through a transdisciplinary analysis of Sinophone literature, cinema, visual culture, and civil society.
Tuesday, May 27, 20254:00 PM - 5:30 PM (Pacific Time) Bunche Hall, Rm 10383