Irving Roth is a Holocaust survivor, author, historian and Director of the Holocaust Resource Center- Temple Judea of Manhasset. He has received the Spirit of Anne Frank Outstanding Citizen Award for promoting human rights and social justice.

A dessert reception will follow the question and answer period.

This event is being hosted by Christians United for Israel UK.

Baker is the well known biographer of Mary Todd Lincoln, and her eight other books include her collective biography of five feminists and suffragists American Sisters.

WHO: Professor Juefei Wang, University of Vermont
WHAT: "Chinese Education in a Changing Society" - Confucius Institute Speaker Series
WHERE: William T. Young Library
WHEN: Tuesday, December 6, 2011 3:00p.m.

Dr. Juefei Wang is Professor of Education Emeritus of the University of Vermont and Program Director of the Freeman Foundation.  He founded the University of Vermont Asian Studies Outreach Program and served as its director for 14 years.  In that role he created a statewide program for Asian studies in schools in Vermont, organized more than 1,000 teachers, school administrators, and high school and college students to visit China, Japan, and Thailand, and assisted Vermont schools in offering content on Asia.   In 2003, the program received the inaugural Prize for Excellence in International Education from Goldman Sachs Foundation and the Asia Society.  Dr. Wang has published extensively in international education and comparative education, and has made presentations on American and Chinese education nationally and internationally.  He received his M.Ed. in comparative education at Beijing Normal University, and M. Ed. in Foundational Studies of Education and Ed. D. in Educational Leadership and Policy Studies at the University of Vermont. 

CHINA Town Hall is a national day of programming on China involving 50 cities throughout the United States. This event features a lecture given by Professor Renqiu Yu of Purchase College, State University of New York. Remarks begin at 6pm. This event also features a webcast by Dr. Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security advisor and current counselor and trustee of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. The webcast will be moderated by Mr. Stephen A. Orlins, President, National Committee on U.S.-China Relations.Webcast begins at 7pm.

November 16, 2011

Lecture begins at 6pm

Webcast begins at 7pm

Small Ballroom, UK Student Center

Sponsored by: Chinese Students & Scholars Association, National Committee on United States-China Relations

During this academic year, the Division of Russian and Eastern Studies (RAE) in the Dept of Modern and Classical Languages organizes a series of activities under the unified theme of "Discover Asia."  Through film showings, faculty research presentations , and a public lecture, we intend not only to discover, explore, and analyze various parts and aspects of Asia, but we also will interrogate how Asia is discovered, by raising questions such as: What/where is Asia?  Who—in terms of race, class, and gender—discovered it?  In what ways?  To what ends?  In what historical contexts? 
An integral part of our “Discover Asia” activities is a brown bag series of RAE faculty research presentations over the course of the year.  The next presenter is Professor Liang Luo of Chinese Studies and she will give an exciting presentation concerning the 2007 Ang Lee film Lust, Caution.  Please come.
 

Time/Date: 12 noon-1 pm, Thursday, November 17 (next week).
Place: 1045 POT
Presentation Title:  Performance, Politics, and Popularity in Lust, Caution
 

Synopses: In Taiwanese-American director Ang Lee’s 2007 film Lust, Caution, the triumphal patriotic narrative so pervasive in Chinese cultural productions throughout the twentieth century, came to a gloomy end. The Chinese student activists who plotted to assassinate a Japanese collaborator during the Second Sino-Japanese War were betrayed by one of their own and were executed together. If the legendary Shanghai writer Eileen Chang, writing the original story in Hong Kong and in the United States, was deconstructing nationalism in the midst of Cold War politics, Ang Lee’s twenty-first century cinematic contemplation was saturated with his unique perspective as a Taiwanese director of Mainland origin, established in Hollywood, who had international capital and talent at his disposal to reflect on this controversial yet defining moment in modern Chinese culture and politics. The world of politics and the world of performance are constantly interpenetrating in Lust, Caution. Performance becomes the means and the end, a sensitive crystallization of the mentality and practice of a generation of young people seeking to unleash their patriotic and sexual desires. Musical form, as expressed in performance and role-play, is related in an intimate way to social form, to the integration of individual bodies into a social body. This presentation examines the fascinating afterlife of two popular songs from the 1930s’ Shanghai in this 2007 film. It proposes to read this twenty-first century visual text as an epilogue to an enduring narrative highlighting the intersection of performance, politics, and popularity throughout twentieth-century China.