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CHINA Town Hall

CHINA Town Hall: Location Connections, National Reflections

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Join 80+ communities across the United States in a national conversation on China! China’s rapid development and Sino-American relations have a direct impact on the lives of just about everyone in the United States. CHINA Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections is a national day of programming designed to provide Americans across the United States and beyond the opportunity to discuss issues in the relationship with leading … » More …

East Meets West Lecture Series

Dr. Shawna Herzog (History) will present “A Taste of Home: Food as a Form of Diasporic Resilience.”

Part of East Meets West — Asia Program Lecture Series
Our fall lecture series will feature seven public lectures and one documentary exploring the theme of “Resilience” from multiple regional and disciplinary perspectives. All events are free and open to the public. Except as noted, presentations will be held from 4:30–6:00 p.m. on Tuesdays in Todd Hall 276.

Sept. 5: Film: American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs (2013) on the life of Chinese American civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs. Director Grace Lee; producers Grace Lee, … » More …

East Meets West Lecture Series

Dr. Marina Tolmacheva (History) will present “Building Nationhood in the Post-Soviet Era.”

Part of East Meets West — Asia Program Lecture Series
Our fall lecture series will feature seven public lectures and one documentary exploring the theme of “Resilience” from multiple regional and disciplinary perspectives. All events are free and open to the public. Except as noted, presentations will be held from 4:30–6:00 p.m. on Tuesdays in Todd Hall 276.

Sept. 5: Film: American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs (2013) on the life of Chinese American civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs. Director Grace Lee; producers Grace Lee, Caroline Libresco, and Austin Wilkin. … » More …

East Meets West Lecture Series

Dr. Caitlin Bletscher (Center for Transformational Learning and Leadership) will present “Community in a Global Migration Crisis: US-Resettled Burmese and Iraqi Refugees.”

Part of East Meets West — Asia Program Lecture Series
Our fall lecture series will feature seven public lectures and one documentary exploring the theme of “Resilience” from multiple regional and disciplinary perspectives. All events are free and open to the public. Except as noted, presentations will be held from 4:30–6:00 p.m. on Tuesdays in Todd Hall 276.

Sept. 5: Film: American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs (2013) on the life of Chinese American civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs. Director … » More …

East Meets West Lecture Series

Dr. Julia Cassaniti (Anthropology) and Dr. Lydia Gerber (Asian Studies) will present “Mindfulness: East and West.”

Part of East Meets West — Asia Program Lecture Series
Our fall lecture series will feature seven public lectures and one documentary exploring the theme of “Resilience” from multiple regional and disciplinary perspectives. All events are free and open to the public. Except as noted, presentations will be held from 4:30–6:00 p.m. on Tuesdays in Todd Hall 276.

Sept. 5: Film: American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs (2013) on the life of Chinese American civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs. Director Grace Lee; producers Grace Lee, Caroline … » More …

East Meets West Lecture Series

Dr. David Wang (Architecture) will present “Patterns of Resilience: An Aesthetics of Chinese Urban Environments.”

Part of East Meets West — Asia Program Lecture Series
Our fall lecture series will feature seven public lectures and one documentary exploring the theme of “Resilience” from multiple regional and disciplinary perspectives. All events are free and open to the public. Except as noted, presentations will be held from 4:30–6:00 p.m. on Tuesdays in Todd Hall 276.

Sept. 5: Film: American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs (2013) on the life of Chinese American civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs. Director Grace Lee; producers Grace Lee, Caroline Libresco, … » More …

East Meets West Lecture Series

Dr. Katy Fry (History) will present “In Our Own Backyard: Japanese Internment during WWII.”

Part of East Meets West — Asia Program Lecture Series
Our fall lecture series will feature seven public lectures and one documentary exploring the theme of “Resilience” from multiple regional and disciplinary perspectives. All events are free and open to the public. Except as noted, presentations will be held from 4:30–6:00 p.m. on Tuesdays in Todd Hall 276.

Sept. 5: Film: American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs (2013) on the life of Chinese American civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs. Director Grace Lee; producers Grace Lee, Caroline Libresco, and … » More …

East Meets West Lecture Series

Film Screening: American Revolutionary: The Evolution of Grace Lee Boggs (2013)
A film on the life of Chinese American civil rights activist Grace Lee Boggs.
Director Grace Lee; producers Grace Lee, Caroline Libresco, and Austin Wilkin.
82 Minutes. Transcript available.

What does it mean to be an American revolutionary today? Grace Lee Boggs, a Chinese American woman in Detroit, who died in October 2015 at 100 years old, has a surprising vision of revolution. A writer, activist, and philosopher rooted for more than seventy years in the African American movement, she devoted her life to an evolving revolution that encompassed the contradictions of … » More …