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Events Archive
Resistance to Alien Rule | October 17, 2007Diplomatic Dilemmas 101 | October 16, 2007
Miektek Bodusynski | October 15, 2007
Colleen Graffy | November 27, 2007
Colloquium Series Spring 2008
March 17
Multinational Currency Circuits and the Origins of the Paper Money Standard in China in 12th and 13th Centuries"
Presented by Richard von Glahn, a specialist in pre-modern China from the University of California, Los Angeles.March 19
"The Intellectual Foundations of Global Studies"
David Jacobson and Ning Wang speak about the emergence of the field of Global Studies and how it provides an opportunity to put things right and to provide a new lens to thinking globally.April 10
"The Relative Durability of the Roman and Chinese Empires"
Walter Scheidel from Stanford University focuses on the Roman and Chinese empires that once had control of half of the entire human species.April 14
"Mass Persuasion as a Means of Legitimation and China's Popular Authoritarianism"
Ann-Marie Brady from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand speaks about the adoption of Western public-relation techniques by the CCP and the crackdown of democracy in China from her latest book.