Events

Economy Lecture Series featuring Kristen Looney – Rural Development in China and East Asia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EDEEV4VSgck https://soundcloud.com/fairbank-center/rural-development-in-china-and-east-asia-with-kristen-looney Read the transcript of the event here. Speaker: Kristen Looney, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Government, Georgetown University Moderator/Discussant: Meg Rithmire, F. Warren McFarlan Associate Professor of Business […]

Tao Leigh Goffe – “My Mother Told Me I am Chinese”: Afro-Asian Aesthetics in the Caribbean

Speaker: Tao Leigh Goffe, Assistant Professor in the Department of Africana Studies and the Department of Feminist, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Cornell University In this talk, Professor Tao Leigh Goffe will discuss the aesthetic challenge 'Chinese' poses as a racial category in the Caribbean. The introduction of Chinese as a category of labor to the West Indian […]