Recognizing the importance of China to the economic and political future of Wisconsin and the United States, the Division of International Studies is introducing a UW-Madison China Initiative designed to promote global competence and to advance internationalization with respect to China.
To celebrate the inauguration of the Initiative we present to you a month of activities that are bringing various aspects of Chinese culture, politics and business to Madison.
April 3-6 th Wisconsin Film Festival Series
Undercurrents: Recent Films from China
For locations and tickets please visit www.wifilmfest.org
April 4th East Asian Languages and Literature Department Visiting Scholars Series
Traditional Narration and Literary treatment: Centering on the Narration on the Chinese Cultural Revolution and American Jewish consciousness novels after the Holocaust
Lixin WANG, Professor and Associate Dean of College of Literature at Nankai University, Tianjin, China
2:30-3:30pm, Location TBA
April 9th, Center for East Asian Studies Brown Bag Lecture Series
Autonomy through Social Networks: Law, Politics, and the News Media, 1931-1957
Sei-Jeong Chin, Visiting Assistant Professor of History, UW- Madison
12:00-1:15pm, 336 Ingraham
April 9th, Africa/China Symposium
Africa Encounters Global China
Howard French, Bureau Chief, The New York Times
Adama Gaye, Senegalese Journalist, former editor of West Africa magazine
3:00-7:00pm, AT&T Lounge, Pyle Center
April 16th, Center for East Asian Studies Brown Bag Lecture Series
Strange Creatures of Chu: Antlered Tomb Sculptures of the Warring States Period
Cortney Chaffin, Art Historian, UW-Stevens Point
12:00-1:15pm, 336 Ingraham
April 18-19th, East Asian Film Festival
7:00pm and 9:30pm screenings, Play Circle Theater, Memorial Union
Hip Hop as a Movement Week, Location TBA
April 25th, 5th annual “Breaking the Law” breakdance competition
April 26th, documentary screening “Break Borders” by Joey Kan
May 1st WI China Initiative Presents Sustaining Rapid Growth: Policy Challenges for China
Nicholas R. Lardy, senior fellow at the Peterson Institute for International Economics and member of the Council on Foreign Relations
4:30-6:30pm, Director’s Room, Grainger Hall
All the events are co-sponsored by the UW-Madison China Initiative