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Public Events
“US-CHINA ECONOMIC AND TRADE RELATIONS”
Ambassador Alan Holmer
Special U.S. Envoy for China and the Strategic Economic Dialogue
3:30 - 445pm, Thursday, Nov. 13, 2008
Gaylord College of Journalism, 2nd Fl. Library (395 W. Lindsey)
President George W. Bush and Chinese President Hu Jintao established the Strategic Economic Dialogue (SED) in September 2006, as a high-level mechanism to manage mutual concerns in the US-China economic relationship. Ambassador Holmer is the SED’s Special Envoy. He is former president of PHARMA and a former Deputy U.S. Trade Representative (USTR).This public talk and question and answer session will address the full range of U.S. government priorities as they relate to our relationship with China, such as energy and the environment, financial service sector reform, investment, consumer safety, and Chinese currency reform.
This lecture is free and open to the public
30th Anniversary of the Normalization
of US-China Relations Conference
Monday, 20 October 2008
Confirmed Participants:
- J. Stapleton Roy, former U.S. ambassador to China
- Zhou Wenzhong, current Chinese ambassador to the U.S.
- Richard C. Bush, former managing director, the American Institute in Taiwan
- David Gries, former senior CIA officer, U.S. Embassy, Beijing
- Wu Xinbo, professor, Fudan University, China
Schedule
10am-12 noon: “30 Years of U.S.-China Relations, 1979-2009”
Location: Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art; Audience; OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
2-3:30pm: “The Future of US-China relations”
Location: Beaird Lounge, Oklahoma Memorial Union; OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
BOTH EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
6:30pm President’s Associates Dinner at OMU with President Boren and Ambassador Roy on the past and future of US-China relations (by invitation only)
“Sino-US Relations and the Global Environment”
Orville Schell, Director, Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations; former Dean, UC Berkeley School of Journalism
February 12 1:30-2:30pm. Adams Hall 112
Sometime this year, China could surpass the United States in greenhouse gas emissions, but the average person in China still consumes less than one-fifth the energy the average American does. For China to achieve the same living standard as the United States, it would have to triple its use of coal, creating an enormous increase in both conventional pollutants and greenhouse gases. And make no mistake about it, China is angling to catch up. In fact, to keep up with this voracious demand for energy, a new conventional coal-fired power plant comes on-line in China every week. China is not alone. The United States has 100 to 160 conventional coal-fired plants on the drawing boards, all with life spans of about 40 years, and none equipped to capture and sequester CO2. Indeed, as oil and gas have become increasingly expensive, countries rich in coal have found themselves relying on it ever more. The global consequences of continuing this trend without first adopting new "clean coal" technologies will be dire.
“Covering the war in Iraq and China: What do they tell us about the US press?”
Orville Schell, Director, Asia Society Center on U.S.-China Relations; former Dean, UC Berkeley School of Journalism
February 12 3:00-4:30pm. Gaylord School of Journalism, 2nd fl. Library
“The Bush Administration [has] had little esteem for the watchdog role of the press... In fact, it enthroned a new criterion for veracity, "faith-based" truth, sometimes corroborated by "faith -based" intelligence. For officials of this administration (and not just the religious ones either), truth seemed to descend from on high, a kind of divine revelation… What does this downgrading of the media's role say about how our government views its citizens, the putative sovereigns of our country? It suggests that "we the people" are seen not as political constituencies conferring legitimacy on our rulers, but as consumers to be sold policy the way advertisers sell product.”
“US-China Education and Exchange: History and Prospects”
Terry Lautz, Vice President and Secretary, Program Director for Asia and the Henry R. Luce Programs
March 13 12:00 noon, Faculty lunch, IPC Conference Room, 4th floor, Whitehand Hall Please RSVP to uschina@ou.edu
The Luce Foundation's Asia Program fosters cultural and intellectual exchange between the United States and East and Southeast Asia, and creates scholarly and public resources for improved understanding of Asia in the US.
“Enemy under My Skin: A Levinasian Reading of Eileen Chang’s ‘Lust, Caution’”
Haiyan Lee, Assistant professor, School of Modern Languages and Cultures, The University of Hong Kong
April 7: 3:30-4:45 pm, IAS Conference Room, Hester Hall 140
In this paper, I read Eileen Chang’s short story “Lust, Caution” 《色,戒》 as an exemplification of her poetics of the social by drawing on the insights of Hannah Arendt, William Egginton, and especially Emmanuel Levinas’s theorization of transcendence and the “face of the other.” The story stages the entanglement of two modes of transcendence—revolutionary and bourgeois—through the thematic device of an espionage/assassination conspiracy undertaken by underground activists under conditions of war, occupation, collaboration, and resistance. If bourgeois transcendence is grounded in the social and its affective and performative regime of presence, revolutionary transcendence requires an instrumentalist appropriation of theatricality. I argue that underground activism melds the two modes in a seductive but fatal fashion, allowing the female protagonist the experience of transcendence at the very moment of her brutal instrumentalization. The story is embedded in and departs from its ideological milieu of the Cold War.
“From optimism to cynicism: Post-1949 Chinese politics through cinema”
April 17 4:00 pm Thursday lecture with film clips, Fred Jones Museum of Art auditorium
Stanley Rosen, Director of the East Asian Studies Center and Professor of Political Science, the University of Southern California.
Using clips from five Chinese feature films from the founding of the PRC in 1949 down to the present day, the lecture will address how film can be used to teach students about the changing norms and values that have marked politics, ideology, culture, society and economics in China over the last six decades. The earliest and most recent films chosen suggest how the widespread idealism and optimism that marked the collapse of Nationalist Party rule and the imminent victory of the Communist Party has been replaced in recent years by cynicism and pragmatic, materialistic values, while the lecture (and additional clips) examine how we got from there to here.
“What do we know about Asia and where does our information come from? Historical and contemporary perspectives”
April 18 3:00 pm Friday lecture with film clips
Stanley Rosen, Director of the East Asian Studies Center and Professor of Political Science, the University of Southern California.
Using clips from a variety of films and television shows from 1919 to the present, this lecture will examine what we think we know about Asia and how consistent our views have been over the last nine decades. For example, whereas silent films and early cartoons depicted a mysterious Chinatown where anything – including the ubiquitous presence of opium and live puppies in one’s chop suey! – was possible, more recent images depict a smarter, more ruthless China geared to success at all costs.
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Gansu China Delegation visits OU
Welcome reception
8:30-9:30 am, Thursday, November 15
Beaird Lounge, OMU
Please join us in Beaird Lounge on Thursday morning for the welcoming reception for a large delegation from Gansu China, Oklahoma’s sister province. Provost Nancy Mergler and Dean Paul Bell will give welcoming remarks, and the new PRC Council General in Houston, Madame Qiao Hong, will speak as well. Join us in giving a big Sooner welcome to our Chinese guests.
"Culture and Cognition:
Making Sense of Sense-making in Different Cultures"
12:30-1:30 Friday, November 9
Dale Hall Tower 905
Culture explains variability in psychological functions such as cognition, emotion, social perception, and social interaction – and related social institutional variables as well. Our Culture and Cognition laboratory seeks to examine and uncover the psychological mechanisms that drive the underlying relationship between culture and cognition.
Kaiping Peng received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Michigan in 1997. Before coming to the US in 1989, he served as a faculty member at the Psychology Department of Peking University of China for five years. In addition to directing the Culture and Cognition lab at UC-Berkeley, he has published four books and 50 some articles on culture and cognition, and the psychology of Chinese people.
This talk is free and open to the general public.
Cosponsored by the Institute for US-China Issues and the Psychology Department.
"Fireside Chat" with P.R.C. and U.S. Diplomats on US-China Relations
Thursday, October 4, 3:30-5:00 PM,
Beaird Lounge, Student Union
3:30-3:45 PM. 15 minute piano and voice mini-recital by students from the Xu Beihong School of Art, Renmin University, Beijing, China.
3:45-5:00 PM. Informal question and answer session with Chinese and American diplomats on US-China Relations.
This public event is part of the US-China Diplomatic Dialogue, a two day retreat for mid-career US and Chinese diplomats held here in Norman, Oklahoma.
“Rising Star: China’s New Security Diplomacy”
Dr. Bates Gill, Freeman Chair in China Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Monday, January 29, 2-3:00pm
Presidents Room, Oklahoma Memorial Union (OMU) 2nd fl.
This event is free and open to the public.
China’s diplomatic strategy has changed dramatically since the mid- 1990s, becoming more proactive, practical, and constructive. These developments pose both challenges and opportunities to China’s neighbors, including the United States. In his forthcoming book, Rising Star: China’s New Security Diplomacy (Brookings Press, 2007), Bates Gill assesses China’s more proactive and increasingly successful foreign and security policy, and implications for the United States and the world.
Dr. Gill will present the principal themes and findings of this new book. Rising Star focuses on Chinese policy in three areas—regional security mechanisms, nonproliferation and arms control, and questions of sovereignty and intervention. The concluding chapters analyze U.S.-China relations and offer specific recommendations toward a framework that emphasizes what the two countries have in common, rather than what divides them.
Dr. Bates Gill holds the Freeman Chair in China Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. A specialist in East Asian politics and foreign policy, his work focuses primarily on Chinese domestic and foreign policies, and their implications for the United States and U.S.-China relations. He is the author of Rising Star: China’s New Security Diplomacy (Brookings Press, 2007) and co-author of China: The Balance Sheet: What the World Needs to Know Now About the Emerging Superpower (PublicAffairs, 2006). He serves as Board member or advisor of such institutions as the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations, the U.S.-China Policy Foundation, the Feris Foundation of America, the China-Merck AIDS Partnership, and the Institute for U.S.-China Issues at the University of Oklahoma. He received his Ph.D. from the Woodrow Wilson Department of Government and Foreign Affairs, University of Virginia.
“Juggernaut or Juggler? China’s Rise and its Mounting Domestic Challenges”
Dr. Bates Gill, Freeman Chair in China Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies
Monday, January 29, 11:30-1pm
Faculty House, 601 N.E. 14th St. (just off of Lincoln), Oklahoma City; (405) 235-8212
This luncheon is by invitation only.
China’s spectacular economic success story is well-known and breathlessly covered from the popular press to business school journals. Less well understood – but of potentially far greater importance – are the numerous domestic economic, political, and social challenges that keep Chinese leaders awake at night and will profoundly shape the kind of China we face a decade from now. Drawing from his recent co-authored book, China: The Balance Sheet: What the World Needs to Know Now about the Emerging Superpower (PublicAffairs, 2006), Dr. Bates Gill will examine a number of critical challenges on the home front in China – from corruption, to environmental degradation, to a fraying social safety net and more – and consider their implications for the continued success of the China economic miracle, for the continued leadership of the Chinese Communist Party, and for the future of U.S.-China relations.
“Individual Disgust and Institutional Trust:
Popular Support for Village Institutions”
John Kennedy, assistant professor, political science, the University of Kansas
Wednesday, October 4, 3pm.
Price Hall 3030
Abstract: Although there are many reports of rural disturbances, most villagers do not protest or file grievances with higher authorities. While many studies on rural political development examine villagers' protest, our study addresses the issue of villager compliance and trust in local institutions. In most studies, it is clear that villagers trust the central leadership more than local leaders. However, evidence from our three-county survey (2000 and 2004) as well as in-depth interviews suggests that rural residents can have trust in local institutions, such as tax laws and local elections, while displaying complete disgust for the elected village leadership. Moreover, trust in village institutions varies between counties and townships. We suggest that popular trust in local institutions results from top-down policy implementation from committed county and/or town officials (party secretary) and bottom-up pressure from a number of informed villagers. Not all villagers are fully informed, but popular trust can occur when the majority of villagers observe whether or not the new reforms change cadre behavior.
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