News & Events

4-6/6/2012
Conference: Oceanic Archives and Transnational American Studies
17-19/05/2012
Fulbright Conference: Frame by Frame and Across the Gutters: Asian American Graphic Narratives
24/04/2012
Talk: So... What are you anyway?
14/03/2012
Seminar: Consuming Latin/o American Popular Culture in China
29/02/2012
Seminar: Doing Business in China… in the Early Nineteenth Century
27/02/2012
Talk: Fountains of Culture: Hollywood, MacArthur, and the American Reconstruction of Japan after World War II
22/02/2012
Talk: Spider-man India: Comic Books and Translating American Mythologies of Heroism
30/11/2011
Talk: Dysfunctional Democracy in America.
24/11/2011
Talk: Archipelagos of Faith - American Religion; Chinese Religion.
16/11/2011
Talk: From the U.S. to Asia - Localizing American Animation for Asian Markets.
15/11/2011
Film Show: An Autumn's Tale.
09/11/2011
Film Show: Gran Torino (2008).
09/11/2011
Seminar: "Troubling" American Women: A Coda.
02/11/2011
Film Show: The Wedding Banquet (1993).
15/10/2011
Group Visit of DJ Spooky's "Rebirth of a Nation"
13/10/2011
Live Performance and Talk: Dj Spooky - Contemporary Culture and DJ Demonstration.
14/09/2011
Seminar: Sequencing and Contingent Individualism in the Graphic, Postcolonial Spaces of Satrapi's Persepolis and Okubo's Citizen 13660
23-27/05/2011
Colloquium: A Tale of Ten Cities: Sino-American Exchange in the Treaty Port Era, 1840-1950.
21/04/2011
Lecture: Revising Authorship for a Digital Age: Henry James and the Remediation of the Author.
06/04/2011
Film Show: The Wild Bunch (1969)
29/03/2011
The Wild, Wild... East?: The Boxer Uprising in American Popular Culture
15/03/2011
Lecture: Them's Fighting Words: Masculinity, Violence, and the American Cowboy in the Late Nineteenth Century.
08/03/2011
Film Show: Shane (1953)
22/02/2011
Film show: High Noon (1952)
15/02/2011
Lecture: Revising Authorship for a Digital Age - Henry James and the Remediation of the Author.
09/02/2011
Seminar: R.W. Fassbinder’s Whity: Addressing Race Through Hollywood Genres
26/01/2011
Lecture: Was Twain White? The Transnational Frame of Blackness in the Work of Mark Twain
25/01/2011
Film show: The Searchers (1956)
16/12/2010
Talk: The Model Minority Debate in the US: A Current Perspective
19/11/2010
Talk: Deimperialization and the Oceanic Turn in English Studies
03/11/2010
Election 2010 in America: Who Won, Who Lost and Where Does Obama Go From Here?
27/10/2010
Seminar: Monomania, Science, and the Birth of American Sinology
06/10/2010
Seminar: Picturesque Grave Yards and the Visual Aesthetics of Free Trade in Commodore Matthew Perry's "Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan" (1856)
09-10/06/2010
Conference: From South China to North America: New Perspectives on Chinese American Transnationalism
22/04/2010
Seminar: Reconceptualizing Writing as an Intellectual Act: Institutional and Pedagogical Implications at the University Level.
15/04/2010
Talk: Demographic Change and the Future of American Politics
08/04/2010
American Studies Field Trip 2010 Briefing Session
07/04/2010
Seminar: Defying Exclusion: The Making of a Chinese American Community in Boston, 1870-1965.
31/03/2010
Seminar: Current Food Practices in the USA: Health and Environmental Consequences.
17/03/2010
Seminar: God, Nature, and Society: Views of the Tragedies of Hurricane Katrina and the Asian Tsunami
11/03/2010
Seminar: President Obama: One Year Later - What Came Before, What Comes Next? The Civil Rights Movement in the U.S.