Daria Ho, of the University of Waterloo (Canada), will present “Chinese Claims in the South China Sea: A Hundred-Year Struggle from Bird Poop (Guano) to Battlestations,” at 2:30 p.m. Wednesday, Feb. 7, in-person and on Zoom.
Rashid Khalidi, the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies, discussed his latest book, “The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917-2017,” during a livestream that was viewed by more than 100 people worldwide.
The role of traditional culture and cultural reform in Maoist China will be the topic of the next Modern China Lecture presented by Maggie Greene, assistant professor of history at Montana State University.
Julia Strauss will present “State Formation in China and Taiwan: Bureaucracy, Campaign, and Performance” at 2 p.m. Monday, March 2, in the John M. Pfau Library, room PL-4005.
“Hollywood Chinese: A Book and Film Presentation with Oscar®-nominated Filmmaker/Author Arthur Dong,” will take place Wednesday, Feb. 19, at the university’s John M. Pfau Library.
Math teacher and former state Assembly candidate Aileen Rizo talked about taking a stand on equal pay that led all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Rizo, an equal-pay advocate and former state assembly candidate, will speak at CSUSB as part of the College of Natural Sciences’ Gerald M. Scherba Lecture Series on Sept. 30.
“The Cultural Revolution and ‘Diasporic Trauma’ in Hong Kong,” by Angelina Chin, associate professor of history at Pomona College, will take place at 12:30 p.m. Monday, Oct. 30, at the John M. Pfau Library, PL-5005.
A Frenchman’s View of Chinese Opera, Circa 1900,” will be presented by Andrea S. Goldman on Tuesday, Nov. 28, in University Hall at CSUSB. The event is free and open to the public.