DISCO Network Presents: TikTok, DeepSeek and the Fear of Chinese Tech in Nationalist Times
Tara Fickle, Ian Shin, and Jeff Yang in conversation with Lisa Nakamura
For the first time, two of the most popular apps in the world – TikTok and the A.I. chatbot DeepSeek – are Chinese. American legislative...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Divine Intimacy, Frustration and the Madness of the City: Changing Transhuman Kinship in China
Robert P. Weller, Professor of Anthropology, Boston University
Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/pk1yg...
STeMS Speaker Series | Is the Pixel Political? What Chinese Computing Teaches Us About the Digital Age
Thomas S. Mullaney, Stanford University
The pixel is the quintessential building block of the digital age—a visual manifestation of the binary logic of zeros and ones. In its...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | From Click to Boom: The Political Economy of E-commerce in China
Lizhi Liu, Assistant Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University
Attend in person or via Zoom: https://myumi.ch/Q61JX...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Of Calendars and Cinnabar: The When and What of Dreaming in Late Ming China
Brigid E. Vance, Associate Professor of History, Lawrence University
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LRCCS Noon Lecture Series. Nutritional Imperialism: How Science Turned Difference into Sickness in China
Hilary Smith, Associate Professor of History, University of Denver
In this talk, Dr. Smith will argue that starting in the early twentieth century, the acolytes of a new discipline called nutrition science...
2025 International Institute Graduation and Reception Ceremony
Honoring the MIRS, PICS, and Center Graduates
International Institute Graduation Ceremony...
