Upcoming Events
The New York Times: Global Review
Thursday, 7 October, 2010, 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, UVU International Center, WB 147
- UVU faculty, staff, and students are welcome to attend to participate in lively and critical discussion about events covered in The New York Times. A different faculty or staff member will lead the discussions each week. Attendees are asked to bring along a copy of the daily edition of The New York Times. Pizza and water will be provided.
- Every Thursday this Fall Semester from 12:00 - 1:00 pm starting the 16th of September. The International Center will host an engaging and lively critical discussion about events covered in The New York Times.
Competing Loyalties: Religion in Communist China
Tuesday, 19 October, 2010, 1:00 pm – 2:15 pm, UVU Library Timpanogos Room
- Panel Discussion with Dr. L. Christopher Reardon, Melissa Inouye, & Michael Ing. Sponsored with Religious Studies.
- Religious belief connected to organized religion in China has experienced dramatic growth in the past two decades. With increased religious alternatives to the avowed atheism of the Chinese Communist Party, the Chinese government has sought to maintain control over that growth as a way to mitigate the inevitable competing loyalty that arises when believers seek to balance belief with political reality. This panel will focus on how different religions strike that balance while trying to maintain a semblance of religious independence.
Then & Now: A China Watcher's Tale
TBA November, 2010, TBA, UVU Ragan Theatre
- John Pomfret, Award-winning Journalist and Author of Chinese Lessons, Book of the Semester.
- John Pomfret is an American journalist and writer. In 1980, he was one of the first American students to go to China and study at Nanjing University. Between 1983 and 1984 he attended Singapore’s Institute of Southeast Asian Studies as a Fulbright Scholar, researching the Cambodian conflict.
Upcoming Events
Thursday, 7 October 2010
The New York Times: Global Review — 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, UVU International Center, WB 147
Tuesday, 12 October 2010
Brazil on the Rise: The Story of a Country Transformed — 7:00 pm, Vieve Gore Concert Hall, Westminster College
Larry Rohter, Culture Reporter,The New York Times
Tuesday, 19 October 2010
Competing Loyalties: Religion in Communist China — 1:00 pm - 2:15 pm, UVU Library Timpanogos Room
Panel Discussion with Dr. L. Christopher Reardon, Melissa Inouye, & Michael Ing. Sponsored with Religious Studies.
Thursday, 21 October 2010
The New York Times: Global Review — 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, UVU International Center, WB 147
Thursday, 28 October 2010
The New York Times: Global Review — 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm, UVU International Center, WB 147
Monday, 1 November 2010
Fulbright Panel Discussion & Luncheon — 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm, SC 213a
TBA November 2010
Then & Now: A China Watcher's Tale — TBA, UVU Ragan Theatre
John Pomfret, Award-winning Journalist and Author of Chinese Lessons, Book of the Semester.
For more information on the upcoming events please visit our events page.
Book: Staff Pick
Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates, And the Story of the New China by John Pomfret
- John Pomfret’s evocative recounting of the lives of his former classmates in the Nanjing University History Class of 1982. As one of the first American students to live and study with Chinese after the revolution, Pomfret saw the country as few Americans had. Leaving China in 1982, Pomfret returned for the Tienanmen Square protests and the crackdown of June 4, 1989. Expelled by the Chinese government at that point, he again returned to live from 1998-2005 as the Washington Post’s bureau chief in Beijing.