27/11/2014
Talk: Coalition Building in the Early Gay Liberation Movement: The Hong Kong Connection Before & After the First Lesbian & Gay March on Washington in 1979 |
10/11/2014
Seminar: Sex and the Founding Fathers: The American Quest for a Relatable Past |
16/4/2014
Seminar: Holocaust Literature and the Taboo |
15/4/2014
Screening and Round Table Discussion: Holocaust Impiety: Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds |
1 & 8/4/2014
Visual Feast Film Series (2001: Space Odyssey & Days of Heaven) |
26/3/2014
SMLC Seminar: Chinese American Women: Photography, Memoir and History |
20/3/2014
SMLC Seminar: Hailing the Subject: Visual and Narrative Progression in Nananan’s Blue |
27/11/2013
SMLC Seminar: Mark Twain in China |
17/11/2013
A special performance of Professor Steven Tracy |
15-17/11/2013
Transnational Currents of US-China Relations: The 10th Anniversary of the American Studies Network (USCET-ASN) in China |
30/10/2013
SMLC Seminer: Looking for a Modern Hercules: The Strongman Figure in American and Global Culture |
28/10/2013
Talk: U.S. Diplomacy in China and the Asia-Pacific |
18/10/2013
Lecture: Whales and Lucre: Internationalizing America in the Indo-Pacific, c. 1780-1820 |
9/10/2013
SMLC Seminer: Tocqueville on religion in democracies: natural or supernatural? |
1-3/6/2013
Fulbright Conferences: New Perspectives on Transnational Chinese Culture and History |
23/4/2013
Talk: Selling American Popular Culture in China: Managing the Public Image of Disneyland Hong Kong |
6/3/2013
Seminar: Ventriloquism, or How to Make Gay Art in the American 1950s |
6/11/2012
American Pop Culture Illustrated by Michael Sloan |
24/10/2012
Seminar: Chop Suey as Imagined Authentic Chinese Food in America |
9/10/2012
Flash Fiction and Slam Poetry with Thaddeus Rutkowski |
24/9/2012
Public Lecture: Ahab/Pip and Melville's Novel Governmentality |
22/9/2012
American Studies Orientating & Gathering |
4-6/6/2012
Conference: Oceanic Archives and Transnational American Studies |
17-19/5/2012
Fulbright Conference: Frame by Frame and Across the Gutters: Asian American Graphic Narratives |
24/4/2012
Talk: So... What are you anyway? |
14/3/2012
Seminar: Consuming Latin/o American Popular Culture in China |
29/2/2012
Seminar: Doing Business in China… in the Early Nineteenth Century |
27/2/2012
Talk: Fountains of Culture: Hollywood, MacArthur, and the American Reconstruction of Japan after World War II |
22/2/2012
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. |
9/11/2011
Film Show: Gran Torino (2008). |
9/11/2011
Seminar: "Troubling" American Women: A Coda. |
2/11/2011
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. |
14/9/2011
Seminar: Sequencing and Contingent Individualism in the Graphic, Postcolonial Spaces of Satrapi's Persepolis and Okubo's Citizen 13660 |
23-27/5/2011
Colloquium: A Tale of Ten Cities: Sino-American Exchange in the Treaty Port Era, 1840-1950. |
21/4/2011
Lecture: Revising Authorship for a Digital Age: Henry James and the Remediation of the Author. |
06/4/2011
Film Show: The Wild Bunch (1969) |
29/3/2011
The Wild, Wild... East?: The Boxer Uprising in American Popular Culture |
15/3/2011
Lecture: Them's Fighting Words: Masculinity, Violence, and the American Cowboy in the Late Nineteenth Century. |
08/3/2011
Film Show: Shane (1953) |
22/2/2011 Film show: High Noon (1952) |
15/2/2011 Lecture: Revising Authorship for a Digital Age - Henry James and the Remediation of the Author. |
09/2/2011 Seminar: R.W. Fassbinder’s Whity: Addressing Race Through Hollywood Genres |
26/1/2011 Lecture: Was Twain White? The Transnational Frame of Blackness in the Work of Mark Twain |
25/1/2011 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 |
3/11/2010 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 |
6/10/2010 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) |
9-10/6/2010 Conference: From South China to North America: New Perspectives on Chinese American Transnationalism |
22/4/2010 Seminar: Reconceptualizing Writing as an Intellectual Act: Institutional and Pedagogical Implications at the University Level. |
15/4/2010 Talk: Demographic Change and the Future of American Politics |
08/4/2010 American Studies Field Trip 2010 Briefing Session |
07/4/2010 Seminar: Defying Exclusion: The Making of a Chinese American Community in Boston, 1870-1965. |
31/3/2010 Seminar: Current Food Practices in the USA: Health and Environmental Consequences. |
17/3/2010 Seminar: God, Nature, and Society: Views of the Tragedies of Hurricane Katrina and the Asian Tsunami |
11/3/2010 Seminar: President Obama: One Year Later - What Came Before, What Comes Next? The Civil Rights Movement in the U.S. |