Asian Studies Seminar Series: Jeff Wasserstrom lecture In brief Guest Speaker - Professor Jeff Wasserstrom (University of Irvine) Title - The Struggle for Hong Kong, 2003 to 2023: Local Stories and Global Perspectives Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square About the event This lecture will explore the dramatic protest actions and repression moves to curtail civil liberties that have rocked and transformed Hong Kong during the last two decades. Professor Wasserstrom will draw on material presented in his short 2020 book, Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink, and the short book he is finishing up now on the "Milk Tea Alliance" that connects protesters across East and Southeast Asia. Wasserstrom will place particular emphasis on the theme of transnational flows and influences, paying attention to both the way that Hong Kong activists have been influenced by people from other places and the way that their tactics and strategies have been adopted or been seen as inspirational to those struggling for change in different parts of the world. About the speaker Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the Law School and in the Literary Journalism Program, and he is spending the spring of 2023 as a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College. He has written, co-written, edited, or co-edited a dozen books, the most recent of which are Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (Columbia Global Reports, 2020), which he wrote, and The Oxford History of Modern China (2022), which he edited. In addition to contributing to academic journals, he often writes for newspapers, magazines and literary reviews. About the series Each year, Asian Studies welcomes a fantastic range of guest speakers and colleagues to present a seminar on their research, spanning fields as diverse as film and media, literature, religion, society, politics and international relations. How to attend Events are free and everyone is welcome. No booking is necessary. Are you interested in studying with us? We are the only university in Scotland to offer full undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in both Chinese and Japanese, as well as postgraduate programmes in Korean Studies and East Asian Relations. Find out more about Asian Studies at Edinburgh Mar 30 2023 17.00 - 19.00 Asian Studies Seminar Series: Jeff Wasserstrom lecture Join us in person for a lecture by Jeff Wasserstrom (University of Irvine) on the Hong Kong protest movement. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue
Asian Studies Seminar Series: Jeff Wasserstrom lecture In brief Guest Speaker - Professor Jeff Wasserstrom (University of Irvine) Title - The Struggle for Hong Kong, 2003 to 2023: Local Stories and Global Perspectives Venue - Project Room 1.06, 50 George Square About the event This lecture will explore the dramatic protest actions and repression moves to curtail civil liberties that have rocked and transformed Hong Kong during the last two decades. Professor Wasserstrom will draw on material presented in his short 2020 book, Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink, and the short book he is finishing up now on the "Milk Tea Alliance" that connects protesters across East and Southeast Asia. Wasserstrom will place particular emphasis on the theme of transnational flows and influences, paying attention to both the way that Hong Kong activists have been influenced by people from other places and the way that their tactics and strategies have been adopted or been seen as inspirational to those struggling for change in different parts of the world. About the speaker Jeffrey Wasserstrom is Chancellor's Professor of History at the University of California, Irvine, where he also holds courtesy appointments in the Law School and in the Literary Journalism Program, and he is spending the spring of 2023 as a Leverhulme Visiting Professor at Birkbeck College. He has written, co-written, edited, or co-edited a dozen books, the most recent of which are Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink (Columbia Global Reports, 2020), which he wrote, and The Oxford History of Modern China (2022), which he edited. In addition to contributing to academic journals, he often writes for newspapers, magazines and literary reviews. About the series Each year, Asian Studies welcomes a fantastic range of guest speakers and colleagues to present a seminar on their research, spanning fields as diverse as film and media, literature, religion, society, politics and international relations. How to attend Events are free and everyone is welcome. No booking is necessary. Are you interested in studying with us? We are the only university in Scotland to offer full undergraduate and postgraduate degree programmes in both Chinese and Japanese, as well as postgraduate programmes in Korean Studies and East Asian Relations. Find out more about Asian Studies at Edinburgh Mar 30 2023 17.00 - 19.00 Asian Studies Seminar Series: Jeff Wasserstrom lecture Join us in person for a lecture by Jeff Wasserstrom (University of Irvine) on the Hong Kong protest movement. Project Room 1.06 50 George Square University of Edinburgh EH8 9LH Find the venue
Mar 30 2023 17.00 - 19.00 Asian Studies Seminar Series: Jeff Wasserstrom lecture Join us in person for a lecture by Jeff Wasserstrom (University of Irvine) on the Hong Kong protest movement.
