Filled with compelling vignettes and stories about Bangladeshi lived experiences in Tokyo and Los Angeles, Hasan Mahmud's book offers a fresh theoretical perspective on remittances, showing that remittances are not just a form of transnational practice but an expression of a common struggle to make home across borders.
Friday, April 25, 202512:00 PM - 1:30 PM (Pacific Time) Bunche Hall, Rm 10383
Asia Pacific Center
National Taiwan University (NTU) - UC Academic and Cultural Exchange Project.
Thursday, May 1, 20251:00 PM - 2:30 PM (Pacific Time) UCLA Young Research Library
Center for Chinese Studies
This year's conference is presented as part of the UCLA-NTNU Taiwan Studies Initiative, a partnership of UCLA and National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) that aims to create research synergies to promote cutting-edge research in Taiwan studies.
Friday, May 2, 202510:00 AM - 5:00 PM (Pacific Time) Royce Hall, Rm 314
This talk traces a seven-decade long process of the PRC's dismantling and destruction of nomadic Kazakh lifeways and demonstrates the ways it mirrors earlier and concurrent processes of settler colonialism elsewhere.
Tuesday, May 6, 20253:00 PM - 5:00 PM (Pacific Time) Online Webinar
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Program on Central Asia, APC
Through the lens of philanthropic history, Ruisheng Zhang (Beijing Normal University) will give a talk on the International Harvester Company (IHC)'s “philanthropic” cooperation with the Ministry of Agriculture of ROC during the 1940's. Founded in 1902, the IHC was an American manufacturer of agricultural and construction equipment.
Thursday, May 15, 20255:00 PM - 6:00 PM (Pacific Time) Online Webinar
Global Chinese Philanthropy Initiative, APC