Dr. Urbansky discusses the challenges faced by Chinese immigrants during the late Tsarist Empire and early Soviet Union, highlighting the racial and cultural prejudices that fueled hostilities in urban settings. His analysis explores how these early interactions shaped the experiences and perceptions of Chinese communities in a rapidly changing socio-political landscape.
Join us for a lunch and learn event with Nina Sajić.
Dr. Sajić served as the ambassador of Bosnia and Herzegovina to France, UNESCO, Algeria, Monaco, Andorra, and Romania. She was also a foreign policy advisor in the Presidency of Bosnia and Herzegovina. She will be at Pitt to discuss her diplomatic experiences with students and the wider community.
Light lunch will be provided.
Join us for an upcoming lecture with special guest Dr. Trevor Getz!
Dr. Trevor Getz is a Professor of African and World History at San Francisco State University. He is a historian of 19th century Ghana and its connections to the wider anglophone world. His main areas of focus are social history at the intersection of slavery and marriage and the cultural history of the West African bourgeoisie.
Tina S. Clemente is Professor at the Asian Center, University of the Philippines (UP), Diliman. She earned her Ph.D. at the School of Economics at the same university. Her research interests include China Studies, Philippines–China economic relations, economic history, and development.
The state of China/Chinese Studies as a field in the Philippines and the corresponding expertise landscape have increasingly generated interest especially owing to Philippine relations with China. In the Philippines, studies on China and the Chinese do not necessarily adhere to strict academic demarcations such as those associated with Sinology, Area Studies, and Chinese Overseas Studies in accordance with civilizational, state, and ethnic interrogations. My discussion begins with the historical interest in the Chinese and proceeds to an exposition on the domains of scholarship, which consists of discussions on academic programs and types of research.
