UKCI Distinguished Scholar Lecture Series
Speakers are proposed by faculty, and the list is narrowed down by a faculty-led selection
committee.
2012:
Proposed and approved:
1. “Chinese Education: Issues and trends toward collaboration", by Dr. Heidi A Ross
from Univ. of Indiana
2. “Sages, Interpretation, and sources of Knowledge: Commentarial Practice in Chinese
Late Antiquity”, by Dr. Michael Puett from Harvard.
3. “Going West: Building of Chinese Cities in Western China”, by Daan Roggeveen,
Founder at MORE Architecture, former Hong Kong University
4. “The Chinese Arts in Twenty Century” by Dr. Junia Ardrews from Ohio University
2013:
Proposed and Approved:
1. David Jones， from Kenesaw State University， “Religious and Philosophical
Concord through Chinese and Western Sources”;
2. Mariko Asano-Tamanoi，UCLA， “Manchuria: A Crossroad of Histories，
Memories and Imaginaries”;
3. Ching Kwan Lee， UCLA， “Chinese Women in the Factory Culture of Modern
China”;
4. Michael Farmer， University of Texas at Dallas ， “Chastity， Suicide， Art and
History: Changing Conceptions of Female Remarriage in Early Medieval Shu”
2014:
1) Dr. Sheldon Zhang, UC San Diego, “Organized Crime and Human Trafficking in
China and America”.
2) Dr. Adam Segal, Council of Foreign Relations, New York： “China as a Science and
Technology Superpower”.
3) Dr. Edward Slingerland, University of British Columbia：“Chinese Studies in the Age
of Consilience: New Approaches Drawn from the Cognitive and Evolutionary Sciences”.
4) Dr. Alfreda Murck, Independent Scholar：“Sleeping under a Mushroom Cloud:
Imagery on Chinese Quilt Covers, 1959-1979”.
Other Speakers brought to UK campus:
1. Renee Covalucci, Art Institute of Boston, ”A Rising Tide of Change: Modern
Woodcuts of China”,
2. Jeffrey Richey, Berea College, “Religion in China before Buddhism”
3. Eugene Wang, from Harvard University, “Visual Art and Culture in Contemporary
China Symposium”
4. Juefei Wang, University of Vermont, Asia Program Director, Freeman Foundation,
“Chinese Education and Reality of Chinese language in the US”
5. “Confucianism and Contemporary Culture: Media, Politics, Society,
Spirituality”
On-cho Ng, Pennsylvania State University, “Interpreting Confucianism in the West”
Julia K. Murray (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Kenneth J. Hammond (New Mexico State University)
Mayfair Yang (University of California-Santa Barbara)
6. Chen Anying from Tsinghua University on “Form of Power: Politics and Modern
Chinese Art”.
7. Bronson Percival, a Senior Advisor at CNA (Center for Naval Analyses on “US Policy
Toward the South China Sea”
8. Fang Lili, Beijing Chinese Art Research Institute, “Jingdezheng and The Economic
Implications”
9. Li Zhaoguo, Shanghai Normal University, “Traditional Chinese Medicine”