Upcoming Appearances
October 6, 2008
The Sound Lab Lecture, Connecticut College: The Great Transformation: How China is Changing and What it Means for the World
October 18, 2008
Speaker, Presenting China, a conference of the East Asian Studies department of Washington University in St. Louis.
October 21, 2008
Columbia Universty's East Asian Institute, Guest lecture, "China's Grand Return - Serving Africa, or Stripping It Bare?"
November 1, 2008
Lecture on China and Africa at the Center for Afro and African American Studies at the University of Michigan.
Past Appearances
September 25, 2008
Keynote Speaker, "China and Africa: Emerging Patterns in Globalization and Development," a conference hosted by the China Quarterly, of The School of Oriental and African Studies, London.
April 14, 2008
Crain Lecture, Featured Speaker, Northwestern University
April 11, 2008
Lecturer, The Great Transformation: China's Rush to Urbanize and the Fate of its Cities, hosted by the Consortium for the Study of the Asias, University of Minnesota
March 26, 2008
speaker, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan conference: Talk Show Democracy.
April 9, 2008
Speaker, Africa Encounters Global China, a conference of the University of Wisconsin, Madison
April 8, 2008
Presenter, Disappearing Shanghai, a photography exhibition and lecture, Carleton College,
February 1 2008
Photographic exhibition and lecture at the Mildred Lane Kemper Museum of Washington University in St. Louis,
February 26, 2007
The China Economic Miracle, How Stable is It? - University of California Regent's Lecture, Berkeley, CA
October 27, 2005
A Continent for the Taking, a talk at the University of Wisconsin
March 30, 2005
Guest Lecture, Why Africa Matters, Smith College
January 24, 2005
Featured Speaker, The January Series, Calvin College
November 11, 2004
Featured Speaker, Northwestern University, The Forgotten World: Why Africa Matters and Why we Should Care
May 3, 2004
Book Launch, A Continent for the Taking, The Council on Foreign Relations
April 24, 2004
Commencement Speaker, University of Maryland University College, Tokyo, Japan,
April 21, 2004
Eyewitness Reporting on Africa and the Plight of its People, Harvard University, Shorenstein Center
April 19, 2004
A Continent for the Taking, a talk at University of California, Berkeley
November 10, 2003
Henry M. Jackson lecturer, "The Forgotten World," a talk about Africa's place in the global agenda, Whitman College

