A Community of Scholars

Center for Social Science Research and Political Science Department co-sponsor a lecture on Taiwan Politics and Cross-Strait Relationship.

Title of the talk: Taiwan Politics and Cross-Strait Relationship

Place: IRC Lecture Hall 2

Date and Time: 3:00 – 4:30 pm, Wednesday, November 28, 2007

 Dr. Chao-Min Pan is an Associate Professor of General Education Center and Mainland China Study Program at Tunghai University in Taiwan, and is also a visiting scholar of Political Science Department at SUCO. His interests include the Cross-Strait Relationship between Main-land China and Taiwan, Chinese local governance, and political development of China.

In his lecture, Pan will explore the three themes:

1.       The beginning and developing of Cross-Strait Relationship, including the political struggle between Mao Zedong and Chiang Jieshi, the China under Mao’s control and the improvement and opening policy after Mao;

2.       Relative Mainland China, Taiwan’s political development impacts Mainland China;

3.       The fusion of Cross-Strait Relationship, especially whether the economic integration will impact the political integration.

All the World at Wembley: Britain in the 1920s
Morris Hall, Room 104
Monday, November 5 from 7 – 9:30 p.m.

Dr. Anne Clendinning, Associate Professor, (Department of History, Nipissing University, North Bay, Ontario, Canada) will be giving a public lecture. Her talk will examine the British Empire Exhibition held in the summers of 1924 and 1925 at Wembley in north London. Part trade fair and part theme park, the event brought together the member nations of the British Empire to celebrate imperial unity and foster economic cooperation between the member nations. Dr. Anne Clendinning will show how the British Empire Exhibition served as a microcosm that revealed a great deal about British attitudes to empire, race and gender and the politics or post-war reconstruction in Britain during the 1920s. Students, faculty, staff and members of the public are welcome to attend this free lecture.

Dr. Clendinning is the author of Demons of domesticity : women and the English gas industry, 1889-1939 (Burlington, Vt: Ashgate, 2004) which is a study of “lady demonstrators” of gas kitchen appliances as well as women in the gas industry in general in early twentieth century Britain. Her new work is on the British Empire Exhibition of 1924- 1925.