Academics and pundits alike have characterized the current state of US-China relations as a "Cold War 2.0." Is this an accurate analogy to use? Join the Long US-China Institute for a discussion with three experts on international relations and Cold War studies to rethink whether the Cold War is an appropriate model for understanding China's place in the world today. The webinar is free and open to the public.

Speakers include:
• Lorenz Lüthi, McGill University
• Meredith Oyen, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
• Taomo Zhou, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore

 

Pre-register online: https://uci.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8zn0EWxmReWBMj5optX18g

 

About the speakers:

Lorenz Lüthi is an associate professor of international relations at McGill University. He is the author, most recently, of Cold Wars: Asia, the Middle East, Europe, which was published in 2020 by Cambridge University Press.

Meredith Oyen is an associate professor of US Diplomatic History at UMBC with a focus on Sino-American relations. She is the author of The Diplomacy of Migration: Transnational Lives and the Making of US-Chinese Relations in the Cold War, which was published by Cornell University Press in 2015.

Taomo Zhou is an assistant professor of history at Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Her first book, Migration in the Time of Revolution: China, Indonesia, and the Cold War, was published by Cornell University Press in 2019.

 

A Zoom link will be sent to all registrants prior to the start of the event.