Mar 15, 2023
Martin Dimitrov — Dictatorship and Information: Authoritarian Regime Resilience in Communist Europe and China
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Leung Conference Room, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
China Initiative
Housed at the Watson Institute, the China Initiative is an interdisciplinary hub for the study of modern China at Brown University. The initiative's goals are threefold: to produce cutting edge academic research on the Chinese developmental experience, to apply that research to the resolution of real world societal challenges, and to connect China-focused research to new forms of pedagogy and experiential learning. The Initiative seeks both to better understand China itself and to use the Chinese experience to better understand broader global phenomena in a comparative context.
Feb 23, 2023
Rory Truex — Thinking about the Party: Public Opinion in Contemporary China
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Leung Conference Room, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Dec 12, 2022
Teach-In: Contextualizing China's "White Paper Movement"
1:30 p.m. – 3 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Nov 21, 2022
Nov 16, 2022
Zack Cooper ─ Sleepwalking toward War over Taiwan?
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Leung Conference Room, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Nov 15, 2022
Nov 10, 2022
Victor Shih — The Final Calculus of the Founding Generation in China and the Rise of Xi Jinping
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Nov 7, 2022
Lanxin Xiang — China and Russia: An Unlikely Brotherhood
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Watch on Watson's YouTube channel.
Oct 4, 2022
DingDing Chen — The US - China Relationship in a New Era: Challenges and Opportunities (starts 11:00am EST)
11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar
Jun 1, 2022
The US-China Competition: Who’s Winning?
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Watch on Watson's YouTube channel.
Apr 28, 2022
Deborah Seligsohn ─ How the US - China Science Relationship Went Off the Rails
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar or watch live on Watson's YouTube channel.
Apr 15–17, 2022
Brown China Summit 2022 ─ Great Expectations: Navigating the New Order
True North Classroom, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street
Apr 15, 2022
Eli Friedman ─ The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. McKinney Conference Room, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 13, 2022
Deborah Seligsohn ─ Clean Before Free: How an Autocracy Conquered Air Pollution in China
5 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Leung Conference Room, Stephen Robert '62 Hall, 280 Brook Street, or watch live on Watson's YouTube channel.
Nov 18, 2021
Rising Tensions in the Taiwan Straits: Will the Chinese Civil War End with a Bang or a Whimper?
12 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. Joukowsky Forum, 111 Thayer Street
Apr 20, 2021
Jennifer Lind ─ Autocrats at the Cutting Edge: Chinese Innovation and the Global Balance of Power
12 p.m. – 1 p.m. This session will be in the spirit of a “work-in-progress” research workshop. We welcome faculty and graduate student engagement. A paper will be sent out approximately one week ahead of time, but the session will also include a short presentation.
Apr 15, 2021
Margaret Roberts — Censorship's Effect on Incidental Exposure to Information: Evidence from Wikipedia
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Mar 25, 2021
White Supremacy, Policing, & Asian Massage Work
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. Watch on Watson's YouTube channel.
Mar 25, 2021
Mar 23, 2021
Nov 17, 2020
Nov 5, 2020
Oct 27, 2020
Jessica Chen Weiss ─ A World Safe for Autocracy? The Domestic Politics of China's Approach to World Order
4 p.m. – 5:30 p.m. This session will be in the spirit of a “work-in-progress” research workshop. We welcome faculty and graduate student engagement. A paper will be sent out approximately one week ahead of time, but the session will also include a short presentation.
Oct 23, 2020
Facing Precarity: Envisioning Careers in 2020 and Beyond
9 a.m. – 10:30 a.m. Register here to join the webinar.
Sep 28, 2020