Seminar in Manchuria - June 2013

I spent one week at Northeast Normal University (東北師範大學), in Changchun, Jilin (Manchuria), teaching a seminar that was one-third of three-week seminar in immigration history,  cosponsored by Organization of American Historians and American History Research Association of China, hosted by the American Studies Institute at NENU.  The participants were MA and PhD students and junior professors in US history, from universities around China.  And I will be back -- I was honored to be appointed to the faculty as a Named Chair in the School of History and Culture. I will teach a course there in US history each spring for the next three years.

NENU is a major university (30,000 students) and has one of the top three American studies programs in China.  It has many international students, especially from Africa and other developing countries, giving the campus a very cosmopolitan feel.  There was a conference going on when I was there, for "university professors from developing countries" (I met professors from Latin American and Central Asia).  I also met a retired professor from Univ. of Edinburgh who is studying Sino-Africa relations.

View of campus (that's the new gym), from my hotel room

With students in front of School of History and Culture

with students Li Min and Xu Tian, at campus lake

 luncheon on final day

 

  

I will be back!