This lecture by Evelyn Shih (University of Minnesota) proposes a particular kind of nonsense literature as a countermeasure to regimes of authoritarian cultural control and the drive towards “oneworldedness” that characterized the communications crisis during the Cold War, linking examples from European surrealism, the négritude movement, and Latin American magical realism with what was happening in Taiwan and South Korea, where national division and colonial legacy made nonsense a particularly urgent necessity in literary praxis.
Thursday, February 12, 2026
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (Pacific Time)
Bunche Hall, Rm 10383 & Online
Asia Pacific Center
Professor Alex Wang will discuss his new book, Chinese Global Environmentalism (Cambridge U Press, 2026), which examines how China came to embrace green development and the ways in which China promotes a developmental form of environmentalism through green ideology, diplomacy, economic statecraft, and international development cooperation.
Wednesday, March 4, 2026
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM (Pacific Time)
UCLA Law School, Rm 1447
Asia Pacific Center
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