Cross Currents: Contemporary Art from New Delhi to Beijing (Feb 17)

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February 2021, Issue 2 View online version here

How does contemporary art intersect with South, Southeast, and East Asia? How is it defined and contested across these regions? How do new geographic formations and constellations—global to region to state—provide alternative methodologies for studying contemporary art? Join Carol Yinghua Lu (Inside-Out Museum Beijing), Adele Tan (National Gallery Singapore), Veeranganakumari Solanki (Independent Curator and Writer) and Orianna Cacchione (UChicago Smart Museum of Art) on February 17 (Wednesday) at 8:30pm HKT to discuss these pressing contemporary issues.

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Think Better with Ayelet Fishbach - “Stay Motivated” (Feb 18)

What does behavioral science teach us about goals and motivation? In this installment of the Think Better Speaker Series, University of Chicago's Ayelet Fishbach and Northwestern University's Rima Toure-Tillery will discuss best practices for setting goals, monitoring progress, juggling multiple goals, and soliciting social support.

Language Contact and Evolutionary Linguistics: An African(ist)’s and Creolist’s Perspective (Feb 23)

UChicago Edward Carson Waller Distinguished Service Professor of Linguistics and the College Salikoko S. Mufwene is invited by The Hong Kong Polytechnic University to speak at the Distinguished Lectures in Humanities on February 23. Join Professor Mufwene for the discussion of language contact and evolutionary linguistics from an African perspective.

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A Meeting of the Minds: Economics East and West (Feb 25)

At the next event in the Meeting of the Minds series, Professors Austan D. Goolsbee and Dali Yang will share their unique expertise on the economies of the United States and Asia. They will delve deep into the commonalities and differences between these economies, address the response to COVID-19 in these two areas of the world and more. Best-selling author Joshua Cooper Ramo will moderate their discussion.

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