24 May | The Current State of Buddhism in China
The Current State of Buddhism in China, a lecture by Venerable Dr. Yifa.
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30 May | MSA lecture An Indian Summer: Corruption, Class and Lokpal Protests by Aalok Khandekar
In the summer of 2011, an unusual drama appeared to be unfolding: a civil society group, India Against Corruption , and its figurehead, the 75 year-old Gandhian, Anna Hazare, were apparently rallying urban, Indian middle-class professionals and youth in great numbers—a group otherwise notorious for its political apathy—in a spectacular uprising against state corruption.
30 May | Lecture: Jan de Vries - 'Europe-Asia trade and the Great Divergence debate, 1600-1850'
Jan de Vries is a professor of history and a professor of economics. He also has served as chair of UC Berkeley’s history department, dean of social sciences in the College of Letters & Science, and as vice provost for academic affairs.