Yale Prof. Amy Chua

The eleventh annual Bob and Kim Griffin Building U.S.-China Bridges Lecture presents Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother: Increasing Mutual Understanding Between U.S. and China from author Amy Chua, a Professor at Yale Law School and author of best seller

“Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother” on Friday, February 10, 2012, 4:30 p.m. Lecture and Q&A, Book signing to follow with all three of Amy Chua’s books available to purchase on-site.

McNamara Alumni Center is located at 200 Oak St SE Minneapolis, MN 55455. This event is free and open to the public. Tickets may be reserved online at http://chinacenter.umn.edu with a limited number of tickets available at the door. For assistance please contact the China Center at (612) 624-1002.

The Venerable Palden Gyatso.

One of the world’s longest serving political prisoners will again visit Minnesota on Sun., Aug. 21, 2011 at 4 p.m. at the Tibetan Community Hall, 1096 Raymond Ave, Saint Paul, MN 55108. The Venerable Palden Gyatso is an 80 year old Tibetan monk and former Amnesty International Prisoner of Conscience. He is one of the world’s longest serving political prisoners after surviving 33 years of confinement in the Chinese gulag where he was constantly exposed to various forms of indoctrination and torture.

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By Mai Hoang

ST. PAUL, Minn. (May 28, 2011) – The threat to the environment and controlling contamination of the air, land and water is the paramount issue facing the health and livelihood of people in Vietnam today.  This issue is not isolated to Vietnam, but is connected abroad to Southeast Asia and all the way to the source of water in the mountains of Tibet. It is also spread with the manufacturing and source items of food products.

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The Center for Spirituality and Healing of the University of Minnesota has provided information about the upcoming Minnesota visit of His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. There are four events planned between May 6-9, 2011 in honor of his visit. This is not the first visit of His Holiness’ first to Minnesota but he had not been here since 2001 and it will be ten years to the day on this visit. As the Dalai Lama has recently announced his retirement as the political head of Tibet, it may be his final official trip to Minnesota.

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Dr. Nancy Wilkie, center, the William H. Laird Professor of Classics, Anthropology and the Liberal Arts at Carleton College, was a guest lecturer March 3, 2011 at Macalester College. Here to listen to her lecture on Archeology in Sri Lanka are Arjun Guneratne, Ph.D., left, Professor of Anthropology at Macalester College, and Ananda Liyanapathiranage, right, a DHHS IT Project Manager for the State of Minnesota, and a Board member of the State Council on Asian Pacific Minnesotans. (AAP staff photo by Tom LaVenture)

By TOM LAVENTURE
AAP staff writer

ST. PAUL (March 3, 2011) – Dr. Nancy Wilkie, the William H. Laird Professor of Classics, Anthropology and the Liberal Arts at Carleton College, spoke last Friday at Macalester College on her lifetime of work in Sri Lanka.

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Tserenchunt Legden, a visiting lecturer in the Department of Central Eurasian Studies, and students from IU interact with their peers at Australian National University and Mongolia's prime minister. Front, from left, Keren Deckard, Kip Hutchinsand Susan Powell; Middle: Legden and Wei-Cheih Tsai; Back: Delgerbat Uvsh.

BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (February 24, 2011) – Mongolian Prime Minister Sukhbaatar Batbold took part in an introductory Mongolian class taught by Indiana University Bloomington’s Tserenchunt Legden to students at the Australian National University on the evening of February 21 via distance learning technology.

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White Bear Lake, Minn. (January 31, 2011) – Civil rights activist Naomi Tutu, daughter of South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, told a Century College audience on Jan. 26 that thoughtful people must continue the struggle for a just world.

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US China Business Connections Twin Cities will hold its monthly breakfast networking meeting on September 1, 2010, from 7:30 to 9:00 a.m. in the McNamara Center of Dunwoody College, 818 Dunwoody Blvd., Minneapolis, MN 55403. Special guest speker Jim Yearick, vice president, Global Product Marketing, Medtronic, will speak on the topic of “Asia Market Development – Saving Life in China”, which touches on the huge market opportunity in China’s medical industry.

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The National Coalition for Asian Pacific American Community Development will hold its National Convention from September 26-29, 2010 at the Liaison Capitol Hill Hotel in Washington, D.C. The theme this year, “Building Community within a Multiracial Nation” is meant as a call to step up to the challenge of meeting the immediate needs of communities of color affected by the current economic crisis while continuing to build supportive networks, community infrastructure, and a more powerful advocacy voice for all communities.

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Delphine Hirasuna, author of “Art of Gaman” along with her co-author Kit Hinrichs are speaking on “Transitions and Progressions” on Aug. 19, 2010, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. with a cocktail reception starting at 5:00 p.m. at W Minneapolis – The Foshay, 821 Marquette Avenue, downtown Minneapolis. The event will benefit BrandLab, a nonprofit established to create opportunities in the marketing industry for students with diverse cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds.

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