Type: Public event

Ann Chih Lin: Endowed professorship in Chinese Studies inaugural lecture

Sponsored by the International Institute and Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies

Speaker

Professor Ann Chih Lin

Date & Time

Sep 22, 2022, 4:30-6:00 pm EDT

Location

Weiser Hall - 10th floor
500 Church Street, Ann Arbor, MI 48109

Join the International Institute and Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies for the inaugural lecture of Ann Chih Lin's endowed professorship in Chinese studies.

About the lecture:

Over the past decade, Chinese American scientists and the American universities they work at have come under increasing government suspicion. Some academics have been arrested in high-profile raids on their homes and laboratories. Many who support multi-million dollar research teams on federal grants have had their grants terminated, their laboratories closed, and their personal savings bankrupted. And large majorities, particularly at research universities, are rethinking their hiring of postdocs, their international collaborations, their research strategies, and even their lives in the United States. Yet few of their university colleagues understand the scope and scale of what is happening. My talk will explore how fears about China’s economic development strategy, zero-sum assumptions about international conflict, and the lack of a coordinated national R&D strategy have led to a cynical focus on Chinese American university scientists as the reason for China's rise and America's decline. I also explore how these suspicions have parallels in the treatment of German American academics in World War I, using the University of Michigan’s treatment of German American academics as a cautionary tale.

Sponsors / More info

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Ann Lin

Faculty Expert

Ann Chih Lin

Associate Professor of Public Policy; Director, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies
Lin, a political scientist, studies how people experience policy implementation. Her current work examines racial and ethnic difference in the experience of the COVID-19 pandemic; bias reduction against Muslims; national security scapegoating of immigrant groups; conservatism among immigrants; and subnational labor migration policy.