China Week
October 10-17, 2011
Sponsored by the Confucius Institute
Website: www.uakron.edu/ci
Phone: 330.972.2013
Email: email nee@uakron.edu
Monday
October 10
Wednesday
October 12
9:55 – 10:45 am
Exotic Chinese Goldfish
Location: Student Union room 312
11:00 – 11:50 am
Mongol Conquest and the Discovery of New
World: How Asian Hegemony Stimulated the
Rise of European Overseas Expansion
Location: Student Union Ballroom C
11:30 – 1:00 pm
Chinese Food Experience at the School of
Family and Consumer Sciences
Location: Schrank S. Room 209 Food Lab
1:10 – 2:00 pm
Comparisons of Traditional Chinese Medicine
and Western Medicine
Location: Student Union Ballroom C
2:15 – 3:05 pm
One Child Policy in China –Past, Present and
Future
Location: Student Union Ballroom B
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Evening Keynote: Towards an
Effective Business Strategy in
China: Implications for US Business
Location: CBA room 120
7:00 – 8:30 pm
Evening Keynote: China’s Domestic Politics
Location: Student Union Theater
8:50 – 9:40am
China 2011:
Through American Eyes
Location: Ballroom B
9:55 – 10:45 am
Dialects of China
Location: Ballroom C
11:00 – 11:50 am
Chinese Parenting and
Growing Up in China
Location: Student Union Ballroom B
12:05 – 12:55 pm
China Service Project:
Aiding Special Needs Orphans
Location: Ballroom C
1:10 – 2:00 pm
Confucianism and
Environmental Ethics
Location: Ballroom B
2:15 – 3:05 pm
Health Care Challenges for Asian Americans
Location: Ballroom C
3:20 – 4:10 pm
An Ancient Capital in Painting:
Kaifeng and Qing Ming Shang He
Painting
Location: Ballroom B
7:00 – 8:30 pm
Evening Keynote:
China and the US: Past, Present,
and Future
Location: Student Union Theater
Friday
October 14
9:55 – 10:45 am
Opportunities to Study or Teach in China
Location: Ballroom B
11:00 – 11:50 am
Learning Chinese Characters,
Sounds and Proverbs
Location: Ballroom C
6:30 – 8:00 pm
Traditional Chinese Dumpling Party
Location: The Chapel, 135 Fir Hill, Akron
Monday
October 17
Thursday
October 13
Tuesday
October 11
7:30 pm
Evening Keynote: Reflections on China:
Tiananmen to Present
Location: E J Thomas Hall
9:15 – 10:30 am
They Took Our Jobs: A Short Tour Along the
Rocky History of
Sino-American Relations
Location: Student Union Theater
10:45 – 12:00 pm
T’ai Chi and Qigong Demonstration and
Explanation
Location: Student Union Ballroom C
12:15 – 1:30 pm
Chinese Costumes and Fashion
Location: Ballroom B
1:45 – 3:00 pm
The Overseas Job Search Process
Location: Student Union Ballroom C
3:15 – 5:30 pm
Experience a Chinese Marketplace!
Location: Outside of Student Union Theater
3:15 – 5:30 pm
Film: The Love of the Hawthorn Tree
Location: Student Union Theater
5:00 – 6:00 pm
Evening Keynote: Foreign Currency Issues:
Implications for US and Chinese Business
Location: CBA room 120
1:45 – 3:00 pm
Everything You Want to Know About China but
are Afraid to Ask
Location: Student Union room 335
7:00 – 8:30 pm
Trying to Find Chinatown:
A staged reading of award-winning
playwright David Henry Hwang’s one-act play
Location: Guzzetta Hall
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