Concordia presents…
Concordia has quickly become an intellectual hub of activity in Shanghai attracting bestselling authors and leading experts. These events bring the community together through lectures and presentations filled with thought-provoking information and Concordia’s students, parents, faculty and guests to our campus all benefit. There is often the opportunity to engage one-on-one with the speakers at private receptions following their talks as well. As an intellectual hub, Concordia has hosted multiple speakers and events since 2009 for participants from Shanghai, Asia and around the world. In addition to guest speakers, Concordia annually hosts the first and only National History Day in Asia, a variety of educational conferences and competitions, and sends out conference speakers all as part of the Intellectual Hub.
Mara Hvistendahl: Author of Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
Monday, March 19, 7:00 PM
Rittmann Theater
Free & Open to the Public
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MARA HVISTENDAHL is a correspondent with Science magazine and a contributor to publications ranging from Foreign Policy to Popular Science. She is also the author of Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men. Shortlisted for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and named a Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2011, a Discover Magazine 2011 Must-Read, and a Slate Best Book of 2011, Unnatural Selection shows how sex selection has contributed to the global disappearance of tens of millions of females. The book details how that gap is transforming communities — and how the West helped spark the problem.
“Massively well-documented….Engrossing….[Hvistendahl] has not only done her research but has also carried out extensive investigative journalism in several countries.”
―The Washington Post
“Unnatural Selection reads like a great historical detective story.”
―The New York Times
Dr. Brent D. Glass Public Memory in America: From Civil War to Civil Rights
Join us as Dr. Brent D. Glass, Director Emeritus of the Smithsonian National Museum of American History, discusses the challenge of commemorating history and the role that new studies and current politics play in shaping our memory of past events and leaders.
Monday, March 5, 7:00 PM
Rittmann Theater
Free & Open to the Public
Maps
DR. BRENT D. GLASS is a national leader in the preservation, interpretation and promotion of history. Glass is a public historian who pioneered influential oral history and material culture studies, an author, television presence and international speaker on cultural diplomacy and museum management.
As director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History (the world’s largest museum devoted to telling the story of America) from 2002-2011, Glass led a two-year, $87 million renovation and development of 20 new exhibitions for the 2008 reopening, including the major exhibitions on The Star-Spangled Banner; Abraham Lincoln: An Extraordinary Life and On the Water: Stories from Maritime America, and 80 public programs and 2,500 theater performances.
Glass earned his doctorate in history from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (1980), a master’s degree in American Studies from New York University (1971) and bachelor’s degree from Lafayette College (1969). He also completed the program for government executives at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University (1994). He writes extensively on topics ranging from state-of-the-museum blogs to public memory, historic preservation and industrial history.
Shanghai: Rescue & Salvation During the Holocaust
During World War II, those seeking to escape Nazi occupation had precious few options. Dr. Feng Shan Ho, Chinese consul to Austria, took heroic action to save thousands of Jews from Nazi persecution by issuing visas to Shanghai. On September 16, Concordia presents a rare discussion with psychologist and author, Dr. Eva Fogelman and Manli Ho, daughter of famed rescuer Dr. Feng Shan Ho, examining why some took righteous action toward the Jews and how Shanghai became a refuge for thousands during World War II.
Friday, September 16, 7:00-8:30 PM
Rittmann Theater
Free & Open to the Public
Maps
- Peter Hessler, Best-selling author of “River Town” and “Country Driving”
- Leslie Chang, author of “Factory Girls”
- Dr. Brent Glass, Director of the Smithsonian Museum of American History
- Sidney Rittenberg, author of “The Man Who Stayed Behind” [Pictured above.]
- Dr. Jadis Blurton, Developmental Psychology expert
- Dr. Cathy Gorn, National History Day Executive Director
- Dr. Robert Swartout, Korean/American relations expert
- David Biedzrychi, children’s author and illustrator
- Michelle and Carney Gray, Poetry Alive
- The Cross Border Orchestra of Ireland
- Ruth Van Reken, “Third Culture Kids” expert and author
- Gavin Menzies, controversial historian and author of “1421”
- Dr. Edward Larson, Pulitzer prize winning author
- Dr. Paul L. Maier, professor of Ancient History and prolific author
- Guy Gavriel Gay, best-selling novelist
- Maria DaSilva, CNN hero
- Stella Dong, author of Shanghai: The Rise & Fall of a Decadent City
- Markus Zusak, author of The Book Thief, best-seller and long-time number one on the New York Times list
- Nury Vittachi, children’s author
- Shamini Flint, children’s author
- Michelle and Carney Gray, Poetry Alive
- Margaret Read MacDonald, author, storyteller and folklorist