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When: Tuesday, July 21st @ 12:15pm Where: Online via Zoom Please register to receive a link to join the online program live. Join us online for a program from Morten Schlütter and Cuma Özkan, who will speak to us on "State Regulation of Religion: Understanding Islam in the People's Republic of China."  Morten Schlütter is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Iowa. His research area is Chinese religions, mostly focused on Buddhism. He is the author of How Zen Became Zen: The Dispute over Enlightenment and the Formation of Chan Buddhism in Song-Dynasty China (University of Hawai'i Press, 2008), the co-editor of Readings of the Platform Sutra (Columbia University Press, 2012), and the author of many articles on Chinese Buddhism and Chan/Zen.  Cuma Özkan is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Iowa, writing his dissertation tentatively titled as, "Contesting Sinicization and Defending Islam in Late Imperial China." He is currently teaching at Millsaps College as a Faculty Teaching Fellow in Religious Studies. Özkan earned his bachelor's in Islamic theology at the Theology Faculty of Ankara University in 2007. He later received MA degrees in Religious Studies in 2013 and in Asian Civilizations with an emphasis on China in 2018 at the University of Iowa. During his graduate work, he has conducted archival research at different institutes in China and field work among different Muslim communities in northwestern and eastern China Together, Schlütter and Ozkan will explore how Islam's presence in China is as long as the history of Islam. Through commerce and diplomatic missions, Muslims travelled to and settled in China starting in the 7th century. Since then, rules and policies under different dynasties towards foreigners and ethnic minorities have shaped the lives of Muslims in China. This is also the case today where the lives of Muslims under the People's Republic of China are significantly being affected by government regulations. This presentation, after giving some background about the history Islam in China, will discuss the situation of Islam in the People's Republic of China with reference to legal documents on the regulation of religion, government reports, and news stories.
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By Peter Gerlach on Wednesday, April 2020  Dr. Peter Gerlach on Wednesday, April 2020 Dr. Peter Gerlach is Summer Institute Coordinator at the International Writing Program and Adjunct Assistant Professor of International Studies at the University of Iowa. He received his BA and MA degrees in English from Ripon College and the University of Northern Colorado, respectively. After serving in the US Peace Corps in Mongolia, he earned a PhD in Cultural Foundations of Education from Syracuse University. Since 2004, he has taught a wide variety of courses in English, Education, and interdisciplinary departments. Dr. Gerlach’s work as an international educator and his dissertation, current teaching, and research interests focus on the merits and limits of global citizenship, the need for understanding and empathy across cultures, the internationalization of higher education, and the lived experiences of university students, refugees, and immigrants in a globalized world. In his talk, Dr. Gerlach describes how his new course, Community Engaged Learning with Refugees and Immigrants in Iowa, fosters students’ international education and benefits a local non-profit through service. The talk focuses on how the course was designed; the relationship between the class and community partner, the Refugee and Immigrant Association; and how the course was adapted midway through the semester to respond to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Lessons learned and broader implications for teaching and learning are also shared.
By Kelsey Paul Shantz & Jessica Kline on Wednesday, May 27, 2020
Prior to joining the Stanley Center, Paul Shantz was a researcher for think tanks and research institutions in Canada, the United States, and the Netherlands, including the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI), the Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (HCSS), the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA), and the Boulder Institute of Microfinance. Paul Shantz has an MA in international relations from the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University and an MPP from the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, Germany. She also has a BA in international studies from the University of Evansville.
By Jackie Curnick on Thursday, April 30, 2020 A link to join the online program will be sent to the email address you provide with your registration. The program will also be streamed live on the ICFRC Facebook Page!
By Dave Wu on Thursday, April 9, 2020 Click Here to Watch This Program!
In this talk, Dave will examine the recent elections in Taiwan (2018 Local Election, 2020 Presidential Election), and the implications of the election results in regional and global affairs.
A link to join the online program will be sent to the email address you provide with your registration. The program will also be streamed live on the ICFRC Facebook Page! By Janice Weiner on Thursday, April 16, 2020 Click Here to Watch This Program!  Janice Weiner is a graduate of Iowa City West, Princeton University and Stanford Law School. She practiced law before joining the U.S. State Department in 1987. Her postings included East Berlin, Turkey, Belgium, Poland, Canada, Mexico, as Consul General in Düsseldorf, Germany, and liaison to Capitol Hill. After retirement, she worked for the American Foreign Service Association before moving home to Iowa. She is an at-large member of the Iowa City City Council and currently the Interim Executive Director of CIVIC. Janice served on the board of Shelter House, and is currently on the boards of Agudas Achim Synagogue, UNA/UNA Johnson County, and the Johnson County Democrats. She plays with the Community Band and sings with the “Heartbeats” Hospice Singers. She has two grown daughters and is her young granddaughter’s guardian
By Peter Gerlach on Wednesday, April 2020
Since 2004, he has taught a wide variety of courses in English, Education, and interdisciplinary departments. Dr. Gerlach’s work as an international educator and his dissertation, current teaching, and research interests focus on the merits and limits of global citizenship, the need for understanding and empathy across cultures, the internationalization of higher education, and the lived experiences of university students, refugees, and immigrants in a globalized world.
In his talk, Dr. Gerlach describes how his new course, Community Engaged Learning with Refugees and Immigrants in Iowa, fosters students’ international education and benefits a local non-profit through service. The talk focuses on how the course was designed; the relationship between the class and community partner, the Refugee and Immigrant Association; and how the course was adapted midway through the semester to respond to the novel coronavirus pandemic. Lessons learned and broader implications for teaching and learning are also shared. By Meena Khandelwal on Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020 Click Here to Watch This Program!
A colleague in engineering took a group of students to visit a village in Rajasthan, India; they learned that women and girls were trekking long hours to find and haul firewood that was once available just outside their homes-simply to cook a meal. Availability of a solar cooker, they thought, would not only address the problem of deforestation but would also ease women’s workload and put more girls in school. The engineers’ consideration of perspectives from cultural anthropology and gender studies led to an awareness that the cook-stove problem is not only technological, but also environmental, cultural and political. The project now involves a multi-disciplinary group of colleagues conducting research on the complex nexus of forests, energy, gender relations, health, consumption and culture.Thus far, three publications have resulted from this collaboration.
By Dr. Hans House on Wednesday, February 26, 2020 Click Here to Watch This Program!
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