The Center for International Studies

The Nanjing Exchange Program and the Center for International Studies sponsored a faculty-development seminar in China, to be held May 23--June 14, 2002. Commemorating the centennial of Nanjing University, Grinnell's partner in academic exchange since 1987, and focused on Nanjing, the historic southern capital, the seminar was designed to engage members of the faculty with a variety of scholarly and curricular interests and who are unlikely otherwise to travel to China in the near future. The seminar began with several pre-departure meetings and a common set of readings. Presentations, lectures, and discussions on site in China were conducted by Grinnell colleagues and local experts. The seminar was structured so as to draw upon the expertise of the participants and thereby to foster inter-disciplinary collaboration. Participants were hosted in Nanjing by a disciplinary counterpart on the faculty of Nanjing University. The topics of the seminar included the following: recent Sino-U. S. relations; the Three Gorges Dam; the "rape" of Nanjing, 1937-38; economic reform in China; Chinese poetry in English translation; and Shanghai and the West, past and present.

George Barlow, David Campell, Kevin Crim, Ed Gilday, Raquel Greene, Bob Grey, David Harrison, Andrew Hsieh (Facilitator), Chris Hunter, Judy Hunter, Dan Kaiser, Minna Mahlab, Elaine Marzluff, Martin Minelli, Mark Montgomery, Dan Reynolds, Monty Roper, Don Smith, and Barbara Trish

Teaching
The seminar informed new emphases in a number of courses in various departments, including the following:
Sociology 390 (increase of focus on INGOs)
Sociology 248 (more comparative perspectives)
Sociology 242 (more comparative perspectives)
German 499, Senior Seminar (course module on China, Germany and their colonial relationship)
Environmental Studies, Senior Seminar (course module on Three Gorges Dam)
Environmental Studies 145, Nations and the Global Environment (course module on 1880s famine in Xian)
Religious Studies 222, Chinese Religious Traditions (integration of experiences and photography in lectures)

Scholarship

Service

Mark Montgomery considers China's economy.

Monty Roper, George Barlow and Barb Trish on the Great Wall.