University at Buffalo Confucius Institute

10/18/2021

Join the UB Confucius Institute and Center for Global Film each Thursday from 4-5:30 p.m. for a Chinese-language Cinema virtual series of film screenings and lectures by prominent experts on Chinese film. The 6-part series kicks off this Thursday with a lecture on "What Disney (and the Rest of Us) Can Learn from the Earliest Surviving Mulan Film," by Christopher Rea of the University of British Columbia. Email [email protected] to register.
Check out the full schedule of lectures and recommended films.

08/25/2021

Community Language Classes start next week at the UB Confucius Institute. Classes are held 6-8:00 pm in the Confucius Institute classroom on UB's north campus; and focused on beginning through intermediate students. Each class meets one evening per week. Learn more and register here:

We are planning for fall 2021 evening classes to take place in-person. Smaller groups will meet in the Confucius Institute classroom (113 UB Commons). Larger groups may meet in classrooms in nearby campus buildings for lower density.

08/12/2021

Here is the registration link for the Over the Moon event.

Join us for our two-part movie night event! We will watch Over the Moon on August 13th, then have a discussion about it on the 20th! Make sure to sign up for this event and receive information for both movie night and discussion.

08/12/2021

The Third Space program of the U.S.-China Heartland Association presents Over the Moon movie night and discussion on Fridays, 8/13 and 8/20 (9pm Eastern US time, via Zoom). This event is an extension of the Third Space Story Circle project, where high school and college students and young professionals from China and the U.S. develop listening-for-understanding across language and cultural lines, build intercultural skills, and have fun.

08/04/2021

Here is another excellent short-term, online Chinese language program, August 16-19. Buffalo native Frank Dolce is a City Honors alum who holds a PhD in 2nd language acquisition from Carnegie Mellon.

08/04/2021

A valuable summer Chinese Language program offered August 9-12 by our colleagues at the Wayne State University Office of International Education.

04/19/2021

The Urbanization of People: Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City

Eli Friedman, Associate Professor and Chair
Department of International and Comparative Labor, ILR School, Cornell University
April 23, 2021, 12-1:30 p.m.

Through a careful analysis of policy documents, direct observation in schools, and interviews with migrant parents and teachers, Dr. Friedman assesses how the state distributes access to public education and details the experiences of those relegated to the migrant schools that populate Beijing's periphery.

Eli Friedman Associate Professor and Chair, Department of International and Comparative Labor ILR School, Cornell University

04/19/2021

UB Confucius Institute and School of Architecture and Planning Distinguished Architecture Lecture this Wednesday, April 21 at 6 p.m., by Tiantian Xu, Founding Principal, DnA_Design and Architecture, Beijing.

Much of Tiantian Xu's work involves development of facilities for village communities designed to provide employment, improve amenities, and build social infrastructures. Her work has been identified by international critics as a model for rural renaissance.

April 21, 2021 Join us for the UB Confucius Institute's Distinguished Architecture Lecture featuring Xu Tiantian, founding principal of DnA_Design and Architecture, Beijing. An Internationally-recognized architect Xu Tiantian has designed a series of new buildings in China beyond the city and includ...

03/31/2021

THIS THURSDAY, APRIL 1!
Please join the UB Confucius Institute tomorrow for "Collaborating to Provide Educational Opportunities for Children with Autism in China," a talk by Helen McCabe, Associate Professor of Education at Daemen College. You can find details and registration information on the Confucius Institute website.

Helen McCabe Associate Professor of Education, Daemen College Co-founder and Executive Director, The Five Project 12:30 pm eastern / 11:30 am central

03/29/2021

Join the UB Asian Studies Program this Friday at 12:00 for an Asia at Noon talk by Hsiao-wen Cheng of the University of Pennsylvania on her book "Divine, Demonic and Disordered," Cheng considers accounts of “manless women” in Song Dynasty China, many of which depict women who suffered from “enchantment disorder” or who engaged in “intercourse with ghosts”—conditions with specific symptoms and behavioral patterns. Cheng questions conventional binary gender analyses and shifts attention away from women’s reproductive bodies and familial roles.

A variety of Chinese writings from the Song period (960–1279)—medical texts, religious treatises, fiction, and anecdotes—depict women who were considered peculiar because their sexual bodies did not belong to men. These were women who refused to marry, were considered unmarriageable, or were m...

03/26/2021

Please join the UB Confucius Institute next Thursday, April 1, for "Collaborating to Provide Educational Opportunities for Children with Autism in China," a talk by Helen McCabe, Associate Professor of Education at Daemen College. You can find details and registration information on the Confucius Institute website.

Helen McCabe Associate Professor of Education, Daemen College Co-founder and Executive Director, The Five Project 12:30 pm eastern / 11:30 am central

03/24/2021

Join Third Space Story Circles!

The United States Heartland China Association presents Third Space, a digital community for diverse American and Chinese students to develop intercultural and second language skills. Students have the opportunity to meet online bi-monthly to share experiences and cultural reflection.