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MZ Vitae – November 2012, p. 40
Invited speech on “Understanding Ethnic Diversity: Foreign Languages, Accented English, and
Immigrant Incorporation.” Presented at the 2nd Annual Public Conference on “Language
and Migration,” UCLA Department of Applied Linguistics, UCLA, November 4th, 2011.
Invited lecture on “The Accidental Sociologist in Asian American Studies.” Sociology
colloquium, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, December 15, 2011.
43 rd Annual Sorokin Public Lecture, “Asians in America: The Paradox of ‘the Model Minority’
and ‘the Perpetual Foreigner’.” University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, February 9,
2012
43 rd Annual Sorokin Seminar, “Segmented Assimilation: The Role of the Ethnic Community in
Immigrant Education.” University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, Canada, February 10, 2012
Invited lecture on “Encountering Strangers in an Emerging Global City: African- Chinese
Relations in Guangzhou, China.” East Asian Studies Center colloquium series, Stanford
University, February 17, 2012
Invited speech on “Incorporation of Domestic and International Migrants in Guangzhou.” Urban
China Workshop, Brown University, February 28, 2012
Invited lecture on “Ethnicity, Social Capital and Immigration Education: Neighborhood-Based
Institutions and Embedded Social Relations in Los Angeles’ Koreatown and Chinatown.”
Sociology colloquium series, University of California, Irvine, March 2, 2012
Keynote speech on “Public Perceptions, Racial Attitudes, and Patterns of Social Interaction
between Chinese and Africans in Guangzhou, China,” and “Concluding Remarks.”
International Symposium on Migration and Intergroup Relations, Sun Yat-sen University,
Guangzhou, China, June 23-24, 2012
Invited lecture on “Sociological Research in the United States.” Department of Public
Administration, Guangdong University of Finance, Guangzhou, June 27, 2012
Invited panel on “Chinese Americans: The Paradox of ‘the Model Minority’ and ‘the Perpetual
Foreigner.’” Tsinghua North American Scholars Forum, Tsinghua University, Beijing, June
30, 2012
Invited lecture on “Patterns of Interactions and Perceptions between Local Chinese and African
Migrants in Guangzhou, China.” Sociology colloquium, Nanyang Technological University,
Singapore, August 28, 2012
Invited lecture on “Racial Formation: Chinese-African Encounters in Guangzhou, China.”
Department of Sociology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, September 13, 2012
Invited lecture on “Chinese-African Encounters in Guangzhou, China.” Racial and Ethnic
Studies Institute colloquium series, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, October
12, 2012
Invited lecture on “Immigrant Entrepreneurship and the Ethnic System of Supplementary
Education: Chinese and Korean Communities in Los Angeles.” Dilemmas and Choices of
the 21st Century Koreans Colloquium Series, Center for Korean American and Korean
Studies, California State University at Los Angeles, November 6, 2012
LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY
Chinese (Cantonese and Mandarin), French (basic reading)