Date and time: August 20, 2-3 pm
Venue: University of Helsinki
We will kickstart the new academic year on the right foot by having a dialogue with Prof. Vincent Wei-cheng Wang on US-Taiwan-China relations! Prof. Wang is Dean of College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science at Adelphi University in New York City. He is also a Senior Fellow in the Foreign Policy Research Institute’s Asia Program (Philadelphia).
Prof. Wang is the author of over eighty scholarly articles and book chapters on Asian political economy, security, international relations, East Asian-Latin American comparative development, Taiwan’s foreign policy and domestic politics, cross-strait relations, Chinese politics and foreign policy, China-India relations, India-U.S. relations, and U.S. relations with Asia’s major powers.
He was formerly Professor of Politics and Dean of School of Humanities and Sciences at Ithaca College; Associate Dean, School of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Political Science at the University of Richmond in Richmond, Virginia, where he had also served as the chair of the Political Science Department and the coordinator of the International Studies Program.
Prof Wang has taught at the University of Miami, been a visiting professor at National Chengchi University and National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, and Colégio de México in Mexico, and a visiting researcher in South Korea (Institute of Far Eastern Studies) and Singapore (East Asian Institute).
He was former President of International Studies Association-South (2015), former President of the American Association for Chinese Studies (2013-15) and former Coordinator of American Political Science Association’s Conference Group on Taiwan Studies (2005-7). He has served on the editorial boards of several scholarly journals.
Prof. Wang received his Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago, M.A. in International Relations and Asian Studies from the Johns Hopkins University, Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, and B.A. in Political Science from National Taiwan University.
Students, researchers and whoever is interested in US-Taiwan-China relations are welcomed!
Venue will be in the University of Helsinki’s main building. You will be notified of the exact room before the event. Please kindly sign up here before 12:00 noon time on 19 August.