Johns Hopkins expert on China to speak at Erskine
Dr. David Lampton will deliver the Stukes Lecture at Erskine College Monday, March 11, at 3 p.m. in Memorial Auditorium. Admission is free and the public is invited. Convocation credit will be offered for this event.
Lampton, who serves as George and Sadie Hyman Professor and Director of China Studies at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, will speak on “Chinese and American Power in the 21st Century.”
Author of The Three Faces of Chinese Power: Might, Money, and Minds (2008), and Same Bed, Different Dreams: Managing U.S.-China Relations 1989-2000 (2001), Lampton has published articles in many journals and periodicals, including the American Political Science Review, the China Quarterly, the Journal of Contemporary China, Foreign Affairs, Foreign Policy, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and others.
Lampton received the Ph.D. from Stanford University and is an honorary senior fellow of the American Studies Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences. He was the inaugural winner of the Scalapino Prize, awarded in 2010 by the National Bureau of Asian Research and the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. He was named to the inaugural class of Gilman Scholars at Johns Hopkins University and consults with the Kettering Foundation.
The Joseph T. Stukes Lecture Series brings a distinguished lecturer in history to Erskine College each year. The fund was established by students and colleagues of Stukes, who served as professor of history (1966-74) and vice president for academic affairs (1966-71) at Erskine College.
