To celebrate the Lunar New Year, CBSI co-sponsored a celebration held in Gleeson Plaza on Friday, February 4th, with the Center for Asia Pacific Studies. The event was an excellent opportunity to inform the student body about USF's different programs covering the Asia Pacific region. ISAP's table was staffed by Jocelyn Luciani, ISAP Vice President, and a fellow ISAP member, Celeste Baird. They shared ISAP's amazing opportunities with students, such as panel talks, scholarships, and ISAP member socials. The event's main attraction was the lion dance, performed by Leung's White Crane Association, which quickly brought in the crowds to watch the enticing performances. Dr. Xiaohua Yang and new ISAP coordinator Professor Vivian Faustino stopped by to show their support. Overall, this celebration was a great success and helped spread the word about ISAP within the USF community. Many thanks to the Center for Asia Pacific Studies and CBSI for their continued support of ISAP endeavors.

Building Cross-Racial Solidarity in the San Francisco Bay Area and Beyond

The COVID-19 pandemic has unleashed various racism, hate, xenophobia, and scapegoating, which has torn communities apart and has created anxieties and stress in workplaces in the U.S. and other parts of the world. Black Lives Matter, or rather, new Civil Rights Movement, and Stop Asian Hate in America epitomize the fights for social justice. Such radical social movements are not only American phenomenon; it is indeed part of a wider movement around the world. Globally, right-wing populism has efficiently used nationalist definitions of history to seek to silence opposition and to build walls among peoples, in Brazil, Australia, Japan, Poland, Hungary, Czech Republic, Colombia, New Zealand, Italy, Russian, to name but a few.   

This global issue has created an unprecedented moment to reflect upon how and why history is used, reinterpreted, contested, and commemorated in the public, and the implication for future corporate social responsibility (CSR) practices and public policies. It is also a critical moment of opportunity for building cross-racial and cross-national bridges and solidarity and dispel myths and misconceptions. Increasingly, we are confronting a more demanding public that yearns for a deeper understanding of the past, and a continuing public appetite for challenging historical products that shows a need for sophisticated understanding of debate and discussion. This forum seeks to respond to such urgent global debates.    

This forum is hosted by the China Business Studies Initiative in the USF School of Management.

This event will be in conjunction with the National Committee on US-China Relations China Town Hall, and will follow a national keynote talk with Fareed Zakaria held at 4 p.m. PST.

A panel of experts will discuss America's and China's relationship in the context of the tech economy. On top of the issues arising from the trade dispute, the pandemic response, and other sources of bilateral tension, both sides now are: rethinking their approach to regulating the tech economy, experiencing growing concerns about their citizens' data being held outside their borders; and worrying about how social media can affect politics, among other tech-related issues. The panelists include Darlene Chiu-Bryant of GlobalSF, Xiaomeng Lu of the Eurasia Group, Samm Sacks of New America, David Wertime of Protocol, and Steven Zhou of Tencent. The forum will be moderated by USF's Peter Lorentzen, associate professor of economics and CBSI executive board member.