Meredith Oyen, assistant professor of history, will give a talk at the Center for Force and Diplomacy at Temple University on Thursday, March 29.
Oyen’s talk is entitled “Crossing Borders in Sino-American Relations.” Using the stories of Chinese and other migrants and refugees caught in limbo by Cold War politics, she will discuss the role that transnational migration and migrants themselves play in 1950s relations between the People’s Republic of China, Republic of China (on Taiwan), Hong Kong, and the United States
Prior to joining UMBC’s faculty, Oyen was a visiting professor of American Studies at the Johns Hopkins University-Nanjing University Center for Chinese and American Studies.