CAS/MillerComm Lecture: "China in Africa: Stripping Away the Myths" by Deborah Bräutigam

• Event Date: Thursday, October 24, 2013
• Time: 4:00 pm–5:30 pm (CDT)
• Location: Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Talk

The CAS/MillerComm public events series brings to campus people who offer unique cross-disciplinary contributions to the intellectual and cultural life of the university.

"China in Africa: Stripping Away the Myths"
Deborah Bräutigam
International Development Program,
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies

What is China really doing in Africa? Deborah Bräutigam discusses the impact of Chinese aid and investment in Africa and assesses whether China's presence on the continent is a threat to US interests.

This Center for Advanced Study event is hosted by the Center for African Studies and the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies in conjunction with the Center for Global Studies, Center for International Business Education and Research, College of Law, Department of African American Studies, Department of Anthropology, Department of Gender and Women's Studies, Department of History, Department of Geography and Geographic Information Science, Department of Political Science, Department of Sociology, Graduate School of Library and Information Science, Mortenson Center for International Library Programs, School of Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics, Social Dimension of Environmental Policy Initiative, Spurlock Museum, and the Women and Gender in Global Perspectives Program.