UBC Political Science is delighted to host Professor Jessica Chen Weiss, David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, as this year’s Mark Zacher Distinguished Speaker.
The Mark Zacher Distinguished Speaker Lecture will begin at 6:00 pm with a reception to follow at 7:15 pm. Doors open at 5:30 pm.
For those unable to join the event in person, a recording will be made available on the UBC Political Science YouTube channel the week following the event.
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ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Jessica Chen Weiss is the David M. Lampton Professor of China Studies at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS) and nonresident senior fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute Center for China Analysis. From August 2021 to July 2022, she served as senior advisor to the Secretary’s Policy Planning Staff at the U.S. State Department on a Council on Foreign Relations Fellowship for Tenured International Relations Scholars (IAF-TIRS). Weiss is the author of Powerful Patriots: Nationalist Protest in China’s Foreign Relations (Oxford University Press, 2014). Her research appears in International Organization, China Quarterly, International Studies Quarterly, Journal of Conflict Resolution, Security Studies, Journal of Contemporary China, and Review of International Political Economy.
With commentary in the New York Times, Washington Post, Foreign Affairs, Los Angeles Times, and the Ezra Klein show, Weiss was profiled in the New Yorker and named one of Prospect Magazine’s Top Thinkers for 2024. Weiss was previously the Michael J. Zak Professor for China and Asia-Pacific Studies in the Department of Government at Cornell University and an assistant professor at Yale University. Born and raised in Seattle, Washington, she received her Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, where her dissertation won the American Political Science Association award for best dissertation in international relations, politics, and law.
About the Mark Zacher Distinguished Speaker Lecture
The Mark Zacher Distinguished Speaker Lecture was created by members of the Department of Political Science, with the support of Mark Zacher’s family and many of his former students, to honour his contribution to the teaching, understanding and scholarship of international affairs.
We invite one prominent scholar, leader, or senior elected official who has made significant contributions to the field of international affairs every year to give a series of lectures, and to meet with students, faculty, and community members.
