时间：5月8日 星期三晚上7:00-8:30

地点：丽泽B104

题目：Growing up in America

演讲人：Ms. Cecily Hurst

Cecily has taught in Japan, China, and the U.S. since 1989, and has also lived in Germany and Canada. She holds a Juris Doctor from the University of California, Berkeley, where she received the Prosser Prize in Constitutional Law.

Prior to law school she was a doctoral student and Chancellor’s Fellow in the UCLA Languages and Literatures program, where she published on the development of language, studied Qing to mid-20th century Chinese opera and French and Russian, and received several research grants. She holds a Master of Eastern Classics from St. Johns, and received a Nike Fellowship to attend the Nanjing University-Johns Hopkins University Centre for Chinese and American Studies. She went on to do graduate work in history and at Nanjing University under the auspices of a National Security Fellowship.

She enjoys boating, hiking, and camping, and has camped across the North American continent from Eastern Canada to Oregon, visiting Native American sites with her children. Her current interests are raising her four children to be responsible global citizens, farming, and working for a sustainable ecosystem.

演讲内容简介:

A mom of four answers all those questions you had, or never knew you had, on what it’s like to be a kid in America today. We’ll show slides, talk about schools, activities, sports, friends, dating, camp, and compare life in America to life in Canada, Europe, and China, with some real kids giving their own views and answering your questions.

The Hurst-Vollraths have lived in Germany, Canada, the U.S., and the northernmost and southernmost provinces of China. They have visited every U.S. state and most Western European countries, camped across the North American continent and done an epic road trip across Europe and the UK six-in-a-Citroën.