MIT Visiting Professor

Emma Teng

to speak on

Immigration,
Foreign Student Harassment
and
International Conflict:
History Speaks

June 18, 2025

5:30 - 7:30pm MT

Univ of Colorado Wolf Law Building, Room 205

2450 Kittredge Loop Drive, Boulder, CO

Tickets: $20 – includes refreshments and parking

Immigrants are demeaned, hunted in immigration raids, splattered in the courts, their legal rights violated, in limbo. The steam of nationalism rises from American streets. Foreign students are detained, expelled.

The year is 1905, the city Boston, the students Chinese.

Relations between Chinese and Americans pitch feverishly, the Chinese fight back with anti-American trade maneuvers. Parallels eerily overlap the present day.

On Wednesday, June 18 at 5:30 PM, RMHUC is thrilled to join the MIT Club of Colorado in welcoming Harvard trained (AB, AM, PhD) MIT professor Emma Teng to discuss these parallels.

Professor Teng is T.T. and Wei Fong Chao Professor of Asian Civilizations at MIT, MacVicar Faculty Fellow and Associate in Research, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard. Emma Teng MIT website

Education: A.B. Harvard University, 1989; A.M. Harvard University, 1992; Ph.D. Harvard University, 1997

The infamous Boston Chinatown Raid of 1903 with its mass arrest of working class Chinese was followed by the 1905 King Incident which saw four wealthy Chinese students detained upon their arrival in Boston, sparking a major international controversy and triggering the American Boycott movement in Shanghai. The King Incident breached racial and class boundaries to reshape the implementation of the Chinese Exclusion Act in 1882.

Dr. Teng brings her expertise in many facets of Chinese culture and history to the social and political intricacies of this historically lost but highly influential incident.

She will speak in Room 205 of the Wolf Law Building on the CU Boulder campus, 2450 Kittredge Loop Dr, Boulder. Doors will open for food, drink and conversation at 5:30pm and Dr. Teng will speak at 6:00pm MT.

With your $20 ticket, you will receive a parking permit.

(Link will take you to an MIT website to register.)