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Renowned analyst of global affairs will speak on navigating the uncertain relations between the United States and China
SUMMARY
- UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Evan Osnos, Two Superpowers: Navigating China and America in the New Age of Uncertainty
- Wed, April 24 | 7:30 p.m. | Campbell Hall
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- Join acclaimed The New Yorker Staff Writer and global affairs analyst Evan Osnos as he combines deep knowledge with up-to-the-minute insights to assess the new global balance of power between China and the United States
- $30 / $20 / $10 UCSB students (Current student ID required)
- Tickets & Info: www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
“Evan Osnos has explained this new China better than any other writer.” The Washington Post
“When Evan Osnos was in Beijing, I considered him to be the most thoughtful western writer on the ground there, bar none.” – Ian Bremmer
SANTA PAULA – UCSB Arts & Lectures presents Evan Osnos on Wednesday, April 24 at 7:30 p.m. at Campbell Hall. Starbucks is opening a new store in China every 15 hours and TikTok is redefining American social media – even as tensions build over Taiwan, cyberhacking and threats to global health. For the first time in a generation, the world has entered an era dominated by two superpowers. Unlike rivals in the Cold War, the U.S. and China are also entwined on an unprecedented scale. Recipient of the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award and numerous other honors for his reporting on China, Evan Osnos, one of our preeminent analysts of global affairs and U.S. politics, combines deep knowledge with up-to-the-minute insights to assess the new global balance of power. Are China and America on a collision course, or can we find common ground?
ABOUT EVAN OSNOS
Evan Osnos is a staff writer at The New Yorker, a CNN contributor, and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. Based in Washington D.C., he writes about politics and foreign affairs.
He was the China Correspondent at The New Yorker from 2008 to 2013. His first book, Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China, won the 2014 National Book award and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. In 2020, he published the international bestseller, Joe Biden: The Life, the Run, and What Matters Now, based on interviews with Biden, Barack Obama and others. His latest book, Wildland: The Making of America’s Fury, was published in September 2021.
Prior to The New Yorker, Osnos worked as the Beijing bureau chief of the Chicago Tribune, where he contributed to a series that won the 2008 Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. Before his appointment in China, he worked in the Middle East, reporting mostly from Iraq. He and his wife, Sarabeth Berman, have two children.
ABOUT UCSB ARTS & LECTURES
Founded in 1959, UCSB Arts & Lectures (A&L) is the largest and most influential arts and lectures organization between Los Angeles and San Francisco. A&L annually presents more than a hundred public events, from critically acclaimed concerts and dance performances by world-renowned artists to talks by groundbreaking authors and film series at UCSB and Santa Barbara-area venues. With a mission to “educate, entertain and inspire,” A&L also oversees an outreach program that brings visiting artists and speakers into local classrooms and other venues for master classes, open rehearsals, discussions and more, serving K-12 students, college students and the general public.
Evan Osnos is presented by UCSB Arts & Lectures in association with UCSB departments of Global Studies and Political Science.
Event Sponsor: Betsy Atwater
Tickets are $30 / $20 / $10 UCSB students (Current student ID required)
For tickets or more information, call UCSB Arts & Lectures at (805) 893-3535 or purchase online at www.ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu.
UCSB Arts & Lectures gratefully acknowledges our Community Partners the Natalie Orfalea Foundation & Lou Buglioli for their generous support of the 2023-2024 season.