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April 30-May 2, 2007

Dr. Linda Sprague, Senior Professor

China Europe International Business School

Visits Rollins Campus to give Guest Lectures on:

China's Evolving Supply Chain Infrastructure

and

From Mao to the Market

Biography  

Linda G. Sprague is Professor of Manufacturing & Operations Management at the China Europe International Business School (CEIBS) in Shanghai. At CEIBS she has served as Chair of the CEIBS AACSB Accreditation Steering Committee and Faculty Supervisor for the CEIBS Internship and Group Consulting Project programs.  She was previously Professor of Operations Management at the Whittemore School of Business and Economics, University of New Hampshire, USA.  At the University of New Hampshire she was Founding Director of the Manchester Manufacturing Management Center.  From 1991-1999 she was also Professor of  Manufacturing Management at the School of Industrial and Manufacturing Science, Cranfield University in the UK. At Cranfield University she was Curriculum Director for the British Aerospace Inventory Management program and for the Kalyani Cranfield Fellowship in Manufacturing Management in India.  From 1991-95 Dr. Sprague was Principal Investigator for a multi-stage information systems implementation project with Airspares, the spare parts organization of Airbus Industrie. Professor Sprague has served on the faculties of IESE (University of Navarra, Barcelona), IMD (International Management Development Institute, Switzerland), The Tuck School (Dartmouth College, USA) and the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University (USA).  She was a Founding Professor of the National Center for Industrial Science and Technology Management at Dalian, China, in 1980.

Professor Sprague received her doctorate in Production/Operations Management from the Harvard Business School.  She holds an MBA from Boston University and an SB in Industrial Management from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  She is a Fellow of the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Management in the UK, and a Certified Practitioner in Inventory Management. In 2005 she was appointed Visiting Professor of Cranfield University assigned to the School of Management. Mrs. Sprague is an Associate Editor of  Decision Sciences and a member of the Editorial Advisory Board of the Journal of Operations Management.   For twelve years she served on the National Certification Council of the American Production and Inventory Control Society (APICS).  Dr. Sprague is a Founding Member of the Global Manufacturing Research Group (GMRG),  President of the International Society for Inventory Research (ISIR) and Past-President of the Asia Pacific Region of the DSI. She was Operations and Manufacturing Management Co-Editor for the second edition of the International Encyclopedia of Business & Management.  In August 2003 Dr. Sprague was named an Operations Management Distinguished Scholar by the Operations Management Division of the Academy of Management.

Prof. Sprague's current research and consulting focus on international manufacturing, distribution and supply systems, inventory management systems and the management of engineering spares, strategic management of operations, capacity management, operations information systems, and the particular problems of Small- to Medium-sized Manufacturers (SMMs).  Her publications include works on inventory management and control, manufacturing and operations information systems, strategic analysis for global manufacturing,  and  SMMs in larger manufacturers' supply chains.

January 18, 7:00 pm

Professor Teng Jimeng - Public Lecture -

Beijing Foreign Studies University Media Department

My Camera Doesn't Lie:

China in the Eyes of the Sixth Generation Filmmakers

In this presentation, Teng spoke about the politics, values, and artistic sensibility of the 6th Generation’s films, focusing on social engagement in filmmaking on broad sociopolitical issues (e.g., social disparity, dislocation, marginality, and political nostalgia).  He argues, whether as a reaction against Fifth Generation aesthetics or a reflection of the times, the emergence of this new cinema represents nothing less than an undeclared cinematic movement. It is a significant paradigm shift whereby a new generation of filmmakers is redefining Chinese cinema.

Teng Jimeng's Bio

Teng Jimeng has taught American Studies at Beijing Foreign Studies University (BFSU) since 1991, and has been full time associate professor of the University’s Center for American Studies since 1998, after which he traveled extensively in South China and North America on various grants, including the United Board for Christian Higher Education in Asia and US-China Fulbright Educational Exchange Grants. Teng spent a year at New York University as a Fulbright Scholar; a semester at the University of Hong Kong as a research fellow, and has lectured at Cornell University and University of Georgia. His primary research interest is a long-term project on the transition and transformation from social radicalism in the 1960s to the neo-conservatism in the 1980s. He specializes in US history in the 1960s. Teng’s own Master’s thesis was on the music of Bob Dylan. 

His book “Music-Made America: Popular Music since 1960’s” (Beijing: Foreign Languages Teaching & Research Press, 1995) frames rock ‘n’ roll culture of the 1960s America within the history of mass media with a focus on the popular culture as a mediation between mainstream and alternative cultures. His awards include two Certificates for Distinction in Teaching at BFSU in 1993 and 1994. Meanwhile, from 1991 to 1997, he served as translator and consultant to the Palm D’Or winning director, Mr. Chen Kaige, director of Farewell My Concubine.

Teng’s major interview titled “Foreign Literatures and Films” with Chen Kaige was published in Foreign Literatures (No. 2, 1996), one of the most prestigious academic journals in China today. He also works for Sixth Generation Director Wang Chao of Luxury Car, which is the winner of Un Certain Regard at the Cannes International Film Festival 2006, France.

Teng is a film critic and long term public commentator with both China Radio International, and “Dialogue” (Channel 9) of China Central Television (CCTV), the English language channel at the nation’s largest television network. Currently, Mr. Teng is teaching American Studies in the School of English and International Studies, and adjunct Professor of Chinese film at the IES Program at BFSU, and TBC at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE).

Email: teng_jimeng@yahoo.com.cn

Dr. Xu Xin - Public Lecture - January 2006

Jewish Life in China:  Past and Present

Dr. Xu Xin is a Professor of the Department of Religious Studies and Department of Philosophy and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Nanjing University, People's Republic of China.  He is also President of the China Judaic Studies Association. Editor-in-Chief and a major contributor of the Chinese edition Encyclopedia Judaica (Shanghai:  The Shanghai People's Publishing House, 1993).  In addition to his academic teachings, he has also authored Legends of the Chinese Jews of Kaifeng (Hoboken: KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 1995, with Beverly Friend), Anti-Semitism:  How and Why (Shanghai: Shanghai Shanlian Books, 1996), A History of Western Culture (Peking University Press, 2002), and The Jews of Kaifeng, China: History, Culture, and Religion (KTAV Publishing House, Inc., 2003).

Professor Kong - Public Lecture & School Visit - November 2004