Oct. 30, 2025 – Next week, the Comparative Political Economy and Society (CPES) Seminar Series, a Dedman College Interdisciplinary Institute Research Cluster, will host Koji Hirata, Senior Research Fellow at Monash University. The event, which includes lunch, will be held at 12pm on November 6 in the Tower Boardroom, Carr Collins Hall. Hirata’s talk is entitled “From Grain Exporter to Importer: The Great Leap Famine and China’s Turn to the Capitalist World, 1960-1965.”
The Comparative Political Economy and Society Research Cluster is convened by Kelly McKowen (SMU Anthropology), Macabe Keliher (SMU History), Roshan Pandian (SMU Sociology), and Hsinchao Wu (SMU Sociology).
