What: The Institute for Asian Studies proudly presents the 2008 annual Trena Gillette Memorial Lecture with special guest Elizabeth Perry who will be discussing "Chinese Conceptions of 'Rights': From Mencius to Mao – and Now."

Elizabeth Perry is the Henry Rosovsky professor of Government at Harvard University. She is the current president of the Association for Asian Studies, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship. Her research focuses on popular protest and grassroots politics in modern and contemporary China. For more information on Elizabeth Perry visit www.gov.harvard.edu/faculty/eperry/.

When: Friday, May 23, 2008, from 7–9 p.m.

Where: PSU School of Business Administration, room 190 (615 SW Harrison St.)

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Contact: For more information contact Patricia Thornton at 503.725.5810 or thorntpm@pdx.edu.

Background: The annual Trena Gillette Memorial Lecture honors the first student ever to be posthumously honored a degree at Portland State. Trena Gillette passed away during her senior year in 1993 from breast cancer.