Activist and human rights advocate Matt Friedman lectures on 21st-century human trafficking and modern-day slavery.

Guest curator illuminates "Buddhist Art of Myanmar."

Sun Burford of Tyee Middle School in Washington is featured in the next installment in Asia Society's Instructional Videos for Chinese Language Teachers: TEQ Series.

Asia Society's latest instructional video for Chinese-language teachers focuses on Shwu-fen Lin of Princeton Public Schools in New Jersey.

Asia Society's latest instructional video for Chinese-language teachers focuses on Shiffon Theodorou of Simsbury Public Schools in Connecticut.

Sylvia Fraser-Lu, guest curator for Asia Society Museum's exhibition "Buddhist Art of Myanmar," discusses a wood sculpture of a serene female figure and her role in local Buddhist lore.

Donald Stadtner, a guest curator of "Buddhist Art of Myanmar," shares insights into a late-12th-century sandstone sculpture depicting the Buddha's semi-divine origin.

Asia Society's Adriana Proser explains the significance, for Buddhists, of a 19th-c. bronze bell featured in the exhibition "Buddhist Art of Myanmar."

Dr. Alejandro Chaoul discusses the benefits of mind-body healing and leads guests on a brief guided meditation.

Nicholas R. Lardy, Barry Naughton, and Laura Tyson offer contrasting yet nuanced takes on how, and how well, China weathered the global economic slowdown.

Will its slowdown be a global economic millstone?

Arts leaders discuss the issues facing museums today.