Audio, photographs, and partial video footage are now available from the March 27, 2018 event "China’s Latest Strongman Leader: Putting Xi Jinping Into Historical and Comparative Perspective." The event featured Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom, Chancellor’s Professor of History, UC Irvine; Maura Elizabeth Cunningham, historian and writer; Charles K. Armstrong, Korea Foundation … [Read more...]
March 5 Event: “Owners of the Map: Motorcycle Taxi Drivers in Bangkok:” Audio and Photos
Audio and photographs are now available from March 5, 2018 event "Owners of the Map: Motorcycle Taxi Drivers in Bangkok." The event featured Claudio Sopranzetti, Postdoctoral Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford University and author of Owners of the Map: Motorcycle Taxi Drivers, Mobility, and Politics in Bangkok (University of California Press, 2018). His talk and … [Read more...]
March 1 Event: “Turkey and Thailand: Unlikely Twins Revisited:” Audio and Photos
Audio and photographs are now available from March 1, 2018 event "Turkey and Thailand: Unlikely Twins Revisited." The event featured Duncan McCargo, Visiting Professor of Political Science, Columbia University, and Ayse Zarakol, Reader in International Relations, University of Cambridge. Professors McCargo and Zarakol talked about the striking similarities in the history … [Read more...]
Feb. 20 Event: “Growing Pains in the Chinese Social Security System-The Eighth Annual N.T. Wang Distinguished Lecture:” Video and Photos
Video and photographs are now available from the February 20, 2018 Eighth Annual N.T. Wang Distinguished Lecture "Growing Pains in the Chinese Social Security System" The special lecture was presented by Hanming Fang, Class of 1965 Term Professor of Economics at the University of Pennsylvania. His talk was moderated by Shang-Jin Wei, the N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese … [Read more...]
Feb. 7 Event: “The Trump Administration’s Policy Toward East Asia:” Video and Photos
Video and photographs are now available from the February 7, 2018 event "The Trump Administration’s Policy Toward East Asia." During the event, Daniel Russel, Diplomat in Residence and Senior Fellow at the Asia Society Policy Institute and former Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs in the U.S. Department of State, discussed several diplomatic … [Read more...]
