BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//WEAI - Weatherhead East Asian Institute - ECPv6.17.3//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:WEAI - Weatherhead East Asian Institute X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for WEAI - Weatherhead East Asian Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20190310T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20191103T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20200308T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20201101T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200521T080000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200521T090000 DTSTAMP:20200521T193138Z CREATED:20200512T174533Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200521T193138Z UID:22702-1590048000-1590051600@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:LIVESTREAM — Japan versus COVID-19: A Conversation with H.E. Kono Taro\, Minister of Defense of Japan DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n\nKONO Taro\, Minister of Defense of Japan \nDiscussant: \nDaniel Russel\, Vice President for International Security and Diplomacy\, \nAsia Society Policy Institute (APSI) \n  \nModerated by: \nTakako Hikotani\, Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy \nDepartment of Political Science\, Columbia University \n  \nSince the start of the COVID-19 global pandemic\, Japanese Defense Minister H.E. Taro Kono has played a major role in coordinating the government’s response to the crisis. Japan’s Self Defense Forces (SDF)\, first mobilized in response to the Diamond Princess cruise ship outbreak continue to provide medical assistance and oversee the transport and quarantine of individuals arriving from abroad. Despite a recent uptick in new cases\, Japan has reported a relatively low rate of fatalities\, arguably due in part to the rapid deployment of the SDF. In a wide-ranging conversation with Asia Society’s Daniel Russel and Takako Hikotani of Columbia University’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, Minister Kono will share lessons learned from Japan’s experience with coronavirus and offer his insight into what role Japan can play in the global response\, as well as the broader security implications of the pandemic on the region. \n  \nAbout the Speakers \nKONO Taro\, is an eight-term Member of the House of Representatives. He has been Minister of Defense in the Abe Government since September 11\, 2019. \nAmong positions he has held are Foreign Minister; Chairman of the National Public Safety Commission\, or Minister in charge of the National Police Organization; Minister for Administrative Reform; Minister for Civil Service Reform; Minister for Regulatory Reform; Minister in Charge of Consumer Affairs and Food Safety; and Minister in Charge of Disaster Management in the Abe Government\, Parliamentary Secretary for Public Management and Senior Vice-Minister of Justice in the Koizumi Government\, and Chairman of the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. Taro is a graduate of the School of Foreign Service\, Georgetown University. He was Chairman of the Japan Race Horse Association and Chairman of the Shonan Bellmare Football Club\, the 1995 Asia Champion Soccer Club. He is married to Kaori and has a son\, Ippei. \nDaniel Russel is Vice President for International Security and Diplomacy at the Asia Society Policy Institute (ASPI). Previously he served as a Diplomat in Residence and Senior Fellow with ASPI for a one year term. A career member of the Senior Foreign Service at the U.S. Department of State\, he most recently served as the Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs. Prior to his appointment as Assistant Secretary on July 12\, 2013\, Mr. Russel served at the White House as Special Assistant to the President and National Security Council (NSC) Senior Director for Asian Affairs. During his tenure there\, he helped formulate President Obama’s strategic rebalance to the Asia Pacific region\, including efforts to strengthen alliances\, deepen U.S. engagement with multilateral organizations\, and expand cooperation with emerging powers in the region. \nPrior to joining the NSC in January of 2009\, he served as Director of the Office of Japanese Affairs and had assignments as U.S. Consul General in Osaka-Kobe\, Japan (2005-2008); Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in The Hague\, Netherlands (2002-2005); Deputy Chief of Mission at the U.S. Embassy in Nicosia\, Cyprus (1999-2002); Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs\, Ambassador Thomas R. Pickering (1997-99); Special Assistant to the Under Secretary of State for Political Affairs (1995-96); Political Section Unit Chief at U.S. Embassy Seoul\, Republic of Korea (1992-95); Political Advisor to the Permanent Representative to the U.S. Mission to the United Nations\, Ambassador Pickering (1989-92); Vice Consul in Osaka and Branch Office Manager in Nagoya\, Japan (1987-89); and Assistant to the Ambassador to Japan\, former Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield (1985-87). In 1996\, Mr. Russel was awarded the State Department’s Una Chapman Cox Fellowship sabbatical and authored America’s Place in the World\, a book published by Georgetown University. Before joining the Foreign Service\, he was manager for an international firm in New York City. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels webinar event. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nThis event was live streamed on WEAI’s Facebook Page. \n  \nDATE & TIME\n\nMay 21\, 2020 \n8:00 AM-9:00 AM EDT\n9:00 PM-10:00 PM JST\n  \nCosponsored by Asia Society URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/japan-versus-covid-19-a-conversation-with-h-e-taro-kono-minister-of-defense-of-japan/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200430T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200430T100000 DTSTAMP:20200504T193008Z CREATED:20200423T150519Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200504T193008Z UID:22459-1588237200-1588240800@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:LIVESTREAM — Japan in a COVID-19 World: A Discussion on Japan’s Responses to the Global Pandemic DESCRIPTION:Harukata Takenaka\, Professor of Political Science \n National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo  \n Gerald Curtis\, Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science \nDepartment of Political Science\, Columbia University \n  \nModerated by: \nTakako Hikotani\, Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy \nDepartment of Political Science\, Columbia University \n  \nJapan experienced one of the early outbreaks of COVID-19 with the Princess Diamond cruise ship incident in February\, and is currently seeing a return of rising case numbers throughout the country. How has the political leadership handled the situation\, both at the national and local level? How has the public responded to the government’s handling of the crisis? Is there any chance that the Japanese public could become more inclined toward a populist leader if the Abe administration mishandles the situation? \n  \nAbout the Speakers \nHarukata Takenaka is professor of political science at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. He specializes in comparative politics and international political economy\, with a particular focus on Japanese political economy. His research interests include democracy in Japan\, and Japan’s political and economic stagnation since the 1990s. He is currently working on aborted democratization in prewar Japan\, the politics of Japan’s financial crisis since the 1990s and the role of the Japanese Senate (House of Councilors) in postwar Japanese politics. \nHe received a B.A. from the Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. He is the author of Senze Nihon ni okeru Minshuka no Zasetsu [Aborted Democratization in Prewar Japan]\, (Bokutakusha\, 2002)\, and the co-editor of Akusesu Kokusai Seijikeizai [Access to International Political Economy]\,(Nihon Keizai Hyoronsha\, 2003). \nGerald Curtis (Ph.D.\, Columbia\, 1968) is Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science at Columbia University and concurrently Distinguished Research Fellow at the Tokyo Foundation. He served as Director of Columbia’s Weatherhead East Asian Institute for a total of twelve years between 1974 and 1990. \nProfessor Curtis is the author of The Logic of Japanese Politics\, The Japanese Way of Politics\, Election Campaigning Japanese Style\, Seiji to Sanma – Nihon to Kurashite 45 nen (Politics and Saury: 45 Years Living with Japan)and numerous other books and articles written in both English and Japanese and translated into Chinese\, Korean\, Thai and other languages. Professor Curtis has held appointments at the Royal Institute of International Affairs\, Chatham House\, London; the College de France\, Paris; the Lee Kwan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore; and in Tokyo at Keio\, Waseda\, and Tokyo Universities\, the Graduate Research Institute for Policy Studies\, and the International Institute of Economic Studies. He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Japan Society of New York\, the Japan Center for International Exchange USA\, and a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. He has served as Special Advisor to Newsweek for its Japanese and Korean language editions\, the International Advisory Board of the Asahi Shimbun\, the Advisory Council for the Center for Global Partnership of the Japan Foundation\, the Trilateral Commission\, the Board of Directors of the US-Japan Foundation and as Director of the U.S.-Japan Parliamentary Exchange Program. \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels webinar event. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nThis event was live streamed on WEAI’s Facebook Page. \n  \nDATE & TIME\n\nApril 30\, 2020 \n9:00 AM-10:00 AM\n  \nCosponsored by the Suntory Foundation URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/japan-in-a-covid-19-world-a-discussion-on-japans-responses-to-the-global-pandemic/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200424T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200424T133000 DTSTAMP:20200423T152047Z CREATED:20200224T210901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200423T152047Z UID:22004-1587729600-1587735000@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED — China's Age of Abundance: Population\, Distribution\, and Implications DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute and China Center for Social Policy Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nWang Feng\, Professor of Sociology\, \nUniversity of California\, Irvine \n  \nModerated by: \nJeanette C. Takamura\nDean Emerita of the Faculty of Social Work; Professor of Gerontology and Social Policy \nColumbia University \n  \n\nIn the last four decades\, especially the last two\, China’s integration into the global economy has created one of the greatest and most transformative economic miracles in human history. China is now basking under an age of abundance. Among the important factors that have led to China’s economic miracle\, is its population change. China’s growth has also been accompanied by an unprecedented rise in economic and increasingly social inequality. Using an economic life-cycle approach\, this talk examines changes in labor income and consumption over the life cycle\, and in the country’s lifecycle surplus over the last decade\, which is still quite sizable now but has started to slow down in its growth rate. Rapid population aging and persistent inequalities are two major headwinds that are likely to contribute to the ending of this age of abundance. \n  \n\n\nAs a leading expert on demography\, aging\, and inequality\, Wang Feng is Professor of Sociology at University of California\, Irvine and Professor (invited) at Fudan University\, Shanghai. He was a Nonresident Senior Fellow at Brookings-Tsinghua Center for Public Policy (2013-2016)\, Senior Fellow at The Brookings Institution (2010-2013)\, Professor at Tsinghua University (2011-2013) and Invited Visiting Professor at Keio University\, Japan. Dr. Wang’s research focuses on social inequality in post-socialist societies\, global demographic change and consequences and migration and social reintegration in China. Dr. Wang is the author of multiple award-winning books and is a contributor to leading global media outlets. Dr. Wang’s work has been supported by various funding sources such as Pacific Rim Research Program\, John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation\, the Ford Foundation and American Council of Learned Societies. \n\nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nApril 24\, 2020 \n12:00 PM-1:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nSchool of Social Work\, Room C05 \n1255 Amsterdam Ave \n  \nCosponsored by: School of Social Work\, Columbia University URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/chinas-age-of-abundance-population-distribution-and-implications/ CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200416T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200416T193000 DTSTAMP:20200313T131234Z CREATED:20200210T182227Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200313T131234Z UID:21864-1587056400-1587065400@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED - China\, Inner Asian Empires\, and Climate: Plugging Science into History from a Historian’s Perspective DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nNicola Di Cosmo\, Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian History\, \nInstitute for Advanced Study \nModerated by: \nGray Tuttle\, Leila Hadley Luce Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies\, \nColumbia University \nThree decades of climatological research in Mongolia and neighboring regions have transformed our knowledge about the environmental history of Inner Asian empires. The processes that gave rise to these political formations\, many of which have played a distinct and crucial role in Chinese history\, are still very poorly understood. High-resolution climatic reconstructions\, when placed in historical contexts\, provide clues about the nomads’ responses to climatic variability\, and thus illuminate critical nexuses between economic production\, social structures\, and political change. By illustrating a range of representative historical cases studies\, this lecture will explore both the nature of the data and the methods that historians and climatologists have adopted to gauge the impact of climate upon pre-modern nomadic peoples \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nNicola Di Cosmo received his Ph.D. from the Department of Uralic and Altaic Studies (now Central Eurasian Studies) at Indiana University in 1991\, and held research and teaching positions at the University of Cambridge\, Harvard University\, and the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) before joining the Institute for Advanced Study in 2003. His main field of research is the history of the relations between China and Inner Asia from prehistory to the modern period. Within that broad area he has published on the early history of China’s relations with steppe nomads (e.g.\, Ancient China and Its Enemies: The Rise of Nomadic Powers in East Asian History\, 2002) and on Mongol and Manchu history (e.g.\, Manchu-Mongol Relations on the Eve of the Qing Conquest\, 2003)\, and he has edited several books\, including Military Culture in Imperial China (2009) and The Cambridge History of Inner Asia (2009). His most recent works explore the use of proxy data from climatology and other palaeosciences in the study of the history of China and Central Asia\, with special reference to early Eurasian nomads\, the Mongol empire\, and the Qing dynasty. \n  \nThis is a Lectures and Panels Event. \nRegistration Required. Please register here. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nApril 16\, 2020 \n5:00 PM-6:30 PM Lecture\n6:30 PM-7:30 PM Reception \n  \nADDRESS\n\nThe Italian Academy\, Library \n1161 Amsterdam Ave \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \nCosponsors: Modern Tibet Studies Program\, Department of History\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/china-inner-asian-empires-and-climate-plugging-science-into-history-from-a-historians-perspective/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200403T180000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200403T193000 DTSTAMP:20200316T131701Z CREATED:20200214T201346Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200316T131701Z UID:21918-1585936800-1585942200@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Visualizing Koryŏ Buddhism: New Insights from Temple Excavations DESCRIPTION:Center for Korean Research Colloquium\nPlease join us for a talk with: \nSem Vermeersch\, Associate Professor of Buddhism \nSeoul National University \nDespite a growing body of research on the Koryŏ Dynasty (918–1392)\, in world history it still remains a somewhat peripheral presence. Beyond its celadon\, there is not really any image that is readily associated with Koryŏ culture. The Mongol invasions of the 13th century certainly played a role in destroying vital visual documentation\, as did the looting of the old capital\, Kaesŏng\, amidst the vicissitudes of modern Korean history. Kaesŏng is again closed off for archeological surveys\, but even with the application of the most advanced archeological techniques may yield little vital new information. By contrast\, in the south there is growing awareness of Koryŏ remains within South Korea. The excavation of the Hoeam-sa site in the late 20th century is probably a watershed moment\, showing the rich potential of Koryŏ archeology. In this presentation I will focus however mainly on the excavation of early Koryŏ temples located along the middle reaches of the Namhan River. Rather than giving a detailed overview of these sites\, however\, I will mainly be trying to ascertain how these may help to revise our knowledge of Koryŏ Buddhism and its material culture. \nSem Vermeersch is a historian of Korean Buddhism. He is associate professor at the Department of Religious Studies\, Seoul National University\, and concurrently serves as the director of the International Center for Korean Studies\, Kyujanggak Institute for Korean Studies. His major field is the history of Korean Buddhism\, focusing particularly on the organizational aspects of the religion\, its social and political contexts\, and its position within East Asian Buddhism. His recent publications include A Chinese Traveler in Medieval Korea: An Illustrated Account of the Xuanhe Embassy to Koryŏ (Honolulu: University of Hawaiʻi Press\, 2016)\, “Views on Buddhist Precepts and Morality in Late Koryŏ” (Journal of Korean Religions 7:1 (2016))\, and “Archival Practice in Premodern Korea: Record-Keeping as Archive and Historiography” (The Journal of Korean Studies 24:2 (2019)). \n  \nThis is a Panels and Lectures event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nApril 3\, 2020 \n6:00 PM-7:30 PM \n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by: Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, Columbia University; Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Columbia University; Academy of Korean Studies\, Seoul\, South Korea URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/visualizing-koryo-buddhism-new-insights-from-temple-excavations/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200403T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200403T133000 DTSTAMP:20200312T132020Z CREATED:20200224T212100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200312T132020Z UID:22015-1585915200-1585920600@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED - The Ambitious Push for Clean Energy in East Asia: Developmental Environmentalism in China and South Korea DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a talk with: \nElizabeth Thurbon\, Deputy Head of School (Research)\, Scientia Fellow and Associate Professor of International Relations / International Political Economy at the School of Social Sciences\, \nUniversity of New South Wales \nModerated by: \nNicholas Bartlett\, Assistant Professor\, AMEC/EALAC\, \nBarnard College and Columbia University \nThe speaker will offer a talk on a major Australian Research Council-funded project examining East Asia’s clean energy shift through the lens of ‘developmental environmentalism’ – with a focus on South Korea and China. This is a collaborative project with John Mathews\, Sung-Young Kim and Hao Tan. A book based on this research is currently under review at Oxford University Press. \nDr. Elizabeth Thurbon is Deputy Head of School (Research)\, Scientia Fellow and Associate Professor of International Relations / International Political Economy at the School of Social Sciences\, UNSW Sydney. She holds a Ph.D. in Government (International Political Economy) from the University of Sydney. Her research specialism is the political economy of techno-industrial development and change\, with a particular focus on East Asia and Australia. Her most significant contributions to the field examine the rise and transformation of Northeast Asia’s developmental states\, and the relationship between international trade and financial integration and the pursuit of transformative economic and social goals in Australia and the region. She has written widely on these topics for academic and popular audiences. Her most recent book Developmental Mindset: Revival of Financial Activism in South Korea (2016\, Cornell University Press) examines the ways in which developmental ways of thinking have informed a strategic approach to financial policy in South Korea from the 1960s to the present. She is also the co-author (with Linda Weiss and John Mathews) of two popular books on Australian political economy: National Insecurity (2007\, Allen & Unwin) and How to Kill a Country (2004\, Allen & Unwin)\, the latter short-listed for the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award for Advancing Public Debate. She has been a regular contributor to public debates on Australian trade and industry policy and was Guest Editor of a 2015 Special Issue of the Australian Journal of International Affairs dedicated to this topic. \n  \nThis is a Panels and Lectures event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nApril 3\, 2020 \n12:00 PM-1:30 PM \n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-ambitious-push-for-clean-energy-in-east-asia-developmental-environmentalism-in-china-and-south-korea/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200402T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200402T173000 DTSTAMP:20200316T131634Z CREATED:20200210T204349Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200316T131634Z UID:21871-1585843200-1585848600@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED: The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War DESCRIPTION:Center for Korean Research Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nMonica Kim\, Associate Professor of History\, \nNew York University \nTraditional histories of the Korean War have long focused on violations of the thirty-eighth parallel\, the line drawn by American and Soviet officials in 1945 dividing the Korean peninsula. But The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War presents an entirely new narrative\, shifting the perspective from the boundaries of the battlefield to inside the interrogation room. Upending conventional notions of what we think of as geographies of military conflict\, Monica Kim demonstrates how the Korean War evolved from a fight over territory to one over human interiority and the individual human subject\, forging the template for the US wars of intervention that would predominate during the latter half of the twentieth century and beyond. \nKim looks at how\, during the armistice negotiations\, the United States and their allies proposed a new kind of interrogation room: one in which POWs could exercise their “free will” and choose which country they would go to after the ceasefire. The global controversy that erupted exposed how interrogation rooms had become a flashpoint for the struggles between the ambitions of empire and the demands for decolonization\, as the aim of interrogation was to produce subjects who attested to a nation’s right to govern. The complex web of interrogators and prisoners—Japanese-American interrogators\, Indian military personnel\, Korean POWs and interrogators\, and American POWs—that Kim uncovers contradicts the simple story in US popular memory of “brainwashing” during the Korean War. \nBringing together a vast range of sources that track two generations of people moving between three continents\, The Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War delves into an essential yet overlooked aspect of modern warfare in the twentieth century. \n  \nThis is a Lectures and Panels Event. \nNo registration required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nApril 2\, 2020 \n4:00 PM-5:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nKent Hall\, Room 403 \n1140 Amsterdam Ave \n  \nCosponsors: Academy of Korean Studies; Department on East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Columbia university; the University Seminar URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-interrogation-rooms-of-the-korean-war/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200402T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200402T133000 DTSTAMP:20200313T131318Z CREATED:20200224T212701Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200313T131318Z UID:22019-1585828800-1585834200@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Parental Migration\, Caretaking Arrangements\, and Children's Delinquency and Victimization in Rural China DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute and China Center for Social Policy Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nXiaojin Chen\, Associate Professor\, \nTulane University \n  \nModerated by: \nYao Lu\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Department of Sociology\, \nColumbia University \n  \n\nXiaojin Chen is an associate professor in the Department of Sociology at Tulane University in New Orleans\, LA. His research interest includes life-course criminology\, the well-being of socially and economically disadvantaged children\, and the application of advanced statistical techniques. His recent research focuses on delinquency and victimization among children of rural-to-urban migrants in rural China. \n\nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nApril 02\, 2020 \n12:00 PM-1:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nSchool of Social Work\, Room C03 \n1255 Amsterdam Ave \n  \nCosponsored by: School of Social Work\, Columbia University URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/parental-migration-caretaking-arrangements-and-childrens-delinquency-and-victimization-in-rural-china/ CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200326T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200326T133000 DTSTAMP:20200312T131949Z CREATED:20200110T162435Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200312T131949Z UID:21444-1585224000-1585229400@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Welfare for Autocrats: How Social Assistance in China Cares for its Rulers DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute and China Center for Social Policy Event\nPlease join for a lecture with: \nJennifer Pan\, Assistant Professor of Communication \nStanford University \nModerated by: \nYao Lu\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Department of Sociology \nColumbia University \nWhat are the costs of the Chinese regime’s fixation on quelling dissent in the name of political order\, or “stability”? This book project shows how China has reshaped its major social assistance program\, Dibao\, around this preoccupation\, turning an effort to alleviate poverty into a tool of surveillance and repression. Novel datasets and a variety of methodologies show how this distortion of Dibao damages perceptions of government competence and legitimacy and can trigger unrest among those denied benefits. The project traces the transformation of China’s approach to enforcing order at the turn of the 21st century and identifies the phenomenon of seepage whereby one policy—in this case\, quelling dissent—alters the allocation of resources and goals of unrelated areas of government. \n  \nJennifer Pan is an Assistant Professor of Communication at Stanford University. Her research examines the strategies authoritarian regimes employ to perpetuate their rule\, including censorship\, redistribution\, and responsiveness\, using large-scale data from traditional and digital media as well as experiments on media platforms. Her work has appeared in the American Political Science Review\, American Journal of Political Science\, Comparative Political Studies\, Science\, and other peer-reviewed publications. \nPan received her Ph.D. from Harvard University’s Department of Government. She graduated from Princeton University\, summa cum laude\, in 2004\, and until 2009\, she was a consultant at McKinsey & Company based in New York and Beijing. She has also worked for the Chinese Center for Disease Control\, the Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative\, and the Clinton Global Initiative. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures Series event. \nNo registration Required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nMarch 26\, 2020 \n12:00 PM-1:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nSchool of Social Work\, Room  C03 \n1255 Amsterdam Ave \n  \nCosponsored by: School of Social Work\, Columbia University URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/welfare-for-repression-chinas-use-of-social-assistance-to-suppress-protest-and-contention/ CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200312T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200312T133000 DTSTAMP:20200313T131203Z CREATED:20200110T161951Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200313T131203Z UID:21438-1584014400-1584019800@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Blue-Water Horizon: One Thousand Years of the Sino-Southeast Asian Embrace DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nEric Tagliacozzo\, Professor of History \nCornell University \n  \nModerated by: \nLien-Hang Nguyen\, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia \nColumbia University \n  \n\nThis presentation takes a macro-historical look at how diasporas\, trade\, and networks developed in the “adolescence” of Sino-Southeast Asian contact\, in the time-period roughly covered by the thousand years between 600 and 1600 CE.  We know very little about the “infancy” of these dealings\, in the years before the T’ang. But by that dynasty\, patterns of contact slowly began to develop on a more systemic basis\, particularly with some of the coastal landscapes of Monsoon Asia\, into and including the Indian Ocean.  This event examines the growth and eventual flourishing of these interactions\, especially through the power of commercial networks focused on certain specific commodities\, and try to situate them in the larger milieu of what is often called the maritime silk road.  By focusing on export ceramics heading south\, and marine biota heading north\, we can learn much about how networks actually worked on the oceanic pathways of Asia.  Southeast Asia was the pivot between the South China Sea and the Indian Ocean: two vast “blue-water horizons”. \n  \n\n\nEric Tagliacozzo is the John Stambaugh Professor of History at Cornell University.  He is the author of Secret Trades\, Porous Borders: Smuggling and States along a Southeast Asian Frontier (Yale\, 2005) which won the Harry Benda Prize from the Association of Asian Studies\, and more recently of The Longest Journey: Southeast Asians and the Pilgrimage to Mecca (Oxford\, 2013).  He is also the editor or co-editor of ten other books\, including the Asia Inside Outtrilogy\, from Harvard University Press.  He is the Director of Cornell’s Comparative Muslim Societies Program (CMS)\, as well as Cornell’s Modern Indonesia Project (CMIP)\, and serves as editor of the journal INDONESIA.  His newest monograph\, In Asian Waters: Charting Asia’s Maritime History From Yemen to Yokohama\, will appear next year with Princeton University Press. \n\nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nMarch 12\, 2020 \n12:00 PM-1:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/southeast-asian-studies-past-present-future/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T160000 DTSTAMP:20200309T142414Z CREATED:20200224T215107Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200309T142414Z UID:22033-1583764200-1583769600@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED - When Leather becomes a Frog: Traditional and Contemporary Amdo Pastoralists DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n  \nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nChenaktsang Dorje Tsering (Jangbu) \nInstitut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales (INACLO)\, Paris \n  \nModerated by: \nEveline Washul\, Modern Tibetan Studies Program\, WEAI\n \nColumbia University \n  \nEvent summary: \nThe last 120 years has been a time of change for pastoralists throughout the eastern region of Tibet\, with clear periods and contexts for the greatest instances of transformation. Chenaktsang Dorje Tsering was born into a pastoralist household and many of his family members continue the pastoralist way of life. Because he has maintained his ties to his pastoralist roots\, he has a clear sense of the conditions and changes faced by pastoralists. In his talk\, he will discuss what he identifies as some of the main transformations for pastoralists based on the experiences of four generations of his family combined with his own observations.  \n  \n\nChenaktsang Dorje Tsering (Lce nag tshang Rdo rje Tshe ring) was born in Sog po (present-day Henan Mongolian Autonomous County) in Qinghai province\, China\, in 1963. He is best known under the pen name Jangbu (Ljang bu). He is of Mongolian nationality but writes in Tibetan. He is one of the most prominent of contemporary Tibetan writers\, known especially for his innovative free verse poetry and short stories that have been labelled by some as “magic realist”. He graduated from the Northwest Nationalities University in Lanzhou in 1988 and later became editor of the prestigious Tibetan journal Bod kyi rtsom rig sgyul rtsal (Tibet Literature and Art).  \nIn recent years he has been a Lecturer at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris\, where he has taught courses in Tibetan language and literature. In addition to being a writer and lecturer\, he has directed and produced documentaries on tantric Tibetan yogis\, Tibetan nuns\, the effects of tourism on Tibetan communities around the famous Lake Kokonor in Qinghai\, and the social and environmental implications of the harvesting of yartsa günbu–the much sought-after caterpillar fungus–on the Tibetan plateau.  \n  \n  \n\nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nMarch 9\, 2020 \n2:30 PM-4:00 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by: Modern Tibetan Studies Program\, Columbia University URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/when-leather-becomes-a-frog-traditional-and-contemporary-amdo-pastoralists/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200305T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200305T133000 DTSTAMP:20200228T144954Z CREATED:20200225T191033Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T144954Z UID:22039-1583409600-1583415000@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Revolutionary Diplomacy\, Diasporic Politics: China\, Indonesia and the Cold War DESCRIPTION:NYSEAN Event\n  \nThis event has been CANCELLED due to travel restrictions. \n  \nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nTaomo Zhou\, Assistant Professor of History \nNanyang Technological University\, Singapore \n  \nModerated by: \nLien-Hang Nguyen\, Dorothy Borg Associate Professor in the History of the United States and East Asia \nColumbia University \n  \n\nThe overseas Chinese in Indonesia and elsewhere have often been seen as a resource for Beijing’s advancement of its interests abroad\, despite the resistance of many Chinese diaspora to such characterizations. In 1965-1966\, Indonesian Army general Suharto led a nation-wide anti-communist campaign\, which escalated into one of the worst mass killings in the twentieth century. Suharto and his followers fanned racial tension by associating Chinese ethnicity with communism in their propaganda. As a result\, many ordinary Chinese Indonesians—an ethnic minority who allegedly played an important economic role but with dubious national allegiance—were harassed\, imprisoned\, or expelled from the archipelago by implications. During its three-decade reign\, the Suharto regime institutionalized discrimination against the Chinese based on the charge that they were used by Beijing for exporting communist revolution. This talk will investigate the veracity of Suharto regime’s accusation of the overseas Chinese as Beijing’s proxy. More broadly\, it will explore the spaces where high diplomacy and everyday life experiences of the diaspora intersected in the mid-20th century and beyond. \n  \n\n\nTaomo Zhou is an Assistant Professor of History at Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore\, specializing in modern Chinese and Southeast Asian history. Taomo received her B.A. from Peking University and Waseda University\, M. Sc. with Distinction from the London School of Economics and Ph.D. from Cornell University. \n\nThis is a Lectures and Panels event. \nRegistration required. Please register here. \nFor inquiries\, please contact: sp3743@columbia.edu. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nMarch 5\, 2020 \n12:00 PM-1:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by: Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, Columbia University URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/revolutionary-diplomacy-diasporic-politics-china-indonesia-and-the-cold-war/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200304T121500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200304T134500 DTSTAMP:20200224T154516Z CREATED:20200224T142559Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200224T154516Z UID:21995-1583324100-1583329500@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Improving Quality of Long-term Care in China DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute and China Center for Social Policy Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nBei Wu\, Dean’s Professor in Global Health\, Rory Meyers College of Nursing; \nCo-Director\, NYU Aging Incubator\, New York University \n  \nModerated by: \nJinyu Liu\, Associate Professor\, School of Social Work\, Columbia University \n  \n\nChina’s aging population is growing rapidly\, with a significant increase of persons with chronic diseases\, physical disabilities\, and cognitive impairment.  This is occurring at a time when the nation is facing an erosion of the family support system.  All these factors impose a great challenge to the long-term care (LTC) system in China.  This presentation will cover the following areas: the challenges of long-term care system in China\, the history of LTC policy development\, and the development of person-centered care to improve quality of LTC. \n  \n\n\nBei Wu is Dean’s Professor in Global Health\, Rory Meyers College of Nursing\, Co-Director\, NYU Aging Incubator\, New York University. As a principal investigator\, she has led a significant number of projects supported by federal agencies\, such as the National Institutes of Health and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. She is leading an ongoing NIH-funded clinical trial to improve oral health for persons with cognitive impairment. \nWu earned her PhD and MS in Gerontology from the University of Massachusetts\, Boston\, and BS from Shanghai University. She is an internationally known leader in gerontology. Her research areas cover a wide range of topics related to aging and global health\, including oral health\, long-term care\, dementia\, and caregiving. She has published over 400 peer-reviewed papers\, books\, and conference abstracts and has delivered presentations at hundreds of conferences as an invited speaker. Wu is a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America\, Association for Gerontology in Higher Education\, and the New York Academy of Medicine. \n\nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nMarch 04\, 2020 \n12:15 PM-1:45 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nSchool of Social Work\, Room C03 \n1255 Amsterdam Ave URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/improving-quality-of-long-term-care-in-china/ CATEGORIES:Lecture Series,Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200228T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200228T180000 DTSTAMP:20200224T171953Z CREATED:20200214T200847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200224T171953Z UID:21913-1582907400-1582912800@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Staging Korean Diaspora: Uncharted Border and Ideological Disorientation DESCRIPTION:Center for Korean Research-University Seminar\nPlease join us for a talk with: \nMiseong Woo\, Associate Professor of English Language and Literature \nYonsei University \nThis is a Panels and Lectures event. \n*By invitation only. Not open to the public. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 28\, 2020 \n4:30 PM-6:00 PM \n  \nADDRESS\n\nGarden Room 2\, Faculty House \n64 Morningside Drive \n  \nCosponsored by: Princeton University URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/staging-korean-diaspora-uncharted-border-and-ideological-disorientation/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200226T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200226T173000 DTSTAMP:20200124T173035Z CREATED:20200110T161439Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200124T173035Z UID:21434-1582732800-1582738200@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Narrating East Asian International Relations from the Margins DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nChing-Chang Chen\, Associate Professor\, Department of Global Studies \nRyukoku University\, Kyoto \nVisiting Fellow in the Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs \nNew School\, New York \n  \nModerated by: \nAndrew Nathan\, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science \nDepartment of Political Science\, Columbia University \n  \nThis talk invites the audience to reflect on how we usually look at the world around us\, East Asian international relations in this case\, and consider what if we stop using the familiar state-centric\, great-power-centered lens to do so. Specifically\, it will excavate the discursive practices employed by relevant state and substate actors in framing\, contesting and (dis)assembling totalizing claims over Ryukyu/Okinawa and Taiwan\, as Japan’s and China’s margins\, since the late nineteenth century. Drawing on Michel Foucault’s conceptions of power as productive and discursive and Giorgio Agamben’s analysis of the logic of sovereign power\, Dr. Chen argues that the aforementioned “margins” as spaces of exception are sites central to the constitution\, production and maintenance of Chinese and Japanese state identities\, which have been repeatedly performed through violent material and discursive practices concealing these two states’ lack of ontological foundation. His talk will look at how the state-centric narratives employed by the Chinese and Japanese authorities have worked to limit\, curtail and suppress their locally generated counter-narratives in such cases as the Mudanshe Incident/Taiwan Expedition (1874)\, the Diaoyutai/Senkaku Islands dispute and boundary-making between Okinawa and Taiwan. At the same time\, these cases also show that measures to contain resistance to the state’s production of “exceptions” cannot fully succeed\, not least because the state would fade away should its identity formation be successful in the terms in which it is articulated. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nChing-Chang Chen is an associate professor in the Department of Global Studies at Ryukoku University\, Kyoto and a visiting fellow in the Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs at the New School\, New York. Having served in Taiwan’s military as a low-ranking army officer stationed on an offshore island near the People’s Republic\, he was attracted to the field of critical security studies and published on the relationship between threat perceptions and national identity construction in Issues & Studies and Journal of Chinese Political Science. His interest in such perceptions\, in turn\, led him to study knowledge production about the “international” in different geocultural sites. In International Relations of the Asia Pacific\, Asian Perspective\, Cambridge Review of International Affairs and the Oxford Bibliographies\, he takes issue with a common tendency in the study of International Relations that treats various states and non-/substate actors in Asia as mere research objects\, as if they had no own ideas about world politics or no history that can inform IR theorizing. Dr. Chen is a co-editor of The North Korea Crisis and Regional Responses (East-West Center\, 2015) and has contributed to such volumes as Critical Imaginations in International Relations (Routledge\, 2016)\, Palgrave Handbook of Disciplinary and Regional Approaches to Peace (Palgrave\, 2016)\, Asia in International Relations: Unlearning Imperial Power Relations (Routledge\, 2017)\, and China and International Theory: The Balance of Relationships (Routledge\, 2019). \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 26\, 2020 \n4:00 PM-5:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/narrating-east-asian-international-relations-from-the-margins/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200226T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200226T133000 DTSTAMP:20200226T171627Z CREATED:20200110T153135Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200226T171627Z UID:21425-1582718400-1582723800@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Japan’s Diplomacy in 2030 DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nNoriyuki Shikata\, Associate\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University;  Former Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary\, Deputy Chief of Mission\, Embassy of Japan in Beijing  \nCommentator: Gerald Curtis\, Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science\, Columbia University \n  \nModerated by: \nTakako Hikotani\, Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy\,  \nDepartment of Political Science\, Columbia University \n  \nThe Abe administration (2012-) and its diplomacy has been remarkably stable despite the geopolitical challenges and instability of its alliance partner\, the United States. Is Japan going to stay its course\, or are we going to witness major changes in the years ahead? Mr. Shikata\, based on his extensive diplomatic experience\, will discuss how he forecasts Japan’s diplomacy in 2030. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nNoriyuki Shikata holds a B.A. in Law from Kyoto University and Master of Public Policy (MPP) from Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Most recently\, he was the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary\, Deputy Chief of Mission\, Embassy of Japan in China. His other prior positions include: Deputy Director General\, Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau; Director\, Economic Treaties Division\, International Legal Affairs Bureau; and Director\, Second North America Division\, North America Bureau. Mr. Shikata has also been a Visiting Professor at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Law/Public Policy. While at Harvard\, he will conduct research on an emerging U.S. policy toward China and the Indo-Pacific region. His Twitter handle is: @norishikata. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration Required. \nLivestream available at: https://youtu.be/BpUrX60jaFo \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 26\, 2020 \n12:00 PM-1:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  \nCosponsors: Toyota Fund\, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/japans-diplomacy-in-2030/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200224T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200224T180000 DTSTAMP:20200130T183945Z CREATED:20200110T152830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T183945Z UID:21420-1582560000-1582567200@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:The Global Rush to Foreign Direct Investment Screenings DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nGiulio Napolitano\, Professor\,  \nRoma Tre University \n  \nModerated by: \nKarl P. Sauvant \nColumbia University Law School \n  \nIntroduction by: \nMaria Adele Carrai \nAssociate Research Scholar\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute \nMarie Curie Fellow\, KU Leuven School of Law \n  \nThe 20th century ended with a proliferation of global and regional free trade and investment agreements aimed at breaking down obstacles and barriers to the movement of goods and capital. Since the beginning of the 21st century and even more after the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008\, however\, things have begun to change. Foreign investment\, in principle\, continues to be welcome. However\, suspicions and fears about foreign investments have gradually grown. To this have contributed\, on the one hand\, the weakening of traditional financial\, industrial and social structures; on the other\, China’s increasingly ambitious economic and geopolitical expansionism policy. In some countries\, this distrust and fears have been wisely exploited at the political level and placed at the base of a more general neo-protectionist agenda\, as demonstrated by the experience of the Trump administration. How it possible to reconcile the objective of attracting foreign investments and thus promoting economic development with the need to protect national security and strategic interests? The Roundtable will answer this question by looking at the situation in the EU\, the US\, and China. \n  \nAbout the Speakers: \nProfessor Giulio Napolitano has been a Full Professor of administrative law at the Faculty of Law of the Roma Tre University in Rome since 2012 (where he holds a course in Comparative Administrative Law taught in English)\, after having been a full professor of Public Law at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Tuscia (2004-2008) and at the Faculty of Political Science of the Roma Tre University of Rome (2008-2012). He has also recently been teaching a course in Comparative Administrative Law at the Radzyner Law School of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya\, Israel (2016)\, and the Faculty of Law of Heidelberg University in Germany (2017). He has also taught the Comparative Public Law course at the Global Law School of the Catholic University of Portugal’s Faculty of Law (2018). He is a member of the Governing Council of the International Society of Public Law and the Board of Editors of the European Review of Public Law. He authored a textbook on administrative law for university teaching\, now in its second edition (La logica del diritto amministrativo\, Mulino\, 2017)\, and over two hundred papers and journal articles published in Italian and international journals on general theory of administrative law\, public economic law\, market regulation\, EU law and sports law. \n  \nKarl P. Sauvant\, Ph.D.\, is Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School; Resident Senior Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI)\, a joint center of Columbia Law School and the Earth Institute at Columbia University; Guest Professor at Nankai University\, China; and former Theme Leader of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development/World Economic Forum Task Force on Investment Policy. Prior to that\, until February 2012\, Dr. Sauvant was the Founding Executive Director of the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment\, the predecessor of CCSI. Until July 2005\, Dr. Sauvant was Director of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD’s) Investment Division\, the focal point in the UN system for matters related to foreign direct investment\, as well as a major interface with the private sector. While at the UN\, he created\, in 1991\, the prestigious annual World Investment Report\, of which he was the lead author and head of the team preparing the report until 2004. He is the author of\, or responsible for\, a substantial number of publications on issues related to economic development\, FDI and services (see: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2461782 and http://www.works.bepress.com/karl_sauvant/). In 2011\, he was elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business; in 2006\, he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the European International Business Academy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration Required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 24\, 2020 \n4:00 PM-6:00 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and the European Institute at Columbia University. URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-global-rush-to-foreign-direct-investment-screenings/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200224T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200224T133000 DTSTAMP:20200408T203622Z CREATED:20200217T193654Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200408T203622Z UID:21950-1582545600-1582551000@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:The Coronavirus epidemic in China and beyond: A panel discussion DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n  \n \n  \nFeaturing: \nHuang Yanzhong\, Senior Fellow for Global Health\, Council on Foreign Relations; Professor and Director of Global Health Studies\, \nSeton Hall University \nYang Wan\, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology\, Mailman School of Public Health\, \nColumbia University \nNicholas Bartlett\, Assistant Professor\, AMEC/EALAC\, \nBarnard College and Columbia University \n  \nModerated by: \nWeiping Wu\, Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the M.S. Urban Planning Program \nColumbia University \nPlease join us for an interdisciplinary conversation about China’s response to the coronavirus. With Huang Yanzhuong\, Yan Wan and Nick Bartlett\, moderated by Weiping Wu. This panel will feature brief presentations and a conversation about the emergence and recent response to the current outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19)\, with a particular focus on recent efforts aiming to treat and prevent additional infections. Drawing on perspectives from epidemiology\, public health and governance\, urban planning\, and medical anthropology\, the panelists will discuss recent developments and reflect on the potential consequences for social life in China and beyond. The event will include extended time for discussion with the audience. \nAbout the Speakers: \nYanzhong Huang is a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations\, where he directs the Global Health Governance roundtable series. He is also professor and director of global health studies at Seton Hall University’s School of Diplomacy and International Relations\, where he developed the first academic concentration among U.S. professional schools of international affairs that explicitly addresses the security and foreign policy aspects of health issues. He is the founding editor of Global Health Governance: The Scholarly Journal for the New Health Security Paradigm and the author of Governing Health in Contemporary China (Routledge 2013) and Toxic Politics: China’s environmental health crisis and the challenge to the state (Cambridge\, forthcoming). \nWan Yang is an assistant professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health trained as an environmental engineer and infectious disease modeler interested in understanding how infectious diseases spread through the population\, as well as methods to model and predict these epidemics. She is also developing forecast systems to predict outbreaks of infectious diseases. In addition\, she studies how environmental factors influence the transmission of influenza\, its seasonality\, and the underlying mechanisms. \nNick Bartlett is an assistant professor at Barnard College\, Columbia University’s department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures. He worked in public health in China before training as a medical anthropologist. In addition to current research exploring the adoption of psychodynamic traditions in mental health interventions in China\, he is author of the forthcoming Recovering Histories: Life and labor after heroin in Reform-era China. \nWeiping Wu is Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia GSAPP and Director of the M.S. Urban Planning program. Trained in architecture and urban planning\, Prof. Wu has focused her research and teaching on understanding urban dynamics in developing countries in general and China in particular. She is an internationally acclaimed urban and planning scholar working on global urbanization with a specific expertise in issues of migration\, housing\, and infrastructure of Chinese cities. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nRegistration required. Please register here. \nA livestream will also be available by visiting https://youtu.be/A2KoGTOQ__E \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 24\, 2020 \n12:00 PM-1:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by the China Center for Social Policy URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-coronavirus-epidemic-in-china-and-beyond-a-panel-discussion/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200217T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200217T173000 DTSTAMP:20200131T192733Z CREATED:20200110T152614Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200131T192733Z UID:21415-1581955200-1581960600@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:People\, Animals\, and Island Encounters: A Pig’s History of the Pacific DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join for a lecture with: \nJordan Sand\, Professor of Japanese History\, Georgetown University \n  \nModerated by: \nJames Gerien-Chen\, Postdoctoral Research Scholar\,  \nWeatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University \n  \nThe event will be a talk on “transpacific empires\,” a new research interest of Professor Sand’s and the subject of an undergraduate/graduate student seminar he is teaching this semester. The talk will also be of interest to scholars interested in empire\, environmental history\, and transnational approaches to East Asian\, North American\, and indigenous social science and histories. The abstract follows below. \n  \nFrom Micronesians and Polynesians to Europeans\, Chinese and Okinawans\, when people first traveled to islands in the Pacific\, they brought domesticated animals with them. As food sources and as companions\, these animals had an important role in shaping island societies and in mediating encounters between travelers\, settlers\, and indigenes. This lecture will trace the place of pigs in encounters between these groups in Hawaii\, Ryūkyū/Okinawa\, and Japan\, from the time of the earliest settlement until after World War II. At the same time\, it will show how the ways travelers talked and wrote about domestic animals in other societies revealed their understandings of property\, freedom\, and human society. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nJordan Sand is Professor of Japanese History at Georgetown University in Washington\, DC. He teaches modern Japanese history and other topics in East Asian history\, as well as urban history and the world history of food. He has a doctorate in history from Columbia University and Masters degree in architecture history from the University of Tokyo. His research and writing have focused on architecture\, urbanism\, material culture and the history of everyday life. House and Home in Modern Japan (Harvard\, 2004) explores the ways that westernizing reformers reinvented Japanese domestic space and family life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces\, Local Histories\, Found Objects (University of California Press\, 2013)\, analyzes problems of history and memory in the postindustrial city. Teikoku Nihon no seikatsu kūkan (Iwanami shoten\, 2015) examines colonialism in the Asia-Pacific through the lens of material culture\, bodily comportment and urban space. He has also written on the comparative history of urban fires and firefighting\, the history of Japanese food (including sushi\, miso\, and MSG)\, and topics in the study of heritage and museums. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nNo registration Required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 17\, 2020 \n4:00 PM-5:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/people-animals-and-island-encounters-a-pigs-history-of-the-pacific/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200215T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200215T150000 DTSTAMP:20200110T165027Z CREATED:20200109T190549Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200110T165027Z UID:21367-1581757200-1581778800@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Professional Development Workshop: "Innovative Ideas to Foster the 21st Century Minds" DESCRIPTION:Hunter College Professional Development Event\nJoin us for a lecture with: \nYing Jin\, Mandarin Chinese Teacher\, \nACTFL 2018 National Language Teacher of the Year \nCupertino High School & Homestead High School \n  \n• Are you running out of ideas to engage students in your world language classroom?\n• Are you wondering how to incorporate the ACTFL Three Modes of Communication in your teaching?\n• Are you bored repeating the same learning activities year after year? \n  \nPlease join us at this hands-on workshop led by Ms. Ying Jin\, ACTFL 2018 National Language Teacher of the Year. Ms. Jin will share step-by-step instructions for exciting and fresh activities such as Quiz Quiz Trade\, Ask Ask Trade\, Sentence Picture\, and Running Dictation\, just to name a few.\nQuestions about this workshop?\nPlease call 212-396-6595 or email Chineseflagship@hunter.cuny.edu \n  \nDETAILS\n\nSaturday\, February 15\, 2020 \n9:00 AM – 3:00 PM \nADDRESS\n\nHunter College West Building\, Room 603 \n695 Park Ave \n  \nRegister here. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Student Affairs Event \nCosponsor: Hunter\, The City University of New York URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/professional-development-workshop-innovative-ideas-to-foster-the-21st-century-minds/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T191500 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T203000 DTSTAMP:20200210T204030Z CREATED:20200123T212616Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200210T204030Z UID:21675-1581621300-1581625800@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:The Armenian genocide and Its "Unaccounted Lives" DESCRIPTION:Armenian Center Event\nPlease join us for a book talk with: \nHarry Harootunian \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 13\, 2020 \n7:15 PM-8:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  \nCosponsors: The Armenian Center at Columbia University and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research. URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-armenian-genocide-and-its-unaccounted-lives/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T183000 DTSTAMP:20200124T164909Z CREATED:20200110T152327Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200124T164909Z UID:21410-1581611400-1581618600@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Hong Kong in Turmoil: Defining the Contours of Sovereignty in China Today DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nAllen Carlson\, Associate Professor\, Cornell University \nJa-Ian Chong\, Associate Professor\, National University of Singapore \nVictoria Tin-bor Hui\, Associate Professor\, University of Notre Dame \n  \nModerated by: \nMaria Adele Carrai\, Associate Research Scholar\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute \nMarie Curie Fellow\, KU Leuven School of Law \n  \nThe current turmoil in Hong Kong and the tension between Chinese Central Government and the ex-British colony have to do with the definition of sovereignty. The transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong occurred at midnight on 1 July 1997\, when the United Kingdom ended administration for the colony of Hong Kong and returned control of the territory to China. However\, the sovereignty question started well before\, with the Treaty of Nanjing of 1842 that forced China to cede Hong Kong to Great Britain and that gave rise to the system of unequal treaties. Ever since a quest for sovereignty has characterized the modern history of China up to this very present. By bringing together leading scholars that have written about sovereignty in China\, the Roundtable aims at stimulating discussion and reflection about the legacies of history and the use and understanding of sovereignty in China today\, with particular reference to Hong Kong. \n  \nAbout the Speakers: \nAllen Carlson is an Associate Professor in Cornell University’s Government Department. He was granted his PhD from Yale University’s Political Science Department. His undergraduate degree is from Colby College. In 2005 he was chosen to participate in the National Committee’s Public Intellectuals Program\, and he currently serves as Director of Cornell’s China and Asia Pacific Studies program and advisor of its East Asia Program. Carlson is currently working on a project exploring the issue of nontraditional security in China’s emerging relationship with the rest of the international system. \n  \nJa Ian Chong is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. He previously worked at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington\, D.C. and the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies in Singapore and was a Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program fellow. Dr. Chong’s work crosses the fields of international relations\, comparative politics\, and political sociology\, with a focus on security issues relating to Asia\, China\, and the United States. He has particular interest in security cooperation\, major power rivalry\, and external intervention in domestic politics. Dr. Chong follows the interplay of social movements\, political liberalization and democratic backsliding\, and foreign policy in Asia closely. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute where he is working on a project comparing regional reactions to US-China competition in East Asia. \n  \nVictoria Tin-bor Hui received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University and her B.SSc. in Journalism from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Hui’s core research examines the centrality of war in the formation and transformation of “China” in the long span of history. She is the author of War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press\, 2005). She has also published “Toward a Dynamic Theory of International Politics” in International Organization\, “Testing Balance of Power Theory in World History” in the European Journal of International Relations\, “The Emergence and Demise of Nascent Constitutional Rights” in The Journal of Political Philosophy\, “Building Castles in the Sand” in the Chinese Journal of International Politics\, “History and Thought in China’s Traditions” in the Journal of Chinese Political Science\, and book chapters “How Tilly’s Warfare Paradigm Is Revolutionizing the Study of Chinese State-Making\,” “Cultural Diversity and Coercive Cultural Homogenization in Chinese History\,” “The China Dream: Revival of What Historical Greatness?”\, “Confucian Pacifism or Confucian Confusion?”\, “The Triumph of Domination in the Ancient Chinese System” and “Problematizing Sovereignty.” Hui also studies contentious politics. As a native from Hong Kong\, she has written “Will China Crush the Protests in Hong Kong? Why Beijing Doesn’t Need to Send in the Troops” in Foreign Affairs and “Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement: The Protest and Beyond” in the Journal of Democracy. She also maintains a blog on Hong Kong https://victoriatbhui.wordpress.com. She has extensively commented on Hong Kong politics in the media including the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage\, ChinaFile\, ABC\, the BBC\, the New York Times\, the Guardian\, Bloomberg\, Sky News\, NPR\, Vox\, and the Christian Science Monitor. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration Required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 13\, 2020 \n4:30 PM-6:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by: Columbia-Harvard China and The World Program and the European Institute at Columbia University URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/hong-kong-in-turmoil-defining-the-contours-of-sovereignty-in-china-today/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200212T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200212T193000 DTSTAMP:20200210T201739Z CREATED:20200123T200143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200210T201739Z UID:21666-1581525000-1581535800@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Killing the Chickens\, Scaring the Monkeys? Demonstration Effects from PRC Coercion and its Limits DESCRIPTION:Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program Event\n  \nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nJa Ian Chong\, Associate Professor of political Science\, \nNational University of Singapore \nModerated by: \nThomas Christensen\, Professor of International and Public Affairs\, \nColumbia University \nA common claim about PRC economic statecraft is that it aims to discourage states from engaging in behavior Beijing finds undesirable by visibly punishing third parties. However\, there is limited evidence about how such third-party punishment works\, particularly when states are more or less sensitive to such indirect demonstration effects. This talk seeks to address this question by examining the cases of the United Kingdom\, France\, Malaysia\, and Taiwan. We argue that states with experience of direct punishment tend to be more resistant to demonstrations of punishment toward third parties and more confident of their ability to navigate areas of potential friction. Even though our focus is on states\, similar reasoning about demonstration effects and their limits could apply to non-state entities as well. Our work here augments existing work on coercive diplomacy and economic statecraft tends to focus on the direct effects of threats and punishment and sometimes the audience costs the initiator faces. \nAbout the Speaker: \nJa Ian Chong is associate professor of political science at the National University of Singapore. He previously worked atthe Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington\, D.C. and the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies in Singapore and was a Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program fellow. Dr. Chong’s work crosses the fields of international relations\, comparative politics\, and political sociology\, with a focus on security issues relating to Asia\, China\, and the United States. He has particular interest in security cooperation\, major power rivalry\, and external intervention in domestic politics. Dr. Chong follows the interplay of social movements\, political liberalization and democratic backsliding\, and foreign policy in Asia closely. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute where he is working on a project comparing regional reactions to US-China competition in East Asia. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures Series event. \nNo registration required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 12\, 2020 \n4:30 PM-7:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  \nCosponsors:  Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/taiwans-new-southbound-policy-accomplishments-and-perceptions/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200211T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200211T173000 DTSTAMP:20200130T173950Z CREATED:20200116T152511Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T173950Z UID:21570-1581436800-1581442200@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:The Emotional Topography of the Zainichi Memoryscape: Korean Ghettos in Postwar Japan Revisited DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join for a lecture with: \nSayaka Chatani\, Assistant Professor of History\, \nNational University of Singapore \n  \nModerated by: \nKim Brandt\, Research Scholar\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, \n Columbia University \n  \nA Korean ghetto existed in every large Japanese city in the early postwar period\, and up to the late 1960s. These ghettos provoke the same images and associations in Japanese people’s memory: isolated\, dirty\, impoverished\, and dangerous. To many scholars the existence of ghettos confirms the transwar continuity of Japanese oppression of underclass ethnic minorities. But zainichi Koreans who grew up in ghettos\, or tongne\, often offer a number of spectacular heroic stories about living there. This presentation switches the focus from Japanese society to Koreans themselves\, and discusses the important sociopolitical functions of the tongne\, along with its continuing symbolic meanings. By viewing tongne as a post-liberation place of origin for zainichi\, and by paying attention to the reproduction of its meanings\, we can gain a better understanding of the uneven terrain of power relationships within zainichi society. In particular\, examination of Korean ghettos in Japan helps to explain why the (pro-North Korean) Chongryun organization exercised great cultural power at least until the 1970s and still defines the emotional topography of the zainichi memoryscape. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration Required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 11\, 2020 \n4:00 PM-5:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-emotional-topography-of-the-zainichi-memoryscape-korean-ghettos-in-postwar-japan-revisited/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200211T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200211T133000 DTSTAMP:20200130T210756Z CREATED:20200110T151941Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200130T210756Z UID:21404-1581422400-1581427800@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Workshop on Political Change and Policy Change in Japan DESCRIPTION:JASSA Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nSatoshi Machidori\, Professor of Law\, \nKyoto University’s Graduate School of Law \nHarukata Takenaka\,  \nProfessor of political science\,  \nNational Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo \n  \nModerated by: \nTakako Hikotani\, Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy\,  \nDepartment of Political Science\, Columbia University \n  \nComments by: \nHikaru Yamagishi\, PhD candidate\, Yale University \n  \nJapanese politics is known for its stability. But in the past twenty years\, there has been dramatic transformation both in the policy-making process and policy itself. What is the driving force of these changes? How has policies changed (or not changed) due to the changes in the policy making process? And most importantly\, would these changes enable Japan to deal with the demographic and geopolitical challenges it faces in the years ahead? This workshop will provide an opportunity to hear from Professors Satoshi Machidori and Harukata Takenaka are the two leading experts of Japanese politics in Japan. Brief presentations by both scholars will be followed by a discussion\, moderated by Takako Hikotani\, then a Q&A session with the audience. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nSatoshi Machidori is Professor at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Law. Earned his PhD in political science after doing graduate work at Kyoto University and taught at schools including Osaka University before arriving at his present post. Specializes in comparative political studies and American politics. His works include Seitō sisutemu to seitō soshiki(Party Systems and Party Organizations) and Daigisei minshushugi: “Min’i” to “seijika” o toinaosu (Representative Democracy: A Reconsideration of the Public Will and Politicians). \n  \nHarukata Takenaka is professor of political science at the National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies in Tokyo. He specializes in comparative politics and international political economy\, with a particular focus on Japanese political economy. His research interests include democracy in Japan\, and Japan’s political and economic stagnation since the 1990s. He is currently working on aborted democratization in prewar Japan\, the politics of Japan’s financial crisis since the 1990s and the role of the Japanese Senate (House of Councilors) in postwar Japanese politics. \nHe received a B.A. from the Faculty of Law of the University of Tokyo and an M.A. and Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University. He is the author of Senze Nihon ni okeru Minshuka no Zasetsu [Aborted Democratization in Prewar Japan]\, (Bokutakusha\, 2002)\, and the co-editor of Akusesu Kokusai Seijikeizai [Access to International Political Economy]\,(Nihon Keizai Hyoronsha\, 2003). \n  \nThis is a Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nNo registration Required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 11\, 2020 \n12:00 PM-1:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Suntory Foundation URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/workshop-on-political-change-and-policy-change-in-japan/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200210T143000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200210T160000 DTSTAMP:20200207T171320Z CREATED:20200203T162024Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200207T171320Z UID:21797-1581345000-1581350400@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:From Lhasa to Darjeeling to America: Tibetan American Memoir Writing DESCRIPTION:Modern Tibetan Studies Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nAnn Tashi Slater\, \nJapan Women’s University \nDiscussant: \nRiga Shakya\, \nColumbia University \n  \nAuthor Ann Tashi Slater will read from “Mountains\, Monasteries\, and Myths: What I Discovered While Living in My Darjeeling Family Home” (Catapult). This piece looks at her journey from her American childhood to her discovery of her Tibetan family’s rich history. Slater’s story provides intimate glimpses of the personal and political connections between Tibetan societies in Darjeeling and Lhasa at the turn of the 20th century. After the reading\, she will talk about her family history\, her Tibetan American identity\, and exploring the self through writing.  \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nAnn Tashi Slater’s work has been published by The New Yorker\, The Paris Review\, Tin House\, Catapult\, AGNI\, Granta\, and the HuffPost\, among others. Her writing also appears in American Dragons: Twenty-Five Asian American Voices (HarperCollins) and Women in Clothes (Riverhead). She writes often on subjects related to Tibet and her Tibetan family history. Current projects include a memoir about a mother-daughter pilgrimage to her ancestral homeland that explores identity and family legacy\, dialogue across generations and borders\, and the responsibility of individual and collective memory. A longtime resident of Tokyo\, Slater is Professor of American Literature at Japan Women’s University. You can view her website here. \n  \nThis is a Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 10\, 2020 \n2:30 PM-4:00 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \n  \nCosponsors: Diasporic Asian American Writers Series\, Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/21797/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200210T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200210T133000 DTSTAMP:20200205T143626Z CREATED:20200110T151239Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200205T143626Z UID:21394-1581336000-1581341400@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Xi Jinping’s long-term strategic vision and its implication for the American position in the world DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nHao SU\, Professor\, Department of Diplomacy; founding director of the Center for Strategic and Peace Studies\, \nChina Foreign Affairs University. \n  \nModerated by: \nAndrew Nathan\, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science\, \nColumbia University \n  \nSince the modern times\, the world has undergone three waves of globalization. The first wave started from 500 years ago\, with the European countries connecting the world by means of the opening of new sea-routes\, the great discoveries of geography and the establishment of global colonial system. This is a linear globalization based on power. The second wave started at the end of WWII. The establishment of a series of US-led international institutions linked the world into a systematic international society. This is a flat globalization based on institutions. Nowadays\, the third wave of globalization is under way. The rise of emerging newly-economies from the developing world and the effect of economic globalization have brought about a trend of re-balance for the world economic pattern. This will be a tridimensional globalization based on governance. Facing the advent of this trend\, the Chinese government has proposed the “Belt and Road Initiative”\, in order to propel the network construction of both worldwide partnerships and regional integration\, with the purpose of promoting the realization of global governance. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nProfessor SU was awarded his B.A. in history and M.A. in international relations by Beijing Normal University and a Ph.D. in international relations by China Foreign Affairs University. He took advanced study in the School of Oriental and African Studies\, University of London in 1993-1995; and was a Fulbright scholar in the Institute of War and Peace Studies of Columbia University\, and in the Institute of East Asia Studies of the University of California at Berkeley in 2001-2002. He was a visiting professor in the Department of Peace and Conflict Studies at Uppsala University\, Sweden\, in 2004; at Bond University\, Australia\, in 2014; and Department of Politics of LUISS University\, Rome\, in 2015. \nHe was acting chairman of the Department of Diplomacy\, director of China’s Foreign Relations Section\, general secretary of the East Asian Studies Center\, and director of the Center for Asia-Pacific Studies at China Foreign Affairs University. He is the president of the Beijing Geopolitical Strategy and Development Association\, a member of the Chinese Committee for Council of Security Cooperation in the Asia-Pacific and the Pacific Economic Cooperation Council\, a board member of the China Association of Arms Control and Disarmament\, the Pacific Society of China\, the China Association of Asian-African Development Exchange\, and the China Association of China-ASEAN. His specialties are China’s foreign and security policy\, strategic studies\, international relations in the Asia-Pacific region\, and East Asian integration. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nNo registration Required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 10\, 2020 \n12:00 PM-1:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by the Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program. URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/xi-jinpings-long-term-strategic-vision-and-its-implication-for-the-american-position-in-the-world/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200210T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200210T140000 DTSTAMP:20200210T144336Z CREATED:20200110T151632Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200210T144336Z UID:21400-1581328800-1581343200@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Nationalism and Populism around the world: Is Japan an exception? DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a panel discussion with: \n  \nMark Lilla\, Professor of Humanities\, Department of History\, Columbia University \nNadia Urbinati\, Kyriakos Tsakopoulos Professor of Political Theory\, Columbia University \nJack Snyder\, Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations\, Columbia University \n Kiyoteru Tsutsui\, Professor of Sociology\, University of Michigan \nMasayuki Tadokoro\, Professor of International Relations\, Keio University\, Tokyo\, Japan \nSatoshi Machidori\, Professor of Law\, Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Law \n  \nModerated by: \nAlexander Stille\, San Paolo Professor of International Journalism\, Columbia University \nTakako Hikotani\, Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy\, Columbia University \n  \nNationalism and populism have been on the rise around the world\, with the two trends often coinciding and reinforcing one another. Japan seems to be an exception to this trend: while nationalism seem to be on the rise\, Japan has not experienced a rise of populism as we see in other Western countries. Is this observation correct? If so\, why is Japan different? Or\, is a rise of populism likely in Japan in the coming years? This event will bring together experts from different disciplines at Columbia\, as well as leading scholars from Japan. In the morning session\, Mark Lilla and scholars from Columbia will present about the developments around the world. Then we will turn to Japan in the afternoon session and discuss whether populism is likely to rise in Japan. \nAbout the Speakers: \n\n\nSatoshi Machidori is Professor at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Law. Earned his PhD in political science after doing graduate work at Kyoto University and taught at schools including Osaka University before arriving at his present post. Specializes in comparative political studies and American politics. His works include Seitō sisutemu to seitō soshiki(Party Systems and Party Organizations) and Daigisei minshushugi: “Min’i” to “seijika” o toinaosu (Representative Democracy: A Reconsideration of the Public Will and Politicians).\n\nMasayuki Tadokoro is Professor of International Relations at Keio University\, Tokyo\, Japan. Born in Osaka\, he attended Kyoto University and the London School of Economics. Previously he was a professor at the National Defense Academy. In 1988-89\, he stayed in Washington D.C. a Fellow of the American Council of Learned Societies\, and in 1991 he taught for a semester as Fulbright Scholar in Residence at the University of Pittsburgh. His primary field is international political economy\, but he works also on Japanese foreign and security policy. His publications in English include\, “After the Dollar?”\, International Relations of the Asia Pacific 10:3 (2010); and “Why did Japan fail to become the ‘Britain’ of Asia”\, in David Wolff et al.\, eds.\, The Russo-Japanese War in Global Perspective (Brill\, 2007). He also edited with David Welch and Yoshihide Soeya\, Japan as a ‘Normal Country’?: A Nation in Search of Its Place in the World\, (Toronto U.P. 2011).\n\nKiyoteru Tsutsui is Professor of Sociology\, Director of the Center for Japanese Studies\, and Director of the Donia Human Rights Center at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. His research on globalization of human rights and its impact on local politics has appeared in American Sociological Review\, American Journal of Sociology\, Social Forces\, Social Problems\, Journal of Peace Research\, Journal of Conflict Resolution\, and other social science journals. His book publications include Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan (Oxford University Press 2018)\, and a co-edited volume (with Alwyn Lim) Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World (Cambridge University Press 2015). He has been a recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship\, National Science Foundation grants\, the SSRC/CGP Abe Fellowship\, the Stanford Japan Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship\, and other grants as well as awards from American Sociological Association sections on Global and Transnational Sociology (2010\, 2013\, 2019)\, Human Rights (2017\, 2019)\, Asia and Asian America (2018\, 2019)\, Collective Behavior and Social Movements (2018)\, and Political Sociology (2019).\n\n\n\n\nMark Lilla\, Professor of Humanities\, specializes in intellectual history\, with a particular focus on Western political and religious thought. Before moving to Columbia in 2007 he taught in the Committee on Social Thought at the University of Chicago and at New York University. A regular contributor to the New York Review of Books\, he is the author of The Once and Future Liberal: After Identity Politics (2017)\, The Shipwrecked Mind: On Political Reaction (2016)\, The Stillborn God: Religion\, Politics\, and the Modern West (2007)\,The Reckless Mind: Intellectuals in Politics (2001)\,and G.B. Vico: The Making of an Anti-Modern (1993). He has also edited The Legacy of Isaiah Berlin (2001) with Ronald Dworkin and Robert Silvers\, and The Public Face of Architecture (1987) with Nathan Glazer. He is currently writing a book titled Ignorance and Bliss\, and another on the history of the idea of conversion.\n\nJack Snyder (Ph.D.\, Columbia\, 1981) is the Robert and Renée Belfer Professor of International Relations in the Department of Political Science and the Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies at Columbia. His books include Electing to Fight: Why Emerging Democracies Go to War\, with Edward D. Mansfield; From Voting to Violence: Democratization and Nationalist Conflict; Myths of Empire: Domestic Politics and International Ambition; The Ideology of the Offensive: Military Decision Making and the Disasters of 1914. He is editor of several books including Human Rights Futures (Cambridge University Press\, August 2017)\, with Stephen Hopgood and Leslie Vinjamuri; Ranking the World: Grading States as a Tool of Global Governance\, with Alexander Cooley\, and Religion and International Relations Theory.  His articles include “The Modernization Trap\,” Journal of Democracy\, April 2017\, on populist nationalism\, and “The Cost of Empty Threats; A Penny\, Not a Pound\,” American Political Science Review\, August 2011\, with Erica Borghard. Professor Snyder is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and editor of the W. W. Norton book series on World Politics. Professor Snyder received a B.A. in Government from Harvard in 1973 and the Certificate of Columbia’s Russian Institute in 1978.\n\nNadia Urbinati (Ph.D.\, European University Institute\, Florence\, 1989) is a political theorist who specializes in modern and contemporary political thought and the democratic and anti-democratic traditions. She co-chaired the Columbia University Faculty Seminar on Political and Social Thought and was a co-editor with Andrew Arato of the academic journal Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory. She is a member of the Executive Committee of the Foundation Reset Dialogues on Civilization.\nShe has been a member of the School of Social Sciences of the Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton University\, and a Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Fellowship in the University Center for Human Values\, Princeton University. She is permanent visiting professor at the Scuola Superiore de Studi Universitari e Perfezionamento Sant’Anna of Pisa (Italy)\, and taught at Bocconi University (Milan)\, SciencesPo (Paris) and the University UNICAMP (Brazil).\nShe is the winner of the 2008-9 Lenfest/Columbia Distinguished Faculty Award. In 2008 the President of the Italian Republic awarded Professor Urbinati the Commendatore della Repubblica (Commander of the Italian Republic) “for her contribution to the study of democracy and the diffusion of Italian liberal and democratic thought abroad.” In 2004 her book Mill on Democracy (cited below) received the David and Elaine Spitz Prize as the best book in liberal and democratic theory published in 2002.\nProfessor Urbinati is the author of Me The People: How Populism Transforms Democracy (Harvard University Press\, 2019); The Tyranny of the Moderns (Yale University Press 2015); Democracy Disfigured: Opinion\, Truth and the People (Harvard University Press\, 2014); Representative Democracy: Principles and Genealogy (University of Chicago Press\, 2006)\, and of Mill on Democracy: From the Athenian Polis to Representative Government (University of Chicago Press\, 2002). She has edited Carlo Rosselli\, Liberal Socialism (Princeton University Press\, 1994); Piero Gobetti\, On Liberal Revolution (Yale University Press\,2002). She co-edited several books\, in particular: with Monique Canto-Sperber Le socialism libéral: Une anthologie; Europe-États-Unis (Éditions Esprit 2003); with Alex Zakaras\, John Stuart Mill’s Political Thought: A Bicentennial Reassessment (Cambridge University Press\, 2007); with Stefano Recchia\, A Cosmopolitanism of Nations: Giuseppe Mazzini’s Writings on Democracy\, Nation Building and International Relations (Princeton University Press\, 2009); with Steven Lukes\, Condorcet’s Political Writing (Cambridge University Press\, 2012); with Carlo Invernizzi-Accetti\, Hans Kelsen’s On the Worth and Values of Democracy (Rowman & Littlefield\, 2013);  with Lisa Disch and Mathijs van de Sande\, The Constructivism Turn in Political Representation (Edinburg University Press\, 2019).\n\n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 10\, 2020 \n10:00 AM-2:00 PM\n10:00 AM-11:30 AM Morning Session \n1:00 PM-2:30 PM Afternoon Session \n  \nADDRESS\n\nBuell Hall\, East Gallery \n515 West 116th Street \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \nCosponsored by: Japan Chair\, Suntory Foundation and Columbia Journalism School URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/nationalism-and-populism-around-the-world-is-japan-an-exception/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200207T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200207T150000 DTSTAMP:20200206T143028Z CREATED:20200203T170238Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200206T143028Z UID:21810-1581076800-1581087600@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Korea-Japan Relations: Looking Back\, Looking Forward DESCRIPTION:Center for Korean Research Event\nUniversity of Connecticut History Professor Alexis Dudden explores recent history and possible overtures in Korea-Japan relations in conversation with Korea Society Senior Director Stephen Noerper. Exploring trade and historical disputes\, as well as well as Washington’s past and potential involvement\, Dudden\, author of Troubled Apologies Among Japan\, Korea and the United States\, as well as a recent New York Times piece\, examines signs of progress\, possible offramps and continuing challenges. \nFree for Columbia affiliates. \n  \nThis is a Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nPlease RSVP here. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFriday\, February 7\, 2020\n12:00 PM \nADDRESS\n\nThe Korea Society\n350 Madison Avenue\, 24th Floor\n \nCosponsored by: The Korea Society; The Columbia Alumni Association\, Korea URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/korea-japan-relations-looking-back-looking-forward/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200207T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200207T133000 DTSTAMP:20200129T205530Z CREATED:20200127T203124Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200129T205530Z UID:21731-1581076800-1581082200@archive.weai.columbia.edu SUMMARY:Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nKiyoteru Tsutsui\, Professor of Sociology\, \nUniversity of Michigan \nDiscussant: \nAndrew Nathan\, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science\, \nColumbia University \n  \n  \nWhy have the three most salient minority groups in Japan – the politically dormant Ainu\, the active but unsuccessful Koreans\, and the former outcaste group of Burakumin – all expanded their activism since the late 1970s despite the unfavorable domestic political environment? Professor Tsutsui’s investigation into the history of activism by the three groups reveals that a key factor was the galvanizing effects of global human rights on local social movements. Drawing on interviews and archival data\, he documents the transformative impact of global human rights ideas and institutions on minority activists\, which changed the prevalent understanding about their standing in Japanese society and propelled them to new international venues for political claim making. The global forces also changed the public perception and political calculus in Japan over time\, catalyzing substantial gains for the minority movements. Having benefited from global human rights\, all three groups repaid their debt by contributing to the consolidation and expansion of international human rights principles and instruments. The in-depth historical comparative analysis offers rare windows into local\, micro-level impact of global human rights and contributes to our understanding of international norms and institutions\, social movements\, human rights\, ethnoracial politics\, and Japanese society. \nAbout the Speaker: \nKiyoteru Tsutsui is Professor of Sociology\, Director of the Center for Japanese Studies\, and Director of the Donia Human Rights Center at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. His research on globalization of human rights and its impact on local politics has appeared in American Sociological Review\, American Journal of Sociology\, Social Forces\, Social Problems\, Journal of Peace Research\, Journal of Conflict Resolution\, and other social science journals. His book publications include Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan (Oxford University Press 2018)\, and a co-edited volume (with Alwyn Lim) Corporate Social Responsibility in a Globalizing World (Cambridge University Press 2015). He has been a recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship\, National Science Foundation grants\, the SSRC/CGP Abe Fellowship\, the Stanford Japan Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship\, and other grants as well as awards from American Sociological Association sections on Global and Transnational Sociology (2010\, 2013\, 2019)\, Human Rights (2017\, 2019)\, Asia and Asian America (2018\, 2019)\, Collective Behavior and Social Movements (2018)\, and Political Sociology (2019). \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures Series event. \nNo registration Required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 7\, 2020 \n12:00 PM-1:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nKent Hall\, Room 403 \n1140 Amsterdam Ave \n  URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/rights-make-might-global-human-rights-and-minority-social-movements-in-japan/ CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR