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SUMMARY:The Role of Digital Power in Estonia and Taiwan in Combating COVID-19
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute\n  \nPlease join us for a webinar with: \nAndrey Makarychev\, Visiting Professor Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies\, University of Tartu\, Estonia \nElizabeth Wishnick\, Senior Research Scholar\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, Columbia University; Professor of Political Science\, Montclair State University \n  \nModerated by: \nAndrew Nathan\, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science\, Columbia University \n  \nTaiwan and Estonia are known as digital democracies. As both face threats from neighbors\, their degree of digitization typically has been seen as a vulnerability. The DNS attack from Russia that Estonia faced in 2007 brought home the potential for cyberspace to be used as a domain of war. Similarly Taiwan has faced repeated cyberthreats from the People’s Republic of China. Nonetheless\, in their successful responses to the COVID-19 pandemic\, Taiwan and Estonia have highlighted the strengths of digital democracy in combating a non-traditional security threat without employing the strongarm tactics of authoritarian states. In this article we reexamine the digital vulnerability of democracies and put forward a conception of digital power to explain the success of Estonia and Taiwan in using their digital prowess to combat COVID-19. On the one hand their reliance on cybertechnology make them particularly vulnerable to cyberattacks\, but on the other hand their digital power enhances their global stature and domestic capacity to address threats like COVID-19. \n\n  \n\n\nAndrey Makarychev is Visiting Professor at the Johan Skytte Institute of Political Studies\, University of Tartu. Before he came to Tartu\, he was Alexander von Humboldt Foundation fellow at Institute for East European Studies\, Free University of Berlin\, as well as Professor of International Relations at the Linguistic University (Nizhny Novgorod\, Russia). His research interests include Russian foreign policy discourses\, international security and regionalism in EU – Russia common neighborhood. He has worked for the Center for Security Studies & Conflict Research\, ETH Zurich (2000-2001) and the Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS)\, Copenhagen (2003-2004). He was visiting fellow at several European and US Research Institutes\, among them the Copenhagen Peace Research Institute; Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies (Washington\, D.C.); George Mason University\, Fairfax\, and the JFK Institute for North American Studies\, Free University of Berlin. His projects were supported a.o. by Central European University\, Budapest; IREX; McArthur Foundation; OSI; NATO Democratic Institutions Fellowship Program. \n  \n\nElizabeth Wishnick is Professor of Political Science at Montclair State University. Since 2002\, she has been a research scholar at WEAI and she previously taught undergraduate and graduate courses in international relations\, Chinese politics\, and Chinese foreign policy at Barnard College\, Columbia College\, and SIPA. \nHer current book project\, China’s Risk China’s Risk: Oil\, Water\, Food and Regional Security (forthcoming Columbia University Press) addresses the security consequences of energy\, water and food risks in China for its Eurasian neighbors. Dr. Wishnick’s research focuses on Chinese foreign policy and non-traditional security.  She is the author of Mending Fences: The Evolution of Moscow’s China Policy from Brezhnev to Yeltsin (Seattle: University of Washington Press\, 2001\, 2014)\, articles on Chinese and Russian foreign policy\, and studies for the Strategic Studies Institute of the U.S. Army War College on Afghanistan\, Central Asia\, and the Arctic.  She received a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University\, an M.A. in Russian and East European Studies from Yale University\, and a B.A. from Barnard College. \nDr. Wishnick speaks Mandarin\, Russian\, and French and spent five months in Vladivostok\, Russia and Shanghai\, China as a part of a Fulbright Global Scholar award in 2018-19. She expects to complete the award in Almaty\, Kazakhstan in June 2021. She was previously a Fulbright lecturer in Hong Kong (2002-03) and a visiting scholar at the Academia Sinica in Taiwan (1995-96) as well as at various U.S. institutions (Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars\, East-West Center\, Hoover Institution\, and Harvard University’s Davis Center). \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nAugust 13\, 2020 \n11:00 AM – 12:30 PM EDT\nThis event will be streamed live on WEAI’s Facebook page. \n  \nREGISTER\n\nRegistration not required. \n 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-role-of-digital-power-in-estonia-and-taiwan-in-combating-covid-19/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200722T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200722T213000
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR –Tracking and Treating Coronavirus in China and Beyond: Anthropologists reflect on the response to the pandemic in a tumultuous world
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nLyle Fearnley\, Assistant Professor of Anthropology\, Singapore University of Technology and Design \nLai Lili\, Associate Professor of Anthropology\, Medical Humanities Department\, Peking University \nMei Zhan\, Associate Professor\, Department of Anthropology\, University of California\, Irvine \nModerated by: \nNick Bartlett\, Assistant Professor\, Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures\, Barnard College\, Columbia University \n  \n\nThis panel\, part of the WEAI in a COVID-19 remote lecture series\, features brief presentations and discussion by anthropologists who have conducted extensive fieldwork exploring Chinese medicine\, infectious disease\, and pandemic preparedness in the People’s Republic. Our conversation will include an exploration of the linkages between SARS and coronavirus\, in particular focusing on rural health\, wet markets and their regulation\, transnational strategies for disease surveillance\, and visceral forms of racism. We will also discuss the roles that traditional Chinese medicine practitioners are playing as entrepreneurs and researchers in responding to the current coronavirus challenge. \n  \n\n\nLyle Fearnley is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Singapore University of Technology and Design. His research in medical anthropology and STS examines zoonotic diseases and food safety in China\, as well as hygiene\, waste and environment in Singapore. He is the author of Virulent Zones: Animal Disease and Global Health at China’s Pandemic Epicenter (Duke University Press\, October 2020). \nLili Lai is Associate Professor of Anthropology in the School of Health Humanities in Peking University. Her research has focused on cultures of health and embodiment\, and practice of traditional medicines in modern China. She is the author of Hygiene\, Sociality\, and Culture in Contemporary Rural China: The Uncanny New Village (Amsterdam University Press\, 2016)\, and co-author (with Judith Farquhar) of the forthcoming Gathering Medicines: Nation and Knowledge in China’s Mountain South (The University of Chicago Press\, April 2021). \nMei Zhan is an associate professor in the anthropology department at UC Irvine. She conducts research in the areas of medical anthropology\, science and technology studies\, globalization and transnationalism\, and China studies. She is the author of Other-Worldly: Making Chinese Medicine through Transnational Frames (Duke University Press\, 2009). In addition to earlier research on SARS and wet markets\, she is currently writing an ethnography on China’s emergent knowledge economy. \nNick Bartlett is an assistant professor in the Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures department at Barnard College\, Columbia University. His current research explores the translation and practice of psychodynamic traditions in China. He is author of the forthcoming Recovering Histories: Life and Labor after Heroin in Reform-era China (University of California Press\, October 2020). \n  \n\nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nJuly 22\, 2020 \n8:00 PM – 9:30 PM EDT\nThis event will be streamed live on WEAI’s Facebook page. \n  \nREGISTER\n\nRegistration not required. \n  \n  \n 
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/webinar-tracking-and-treating-coronavirus-in-china-and-beyond-anthropologists-reflect-on-the-response-to-the-pandemic-in-a-tumultuous-world/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200717T120000
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SUMMARY:Webinar — The Chile Pepper in China Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:Columbia University Press and Columbia Global Centers Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nBrian R. Dott\, Associate Professor\, History Department and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Program\,Whitman College \nKaiser Kuo\, Host\, Sinica Podcast \nModerated by: \nSafwan M. Masri\, Professor and Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development\, Columbia University \n  \n\nWhen is a chile pepper not just a chile pepper? Food lovers and food historians will delight in author Brian R. Dott’s exploration of how the chile pepper found its way into the cuisine and culture of China. Chinese cuisine without chile peppers seems unimaginable. Entranced by the fiery taste\, diners worldwide have fallen for Chinese cooking. In China\, chiles are everywhere\, from dried peppers hanging from eaves to Mao’s boast that revolution would be impossible without chiles\, from the eighteenth-century novel Dream of the Red Chamber to contemporary music videos. Indeed\, they are so common that many Chinese assume they are native. Yet there were no chiles anywhere in China prior to the 1570s\, when they were introduced from the Americas. \nBrian R. Dott explores how the nonnative chile went from obscurity to ubiquity in China\, influencing not just cuisine but also medicine\, language\, and cultural identity. He details how its versatility became essential to a variety of regional cuisines and swayed both elite and popular medical and healing practices. Dott tracks the cultural meaning of the chile across a wide swath of literary texts and artworks\, revealing how the spread of chiles fundamentally altered the meaning of the term spicy. He emphasizes the intersection between food and gender\, tracing the chile as a symbol for both male virility and female passion. Integrating food studies\, the history of medicine\, and Chinese cultural history\, The Chile Pepper in China sheds new light on the piquant cultural impact of a potent plant and raises broader questions regarding notions of authenticity in cuisine. \n  \n\n\nBrian R. Dott teaches in the History Department and Asian & Middle Eastern Studies Program at Whitman College in Walla Walla\, Washington. He has studied changes in Chinese cultural practices from 1500 to the present and received a PhD in Chinese History from the University of Pittsburgh. Dott also traveled widely in China\, living for longer periods in Beijing and Taibei. One of his favorite spicy dishes is 干煸四季豆 (ganbian sijidou\, blackened green beans with chiles). \nKaiser Kuo is the host of the Sinica Podcast\, a weekly current affairs podcast that has run since 2010. For many years he served as the director of international communications for China’s leading search engine\, Baidu. He returned to the U.S. in 2016 and lives in Chapel Hill\, North Carolina\, with his wife and two children. Since the COVID-19 pandemic began\, he has attained modest skill in archery\, drums\, sourdough bread baking\, Sichuan cooking\, and making Sazerac. \nSafwan M. Masri is Professor and Executive Vice President for Global Centers and Global Development at Columbia University. He is also a Senior Research Scholar at Columbia’s School of International and Public Affairs. Masri is the author of Tunisia: An Arab Anomaly (Columbia University Press\, 2017). He served as Vice Dean of Columbia Business School from 1993 to 2006. Masri is a lifetime member of the Council on Foreign Relations and an honorary fellow of the Foreign Policy Association. \n\nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nJuly 17\, 2020 \n12:00 PM-1:00 EDT\n  \n  \nREGISTER\n\nPlease register here. \n  \n  \nCosponsors: Whitman College\, ASIANetwork\, SupChina
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/webinar-the-chile-pepper-in-china-book-launch/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200712T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200712T160000
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SUMMARY:WEBINAR – Tibetan and Himalayan Communities in a Covid-19 World
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nSienna Craig\, Associate Professor of Anthropology\, Dartmouth College \nPema Dorjee\, President\, Tibetan Nurses Association\, New York \nNawang Tsering Gurung\, Endangered Language Alliance\, Independent Scholar\, New York \nKonchog Tseten\, Tibetan medical doctor; Adjunct Lecturer in Tibetan\, EALAC\, Columbia University \nSangey Tashi\, Program Director\, Tibetan Community Health Network\, New York \nPema Bhum\, Director\, Latse; Adjunct Lecturer in Tibetan\, EALAC\, Columbia University \nModerated by: \nPalden Gyal\, doctoral student in Sino-Tibetan history and Tibetan Buddhism\, EALAC\, Columbia University \n  \n\nSince March 2020\, New York City has been the global epicenter of the covid-19 pandemic. Within New York City\, the central Queens neighborhoods of Corona\, Jackson Heights\, and Elmhurst have been the “epicenter of the epicenter” with at least 11\,000 cases and hundreds of fatalities. These neighborhoods are home to one of the largest North American immigrant communities of people coming from Tibetan and Himalayan regions. \nDuring this time of crisis\, the Tibetan and Himalayan communities in New York have come together to support each other as well as the greater New York community through their work as frontline workers and disseminating critical supplies and information. Yet in spite of being disproportionately affected by the pandemic\, their contributions and experiences remain little known. This event brings together Tibetan health care workers\, traditional medical practitioners\, medical anthropologists\, and grassroots researchers to highlight the responses and experiences among Tibetan and Himalayan community members in New York City as well as some responses on the Tibetan Plateau. Sienna Craig\, a medical anthropologist specializing in Tibetan medicine\, will discuss some current projects documenting Tibetan responses to covid-19 and will engage the panelists in a discussion. \nPema Dorjee\, the President of the Tibetan Nurses Association (TNA)\, which has been particularly active in raising funds to provide PPE for frontline healthcare workers in New York\, will discuss the services TNA has been providing during the pandemic. \nNawang Tsering Gurung\, a community activist\, will share stories about how the Himalayan community has been supporting the five boroughs. \nKonchog Tseten\, a Tibetan medical doctor based in Queens\, will discuss his work treating patients during the pandemic. \nSangey Tashi\, a public health educator in New York\, will talk about his work disseminating Tibetan public health messages for plateau communities. \nPema Bhum will share covid-related poems and stories from the Tibetan Plateau. \n  \n\n\nSienna R. Craig is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Dartmouth College (PhD Cornell University\, 2006). A medical and cultural anthropologist\, Craig is the author of The Ends of Kinship: Connecting Himalayan Lives between Nepal and New York (University of Washington Press\, forthcoming 2020)\, Mustang in Black and White (with Kevin Bubriski\, Vajra Publications\, 2018)\, Healing Elements: Efficacy and the Social Ecologies of Tibetan Medicine (UC Press\, 2012)\, Horses Like Lightning: A Story of Passage through the Himalaya (Wisdom Publications\, 2008)\, and the co-editor of Medicine Between Science and Religion: Explorations on Tibetan Grounds (Berghahn Books\, 2010)\, among other publications. Craig enjoys writing across genres\, from literary ethnography and interdisciplinary social science research to creative nonfiction\, fiction\, children’s literature\, and poetry. From 2012-2017 Craig was the co-editor of HIMALAYA\, Journal of the Association for Nepal and Himalayan Studies. Since 2009\, she has served as a member of the Executive Council of the International Association for the Study of Traditional Asian Medicine (IASTAM). \nPema Dorjee is President of the Tibetan Nurse Association (TNA)\, a non profit organization founded by nurses from Bellevue Hospital in New York. The purpose of this organization is to help nurses who graduated from India\, Nepal\, and the US get credentials evaluation services\, licensing in different states\, find jobs\, and also help Tibetan\, Nepali\, and other Himalayan communities through different health-related awareness programs. Pema Dorjee works at Long Island Jewish Medical Center\, New York. \nNawang Tsering Gurung is an independent researcher and community activist\, who works with local Himalayan communities and scholars to document languages\, culture\, social histories\, and histories of migration. Gurung was born in Ghiling\, Mustang\, pursued studies in Nepal and Boston\, and is now located in New York City. He has worked for many projects and organizations such as the New York Tibetan Service Center (NYTSC) and Voices of the Himalayas/ELA. He is widely published on the topic of his native culture\, works as a translator\, has been involved in documentaries\, and organizes cultural tours. Currently he serves as an advisory council for Rubin Museum. \nMenpa (Tibetan medical doctor) Konchog Tseten‘s education spans all of Tibet’s traditional healing modalities. During his M.A. in Tibetan Medicine at Qinghai Medical College (China)\, he was trained in the traditional Tibetan medical texts by Drs. Yunying and Tamdringya\, Geshi Jiumey Tsodri\, Lama Jamyang\, Menpa Jiumey Rangdrol\, and Ake Tenko. Menpa Kunchog did his two-year apprenticeship at the Henan Mongolian and Tibetan Hospital (Henan County\, Qinghai Province\, China) under the supervision of Dr. Tsedra. Menpa Konchog also completed a Masters of Tibetan Medicine at Qinghai Tibetan Medical College\, as well as multiple shorter apprenticeships with other esteemed practitioners of Tibetan medicine. Since his arrival in the United States\, Menpa Kunchog has supplemented and expanded this extensive training with a masters degree in acupuncture and other disciplines from the Pacific College of Oriental Medicine (New York). He is also a lecturer at Columbia University\, where he teaches classes on classical Tibetan language. \nSangey Tashi attended high school in the TCV School system in India and then joined Sarah College of Higher Tibetan Studies near Dharamsala where he completed his Bachelor of Arts degree in Tibetan Studies. Sangey then worked as the managing editor of the Tibetan Science Journal at Library of Tibetan Works & Archives’ Science Department from 2006 to 2010. In 2010\, Emory University invited him to come to the States to work on translation of science and Buddhism translation as part of the Emory-Tibet Science Initiative from 2010 through 2013. In 2013\, Sangey Tashi moved to New York\, where he began studies at the City University of New York at Hunter. There he earned his Associate of Arts Degree in Mental Health and Bachelor of Science Degree in Urban Public Health. In 2017\, Sangey Tashi has worked as Care Manager for the private agency CareDesign NY\, to assess\, develop\, implement and evaluate treatment plans for populations with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Sangey Tashi now works at AHRC-NYC as a Field Supervisor and manages and oversees the performance of Residential Habilitation Counselors executing service plans for people with I/DD. \nPema Bhum is Director of the Latse Contemporary Tibetan Cultural Library in New York City\, which is a project of the Trace Foundation\, where he has worked since 1997. He holds an M.A. in Tibetan Studies from the Northwest Nationalities Institute in Lanzhou\, Gansu Province (PRC)\, where he also taught Tibetan language and literature. After his arrival in India in 1988\, he founded the first independent Tibetan language newspaper in exile\, Dmangs-gtso\, and the Tibetan literary magazine\, Ljang-gzhon. From 1992-1996\, he served as founding director of the Amnye Machen Institute in Dharamsala\, India\, and for two years taught Tibetan language and literature at Indiana University. He is author of two memoirs of the Cultural Revolution — Six Stars with a Crooked Neck (2001)\, and Dran tho rdo ring ma (2006)–as well as Heartbeat of a New Generation\, now translated into three languages. He has also authored several articles\, the most recent of which are published in issues of the Latse Library Newsletter. \n\nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nJuly 12\, 2020 \n2:00 PM EST\n  \nREGISTER\n\nRegister here. \nA Zoom invitation will be sent to those who register. \n  \n  \nCosponsors: Modern Tibetan Studies Program
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/tibetan-and-himalayan-communities-in-a-covid-19-world/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200626T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200703T170000
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SUMMARY:REMOTE WORKSHOP - Bombay and Indian Ocean Urbanism Conference
DESCRIPTION:Institute for Comparative Literature and Society Event\nPlease join us for a conference with: \nAnupama Rao\, Barnard History and MESAAS\, Columbia University\nEric Tagliacozzo\, Cornell University\nNancy Um\, State University of New York at Binghamton\nMustansir Dalvi\, Sir JJ College of Architecture\, University of Mumbai\nDebjani Bhattacharyya\, Drexel University\nSheetal Chhabria\, Connecticut College\nAbigail McGowan\, University of Vermont\n \nDuring the nineteenth century\, Bombay was India’s leading steam-shipping port and held the unique position of sending people\, capital\, cultural practices\, and new ideas about urbanism and working-class culture across the ocean. However\, since the 1960s\, Bombay has become increasingly decentered and has given way to city-states such as Singapore and Hong Kong\, which are organized around new capital flows such as real estate speculation and container shipping. We seek to understand this shift by examining the maritime and historical roots of contemporary urban Bombay and the endurance of these roots during the remaking of built and social formations in other Indian Ocean cities. Little is known about the endurance of these roots and exchanges that may underpin the twenty-first century Asian city because scholarship on colonial and post-colonial urbanism has largely overlooked these cities’ maritime pasts. This conference intervenes in and connects the fields of Urban and Indian Ocean Studies by studying Bombay comparatively with other Indian Ocean cities. Our conference takes the nodal centrality of Bombay as a place from which to explore the specificity\, stakes\, and consequences of what might be termed “Indian Ocean urbanisms.” Thus\, we ask: how did Indian Ocean cities constitute each other? What ocean-wide mental and material structures allowed urban forms and practices to move between port cities\, and how did they persist and change with colonial and post-colonial governance? How does this shared past continue to shape contemporary urbanism and the new Asian regional economy? \nThere is a long and well-established tradition of addressing the Atlantic World as a connected system\, especially through the slave trade and its interconnections across Africa\, Europe\, and the New World. If studies of the Atlantic have shown enduring material and mental formations of the ocean created by the slave trade and consequent diasporas\, Indian Ocean scholarship can reveal enduring social worlds created by long-standing networks of kin and capital. This is the first conference of its kind to highlight Bombay’s importance as a center of movement and commerce across the Indian Ocean and the distinctive spatial orders this produced; to analyze Bombay beyond its colonial status; and to connect emerging work on the Indian Ocean region with scholarship on the Atlantic and Pacific regions. Nine selected presentations will focus on change and continuity in Bombay’s urban life as a result of ongoing relationships with other Indian Ocean cities of Singapore\, Yangon\, Manama\, and Dar es Salaam. The papers showcase new ways of reading Bombay’s urbanism: as shaped by shared itineraries of design aesthetics and planning policy (and the experts behind them); as a configured organization of environmental and climate knowledge\, especially the monsoons; as a site of anticolonial internationalism and alternative to Bandung; and as a built form funded by merchant families spread across the Indian Ocean network. The presentations intervene methodologically by drawing on the methods of urban history\, labor history\, and science and technology studies to study oceanic networks. However\, what is distinctive to this enterprise is its focus on the scale of the urban\, the relationship between built form\, visual cultures\, and social life\, and the organization of economic life\, which continue to shape the relationship between ocean and city. We take built form to be a materialization of capital flows and an important trace of the social lives of labor and community across the Indian Ocean. We wager that comparison across hierarchies of urban order will allow us to consider the place of Indian Ocean urbanism during this moment of resurgence across East Africa\, South Asia\, and Southeast Asia. \nThis is a Workshops\, Conferences\, and Symposia event. \nTo register email: bombayindianoceanurbanism@gmail.com. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nJune 29\, 2020 \nJuly 3\, 2020 \n  \nREMOTE EVENT\n\nDetails provided upon registration. \n  \n  \nCosponsored by: Institute for Social and Economic Research Policy\, Columbia University; the Center for Science and Society\, Columbia University; Center for the Study of Social Difference\, Columbia University; the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences\, Columbia University; the History Department\, Columbia University
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/bombay-and-indian-ocean-urbanism-conference/
CATEGORIES:Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200522T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200522T113000
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SUMMARY:LIVESTREAM — Covid-19 in Taiwan: Domestic and International Implications
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n  \n \nSyaru Shirley Lin\, Compton Visiting Professor in World Politics\, \nMiller Center of Public Affairs at the University of Virginia \nC. Jason Wang\, Director of the Center for Policy\, Outcomes\, and Prevention\, \nStanford University School of Medicine \nVincent Wang\, Dean\, College of Arts and Sciences \nAdelphi University \n  \nModerated by: \nAndrew Nathan\, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science\, \nColumbia University \n  \nDuring the coronavirus crisis\, what was expected to be one of the hardest hit countries in the world has not only fared relatively well so far\, but is now being widely lauded as a success story—Taiwan. With a population of 23.4 million\, Taiwan has only reported 440 confirmed cases and seven deaths as of May 12. This panel will explore a series of questions. How did Taiwan manage the crisis and what are the secrets of its success so far? What are the risks that the pandemic could still worsen in Taiwan? How has the Covid-19 crisis affected Taiwan’s relations with mainland China? What has Taiwan done to assist other countries in managing the pandemic? How has Taiwan’s exclusion from World Health Organization (WHO) meetings and activities affected its ability both to manage the crisis at home\, and to contribute to international management of the crisis? What can other countries learn from Taiwan about managing pandemic disease? What paths are available for Taiwan to contribute to global public health efforts? Has the crisis affected global support for Taiwan’s membership in the WHO? What are the implications for Taiwan’s global status beyond the WHO? \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 22\, 2020 \n10:00 AM-11:30 AM EDT\n10:00 PM-11:30 PM CST\n  \nCosponsored by the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in New York
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/covid-19-in-taiwan-domestic-and-international-implications/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200521T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200521T090000
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200505T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200505T180000
DTSTAMP:20200423T152038Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED — Vernacularization of the Great Ming Code in Early Chosŏn Korea (1390 - 1910)
DESCRIPTION:Center for Korean Research-CLEA Workshop\nPlease join us for a talk with: \nJungwon Kim\, Associate Professor of Korean Studies \nColumbia University \nA workshop series on the diversity of Literary Chinese practice in East Asia\, sponsored by Princeton & Columbia Universities. \nThis is a Workshops\, Conferences\, and Symposia event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nMay 5\, 2020 \n4:30 PM-6:00 PM \n  \nADDRESS\n\nKent Hall\, Room 403 \n1140 Amsterdam Ave \n  \nCosponsored by: Princeton University
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/vernacularization-of-the-great-ming-code-in-early-choson-korea-1390-1910/
CATEGORIES:Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200430T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200430T100000
DTSTAMP:20200504T193008Z
CREATED:20200423T150519Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200504T193008Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200424T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200424T133000
DTSTAMP:20200423T152047Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200416T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200416T193000
DTSTAMP:20200313T131234Z
CREATED:20200210T182227Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200415T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200415T220000
DTSTAMP:20200312T132033Z
CREATED:20200130T144254Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - LGBTQ Representation in Contemporary Vietnamese Film: A Screening of Song Lang and Chat with Director Leon Le
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a film screening with: \nLeon Le\, Filmmaker and Director \nand \nYing Qian\, Assistant Professor\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, \nColumbia University \n Takuya Tsunoda Assistant Professor of Japanese Film and Media\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\,\nColumbia University  \nModerated by:\, \nJohn Phan\, Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, \nColumbia University \n  \nLGBTQ representation in Vietnamese film—itself only a recently burgeoning artistform and industry—has been virtually nonexistent. And yet\, the film industry in Vietnam has experienced a meteoric development over the past fifteen years or so—overlapping almost precisely\, with a rapid and dramatic transformation in social attitudes towards sexuality\, and especially same-sex relationships. While LGBTQ relationships and identities have always been a part of Vietnamese culture over long centuries of development\, the past fifteen years have witnessed a turn towards explicit embrace\, as well as a broadening concept of sexuality and relationship\, beyond simple and strict notions of homo-versus heterosexuality. This broadening has included the representation of deeply emotive same-sex relationships that have less to do with sexual liberation than they have to do with the revival and/or reconsideration of a diversity of emotional relationships that occur between members of the same sex—including the erotic and romantic. \nAbout the Speaker: \nWriter/Director Leon Le emigrated to the US at the age of 13\, and after making a name for himself as an actor in the New York’s musical theater scene\, has gone on to become an award-winning director. His two previous films\, Dawn (2013) and My Mother (2014) both earned him multiple awards\, including Best Short Film for Dawn (VIFFI)\, Best Director for Dawn (YXINEFF)\, Best Director and Best Actor for My Mother\, and Best LGBT Short Film (YXINEFF) for both Dawn and My Mother. Mr. Le has recently completed his first feature-length film titled Song Lang\, which was filmed entirely in Vietnam and focuses on the relationship between a local gangster and an actor in a Cai Luong ‘reform opera’ troupe under the control of the gang. The film has been praised not only for its rich visual vocabulary\, sense of tone and atmosphere\, homage to the artform of Cai Luong opera\, and uniquely nostalgic look at 1980s Saigon\, but also for its sensitive and moving expression of a relationship between two men that defies social categorization. The film was also screened at a festival held at Film at Lincoln Center this past summer\, to critical acclaim. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Arts and Culture event. \nNo registration required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nApril 15\, 2020 \n7:00 PM-10:00 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nLenfest Center for the Arts\, Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room \n615 W 129th St \n  \nCosponors; Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Film and Media Studies at the Columbia School of the Arts
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/lgbtq-representation-in-contemporary-vietnamese-film-a-screening-of-song-lang-and-chat-with-director-leon-le/
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200410T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200410T134500
DTSTAMP:20200312T132249Z
CREATED:20200110T170226Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED -  Parenting Needs of Chinese Parents of Children with Autism from America\, Macau\, and Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELED.\nWeatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join for a lecture with: \nHsu-Min Chiang\, Ph.D.\, Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education \nUniversity of Macau   \n  \nModerated by: \nQin Gao\, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work\, \nColumbia School of Social Work \n  \nMany studies have focused on parenting stress in parents of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and high parenting stress in these parents is commonly reported. But\, limited studies have focused on parenting needs in parents of children with ASD\, especially Chinese parents. Different parenting styles can be found in different cultures and different cultures may result in different parenting needs. Dr. Chiang will present the results from one of her studies focusing on the needs of parents of children with ASD in the United States\, Macau\, and Taiwan in the support services to help them decrease parenting stress and to improve their children’s functioning. The audience will learn these parents’ needs and the differences between Chinese-American parents and non-American Chinese parents in support services. She will also share her clinical experiences of working with Chinese parents across different countries. The audience can learn some practical strategies when providing support to these parents. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nHsu-Min Chiang\, Ph.D.\, is an Assistant Professor in the Faculty of Education at University of Macau. She earned her Ph.D. in special education from Macquarie University in Australia\, M.Ed. in special education from Monash University in Australia\, and B.Ed. in special education from National Tainan Teachers College in Taiwan.  Prior to embarking on an academic career\, she worked as a self-contained classroom teacher\, resource room teacher\, and Chinese language teacher at the early childhood\, childhood\, and adolescent levels. Her research mainly focuses on individuals with autism and their families. She has conducted studies in several areas associated with autism\, including communication characteristics\, cultural differences\, academic abilities (language and mathematics)\, teaching strategies\, postsecondary outcomes and transition\, quality of life\, parent education\, the differences between Asperger’s disorder and autistic disorder\, educational programs and curricula. She is the founder of a thematically structured Saturday enrichment program for children with autism and a parent education program for Chinese-American parents of children with autism. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures Series event. \nNo registration required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nApril  10\, 2020 \n12:15 PM-1:45 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nSchool of Social Work\, Room  C03 \n1255 Amsterdam Ave \n  \nCosponsored by: School of Social Work\, Columbia University; China Center for Social Policy\, Columbia University
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/parenting-needs-of-chinese-parents-of-children-with-autism-from-america-macau-and-taiwan/
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200403T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200403T193000
DTSTAMP:20200316T131701Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200403T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200403T133000
DTSTAMP:20200312T132020Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200402T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200402T173000
DTSTAMP:20200316T131634Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200402T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200402T133000
DTSTAMP:20200313T131318Z
CREATED:20200224T212701Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200313T131318Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200326T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200326T133000
DTSTAMP:20200312T131956Z
CREATED:20200116T154009Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200312T131956Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Japan’s Global Moment in the G-Zero World
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join for a lecture with: \nJoshua Walker\, President and CEO\, \nJapan Society \n  \nModerated by: \nCarol Gluck\, George Sansom Professor of History\,  \nDepartment of History\, Columbia University \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Joshua W. Walker is  the new President of Japan Society.  Previously \nGlobal Head of Strategic Initiatives at Eurasia Group\, he earned his Ph.D. \nat Princeton in international affairs\, specializing in East Asia and the \nMiddle East. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration Required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nMarch 26\, 2020 \n12:00 PM-1:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/japans-global-moment-in-the-g-zero-world/
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200326T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200326T133000
DTSTAMP:20200312T131949Z
CREATED:20200110T162435Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200312T131949Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200325T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200325T213000
DTSTAMP:20200312T131929Z
CREATED:20200130T143440Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200312T131929Z
UID:21764-1585162800-1585171800@archive.weai.columbia.edu
SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Dangerous Youth (1969): Taiwan Dialect Cinema of the 1960s screening and discussion
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a film screening with: \nChun-chi Wang 王君琦\, director \n Taiwan Film Institute \nModerated by: \nYing Qian\, Assistant Professor\, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, \nColumbia University \nTaiwan cinema has been mostly known by its New Wave in the 1980s and its New Wave auteurs Hou Hsiao-Hsien\, Edward Yang\, and others. Recently the art films of Tsai Ming-liang has also attracted a lot of scholarly attention. But Taiwan cinema of the 1950s and 1960s have been overlooked. This is actually similar to Chinese cinema of the 1950s and 1960s\, or Korean cinema of that period. In East Asia\, except for Japan\, all other countries’ cinema cultures seem to only become internationally visible from the 1980s or 1990s. \nEven within Chinese cinema studies\, Taiwan’s dialect cinema has often been regarded as trashy\, conservative\, traditional and equated with opera films. Dangerous Youth and a large number of Taiwan dialect films restored by the Taiwan Film Institute\, subvert all the stereotypes. \nMade in 1969\, Dangerous Youth is a youth film with resonance to the larger 1960s youth culture in the world\, and proceeds the youth films by the Taiwan new wave\, such as those by Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Edward Yang. \nFeaturing a love triangle between a prostitute\, a pimp\, and a procuress\, Dangerous Youth is perhaps the most confrontational and yet stylistic of all Taiwanese-dialect films in its depiction of a morally corrupt capitalist society. In the film\, one’s own body can be easily sold in exchange for money\, while pleasure is bought and replaced at a fast pace. Save for the much harried and harassed female protagonist\, each character is driven by his or her own impulses and implicated in a larger web of machination one way or another. Using a speeding motorbike as the central metaphor for a youth in distress\, the film’s unflinching look at carnal desire and its new wave aesthetic establishes it as a pioneer of Taiwan’s youth films. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDr. Chang received her doctorate degree in Cinema-Television Critical Studies from the University of Southern California. She taught at the Department of English at National Dong Hwa University in Hualien County shortly after returning to Taiwan\, with an academic history mainly focused on the portrayal of gender and sexuality as well as the cultural history of films. \nIn recent years\, she had expanded her research areas to include Taiwanese-language cinema and filmmaking as a social practice while pushing forward film education and offering cultural materials in remote areas of Taiwan by holding film festivals and related activities. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Arts and Culture event. \nNo registration required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nMarch 25\, 2020 \n7:00 PM-9:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nDodge Hall\, Room 511 \n2960 Broadway
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/dangerous-youth-1969-taiwan-dialect-cinema-of-the-1960s-screening-and-discussion/
CATEGORIES:Arts and Culture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200325T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200325T160000
DTSTAMP:20200312T132319Z
CREATED:20200303T184656Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200312T132319Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Thailand Update 2020: Beyond Elections?
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a conference with: \nDuncan McCargo\, Director\, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies; University of Copenhagen\nShenghua Zhang\, SOAS\, University of London\nSaowanee Alexander\, Ubon Ratchathani University\nJoel Selway\, Brigham Young University\nPenchan Phoborisut\, California State University Fullerton\nTyrell Haberkorn\, University of Wisconsin-Madison\nFrank Munger\, New York Law School \nThis all day conference will focus on recent developments in Thailand with the help of leading experts in the field. \nThis is a Workshops\, Conferences\, and Symposia event. \nRegistration required. Register here. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nMarch 25\, 2020 \n9:00 AM-4:00 PM \n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 1512 \n420 W. 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by: NYSEAN
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/thailand-update-2020-beyond-elections/
CATEGORIES:Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200324T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200324T180000
DTSTAMP:20200312T132332Z
CREATED:20200210T205535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200312T132332Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Formation of Postcolonial Korea through Family\, Medicine and the War Talk Series
DESCRIPTION:Center for Korean Research Workshop\n  \nThis event has been CANCELLED due to travel restrictions. \n  \nPlease join us for a talk with: \nSungyun Lim\, Associate Professor of History\,  \nUniversity of Colorado at Boulder \nThe talk series will explore how material\, cultural\, ideological\, and political changes that took place during Korea’s transitions from Japanese empire to U.S. military occupation to postwar Korea influenced and were influenced by people’s lives; how these changes constructed multiple identities from gender\, family\, and class; and how indigenous and modern elements were selected and used in constructing these new individual and collective identities in Korea during the first half of the 20th century. In doing so\, the talk series will revisit the tensions\, compromises\, and conflicts of diverse identities in both the colonial and postcolonial contexts through the three scholars’ respective analyses of family civil law cases\, medical practices\, and Korea’s transwar society. \nDr. Lim’s research focuses on issues of gender\, family\, law\, and colonialism in Korea. Her first book\, Rules of the House: Family Law and Domestic Disputes in Colonial Korea (University of California Press\, 2019)\, examines the role and legacy of Japanese colonial laws on the formation of the small patriarchal family in Korea. Her second book project investigates the history of domestic adoption in South Korea\, continuing her exploration of the complex impacts of the colonial legacy on gender and family. \n  \nThis is a Workshops\, Conferences\, and Symposia event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nMarch 24\, 2020 \n4:30 PM-6:00 PM \n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by: Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, Columbia University; Academy of Korean Studies; Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Columbia University
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/formation-of-postcolonial-korea-through-family-medicine-and-the-war-talk-series-2/
CATEGORIES:Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200312T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200312T173000
DTSTAMP:20200309T142445Z
CREATED:20200210T210840Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200309T142445Z
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Formation of Postcolonial Korea through Family\, Medicine and the War Talk Series
DESCRIPTION:Center for Korean Research Workshop\nPlease join us for a talk with: \nYumi Moon\, Associate Professor of History\, \nStanford University \nThe talk series will explore how material\, cultural\, ideological\, and political changes that took place during Korea’s transitions from Japanese empire to U.S. military occupation to postwar Korea influenced and were influenced by people’s lives; how these changes constructed multiple identities from gender\, family\, and class; and how indigenous and modern elements were selected and used in constructing these new individual and collective identities in Korea during the first half of the 20th century. In doing so\, the talk series will revisit the tensions\, compromises\, and conflicts of diverse identities in both the colonial and postcolonial contexts through the three scholars’ respective analyses of family civil law cases\, medical practices\, and Korea’s transwar society. \nDr. Moon is the author of Populist Collaborators: The Ilchinhoe and the Japanese Colonization of Korea\, 1896–1910 (Cornell University Press\, 2013)\, which reconsiders the identity of the pro-Japanese collaborators called the Ilchinhoe. Departing from the conventional understanding of the Ilchinhoe\, her book highlights the tensions between their populist orientation and the state-centered approach of the Japanese colonizers. Her second book project\, tentatively entitled Toward a Free State: Imperial Shift and the Formation of Postwar South Korea\, 1937–1950\, seeks to revise the established historiography on the formation of postcolonial Koreas and the origins of the Korean War by revisiting a dominant narrative about U.S.-occupied Korea. \n  \nThis is a Workshops\, Conferences\, and Symposia event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nMarch 12\, 2020 \n4:00 PM-5:30 PM \n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by: Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, Columbia University; Academy of Korean Studies; Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Columbia University
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/formation-of-postcolonial-korea-through-family-medicine-and-the-war-talk-series-3/
CATEGORIES:Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200312T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200312T133000
DTSTAMP:20200313T131203Z
CREATED:20200110T161951Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200313T131203Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200309T160000
DTSTAMP:20200309T142414Z
CREATED:20200224T215107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200309T142414Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200305T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200305T133000
DTSTAMP:20200228T144954Z
CREATED:20200225T191033Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200228T144954Z
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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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200304T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200304T134500
DTSTAMP:20200224T154516Z
CREATED:20200224T142559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200224T154516Z
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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
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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
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SUMMARY:Formation of Postcolonial Korea through Family\, Medicine\, and the War Talk Series
DESCRIPTION:Center for Korean Research Workshop\nPlease join us for a talk with: \nSoyoung Suh\, Associate Professor of History and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies \nDartmouth University \n  \nThe talk series will explore how material\, cultural\, ideological\, and political changes that took place during Korea’s transitions from Japanese empire to U.S. military occupation to postwar Korea influenced and were influenced by people’s lives; how these changes constructed multiple identities from gender\, family\, and class; and how indigenous and modern elements were selected and used in constructing these new individual and collective identities in Korea during the first half of the 20th century. In doing so\, the talk series will revisit the tensions\, compromises\, and conflicts of diverse identities in both the colonial and postcolonial contexts through the three scholars’ respective analyses of family civil law cases\, medical practices\, and Korea’s transwar society. \nDr. Suh’s first book\, Naming the Local: Medicine\, Language\, and Identity in Korea since the Fifteenth Century (Harvard University Asia Center\, 2017)\, traces the rise of an indigenous identity in medicine\, which was intertwined with regionalism\, nationalism\, and colonialism. Dr. Suh is currently working on the transnational history of breast cancer\, investigating the origins of gendered medical culture in post–World War II Korea. \n  \nThis is a Workshops\, Conferences\, and Symposia event. \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 27\, 2020 \n4:30 PM-6:00 PM \n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 West 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by: Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, Columbia University\, Academy of Korean Studies; Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, Columbia University
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/formation-of-postcolonial-korea-through-family-medicine-and-the-war-talk-series/
CATEGORIES:Workshops, Conferences, and Symposia
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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
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