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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200326T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200326T133000
DTSTAMP:20200312T131949Z
CREATED:20200110T162435Z
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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
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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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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200227T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200227T180000
DTSTAMP:20200203T173046Z
CREATED:20200203T172659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200203T173046Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200226T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200226T173000
DTSTAMP:20200124T173035Z
CREATED:20200110T161439Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200124T173035Z
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200226T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200226T133000
DTSTAMP:20200226T171627Z
CREATED:20200110T153135Z
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SUMMARY:Japan’s Diplomacy in 2030
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nNoriyuki Shikata\, Associate\, Program on US-Japan Relations\, Harvard University;  Former Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary\, Deputy Chief of Mission\, Embassy of Japan in Beijing  \nCommentator: Gerald Curtis\, Burgess Professor Emeritus of Political Science\, Columbia University \n  \nModerated by: \nTakako Hikotani\, Gerald L. Curtis Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy\,  \nDepartment of Political Science\, Columbia University \n  \nThe Abe administration (2012-) and its diplomacy has been remarkably stable despite the geopolitical challenges and instability of its alliance partner\, the United States. Is Japan going to stay its course\, or are we going to witness major changes in the years ahead? Mr. Shikata\, based on his extensive diplomatic experience\, will discuss how he forecasts Japan’s diplomacy in 2030. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nNoriyuki Shikata holds a B.A. in Law from Kyoto University and Master of Public Policy (MPP) from Harvard Kennedy School of Government. Most recently\, he was the Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary\, Deputy Chief of Mission\, Embassy of Japan in China. His other prior positions include: Deputy Director General\, Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau; Director\, Economic Treaties Division\, International Legal Affairs Bureau; and Director\, Second North America Division\, North America Bureau. Mr. Shikata has also been a Visiting Professor at Kyoto University’s Graduate School of Law/Public Policy. While at Harvard\, he will conduct research on an emerging U.S. policy toward China and the Indo-Pacific region. His Twitter handle is: @norishikata. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration Required. \nLivestream available at: https://youtu.be/BpUrX60jaFo \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 26\, 2020 \n12:00 PM-1:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  \nCosponsors: Toyota Fund\, Saltzman Institute of War and Peace Studies
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/japans-diplomacy-in-2030/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200225T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200225T133000
DTSTAMP:20200213T141043Z
CREATED:20200110T160807Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200213T141043Z
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SUMMARY:Hybrid Identities: A Dialogue with Xiaolu Guo
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a conversation with: \nXiaolu Guo\, Writer-In-Residence\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; \nAdjunct Associate Professor\, East Asian Languages and Cultures \nColumbia University \n  \nModerated by: \nQin Gao\, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work\,  \nColumbia School of Social Work \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nXiaolu Guo is a British/Chinese novelist\, essayist and filmmaker. Her novels include A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for Lovers (Orange Prize for Fiction Shortlist)\, Village of Stone\, and I Am China (a 2014 NPR’s Best Book). Her recent memoir Nine Continents won the National Book Critics Circle Award 2017 and shortlisted for the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Award as well as Costa Award. Her most recent novel is A Lover’s Discourse (Grove Atlantic 2020)\, inspired by Roland Barthes’ work. She is named as a Granta’s Best of Young British Novelist in 2013. She also directed several feature films\, including How Is Your Fish Today (Sundance Official Selection 2007) and won the Grand Jury Prize at the International Women Film Festival France. UFO In Her Eyes was premiered at Toronto (TIFF 2010) and produced by the legendary German Turkish Filmmaker Faith Akin. Her feature She\, A Chinese received the Golden Leopard award at the Locarno Film Festival 2009. Her documentaries include We Went to Wonderland (premiered at MoMA New York 2008)\, Five Men and A Caravaggio (BFI London Film Festival 2018). She is a jury member of the Booker Prize 2019 and currently a visiting professor and writer-in-residence at Columbia University. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nPlease register here. \nFor those unable to attend in person\, Livestream will be available. Register here to receive a reminder of this link around 30 minutes before the program starts. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 25\, 2020 \n12:00 PM-1:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nSchool of Social Work\, Room 311/312 \n1255 Amsterdam Ave \n  \nFor inquiries\, please contact Natalie Pretzer-Lin np2603@columbia.edu. \nCosponsors: School of Social Work\, China Center for Social Policy
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/hybrid-identities-asian-women-in-fiction-and-reality/
CATEGORIES:Lecture Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200224T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200224T180000
DTSTAMP:20200130T183945Z
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SUMMARY:The Global Rush to Foreign Direct Investment Screenings
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nGiulio Napolitano\, Professor\,  \nRoma Tre University \n  \nModerated by: \nKarl P. Sauvant \nColumbia University Law School \n  \nIntroduction by: \nMaria Adele Carrai \nAssociate Research Scholar\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute \nMarie Curie Fellow\, KU Leuven School of Law \n  \nThe 20th century ended with a proliferation of global and regional free trade and investment agreements aimed at breaking down obstacles and barriers to the movement of goods and capital. Since the beginning of the 21st century and even more after the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008\, however\, things have begun to change. Foreign investment\, in principle\, continues to be welcome. However\, suspicions and fears about foreign investments have gradually grown. To this have contributed\, on the one hand\, the weakening of traditional financial\, industrial and social structures; on the other\, China’s increasingly ambitious economic and geopolitical expansionism policy. In some countries\, this distrust and fears have been wisely exploited at the political level and placed at the base of a more general neo-protectionist agenda\, as demonstrated by the experience of the Trump administration. How it possible to reconcile the objective of attracting foreign investments and thus promoting economic development with the need to protect national security and strategic interests? The Roundtable will answer this question by looking at the situation in the EU\, the US\, and China. \n  \nAbout the Speakers: \nProfessor Giulio Napolitano has been a Full Professor of administrative law at the Faculty of Law of the Roma Tre University in Rome since 2012 (where he holds a course in Comparative Administrative Law taught in English)\, after having been a full professor of Public Law at the Faculty of Economics of the University of Tuscia (2004-2008) and at the Faculty of Political Science of the Roma Tre University of Rome (2008-2012). He has also recently been teaching a course in Comparative Administrative Law at the Radzyner Law School of the Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) in Herzliya\, Israel (2016)\, and the Faculty of Law of Heidelberg University in Germany (2017). He has also taught the Comparative Public Law course at the Global Law School of the Catholic University of Portugal’s Faculty of Law (2018). He is a member of the Governing Council of the International Society of Public Law and the Board of Editors of the European Review of Public Law. He authored a textbook on administrative law for university teaching\, now in its second edition (La logica del diritto amministrativo\, Mulino\, 2017)\, and over two hundred papers and journal articles published in Italian and international journals on general theory of administrative law\, public economic law\, market regulation\, EU law and sports law. \n  \nKarl P. Sauvant\, Ph.D.\, is Lecturer-in-Law at Columbia Law School; Resident Senior Fellow at the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment (CCSI)\, a joint center of Columbia Law School and the Earth Institute at Columbia University; Guest Professor at Nankai University\, China; and former Theme Leader of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development/World Economic Forum Task Force on Investment Policy. Prior to that\, until February 2012\, Dr. Sauvant was the Founding Executive Director of the Vale Columbia Center on Sustainable International Investment\, the predecessor of CCSI. Until July 2005\, Dr. Sauvant was Director of the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development’s (UNCTAD’s) Investment Division\, the focal point in the UN system for matters related to foreign direct investment\, as well as a major interface with the private sector. While at the UN\, he created\, in 1991\, the prestigious annual World Investment Report\, of which he was the lead author and head of the team preparing the report until 2004. He is the author of\, or responsible for\, a substantial number of publications on issues related to economic development\, FDI and services (see: https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/cf_dev/AbsByAuth.cfm?per_id=2461782 and http://www.works.bepress.com/karl_sauvant/). In 2011\, he was elected Fellow of the Academy of International Business; in 2006\, he was elected an Honorary Fellow of the European International Business Academy. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1975. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration Required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 24\, 2020 \n4:00 PM-6:00 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment and the European Institute at Columbia University.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-global-rush-to-foreign-direct-investment-screenings/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200224T120000
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SUMMARY:The Coronavirus epidemic in China and beyond: A panel discussion
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\n  \n \n  \nFeaturing: \nHuang Yanzhong\, Senior Fellow for Global Health\, Council on Foreign Relations; Professor and Director of Global Health Studies\, \nSeton Hall University \nYang Wan\, Assistant Professor of Epidemiology\, Mailman School of Public Health\, \nColumbia University \nNicholas Bartlett\, Assistant Professor\, AMEC/EALAC\, \nBarnard College and Columbia University \n  \nModerated by: \nWeiping Wu\, Professor of Urban Planning and Director of the M.S. Urban Planning Program \nColumbia University  \nPlease join us for an interdisciplinary conversation about China’s response to the coronavirus. With Huang Yanzhuong\, Yan Wan and Nick Bartlett\, moderated by Weiping Wu. This panel will feature brief presentations and a conversation about the emergence and recent response to the current outbreak of coronavirus (COVID-19)\, with a particular focus on recent efforts aiming to treat and prevent additional infections. Drawing on perspectives from epidemiology\, public health and governance\, urban planning\, and medical anthropology\, the panelists will discuss recent developments and reflect on the potential consequences for social life in China and beyond. The event will include extended time for discussion with the audience. \nAbout the Speakers: \nYanzhong Huang is a senior fellow for global health at the Council on Foreign Relations\, where he directs the Global Health Governance roundtable series. He is also professor and director of global health studies at Seton Hall University’s School of Diplomacy and International Relations\, where he developed the first academic concentration among U.S. professional schools of international affairs that explicitly addresses the security and foreign policy aspects of health issues. He is the founding editor of Global Health Governance: The Scholarly Journal for the New Health Security Paradigm and the author of Governing Health in Contemporary China (Routledge 2013) and Toxic Politics: China’s environmental health crisis and the challenge to the state (Cambridge\, forthcoming). \nWan Yang is an assistant professor of Epidemiology at Columbia University’s Mailman School of Public Health trained as an environmental engineer and infectious disease modeler interested in understanding how infectious diseases spread through the population\, as well as methods to model and predict these epidemics. She is also developing forecast systems to predict outbreaks of infectious diseases. In addition\, she studies how environmental factors influence the transmission of influenza\, its seasonality\, and the underlying mechanisms. \nNick Bartlett is an assistant professor at Barnard College\, Columbia University’s department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures. He worked in public health in China before training as a medical anthropologist. In addition to current research exploring the adoption of psychodynamic traditions in mental health interventions in China\, he is author of the forthcoming Recovering Histories: Life and labor after heroin in Reform-era China. \nWeiping Wu is Professor of Urban Planning at Columbia GSAPP and Director of the M.S. Urban Planning program. Trained in architecture and urban planning\, Prof. Wu has focused her research and teaching on understanding urban dynamics in developing countries in general and China in particular. She is an internationally acclaimed urban and planning scholar working on global urbanization with a specific expertise in issues of migration\, housing\, and infrastructure of Chinese cities. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nRegistration required. Please register here. \nA livestream will also be available by visiting https://youtu.be/A2KoGTOQ__E  \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 24\, 2020 \n12:00 PM-1:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by the China Center for Social Policy
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-coronavirus-epidemic-in-china-and-beyond-a-panel-discussion/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200217T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200217T173000
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SUMMARY:People\, Animals\, and Island Encounters: A Pig’s History of the Pacific
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join for a lecture with: \nJordan Sand\, Professor of Japanese History\, Georgetown University \n  \nModerated by: \nJames Gerien-Chen\, Postdoctoral Research Scholar\,  \nWeatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University \n  \nThe event will be a talk on “transpacific empires\,” a new research interest of Professor Sand’s and the subject of an undergraduate/graduate student seminar he is teaching this semester. The talk will also be of interest to scholars interested in empire\, environmental history\, and transnational approaches to East Asian\, North American\, and indigenous social science and histories. The abstract follows below. \n  \nFrom Micronesians and Polynesians to Europeans\, Chinese and Okinawans\, when people first traveled to islands in the Pacific\, they brought domesticated animals with them. As food sources and as companions\, these animals had an important role in shaping island societies and in mediating encounters between travelers\, settlers\, and indigenes. This lecture will trace the place of pigs in encounters between these groups in Hawaii\, Ryūkyū/Okinawa\, and Japan\, from the time of the earliest settlement until after World War II. At the same time\, it will show how the ways travelers talked and wrote about domestic animals in other societies revealed their understandings of property\, freedom\, and human society. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: \nJordan Sand is Professor of Japanese History at Georgetown University in Washington\, DC. He teaches modern Japanese history and other topics in East Asian history\, as well as urban history and the world history of food. He has a doctorate in history from Columbia University and Masters degree in architecture history from the University of Tokyo. His research and writing have focused on architecture\, urbanism\, material culture and the history of everyday life. House and Home in Modern Japan (Harvard\, 2004) explores the ways that westernizing reformers reinvented Japanese domestic space and family life during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Tokyo Vernacular: Common Spaces\, Local Histories\, Found Objects (University of California Press\, 2013)\, analyzes problems of history and memory in the postindustrial city. Teikoku Nihon no seikatsu kūkan (Iwanami shoten\, 2015) examines colonialism in the Asia-Pacific through the lens of material culture\, bodily comportment and urban space. He has also written on the comparative history of urban fires and firefighting\, the history of Japanese food (including sushi\, miso\, and MSG)\, and topics in the study of heritage and museums. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nNo registration Required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 17\, 2020 \n4:00 PM-5:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/people-animals-and-island-encounters-a-pigs-history-of-the-pacific/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200215T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200215T150000
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SUMMARY:Professional Development Workshop: "Innovative Ideas to Foster the 21st Century Minds"
DESCRIPTION:Hunter College Professional Development Event\nJoin us for a lecture with: \nYing Jin\, Mandarin Chinese Teacher\, \nACTFL 2018 National Language Teacher of the Year \nCupertino High School & Homestead High School \n  \n• Are you running out of ideas to engage students in your world language classroom?\n• Are you wondering how to incorporate the ACTFL Three Modes of Communication in your teaching?\n• Are you bored repeating the same learning activities year after year? \n  \nPlease join us at this hands-on workshop led by Ms. Ying Jin\, ACTFL 2018 National Language Teacher of the Year. Ms. Jin will share step-by-step instructions for exciting and fresh activities such as Quiz Quiz Trade\, Ask Ask Trade\, Sentence Picture\, and Running Dictation\, just to name a few.\nQuestions about this workshop?\nPlease call 212-396-6595 or email Chineseflagship@hunter.cuny.edu \n  \nDETAILS\n\nSaturday\, February 15\, 2020 \n9:00 AM – 3:00 PM \nADDRESS\n\nHunter College West Building\, Room 603 \n695 Park Ave \n  \nRegister here. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Student Affairs Event \nCosponsor: Hunter\, The City University of New York
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/professional-development-workshop-innovative-ideas-to-foster-the-21st-century-minds/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T191500
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T203000
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SUMMARY:The Armenian genocide and Its "Unaccounted Lives"
DESCRIPTION:Armenian Center Event\nPlease join us for a book talk with: \nHarry Harootunian \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \n  \nNo registration required. \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 13\, 2020 \n7:15 PM-8:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  \nCosponsors: The Armenian Center at Columbia University and the National Association for Armenian Studies and Research.
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-armenian-genocide-and-its-unaccounted-lives/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200213T183000
DTSTAMP:20200124T164909Z
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SUMMARY:Hong Kong in Turmoil: Defining the Contours of Sovereignty in China Today
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nAllen Carlson\, Associate Professor\, Cornell University \nJa-Ian Chong\, Associate Professor\, National University of Singapore \nVictoria Tin-bor Hui\, Associate Professor\, University of Notre Dame \n  \nModerated by: \nMaria Adele Carrai\, Associate Research Scholar\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute \nMarie Curie Fellow\, KU Leuven School of Law \n  \nThe current turmoil in Hong Kong and the tension between Chinese Central Government and the ex-British colony have to do with the definition of sovereignty. The transfer of sovereignty over Hong Kong occurred at midnight on 1 July 1997\, when the United Kingdom ended administration for the colony of Hong Kong and returned control of the territory to China. However\, the sovereignty question started well before\, with the Treaty of Nanjing of 1842 that forced China to cede Hong Kong to Great Britain and that gave rise to the system of unequal treaties. Ever since a quest for sovereignty has characterized the modern history of China up to this very present. By bringing together leading scholars that have written about sovereignty in China\, the Roundtable aims at stimulating discussion and reflection about the legacies of history and the use and understanding of sovereignty in China today\, with particular reference to Hong Kong. \n  \nAbout the Speakers: \nAllen Carlson is an Associate Professor in Cornell University’s Government Department. He was granted his PhD from Yale University’s Political Science Department. His undergraduate degree is from Colby College. In 2005 he was chosen to participate in the National Committee’s Public Intellectuals Program\, and he currently serves as Director of Cornell’s China and Asia Pacific Studies program and advisor of its East Asia Program. Carlson is currently working on a project exploring the issue of nontraditional security in China’s emerging relationship with the rest of the international system. \n  \nJa Ian Chong is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the National University of Singapore. He previously worked at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington\, D.C. and the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies in Singapore and was a Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program fellow. Dr. Chong’s work crosses the fields of international relations\, comparative politics\, and political sociology\, with a focus on security issues relating to Asia\, China\, and the United States. He has particular interest in security cooperation\, major power rivalry\, and external intervention in domestic politics. Dr. Chong follows the interplay of social movements\, political liberalization and democratic backsliding\, and foreign policy in Asia closely. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute where he is working on a project comparing regional reactions to US-China competition in East Asia. \n  \nVictoria Tin-bor Hui received her Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University and her B.SSc. in Journalism from the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Hui’s core research examines the centrality of war in the formation and transformation of “China” in the long span of history. She is the author of War and State Formation in Ancient China and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press\, 2005). She has also published “Toward a Dynamic Theory of International Politics” in International Organization\, “Testing Balance of Power Theory in World History” in the European Journal of International Relations\, “The Emergence and Demise of Nascent Constitutional Rights” in The Journal of Political Philosophy\, “Building Castles in the Sand” in the Chinese Journal of International Politics\, “History and Thought in China’s Traditions” in the Journal of Chinese Political Science\, and book chapters “How Tilly’s Warfare Paradigm Is Revolutionizing the Study of Chinese State-Making\,” “Cultural Diversity and Coercive Cultural Homogenization in Chinese History\,” “The China Dream: Revival of What Historical Greatness?”\, “Confucian Pacifism or Confucian Confusion?”\, “The Triumph of Domination in the Ancient Chinese System” and “Problematizing Sovereignty.” Hui also studies contentious politics. As a native from Hong Kong\, she has written “Will China Crush the Protests in Hong Kong? Why Beijing Doesn’t Need to Send in the Troops” in Foreign Affairs and “Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement: The Protest and Beyond” in the Journal of Democracy. She also maintains a blog on Hong Kong https://victoriatbhui.wordpress.com. She has extensively commented on Hong Kong politics in the media including the Washington Post’s Monkey Cage\, ChinaFile\, ABC\, the BBC\, the New York Times\, the Guardian\, Bloomberg\, Sky News\, NPR\, Vox\, and the Christian Science Monitor. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration Required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 13\, 2020 \n4:30 PM-6:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  \nCosponsored by: Columbia-Harvard China and The World Program and the European Institute at Columbia University
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/hong-kong-in-turmoil-defining-the-contours-of-sovereignty-in-china-today/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200212T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200212T193000
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SUMMARY:Killing the Chickens\, Scaring the Monkeys? Demonstration Effects from PRC Coercion and its Limits
DESCRIPTION:Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program Event\n  \nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nJa Ian Chong\, Associate Professor of political Science\, \nNational University of Singapore  \nModerated by: \nThomas Christensen\, Professor of International and Public Affairs\, \nColumbia University \nA common claim about PRC economic statecraft is that it aims to discourage states from engaging in behavior Beijing finds undesirable by visibly punishing third parties. However\, there is limited evidence about how such third-party punishment works\, particularly when states are more or less sensitive to such indirect demonstration effects. This talk seeks to address this question by examining the cases of the United Kingdom\, France\, Malaysia\, and Taiwan. We argue that states with experience of direct punishment tend to be more resistant to demonstrations of punishment toward third parties and more confident of their ability to navigate areas of potential friction. Even though our focus is on states\, similar reasoning about demonstration effects and their limits could apply to non-state entities as well. Our work here augments existing work on coercive diplomacy and economic statecraft tends to focus on the direct effects of threats and punishment and sometimes the audience costs the initiator faces. \nAbout the Speaker: \nJa Ian Chong is associate professor of political science at the National University of Singapore. He previously worked atthe Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington\, D.C. and the Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies in Singapore and was a Princeton-Harvard China and the World Program fellow. Dr. Chong’s work crosses the fields of international relations\, comparative politics\, and political sociology\, with a focus on security issues relating to Asia\, China\, and the United States. He has particular interest in security cooperation\, major power rivalry\, and external intervention in domestic politics. Dr. Chong follows the interplay of social movements\, political liberalization and democratic backsliding\, and foreign policy in Asia closely. He is currently a visiting scholar at the Harvard-Yenching Institute where he is working on a project comparing regional reactions to US-China competition in East Asia. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures Series event. \nNo registration required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 12\, 2020 \n4:30 PM-7:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street \n  \nCosponsors:  Columbia-Harvard China and the World Program
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/taiwans-new-southbound-policy-accomplishments-and-perceptions/
CATEGORIES:Panels and Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200211T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200211T173000
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SUMMARY:The Emotional Topography of the Zainichi Memoryscape: Korean Ghettos in Postwar Japan Revisited
DESCRIPTION:Weatherhead East Asian Institute Event\nPlease join for a lecture with: \nSayaka Chatani\, Assistant Professor of History\, \nNational University of Singapore \n  \nModerated by: \nKim Brandt\, Research Scholar\, Weatherhead East Asian Institute\, \n Columbia University \n  \nA Korean ghetto existed in every large Japanese city in the early postwar period\, and up to the late 1960s. These ghettos provoke the same images and associations in Japanese people’s memory: isolated\, dirty\, impoverished\, and dangerous. To many scholars the existence of ghettos confirms the transwar continuity of Japanese oppression of underclass ethnic minorities. But zainichi Koreans who grew up in ghettos\, or tongne\, often offer a number of spectacular heroic stories about living there. This presentation switches the focus from Japanese society to Koreans themselves\, and discusses the important sociopolitical functions of the tongne\, along with its continuing symbolic meanings. By viewing tongne as a post-liberation place of origin for zainichi\, and by paying attention to the reproduction of its meanings\, we can gain a better understanding of the uneven terrain of power relationships within zainichi society. In particular\, examination of Korean ghettos in Japan helps to explain why the (pro-North Korean) Chongryun organization exercised great cultural power at least until the 1970s and still defines the emotional topography of the zainichi memoryscape. \n  \nThis is a Weatherhead East Asian Institute Lectures and Panels event. \nNo registration Required \n  \nEVENT DETAILS\n\nFebruary 11\, 2020 \n4:00 PM-5:30 PM\n  \nADDRESS\n\nInternational Affairs Building\, Room 918 \n420 W 118th Street
URL:https://archive.weai.columbia.edu/event/the-emotional-topography-of-the-zainichi-memoryscape-korean-ghettos-in-postwar-japan-revisited/
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