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India’s Evolving Partnerships with Africa and the China Factor
Presented via ZoomTopics: Panelists: W. Gyude Moore, Senior Policy Fellow, Center for Global Development; Lecturer at the University of Chicago’s Harris School for Public Policy; Former Minister of Public Works, LiberiaHannah Ryder, CEO, Development Reimagined; Senior Associate, Africa Program of the Center for Strategic International Studies Anthea Mulakala, Senior Director for International Development Cooperation, The Asia Foundation Philani
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Adam P. Liff – The U.S.-Japan Alliance and Taiwan
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Adam P. Liff, Associate Professor of East Asian International Relations, Hamilton Lugar School of Global & International Studies; Director, 21st Century Japan Politics and Society Initiative, Indiana University. Moderator: Mary C. Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology; Director, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University. Venue
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Buddhist Studies Forum Featuring Julia Cross – Relic Transfers and Statue-Reliquaries in Medieval Japan
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Julia Cross, Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in Religious Studies, Yale University Prior to the medieval period, Buddha relics (Sk. śarīra; dhātu) in Japan were typically under the domain of the court or court-related temples. In the Kamakura era (1185–1333), this shifted, however, as relic worship became increasingly accessible to temples
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China Humanities Seminar featuring Ronald Egan – Su Shi Beyond Poetry: The Invention of a New Kind of Informal Prose
Speaker: Ronald Egan, Stanford University Su Shi 蘇軾 (1037-1101) is remembered first as a poet in various forms (shi 詩, ci 詞, and fu 賦) and only then as a prose stylist. Even among his prose writings Su Shi is remembered primarily, to judge from modern selections of his works, for his output in the traditional literary
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Taiwan Studies Workshop featuring Jaewoong Jeon – Sugar and Commodity Form: Manifestations in Colonial Taiwan and Korea
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Jaewoong Jeon, Postdoctoral Fellow in Global History, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs; Postdoctoral Fellow in Taiwan Studies, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies, Harvard University Moderator: Steven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College; Fairbank Center Associate This talk will not be recorded for future viewing. This talk is co-sponsored by the
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Gender Studies Workshop: Gender, Family, and Law
Presented via ZoomSpeakers:Bettine Birge, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern CaliforniaYing Zhang, Associate Professor and Director of the Institute for Chinese Studies, The Ohio State UniversityMara Yue Du, Assistant Professor and Himan Brown Faculty Fellow, Cornell UniveristyXiaoping Cong, Professor of History, University of HoustonModerator:Michael Szonyi, Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History
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Environment in Asia series featuring Michael J. Hathaway – What a Mushroom Lives For: Matsutake Mushrooms and the Worlds They Make
Speaker: Michael J. Hathaway, Professor of Anthropology and Director of the David Lam Center for Asian Studies, Simon Fraser University This talk introduces the second book in an academic trilogy that began with Anna L. Tsing’s The Mushroom at the End of the World. In this talk, Michael J. Hathaway draws from his forthcoming book.
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Victor Seow – Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Victor Seow, Assistant Professor of the History of Science, Harvard UniversityCommentator: Paul Sabin, Yale University Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia is a study of the deep links between energy extraction and technocratic politics through the history of what was once East Asia’s largest coal mine. In delving into the origins
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Buddhist Studies Forum featuring Halvor Eifring – Let the mind wander towards the Pure Land: Two 19th-Century Chinese Monks on How to Treat Spontaneous Thought
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speaker: Halvor Eifring, University of Oslo Mind wandering has been an issue within contemplative traditions for more than two thousand years. How to go about your meditation or prayer when spontaneous thoughts constantly pull your mind in other directions? This talk will focus on the answers of two 19th-century Chinese Pure Land Buddhist monks,
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Panel Discussion – The Diaries of Chiang Kai-shek and Chiang Ching-kuo: Historical Reflections
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speakers:Wayne Chiang 蔣萬安, Member of Legislative Yuan, TaiwanHsiao-ting Lin, Stanford UniversitySteven Goldstein, Sophia Smith Professor of Government, Emeritus, Smith College; Fairbank Center AssociateModerator:Michael Szonyi, Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies; Frank Wen-Hsiung Wu Memorial Professor of Chinese History, Harvard University Venue
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Panel Discussion – How Will the War in Ukraine Impact China’s Engagement in Eastern Europe?
Presented via ZoomTopics: Speakers:Jinghan Zeng, Professor of China and International Studies, Lancaster University; Academic Director of China Engagement and Director of Lancaster University Confucius Institute Una Aleksandra Bērziņa-Čerenkova, Head, China Studies Centre, Riga Stradins University; Head, Asia Program, Latvian Institute of International Affairs Jeremy Garlick, Director, J. Masaryk Centre of International Studies; Associate Professor of International Relations
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Critical Issues Confronting China Series featuring Bert Hofman – A Broad Assessment of the Growth Outlook for China—Will it Meet Xi Jinping’s Goals, Will China Overtake the US? How Will China Seek to Achieve this?
Presented via ZoomSpeaker: Bert Hofman, Director, East Asian Institute; Professor in Practice, Lee Kuan Yew School, National University Singapore Bert Hofman, a Dutch national, is the director of the East …
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