Presentation Type: Roundtable
Social movement, Crisis, and Circulations of Art in the Sinosphere
The “Freedom Summer” of 2019 was not Hong Kong’s alone. A movement of global proportions, it continues to spark waves of intellectual discourse that re-evaluate the relations between politics and aesthetics. From graffiti to post-it walls to Joker-esque face-paint, protest practices arising from this movement articulate collective demands for new polity, while forging citizens’ expressions …
Asia Matters Podcast: South Asia’s Dual Crisis: COVID-19 and Climate Change
South Asia has become one of the worst-hit parts of the world by COVID-19, with the pandemic causing particular harm among society’s poorest. In April, The World Bank forecast the region is likely to record their worst growth performance in four decades this year due to the health crisis. Its struggle against the virus has …
Godzilla and Global Anxiety from Hiroshima to COVID-19
Since Godzilla’s first appearance in the 1954 classic Gojira, the King of the Monsters has become a cinematic icon and a globally recognized symbol of Japan. Born of American H-bomb testing in the South Pacific, Godzilla tapped into Japanese audiences’ traumatic memories of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, as well as international fears of the Cold War nuclear …
Reimagining Transnational Student Mobility in the Post-COVID-19 Era
This roundtable discusses a critical challenge facing universities in the post-pandemic Asia: online enrollment and teaching. With the COVID-19 pandemic, student mobility has ground to a halt in Asia, and in some instances demonstrated the extent to which universities have grown overly dependent upon foreign students as a source of income. This brought forth various …
New Threats to Academic Freedom
This roundtable webinar brings together scholars who are researching or witnessing censorship and self-censorship across various parts of Asia. In anticipation of an Association for Asian Studies’ publication project on the same subject, this late-breaking news roundtable will start a scholarly discussion about emerging threats to academic freedom in Asia as well as their downstream …
Reports from CULCON: Cultural and Educational Interchanges between Japan and the U.S
The U.S.-Japan Conference on Cultural and Educational Interchange (CULCON) is the binational advisory group established in 1961 to further deepen the dialogue among cultural, educational and intellectual spheres, and it has been serving to submit the policy recommendations to both heads of the states in the past 60 years. As CULCON closes two sub-committees, Arts …
Japan and Korea in China-US Relations: A Reappraisal of the Post-War Order
This is supported by the Korea Foundation. This round table examines Japan-Korea relations by focusing on the bilateral relationship’s rapidly changing international context. Rather than focusing on the dominant issues particular to Japan–Korea relations, this project looks at the two powerful drivers of East Asian international politics of late, namely China and the US, that …
Revisiting the ‘East Asian Welfare Model’ Roundtable
This roundtable invites discussants to re-examine the validity and ongoing relevance of the ‘East Asian Welfare Model’ given the new and changing realities of 21st Century East Asia. Key discussants will reflect not only on the continuing relevance of the model to Singapore, Korea, Taiwan, Japan, and other East Asian contexts, but also on whether …
Residues of Hiroshima 75 Years on: Nuclear Tests, Trauma, Identity, and the Ending of the War
As we approach the 75th anniversary of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, nuclear issues are still frighteningly relevant. Developments such as the deadlocked US-North Korean nuclear talks, the US withdrawal from the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty, and the US deployment of “low-yield” nuclear missiles, preclude any sense of historical closure this anniversary. Featuring …
OpenGLAM and Redevelopment of Japanese Studies
This roundtable brings together researchers and librarians from university, high school, and public library to discuss the unique conditions in which OpenGLAM develops in Japan. To that end, the speakers will examine the current trends and issues on digitalization of Japanese resources from interdisciplinary perspective. The development and dissemination of digital archives and open data …