Presentation Type: Roundtable
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 …
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 …
The Other AI: Automation, Innovation and the Future of Work in Asia
The boundaries of what machines can do are pushed even further as computing power steadily increases. Complex tasks are becoming automatable at a speed which seemed unfeasible a decade ago. Machines are able to perform a large number of manual and an increasing number of cognitive tasks that previously, only humans can perform. Some argue …
China-Japan Competition or Possibilities for Cooperation? Debates On Belt and Road Initiative and Free and Open Indo-Pacific Initiative
China and Japan have been competing with each other over economic assistance, which is, according to both liberal and realist perspectives, a diplomatic tool to exercise the nation’s influence over the recipient nation. Among other things, rapid railway system is an example of such a competition (e.g, Indonesian project), and for a recipient country, competition …
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 …
Indonesian Film Screening and Roundtable Discussion: Candra Aditya’s Dewi Goes Home
Candra Aditya’s short film Dewi Goes Home (Dewi Pulang) follows a young Javanese woman as she travels back to her native home in Central Java to help prepare funerary rites for her father. In 18 minutes of studied realism, and closely observed dialogue – in Indonesian, Javanese and English – Candra’s film explores a profound …
Exploring the Intersections of Gender and Food in East Asia: From Material Culture to Symbolic Practices
Even when it does not demand urgent attention, food is everyone’s issue – no one can live without a regular intake of nutrients. At the same time, food can be a very personal thing – it constitutes the distinctive habits, interests, and memories of each individual. When food is so much embedded in our daily …