Presentation Type: Roundtable
Teaching Classical Chinese Literature Across a Globalized World: Challenges and Strategies
In today’s globalized world, how to teach classical Chinese literature has become increasingly challenging. For one thing, facing a new generation of students who grew up consuming fast entertainment and are accustomed to instant gratification afforded by technology, how to lead them to appreciate the beauty, subtlety, and profundity of classical Chinese literature? Secondly, with …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Historians’ Workshop: A Flexible Model for Practical Early-Career Academic Development
This roundtable will introduce the activities of the Historians’ Workshop and consider how our experience guiding young academics could provide a model of career development for graduate students in Asian Studies. Historians’ Workshop is a voluntary body founded in July 2016 to train young historians in Japan for careers on the world stage. Through events …
Examining the Contemporary Dynamics of Japan–China Interactions in the Cultural and Creative Industries
This roundtable explores how we can understand the contemporary transnational interactions of the Japanese and Chinese cultural and creative industries (CCI). The importance of the Asian region in the realm of CCI is rising dramatically, which is a game changer for a field that has long been dominated by Euro-American powerhouses. Japan and China are …
The Philippine Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA) Two Decades Later: What Worked, What Failed, What Now?
The Philippine Indigenous Peoples Rights Act (IPRA) passed in 1997 was intended to protect the rights of indigenous peoples (IPs) or indigenous cultural communities (ICCs). It was informed both by national jurisprudence on land rights and mediated by the post-EDSA1987 Constitution, as well as by transnational shifts towards shared frameworks for IP rights as expressed …
Resistance to Dictatorship and the Future of Human Rights in Thailand
On 22 May 2014, a junta calling itself the National Council for Peace and Order (NCPO) carried out the thirteenth coup in Thailand since the end of the absolute monarchy in 1932. For nearly five years, the NCPO presided over a military dictatorship in which human rights violations became systematic and institutionalized. Despite severe restriction …
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 …