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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 …
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 …
The COVID-19 Pandemic in East and Southeast Asia: Comparative Perspectives
This session examines how historical backgrounds, contemporary discourses and practices, as well as government strategies have shaped the COVID-19 pandemic in China, Vietnam, and Japan. The discussant for the session will add an important regional perspective on the pandemic.
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
Women as Symbols: The Female Representation in East Asian Literature and Film of the 1930s and 1940s
This panel intends to explore the highly politicized nature of women’s representation in East Asia during the 1930s and 1940s. Scholars have already paid attention to “the question of women” in modern East Asia since the 1990s, however, this panel endeavours to reconceptualize this narrative by focusing on topics which have, so far, remained marginal. …
From Kata to Contemplative Practices: Transformations within Martial and Theatrical Arts in Contemporary China and Japan
This panel aims at understanding the relationships between traditional martial and theatrical arts training and the recent development of contemplative practices in contemporary China and Japan. Martial arts and classical theatrical practices are traditionally based on prearranged sequences of movements called kata. For the practitioners, the repetition of these movements constitutes a way to improve …
Transnational Migration to and from Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia is one of the fastest growing regions in the 21th century. With the increasing number of young population, many countries from the Philippines to Vietnam witness a large number of migrant workers working in East Asian countries, Middle East, and beyond. This panel discusses two-way transnational movements of people; from Southeast Asia to …