With Harvard’s Theodore Bestor
Monday, October 25 at 5:30pm
McDermott Conference Room, Donahue Building
41 Temple Street
Cultural anthropologist Theodore Bestor, a specialist on contemporary Japanese culture, will talk about the confluence of food and cultural values among the Japanese today. The audience will sample freshly made sushi. Sponsored by the Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies along with Dr. Micky lee, Department of Communication and Journalism.
Monday, October 18, 2010
7pm
Sargent Hall, R496
120 Tremont Street, Suffolk University Law School
U.S. Ambassador to China Jon Huntsman will speak about issues in U.S.-China relations and take questions from the audience via live video feed. Douglas Spelman, Deputy Director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson International Center of Scholars in Washington, D.C. will also speak. National Committee on U.S.-China Relations president Steve Orlins will moderate the talk.
Audience members are encouraged to submit questions in advance in the hope of fostering dialogue on U.S.-China trade relations, environmental issues, domestic Chinese politics, energy policy and security.
To submit a question: visit www.ncuscr.org/cth and type your question in the appropriate field. Click “Submit.” The question field is now open, and will remain so until the end of the webcast. Due to limited time for the webcast, it is not guaranteed that your question will be asked.
The Rosenberg Institute is proud to announce a new academic year of events with visiting scholars:
Suffolk Cinema Series
Hidden Warriors: Women on the Ho Chi Minh trail
With Director Dr. Karen Gottschang Turner, College of the Holy Cross
Turner, author of Even the Women Must Fight: Memories of War from North Vietnam and China Bound: A Guide to Life and Work in China will be on-hand for Q&A following the film
Thursday, September 28, 2010
12:45pm to 3:45pm
Donahue Building, third floor, D311
China Town Hall Forum: Issues in US-China Relations
With Jon Huntsman, US Ambassador to China
Jon Huntsman will speak via live video feed and take questions from the audience. Douglas Spelman, Deputy Director of the Kissinger Institute on China and the United States at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, D.C. will also address the audience.
Monday, October 18, 2010
7pm to 9:20pm
Sargent Hall R496
120 Tremont Street
Burning Questions in Asian American Studies
With Dr. Huping Ling, Truman State University
Dr. Ling will discuss how Americans look at the Chinese in their midst, and how Chinese-Americans react to being hyphenated Americans
Friday, November 5, 2010
11am to Noon
Munce Conference Room, 110 Archer Building
20 Derne Street
Being Asian in America
With Maxine Hong Kingston
The award-winning author visits Boston to launch her new book of personal memoirs, and discuss issues such as anti-Asian discrimination, hope and despair among Asian-Americans, and the reasons it is fun to be an Asian in the United States
Wednesday, February 9, 2011
10am to 11:15a,
Munce Conference Room, 110 Archer Building
20 Derne Street
Zen Friends: Literary Friendships Between Late Imperial Chinese Women Poets and Buddhist Nuns
With Dr. Beatta Grant, Washington University in St. Louis
Dr. Grant discusses the lives of educated women in pre-modern China
Monday, April 11, 2011
10am to 11:15am
Munce Conference Room, 110 Archer Building
20 Derne Street
A lecture by Shang-Jin Wei, of Columbia University
Thursday, April 16th, 2009 5:30pm Sargent Hall, room 295
Dr. Shang-Jin Wei is Professor of Finance and Economics and N.T. Wang Professor of Chinese Business and Economy at Columbia University, and Director of Working Group on the Chinese Economy and Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (US), and Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy Research (Europe). Prior to his Columbia appointment, he was Assistant Director and Chief of Trade and Investment Division at the International Monetary Fund. He was the IMF’s Chief of Mission to Myanmar (Burma) in 2004. He previously held the positions of Associate Professor of Public Policy at Harvard University, the New Century Chair in Trade and International Economics at the Brookings Institution, and Advisor at the World Bank. He has been a consultant to numerous government organizations including the U.S. Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, United Nations Economic Commission on Europe, and United Nations Development Program, the Asian Development Bank, and to private companies such as Pricewaterhouse Coopers.
He holds a PhD in economics and M.S. in finance from the University of California, Berkeley. Dr. Wei’s research covers corruption, international finance, trade, and China, and has been reported in the Financial Times, Economist, 20, Business Week, Times, US News and World Report, Chicago Tribune, Asian Wall Street Journal, South China Morning Post, and other international news media. He has published widely in world-class academic journals including Journal of Political Economy, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of Finance, American Economic Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Economic Journal, Journal of International Economics, European Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics and Journal of Development Economics.
He is the author, co-author, or co-editor of several books including China’s Evolving Role in the World Trade (with R. Feenstra, forthcoming University of Chicago Press), The Globalization of the Chinese Economy, (with J. Wen and H. Zhou, Edward Elgar, 2002), Economic Globalization: Finance, Trade and Policy Reforms, (Beijing University Press, 2000), and Regional Trading Blocs in the World Economic System, (J. A. Frankel with E. Stein and S.-J. Wei, Institute for International Economics, 1997).
This event is a presentation sponsored by the Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies. For more information about the Institute, please visithttp://www.suffolk.edu/college/30058.html. For more information regarding this event, please contact 617-573-6316 or casnews@suffolk.edu.
A lecture by Mark Ramseyer, of Harvard Law School
Tuesday, April 14, 2009 4:00pm Poetry Center, Mildred F. Sawyer Library (3rd floor) 73 Tremont St
Mark Ramseyer is the Mitsubishi Professor of Japanese Legal Studies at Harvard University. Over the past several years, his research has focused on the finance and governance of Japanese firms. He regularly teaches both American Corporate Law and courses related to Japanese law, and is co-editor of casebooks in both fields. Prior to his work at Harvard, Ramseyer taught at the University of Chicago (1992-1998) and at UCLA (1986-1992). Ramseyer was raised in Japan, where he attended Japanese schools until the 6th grade. He attended Goshen College (B.A., History, 1976), the University of Michigan (A.M., Japanese Studies, 1978), and the Harvard Law School (J.D. magna cum laude, 1982).
This event is a presentation sponsored by the Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies. For more information about the Institute, please visit http://www.suffolk.edu/college/30058.html. For more information regarding this event, please contact 617-573-6316 or casnews@suffolk.edu.
A lecture by Bruce Cumings, of the University of Chicago
Tuesday, March. 24, 2009 2:30pm Munce Conference Room, Archer 110 20 Derne Street, Boston
Bruce Cumings’ research and teaching focus on modern Korean history, 20th century international history, U.S.-East Asian relations, East Asian political economy,and American foreign relations. His first book, The Origins of the Korean War, won the John King Fairbank Book Award of the American Historical Association, and the second volume of this study won the Quincy Wright Book Award of the International Studies Association. He is the editor of the modern volume of the Cambridge History of Korea (forthcoming), and is a frequent contributor to The London Review of Books, The Nation, Current History, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists,and Le Monde Diplomatique. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1999, and is the recipient of fellowships from the Ford Foundation, NEH, the MacArthur Foundation, the Center for Advanced Study at Stanford, and the Abe Fellowship Program of the Social Science Research Council. He was also the principal historical consultant for the Thames Television/PBS 6-hour documentary, Korea: The Unknown War. In 2003 he won the University’s award for Excellence in Graduate Teaching, and in 2007 he won the Kim Dae Jung Prize for Scholarly Contributions to Democracy, Human Rights and Peace. He has just completed Dominion From Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power, which will be published by Yale University Press. He is working on a synoptic single-volume study of the origins of the Korean War, and a book on the Northeast Asian political economy.
This event is a presentation sponsored by the Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies. For more information about the Institute, please visithttp://www.suffolk.edu/college/30058.html. For more information regarding this event, please contact 617-573-6316 or casnews@suffolk.edu.
Tuesday, February 24th, 1:00 p.m. in Munce Conference Room:
Peter Perdue has a Ph.D. (1981) from Harvard University in the field of History and East Asian Languages. He is the author of Exhausting the Earth: State and Peasant in Hunan 1500-1850 A.D. (Council on East Asian Studies, Harvard University, 1987) and China Marches West: The Qing Conquest of Central Eurasia (Harvard University Press, 2005). He has also written on grain markets in China, agricultural development, and environmental history.
His research interests lie in modern Chinese and Japanese social and economic history, history of frontiers, and world history. He is a recipient of the 1988 Edgerton Award and the James A. Levitan Prize at MIT. He was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2007. He is currently Professor of History at Yale University.
This event is a presentation sponsored by the Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies. For more information regarding this event, please contact 617-573-6316 or casnews@suffolk.edu.
Hurst Hannum is Professor of International Law at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University, where he teaches courses in international human rights and related topics. In 2006-2008, he was Sir Y.L. Pao Professor of Public Law at the University of Hong Kong.
Professor Hannum has served as counsel in cases before European, Inter-American, and UN human rights bodies and has served as a consultant to the United Nations on issues ranging from minority rights to the situations in Afghanistan, East Timor, and Western Sahara. He has served on the boards of a number of nongovernmental human rights organizations and currently is on the Advisory Council of the International Service for Human Rights (Geneva) and the International Council of Minority Rights Group International (London).
Among his many publications are International Human Rights: Problems of Law, Policy and Practice (Aspen, 4th ed. 2006);Guide to International Human Rights Practice (Transnational, 4th ed. 2004); Autonomy, Sovereignty, and Self-Determination: The Accommodation of Conflicting Rights (Univ. of Pennsylvania, rev. ed. 1996); “Peace versus Justice: Creating Rights as well as Order Out of Chaos,” 13International Peacekeeping 582 (2006); and “Human Rights in Conflict Resolution: The Role of the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights in UN Peacemaking and Peacebuilding,” 28 Human Rights Quarterly (2006).
Wednesday, Nov. 19, 2008
5:00-7:00pm
Sargent 235
120 Tremont Street, Boston
This is event is sponsored by the Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies
and co-sponsored by the United Nations Senior Lecturer Program, Suffolk University Government Department.
A reception will immediately follow this event in the Faculty Dining Room, located on the 4th floor of Sargent Hall.
A Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies Event:
Dr. Ronald Suleski is a specialist on modern Chinese history and Assistant Director of the Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. His research interests have focused on the period of Republican China during the 1920s and 1930s and he has published on topics covering China, Japan, and Korea.
Among his publications are Civil Government in Warlord China: Tradition, Modernization and Manchuria (2002), and this year, a book chapter in English on Confucianism in contemporary China, and a booklet in Japanese on the Manchuria Youth Corps, composed of teenaged farm boys sent by the Japanese Government in the 1930s to colonize Manchuria.
Tuesday, Nov. 18, 2008
1:00-2:30pm
Sawyer 429
8 Ashburton Place, Boston
The Asian Film Series screens a kung fu film, a musical, and a spy thriller, to examine cultural identity, political anxiety, and visual representation.
Kung Fu Hustle is either a trashy, non-sensical comedy or a clever postmodern work that comments on Hong Kong – China relations. Shiri is the name of a species of freshwater fish indigenous to the DMZ, and expresses the director’s hope for the reunification of a divided Korea. Jodhaa Akbar is a sixteenth century love story between a great Mughal emperor, Akbar, and a Rajput princess, Jodha.
Wednesday, Oct. 8, 2008 5:30 pm
Kung Fu Hustle (directed by Stephen Chow)
Hosted by Dr. Micky Lee, Communication & Journalism Department
Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2008 5:30pm
Jodhaa Akbar (directed by Ashutosh Gowariker)
Hosted by Dr. Afshan Bokhari, Art History, NESADSU
The Asian Film Series is presented by the Barbara and Richard M. Rosenberg Institute for East Asian Studies in conjunction with the College of Arts & Sciences Dean’s Office.