Global and Economic Implications of China’s Sex Ratio Imbalance, April 16th

A lecture by Shang-Jin Wei, of Columbia University

Thursday, April 16th, 2009 5:30pm Sargent Hall, room 295 120 Tremont Street

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.

Japanese Health Insurance and the Cosmetic Surgery Room

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.

North Korea: No longer the Axis of Evil?

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.

Peter Purdue, Professor of History at Yale University, to discuss Globalization and Trade in Chinese History on Feb. 24th

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.

Spring Asian Film Series Explores Countries Across Asia

February 4th, 2009 at 5:30 p.m.
Asian Film Series- South Korea: 
Take Care of My Cat
 with Dr. Simone Chun  
 

February 18th, 2009 at 5:30 p.m.
Asian Film Series- China: 
Postman in the Mountains with Dr. Da Zheng
 
April 8th, 2009 at 5:30 p.m.
Asian Film Series- Japan: 
To Live with Dr. Xue Yong
 

All films will be screened in Donahue 218A. 

Free food, free admission and prizes!

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.

Hurst Hannum, Professor of International Law, Tufts University, explores Human Rights in China: Inside and Outside

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.

Dr. Ronald Suleski lectures on Confucius and Confucianism on November 18th

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