Japan’s Role in International Cooperation and Development" with Monica Weller of the Japan International Cooperation Agency. This event is sponsored by the East Asian Studies Program.
Come learn about the SAIS Summer Academies in Bologna, Italy and Washington, DC, and the SAIS Direct Admissions Program! Lunch will be provided. SAIS Summer Academy courses introduce students to the challenges of international conflict analysis, management and resolution. Students will build practical skillsets through excursions, case studies on peacekeeping and peacebuilding, debates on intervention, […]
Book Talk: Disorienting Politics mines 21st-century media artifacts to make visible the economic, cultural, political, and ecological entanglements of China and the United States. These “Chimerican media,” originating in America but circulating beyond national boundaries, co-create the figure of rising China and demonstrate the ways in which race is embedded in geopolitics evenwhen the subject […]
2022 has been the year of the greatest number of legal cases relating to climate. These cases range from efforts to prevent the expansion of fossil fuel and petrochemical extraction to challenges to government for their continued inaction in regulating companies and holding them accountable. Notable among these legal actions is the 2021 case won by Friends […]
Register here to attend the film screening and discussion of On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World). We will host a 2-D screening of the film and a discussion and Q&A with Dr. Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio and Dr. Sylvia Frain. Food and drinks will be provided at the end of the event. Dr. Jamaica […]
Book Talk – Affective Spaces as Method: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China East Asia is saturated with complex emotions. Although emotions play an essential role in the sociopolitical formations of the region, their implications are poorly understood. Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China (forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press) explains why and how emotions create […]