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Friday, November 6: Battles of Manila and Nanjing: Atrocity, Justice and Reconciliation
Monday, November 9: Beijing Underground: China's Alternative Music Scene
Thursday, November 12: Obama from a Southeast Asian Perspective
Monday, November 16: Rising India's Great Power Burden
Tuesday, November 17: Pakistan: Military and Political Challenges Ahead
Friday, November 20: Conference on China's Economic Development & U.S.-China Relations
Tuesday, November 24: Context Shapes Theory: Distinctive Trajectories of IR Scholarship in Asia
Thursdays: Language Tea Time

 

Battles of Manila (1945) and Nanjing (1937): Atrocity, Justice and Reconciliation

Presented by the Sigur Center's Project on Memory and Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific

Friday, November 6, 2009
2:30 - 5:00 PM (Reception to follow)
Lindner Family Commons
The Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street, NW, 6th Floor

Panel 1: Battle of Manila (1945)

Professor Satoshi Nakano, Hitotsubashi University

"Battle of Manila Studies Project: Rediscovering, Remembering and Reconciliation"

Professor Nakano teaches American history at Hitotsubashi's Graduate School of Social Sciences; and he has written extensively about Philippines-U.S.-Japan relations during the Commonwealth (1935-1946) and after.

Ms. Sharon Chamberlain, The George Washington University

"Philippine Trials of Japanese War Criminals: Issues of Justice and Reconciliation"

Ms. Chamberlain is preparing to defend her dissertation on Philippine war crimes trials, entitled "History, Justice, and Reconciliation: Philippine Trials of Japanese War Criminals After World War II."

Moderator: Professor Shawn McHale, The George Washington University

Panel II: Battle of Nanjing (1937)

Professor Tokushi Kasahara, Tsuru University

"The Nanking Massacre and Political Structure of Its Denial in Japan"

Professor Kasahara teaches modern East Asian history; and he has published numerous books and articles about Nanjing including "The Nanking 100-Man Killing Contest" and the Nanking Incident (2008), Historiography of the Controversy about the Nanking Incident in Japan (2007),  and The Nanking Incident (1997).

Professor Daqing Yang, The George Washington University

"Revision, Revisionism, and the Nanjing Atrocity"

Professor Yang teaches modern Japanese history at GWU, and he has written extensively on the historiography of war crimes as well as on postwar reconciliation.

Moderator: Professor Mike Mochizuki, The George Washington University

Please RSVP with your name, organization/GW affiliation, and e-mail to gsigur@gwu.edu by Thursday, November 5, 2009.

 

Beijing Underground: China's Alternative Music Scene

Presented by the Asia Society in partnership with the Sigur Center for Asian Studies

Monday, November 9, 2009
6:30 - 8:00 PM
Govinda Gallery
1227 34th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20007

A reception and book signing will be held at 7:30 pm after the presentation.

We are pleased to invite you to join Asia Society Young Professionals (ASYP) and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies for an exciting night with Matthew Niederhauser, who will give a presentation on his exhibition: Sound Kapital: Beijing's Music Underground, currently on display at Govinda Gallery in Georgetown. The talk will delve into China's burgeoning creative industries and their connections to urban development, widespread adoption of new communication technologies, and the Chinese government's vision of a modern society. China is undergoing a period of unprecedented change that continues to allow more room for independent thought and individualistic expression.

After studying anthropology at Columbia University, Matthew Niederhauser split his time between the National Committee on US-China Relations and the International Center of Photography, before returning to Beijing as a fulltime freelance photographer. Over the past year, his work covering youth culture in China has appeared in the New Yorker, Time Magazine, The Washington Post, PDN, and the Guardian Weekly amongst others. While his nights are spent photographing Beijing's underground music scene, Niederhauser also works on a large-format, photo-documentary project entitled Visions of Modernity that investigates urban development and new architecture in China's swelling capital.

For more information please review links:
http://www.moreintelligentlife.com/blog/erin-dejesus/nary-zither-nor-lutehttp://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/oct/04/punk-rock-china-matthew-niederhauser

A selection of musicians featured in Sound Kapital will be in attendance for a Q & A session following Matthew Niederhauser's presentation.

Price:
$5 - AS member (Pay at door $10)
$10 - non-member (Pay at door $15)

Space is limited, so please RSVP HERE before 5 pm, Friday, November 6. If you have any questions regarding this event, please contact the Asia Society at 202-833-ASIA (2742).

 

Obama from a Southeast Asian Perspective

In the Sigur Center's New Lecture Series on Power and Identity in Asia

Thursday, November 12, 2009
12:30 - 1:45 PM
Lindner Family Commons
The Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street, NW, 6th Floor

Amitav Acharya, Professor, International Relations and Chair, ASEAN Study Center, American University

Amitav Acharya is Professor of International Relations at American University and Chair of its ASEAN Studies Center. He is the author, most recently, of Constructing a Security Community in Southeast Asia: ASEAN and the Problem of Regional Order, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2009); and Whose Ideas Matter: Agency and Power in Asian Regionalism (Cornell University Press, 2009). The new edition of his book, The Quest for Identity: International Relations of Southeast Asia (Oxford, 2000) will be published in 2010 by Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore and Cornell University Press.

Please RSVP with your name, organization/GW affiliation, and e-mail to gsigur@gwu.edu by Wednesday, November 11, 2009.

 

Rising India's Great Power Burden

Presented by the Sigur Center for Asian Studies' India Initiative

In the Sigur Center's New Lecture Series on Power and Identity in Asia

Monday, November 16, 2009
12:30 - 1:45 PM
Lindner Family Commons
The Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street, NW, 6th Floor

C. Raja Mohan, Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations, John W. Kluge Center, Library of Congress

C. Raja Mohan holds the Kissinger Chair in Foreign Policy and International Relations at the John W. Kluge Center in the Library of Congress, during 2009-10. He is also the Foreign Affairs Columnist for The Indian Express, New Delhi and Visiting Professor at the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. His columns appear in the Yomiuri Shimbun (Tokyo) and the Oriental Morning Post (Shanghai). Earlier, Mohan was Professor of South Asian Studies at the Jawaharlal Nehru University in New Delhi. He also served as the Strategic Affairs Editor of the Indian Express in New Delhi, and the Diplomatic Editor and Washington Correspondent of The Hindu. Mohan was a Jennings Randolph Peace Fellow at the U.S. Institute of Peace during 1992-93. He was a member of India's National Security Advisory Board from 1998 to 2000 and again from 2004 to 2006. Mohan was a member of the UN Inter-Governmental Expert Group on Peaceful Uses of Outer Space from 1991 to '92. His recent books include Crossing the Rubicon: The Shaping of India's New Foreign Policy (New York: Palgrave, 2004) and Impossible Allies: Nuclear India, United States and the Global Order (New Delhi: India Research Press, 2006). He is finishing a new book on the Sino-Indian Maritime Rivalry in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.

Please RSVP with your name, organization/GW affiliation, and e-mail to gsigur@gwu.edu by Friday, November 13, 2009.

 

Pakistan: Military and Political Challenges Ahead

Presented by the Institute for Security and Conflict Studies Security Policy Forum in cooperation with the Sigur Center for Asian Studies and the M.A. Program in International Affairs

Tuessday, November 17, 2009
6:30 - 8:30 PM
Harry Harding Auditorium
The Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street, NW, Room 213

Dr. Stephen P. Cohen, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy, Brookings Institute

Dr. Daniel Markey, Senior Fellow for India, Pakistan and South Asia, Council on Foreign Relations

Dr. Ashley Tellis, Senior Associate, South Asia Program, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

Moderated by:

Amb. Karl F. Inderfurth, Professor of the Practice of International Affairs, The George Washington University

Please RSVP to spf@gwu.edu.

 

2nd Annual Conference on China's Economic Development and U.S.-China Economic Relations

Presented by the Institute for International Economic Policy and the Sigur Center for Asian Studies

Friday, November 20, 2009
9:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Lindner Family Commons
The Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street, NW, 6th Floor

Continental breakfast from 8:00 AM

9:00 AM: Welcome and overview of the conference
Stephen C. Smith, Director of the Institute for International Economic Policy and Professor of Economics and International Affairs, The George Washington University

9:15-10:00 AM:
Opening address and charge to the conference
Harry Harding, Dean, Batten School of Public Policy, University of Virginia and former Dean of the Elliott School of International Affairs

Coffee break (10:00-10:30 AM)

10:30-12:30 PM:
Session 1: Transformations and Emerging Challenges in the Economy of China

Bruce Reynolds, Professor of Economics, University of Virginia

Loren Brandt, Professor of Economics, University of Toronto

John Giles, Associate Professor of Economics, Michigan State University and Senior Lab Economist, World Bank

Xiaobo Zhang, Senior Research Fellow, International Food Policy Research Institute

Lixin Colin Xu, Senior Economist, World Bank

12:30-1:00 PM: Lunch

1:00-1:45 PM:
Luncheon Keynote Speaker:
Fred Bergsten, Founder and Director, Peterson Institute of International Economics

1:45-2:00 PM: Coffee Break

2:00-4:00 PM:
Session 2: Crisis, Emergence of the G2 Relationship, and Future Challenges

Zhu Caihua, Associate Professor of International Economics, China Foreign Affairs University

Philip Levy, Resident Scholar, American Enterprise Institute and former Senior Economist, Council of Economic Advisors

Margaret Pearson, Professor of Government and Politics, University of Maryland

Bruce Dickson, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, The George Washington University

Please RSVP with your name, organization/GW affiliation, and e-mail to iiep@gwu.edu.

 

Context Shapes Theory: Distinctive Trajectories of IR Scholarship in Asia

In the Sigur Center's New Lecture Series on Power and Identity in Asia

Tuesday, November 24, 2009
12:30 - 1:45 PM
Lindner Family Commons
The Elliott School of International Affairs
1957 E Street, NW, 6th Floor

Muthiah Alagappa, Distinguished Senior Fellow, East-West Center

Dr. Muthiah Alagappa is Distinguished Senior Fellow at the East-West Center. Previously he was Director, East-West Center Washington, and Director, East-West Center Research Program in Honolulu.  His recent publications include The Long Shadow: Nuclear Weapons and Security in 21st Century Asia (2008), Civil Society and Political Change in Asia: Expanding and Contracting Democratic Space  (2004), and Asian Security Order: Instrumental and Normative Features (2003), all published by Stanford University Press. He is presently working on a journal article tentatively titled "IR Theory Scholarship in Asia: Distinctive, Contextual Trajectories" and a book manuscript tentatively titled "Explaining War and Peace: The Asian Experience 1945-2005."

Please RSVP with your name, organization/GW affiliation, and e-mail to gsigur@gwu.edu by Monday, November 23, 2009.

 

 

News

News Archive

24 October 2009
The Daily Colonial published an article on the Sigur Center's October 22 talk on Human Trafficking in South and Southeast Asia: Speakers and Student Orgs Shed Light on Human Bondage.

23 October 2009
Professor Young-Key Kim-Renaud has been interviewed by DC's Fox 5 News. The interview, regarding a police investigation into the potential religious-ritual-related death of a local Korean-American teenager, can be seen here.

23 October 2009
The Sigur Center's October 22 talk on Human Trafficking in South and Southeast Asia has been written about by the Scripps Howard Foundation Wire, in an article entitled "Former slaves tell of the horrors of prostitution, forced labor" by Joseph D. Szydlowski. The full text of the article can be read here.

23 October 2009
GW Today has published an article about Asian Studies alumna Thao-ahn Tran, who is currently in China on a Fulbright scholarship, researching local communities and Chinese-Korean relations. The article can be found here.

21 October 2009
A transcript of a talk given by Professor Mike Mochizuki, entitled "Reconciling Rivals: War, Memory and Security in East Asia" is now available here.

 

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