Events at: Room 120, C.K. Choi Building

Japan’s Leadership in the Liberal International Order

Since 2016, Japan has shown remarkable leadership on several dimensions of global and regional economic governance, including trade governance, economic and data governance, regional rules-based order, and environmental governance. This workshop is hosted by the Centre for Japanese Research.

Crossing the borders: Saadat Hasan Manto

While depicting the tragic events of partition through his brilliant fiction writing, Manto stretched the
limits of socially approved norms of storytelling. His unconventional lifestyle too was the mirror image of
his writings as if he was a character of one of his own stories.

The Optics of Mutant Vectors: Run-away Neoliberalism in Post-IMF Korean Science Fiction Cinema

Exploring South Korean cinema in the wake of the Asian financial crisis, Joseph Jeon observes the use of “secondorder representations” – the fantastic and/or technologically mediated means of instantiation – as a way of diagnosing the problematics of economic institutions in Vicious Circuits: Post-IMF Cinema and the End of the American Century (2019).

Politics of Biodiversity Conservation in China: The Rising Epistemic Community and National Park Reforms in an Adapted Multiple Stream Framework Analysis

How would an authoritarian developmental state respond to challenges and difficulties in governing technically complex issues, such as nature conservation systems? What roles do scientists and experts play? Why do some ideas prevail while others fall aside in the policy making process？

The Fourth Annual International Mother Language Day Celebration

Every year International Mother Language Day is celebrated at CISAR with multilingual presentations, performances, and multicultural festivities, representing diverse languages from around the world. 2020 marks the 20th anniversary of the International Mother Language Day, and the Fourth Annual International Mother Language Day celebrations at CISAR.

CJR-CSDI event oct 18Can Democratic Elections Survive the Digital Age?

High-level virtual panel on digital disruptions in democratic elections, with experts on Brazil, Kenya, the Philippines, and South Korea. About this event The Konwakai Chair in Japanese Research, in partnership with the Centre for the Study of Democratic Institutions, is organizing a series of panel events on the theme of digital transformations, titled: “Global Conversations […]

Dr. Benjamin Young, A Revolutionary State: What is North Korea’s End Goal?A Revolutionary State: What is North Korea’s End Goal?

Since the founding of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (the official name of North Korea, hereafterDPRK) in 1948, the Kim family regime’s primary objective has been the reunification of the Korean peninsula under Pyongyang’s terms. Despite South Korea’s rapid economic growth and democratization process, the stated goal of reunification has not changed in North Korea’s official discourse. This talk will examine these legal revisions under Kim Jong Un and look at the strategic outlook for conflict on the Korean peninsula.

Henry Yeung – Semiconductors, Geopolitics & Post-Pandemic East Asia

This is a hybrid event that takes place both in-person at UBC and online via Zoom, Register today! Join the National University of Singapore’s Dr. Henry Yeung, Distinguished Professor in the Department of Geography, in a discussion surrounding his key empirical observations on the highly contested and politicized nature of semiconductor global production networks. Based […]