Events at: Room 351, C.K. Choi Building

Public Lecture by Professor Edmund Terence Gomez

Dr EDMUND TERENCE GOMEZ is Professor of Political Economy at the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya. Between 2005 and 2008, he served as Research Coordinator at the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD), in Geneva, Switzerland. He has held Visiting Professorships at Kobe University (Japan), the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, […]

The Scope of Foreign Engagement in the DPRK, 1995-2012

The Centre for Korean Research is pleased to present “The Scope of Foreign Engagement in the DPRK, 1995-2012” by Andrew Yeo (Catholic University of America). Abstract: What is the scope of foreign engagement inside the DPRK? What are the potential benefits and risks of engagement for various organizations operating inside the DPRK on one hand, and […]

The Environmental Dilemma – Winners and Losers in Asia

IAR Asia Pacific Forum Presents The Environmental Dilemma – Winners and Losers in Asia Please join us for an interdisciplinary discussion on how environmental issues like food security, waste management, rising sea levels and air pollution affect government policy and society in general within Asia. Tea and light lunch will be served. Please RSVP here […]

Languages of Legitimacy in China: Roundtable Discussion with Researchers

Problems of legitimacy are volatile elements in China’s political system, as in few other regimes. Driven to monopolise all sources of legitimacy, the Marxist-Leninist Party system suffers from a legitimacy deficit. Mechanisms geared to compensate for this deficit are easy to spot: personality cults, hyper- nationalism, megaprojects, factional struggle numerous forms, e.g. anti-corruption drives. China’s […]

Adapting in the Dust: Lessons Learned from Canada’s War in Afghanistan

About the Speaker Stephen Saideman holds the Paterson Chair in International Affairs at Carleton University’s Norman Paterson School of International Affairs. He has written four books: The Ties That Divide: Ethnic Politics, Foreign Policy and International Conflict; For Kin or Country: Xenophobia, Nationalism and War (with R. William Ayres); NATO in Afghanistan: Fighting Together, Fighting […]

TPP and Japanese Economic Revitalization

Facing two decades of deflation and a declining and aging population, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s government has implemented “Abenomics”, comprised of three arrows: aggressive monetary policy, expansionary fiscal policy and an economic growth strategy. The first and second arrows are matters of political will and already implemented. The third (economic growth) arrow should eventually come from […]

Impact of Global Financial Crisis on India: an Analysis of Large Exporters in Indian Manufacturing

Dr. Chaterjee will present a paper that examines the impact of the Global Financial Crisis of 2008-09 on Indian manufacturing firms, using data from the Centre for Monitoring Indian Economy (CMIE) Prowess database. While the crisis did not have its roots in India, the economy and firms were affected mainly due to trade linkages with […]

Real and Imaginary Storytelling: How Digital Humanities Construct the Ideas of Historicity (A Case of Japanese History)

In Virtual History (1998), Niall Ferguson and his collaborators presented “alternative histories” to challenge deterministic ways of viewing history. They asked why history had to be always factual, deliberately implemented the idea of taking a “chaotic approach” to history, and wrote counterfactual scenarios. Certainly, writing subjunctive narratives was difficult to take for many historians, but […]

The Seven Chinas and Value Politics in the Post-Hegemonic Era

Abstract What forces, or narratives, shape Chinese foreign policy? We can see a spectrum of such policy narratives which I call the seven Chinas. They can be arranged in chronological order, starting with the ancient idea of China as the self-sufficient civilisation, and culminating, for now, with that of China as herald of the high frontier, safeguarding a […]

China-Indonesia Relations: Looking Back and Looking Forward

The talk will cover updates on Indonesian politics and Indonesia-China relations. About the Speaker:  Jona Widhagdo Putri is a lecturer in International Relations at the Faculty of Social and Political Sciences, University of Indonesia as well as a Chinese language interpreter for the 6th and the 7th Indonesian President (2013-now). Her research focus is on […]

Gendered vulnerability under expansion of rubber plantation in Luang Namtha, Laos and Northern Shan State, Myanmar

Since the 1990s, there is an expansion of rubber plantation in Luang Namtha province in Laos and in Northern Shan State in Myanmar. Both are driven by increasing Chinese capital, but are arranged in a different way: Laos based more on small-holder production as well as contract farming arrangements, and in Myanmar, by economic concession. […]

Explaining Exceptionality: Care and Migration Policies in Japan and South Korea

Against the global trend towards increased use of foreign female care workers, Japan and South Korea stand out as two countries that continue to resist their intake. In this paper, I explain why despite serious shortages of care workers, these two countries have maintained highly restricted immigration policies towards migrant care workers. I argue that […]

The Linguascape of English Social Media and the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster: The Sociolinguistic and Educational Implications in the Context of Japanese EFL University Students

This study conducts a critical discourse analysis on English language Western social media such as Facebook through the “eyes of Japanese EFL university students”, focusing on thematic issues specifically related to the 2011 Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan. The main research participants are Japanese EFL students studying at the University of Aizu, Fukushima, Japan, who […]

Traditional Social Institutions and Development Outcomes in Eastern Indonesia

Despite recent macroeconomic growth during the last 14 years, Eastern Indonesia is still plagued by persistent income poverty and rising income inequalities. This presentation argues the root of the problem is extractive traditional social institutions, using the indigenous hereditary slavery institution in Sumba and the caste system in Bali as case studies.

Documentary Screening – Dangdut Karawang: Songs of Marginalised Women & Devil Shadow on Tattoo

You are invited to a screening of two short documentaries – Dangdut Karawang: Songs of Marginalized Women by Citra Aryandari, and Devil Shadow on Tattoo by Koes Yuliadi of the Indonesian Art Institute (ISI: Insitut Seni Indonesia), based in Yogyakarta, Indonesia. The films were recently screened at York University as part of the Canadian Council for Southeast […]

ビジネス成功の秘訣と持続可能な企業

セミナー 日時２０１８年２月８日 午後５時から６時３０分 場所 C.K. Choi room 351 講師 八木俊輔教授（追手門学院大学経営学部） テーマ 「ビジネス成功の秘訣と持続可能な企業」 内外の経営学の最新の知見も踏まえた上で、社会人になってからも役立つような経営戦略、マーケティング等、経営学のエッセンスをカバーしつつ、企業の競争優位構築、ビジネス成功の秘訣を探り、今後の企業経営のあり方、CSR、企業経営の持続可能性などの最新のトピックスもカバーしたいと思います。また、日本での就職活動に不安を持たれている学生さんも多いと聞いていますので、日本の就職状況や就職活動への心構えなどの話も織り込んでいきたいと思います。 参加無料 お話は日本語で行います。