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Success at the Summit: APEC 2014 and 2015
Asia Society event
December 16, 2014, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Speakers: Doris Ho, Chair, APEC Business Advisory Council; Guillermo Luz, Private Sector Co-Chairman, National Competitiveness Council; Laura del Rosario, Philippines Undersecretary for International Economic Relations; Robert Wang, U.S. Senior Official for APEC
Moderator: Josette Sheeran, President and CEO, Asia Society
Organized by Asia Society
South China Sea: Pathways to Peace
Asia Society event
November 12, 2014, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Speakers: Peter Dutton, Professor of Strategic Studies and Director of the China Maritime Studies Institute, U.S. Naval War College; Robert D. Kaplan, Chief Geopolitical Analyst, Stratfor; author; Foreign Correspondent, The Atlantic; Holly Morrow, Fellow, the Geopolitics of Energy Project, Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, Harvard University; Zha Daojiong, (via Skype) Professor of International Political Economy, Peking University
Moderator: Orville Schell, Arthur Ross Director of the Center on U.S.-China Relations, Asia Society
Organized by Asia Society; Cosponsored by the U.S.-Asia Law Institute and Asian Financial Society
The North Korean Human Rights Conundrum
November 6, 2014, 4:00 – 5:30pm
Speaker: Greg Scarlatiou, Executive Director, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea
Organized by WEAI and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
To Lose Without Fighting? The U.S., China, Southeast Asia and the South China Sea
October 20, 2014, 12:00 – 1:30pm
Speaker: Bill Hayton, Reporter, BBC
Moderator: Kristy Kelly, Associate Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University; Assistant Clinical Professor, Program Director of Global and International Education, Drexel University
Organized by WEAI; Cosponsored by the Southeast Asian Student Initiative (SEASI) and Asian American Journalists Association at Columbia
ASEAN Centrality and the ASEAN-U.S. Economic Relationship
October 3, 2014, 12:00 – 1:30pm
Speaker: Michael Plummer, Director SAIS Europe; Eni Professor of Economics, Johns Hopkins University
Moderator: Hugh Patrick
Organized by WEAI
The Future of the Korean Peninsula
The 29th ROK-US Security Conference Two-day roundtable workshop
August 20-21, 2014
Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, International Council on Korean Studies, Sejong Institute, Korean Institute for Maritime Strategy, Hwajeong Peace Foundation, Institute for National Security Strategy of Korea, Korea Society, and Dong-A Ilbo
Northeast Asia Relations Workshop
Closed Roundtable Discussion
June 27, 2014, 9:00am - 9:00pm
Organized by Merit E. Janow and Gerald L. Curtis
Organized by WEAI; cosponsored by CJEB and SIPA
Culture and Everyday Life in North Korea
April 25, 9:00 - 2:00pm
Speakers: Charles Armstrong, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences in the Department of History, Columbia University
Ruth Barraclough, Senior Lecturer, School of Culture, History & Language, Australian National University and Visiting Scholar, Columbia University
Organized by the Center for Korean Research
My Fight for a New Taiwan: One Woman's Journey from Prison to Power
April 23, 12:00 – 1:30pm
Speaker: Ms. Annette Lu, Former Vice President, Taiwan; Candidate, Mayor of Taipei
Organized by WEAI
The “History Problem” (rekishi mondai), Nationalism, and Foreign Policy Preferences in Japan: Evidence from a Survey Experiment
April 8, 2014, 12:00 – 1:30pm
Speaker: Yongwook Ryu, Research Fellow, Department of International Relations, School of Political and International Studies, The Australian National University
Organized by WEAI
China and the Environment: A Conversation
March 31, 2014
Three leading experts discussed the importance of looking to the past in order to address China’s present environmental situation. Peter Perdue, professor of history at Yale University, spoke about China’s long environmental history, focusing on the need to present a “longer term view” of China and the world’s environmental challenges. The good news is there is information in the past that we may be able to learn from. However, he concluded with the bad news that environmental crises are deep seeded and very hard to reverse. Micah Muscolino, associate professor of history at Georgetown University, focused on the need to incorporate many disciplines and all regions of the world into the discussion of environmental history. In his research, he has looked at the legacies of how people in China have perceived and responded to environmental change; these legacies will “shape the options available to China as well as the rest of the world, as we grapple with environmental change on a global scale.” He concluded by asserting that “literally everything in China’s history has environmental components,” emphasizing the need to make it a central focus of the discipline and the present discussion of China’s environmental challenges. Isabel Hilton, the editor of Chinadialogue, spoke about the potential role the journalism profession would play in addressing environmental problems in China. While there is political will to confront the environmental issues and a number of laws have been created in China, enforcement of top-down policies is likely to fail “without the proper horizontal checks and balances.” She said there must be freedom of the press and social media for society’s efforts to fight pollution to be effective. Eugenia Lean, associate professor of Chinese history, served as moderator for this event.
Co-sponsored with WEAI and CJEB
Doing Business in Asia: 2014 & Beyond
March 25, 2014
Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue
Speakers:
Edward Cunningham, Assistant Professor, Department of Earth and Environment, Boston University; Director, Asia Energy and Sustainability Initiative, Harvard Kennedy School; Gwynn Guilford, reporter and editor, Quartz; Ed Koehler, managing partner, Hunton & Williams, Bangkok; Bruce Thomas, President, MeadWestvaco Healthcare
Moderator: Tom Nagorski, Executive Vice President, Asia Society
Organized by the Asia Society
KORUS FTA at Two Years
March 13, 2014
The Korea Society, NYC
Speaker: Tami Overby, Vice President, Asia Division, U.S. Chamber of Commerce; President, U.S.-Korea Business Council
Moderator: Nikita Desai, Director, Policy & Corporate Programs
Organized by The Korea Society
Integrating the Cambodian Genocide into Global Narratives of Genocide
February 25, 2014
Ben Kiernan A. Whitney Griswold Professor of History; Director of the Genocide Studies Program; Chair, Council on Southeast Asia Studies Yale University Moderated by Jayne Werner, Research Scholar, WEAI
Co-sponsored with WEAI and EALAC
East Asian Miracle at Risk: Is a Social Crisis Brewing?
February 19, 2014, 12:00 - 2:00pm
Panelists: Qin Qao, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Social Service, Fordham University; Yoonkyung Lee, Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian and Asian-American Studies, Binghamton University; Arvid Lukauskas, Executive Director, Program in Economic Policy Management, Columbia University; Yumi Shimabukuro, Associate Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Moderator: Isabela Mares, Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
Co-sponsored by the Program in Economic Policy Management
Japan and the World
Dean’s Lecture Series
February 18, 2014, 11:30am - 1:00pm
Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA), in coordination with Columbia Business School’s Center on Japanese Economy and Business, hosted a lecture and discussion with Kenichiro Sasae, Japan’s Ambassador to the United States. The event, moderated by Merit E. Janow, Dean and Professor of Professional Practice in International Economic Law and International Affairs at SIPA, was part of the Dean’s Lecture Series. Ambassador Sasae talked briefly about Abenomics, but then focused on trade relations between the United States and Japan. His remarks ranged from the 1990s, when he worked in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Dean Janow was deputy assistant U.S. trade representative for Japan and China, through to the current status of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and how this would affect political and security relations with the United States and China. Full Report available.
Co-sponsored with SIPA and CJEB
APEC Briefing 2013-14: China Takes the Reins
January 14, 2014, 6:30 - 8:00pm
The Asia Society, NY
Speakers: Peter A. Petri, Carl Shapiro Professor of International Finance, Brandeis International Business School; Robert S. Wang (invited), U.S. Senior Official for APEC; Ann Weeks, Vice President of Global Government Affairs, Underwiters Laboratories (UL); Monica Whaley, President, National Center for APEC
Moderator: Tom Nagorski, Executive Vice President, Asia Society.
http://asiasociety.org/new-york/events/apec-briefing-2013-14-china-takes-reins
Co-presented by the Asia Society and the National Center for APEC