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APEC and the Future of Asia-Pacific Trade and Economic Growth
Speakers: Wendy Cutler, Vice President and Managing Director, Asia Society Policy Institute; Matthew Matthews, Deputy Assistant Secretary for Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific Islands and Senior Official for APEC, U.S. Department of State; Mari Pangestu, Former Minister of Trade and of Tourism and Creative Economy, Indonesia; Adjunct Professor, SIPA; Juan Francisco Roffo, Chairman of the Raffo Group, L.P. Holding and Los Portales S.A.; Representative of Peru and 2016 chair of the APEC Business Advisory Council
Monday, December 14, 2015, 6:30 - 8:00pm
Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY
Organized by Asia Society Policy Institute; cosponsored with the National Center for APEC and the U.S. APEC Business Coalition
The Transformation of the Indonesian Economy in Challenging Times
Speakers: Sri Mulyani Indrawati, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer, The World Bank; Former Minister of Finance, Indonesia; Mari Pangestu, Former Minister of Trade and of Tourism and Creative Economy, Indonesia; Adjunct Professor, SIPA
Moderator: Takatoshi Ito, Professor of International and Public Affairs, SIPA; Associate Director of Research, CJEB
Opening remarks by Hugh Patrick, R. D. Calkins Professor of International Business and Director, CJEB, Columbia Business School; Co-Director, APEC Study Center, Columbia University
Closing remarks by Merit E. Janow, Dean and Professor of International Economic Law and International Affairs, SIPA; Co-Director, APEC Study Center, Columbia University
Monday, November 30, 2015, 12:30 – 2:00pm
Faculty House, Presidential Room 1, Columbia University
64 Morningside Drive, New York, NY
Cosponsored by SIPA, WEAI, and the Indonesia Investment Promotion Center
The Future of Asia-Pacific Economies: Discussion with Wendy Cutler and Kevin Rudd
Speakers: Wendy Cutler, Vice President and Managing Director, Asia Society Policy Institute; Kevin Rudd, President, Asia Society Policy Institute; former Prime Minister of Australia
Monday, November 16, 2015, 6:00 – 7:30pm
Asia Society, 725 Park Avenue, New York, NY
Organized by the Asia Society
Examining the South Korea-China Trade Pact
Speaker: Jeff Schott, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Thursday, November 12, 2015
11:30 Registration & Light Fare / 12:00 Discussion
The Korea Society (950 Third Ave, 8th Floor)
Students $5; e-mail [email protected] to register
Cosponsored by The Korea Society
South Korea and the Changing Geopolitics of East Asia
Columbia University Alumni Association of Korea (CUAAK) Colloquium on Contemporary Korean Affairs
Speakers: Ro-myung Gong, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs, Republic of Korea (1994-1996); Sung-hwan Kim, Former Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade, Republic of Korea (2010-2013); and Cheol-hee Park, Professor, Graduate School of International Studies and Director, Institute for Japanese Studies, Seoul National University
Moderator: Charles Armstrong, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences in the Department of History, Columbia University
Thursday, September 17, 2015, 4:00 – 5:30pm
Law School Building, Rm 104
Organized by the Center for Korean Research
Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and The Center for Korean Legal Studies
Asia & Pacific Regional Economic Outlook
Speaker: Changyong Rhee, Director, Asia and Pacific Department, International Monetary Fund
Moderator: Mark Minton, President, The Korea Society
Friday, June 5, 2015, 11:45am – 1:15pm
The Korea Society, 950 Third Avenue, 8th Floor, NYC
Organized by The Korea Society
KORUS FTA and the U.S.-Korea Economic Partnership
Speakers: Ambassador Gheewan Kim, Consul General, Korean Consulate General of New York
Moderator: Mark Minton, President, The Korea Society
Tuesday, May 5, 2015, 11:45am – 1:15pm
The Korea Society, 950 Third Avenue, 8th Floor, NYC
Organized by The Korea Society
Thailand Update Conference
Speakers: Duncan McCargo, Visiting Professor of Political Science, Columbia University; Pitch Pongsawat, Harvard University and Chulalongkorn University; Tyrell Haberkorn, Radcliffe Institute and The Australian National University; Pinkaew Laungaramsri, Harvard University and Chiang Mai University
Friday, May 1, 2015, 9:00am – 5:00pm
Jerome Greene Annex, Columbia Law School
Organized by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute; cosponsored by the New York Southeast Asia Network
Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Desire, and the Hidden Currencies of Global Sex Work
Speaker: Kimberly Kay Hoang, Assistant Professor of Sociology and International Studies, Boston College
Moderator: Jayne Werner, Research Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
918 International Affairs Building, Columbia University
Cosponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Southeast Asian Student Initiative
From Nationalism to Globalism: Toward a Korean History Narrative Beyond Ideological Contention
Monday, March 23, 2015, 12:00 – 1:30pm
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Speaker: Djun Il Kim, Professorial & Research Chair, Samsung Korean Studies Program, College of Arts & Sciences, University of Asia & the Pacific
Moderator: Charles Armstrong, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences, Department of History, Columbia University
Organized by the Center for Korean Research