Past Events
| Event | Date | Summary |
| Is Minority Unrest China’s Achilles Heel? The Case of Tibet – Melvyn C. Goldstein | Tue. April 20th, 2010 4:30 pm-6:00 pm |
Melvyn C. Goldstein China’s rapid rise to economic and military superpower status belies certain internal flaws that have serious ramifications for China’s future stability. One of the most serious of these is the increasing militant unrest in China’s vast Western Regions where Uighur and Kazakh Muslims and Tibetan Buddhists are increasingly alienated, angry and bitter about Chinese policies in their homelands. This lecture will discuss China’s ethnic problem by focusing on Tibet, the most internationally prominent area of unrest. Continue reading… Is Minority Unrest China’s Achilles Heel? The Case of Tibet – Melvyn C. Goldstein |
| Village Elections and Governance? – Qingshan Tan | Tue. March 23rd, 2010 4:30 pm-6:00 pm |
Qingshan Tan Village elections have been implemented throughout China for more than a decade. In spite of improvements in the election process and villagers’ increasing awareness of democratic rights, the elections are widely viewed as producing little effect on village governance. Why have village elections remained largely irrelevant to effective self-governance? Tan addresses such questions by examining causal factors, village governance structure, township re-assertiveness over villages, and dual-leadership factors. Qingshan Tan is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Political Science at Cleveland State University. Continue reading… Village Elections and Governance? – Qingshan Tan |
| History Department Lecture | Thu. March 18th, 2010 11:30 am-1:00 pm |
“Reconstructing Wifehood in Madras: Devadasis, Feminist Agency, and the Colonial Archive” Lecture by Dr. Mytheli Sreenivas, Associate Professor of History at Ohio State Thursday, March 18, 2010 at 11:30 AM |
| China: A Security Perspective – Albert S. Willner | Tue. February 23rd, 2010 4:30 pm-6:00 pm |
Albert S. Willner China’s security perceptions, requirements and priorities are changing in response to a host of internal and external drivers. The People’s Liberation Army in particular is undergoing a transition to address these changing dynamics which present new opportunities and potential challenges. How are China’s security priorities changing and why? What impact will this change have in the region and beyond? How is the PLA adapting and what is the potential impact? This presentation will address some of the important security shifts underway, Continue reading… China: A Security Perspective – Albert S. Willner |
| China at 60: Myths and Realities | Tue. January 26th, 2010 4:00 pm-6:00 pm |
Spring 2010 Asian Studies Lecture Series All lectures held at 4:30 p.m. Free and open to the public Mandel Center for Non-Profit Organizations Visitor Parking: metered lots at corner of Euclid and Ford, and on Bellflower Road across from Mandel Center; Campus Center Garage (below Severance Hall, entrance on East Blvd.) Sponsored by the Asian Studies Program with funding from the Mitzie Levine Verne and Daniel Verne Endowment for Asian Studies. |
| How Fragile Is China? – Paul E. Schroeder | Tue. January 26th, 2010 4:30 pm-6:00 pm |
Paul E. Schroeder Many believe that China is quickly becoming a major superpower challenging the U.S. China faces challenges, however, that question this assumption. An export-driven development model threatens continued growth with industrial overcapacity. Severe environmental degradation poses an increasing public health hazard. Bold calls for political reform from Chinese intellectuals and increasing public protests over numerous social issues all pose serious problems for continued rule of the Chinese Communist Party. Schroeder will examine many of these issues and will pose possible scenarios for China’s future, |
| Getting Beyond Good vs. Evil: A Buddhist Reflection on the New Hold War – David R. Loy | Wed. March 5th, 2008 4:15 pm-6:00 pm |
Do Osama bin Laden and George W. Bush share a similar worldview — the need for Godly people to destroy evil by any means necessary? Are they fighting the same holy-war-between-good-and-evil? This struggle between good people (us) and bad people (them) is quite attractive as a simple way to make sense of the world. But Hitler and Stalin also were trying to perfect the world by destroying their view of evil elements: Jews, landlords, and so forth. From a Buddhist perspective, such a black-and-white way of thinking tends to be delusive because each term is dependent on its opposite: We don’t know what is good until we know what is evil, |
| Beauty, Power, and Protection: An Early History of Buddhism in Asia – Anne M. Blackburn | Thu. November 29th, 2007 4:30 pm-6:30 pm |
In what context of philosophical and religious reflection did Buddhism first develop? How did social and political forces and desires shape the early growth and spread of Buddhism in Eurasia? How was Buddha-dharma localized, repeatedly, in diverse parts of South, Souhteast, and Himalayan Asia? Anne Blackburn, a scholar who has worked extensively with Buddhist texts will discuss these issues from an historical perspective. Anne Blackburn is Associate Professor of South Asian Studies and Buddhist Studies at Cornell University. She received an M.A. in Religious Studies and a Ph.D. in the History of Religions from The University of Chicago Divinity School. |
| Extreme Dependence and Unequal Growth in Tibet: The Exceptionalities of China’s Western Development Strategies in the Tibet Autonomous Region – Andrew Fischer | Fri. October 12th, 2007 4:00 pm-6:00 pm |
Andrew Fischer is one of the leading experts on China’s development policy in Tibet. He currently is a Fellow at the London School of Economics where he is teaching while completing his Ph.D. degree in the school’s Development Studies Institute (DESTIN). His research has focused on the interconnections between social and economic polarization, social exclusion and ethnic conflict within the rapid development taking place in the Tibetan areas of Western China. His talk will examine the interplay between the economic and political impact of China’s development policy in Tibet. He is the author of State Growth and Social Exclusion in Tibet: Challenges of Recent Growth. |
| Orphanages, Child Abandonment, and Infanticide in 19th-century China and France – Henrietta Harrison | Fri. April 20th, 2007 3:00 pm-5:00 pm |
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| Asia’s Security Challenges: North Korea, Taiwan, Tibet and South Asia A Conference of Invited Papers – | Sat. March 25th, 2006 2:00 pm-4:00 pm |
Sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Presidential Initiative Fund for the Enhancement of the Humanities, and the Asian Studies Program. Morning Session: 10:30 – 11:30 a.m., Clark Hall, Room 206, 11130 Bellflower Road, Cleveland Afternoon Session: 2:00 – 4:00 p.m., Ford Auditorium, Allen Memorial Medical Library, 11000 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland. Free and open to the public. Panel Presentation: Ambassador Charles Kartman North Korea is the only country with which the United States is still at war, |
| Living Life to the Fullest: Gosho’s Where Chimneys are Seen – Arthur Noletti Jr. | Sat. September 17th, 2005 7:00 pm-10:00 pm |
A screening of a rare Japanese film by director Gosho Heinosuke, “Where Chimneys are Seen” 1953, 108 minutes) preceded by an introduction by Professor Arthur Nolletti, Jr., Framingham State University. New 35mm print with English subtitles. Discussion, led by Professor Nolletti, following hte film. Admission $8, Cinematheque members and CWRU/CIA students and staff (with ID) $5 Dr. Nolletti is the author of “The Cinema of Gosho Heinosuke: Laughter Through Tears” (2005, Indiana University Press). This event is made possible by The Mitzie Levine Verne and Daniel Verne endowment Fund for Asian Studies. Co-sponsored by the Asian Studies Program at Case Western Reserve University and the Cleveland Cinematheque. Continue reading… Living Life to the Fullest: Gosho’s Where Chimneys are Seen – Arthur Noletti Jr. |
| Screening of The Izu Dancer | Sat. September 17th, 2005 10:00 am-12:00 pm |
A rare chance to see a Gosho silent film (on video) with intertitles read (in Japanese) by Yoshiko Kishi and Spence Zaorski. (no english subtitles). |
| Understanding the New China: Politics, Business and the Military in the 21st Century A conference of invited papers. | Sat. November 13th, 2004 1:30 pm-3:30 pm |
Morning Session: Student Discussion with Invited Speakers Afternoon Session–Free and Open to the Public John Kamm John Kamm is the executive director of the Dui Hua Foundation, a publicly supported organization dedicated to promoting human rights in the United States and China. A graduate of Princeton University and Harvard University, |