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Queering the Straits Workshop: “Cross-Strait Cultures: Performance, Media, and History”

Workshop Series
QUEERING THE STRAITS: UNRULY SUBJECTS ACROSS MODERN KOREAN AND JAPANESE STUDIES VIRTUAL Workshop SERIES
Series Two
“CROSS-STRAIT CULTURES: PERFORMANCE, MEDIA, AND HISTORY’
Friday, April 30 & Saturday, May 1, 2021
8:00 PM – 10:45 PM EST time
Saturday, 1 May 2021, 9:00–11:45 AM, Seoul/Tokyo time *
To register, please complete this form by April 29

The upcoming workshop, “CROSS-STRAIT CULTURES: PERFORMANCE, MEDIA, AND HISTORY,” will take place over the weekend of 30 April–2 May 2021. (See below for a detailed schedule.) This workshop revolves around the dynamic interaction of performance, media, and history in both popular and public cultures. By considering how the weight of history animates performance and media and how, conversely, popular culture reiterates and repositions history, the workshop seeks to develop new strategies for examining mainstream and fringe cultures on both sides of the Straits. Speakers will explore the citationality of Yŏsŏng Kukkŭk, South Korea’s all-female theater revue of the 1950s and early 1960s; contemporary histories of boys love and K-pop fandom; as well as more recent forms of “digital gender.”
A day or two before the start of the workshop, we will send an email to all registered participants with a link to the event. If you have any questions or trouble with registration, please email queeringthestraits@gmail.com.

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Is Korea Following in Japan’s Footsteps?

(Live Webinar) Is Korea Following in Japan’s Footsteps?
About this Event
Tuesday, April 13, 2021 | 12:30 – 1:30 PM (EDT)

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Featuring:

Randall S. Jones
Professional Fellow, Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB), Columbia Business School; Non-resident Fellow, Korea Economic Institute of America; Former Senior Counselor – East Asia and Head of Japan/Korea Desk, Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD)

Moderated by

David E. Weinstein

Director, CJEB; Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy, Columbia University

What you’ll learn:

– How Korea has been able to achieve rapid convergence to the income levels in Japan and other advanced countries
– Why productivity in Korea lags well behind the highest-income countries, as in the case of Japan, contributing to unbalanced growth and income inequality
– How rapid population aging is putting strong upward pressure on public social spending, creating fiscal challenges comparable to those in Japan
About the speaker:

Randall S. Jones is a professional fellow at the Center on Japanese Economy and Business at Columbia University and a non-resident fellow at the Korea Economic Institute. Previously, he served as the Senior Counsellor for East Asia and as Head of the Japan/Korea Desk at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris from 2002 until 2019. During his 30 years at the OECD, Dr. Jones wrote all 16 OECD Economic Surveys of Korea and 15 OECD Economic Surveys of Japan, in addition to a number of other publications. Before joining the OECD in 1989, he spent three years in the US government, serving at the Council of Economic Advisers and as an advisor in the State Department. Dr. Jones was also the vice-president of the Japan Economic Institute in Washington. Dr. Jones received a B.A. in Economics from Brigham Young University and a PhD in Economics from the University of Michigan in 1984. Dr. Jones was awarded the Decoration of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette from the Government of Japan in 2015 and the Sungnye Medal, Order of Diplomatic Service from the Government of Korea in 2018.

Cosponsored by:

Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB), Columbia Business School

APEC Study Center (ASC), Columbia University

Outreach Partner:

The Korea Society

Admission and Contact:

This is a free event. You must register for the webinar to receive the login details. Registrants will receive a link to access the live webinar upon registration.

If you have questions about the event, please contact us at cjeb@gsb.columbia.edu.

For more information about other CJEB events, visit our website or contact cjeb@gsb.columbia.edu.

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Hoshino Resorts: A Leader’s Vision to Transform Japanese Tourism

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Featuring:

Yoshiharu Hoshino
CEO, Hoshino Resorts Inc.

Moderated by

David E. Weinstein

Director, CJEB; Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy, Columbia University

What you’ll learn:

Mr. Hoshino’s revolutionary and unconventional journey leading the evolution and expansion of his over-a-century-old family business
Their business portfolio diversification, including ventures such as Hoshinoya Tokyo, selected by Travel + Leisure® for their “World’s Best Awards 2020 Top Hotels in Tokyo”
Mr. Hoshino’s business decisions, such as his resolution to transform the company into a resort business management company and his path to start the real estate investment trust Hoshino Resorts REIT, Inc.
About the speaker:

Yoshiharu Hoshino was born in 1960, in Karuizawa, Nagano, the fourth generation in a family ryokan (Japanese inn) business. After graduating from Cornell University with a master’s degree in hotel management, he became the CEO of Hoshino Resorts Inc. in 1991.

Under his leadership, the company has grown to operate 46 properties in and outside of Japan with a total of five brands, HOSHINOYA, KAI (a brand of upscale boutique hot spring ryokan), RISONARE (a premier active family resort brand), OMO (a warm and casual hotel for city-tourism) and BEB (a carefree hotel brand for millennials). In 2013, Yoshiharu Hoshino established Hoshino Resorts REIT, Inc., listed on the Tokyo Stock Exchange, the first REIT in Japan to specialize in the tourism industry.

Admission and Contact:

This is a free event. You must register for the webinar to receive the login details. Registrants will receive a link to access the live webinar upon registration.

If you have questions about the event, please contact us at cjeb@gsb.columbia.edu.

For more information about other CJEB events, visit our website or contact cjeb@gsb.columbia.edu.

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