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November 2024
Southeast Asia’s Multipolar Future: Averting a New Cold War
Speaker: Thomas Parks, Vice President, The Asia Foundation Moderator: Ann Marie Murphy, Adjunct Senior Research Scholar; Professor and Director, Center for Foreign Policy Studies, School of Diplomacy and International Relations, Seton Hall University In this event, Tom Parks will discuss his excellent new book, Southeast Asia’s Multipolar Future: Averting a New Cold War. The book argues that Southeast Asia is emerging as an open, autonomous region, where small and middle powers can maintain their sovereignty and shape the regional order. Despite new…
Find out more »Ecologies of Care: Community Based Approaches to Climate Change Survival in the High Himalayas
Speaker: Pasang Yangjee Sherpa, Assistant Professor of Lifeways in Indigenous Asia, University of British Columbia Dr. Pasang Sherpa will discuss her latest research on community-based approaches to co-creating knowledge and solutions in working towards collective survival on warming planet. This project builds on her previous research on the human dimensions of climate change in the Himalayas and long-term ethnographic study of the Sherpa community at home and in the diaspora. Dr. Sherpa uses ethnographic methods to study everyday concerns of Himalayan…
Find out more »From Birth Control to Reproductive Health: The Long Journey of Ending China’s One Child Policy
To commemorate the 30th anniversary of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD), held in Cairo, Egypt, in September 1994, and as part of WEAI 75th Anniversary celebration’s Global Policy Series, this panel discussion will feature several scholars and policymakers deeply involved in the evolvement and end of China's one-child policy, with discussions on historical changes as well as updated analyses of China’s social and demographic trends and projections for the future. The event will be co-sponsored by the…
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