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SUMMARY:Rights Make Might: Global Human Rights and Minority Social Movements in Japan
DESCRIPTION:\nPlease join us for a lecture with: \nKiyoteru Tsutsui\, University of Michigan \nAndrew Nathan\, Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science\, Columbia University \nWhy have the three most salient minority groups in Japan – the politically dormant Ainu\, the active but unsuccessful Koreans\, and the former outcaste group of Burakumin – all expanded their activism since the late 1970s despite the unfavorable domestic political environment? My investigation into the history of activism by the three groups reveals that a key factor was the galvanizing effects of global human rights on local social movements. Drawing on interviews and archival data\, I document the transformative impact of global human rights ideas and institutions on minority activists\, which changed the prevalent understanding about their standing in Japanese society and propelled them to new international venues for political claim making. The global forces also changed the public perception and political calculus in Japan over time\, catalyzing substantial gains for the minority movements. Having benefited from global human rights\, all three groups repaid their debt by contributing to the consolidation and expansion of international human rights principles and instruments. The in-depth historical comparative analysis offers rare windows into local\, micro-level impact of global human rights and contributes to our understanding of international norms and institutions\, social movements\, human rights\, ethnoracial politics\, and Japanese society. \n\nNo registration required.This event is organized by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute at Columbia University. \n\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/rights-make-might-global-human-rights-and-minority-social-movements-in-japan/
LOCATION:403 Kent Hall\, 1140 Amsterdam Ave.\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:Korea-Japan Relations: Looking Back\, Looking Forward
DESCRIPTION:University of Connecticut History Professor Alexis Dudden explores recent history and possible overtures in Korea-Japan relations in conversation with Korea Society Senior Director Stephen Noerper. Exploring trade and historical disputes\, as well as well as Washington’s past and potential involvement\, Dudden\, author of Troubled Apologies Among Japan\, Korea and the United States\, as well as a recent New York Times piece\, examines signs of progress\, possible offramps and continuing challenges. \nFree for Columbia affiliates. \n  \nThis is a Lectures and Panels event. RSVP here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/11KnnOcTUll5uoBgjntP58pe5jatcCL4V9OXf1FmgU6o/viewform?edit_requested=true \n  \nFor press inquiries\, please contact Ariana King ak4364@columbia.edu. \n  \n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/korea-japan-relations-looking-back-looking-forward/
LOCATION:The Korea Society\, 350 Madison Avenue\, 24th Floor\, New York\, NY\, 10017\, United States
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SUMMARY:Japanese Chat Club
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URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/japanese-chat-club-3/2020-02-07/
LOCATION:403 Kent Hall\, 1140 Amsterdam Ave.\, New York\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:“The Material Culture of Personal Adornment in Ancient China”
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: Sheri Lullo\, Union College\nTime: February 7\, 2020 (4:30-6:30 PM)\nLocation: Faculty House (*please check the announcement board in the first floor lobby for room information) \nThis presentation considers the increasingly wide range of toiletries\, objects of adornment and personal items found in cosmetic boxes that were buried with middle and upper-ranking members of Warring States and Han society. Recent findings from Han princely tombs will be discussed along with more well-known finds. The talk centers on the forms\, variety and functions of lacquered cosmetic boxes and their contents\, with consideration of the potential for these boxes to collect\, contain\, compartmentalize\, conceal and protect a selection of objects intimate to individualized bodies. Discussion shifts from the practical uses of toiletries to consideration of the versatility of material culture with regard to meaning and purpose\, and finally\, the symbolic function of these assemblages within the context of death and burial. \nRequest Pre-circulated Paper \n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/the-material-culture-of-personal-adornment-in-ancient-china/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York City\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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SUMMARY:See Things as They Really Are: Poetry & the Bardo of Dreams
DESCRIPTION:The Columbia University Buddhist Studies Seminar would like to invite you to the following talk: \nSee Things as They Really Are: Poetry & the Bardo of Dreams \nSpeaker: Dr. Dominique Townsend \n \n  \nAbstract: \nWhat is the relationship between Tibetan poetic language and Buddhist awakening? Is the composition and enjoyment of poetry a distraction from Buddhist practice? In this talk I’ll consider the connections between Indo-Tibetan Buddhist poetics and practices designed to cultivate enlightenment in the in-between or bardo states of consciousness. To do so\, I’ll analyze a set of eighteenth century poetic instructions for lucid dreaming from the Great Perfection tradition\, composed in metered verse. The instructions claim to provide the complete means for liberation in just one Tibetan page\, front and back. The brevity of the instructions works together with apophatic language and a reconciling of uncertainty to spark full awakening through the act of dreaming. I will present a translation of the instructions and reflect on the relationship between the poem’s form and its soteriological intentions. \nAbout the Speaker: \nDominique Townsend is Assistant Professor of Buddhist Studies at Bard College. Her research focuses on Buddhist aesthetics and cultural production. Columba University Press will publish her book A Buddhist Sensibility: Aesthetics and Cosmopolitanism in Early Modern Tibet in 2020. Townsend’s current research involves Tibetan poetics and the question of whether reading and writing poetry has soteriological value according to Tibetan Buddhist thinkers. \nFor directions to the Faculty House\, see the following PDF: http://facultyhouse.columbia.edu/files/facultyhouse/web/Faculty_House_Directions.pdf \nInformation about the Columbia University Buddhist Studies Seminar: http://universityseminars.columbia.edu/seminars/buddhist-studies/ \nMore information about the Columbia Center for Buddhism and East Asian Religion (C-BEAR) can be found at: http://www.c-bear.org \n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/see-things-as-they-really-are-poetry-the-bardo-of-dreams/
LOCATION:Faculty House\, 64 Morningside Drive\, New York City\, NY\, 10027\, United States
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