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SUMMARY:Inflamed Publics: Social Media\, Violence\, and Resistance
DESCRIPTION:\nA Virtual Symposium\n\nApril 14–16\, 2022 \nRegistration links for each panel are provided in the schedule below \n\n\n\nFrom online troll armies to digital warriors\, camouflage to infiltration\, the techniques and affects of war pervade global digital cultures today via social media platforms such as Whatsapp\, WeChat\, Twitter\, and TikTok. As trending hashtags on Twitter become a statistical measure of the ebbs and flows of mass political sentiment\, this symposium seeks to understand the relation between everyday digital media technologies\, image-making practices\, and violence in the 21st century. Over 3 consecutive days we will meet with film and media scholars\, digital activists\, ethnographers\, and communications theorists to initiate a collaborative exploration of research methods to address the role of social media today with an eye to questions of aesthetics\, sentiment\, and sensory experience. \nORGANIZED BY\nDr. Debashree Mukherjee\nAssociate Professor\, Dept of Middle Eastern\, South Asian\, and African Studies (MESAAS)\, Columbia University \nDr. Ying Qian\nAssistant Professor\, Dept of East Asian Languages and Cultures (EALAC)\, Columbia University \nDr. Laliv Melamed\nAssistant Professor\, Dept of Art\, Culture and Media (ACM)\, University of Groningen \n  \nSCHEDULE & REGISTRATION \nPANEL 1: SUBJECTIVITY & DIGITAL SATURATION\nApril 14\, 2022. Thursday. 6pm ET.\nRegistration link for Panel 1 on 4/14: \nhttps://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_VFs2XOkDTmWeZ7MpGKgshA \nWanning Sun\, University of Technology Sydney\n“Between Identity and Rights: WeChat and the Formation of a New Diasporic Public Sphere” \nRadhika Gajjala\, Bowling Green State University\n“Women from the Global South Mobilizing Hashtag Publics: Inflamed and/or [In]visible?” \nDaniel Mann\, King’s College London\n“The Face-off: Individuating Media in Israel-Palestine” \nRespondent: Jinsook Kim\, University of Pennsylvania \n  \nPANEL 2: GENRES OF INCITEMENT\nApril 15\, 2022. Friday. 10am ET\nRegistration link for Panel 2 on 4/15:\nhttps://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_uv-yUp7USperFeCOjw5xKA \nGuobin Yang\, University of Pennsylvania\n“Inflaming Publics by Passing on the Torch\, Virtually” \nRebecca Stein\, Duke University\n“Israel’s Lament: Military Occupation\, Social Media\, State Fantasy” \nMargaret Hillenbrand\, University of Oxford\n“Abject Bodies\, Online Hating: the Kuaishou App in China” \nAnirban K. Baishya\, University of Wisconsin-Madison\n“The Affective Politics of Hindutva Pop: Music/Video as Violence in Digital India” \nRespondent: Navaneetha Mokkil\, Jawaharlal Nehru University \n  \nPANEL 3: PLATFORMS OF SELF/GOVERNANCE\nApril 16\, 2022. Saturday. 10am ET.\nNote: registration for Panel 3 is limited to Columbia and Barnard affiliates only:\nhttps://columbiauniversity.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_2oco2mbXRC2Jn4PUUdQr2g \nNayantara Ranganathan & Manuel Beltrán\, Persuasion Lab\n“Critical Vocabulary for the Archiving of Social Media Political Ads” \nJoshua Neves\, Concordia University\n“Smart Bodies” \nFathima Nizaruddin\, Rosa Luxemburg Stiftung\n“Mapping the Role of Mobile Instant Messaging Platforms in Forming a Majoritarian Hindu Nation” \nPang Laikwan\, The Chinese University of Hong Kong\n“Between Prison and the Public: The Use of Social Media by Political Prisoners in Hong Kong” \nRespondent: Laliv Melamed\, University of Groningen \n  \nSPONSORS\nSponsored by the Humanities War and Peace Initiative\, Columbia University \nCo-Sponsored by the Center for Comparative Media; Weatherhead East Asia Institute; Film & Media program\, School of the Arts; Department of Middle Eastern\, South Asian\, & African Studies (MESAAS) \nWith special thanks to Alex Zivkovic and Hannah Marie Meholick \n\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/inflamed-publics-social-media-violence-and-resistance/
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SUMMARY:The Responses of India and China to the War in Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:The Russian invasion of Ukraine\, which prompted immediate censure and sanctions against Russia by Western governments\, has been met with a more ambivalent response by China and India. While both governments have issued statements deploring the harm to civilians and loss of life\, for different reasons\, they have abstained from United Nations’ resolutions condemning Russia and sought ways to avoid having to choose sides with either the US-led coalition or with Russia. To understand the responses to the conflict\, please join a panel featuring foreign policy analysts from India and China. \nThe event is co-sponsored by Global Studies and Julien J. Studley Graduate Programs in International Affairs at The New School. \nSPEAKERS \nShyam Saran\nFORMER FOREIGN SECRETARY OF INDIA\nSenior Fellow\nCENTRE FOR POLICY RESEARCH \nShyam Saran is a Senior Fellow and Member of the Governing Board at the Centre for Policy Research. He is a former Foreign Secretary of India and has served as Prime Minister’s Special Envoy For Nuclear Affairs and Climate Change. After leaving government service in 2010\, he has headed the Research and Information System for Developing Countries\, a prestigious think tank focusing on economic issues (2011-2017)\, and was Chairman of the National Security Advisory Board under the National Security Council (2013-15). He is currently a Life Trustee of India International Centre\, a Member of the Governing Board of the Institute of Chinese Studies\, a Trustee at the World Wildlife Fund (India)\, and a Member of the Executive Council of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FICCI). He has recently published a book\, How India Sees the World. \nLU\, Yang\nResearch Fellow\nInstitute of the Belt and Road Initiative\nTSINGHUA UNIVERSITY \nDr. LU\, Yang is currently a research fellow at the Institute of the Belt and Road Initiative\, Tsinghua University. She got her Bachelor’s in Xiamen University and her master’s and a doctorate in political science at the University of Heidelberg\, Germany. She was a post-doc at the Department of International Relations\, Tsinghua University from 2015 to 2018\, was a lecturer at the South Asia Institute\, Heidelberg University\, awarded the China India Scholar Leaders Fellowship of India China Institute\, The New School in New York\, Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Self-financed Students Abroad\, and fellowship of German Academy Exchange Service (DAAD). Her research area is international politics\, focusing on India and South Asia\, Germany\, and Europe. In recent years she has been working on China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI)\, and related regional cooperation programs. She has published numerous academic articles and opinion pieces\, was invited by CGTN\, CCTV-13\, Phoenix TV commenting news related to South Asia and BRI. \nNimmi Kurian\nProfessor\nCENTRE FOR POLICY RESEARCH \nNimmi Kurian is a Professor at the Centre for Policy Research. Her research focuses in particular on the border regions between South Asia and Southeast Asia\, India’s neighborhood policy\, federalism and foreign policy\, transboundary water politics\, and comparative regionalism. Nimmi serves on the External Advisory Board of the India China Institute\, The New School\, New York\, and on the Fellowship Committee of the China Studies Postdoctoral Fellowship Program\, Centre for China Studies\, Ashoka University. She has held Fellowships from the India China Institute\, The New School\, New York\, and the Charles Wallace India Trust. She holds an MA\, MPhil\, and Ph.D. in International Relations from the Jawaharlal Nehru University.\nNimmi has written and published widely on alternative spatial imaginations of South Asia\, a theme that is explored in detail in her two books India China Borderlands: Conversations Beyond the Centre (Sage\, 2014) and India and China: Rethinking Borders and Security (co-author) (University of Michigan Press\, 2016). \nDA\, Wei\nDirector of the Center for International Security and Strategy (CISS)\nProfessor\, School of Social Sciences\nTSINGHUA UNIVERSITY \nDr. Da’s research expertise covers China-US relations and US security & foreign policy. Da Wei has worked in China’s academic and policy community for more than 2 decades. Prior to his current positions\, Dr. Da Wei was the assistant president of the University of International Relations (2017-2020)\, director of the Institute of American Studies\, China Institutes of Contemporary International Relations (2013-2017). He has written hundreds of policy papers for the Chinese government and published dozens of academic papers in journals in China\, the US\, and other countries.\nDa Wei earned his BA and MA from UIR and his Ph.D. from CICIR. He was a visiting senior fellow at the Atlantic Council of the United States from 2006 to 2007\, and a visiting senior associate at SAIS\, Johns Hopkins University from 2008 to 2009. \nREGISTER \n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/the-responses-of-india-and-china-to-the-war-in-ukraine/
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SUMMARY:Dramas of Catastrophes: American and Chinese Governments’ Cultural Response to the COVID-19 Crisis
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Bin Xu\, Associate Professor of Sociology\, Emory University \nModerator: Qin Gao\, Professor and Director of China Center for Social Policy\, Columbia University \nIn an ongoing project\, Xu examines the American and Chinese governments’ cultural responses to the COVID-19 crisis. “Cultural response\,” defined as the governments’ symbolic action to address their citizens’ suffering and death in disasters\, is often neglected by scholars and dismissed by public opinion as secondary and insignificant. But Xu argues that governments must win people’s hearts and minds through sympathetic\, meaningful words and actions about their reactions\, accountability\, and visions\, in addition to their supplies\, funds\, and managerial actions. Drawing on the dramaturgical approach and a comparative study\, Xu shows how the two governments’ cultural responses have been shaped by their different types of regime\, political structures\, and particular situations. Xu also intends to develop and extend the dramaturgical approach to disaster management\, a topic that has been studied mostly from the managerial and practical perspective in the mainstream paradigm. \nSpeaker Bio: \nBin Xu is an Associate Professor of Sociology at Emory University. His research interests lie at the intersection of politics and culture\, including collective memory\, civil society\, cultural sociology\, and social theory. He is the author of The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China (Stanford\, 2017)\, which won the 2018 Best Book Prize for Culture and Honorable Mention for Asia from the American Sociological Association\, Chairman Mao’s Children: Generation and the Politics of Memory in China (Cambridge 2021)\, and The Culture of Democracy: A Sociological Approach to Civil Society (under contract with Polity 2022\, forthcoming). His articles have appeared in leading sociological and China studies journals. \nThis event is part of the 2021-2022 lecture series on “COVID-19 Impacts and Responses in China and Beyond” and is sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and cosponsored by Columbia’s China Center for Social Policy. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nContact Information\nJulie Kwan\njk4371@columbia.edu\n\n REGISTER\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/dramas-of-catastrophes-american-and-chinese-governments-cultural-response-to-the-covid-19-crisis/
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SUMMARY:Resisting Visual Biopolitics: Fatimah Tobing Rony
DESCRIPTION:Fatimah Tobing Rony will read from her new book\, How Do We Look?\, and screen her multi-award winning short animated film\, Annah la Javanaise\nAbout this event\nProfessor and Chair of Film and Media Studies at the University of California-Irvine\, Fatimah Tobing Rony\, will read from her new book\, How Do We Look?\, and screen her multi-award winning short animated film\, Annah la Javanaise\, about a trafficked 13-year old girl who was found wandering the streets of Paris in 1893 and became the maid and model of painter Paul Gaugin. \nHer talk will focus on theories of visual biopolitics to examine those who are allowed to live\, and those who are allowed to die\, in representations of Indonesian women. \nEvent attendees must show proof of vaccination to access event venue. Please enter Schermerhorn Hall at Campus Level to be directed to Room 612. \nCo-Presented with Columbia School of the Arts\, Film & Media Studies and the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department \nSpeaker Bios\nFatimah Tobing Rony makes films and writes books about people whose stories have not yet been told. \nIn her first book\, The Third Eye\, Fatimah Tobing Rony wrote about how colonialism created a divide between the Historical and the Ethnographic\, the Civilized and the Savage\, and how these divides were inscribed in film\, photography\, and other visual technologies. These categories served biopolitics by producing a logic whereby the life of one group was nourished at the expense of another. Twenty years on\, this divide is just as persistent and pernicious in our era of neoliberalism and globalization. In her new book\, How Do We Look?\, she traces the legacy of one particular aspect of visual biopolitics – the representation of the Indonesian woman – into the twenty-first century of globalization. \nAs a filmmaker\, Fatimah also co-directed the feature film\, Chants of Lotus [PEREMPUAN PUNYA CERITA] (2008)\, which was distributed and exhibited in major theaters in Indonesia\, and in film festivals around the world. Her short animation film\, Annah la Javanaise\, was an Official Selection of the 2020 Annecy International Festival for Animated Film\, in Annecy\, France\, and in 2021\, won Best Short Film at Anifilm\, Liberec\, Czech Republic\, as well as the Chinelo Prize for Best International Short Film at the Pixelatl Festival of Animation in Cuernavaca\, Mexico\, Best Director and Best Film Music at Devenir Réalisateur Paris Film Festival\, Best Animated Short at the LA Femme Film Festival\, Best Social Justice Film at the Hollywood Women’s International Film Festival\, Best Animated Film at the Rome Independent Cinema Festival\, and Best Film at the Edinburgh Short Film Festival. \nRSVP REQUIRED HERE: https://resistingvisualbiopolitics.eventbrite.com \nEvent attendees must show proof of vaccination to access the event venue. Please enter Schermerhorn Hall at Campus Level to be directed to Room 612. \nCo-Presented with Columbia School of the Arts\, Film & Media Studies and the African American and African Diaspora Studies Department \n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/resisting-visual-biopolitics-fatimah-tobing-rony/
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SUMMARY:An Evening with George Takei—The 2021-2022 Sо̄shitsu Sen XV Distinguished Lecture on Japanese Culture
DESCRIPTION:Speaker: George Takei \nREGISTER \n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/an-evening-with-george-takei-the-2021-2022-s%d0%beshitsu-sen-xv-distinguished-lecture-on-japanese-culture/
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SUMMARY:A Special Webinar from the Series on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds: How ESG is Practiced in Public Funds
DESCRIPTION:About this event\n\n\nThursday\, April 14\, 2022 | 7:00–8:30 PM (EDT) \nFriday\, April 15\, 2022 | 8:00–9:30 AM (Japan Time) \n  \nPlease note\, this webinar will be held under the Chatham House Rule. The recording of the event will not be made public. Simultaneous interpretation will be provided. \n  \nKeynote: \nMasataka Miyazono \nPresident\, Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) \nPanelists: \nCaroline Flammer \nProfessor of International and Public Affairs\, School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA)\, Columbia University \nPedro Antonio Guazo Alonso \nRepresentative of the Secretary-General for the Investment of the Assets\, United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund \nKeiko Honda \nAdjunct Professor and Adjunct Senior Research Scholar\, SIPA \nModerator: \nTakatoshi Ito \nProfessor\, SIPA; Director\, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds\, Center on Japanese Economy and Business (CJEB)\, Columbia Business School \nOpening Remarks: \nDavid E. Weinstein \nDirector\, CJEB; Carl S. Shoup Professor of the Japanese Economy\, Columbia University \n\n\nWhat you’ll learn: \n\nRecent developments in public pension funds’ portfolios and ESG investing\nRecent trends in ESG financial products and ESG score and index ratings\nEvidence on returns from ESG investing: Are they higher or lower?\n\n\n\nAbout the Speakers: \n(Keynote) \nMasataka Miyazono is President of Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) since April 2020. \nPrior to his role at GPIF\, he was President of Pension Fund Association. \nPreviously\, Mr. Miyazono served as Vice-President and Supervisory Committee member at The Norinchukin Bank. Since 1976\, he held various leadership positions in the areas of management and others at The Norinchukin Bank\, including\, Senior Managing Director\, Managing Director\, General Manager of Corporate Planning Division\, General Manager of Human Resources Division\, Executive Secretary\, Deputy General Manager of Coordination Division\, Deputy General Manager of Corporate Planning Division\, Director of Coordination Division\, and Director of Treasury Division. He also served as General Manager at Kumamoto Branch of the Bank. \nHe received his Bachelor of Arts degree in Law from the University of Tokyo in 1976. \n(Panelists) \nCaroline Flammer is a Professor of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. She is an expert in sustainable investing and the recipient of numerous prestigious awards. Her research examines how\, and under which conditions\, firms can enhance their competitiveness and long-term profitability while strengthening—instead of undermining—the very system in which they operate and hereby play a critical role in addressing climate change\, inequality\, global health\, and other grand challenges related to society and the natural environment. The Web of Science ranked her among the top-100 Highly Cited Researchers in the economics and business profession in terms of impact over the past 10 years. Among other roles\, she serves as the Chair of the Academic Advisory Committee of the United Nations’ Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI)\, the largest network of responsible investors to date. Moreover\, she serves as Associate Editor for both Management Science and the Strategic Management Journal. \nPedro Antonio Guazo Alonso was appointed RSG for the investment of the assets of the UNJSPF on 29 July 2020. \nMr. Guazo was the Finance Director at the United Nations in New York for almost eight years. He managed a portfolio of more than USD$10 billion and an annual revenue of US$13 billion. He led the Organization’s finance operations in practically every country in the world. \nPrior to joining the United Nations in 2012\, he served in a similar capacity for more than two years as the Director of Finance and Treasury at the United Nations World Food Programme\, managing a Portfolio of USD$4 billion and supervising finance officials in more than 75 Country Offices. \nDuring a 15-year banking career\, he contributed to the modernization of the Mexican Financial System\, while serving as its regulator and supervisor. As CFO and Treasurer at the Federal Mortgage Bank (SHF)\, he negotiated and managed loans from the World Bank and the Inter- American Development Bank. Similarly\, he championed financial inclusion among people with low and middle incomes as CFO and Treasurer of the National Savings and Financial Services Bank (BANSEFI). His government service included posts at the Ministry of Finance and at the National Banking and Securities Commission\, as a member of its Financial Sector Supervisory Body. While a student\, he started his professional career at PWC. \nA former professor of Finance at ITAM\, Mr. Guazo received an International Executive MBA from the IE Business School in Madrid. He earned a Master’s degree in Business Economics from ITESM and graduated from ITAM in 1996 with a Bachelor’s degree in Accounting. \nKeiko Honda is Adjunct Professor and Adjunct Senior Research Scholar of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs\, where she teaches ESG Investing to graduate students. Keiko also serves as a board member of Mitsubishi UFJ Financial Group\, a board member and chair of the compensation committee of AGC (ex Asahi Glass)\, a member of the United Nation’s Investment Management Committee\, a member of Singapore’s Asia Sustainable Infrastructure Advisory Panel and a member of the Japanese Financial Services Agency’s Policy Assessment Committee. \nUntil 2019\, Keiko was the CEO of the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA)\, the political risk insurance and credit enhancement arm of the World Bank Group. MIGA supports cross-border equity investors and lenders by providing coverage against political risk and non-honoring of financial obligations. \nBefore joining MIGA\, Keiko was the first woman Senior Partner in Asia at McKinsey & Company\, where she advised clients on corporate finance and strategy and business development for 24 years. \nShe received the Joseph Wharton Social Award from the Wharton New York Club in 2020. \nKeiko holds a bachelor’s degree from Ochanomizu University and an MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School\, where she was selected as a Fulbright Scholar. \n\n\nAdmission and Contact: \nThis is a free event. You must register for the webinar to receive the login details. Participants will receive a link to access the live webinar upon registration. This webinar will be held under the Chatham House Rule. The recording of the event will not be made public. Simultaneous interpretation will be provided in English and Japanese. Click here to learn how to listen to Zoom’s language interpretation. \nREGISTER \nIf 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. \n\n\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/a-special-webinar-from-the-series-on-public-pension-and-sovereign-funds-how-esg-is-practiced-in-public-funds/
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