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SUMMARY:Sinomania in 1950s Czechoslovakia: Socialist Realism with Chinese Characteristics
DESCRIPTION:March 27\, 2023\n12:00 PM – 1:30 PM\n918 IAB \n\n\n\n\n\nSpeaker: Olga Lomová\, Professor\, Department of Sinology\, Faculty of Arts\, Charles University in Prague \nModerator: Ying Qian\, Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures\, East Asian Languages & Cultures\, Columbia University \nDiscussant: Christopher Harwood\, Senior Lecturer in Czech\, Co-Deputy Director of the East Central European Center\, Harriman Institute\, Columbia University \nFor some time Olga Lomová have been interested in how China had been imagined in Central Europe since late 19th century. This talk discusses her new research project on a particular imagination of China widespread in Czechoslovakia in the early years of the cold war\, when both Czechoslovakia and China embarked on the road of building socialism within the Soviet-led socialist camp. This imagination blended searches for a genuine people’s art\, rhetorics of anti-imperialist struggle and political friendship\, orientalist topoi\, as well as the subversive aesthetics of the modernist intellectual within the party system. These sometimes conflicting visions and values nourished a sort of Sinomania in Czechoslovakia of this period. She will present this phenomenon mostly through visual material\, and comment on how such imaginations of China formed a counter discourse to the Soviet imported hard-core socialist realism. \nSpeaker’s Bio: Olga Lomová teaches history of Chinese literature with special focus on Chinese poetry\, classical and modern. Her second field of interest is PRC ideology in broader historical perspective and its impact on literature and art. She has also published on the intellectual transformation in 20th century China and researched the beginnings of Czech and Czechoslovak Sinology\, Rudolf Dvořák\, and Jaroslav Průšek. She published several books of translation from ancient and modern Chinese\, including selections from Sima Qian’s Shiji\, Tang poetry\, late Qing wuxia xiaoshuo\, and PRC post-Cultural revolution poetry and fiction. Currently she is one of the coordinators of a large interdisciplinary research project KREAS\, supported from the European Regional Development Fund. \nOlga Lomová is former director of the Institute at East Asian Studies at Charles University. Since 2002 she has been the director of the Chiang Ching-Kuo Foundation International Sinological Centre at Charles University. Among other she is also a member of the Advisory Board of the Research Center for Literary Thoughts and Discourses at the National Tsing Hua University in Taiwan. In 2016 she co-founded the project Sinopsis.cz which aims at connecting academic research about contemporary Chinese politics with broader public. \nThis event is sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and co-sponsored by The East Central European Center\, Harriman Institute. \nRegistration: \n\nTo register to attend this event in-person\, please register HERE. *Please note that non-CUID holders need to show proof of their primary series and one booster dose of COVID-19 vaccines.\nTo register to attend this event online\, please register HERE.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nContact Information\nJulie Kwan\njk4371@columbia.edu\n\n  \n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/sinomania-in-1950s-czechoslovakia-socialist-realism-with-chinese-characteristics/
LOCATION:918 International Affairs Building
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SUMMARY:'South Korea and Japan: Stabilizing Bilateral Relations With An Eye On China' with Leif-Eric Easley\, Professor at Ewha Womans University\, Seoul
DESCRIPTION:March 27\, 2023\n4:30 PM – 6:00 PM\n918 IAB \nREGISTER \nNorth Korea’s nuclear missile threats and China’s regional assertiveness make coordination between Japan and South Korea more critical than ever. Ties are often strained over history but are better maintained than either side is given credit. Political elites practice restraint to limit nationalist recriminations. Both governments calibrate policies toward Beijing while avoiding divergence from each other. Trilateral initiatives with the United States provide reassurance about the cost-effectiveness of alliances and help stabilize relations. However\, for Washington-Tokyo-Seoul cooperation to serve as a pillar of the rules-based international order and sustainably coordinate policies toward China\, a key variable will be the role of civil society in the making of foreign policy. \nSpeaker Bio: Leif-Eric EASLEY is Associate Professor of International Studies at Ewha University in Seoul. He teaches international security and political economics. His research includes U.S.-ROK-Japan trilateral coordination on engaging China and North Korea\, and the geopolitical implications of domestic transitions (especially in Korea and Myanmar). Dr. Easley was a Northeast Asian History Fellow at Stanford University and a visiting scholar at the Japan Institute for International Affairs (JIIA) in Tokyo. He is involved in U.S.-Asia Track II diplomacy with the Asan Institute for Policy Studies and is an alumnus of leadership programs with the Pacific Forum\, the Korea Foundation\, and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). His research appears in academic journals and volumes (available at https://www.leifeasley.net)\, supplemented by commentary in major newspapers. He completed his B.A. in political science with a minor in mathematics at UCLA and received his M.A. and Ph.D. from Harvard University’s Department of Government. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the China and the World Program and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute. \n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/south-korea-and-japan-stabilizing-bilateral-relations-with-an-eye-on-china-with-leif-eric-easley-professor-at-ewha-womans-university-seoul/
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SUMMARY:Spring 2023 Modern Japan Seminar: Prof. Tomoko Akami (ANU)
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\n\n\nMonday\, March 27\nWeatherhead East Asia Institute\, International Affairs Building room #918\n6:30-8:00pm\n\n\n\n\n\nProfessor Tomoko Akami (Australian National University) will present “The Japanese empire and imperial polities as problematics and possibilities for History of International Relations.” Papers can be found here and here. \n\nProfessor Jessamyn Abel  (Penn. State) will comment.\n\n\nIf you would like to attend the seminar\, please RSVP for in person attendance at this link or online (via ZOOM) at this link.\n\nAfter each session this term there is an optional dinner in the seminar room. The cost of dinner is $15 per person ($10 for graduate students)\, payable in cash to the seminar organizers on the day of the event. RSVP for dinner is required. Please RSVP by 26 March (11:59pm) at this link. \nDirections to IAB can be found here. The building is wheelchair accessible from both West 118th st. and Amsterdam Ave.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
URL:https://ealac.columbia.edu/event/spring-2023-modern-japan-seminar-prof-tomoko-akami-anu/
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