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Bonnie Glaser, Freeman Chair for China Studies, Center for Strategic and International Studies; Charles Glaser, Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, Director of the Elliott School's Institute for Security and Conflict Studies at Georg

- | Stiteler Hall B21

Bonnie Glaser, one of the country’s preeminent analysts of contemporary China and a longstanding observer of developments on Taiwan, and Charles Glaser, one of the foremost international relations theorists of his…




JIA Qingguo, Professor and Associate Dean of the School of International Studies of Peking University - "US-China Relations: An Assessment"

- | Silverstein Forum, Stiteler Hall

JIA Qingguo is Professor and Associate Dean of the School of International Studies of Peking University. He has published extensively on U.S.-China relations, relations between the Chinese mainland…




Governor Jon M. Huntsman Jr., former US Ambassador to China - "The Course of US-China Relations: Its Evolution and Prospects"

- | Dhirubhai Ambani Auditorium (JMHH G06), Wharton School

Governor Jon Huntsman, former US Ambassador to China with many years of public service and experience in Asia, shares his thoughts about the course of US-China relations and the influences that are shaping its…




James Raymo, Professor of Sociology at University of Wisconsin-Madison - "Single Mothers and Poverty in Japan: The Role of Living Arrangements"

- | McNeil 103

* CEAS Issues in Contemporary East Asia Colloquium Series, co-sponsored with Sociology Department Wednesday Seminar

Reading Days Bonus Film Screening - "The Host/괴물"

- | Claudia Cohen Hall Room 402

Bong Joon-ho, 2006

Chemical spills cause mutations, and a giant fishlike creature eats visitors to the Han River Park.

 

* CEAS Monsters of Japan Film Series

Film Screening - "Godzilla: Final Wars/ゴジラフィナルワーズ"

- | Claudia Cohen Hall Room 402

Kitamura Ryōhei, 2004

Giant monsters controlled by aliens attack cities throughout the world; only Godzilla resists the alien control, aided by a man-made mutant army.

 

* CEAS Monsters…




He Weifang (贺卫方), Professor of Law at Peking University’s School of Law -"The Ongoing Quest for Judicial Independence in Contemporary China"

- | Tanenbaum Hall T-112, Penn Law School

Penn’s Center for the Study of Contemporary China is pleased to have the opportunity to host a talk by Professor He Weifang, one of China’s most prominent public intellectuals and a frequent commentator in various…




Hae-Yeon Choo, Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto - "Translating Rights into Practice: Sex/Work for Filipina Migrant Women in South Korea"

- | History Lounge, College Hall

Based on ethnographic research in South Korea, this talk will comparatively examine Filipina migrant women in two sectors of the labor market – manufacturing and club hostessing – to investigate the gendered process…




Film Screening - "Godzilla, Mothra, and King Ghidorah/ゴジラ・モスラ・キングギドラ 大怪獣総攻撃"

- | CLaudia Cohen Hall Room 402

Kaneko Shūsuke, 2001

The Ancient Protectors (Mothra, Ghidorah, and Baragon) rise to defend the world from Godzilla, the embodiment of the anger of all the victims of WWII.

 

* CEAS…




*CANCELLED* Film Screening - "Godzilla 2000: Millenium"

- | Claudia Cohen Hall Room 402

Okawara Takao, 1999

Godzilla appears when a meteorite transforms into an alien spaceship and begins absorbing human data.

 

* CEAS Monsters of Japan Film Series