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Robert Lee Suettinger's recent biography of Hu Yaobang, 'The Conscience of the Party', informs this discussion on political struggle among CCP elites and the legacy of 'reform and opening'.

This presentation explores how people build a sense of place and community in the development zones and corridors that have become focal sites of Chinese investment in Southeast Asia.

Join us for a film screening of 'On The Way To South', followed by a panel discussion and Q&A with the film directors who document the heroic stories of escapes from North Korea, together with first-hand testimonies from North Korean escapees.

1980s South Korea saw many reports promising a 'new office revolution' or a 'new wind' that would dramatically change South Korean work life through automation (jadonghwa). Drawing on newspaper archives from the 1980s and 1990s, this presentation looks at some of the technological promises and narrative tropes that were used in this period to show how offices would allow greater connections to developed countries.

Dr Jinjoon Lee explores ontology in the post-digital age, where myth and his tory, memory and data, identity and anonymity converge.

Join us in celebrating Dr Bi-Yu Chang’s retirement with a reflective lecture tracing her two-decade journey through the cultural politics, spatial identities, and shifting meanings of belonging in Taiwan.

This seminar explore approaches to the premodern care and treatment of Buddhist material culture from Dunhuang through selected case studies.

In this lecture, Michelle Wang examines the impact of colonial archaeology, particularly as practiced on the Indian subcontinent, upon Stein, and she traces the institutional networks within which he traveled.

The Oath follows a week in the life of Dr Lina Qasem-Hassan, a Palestinian medic living and working in Israel and teaching medical ethics. While the medical oath taken by all doctors requires that they provide equal care for all patients, Lina witnesses a system increasingly at odds with this.