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Covid-19, Climate Change and Carbon Neutrality

Mr. Ban served as the Chairman of Presidential National Council on Climate and Air Quality (NCCA) (2019-2021). In 2018, Mr. Ban was elected as the Chairman of Boao Forum for Asia. Mr. Ban, along with former President of Austria Mr. Heinz Fischer, was inducted as Co-Chairs of the Ban Ki-moon Centre for Global Citizens in Vienna, Austria. Mr. Ban is the Chair of the Global Center on Adaptation, an international organization hosted by the Netherlands. Mr. Ban Ki-moon was also elected as Chairman of IOC Ethics Committee in September 2017. Mr.

A Dash of Mifune: Rashomon and More (Part III)

RASHOMON
Japan, 1950
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Cinematography by Kazuo Miyagawa
Starring Toshirō Mifune, Machiko Kyō, Masayuki Mori, Takashi Shimura
Based on Ryūnosuke Akutagawa’s short story In a Grove
NEW 35mm print from the Yale Film Archive. Approx. 88 min.
Introduction by Aaron Gerow, A. Whitney Griswold Professor of East Asian Languages & Literatures and Film & Media Studies

The Resurgence of the Old Elite: Uyghur Public Culture in China’s Reform Era

In the late 1970s and the 1980s, as Deng Xiaoping’s reform and opening policies took root in Xinjiang, a Uyghur literary elite rapidly emerged from amidst the wreckage of the Cultural Revolution. This elite, and the forms of Uyghur culture its members promoted, had been prominent during the early Mao era, when a network of young Uyghur intellectuals had formed a mutually beneficial relationship with party-state patrons.

Revolution of Our Times

Over the past fifty years, Hongkongers have fought for freedom and democracy but have yet to succeed. In 2019, the “Extradition Bill” to China opened Pandora’s box, turning Hong Kong into a battlefield against the Chinese authoritarian rule. The award-winning director of “Ten Years: Self Immolator,” Kiwi Chow, made this documentary to tell the story of the movement, both with a macro view of its historical context and up close and personal on the front lines.

#MeToo in Japan, Britney Spears, BTS

The presentation is regarding BTS, Britney Spears, and the #MeToo movement in Japan. Since BTS and Britney Spears are two notable things I encountered in Los Angeles, I would like to discuss these subjects from a journalistic point of view; how we are influenced by society’s underlying gender bias.
The three topics may seem unrelated.
However, through the perspective of “Toxic Masculinity” which is associated with “suppressing emotions or “maintaining an appearance of hardness” and using “violence as an indicator of power”, these topics are strongly related.

Women and Buddhism: The Case of Kim Iryŏp

Are women’s experiences of Buddhism different from those of their male counterparts? Can Buddhism offer new directions in women’s search for identity and freedom? Or, to put it broadly, why and how do women engage with Buddhism in modern times? This presentation explores these issues through an examination of the life and thoughts of Kim Iryŏp (1896-1971), a Korean feminist who became a Seon master. As a daughter of Christian parents, Iryŏp was engaged with both Christianity and Buddhism as well as being a famed writer and women’s movement activist.

You are here Home » Events » The Art of Breaking: Putting Salt Fields to Rest in 19th century Japan The Art of Breaking: Putting Salt Fields to Rest in 19th century Japan

Drawing on a preliminary reading of The Secrets of Salt Making 塩製秘録, a 1816 salt-making manual by an obscure Japanese slat-maker Miura Genzô 三浦源蔵 (?-1835), this talk seeks to address the change in production dynamics in the Seito Inland sea region in the first half of the 19th century. In so doing, this talk contributes to the rethinking of the nature of Japan’s early industry by drawing attention to actors and initiatives that call for a reassessment of the importance the logic of growth for profit-making.

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