Miraculous Objects: Relics and Buddha Images in Xuanzang’s Datang Xiyu ji
Max Deeg, Cardiff University
Winning Elections with Unpopular Policies: Valence Advantage and Single-Party Dominance in Japan
Dan Smith, University of Pennsylvania
The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy
Lin Zhang, University of New Hampshire
NEXTGEN: The Past, Present and Future of K-pop
Crystal S. Anderson, George Mason University
"Cotton, Capital, and Colonialism in Southern Korea, 1910-1945"
Holly Stephens, University of Edinburgh
"Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan’s Self-Defense Force During the Cold War"
Aaron Skabelund, Brigham Young University
"COVID-19, Text, Power: Fang Fang and the Birth of the ‘Wuhan Diary’ Genre"
Michael Berry, The University of California, Los Angeles
"The Wuhan Lockdown and the Limits of Critique"
Guobin Yang, The University of Pennsylvania
"China's Hong Kong and Taiwan Problems: A Semi-Leninist Policy Meets Popular Response"
Richard C. Bush, Brookings Institution
"Writing a History of Sexuality for Premodern China: Some Methodological Reflections"
Hsiao-Wen Cheng, University of Pennsylvania
"Investing in Asia: The Overlook Model"
Richard H. Lawrence, Jr, Overlook Investments Group
"Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments: The Case of Taiwan"
David S. Law, University of Virginia
"Elite Graffiti, Kinship, and Social Capital: Cultural Pilgrimages to Kŭmgangsan in Pre-1900 Korea"
Maya Stiller, University of Kansas
"Eison’s 叡尊 (1201-1290) Reformation of the Japanese Buddhist Ordinations"
Paul Groner, University of Virginia
"Prototype Nation: China & the Contested Promise of Innovation"
Silvia Lindtner, University of Michigan
"Beyond the Green Archipelago: Japan's Empire of Forestry in Korea and Beyond"
David Fedman, University of California-Irvine
"Of Gods & Whales: Popular Rituals, Environmental Change, and the Necessity of Intra-Asian Comparison"
Aike Peter Rots, University of Oslo, Norway
"Inequality of Equalities: The Taiwanese Buddhist Encounter with Liberal Humanism and Taiwan’s Indigenous People"
Jeffrey Nicolaisen, Visiting Lecturer at Duke Kunshan University
The United States and Vietnam: New Dynamics -- Part Two
Ambassador Ha Kim Ngoc, Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States
"The Walled Grove: Chinese Gardens in History"
Xin Conan-Wu, The College of William and Mary
"The United States and Vietnam: New Dynamics"
Daniel Kritenbrink, US Ambassador to Vietnam
"Uyghurs are Uyghurs. They Aren’t Muslim:" Forging "Modern" Chinese Citizens in Xinjiang
Timothy Grose, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
"Taking China out of Premodern Global History: Bodies, Threads and Fabrics"
Naomi Standen, University of Birmingham
"Creating the Intellectual: Chinese Communism and the Rise of a Classification"
Eddy U, University of California-Davis
"Island Illusion: Recreating Avalokiteshvara at Mt. Putuo in Sichuan during Song-dynasty China"
Sonya Lee, University of Southern California
"State Reconstitution in China, Japan and East Africa"
Graham F. Odell, California State University, Long Beach
"China, Asia, and the US: Foreground and Lost Ground"
Evan A. Feigenbaum, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
"Three Turning Points in Chinese Popular Political Thought since 1949"
Perry Link, University of California, Riverside
"Anti-Heroic Agents: The Gendered Dynamics of Religious Change in Urbanizing China"
Robert Weller, Boston University
"The Rise of Alibaba and Prospects for Technological Innovation in China"
Duncan Clark, BDA China, & Syaru Shirley Lin, UVA Visiting Professor
"Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change and Economic Development" (Part 1)
Josh Eisenman, University of Notre Dame
"Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change and Economic Development" (Part 2)
Josh Eisenman, University of Notre Dame
"Legality in Contemporary Chinese Politics"
Taisu Zhang, Yale Law School
"Taiwan's New Southbound Policy and Asian Economic Integration"
To-Hai Liou, National Chengchi University
"How to Treat Spirit Possessions in the Heian Japan: Eiga monogatari and the Potential of Historical Writing for Healing"
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Takeshi Watanabe, Wesleyan University
"Self Interest in Early Chinese Texts"
Paul Goldin, University of Pennsylvania
"Slavery of the Silk Road of the Tang Empire"
Johnathan Skaff, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
"'Civilizing' China: Cultural Beliefs about the Urban & Modern in the People's Republic of China"
Martin Schoenhals, UNC Chapel Hill
"Chinese Astronomical Systems in the South Pacific? Conforming Earth to Heaven Through the Reaches of the Austronesian World"
Fred Damon, University of Virginia
"There is No Such Thing as Cultural Identity, but We Shall Defend a Culture’s Resources"
François Jullien, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
"Empress Jingu's Magical Conquest of Korea: A Legend of Multiple Uses"
Jonathan Best, Wesleyan University
"A Strange Gift and Stranger Beneficiaries: 1,650 Sutras Copied for the Tibetan Emperor"
Brandon Dotson, Georgetown University
"Lineages of the Literacy: Religious Repertoires and the Cultural Revolution"
Nicole Willock, Old Dominion University
"China's Religious Revival"
Ian Johnson, Journalist
"Epistolary Intimacy in the Love Letters of a Buddhist Tantric Couple"
Holly Gayley, The University of Colorado, Boulder
"China and the Denuclearization of North Korea: History in the Making?"
Xiao Ren, Fudan University
"Autopsy of a Failed Policy: Why China's One Party Political Regime Made America's Engagement Unsuccessful"
Minxin Pei, Claremond McKenna College
Fall 2020 Faculty Forum
• Rick Carew presents "The Great Firewall: How China Divided the Global Internet"
• Charles Laughlin presents "Hand in Hand (2011): Art and Politics in Taiwanese Documentary Film."
Spring 2020 Faculty Forum
• Philip B.K. Potter - "China's War on Terrorism"
• Howard Epstein - "Environment of the Tibetan Plateau"
Fall 2019 Faculty Forum
John Shepherd - "The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in China and East Asia: Did it Originate in China?"
Spring 2019 Faculty Forum
• Andrew Johnson - "Learning from Heritage Practice in China: Tourisim, Authenticity, and Deep History"
• Yingyao Wang - "The Subnational Logic of China's Outward Foreign Direct Investment?
Fall 2018 Faculty Forum
• Manuel Lerdau - "Not All Green is Good: Plantation Forests in a Changing World"
• Esther Lorenz - "Hong Kong: Corporeal City"
• Brantly Womack - "Rethinking Global Social Sciences"
Fall 2017 Faculty Forum
• Harry Harding - "The US and China, from Partners to Competitors"
• Charles Laughlin - "The Dynamics of Desire in Chinese Revolutionary Naratives"
• Ellen Zhang - "Practicing Filial Piety in Northern Song China"
Assessing the Prospects for War and Peace in the Taiwan Strait
Scott Kastner, University of Maryland, College Park
Straddling Activism and Academia: My Experience in the LGBTIQ+ Movement in Indonesia
Dédé Oetomo, Gaya Nusantara Foundation
Organizing & Social Support Networks in Three Southeast Asian Diaspora Communities in North Carolina
Becky Butler and Sofia Thein, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
"Silence and Sacrifice: End of Life Care, Love, and Betrayal in Vietnam"
Merav Shohet, Boston University
"Perceptions from Below the Winds and Beyond: Reconsidering Southeast Asia Within the Indo-Pacific"
James J. Fox, Australian National University
"Pol Pot's War on Diversity: "Mastery," Ideology and Ecology in Khmer Rouge Cambodia" (Part 1)
Jonathan Padwe, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
"Pol Pot's War on Diversity: "Mastery," Ideology and Ecology in Khmer Rouge Cambodia" (2)
Jonathan Padwe, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
"Indonesian Peatlands: Climate Delimma or Solution?"
Erin Swails, TerraCarbon LLC
"New Buddhist Movements in Burma's Konbaung Dynasty"
Alexandra Kaloyanides, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
"Air Conditioned Socialism: The Atmospheres of Revolution and Globalization in Lê Minh Khuê's Fiction"
Ben Tran, Vanderbilt University
"Land, Culture, and Politics: The Challenges of Slowing Deforestation in Southeast Asia"
Cynthia Mackie, US Forest Service
"Being Asian in America"
• Thi Bui, Graphic Artist
• Bao Phi, Spoken Word Artist
"Chinese Astronomical Systems in the South Pacific? Conforming Earth to Heaven Through the Reaches of the Austronesian World"
Fred Damon, University of Virginia
"Textiles for the Lands below the Winds: The Trade with South-East Asia"
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Ruth Barnes, Yale University
"Paid to Remember: A Study of Portrait Images of Temples' Patrons in the Vietnamese Buddhist Tradition"
Trian Nguyen, Bates College
"Chinese Soft Power in Africa: Production of Ambivalent Solidarities"
Maria Repnikova, Georgia State University
Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project
"China's Drive for Connectivity in Southeast Asia: High-Speed Railway Development"
David Lampton, Johns Hopkins
Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project
"Inventing the Maritime Silk Road"
Tansen Sen, NYU-Shanghai
Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project
"Worst but for All the Rest: Why China Still Benefits from BRI Investments"
Jack Goldstone, George Mason University
Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project
"Constructing Understandings of China: Chinese “Economic Statecraft” from a BRI(tish) Perspective"
Shaun Breslin, University of Warwick
Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project
"Banking on the Belt and Road: Insights from a New Global Dataset of 13,427 Chinese Development Projects"
Bradley C. Parks, Ammar Malik, and Samantha Custer, Aiddata
Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project
"The Volumetric Presence of China in Nepal"
Galen Murton, James Madison University
Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project
Talk 4: "China, East Asia, and the Reconfiguration of a Multinodal World"
With Brantly Womack and Evelyn Goh
"China and the Re-Centering of East Asia"
With Brantly Womack and Wang Gungwu
Talk 1: Introduction and China’s Premodern Centricity
"Central Asia's Perceptions of the BRI: Hopes & Concerns"
Marlene Laruelle, George Washington University
Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project
"China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the new Geopolitics of Eurasia"
Daniel Markey, Johns Hopkins University
Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project
"An American International Lawyer Considers China’s Belt & Road"
David Day, Belt & Road Task Force, ABA
Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project.
"The Geopolitics of International Trade in Southeast Asia"
Kerem Cosar, University of Virginia
Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project.
"The American Strategy of Promoting Development Around the World"
Harry Harding, University Professor, Batten School
"Assessing the Politics and Economics of China's Belt and Road Initiative"
Rush Doshi, Brookings Institute
"The Role of the Belt and Road Initiative in China's Foreign Policy"
"Common Transport Infrastructure: Estimates from the Belt and Road Initiative"
Francois de Soyres, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
"Big Earth Data for Environment Change within the Belt and Road Region"
• Howard Epstein (UVA)
• Concluding Remarks: Krishan Kumar (UVA), Joseph C. Miller (UVA)
"The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa"
Ching Kwan Lee (UCLA)
"Complementing and Competing Visions of China's Belt and Road Initiative"
A Conference at the University of Virginia
Brantly Womack (UVA): "China and the Re-Centering of Africa"
"Fanfare and Dismay: China's Belt and Road Initiative throughout Uzbek Media"
Shawn Lyons (UVA)
"Chinese Migrants in Africa: Grassroots Encounters between Africa and China in the BRI Era"
Yoon Jung Park (SAIS, Johns Hopkins University)
"The Belt and Road Initiative: What Is It?"
Xiao Ren (Fudan University)
"Development Boon or Trojan Horse? The BRI in South Asia: The View from India"
John Echeverri-Gent (UVA)
"The Long Path to One Belt One Road: History and Environment in Sino-Southeast Asia, 600-1600 CE"
Eric Tagliacozzo (Cornell)
"More Competing than Complementary: American Assessments of China's Belt and Road Initiative"
Harry Harding (UVA)
Panel Discussion with François Jullien, Scott Lash, and Shiqiao Li
"Minxin Xiangtong ⺠心相通 and People-to-People (P2P) Relations along the New Silk Roads"
Sophia Kidd, Sichuan University
Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project.