Video Gallery

The Dragon Roars Back: Transformational Leaders and Dynamics of Chinese Foreign Policy

Feb 14, 2025

Suisheng Zhao, University of Denver

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Miraculous Objects: Relics and Buddha Images in Xuanzang’s Datang Xiyu ji

Apr 11, 2024

Max Deeg, Cardiff University

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Winning Elections with Unpopular Policies: Valence Advantage and Single-Party Dominance in Japan

Feb 16, 2024

Dan Smith, University of Pennsylvania

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The Labor of Reinvention: Entrepreneurship in the New Chinese Digital Economy

Nov 30, 2023

Lin Zhang, University of New Hampshire

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Recentering Pacific Asia

Sep 29, 2023

Brantly Womack, Professor Emeritus, University of Virginia

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Today Hong Kong, Tomorrow the World

Apr 14, 2023

Mark Clifford, Committee for Freedom in Hong Kong

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NEXTGEN: The Past, Present and Future of K-pop

Mar 17, 2023

Crystal S. Anderson, George Mason University

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Kaifeng’s Rise, Fall and Ecological Legacy

Nov 11, 2022

Yuan Julian Chen, Duke University

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"Cotton, Capital, and Colonialism in Southern Korea, 1910-1945"

Oct 28, 2022

Holly Stephens, University of Edinburgh

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"Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan’s Self-Defense Force During the Cold War"

Oct 14, 2022

Aaron Skabelund, Brigham Young University

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"COVID-19, Text, Power: Fang Fang and the Birth of the ‘Wuhan Diary’ Genre"

Sep 30, 2022

Michael Berry, The University of California, Los Angeles

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"The Wuhan Lockdown and the Limits of Critique"

Apr 01, 2022

Guobin Yang, The University of Pennsylvania

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"China's Hong Kong and Taiwan Problems: A Semi-Leninist Policy Meets Popular Response"

Mar 25, 2022

Richard C. Bush, Brookings Institution

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"Writing a History of Sexuality for Premodern China: Some Methodological Reflections"

Feb 25, 2022

Hsiao-Wen Cheng, University of Pennsylvania

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"Investing in Asia: The Overlook Model"

Feb 18, 2022

Richard H. Lawrence, Jr, Overlook Investments Group

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"Judicial Review of Constitutional Amendments: The Case of Taiwan"

Feb 11, 2022

David S. Law, University of Virginia

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"Elite Graffiti, Kinship, and Social Capital: Cultural Pilgrimages to Kŭmgangsan in Pre-1900 Korea"

Nov 12, 2021

Maya Stiller, University of Kansas

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"A New Model of Early Ryukyuan History"

Oct 29, 2021

Gregory Smits, Penn State University

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"Eison’s 叡尊 (1201-1290) Reformation of the Japanese Buddhist Ordinations"

Oct 15, 2021

Paul Groner, University of Virginia

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"Prototype Nation: China & the Contested Promise of Innovation"

Sep 17, 2021

Silvia Lindtner, University of Michigan

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"Beyond the Green Archipelago: Japan's Empire of Forestry in Korea and Beyond"

Apr 23, 2021

David Fedman, University of California-Irvine

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"Of Gods & Whales: Popular Rituals, Environmental Change, and the Necessity of Intra-Asian Comparison"

Apr 16, 2021

Aike Peter Rots, University of Oslo, Norway

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The United States and Vietnam: New Dynamics -- Part Two

Apr 08, 2021

Ambassador Ha Kim Ngoc, Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States

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"Inequality of Equalities: The Taiwanese Buddhist Encounter with Liberal Humanism and Taiwan’s Indigenous People"

Apr 08, 2021

Jeffrey Nicolaisen, Visiting Lecturer at Duke Kunshan University

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"ASEAN and Regional Order in Southeast Asia"

Apr 02, 2021

Amitav Acharya, American University

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"The Walled Grove: Chinese Gardens in History"

Mar 19, 2021

Xin Conan-Wu, The College of William and Mary

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"The United States and Vietnam: New Dynamics"

Mar 04, 2021

Daniel Kritenbrink, US Ambassador to Vietnam

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"Uyghurs are Uyghurs. They Aren’t Muslim:" Forging "Modern" Chinese Citizens in Xinjiang

Feb 05, 2021

Timothy Grose, Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology

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"Taking China out of Premodern Global History: Bodies, Threads and Fabrics"

Nov 18, 2020

Naomi Standen, University of Birmingham

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"Creating the Intellectual: Chinese Communism and the Rise of a Classification"

Nov 13, 2020

Eddy U, University of California-Davis

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"Island Illusion: Recreating Avalokiteshvara at Mt. Putuo in Sichuan during Song-dynasty China"

Oct 29, 2020

Sonya Lee, University of Southern California

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"State Reconstitution in China, Japan and East Africa"

Oct 16, 2020

Graham F. Odell, California State University, Long Beach

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"China-Japan: 1895-2010, The Interim of Japan on Top"

Oct 09, 2020

Ezra F. Vogel, Harvard University

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"China, Asia, and the US: Foreground and Lost Ground"

Oct 02, 2020

Evan A. Feigenbaum, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

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"China & the US - A Superpower Showdown"

Sep 25, 2020

Bob Davis, Lingling Wei, Wall Street Journal

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"Three Turning Points in Chinese Popular Political Thought since 1949"

Feb 14, 2020

Perry Link, University of California, Riverside

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"The US-Japan Alliance in the Trump Era"

Nov 01, 2019

Koji Murata, Doshisha University

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"Anti-Heroic Agents: The Gendered Dynamics of Religious Change in Urbanizing China"

Oct 25, 2019

Robert Weller, Boston University

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"The Rise of Alibaba and Prospects for Technological Innovation in China"

Oct 21, 2019

Duncan Clark, BDA China, & Syaru Shirley Lin, UVA Visiting Professor

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"Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change and Economic Development" (Part 1)

Oct 11, 2019

Josh Eisenman, University of Notre Dame

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"Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change and Economic Development" (Part 2)

Oct 11, 2019

Josh Eisenman, University of Notre Dame

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"Legality in Contemporary Chinese Politics"

Apr 11, 2019

Taisu Zhang, Yale Law School

"Taiwan's New Southbound Policy and Asian Economic Integration"

Apr 04, 2019

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"

Oct 19, 2018

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Takeshi Watanabe, Wesleyan University

"Self Interest in Early Chinese Texts"

Sep 21, 2018

Paul Goldin, University of Pennsylvania

"Slavery of the Silk Road of the Tang Empire"

Apr 20, 2018

Johnathan Skaff, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania

"'Civilizing' China: Cultural Beliefs about the Urban & Modern in the People's Republic of China"

Feb 16, 2018

Martin Schoenhals, UNC Chapel Hill

"Chinese Astronomical Systems in the South Pacific? Conforming Earth to Heaven Through the Reaches of the Austronesian World"

Feb 02, 2018

Fred Damon, University of Virginia

"There is No Such Thing as Cultural Identity, but We Shall Defend a Culture’s Resources"

Nov 16, 2017

François Jullien, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme

"Empress Jingu's Magical Conquest of Korea: A Legend of Multiple Uses"

Nov 03, 2017

Jonathan Best, Wesleyan University

"A Strange Gift and Stranger Beneficiaries: 1,650 Sutras Copied for the Tibetan Emperor"

Oct 27, 2017

Brandon Dotson, Georgetown University

"Lineages of the Literacy: Religious Repertoires and the Cultural Revolution"

Oct 20, 2017

Nicole Willock, Old Dominion University

"China's Religious Revival"

Oct 19, 2017

Ian Johnson, Journalist

"Epistolary Intimacy in the Love Letters of a Buddhist Tantric Couple"

Sep 27, 2017

Holly Gayley, The University of Colorado, Boulder

"Autopsy of a Failed Policy: Why China's One Party Political Regime Made America's Engagement Unsuccessful"

Minxin Pei, Claremond McKenna College

"China and the Denuclearization of North Korea: History in the Making?"

Xiao Ren, Fudan University

Fall 2020 Faculty Forum

Sep 16, 2020

• 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

Feb 07, 2020

• Philip B.K. Potter - "China's War on Terrorism"
• Howard Epstein - "Environment of the Tibetan Plateau"

Fall 2019 Faculty Forum

Sep 20, 2019

John Shepherd - "The 1918 Influenza Pandemic in China and East Asia: Did it Originate in China?"

Spring 2019 Faculty Forum

May 09, 2019

• 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

Oct 09, 2018

• 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

Oct 17, 2017

• 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"

Digital Approaches to Philippine Literature in Spanish

Sep 20, 2024

Rocío Ortuño Casanova, UNED (Spanish Open University)

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Displacements and Taiwan’s Geographies

Dec 01, 2023

Rebecca Nedostup, Brown University

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Assessing the Prospects for War and Peace in the Taiwan Strait

Nov 17, 2023

Scott Kastner, University of Maryland, College Park

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Straddling Activism and Academia: My Experience in the LGBTIQ+ Movement in Indonesia

Apr 18, 2023

Dédé Oetomo, Gaya Nusantara Foundation

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Organizing & Social Support Networks in Three Southeast Asian Diaspora Communities in North Carolina

Mar 14, 2023

Becky Butler and Sofia Thein, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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"Silence and Sacrifice: End of Life Care, Love, and Betrayal in Vietnam"

Dec 02, 2022

Merav Shohet, Boston University

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"Perceptions from Below the Winds and Beyond: Reconsidering Southeast Asia Within the Indo-Pacific"

Nov 11, 2021

James J. Fox, Australian National University

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"What Do Historians Mean When They Say "China"?"

Feb 26, 2021

Hugh R. Clark, Ursinus College

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"Pol Pot's War on Diversity: "Mastery," Ideology and Ecology in Khmer Rouge Cambodia" (2)

Nov 15, 2019

Jonathan Padwe, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

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"Pol Pot's War on Diversity: "Mastery," Ideology and Ecology in Khmer Rouge Cambodia" (Part 1)

Nov 15, 2019

Jonathan Padwe, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa

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"Air Conditioned Socialism: The Atmospheres of Revolution and Globalization in Lê Minh Khuê's Fiction"

Apr 12, 2018

Ben Tran, Vanderbilt University

"Land, Culture, and Politics: The Challenges of Slowing Deforestation in Southeast Asia"

Apr 12, 2018

Cynthia Mackie, US Forest Service

"Indonesian Peatlands: Climate Delimma or Solution?"

Apr 12, 2018

Erin Swails, TerraCarbon LLC

"New Buddhist Movements in Burma's Konbaung Dynasty"

Apr 12, 2018

Alexandra Kaloyanides, University of North Carolina, Charlotte

"Being Asian in America"

Mar 23, 2018

• 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"

Feb 02, 2018

Fred Damon, University of Virginia

"Textiles for the Lands below the Winds: The Trade with South-East Asia"

Oct 19, 2017

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Ruth Barnes, Yale University

"Paid to Remember: A Study of Portrait Images of Temples' Patrons in the Vietnamese Buddhist Tradition"

Oct 04, 2017

Trian Nguyen, Bates College

"Chinese Soft Power in Africa: Production of Ambivalent Solidarities"

Apr 07, 2023

Maria Repnikova, Georgia State University

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Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project

"China's Drive for Connectivity in Southeast Asia: High-Speed Railway Development"

Oct 07, 2022

David Lampton, Johns Hopkins

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Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project

"Inventing the Maritime Silk Road"

Oct 05, 2022

Tansen Sen, NYU-Shanghai

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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"

Sep 29, 2022

Jack Goldstone, George Mason University

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Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project

"Constructing Understandings of China: Chinese “Economic Statecraft” from a BRI(tish) Perspective"

Sep 16, 2022

Shaun Breslin, University of Warwick

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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"

Apr 15, 2022

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"

Nov 19, 2021

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"

Oct 07, 2021

With Brantly Womack and Evelyn Goh

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Talk 3: "Convergence and Asian Recentering"

Sep 30, 2021

With Brantly Womack and Qin Yaqing

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Talk 2: "Modernization and the Decentering of Asia"

Sep 23, 2021

With Brantly Womack and Wu-Yu Shan

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"China and the Re-Centering of East Asia"

Sep 16, 2021

With Brantly Womack and Wang Gungwu

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Talk 1: Introduction and China’s Premodern Centricity

"Central Asia's Perceptions of the BRI: Hopes & Concerns"

Apr 16, 2021

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"

Mar 26, 2021

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"

Feb 25, 2021

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"

Sep 18, 2020

Kerem Cosar, University of Virginia

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Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project.

"The American Strategy of Promoting Development Around the World"

Nov 26, 2019

Harry Harding, University Professor, Batten School

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"Common Transport Infrastructure: Estimates from the Belt and Road Initiative"

Nov 15, 2019

Francois de Soyres, Federal Reserve Board of Governors

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"Assessing the Politics and Economics of China's Belt and Road Initiative"

Nov 15, 2019

Rush Doshi, Brookings Institute

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"The Role of the Belt and Road Initiative in China's Foreign Policy"

"Big Earth Data for Environment Change within the Belt and Road Region"

Oct 07, 2019

• Howard Epstein (UVA)
• Concluding Remarks: Krishan Kumar (UVA), Joseph C. Miller (UVA)

"Chinese Migrants in Africa: Grassroots Encounters between Africa and China in the BRI Era"

Mar 02, 2019

Yoon Jung Park (SAIS, Johns Hopkins University)

"The Belt and Road Initiative: What Is It?"

Mar 02, 2019

Xiao Ren (Fudan University)

"Development Boon or Trojan Horse? The BRI in South Asia: The View from India"

Mar 02, 2019

John Echeverri-Gent (UVA)

"The Long Path to One Belt One Road: History and Environment in Sino-Southeast Asia, 600-1600 CE"

Mar 02, 2019

Eric Tagliacozzo (Cornell)

"More Competing than Complementary: American Assessments of China's Belt and Road Initiative"

Mar 02, 2019

Harry Harding (UVA)

"The Specter of Global China: Politics, Labor and Foreign Investment in Africa"

Mar 02, 2019

Ching Kwan Lee (UCLA)

"Complementing and Competing Visions of China's Belt and Road Initiative"

Mar 02, 2019

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"

Mar 02, 2019

Shawn Lyons (UVA)

Panel Discussion with François Jullien, Scott Lash, and Shiqiao Li

Nov 17, 2017

"Minxin Xiangtong ⺠心相通 and People-to-People (P2P) Relations along the New Silk Roads"

Mar 12, 2001

Sophia Kidd, Sichuan University

Part of UVA's "Assessment of China's Belt & Road Initiative" Project.