Asia Beyond the Headlines Seminar Series
Inaugurated in the Fall of 2017 Asia Beyond the Headlines Seminar series focuses on urgent contemporary issues that cut across Asia.
In the first Asia Beyond the Headlines seminar, One Belt/One Road in Historical and Global Context, leading scholars put China’s Belt and Road Initiative in the context of analogous programs that have changed human history around the globe. Past topics in the series discussed a range of subjects, including elections, protests, border conflicts, migration, and refugees.
PAST EVENTS
Fall 2022
The Current State of Affairs in Afghanistan and the Region: A Year After the U.S. Withdrawal
Spring 2022
Exploring Bangladesh’s Potential Alignment with ASEAN
Reorganizing Hard Power: The United States and the South Korean Military
Fall 2021
Implications: Regional Perspectives on the US Withdrawal from Afghanistan
Spring 2021
Border Conflicts in the Himalayas: Bhutan, Nepal, India, and China
Fall 2020
Consequences: South and Southeast Asia and the 2020 U.S. Election
Spring 2020
Going Viral: The Coronavirus and its Regional and Global Implications
Fall 2019
Repercussions: The Hong Kong Protests in Context
Vietnam: Party, State, and Society in an Era of Great Power Rivalry
Spring 2019
Babies, Work, or Both? Highly-Educated Women's Employment and Fertility in Japan and South Korea
China and Asia in a Changing Climate: Natural Science for the Non-Scientist
Co-optive Engagement: Challenges to Democracy in Southeast Asia
Time for Reparations? A View on the Cambodian Government’s Response to the Genocide
Fall 2018
The Complex India-China Strategic Relationship: Can the Two Asian Powers Rise Peacefully?
Constitutional Revision in Japanese Politics Today
Panel-Engaging North Korea: What are the Current Signposts Telling Us?
Press Freedoms in Asia: Perspectives from China, Myanmar, and Thailand
Spring 2018
Forced Migration in South Asia: Past and Present
Response to the Rohingya Refugee Crisis
Fall 2017