Seminars
Fall 2009 Seminars
Zhen Qian
Visiting Fellow, Syracuse University
Intra-Party Democracy and China's Political Development
Tuesday, September 29, 2009, Eggers 341, 4:00 - 5:00 pm
Margarita Estevez-Abe
Associate Professor, Syracuse University
Japan's Delayed Democracy
Friday, October 16, 2009, Eggers 341, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Young Gyu-Kwon
Assistant Mayor, Seoul Metropolitan Government
Creative City Governance, the Power that Drives Seoul
Thursday, October 22, 2009, Eggers 341, 1:00 - 2:30 pm
Changyong Choi
PhD Candidate in Social Science, Syracuse University
Political and Institutional Origins of Market Development in North Korea: Focusing on State-Society Relations
Friday, November 6, 2009, Eggers 341, 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Miriam Elman
Associate Professor, Syracuse University
Does Democracy 'Tame' the Radicals? Lessons from Asia and Other Regions
Friday, November 20, 2009, Eggers 341, 12:00 - 1:30 pm
Spring 2009 Seminars
Caroline Tong
Director of the SU Abroad Program in Beijing
Why Study in China?
Thursday, January 29, 2009, IR Conference Room, 12-1
Erik Mueggler
Part of the Anthropology Student Association Speaker Series
The Unbearable Sliminess of Being: Archive and Experience in the Botanical Exploration of Southwest China
Thursday, February 12, 2009, Maxwell 204, 4pm
Zhen Qian
Professor, Central Party School, China
The NEW Model of China's Democracy
Friday, February 20, 2009, Eggers 341, 12:30-1:30
Quansheng Zhao
Professor, American University
Ups and Downs in China-Japan Relations
Friday, April 17, 2009, Eggers 341, 12:30-1:30
Hong Anh Thi Vu
Part Time Instructor, Maxwell School, Syracuse University
Shrimp Farming in Mekong Valley, Vietnam
Friday, March 20, 2009, Eggers 341 12:30-1:30
Mary Lovely
Economics Professor, Syracuse University
Topic: Decomposing Triad Trade: Ownership, Vertical Specialization, and Organizational Form.
Friday, April 3, 2009 Eggers 341 12:30
Spring 2009 Student Working Group Discussions
Janjarang Pat Kijtikhun
MA-IR Student, Syracuse University
Thailand's Political Unrest
Tuesday, February 17, 2009, Eggers 341, 12:00-1:00pm
Giang Hoang Nguyen
MA-IR Student, Syracuse University
Topic regarding Southeast Asia TBD
March 3, 2009, 341 Eggers, 12:00pm-1:00pm
Spring 2008 Seminars
Allen Carlson
Associate Professor, Government Department, Cornell University
A Flawed Perspective: The Limitations Inherent within the Study of Chinese Nationalism
February 21, 2008, Eggers 341, 12:30pm-1:30pm
David A. Sonnenfeld
Professor and Chair, Dept. of Environmental Studies, SUNY-ESF
Environmental Reform in Asia
February 14, 2008, Eggers 341, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jooyoun Lee
PhD Candidate in Political Science, Maxwell School
Globalization and the Transformation of the Chinese and the Korean States
March 6, 2008, Eggers 341, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Tan Honggang
PhD Candidate in Political Science, Maxwell School
Making a Difference? Influence of Chinese Media on the Judicial System in the Reforming Era
March 20, 2008, Eggers 341, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ma Yingyi
Assistant Professor, Sociology Department, Maxwell School
Rural Migrant Women in Urban China: From the 揗argins?to the 揅enter?
April 3, 2008, Eggers 341, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Dan Wang
Ph.D. Candidate, Cultural Foundations of Education, Syracuse University
Workplace De-politicized: China抯 Rural Teachers under Corrupted Bureaucracy
April 10, 2008, Eggers 341, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Samuel S. Kim
Senior research scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Nationalism and Globalization in (South) Korea's Foreign Policy
April 17, 2008, Eggers 341, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Fall 2007 Seminars
Alex (Zixiang) Tan
Associate Professor, School of Information Studies, Syracuse University
Standards, Technology Innovation, and Economic Development in China; or Verse Vice
October 2nd, 2007, Eggers 341, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Stephen Costello
President, ProGlobal Consulting, Washington DC
Recent political and diplomatic development on the Korean Peninsula
October 11, 2007, Eggers 341, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jonathan Hanson
Assistant Professor, Political Science, Maxwell School
The Selectorate Theory and East Asian Developmental States
October 16, 2007, Eggers 341, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Jing Lei
Assistant Professor, Development and Evaluation, School of Education
Private Higher Education in China: Opportunities and Challenges
October 30, 2007, Eggers 341, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Quansheng Zhao
Professor and Director, Center for Asian Studies, American University
Ups and Downs in Sino-US Relations: Implications to East Asia
November 9, 2007, Eggers 341, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Norman Kutcher
Associate Professor of History, Maxwell School
Eunuchs in Eighteenth-Century China: The Paradoxes of Power
November 28, 2007, Eggers 341, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Spring 2007 Seminars
Mary Lovely
Professor of Economics, Maxwell School
Is Fragmented Trade Good for China's Environment?
February 2nd, 2007, Eggers 341, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Luo Xu
Associate Professor of History of SUNY at Cortland
Reconstructing World History in China
February 9th, 2007, Eggers 341, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Ryan McKean
PhD Candidate for Political Science, Maxwell School
Transnational NGOs in China
March 2nd, 2007, Eggers 341, 12:30pm-1:30pm
David Richardson
Professor of Economics and International Relations, Maxwell School
The Asia-Pacific Impulse - Gone or Just Dormant?
March 23rd, 2007, Eggers 341, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Soonhee Kim
Associate Professor of Public Administration, Maxwell School
Public Administration Reforms in South Korea
April 13th, 2007, Eggers 341, 12:30pm-1:30pm
Fall 2006 Seminars
11/29/2006
Jooyoun Lee
PhD Candidate in Political Science
International and Domestic Context for Japan's Foreign Policy toward Development NGOs: An Analysis from the Perspective of State Identity
11/10/2006
Jianbo XU
Chief Editor of China Procurator Magazine
An Informal Seminar with a Chinese Journalist: Media and the Rule of Law
11/01/2006
Ralph Ketcham
Professor Emeritus of History and Political Science
Seeking Democracy in East Asia
10/11/2006
Sidney L. (Skip) Greenblatt
Senior Assistant Director for Advising and Counseling
Ideology, Identity and Development in the People's Republic of China ?Some observations
10/04/2006
Hongying Wang
Associate Professor of Political Science
NGOs in China
9/27/2006
George Kallander
Assistant Professor of Modern East Asian History
Sorry Seems to Be the Hardest Word: History and Memory in East Asia