Feb. 18 (Mon)
7:30 – 9:00 p.m.
ATT Lounge,
Pyle Center,
702 Langdon St.

Are China’s and India's Growth Miracles Built to Last?
Eswar Prasad, Former Chief of the IMF’s China Division, Cornell University
Eswar Prasad served as the Chief of the IMF’s China division for two years, has co-authored several influential papers and monographs on financial globalization, and has co-edited a book on China and India. He is the Tolani Senior Professor of Trade Policy in the Department of Applied Economics and Management at Cornell University. He also previously worked as the Chief of the Financial Studies Division in the IMF’s Research Department.
Sponsors: Center for World Affairs and the Global Economy (WAGE) and La Follette School of Public Affairs. Co-Sponsors: Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER), Global Studies, Center for South Asia, Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS), WI Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection and WI Department of Commerce.
Email contact: wage@intl-institute.wisc.edu

Feb. 25  (Mon)
4:00 p.m.
Room 5120
Grainger Hall,
975 University Ave.

April 9 (Wed)
TBA

Emotional Infectivity: Cyborg Affect and the Limits of the Human
Sharalyn Orbaugh, Associate Professor, Asian Studies and Women & Gender Studies, University of British Columbia
This presentation explores the question: can an android love and be loved? Or, to put the emphasis differently: is love possible only for humans, or are emotions and affect also possible in artificial beings? This question has been addressed countless times in cultural production from around the world, but has arisen with particular frequency in the popular culture of contemporary Japan. I discuss recent theories of affect and relate them to the depictions of cyborgs or androids in Japanese anime from the last ten years, with a focus on Oshii Mamoru’s 2004 film Innocence and its dense mesh of prior texts on affect and the definitions of “the human.”
Sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies

Africa Encounters Global China
Academic Symposium
Howard French and Adama Gaye
TBA

Apr. 29  (Tues)
4:00 pm
TBA
Ingraham Hall,
1155 Observatory Dr.

Technologies of War and Masculine Identities: The Introduction and Diffusion  of Guns
Anne Walthal,Professor, Early Modern and Modern Japan,  University of California – Irvine
Did the first guns from Portugal arrive at Tanegashima in  1543? In whose interest was it to make this claim? How effective were the  sixteenth century guns? Did they, for example, make a decisive difference in  the battle of Nagashino between Oda Nobunaga and the Takeda forces? By  asking who used guns, under what circumstances, and how did guns function in  relation to other weapons of war, it is possible to use the history of guns  in Japan as a perspective from which to assess what it meant to be a  military man during the warring states period and how definitions of  masculinity changed through to the eighteenth century for various members of  the warrior class.
Sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies