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FSI researchers work to understand continuity and change in societies as they confront their problems and opportunities. This includes the implications of migration and human trafficking. What happens to a society when young girls exit the sex trade? How do groups moving between locations impact societies, economies, self-identity and citizenship? What are the ethnic challenges faced by an increasingly diverse European Union? From a policy perspective, scholars also work to investigate the consequences of security-related measures for society and its values.

The Europe Center reflects much of FSI’s agenda of investigating societies, serving as a forum for experts to research the cultures, religions and people of Europe. The Center sponsors several seminars and lectures, as well as visiting scholars.

Societal research also addresses issues of demography and aging, such as the social and economic challenges of providing health care for an aging population. How do older adults make decisions, and what societal tools need to be in place to ensure the resulting decisions are well-informed? FSI regularly brings in international scholars to look at these issues. They discuss how adults care for their older parents in rural China as well as the economic aspects of aging populations in China and India.

Another False Dawn? Peace, War, and History in "Acheh, Indonesia"

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Anthony Reid, a leading historian of Southeast Asia and author of many books and articles on the region, directs the Asia Research Institute at the National University of Singapore. His previous positions include professorships at the University of California, Los Angeles, and Australian National University. He has written extensively on Indonesian and Acehnese topics. In his talk he will situate the Acehnese conflict historically and assess the chances that a recent peace agreement will or will not take hold. Professor Reid last visited the long-embattled province in February 2003.

Okimoto Conference Room, Encina Hall, Third Floor, East Wing

Anthony Reid Professor National University of Singapore
Seminars
Southeast Asia Program

Machiavelli's Children: Comparing Japan and Italy's Political History

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Philippines Conference Room, Encina Hall, Third Floor, Central Wing

Richard Samuels Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director, Japan Program Speaker MIT
Workshops
Walter H. Shorenstein Forum for Asia Pacific Studies

Reflections on Japan's Postwar History

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Philippines Conference Room, Encina Hall, Third Floor, Central Wing

Yoichi Funabashi Chief Diplomatic Correspondent Speaker The Asahi Shimbun
Workshops
Walter H. Shorenstein Forum for Asia Pacific Studies

Hong Kal

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Stanford University
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Hong Kal is a postdoctoral Korean research fellow at the Asia-Pacific Research Center. She received her B.A. and M.F.A. from Seoul National University in Korea and M.A. and Ph.D. in History and Theory of Art and Architecture from State University of New York, Binghamton in 2003. Her dissertation, "The Presence of the Past: Exhibitions, Memories, and National Identities in Colonial and Postcolonial Japan and Korea," examined the politics of culture in the two countries and their intertwined historical relations across twentieth century. Her research has concentrated on the formation of colonial modernity and national identity in colonial expositions in Korea and the visual representation of historical memories of the past--colonialism and war--in independence, peace and war museums in contemporary Korea and Japan. She was the recipient of the Japan Foundation Dissertation Research Fellowship (2001-02).

Korean Studies Program Fellow

Paradox of Korean Globalization, The

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This chapter first offers a theoretical framework to explain coexistence of nationalism and globalization by considering two interrelated processes: 1) nationalist appropriation of globalization and 2) intensification of ethnic identity in reaction to globalization process. It then presents empirical evidence to demonstrate how these processes have worked in Korean globalization at both official and popular levels.

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Gi-Wook Shin

Dealing with Insulated Tyrants: Foreign Policy Dilemmas Raised by North Korea, Iraq, and Similar Cases

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Lunch served to those who respond to Okky Choi by Wednesday, February 26 by 12:00 noon. You can reach Okky at 650-724-8271 or via email at okkychoi@stanford.edu.

Philippines Conference Room, Third Floor, Encina Hall, Central Wing

Daniel Chirot Professor Speaker International Studies and Sociology, University of Washington
Seminars

Heredity and Social Structure in the Choson Dynasty

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Lunch served to those who respond to Okky Choi by Wednesday, January 14 by 12:00 noon. You can reach Okky at 650-724-8271 or via email at okkychoi@stanford.edu.

Philippines Conference Room

James Palais Professor Speaker Department of History, University of Washington
Seminars
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