Environmental cooperation remains the only viable pathway for addressing marine environmental decline in the disputed South China Sea and science diplomacy can establish a starting point for regional cooperation and lead to a much needed pause in rising tension.

In Yu's view, under Xi Jinping, by invoking the celestial imperial order of China's past, the Xi Jinping regime is attempting to challenge and replace modern Western liberal, democratic values.

Prof. Littlejohn argues that efforts to harden coastal edges can undermine the very objects-social worlds-they claim to protect. Drawing on alternatives proposed by survivors, he asks how we might "ecologize safety" instead.

This talk explains how the Loess Plateau in northern China has shaped, and has been shaped by, a range of human activities over the past three thousand years.

Alluring Stimulant: A History of Five-Stone Powder in Medieval China

This talk will explore ritual practices in Chinese history as well as theories that arose in China concerning these practices.

In this talk, Amy Stanley (History, Northwestern) shares how she used archival sources to uncover the story of a young Japanese woman who made a life for herself in 19th-century Edo (now Tokyo).

China Goes Green: Coercive Environmentalism for a Troubled Planet

Join Professor Edmund Malesky as he interviews Murray Hiebert, author of Under Beijing's Shadow: Southeast Asia's China Challenge , discussing the undercurrents lying beneath the surface of China's relations with its smaller southern neighbors, as well as the ways these countries could address the "China Challenge."

Dr. Elizabeth Son focuses on how Korean diasporic performance artist Dohee Lee contends with palimpsestic histories of militarized violence on Jeju Island in MAGO - a 2014 multimedia performance that integrated ritual movement, dance, music, film and motion graphics, site-specific installation, and Korean mythology with the tumultuous history of state-sanctioned violence on Jeju Island.