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Schedule Fall Semester 2025

8 September 16:00-17:30, Asia Library
Military Battles and Cultural Wars: Approaching Ethnic Insurgency in Upland Southeast Asia

Speaker: Jane M Ferguson, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Southeast Asian History at the Australian National University

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17 September 15:15-17:00, Asia Library
Gender, Families, and Wealth Accumulation Among Only Daughters

Speaker: Ye Liu, Reader (Associate Professor) Department of International Development, King’s College London, UK

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24 September 15:15-17:00, Asia Library
Dilemma and legal advocacy in South Korean queer activism

Speaker: Yookyeong Im, Lecturer in Korean Studies at the University of Sheffield

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5 November
Silent spaces and vocal beings’: Protest, Erasure, and the Struggle for Memory in Myanmar

Speaker: Maxime Boutry, French National Research Council (CNRS) 

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12 November
The New Geography of Danger – Japan’s Shifting Global Security Role and Relations with NATO

Speaker: Wrenn Yennie Lindgren, Norwegian Institute of International Affairs (NUPI)

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10 December, 15:15-17:00, Asia Library
Gender equality (or inequality) in an era of demographic crisis in Japan

Speaker: Chigusa Yamaura, Associate Professor in Global and Area Studies at the Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford

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