The BU Department of Anthropology is pleased to invite you to the Contemporary Chinese Culture Lecture on Monday, Sept. 23rd with Dr. Yunxiang Yan, professor of anthropology at University of California, Los Angeles. The lecture will begin at 4pm in CDS 1646, and will be followed by a small reception. Please CLICK HERE to register. “The Disenchantment […]
Join Eric C. Thompson as he discusses his new book, The Story of Southeast Asia (NUS Press, 2024), in which he examines a series of themes that have created the region as we know it today: state building (and state avoidance), adoption of popular religions, contested sovereignty, and modernity. Prof. Thompson will engage us in […]
The development of a market-oriented economy in Vietnam over the past 35 years has fueled economic growth, rising household incomes, and consumerism, but it has also exacerbated inequality. Having earlier rejected social work as “bourgeois,” the Vietnamese government reversed course in 2010 and announced ambitious plans to train 60,000 cadres in social work by […]
Join in a conversation between Ron Richardson, (Department of History,Boston University) and Yuichiro Onishi (Department of African American & African Studies and Asian American Studies, the University of Minnesota) as they explore the Afro-Asian struggles against global white supremacy from the19th century to the present, with emphasis on comparative perspectives and transpacific solidarities. Please check this […]
Many aging democracies face two concerning phenomena: growing need for welfare and diminishing support for democracy among youth. Yet existing theories of economic voting cannot explain the confluence of these two trends. Using South Korea, an acute case, we show that generationally distinct beliefs about welfare deservingness—the result of differently lived developmental histories—yield distinct economic […]
About the speaker (from https://riccardodicato.com/) My name is Riccardo Di Cato and I am a PhD student of Economics at UC San Diego. Before starting my PhD, I was a Predoctoral Fellow at Bocconi University working with Nicola Limodio and Filippo De Marco. Previously, I was a Research Associate for Harvard University in the Democratic Republic […]
The Boston University Initiative on Cities, Center for the Study of Asia, and Department of Anthropology are pleased to invite you to The Last Breath of Sam Yan Film Screening and Discussion with Netiwit Chotiphatphaisal and Settanant Thanakitkoses Wednesday, October 23, 2024 from 4:00- 6:00 pm at 75 Bay State Road, Boston MA Please register […]
Due to unforeseen circumstance, this event has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience. Please email buasia@bu.edu with any questions. We hope to reschedule this event in Spring 2025. This talk distills the flows and values of life in Jakarta, Indonesia’s largest city and financial core, into a central idea: The Urban Grotesque. […]
India has a remarkable digital infrastructure, a burgeoning demographic dividend, a stable democracy, a high performing high-tech services sector, a learned and arguably well-meaning elite, and a phenomenally successful diaspora. There is also rising interest in the West to diversify economic supply chains away from China. Many omens suggest it may just be India’s time […]
Defying Boundaries: Women in Japanese Art April 27 – November 4, 2024 Asian Gallery Japanese Prints (RA 602A) Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 20 N Main St, Providence, RI 02903 This exhibition addresses often-overlooked histories and stories of women in Japanese art. Marginalized in modern and historical accounts that focused on men, these women were […]