History in Images, History in Words: In Search of Facts in Documentary Filmmaking

Empires of the Senses: Bodily Encounters in Imperial India and the Philippines, with Andrew Rotter (Dec. 15, 2020)

The Frederick S. Pardee School of Global Studies and BU Center for the Study of Asia are pleased to invite you to the next online event of the Decolonization@ 60 Series

Decolonization Book Talk #3

Tuesday, Dec. 15, 2020, 10:00- 11:30 AM EST

Empires of the Senses: Bodily Encounters
in Imperial India and the Philippines (Oxford, 2019)

·     With Author Andrew Rotter (Colgate University)

·     and Discussants Chris Capozzola (MIT) on the Philippines;
Ben Siegel (Boston University) on India

Register for Book Talk #3 here

About the Speakers:

Andrew Rotter is Charles A. Dana Professor of History at Colgate University, where he has taught since 1988. He has a BA from Cornell University, where he worked with Walter LaFeber, and a Ph.D from Stanford, where he was trained by Barton Bernstein, David Kennedy, and Alexander George. He has published The Path to Vietnam: Origins of the American Commitment to Southeast Asia, Comrades at Odds: The United States and India, 1947-1964, and Hiroshima: The World's Bomb, along with articles, essays, and reviews in Diplomatic History, The American Historical Review, The Journal of American History, and other journals. His most recent book is called Empires of the Senses: Bodily Encounters in Imperial India and the Philippines (Oxford, 2019).

DISCUSSANT ON THE PHILIPPINES

Christopher Capozzola is Professor of History and Section Head at MIT, where he teaches courses in political and legal history, war and the military, and the history of international migration. From 2015-2017 he served as the Secretary of the Faculty, and in 2018 was named a MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT’s highest honor for undergraduate teaching. His research interests are in the history of citizenship, war, and the military in modern American history. His first book, Uncle Sam Wants You: World War I and the Making of the Modern American Citizen (Oxford University Press, 2008), examines the relationship between citizens, voluntary associations, and the federal government during World War I. In 2010, Uncle Sam Wants You won the Lois P. Rudnick Book Prize of the New England American Studies Association. His most recent book, Bound by War: How the United States and the Philippines Built America’s First Pacific Century, was published by Basic Books in July 2020.

DISCUSSANT ON INDIA

Benjamin Siegel, Assistant Professor of History at Boston University, is a historian whose transnational archival work places South Asia at the center of global economic, environmental, and political transformations. His first book, Hungry Nation: Food, Famine, and the Making of Modern India (Cambridge University Press, 2018), interrogated the ways in which questions of food and scarcity structured Indian citizens’ understanding of welfare and citizenship since independence. Professor Siegel’s current book project, Markets of Pain: A Transnational History of the United States Opioid Crisis, is under contract with Oxford University Press.

Learning from Past Pandemic Governance: Early Response and Public-Private Partnerships in Testing of Covid-19 in South Korea

Tuesday, October 20, 2020 at  9:00 pm ET

Speaker: June Park, PhD (George Washington University)

Moderator: Professor William W. Grimes (Boston University)

How can political elites learn from the past to enhance sustainability of their leadership in a pandemic situation? How did South Korea’s large-scale COVID-19 testing work, and what was the role of the South Korean in-vitro diagnostics (IVD) industry? Learn all about it through this BUCSA webinar as June Park (George Washington University/National Research Foundation of Korea) presents findings from her latest publication with Eunbin Chung (University of Utah) in the special issue on ‘Pandemics, COVID-19, Sustainability and Development’ in World Development. The publication offers a theoretical framework of policy implementation that combines collaboration between public and private sectors (“Public-Private Partnership,” or PPP) to efficiently deal with urgent crises such as COVID-19. The authors explain the role of new institutions prompted by policy failure precedence (Time 1: Middle East Respiratory Syndrome in 2015) that at a later time period (Time 2: COVID-19 in 2020) allow for the activation of PPPs with the aim to extend the political life of incumbent leaderships.

About the Author:

Dr. June Park is an East Asia Voices Initiative Fellow of the East Asia National Resources Center at the George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs. She is also a Next Generation Researcher at the National Research Foundation of Korea for her first book manuscript, ‘Trade Wars & Currency Conflict: China, South Korea and Japan’s Responses to U.S. Pressures since the Global Financial Crisis,’ and she is working on her second book project, ‘Europe's Challenges & Responses: Between Faustian Bargains with China and U.S. Pressures since Brexit’. Using a framework of institutional variance, her first book manuscript attempts to answer why the three countries have not acted in the same way upon encountering U.S. protectionism, and provides a mechanism for predicting policy moves. Her second book project also utilizes the framework of institutional variance to examine the varied policy responses from Germany, France and the UK post-Brexit to China and the U.S. in the era of geo-economic conflict and artificial intelligence. Her writings have appeared in peer-reviewed publications such as World Development and Asian Perspective, as well as policy-oriented publications such as The Diplomat and East Asia Forum.

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