2020-2021

[07/22/2021] Unbalanced Triangular Relations? Assessing U.S.-China-Taiwan Ties after the CCP 100th Anniversary

Thursday, July 22, 2021 | 8:00pm – 9:15pm EDT Friday, July 23, 2021 | 8:00pm – 9:15am GMT+8 (Taiwan) Livestream via WEBEX About the Event At the 100th anniversary celebration of the Chinese Communist Party, President Xi Jinping reiterated China’s...

[06/28/2021] Democracy in Action: Past and Present Movements in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Myanmar

Monday, June 28th, 2021 8:00pm – 9:30pm EDT Livestream via Webex About the Event As democratic forces continue to face serious setbacks in Hong Kong and Myanmar, we look at these two protest movements and the new mechanisms of protest and mobilization against...

[05/17/2021] Korea Policy Forum: Multilateral Cooperation in Northeast Asia in the Biden Era

Monday, May 17th, 2021 9:00am – 11:00am EDT Livestream via ZOOM RSVP About the Event President Joe Biden affirmed his intention to work closely with U.S. allies to address threats from North Korea through diplomacy and deterrence in his first...

[05/14/2021] Korea Policy Forum, Biden’s North Korea Policy and U.S.-ROK Relations

Friday, May 14th, 2021 9:00am – 11:00am EDT Livestream via ZOOM RSVP About the Event President Joe Biden affirmed his intention to work closely with U.S. allies to address threats from North Korea through diplomacy and deterrence in his first...

[04/28/2021] Challenges of the Past, Present, and Future: Addressing Asian and Asian American Inclusivity in Academia, Policy, and the Media

Wednesday, April 28th, 2021 12:15pm – 2:00pm EDT Livestream via Zoom About the Event In advance of Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month (May), the GW East Asia National Resource, the GW Institute for Korean Studies, the Sigur Center for Asian...

[04/26/2021] Korea Policy Forum U.S.-ROK Relations: Challenges and Opportunities under the Biden Administration

Monday , April 26th, 2021 10:00am – 10:45am EDT Livestream via ZOOM RSVP About the Event With the Biden Administration approaching its 100-day mark, reshaping the relationship between the United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK) poses one...

[04/16/2021] The Social Movement – Popular Music Connection between South Korea and the US: From Civil Rights Protest Songs to K-Pop and Black Lives Matter

Friday, April 16th, 2021 4:00pm – 5:00pm EDT Livestream via Zoom About the Event The long-standing political and cultural relationship between South Korea and the US has often generated unexpected benefits to social activism for the oppressed in both countries....

[04/15/2021] Korea Policy Forum: How Institutions Matter in Pandemic Responses: The South Korean Case

Thursday, April 15th, 2021 Washington D.C. 9:00am – 10:00am ET South Korea 10:00pm – 11:00pm KST Livestream via ZOOM RSVP About the Event A forthcoming book, Coronavirus Politics (Greer et al. 2021, Michigan University Press) identifies...

[04/02/2021] Decadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture

Friday, April 2nd, 2021 3:00pm – 4:00pm ET Livestream via ZOOM About the Event Decadence in Modern Chinese Literature and Culture is the first monograph that comprehensively studies Decadence in Chinese literature since the 1920s. It uses the original notions...

[04/09/2021] The White Snake between China and Korea in a Global Context

Friday, April 9th, 2021 4:00pm – 5:00pm EST Livestream via Zoom About the Event In the Chinese legend of the White Snake, woman is not seduced by the snake but is herself the snake, who would form a sexual liaison with a human male, and, in some versions, even...

[03/23/2021] U.S.-ROK-Japan Trilateral Relations in the Biden Era

Tuesday, March 23rd, 2021 10:00 am – 11:30 am EDT Livestream via Zoom RSVP Event Description The Biden administration has made it clear that it is committed to re-energizing American alliances in Northeast Asia. At the same time, relations between South...

[02/19/2021] Shakespeare and East Asia

Tuesday, February 19th, 2021 3:00pm – 4:00pm EST Livestream via Zoom RSVP BOOK GIVEAWAY To be eligible for the giveaway, please ask a question during the live Q&A portion of the event. Winners will be notified by email from NRC on February 22, 2021...

[02/11/2021] GW Lunar New Year 2021 Virtual Celebration

RSVP THURSDAY, February 11th, 2021 12:00pm – 1:00pm EST Virtual Event via Zoom Event Description The George Washington University is pleased to present our first Lunar New Year Virtual Celebration in special partnership with San Diego Southern Sea...

[02/03/2021] African Samurai: The True Story of a Legendary Black Warrior in Feudal Japan

Wednesday, February 3rd, 2021 7:30pm – 8:45pm EST Livestream via WEBEX Event Description Join the NRC and the Howard University Ralph J Bunche International Affairs Center as we kick off Black History Month with author Thomas Lockley for the paperback launch of...

[12/07/2020] U.S.-ROK Cooperation Between the Indo-Pacific Strategy and the New South Policy

Tuesday, December 7th, 2020 10:00am – 11:00am EDT Livestream via Zoom RSVP Event Description The United States and the Republic of Korea (ROK) share a long history of cooperation based on mutual trust, shared values of democracy, human rights, and the...

[11/17/2020] Prospects for International Education in the COVID-19 Era

Tuesday, November 17, 2020 12:30pm – 1:30pm EDT Livestream via WebEX RSVP Event Description The COVID-19 pandemic has caused an unprecedented disruption to education systems around the world, affecting nearly 1.6 billion learners in more than 190...

[11/10/2020] The U.S. Presidential Election and Korea: Journalists’ Views

Tuesday, November 10, 2020 8:30am – 9:45am EDT | 10:30pm – 11:45pm KST Livestream via Zoom RSVP Event Description The Trump administration has dramatically changed the strategic dynamics in and around the Korean Peninsula through actions such as the...

[10/28/2020] U.S.-ROK-Japan Trilateral Relations in the Post-Abe Era

Wednesday, October 28, 2020 10:00am – 11:30am EDT Livestream via Zoom RSVP Event Description Japan’s new Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga inherited ongoing challenges for the U.S.-South Korean-Japanese trilateral relations from his predecessor Shinzo Abe....

[10/14/2020] The Korean War, Remembrance, and the Making of Modern Puerto Rico

Wednesday, October 14, 2020 12:30pm – 1:30pm EDT Livestream via Zoom RSVP Event Description No conflict has been as impactful and transformative for Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans as the Korean War. In slightly over three years of fighting some...

[10/09/2020] Hiroshima to Fukushima and Covid-19: A History of Japan’s Healthcare and Public Health R&D Policy

Friday, October 9, 2020 12:30pm – 1:30pm EDT Livestream via WebEX RSVP Event Description Like many countries, Japan has a universal health care system, and yet, it is also one of the most unique systems of healthcare and R&D due to the complex...

[9/22/2020] Korea Policy Forum – Virtual Roundtable Discussions: U.S.-Korea Relations in the Era of U.S.-China Strategic Rivalry

Tuesday, September 22, 2020 8:30am – 10:30am EDT | 9:30pm – 11:30pm KST Livestream via Zoom RSVP Event Description The intensifying strategic rivalry between the U.S. and China under the Trump administration has exposed the U.S.-Korea relations to...

[10/02/2020] Mid Autumn Festival

Friday, October 2, 2020 12:00pm – 1:00pm EDT RSVP Event Description Join us for a fun-filled afternoon of education and entertainment, from introducing how various Asian cultures celebrate the Festival, showing traditional Festival music and dance...

[9/03/2020] Korea Policy Forum: Security on the Korean Peninsula and the U.S.-ROK Relations

Thursday, September 3, 2020 10:00am – 11:00am EDT Livestream via Zoom RSVP Event Description During the last seventy years, the bilateral relationship between the Republic of Korea and the United States of America has been a lynchpin through which peace...

[9/10/2020] Landlocked Cosmopolitan Locks-Down: Mongolia’s COVID-19 Response

“Landlocked Cosmopolitan Locks-Down: Mongolia’s COVID-19 Response“ Part of the East Asia NRC’s Current Issues in East Asia series; co-sponsored with the UC Berekely Institute of East Asian Studies Livestream via WebEX RSVP Event...