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-11 posts tagged "Liu Institute"
Isa Sheikh and Liam Kelly | Wednesday, March 22, 2023
“Disinformatsia is like cocaine,” Maria Ressa said in this year’s Asia Leadership Forum, citing the former KGB chairman Yuri Andropov. “You take it once or twice, you’re okay. But if you take it all the time, you become a changed person. All of us on social media have become changed people because lies spread faster
Kate Kirwan | Thursday, February 16, 2023
“Many thanks to all of you for joining us to talk about my book about gender-based violence on Valentine’s Day. I can’t think of anything more romantic than spending time together interrogating the ideological underpinnings of kinship,” Julia Kowalski, assistant professor of global affairs at Notre Dame, ironically remarked. Notre Dame celebrated the launch of
Isa Sheikh | Friday, November 18, 2022
As President Biden flew back to Washington D.C. from the G20 summit, where he met with Xi Jinping, members of the Notre Dame community stepped out of the snow into Jenkins-Nanovic Hall on Wednesday night for a conversation about U.S.-China relations. Notre Dame was one of 80 locations to partake in the CHINA Town Hall,
Isa Sheikh | Wednesday, October 26, 2022
This year marks the 75th anniversary of the partition of India, the bloody division of the Indian subcontinent upon the withdrawal of British Crown rule. Millions were displaced and hundreds of thousands died in the process of separating India and Pakistan. Partition is not the only anniversary in South Asian history remembered this year. Yaqoob
Caroline Collins | Tuesday, September 27, 2022
The Chinese department and the department of East Asian Languages and Cultures celebrated the Mid-Autumn Festival, also known as the Moon Festival, in the LaFortune ballroom Sunday, Sept. 26. The celebration featured student performances, traditional decorations and Chinese food. The Mid-Autumn Festival, Zhongqiu Jie (中秋节) in Chinese, is one of China’s biggest and most important
Angela Mathew | Wednesday, September 14, 2022
Students and faculty members gathered over samosas and steaming cups of chai in 2148 Jenkins and Nanovic Halls on Wednesday for the South Asia Group’s first event this semester. The South Asia Group is an interdisciplinary group of faculty, scholars and students at Notre Dame whose work relates to the region that includes Afghanistan, Bangladesh,
Kathryn Muchnick | Tuesday, October 5, 2021
The Liu Institute for Asia and Asian studies hosted Nadia Kim, a professor of sociology and Asian & Asian American studies at Loyola Marymount University, this Monday to discuss the issues of environmental injustice confronting immigrant women in Los Angeles. Kim is the author of the multi-award-winning book “Imperial Citizens: Koreans and Race from Seoul
Andrew Cameron | Monday, November 19, 2018
Notre Dame will be offering its first-ever art history course focused on Asia during the spring semester. The course, titled “Introduction to Arts of Asia: Materials, Processes, Contexts,” is being offered by the Liu Institute for Asian Studies and through the Keough School of Global Affairs. Thirty seats are assigned to the class, two of
Lucy Lynch | Thursday, September 13, 2018
Ban Ki-moon, former United Nations secretary-general, led the keynote speech at the third-annual Asia Leadership Forum at Notre Dame on Wednesday evening. Ban, the South Korean native who served as secretary-general from 2007 to 2016, discussed the importance of developing global citizens. University President Fr. John Jenkins and Rotary International general secretary John Hewko expressed
Jenna Wilson | Tuesday, March 22, 2016
Jae Woong Lee, deputy consul general for the Republic of Korea, spoke on Korean-Japanese relations Monday night in a lecture sponsored by the Liu Institute for Asia and Asian Studies. According to Lee, Japan and Korea countries have shared — and continue to share — a long and complicated history. Their geological position and common culture