Aesthetic Figurations of  Neo-Japonisme  in the French Cinematic Avant-Garde - Far Away, So Close Anne-Gaëlle Saliot December 18, 2025 17:30-19:00  Room301, 3F, building 10, Sophia University In person only / No registration required This talk reconsiders postwar French cinematic modernism through the lens of  neo-Japonisme , not as thematic citation but as a structural and epistemic operation. While the influence of the French New Wave on Japanese directors like Ōshima, Imam

Ian Johnson Copyright: Sim Chi Yin Dec 16, 2025, 17:30-19:00 10-301, 3F, building 10, Sophia University In person and on ZOOM Please register from here: https://forms.office.com/r/HDsqJ8AEYJ This coming May marks the Cultural Revolution's 60th anniversary, which will result in a barrage of media reports of what is often portrayed as modern China's greatest tragedy--an event on par with Pol Pot's atrocities and even the Holocaust. The Cultural Revolution was hugely important:

KASA Sustainability's Fall 2025 Environmental Change Workshop supported by ICC and GPGS. What counts as central, and what is marginal in Southeast Asia? In this talk I will look at several places that have appeared in foundational literature that are considered to be "marginal" in the region, and why that ascription seems to have worked in making such a designation. By moving between the Sino-Burmese frontier, the uplands of Luzon in the Philippines, the Vietnamese cordillera