ICAS: Reflections on Womenomics 25 Years On: A conversation with Kathy Matsui on 'where we are & what steps remain' (Online)
Tuesday, March 19, 2024 - 12:00 to 13:00
25 years have passed since Kathy Matsui coined the term 'Womenomics' in which she argues that - as important as increasing immigration and the birthrate are - a more immediate and effective solution to Japan's economic stagnation is to increase the participation of women in the workforce, with greater equity and managerial responsibility.
ICAS: Emerging Technologies: Implications and Prospects of their Proliferation for Japan and Asia (In-person)
Thursday, March 14, 2024 - 19:15 to 20:45
Join us on 14 March for a discussion with Julie George, who will present her book project, Emerging Technologies: Implications and Prospects of their Proliferation.
ICAS: Do sanctions work? The case of Russia (In-person)
Wednesday, February 21, 2024 - 18:30
Economic sanctions are not a new policy tool. However, they are definitely a new regulatory priority, especially as the world is becoming increasingly bipolar and the U.S. is heading into an election year...
ICAS: Towards a Society Where You Can Say "Help" - Sexual Violence and Gender Inequality (Hybrid)
Thursday, February 15, 2024 - 12:00 to 13:30
There have been 2 laws passed in 2023 on rape and DV that mark significant change in how the state is handling these significant problems in Japan.
ICAS: The Geoeconomics of Japan-Southeast Asia Relations (In-person)
Tuesday, February 13, 2024 - 18:30 to 20:00
For many decades, Japanese governments and businesses have taken a keen interest in Southeast Asia, first as a market and then as a location for Japanese manufacturers. Recently, there has been a growing focus on the security aspect of the Japan-Southeast Asia relationship.
ICAS: The Contest for Japan's Economic Future (In-person)
Thursday, February 8, 2024 - 18:30
Just as a wave of entrepreneurship created Japan’s postwar “economic miracle,” so it will take a new generation of entrepreneurs to revive its stagnant economy. In today’s Japan, assorted political and economic obstacles impede such newcomers...
ICAS: The Quad: Past, present, and future (Online)
Tuesday, January 30, 2024 - 14:00
The Quad, the informal grouping consisting of Australia, India, Japan and the US, is not a formal alliance. It has, however, developed as one of the important forums in global geopolitics. To help us better understand the relevance of the Quad, Jada Fraser and Eerishika Pankaj will lead a discussion to be followed by Q&A with the audience.
ICAS: The impact of the Hamas-Israel war on Japan and East Asia (Online)
Friday, January 26, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:00
The shock waves of the war between Israel and Hamas-controlled Gaza have impacted regions as distant as Japan and East Asia in general. Tokyo and Seoul sent aircraft to Israel to evacuate some of their nationals. East Asian countries have had to take positions on the conflict, risking displeasing one (or both) sides...
ICAS : The evolution of India's strategy in the Indo-Pacific and beyond (Online)
Monday, January 22, 2024 - 14:00 to 15:00
In the past several years, India has played an increasingly visible role in international security affairs in the Indo-Pacific and beyond. India's participation in the Quad, along Japan, Australia, and the US,...
ICAS: The Indo-Pacific: Taking centre-stage for the EU’s security policy (In-person)
Wednesday, January 17, 2024 - 18:30
Since the 2016 Global Strategy, the EU is on a journey to become a more active and particularly more recognised global player, recognising that security has become indivisible and that this needs a comprehensive engagement, in Asia and the Indo-Pacific region respectively...
ICAS : Book Talk: "Is British Politics Turning Japanese?" (In-person)
Tuesday, December 12, 2023 - 18:00 to 19:30
This book talk will explore what we can learn about the recent volatility of the UK premiership by comparison with Japan. It will further explore what combination of personality traits and political skills make for effective leadership in both countries against a backdrop of differing institutional and contextual constraints.
ICAS : An Outlook on Japan’s Energy Security: Can Offshore Wind Solve Japan’s Energy Dilemma? (Hybrid)
Wednesday, November 29, 2023 - 18:30 to 20:00
IEA defines energy security as “the uninterrupted availability of energy sources at an affordable price”. Ensuring stable energy supply hence becomes a key to national security as energy supports the basis of essential economic and social activities.
ICAS : France and the Indo-Pacific in times of crises (In-person)
Monday, November 13, 2023 - 18:30 to 20:00
For several years, in fact decades, tensions in the Indo-Pacific have increased, especially those involving China and its neighbors, Japan, Taiwan, countries along the South China Sea, and India...
ICAS : From historical revisionism to “post truth”: History and Memory in Heisei Japan (In-person)
Thursday, November 9, 2023 - 18:30 to 20:00
In 2016, prompted by the rhetoric of the U.S. Presidential election and the Brexit campaigns, Oxford Dictionaries declared “post-truth” the “Word of the Year.” However, the assault on organized knowledge and on professional expertise that could be observed at the time had already been a global phenomenon for many years, if not decades...
ICAS : Recent changes in Japanese security policy and U.S. expectations of Japan going forward (In-person)
Tuesday, October 31, 2023 - 18:30 to 20:00
Japan’s national defense strategy has evolved markedly since the Gulf War in 1990-1991, when security policy restricted Japan from providing anything other than financial and non-military material assistance to the US-led effort against Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait...
ICAS : Understanding Donald Trump's legal troubles (Online)
Thursday, October 26, 2023 - 10:00 to 11:15
Should Trump win and be inaugurated as president in January 2025, what would be the implications of his being simultaneously the chief executive, a defendant, and possibly a convicted felon? Professor Lauren Ouziel of Temple University's Beasley School of Law, a former federal prosecutor, will help us understand these issues.
ICAS : The Long Arm of Beijing: A case study of the Hong Kong diaspora and transnational repression (In-person)
Thursday, October 19, 2023 - 18:30 to 20:00
This lecture will give an insight into the Hong Kong diasporic experience in Japan and globally, and how these dynamics play out, as we approach this cycle of China’s Universal Periodic Review in January 2024.
ICAS : US-Japan Defense Update: A Look Ahead (In-person)
Monday, October 16, 2023 - 18:30 to 20:00
Military posture and policy continues to develop and change quickly in the Indo-Pacific. Japan, a state which has long attempted to minimize its post-war military activity, has enacted several major policy and posture changes recently which seem to indicate this era is definitively over...
ICAS : Erotic Comics in Japan - An Introduction to Eromanga (Hybrid)
Thursday, October 5, 2023 - 18:00 to 19:30
This talk presents the English translation of Nagayama Kaoru’s Erotic Comics in Japan: An Introduction to Eromanga (Amsterdam University Press, 2020). The goal is to open up the book’s content, as well as its ethical project and politics, for discussion and informed debate.
ICAS : Anime at War and Peace - On the Otaku Turn (Online)
Tuesday, October 3, 2023 - 13:40 to 15:10
The presentation shows how fans were cultivated by the industry, how fans themselves became experts contributing to magazines and zines and how affection for characters transformed the ways that manga/anime works were produced and consumed.