Past Events

March 7, 1900--2000, G14 Sampson Hall

March 7, 1900-2000, G14 Sampson Hall
"China's Polar Strategy and Global Governance," by Anne-Marie Brady

Anne-Marie Brady is Professor in Political Science specializing in Chinese and Polar politics at University of Canterbury, New Zealand, a Global Fellow at the Wilson Center, and Executive editor of The Polar Journal. She is the author of Making the Foreign Serve China: Managing Foreigners in the People's Republic of China (Rowman and Littlefield, 2003), Marketing Dictatorship: Propaganda and Thought Work in Contemporary China (Rowman and Littlefield, 2009). Her latest book is China as a Polar Great Power (Cambridge University Press, 2017).

March 22, 1900-2000, Michelson 110 
"China in the Shadows: An Overview of Chinese Clandestine Power," by Peter Mattis

Peter Mattis is a Fellow at The Jamestown Foundation and a contributing editor for War on the Rocks. He previously edited the foundation's biweekly China Brief, an electronic newsletter covering China's politics, security, and foreign policy. Prior to joining the Jamestown Foundation, he worked as an intelligence analyst for the U.S. Government and a research associate at the National Bureau of Asian Research.

Scott Bentley, United States Navy
"Recent Developments in the South China Sea: A Southeast Asia Perspective."
February 23, 2017

 Erick White, Cornell University
"Beyond 'Inclusive Syncretism:' Buddhism, Popular Culture and Social Change in Contemporary Thailand"
April 24,  2017

Victor Mair, University of Pennsylvania 
"The Impact of the Internet on Chinese Language and Chinese Studies"
November 12, 2014

Kevin Ichikawa, the U.S. Representative for the Central Japan Railway Company
The Superconducting Maglev Deployment Project in Japan and the U.S."
November 4, 2014

Minglang Zhou, University of Maryland
"Minority Policy in Northeast Asia
October 29, 2014

Haili Kong, Swarthmore College
"Beijing: the City of Walls:
September 17, 2014

Jung Chang, London, UK
"Express Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China"
April 1, 2014

Ian Miller, Harvard University
"Tokyo, 1943: The Great Zoo Massacre and the Culture of Imperial Collapse"
March 28, 2014

David Shambaugh, George Washington University
 “China Goes Global: The Partial Power”
January 9, 2014

Tracey Quigley Holden, University of Delaware
Dirty Dollar-Crooked Fingers: Dissenting Officers and the Vietnam War”
November 14, 2013

LtCol Brendan Mulvavey, USMC
“An Olmstead Scholar in China”
October 30, 2013

Captain Keizo Kitagawa, JMSDF
“A Broader and Stronger U.S.-Japan Alliance”
October 4

Tobie Meyer-Fong, Johns Hopkins University
"What Remains: Coming to Terms with the Taiping Carnage in 19th Century China."
April 6

Emily West, St Catherine College
“Parallels in Greatness: Sanskrit and Greek Epics”
March 26

Edward Marolda, Naval historian,
“Ready Seapower: The U.S. 7^th Fleet and the Shaping of Modern East Asia”  
February 9, 2013

Edward Luttwak, Strategist and historian, CSIS
“The Rise of China and the Logic of Strategy”
January 26, 2013

Max Boot, Council on Foreign Relations
“Is Guerrilla Warfare the Asian Way of War? Myths and Realities of Low-Intensity Conflict--Past, Present, and Future”
January 19, 2013

Larry Berman, Georgia State University
"Brown Water Navy under Admiral Bud Zumwalt,"
November 3, 2012

Charles Horner, the Hudson Institute
"Continental and Maritime Visions in China's Grand Strategies,"
October 20, 2012

Stephen Biddle, George Washington University
"Afghan War and U.S. Interest in South Asia,"
October 6, 2012

Sarah Chayes, National Public Radio & Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, "Afghanistan in its Asian Context"
September 8, 2012

Ian Baird, University of Wisconsin, Madison
“Upland Warriors of Laos”
April 13, 2012

MGEN. David Zabecki, USA
“US Coordination and Monitoring Mission and the Road Map to Peace”
April 7, 2012

Jeremy Freedman, Yale University
“Sino-Soviet Split and the Third World”
March 28, 2012

Mike Chinoy, CNN China Bureau Chief
“America’s China Reporting: History and Prospect
March 6, 2012

Richard McGregor, Washington Bureau chief, Financial Times
“How the Communist Party Rules China?”
February 23, 2012

Meredith Lair, "Armed with Abundance: Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War"
November 15, 2011

George Lepre
"Fragging in Vietnam and Its Lessons"
November 5, 2011

Zhang Hong, SUNY-Binghamton
"Chinese Music and Chinese Language"
November 4, 2011

Ronald Morse
"The Legends of Tono: Japan, Folklore, and the Supernatural"
October 31, 2011

Bill Gertz, The Washington Times
"Media and National Security"
October 22, 2011

The Hon. Ichiro Fujisaki, Japanese Ambassador to the U.S.
"The U.S.-Japan Alliance and Its Global Implications"
October 5, 2011

Michael Auslin, American Enterprise Institute
"Competition in the Indo-Pacific: Shaping the Global Future"
September 27, 2011

John Tkacik, China Specialist, Dept. of State, Ret.
"Training Peace Corps Volunteers or Training Warriors:
Perspectives on Government-Run International Training Programs"
September 24, 2011

Bernard Cole, National Defense University
“The New Chinese Navy,"
April 20, 2011

LCOL Mike Mollohan, USMC, USNA ‘93
Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies,
“NE Asia’s Volatile Security Risk and US Response”
April 5, 2011

Scott Allen, State Department
"America's Vital Links to South Asia"
March 24, 2011

John Pomfret, The Washington Post,
"Tahrir vs. Tiananmen Square: Why Egypt Is Different From China?
March 2, 2011

Captain Takamichi Takahashi, JMSDF,
“Japan's National Security Environment: Challenges Facing the Self-Defense Force"
February 12, 2011

Louisa Greve and Brian Joseph, National Endowment for Democracy,
"The Status of Democracy in Asia: Embracing the Next Wave."
February 9, 2011

Tim Castle, CIA, “U.S. Involvement in Laos: Lessons and Leadership”
January 29, 2011

T.J. Cheng, College of William and Mary
"Political Discontent in East Asian Emerging Democracies"
November 17, 2010

John Manvel, USNA,
“The Meaning and Significance of the Latest Aircraft Carrier Design to Modern Warfare.”
 November 06, 2010

 Sheila Smith, Council on Foreign Relations,
“The US-Japan Alliance at a Crossroads:  Crafting a New Vision for Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia.”
 October28, 2010

David Aikman,
“Jesus in Beijing: Christianity and the China Factor”
October 18, 2010

Peter Bartu, UC Berkeley, “Wrestling with the Integrity of Nations:
The Comparative Autonomy Bargains in Kurdistan-Iraq and Mindanao-Philippines”
October 09, 2010

Daniel Lynch, University of Southern California
 “China's Realist Approach to Culture in International Relations”
October 01, 2010

Richard Ruth, USNA
“Battle of Bangkok—Recent Political Violence in Thailand”
 September 14, 2010

Elan Journo, Ayn Rand Institute
 “Winning the Unwinnable War”
September 11, 2010

Perry Link, UC Riverside
“Politics and the Chinese Language"
April 23, 2010

Shelley Rigger, Davidson College,
“Taiwan's Democracy and Its Implications for China and Beyond”
April 15, 2010

Le Pham Le
“Vietnamese Poetry in Exile—A Performance”
April 2, 2010

Michael Montesano, National University of Singapore
"Politics of War and History in Southeast Asia: Examining the Origins of the Vietnam:
War Comes to Long An"
March 30, 2010

Nancy Tucker, the Georgetown University
“Strait Talk: U.S.-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China”
March 26, 2010

David Matsumoto, SF State University
“Contemporary Japanese Culture and Psychology”
 March 3, 2010

Jung Chang, author of “Wild Swans”
"From Wild Swans to Mao--My Personal Journey towards
the Understanding of Mao"
February 18, 2010

Robin Sakoda, Armitage International
“US-Japan Security Relations: Next Steps”
 February 12, 2010

June Teufel Dreyer, University of Miami
"Sino-Japanese Relations since Koizumi"
November 20, 2009

Erica Zimmerman, Department of Language Studies, USNA
"Cultural Analysis of Conversation--Understanding Japanese Culture as
Revealed through Conversation Analysis"
November 13, 2009

Hayden Bellenoit, History Department, USNA
"Afghanistan, the Taliban and the US: Prospects for Stability"
November 6, 2009

Daniel Blumenthal, the American Enterprise Institute
"An American Strategy for Asia"
October 23, 2009

Ronald O'Rourke, Congressional Research Service
"The Impact of China's Naval Development on the United States"
October 17, 2009

Wenze Hu, USNA
"Conceptual Viewpoint and the Chinese Language"
September 25, 2009

Andrew Erickson, Naval War College
"Chinese Undersea Warfare--Submarine and Naval Mine Operations"
September 4, 2009

Victoria Greenfield, the RAND Corporation, Economics Department, USNA
“Halting the Flow of Opiates: What Is Asia’s Stake?”
April 17, 2009

Richard Ruth, Assistant Professor of History, USNA
“Ruins of War: Will Thailand and Cambodia Go to War Over an 11th-Century Temple?”
April 10, 2009

Roderick MacFarquhar, Professor of History and Political Science, Harvard University
 “China in Transition”
April 3, 2009

CAPT Takamichi Takahashi, Japanese Navy/Political Science Department, USNA
“Challenges and Responses: Japan’s National Security Environment”
March 27, 2009

Rear Admiral Eric McVadon, USN [Ret], Director, Asia-Pacific Studies
Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis; former U.S. Defense and Naval Attaché to China
“US-PRC Confrontations in the South China Sea: EP-3 to USNS Impeccable"
March 25, 2009

Robert Kagan, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
“How to Manage the Rise of China—-A Global Perspective”
March 11, 2009

Fangyuan Fang, USNA
"Prospects and Challenges: Chinese Companies Going Global"
February 27,2009

Hayden Bellenoit, USNA
"Whither Indian-Pakistani Rivalry?"
 February 20, 2009

Donald Clarke, the George Washington University
"China's Legal System: Brooding Omnipresence or Just Another Bureaucracy?"
February 13, 2009

Richard Fisher, International Assessment and Strategic Center
 “China’s Aircraft Carrier Program and Its Power Projection Ambition”
January 17, 2009

Judith Shapiro, the American University
“As China Goes, So Goes the Planet--China’s Environmental Challenges in International Context” November 21, 2008
 
 Yong Deng, USNA
"Is China a Revisionist Power?"
November 7, 2008

Hayden Bellenoit, USNA
“Outsourcing, America, Terrorism: India as a Rising Global Power”
October 31, 2008

Ermin Sinanovic, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, USNA
“Islamic Revival in Malaysia”
October 22, 2008

Gordon Chang, NYT-Best-Selling author on China and Korea
“How to Disarm Kim Jong-il: China and the Koreas”
September 30, 2008

Andrew Scobell,  Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University
“How China Manages Taiwan and Why It Matters to the US Navy”
September 26, 2008

James Mann, SAIS, the Los Angeles Times 
"Will Capitalism Bring Democracy To China?"
September 12, 2008

Lee Pennington, USNA
“Better From Iwo Jima: How Hollywood Scored a Victory for Japan”
March 5, 2008

Hayden Bellenoit, USNA
“Pakistan And The US After Benezir Bhutto”
February 1, 2008

Thursday, Sept 22
Chinese Film: Hero
1900, G14 Sampson

Saturday, Sept 24
John Tkacik, China Specialist, Dept. of State, Ret.
"Training Peace Corps Volunteers or Training Warriors:
Perspectives on Government-Run International Training Programs"
0900-1100, 102 Rickover

Tuesday, Sept 27
Michael Auslin, American Enterprise Institute
"Competition in the Indo-Pacific: Shaping the Global Future"
1215-1315, G14 Sampson

Wednesday, Oct 5
The Hon. Ichiro Fujisaki, Japanese Ambassador to the U.S.
"The U.S.-Japan Alliance and Its Global Implications"
1915-2000, 102 Rickover 

Tuesday, Oct 11
Co-sponsoring with USNA Midshipmen Korean American Midshipmen Association
Hiding [A documentary about North Korean refugees]
1915, G110 Nimitz

Saturday, Oct 22
Bill Gertz, The Washington Times
"Media and National Security"
0900-1100, 102 Rickover

Thursday, Oct 27
Japanese Film: The Twilight Samurai [2002]
1915, G14 Sampson

Monday, Oct 31
Ronald Morse
"Trick or Treat: The Ghosts, Goblins & Gods in The Legends of Tono"
1215-1315, 103 Rickover

Friday, Nov 4
Zhang Hong, SUNY-Binghamton
"Chinese Music and Chinese Language"
1900, 103 Rickover

Saturday, Nov 5
George Lepre
"Fragging in Vietnam and Its Lessons"
0900-1100, 102 Rickover

Thursday, Nov 10
Indian Bollywood film Zindagi milegi na dobare [Our Lives Will Not Meet Again]
1900, G14 Sampson

Tuesday, Nov 15
Meredith Lair, "Armed with Abundance: Consumerism and Soldiering in the Vietnam War"
1915-2000, 100 Chauvenet 

Wednesday, Nov 16
Cambodian Film Night: The Killing Fields
1900, 110 Rickover

19-Jan 
Korean Film,
"The Host," dir. Joon-ho Bong, 2006

28-Jan
Bollywood at USNA
"'Dhoom' (Blast)"

29-Jan
Tim Castle, CIA, "U.S. Involvement in Laos: Lessons and Leadership"

2-Feb
Chinese Film
"Aftershock," dir. Feng Xiaogang

4-Feb
Chinese film
"Still Life" dir. Jia Zhangke

9-Feb
Louisa Greve and Brian Joseph, National Endowment for Democracy,
"The Status of Democracy in Asia: Embracing the Next Wave."

11-Feb
Korean film, "Shiri" dir. Je-gyu Kang, 1999

12-Feb
Capt. Takahashi, JMSDF, "Japan's National Security Environment: Challenges Facing the Self-Defense Force"

22-Feb
Japanese film
"After Life," dir. Kore-eda Hirokazu, 1998

25-Feb
Bollywood at USNA
"Lagaan-The Tax"

28-Feb
Thai film
"Beautiful Boxer,"

2-Mar
John Pomfret, The Washington Post,
"Tahrir vs. Tiananmen Square: Why Egypt Is Different From China?"

23-Mar
Panel of experts: "Surveying the Quake: Perspectives on the Ongoing Japan Crisis"

24 March
Scott Allan, State Dept.,
"America's Vital Links to South Asia"

25-Mar
Japanese film
"Stray Dog," dir. Kurosawa Akira, 1949

28-Mar
Thai film
"6ixtynin9"

9-Apr
LCOL Mike Mollohan, USMC, USNA '93, Asia Pacific Center for Security Studies,
"NE Asia's Volatile Security Risk and US Response"

13-Apr
Hayden Bellenoit
"India's Dirty Secret: Development and Alienation in India's Rise"

15-Apr
Shen Rui, USNA "Documentary Films in Today's China"

18-Apr
Bollywood at USNA
"Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge-The Lover Will Take Away His Bride"

20-Apr
Bernard Cole, National Defense University,
"The New Chinese Navy,"

Sept. 10
Thai Film Series:
"Ong-Bak: The Thai Warrior"

Sept. 11
Elan Journo, "Winning the Unwinnable War"

Sept. 14
Richard Ruth, USNA, 
"Battle of Bangkok: Recent Political Violence in Thailand."

Oct. 01
Daniel Lynch, University of Southern California
"How China's Statistics System Works and Why It Matters to the US?"

Oct. 01
Thai Film Series
"Last Life in the Universe"

Oct. 09
Peter Bartu, UC Berkeley, "Wrestling with the Integrity of Nations: 
The Comparative Autonomy Bargains in Kurdsitan-Iraq and Mindanao-Philippines"

Oct. 18
David Aikman, "Jesus in Beijing: Christianity and the China Factor"

Oct. 22
Thai Film Series
"Nang Nak: A Thai Tale of Horror"

Oct. 28
Sheila Smith, Council on Foreign Relations, "The US-Japan Alliance at a Crossroads: 
Crafting a New Vision for Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia"

Nov. 06
John Manvel, USNA,
"The Meaning and Significance of the Latest Aircraft Carrier Design to Modern Warfare."

Nov. 12
Thai Film Series
"Mekong Full Moon Party"

Nov. 17
T.J. Cheng, College of William and Mary
"Political Discontent in East Asian Emerging Democracies"

Jan. 27
Japanese Culture through Films
"Spirited Away"

Feb. 5
Japanese Culture through Films:
"Love And Honor"

Feb. 12
Robin Sakoda, Armitage International, 
"US-Japan Security Relations: Next Steps"

Feb. 12
Japanese Culture through Films: 
"Shield of Aegis"

Feb. 16
Chinese Film Series
"Please Vote for Me"

Feb. 17
Chinese Film Series, 
"The Story of Qiu Ju"

Feb. 18
Jung Chang, "From Wild Swans to Mao: My Personal Journey towards the Understanding of Mao"

Feb. 19
Japanese Culture through Films:
"Sumo Do, Sumo Don't"

Feb. 25
Chinese Film Series, 
"Nu Shu: A Hidden Language of Women in China"

Feb. 26
Chinese Film Series, 
"The Epic of Central Plain"

Mar. 3
David Matsumoto, SF State University,
"Contemporary Japanese Culture and Psychology"

Mar. 24
"So, You're Going To Japan: A Pre-Departure Roundtable For Japan-Bound 1/C Mids"

Mar. 26
Nancy Tucker, the Georgetown University, 
"Strait Talk: U.S.-Taiwan Relations and the Crisis with China"

Mar. 30
Michael Montesano, National University of Singapore,
"Politics of War and History in Southeast Asia: Examining the Origins of the Vietnam War Comes to Long An"

Apr. 2
Le Pham Le, 
"Vietnamese Poetry in Exile: A Performance"

Apr. 9
Phillip Dobberfuhl, USNA, 
"Origin of the Japanese People: A Japanese Perspective"

Apr. 15
Shelley Rigger, Davidson College, 
"Taiwan's Democracy and Its Implications for China and Beyond"

Apr. 17
Saturday Morning Training project
"China's Rising Influence in Key Regions of the World"

Apr. 23
Perry Link, UC Riverside, 
"Politics and the Chinese Language"

4 September, Friday, 2009
"Chinese Undersea Warfare--Submarine and Naval Mine Operations"
by Andrew Erickson, Associate Professor, Naval War College

25 September, Friday, 2009
"Conceptual Viewpoint and the Chinese Language"
by Wenze Hu, Department of Language Studies, USNA

25 September, Friday, 2009
Samurai Vengeance Film series
"THRONE OF BLOOD"
Introduced by Lee Pennington, History Department, USNA

17 October, Saturday, 2009
"The Impact of China's Naval Development on the United States"
by Ronald O'Rourke, Congressional Research Service

23 October, Friday, 2009
"An American Strategy for Asia"
by Daniel Blumenthal, the American Enterprise Institute

23 October, Friday, 2009
Samurai Vengeance Film series
"HARAKIRI"
Introduced by Lee Pennington, History Department, USNA

6 November, Friday, 2009
"Afghanistan, the Taliban and the US: Prospects for Stability"
by Hayden Bellenoit, History Department, USNA

13 November, Friday, 2009
"Cultural Analysis of Conversation--Understanding Japanese Culture as Revealed through Conversation Analysis"
by Erica Zimmerman, Department of Language Studies, USNA

13 November, Friday, 2009
Samurai Vengeance Film series
"LADY SNOWBLOOD"
Introduced by Lee Pennington, History Department, USNA

20 November, Friday, 2009
"Sino-Japanese Relations since Koizumi"
by June Teufel Dreyer, University of Miami

4 December, Friday, 2009
Samurai Vengeance Film series
"KILL BILL, VOLUME ONE"
Introduced by Lee Pennington, History Department, USNA

17 January, Saturday, 2009
"China's Aircraft Carrier Program and Its Power Projection Ambition"
By Richard Fisher, International Assessment and Strategic Center

23 January, Friday, 2009
"Japan on the Severn: A Country Report by Midshipmen on 'Semester Abroad' in Japan"

30 January, Friday, 2009
"Abroad in China: A Country Report by 6 Midshipmen on 'Semester Abroad' in China"

13 February, Friday, 2009
"China's Legal System: Brooding Omnipresence or Just Another Bureaucracy?"
by Donald Clarke, the George Washington University

20 February, Friday, 2009
"Whither Indian-Pakistani Rivalry?"
by Hayden Bellenoit, Department of History, USNA

27 February, Friday, 2009
"Prospects and Challenges: Chinese Companies Going Global"
by Fangyuan Fang, Department of Language Studies, USNA

2-6 March, 2009
ASIAN DOCUMENTARY FILM WEEK

• Monday, 2 March: India 
  "Born Into Brothels" (dir. Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman, 2004)
• Tuesday, 3 March: Vietnam 
  "Vietnam: The Next Generation" (dir. Sandy Northrop, 2005)
• Wednesday, 4 March: Japan 
  "White Light/Black Rain" (dir. Stephen Okazaki, 2007)
• Friday, 6 March: China 
  "Out of Phoenix Bridge" (dir. Hong Li, 1997)

11 March, Wednesday, 2009
"How to Manage the Rise of China: A Global Perspective"
By Robert Kagan, the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

25 March, Wednesday, 2009
"US-PRC Confrontations in the South China Sea: EP-3 to USNS Impeccable" 
by Rear Admiral Eric McVadon, USN [Ret], Director, Asia-Pacific Studies, 
Institute for Foreign Policy Analysis; former U.S. Defense and Naval Attaché to China

27 March, Friday, 2009
"Challenges and Responses: Japan's National Security Environment"
by CAPT Takamichi Takahashi, Japanese Navy/Political Science Department, USNA

3 April, Friday, 2009
"China in Transition"
By Roderick MacFarquhar, Professor of History and Political Science, Harvard University

10 April, Friday, 2009
"Ruins of War: Will Thailand and Cambodia Go to War Over an 11th-Century Temple?"
By Richard Ruth, Assistant Professor of History, USNA

17 April, Friday, 2009
"Halting the Flow of Opiates: What Is Asia's Stake?"
by Victoria Greenfield, the RAND Corporation, Economics Department, USNA

12 September, Friday, 2008
"Will Capitalism Bring Democracy To China?" 
by James Mann, SAIS, the Los Angeles Times

26 September, Friday, 2008 
"How China Manages Taiwan and Why It Matters to the US Navy" 
by Andrew Scobell,  Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University

30 September, Tuesday, 2008 
"How to Disarm Kim Jong-il: China and the Koreas" 
by Gordon Chang, NYT-Best-Selling author on China and Korea

22 October, Wednesday, 2008 
"Islamic Revival in Malaysia" 
by Ermin Sinanovic, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, USNA

31 October, Friday, 2008
"Outsourcing, America, Terrorism: India as a Rising Global Power" 
by Hayden Bellenoit, Department of History, USNA

7 November, Friday, 2008
"Is China a Revisionist Power?"
By Yong Deng, Department of Political Science, USNA

21 November, Friday, 2008
"As China Goes, So Goes the Planet--China's Environmental Challenges in International Context"
By Dr. Judith Shapiro, the American University

1 February, Friday, 2008
"Pakistan And The Us After Benezir Bhutto"
by Hayden Bellenoit, Assistant Professor, Department of History, USNA

5 March, Wednesday, 2008
"Better From Iwo Jima: How Hollywood Scored a Victory for Japan"
by Lee Pennington, Assistant Professor, History Department

Academic Term 112 (Spring 2011) Academic Year 2010-2011

LREC Events for Spring 2010