Conference on Pipeline Politics: Civic Engagement Toward Social Change – Biographies
Date: Friday, May 6, 2011 Time: 8:30AM to 5PM Place: New York Times Building 620 Eighth Avenue, 15th Floor, Manhattan
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Conference on Pipeline Politics: Civic Engagement Toward Social Change – Program
Date: Friday, May 6, 2011 Time: 8:30AM to 5PM Place: New York Times Building 620 Eighth Avenue, 15th Floor, Manhattan
Music, Afro Asian Politics and Culture, “Jazz” and a Vision for Revolution: An Evening with Fred Ho
Author, activist and musician, Fred Ho will discuss: 1) BLACK & YELLOW FUTURE POWER: THE BLACK ARTS MOVEMENT AND THE ASIAN AMERICAN MOVEMENT A brief history, analyses and summation of the how these two mighty social movements that emerged in the late 1960s in the U.S. inspired, influenced and effected one another as an example … Read more
The Secret History of the Politics of Public Spending in Japan
Japan’s meteoric economic rise from the end of World War II through the 1980s and then its rapid descent into economic stagnation is one of the greatest reversals of economic fortunes among the industrialized democracies. Japan’s public finances followed a similar arc, with Japan, a former model of fiscal discipline and restrained spending, becoming virtually … Read more
Transnational Feminism and the Politics of Women’s Rights in Japan
This presentation is based on information from Prof. Joyce Gelb’s soon to be released publication, “Gender Policies in Japan and the United States.” In it, Prof. Gelb explores the similarities and differences in gender related policy making and outcomes in Japan and the U.S., concentrating the areas of equal employment, domestic violence, and reproductive rights, … Read more
From Congress to Coalition: Understanding the Politics in India
Since independence congress party has ruled India, first under the leadership of Jawaharlal Nehru then his daughter Indira Gandhi. In 1977 for the first time all opposition parties in India came together which resulted into congress party’s crushing defeat and formation of a non-congress government at the center led by Janta Party. This can be … Read more