November 15, 2024
2:00 – 3:30 PM HST
Saunders 704
On Friday, November 15, 2024 in Saunders 704, the Center for Indo-Pacific Affairs co-sponsored a panel on Asia’s 2024 Elections. 2024 is set to be a significant year for elections globally, particularly in Asia and the US. As we witness shifting dynamics and potential regime changes, this roundtable discussion delved into the implications of electoral outcomes and their impacts in Indonesia, Korea, Taiwan, and the US. The discussion, moderated by Petrice Flowers (Director, Center for Indo-Pacific Affairs), looked to analyze the transformations shaping the region and beyond.
This event was cosponsored by the Department of Political Science, the Department of Asian Studies, the Matsunaga Institute of Peace, and the Center for Indo-Pacific Affairs at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa.
About the Speakers:
Cathryn Clayton is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Asian Studies Program at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. Her work explores the question of Chineseness: how and why it becomes a compelling form of collective subjectivity (be it nationalist, diasporic, regional, civilizational) at different points in time and space. Her research and teaching areas thus encompass sovereignty and imperialism, nationalisms and transnationalisms, “blood ties,” and collective memory, especially as they have played out in 20th-century China and Chinese communities abroad.
Colin Moore is an Associate Professor and Program Director for the Matsunaga Institute of Peace at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. His research focuses on theories of institutional development and bureaucratic politics in the United States. He served as a research fellow at Yale University’s Center for the Study of American Politics and as a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Fellow in Health Policy Research at the University of California, Berkeley.
Ehito Kimura is an Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. His research interests lie at the nexus of political change in Southeast Asia. His book “Provincial Proliferation: Territorial Politics in Post-Suharto Indonesia” (Routledge 2012) explores the changing dynamics of territoriality after the fall of authoritarianism and the rise of democracy and decentralization in Indonesia. He has also written several articles about political change and democratic transition in Indonesia.
Myungji Yang is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa. She is a political sociologist focusing on contentious politics, social movements, and social transformations in South Korea. Her work studies the ways in which the relationship among historical legacies, political institutions, and civil society shape political processes and outcomes.