Month: September 2012

Emanuel’s talk on Networked science at the Asia Research Network’s summer seminar at Ashi no Ko in Japan

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I presented a paper on Michael Nielsen’s new book: “Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science” at the second annual summer seminar for young Asian researchers of the Asia Research Network. I have worked with the Asia Research Network informally for the last two years, but this was my first chance to see first-hand their work.

The Asia Research Network grew out of the collaboration between Professor Hara Masahiko at Riken (and Tokyo Institute of Technology) and Professor Haewon Lee of Hanyang University on nano materials. The joint research laboratory of Riken and Hanyang University in Seoul is the most significant example of sustained collaboration between Japan and Korea. Significantly, the Asia Research Network http://www.asianrn.org/ is growing rapidly and promises to be a platform for a new level of collaboration in Asia.

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Mitt Romney on Obama’s failed promise to heal the planet

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Republican Party candidate for President Mitt  Romney summed up his strategy in this remark after his acceptance speech at the Republican National Convention on August 30, 2012:.

“President Obama promised to begin to slow the rise of the oceans and heal the planet. My promise is to help you and your family.”

The implications of the use of the past tense in this sentence are profound; “promised to” as opposed to “promises to” suggests that Obama has already failed in his promise. We are not looking at a simple contrast of Obama as a polar bear hugger and Romney as a man who cares about you. If that was the case, there would not be any need to employ the past tense. The implication is on the surface that Obama made a promise he could not keep. That implication suggests that the concern with rising oceans may not be entirely misplaced.

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Emanuel’s talk at Yale University on October 3

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WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 3, 2012 4:00 PM

 

 

 

Emanuel Pastreich
Associate Professor of Humanities, Humanitas College at Kyung Hee University
“The Observable Mundane: The Reception of Chinese Vernacular Narrative in Korea and Japan“

EAST ASIA COLLOQUIUM SERIES
Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University

Location: Room 312, Hall of Graduate Studies (320 York Street)
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