BEGIN:VCALENDAR PRODID:-//Columba Systems Ltd//NONSGML CPNG/SpringViewer/ICal Output/3.3- M3//EN VERSION:2.0 CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTAMP:20240214T115302Z DTSTART:20240212T150000Z DTEND:20240212T163000Z SUMMARY:Chips war? Global production networks and geopolitics in the post -pandemic US and East Asia UID:{http://www.columbasystems.com/customers/uom/gpp/eventid/}n2k3-lrajmg d3-1btpt1 DESCRIPTION:Lecture organised by the Global production networks\, trade a nd labour group\n\nBased on his lead-authored chapter on semiconductors in Global Value Chain Development Report 2023 and his monograph Intercon nected Worlds (Stanford University Press\, June 2022)\, Professor Yeung’ s presentation will offer some key empirical observations on the highly contested and politicized nature of semiconductor global production netw orks since the US-China trade war and the Covid-19 pandemic. In this cap ital-intensive manufacturing industry\, governance and power dynamics ar e manifested differently from many other industries due to highly comple x technology regimes\, production network ecosystems\, and\, more recent ly\, geopolitical imperatives. While some of these critical dynamics had been in play ahead of the 2020s\, their intensity and significance beca me more apparent by the early 2020s. Professor Yeung will examine their most significant implications for macro-regional development in the post -pandemic 2020s and the need for strategic partnership with technology l eaders towards building national and regional resilience. He will end wi th a discussion of some relevant future research agendas on technology\, resilience\, and politics for the interdisciplinary studies of global p roduction networks and global value chains.\n\nAbout the speaker: \n\nPr ofessor Henry Yeung has been Distinguished Professor at the Department o f Geography\, National University of Singapore\, since 2018\, and Profes sor of Economic Geography since 2005. As a leading academic expert in gl obal production networks and the global economy\, his research interests cover broadly theories and the geography of transnational corporations\ , East Asian firms\, and developmental states. He is the first geographe r based in Asia to receive both the 2018 American Association of Geograp hers Distinguished Scholarship Honors (“in recognition of his extraordin ary scholarship and leadership in the discipline”) and the UK’s Royal Ge ographical Society Murchison Award 2017 (for “pioneering publications in the field of globalisation”). In November 2022\, he was conferred the 2 022 Sir Peter Hall Award for Lifetime Contribution to the Field by the R egional Studies Association in London: “acknowledging and celebrating ex cellence in the field of regional studies”. Professor Yeung has publishe d 7 monographs and 1 textbook (3 editions)\, 7 edited books\, 110 journa l articles\, and 50 book chapters. His most recent books are Theory and Explanation in Geography (RGS-IBG Book Series\, Wiley\, September 2023)\ , Interconnected Worlds: Global Electronics and Production Networks in East Asia (Innovation and Technology in the World Economy Series\, Stanf ord University Press\, June 2022)\, Strategic Coupling: East Asian Indus trial Transformation in the New Global Economy (Cornell Studies in Polit ical Economy Series\, Cornell University Press\, 2016)\, and Global Prod uction Networks: Theorizing Economic Development in an Interconnected Wo rld (with Neil Coe\, Oxford University Press\, 2015). \n\nProfessor Yeun g’s views on global production networks and East Asian development have been quoted in The Financial Times\, The Economist\, Forbes Asia\, South China Morning Post\, and others. He has also served as an expert consul tant contributor to World Investment Report and ASEAN Investment Report (UNCTAD)\, Global Value Chain Development Report (WTO/ADB)\, and others. As of July 2023\, over 4\,850 publications listed in the ISI Web of Sci ence Core Collection databases cited his work (excluding self-citations\ ; h-index = 38). Altogether\, his work has been cited over 7\,000 times by the same set of ISI WoS publications (25\,200 citations on Google Sch olar). He is ranked 13th among 15\,090 authors in the field of Geography and 8\,646th among all 195\,605 top scientists in the Sept 2022 updated of top 2% of world scientists\, led by Stanford’s John Ioannidis\, in 2 2 scientific fields and 176 sub-fields. For two decades since 2001\, Pro fessor Yeung has been editor of two top journals in Geography – Economic Geography and Environment and Planning A. He is also past editor of Rev iew of International Political Economy (2004-2013) and serves on the edi torial boards of 19 other journals.\n\n STATUS:TENTATIVE TRANSP:TRANSPARENT CLASS:PUBLIC LOCATION:G7\, Humanities Bridgeford Street\, Manchester END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR