Past Events 2009-2010

Tuesday, Feb. 23rd, 2010
Todai-Yale Initiative Lecture Series -- Change and Continuity in Japan-US Relations
Mr. Yoso Furumoto - Correspondent, Washington DC Bureau, Mainichi Shimbun
Lecture
Japan, Transregional
Friday, Feb. 19th, 2010
The Net Idols: Cute Culture, Social Factory, and Neoliberal Governmentality in New Millennial Japan
Gabriella Lukacs - Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
Lecture
Japan
Tuesday, Feb. 16th, 2010
Bodies Real and Virtual: Joseph Rock and Enrico Caruso in the Sino-Tibetan Borderlands
Erik Mueggler - Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Lecture
China, Tibet
Tuesday, Feb. 16th, 2010
Todai-Yale Initiative Lecture Series -- Heritage, Landscape and Sustainable Urbanism: the Life of a Historic Port Town in Japan
Naoto Nakajima - Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Engineering, Graduate School of Engineering University of Tokyo
Lecture
Japan
Friday, Feb. 12th, 2010
Japanese “Silents”: Benshi Film Narration by Raiko Sakamoto
Raiko Sakamoto
Film, Special Event
Japan
Friday, Feb. 12th, 2010
China Social Science Seminar -- Collective Investment and Moral Hazard: Costs of China's Rural Industrialization
Kay Shimizu - Assistant Professor of Political Science, Columbia University
Workshop
China
Thursday, Feb. 4th, 2010
Japan - U.S. Alliance as Public Goods
Mr. Yoji Koda - Senior Research Fellow at Harvard University, Former Commander in Chief, Self Defense Fleet (2007-2008)
Lecture
Japan
Saturday, Jan. 30th, 2010
The Face of Another (Tanin no kao)
Film
Japan
Friday, Jan. 29th, 2010
Impossible Mourning: the Struggle to Forget in Postwar Okinawa
Christopher Nelson - Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, University of North Carolina
Lecture
Japan
Friday, Jan. 29th, 2010
International Symposium at Yale University -- Routes of Science and Culture in China, 1860s-1930s
Organized by Professors Jing Tsu (Yale University) and Benjamin Elman (Princeton University)
Conference, Workshop, Special Event
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Saturday, Jan. 23rd, 2010
Woman In The Dunes (Suna no onna)
Film
Japan
Thursday, Jan. 21st, 2010
What To See in a Cave Shrine? -- Buddhist Art of Repentance, ca. 500 CE
Eugene Wang - Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Professor of Asian Art, Harvard University
Lecture
China, Japan, Korea, Transregional
Thursday, Jan. 21st, 2010
Blind Eyes and Thin Disguises: Religion and Local Governance in China and Taiwan
Robert Weller - Professor of Anthropology, Boston University
Lecture
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Tuesday, Jan. 19th, 2010
Forging Value: The Production of Luxury Commodities in Late Ming China
Timothy Brook - Professor of History, University of British Columbia
Lecture
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Thursday, Jan. 14th, 2010
Comparative Health Reform Workshop -- Health Reform: Challenges and Opportunity in the United States and China
Workshop, Special Event
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Tuesday, Dec. 8th, 2009
The Third Annual China Town Hall Webcast from Washington, DC -- Issues in US-China Relations
Kurt M. Campbellm - Assistant Secretary of State for East Asian and Pacific Affairs
Lecture, Special Event
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Tuesday, Dec. 8th, 2009
Panel on U.S.-China Relations -- Managing Sino-American Relations in Turbulent Times
Lecture, Special Event
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Tuesday, Dec. 8th, 2009
Todai-Yale Initiative Lecture Series -- Haruki vs. Karamazov: Contemporary Japanese Literature under the Shadow of Great Russian Literature
Mitsuyoshi Numano - Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo
Lecture
Japan
Thursday, Dec. 3rd, 2009
Bamboo Shoots (冬笋)
Film
China
Monday, Nov. 30th, 2009
Between Art and Activism: The Independent Chinese Documentary Scene Today
Zhen Zhang - Associate Professor of Cinema Studies, New York University
Lecture
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Wednesday, Nov. 11th, 2009
Super Girls! (超级女声)
Jian Yi - Yale World Fellow
Film
China
Friday, Nov. 6th, 2009
What is Missing in 'The Wenzhou Model'? Ritual Economy and Bataille's Notion of 'Sovereignty' in China
Mayfair Yang - Professor of Anthropology, University of California Santa Barbara
Lecture
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Monday, Nov. 2nd, 2009
Special Taiwan Writers Panel
Lecture, Special Event
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Saturday, Oct. 31st, 2009
Dersu Uzala
Film
Japan
Saturday, Oct. 24th, 2009
Kwaidan
Film
Japan
Wednesday, Oct. 21st, 2009
Translation, Journalism, and Modern Literature in 1920s Korea
Dr. Heekyoung Cho - Postdoctoral Associate, Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University
Lecture
Korea
Tuesday, Oct. 20th, 2009
China Villager Democracy Documentaries (2005) & 2009 My New Year (2009)
Jian Yi - Yale World Fellow
Film
China
Monday, Oct. 19th, 2009
Art and Critique in 1960s Japan: Political Aesthetics, Urban Daily Life, and the Yomiuri Indépendant
William Marotti - Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California- Los- Angeles
Lecture
Japan
Monday, Oct. 19th, 2009
Manchu Storytelling in Late Imperial China: Space, Performance, and Ethnicity in Beijing, 1736-1911
Elena Chiu - Assistant Professor of Chinese, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Lecture
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Saturday, Oct. 17th, 2009
Samurai Rebellion (Jôi-uchi: Hairyô Tsuma Shimatsu)
Film
Japan

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