Past Events

Friday, Apr. 29th, 2022
Bones of the Buddha: The Materiality, Textuality, and Musicality of Relics in Japanese Religions
Conference
Japan
Wednesday, Apr. 27th, 2022
Women and Buddhism: The Case of Kim Iryŏp
Jin Y. Park - Professor of Philosophy and Religion, American University
Lecture, Special Event
Korea
Monday, Apr. 25th, 2022
The Resurgence of the Old Elite: Uyghur Public Culture in China’s Reform Era
Joshua Freeman - Lecturer in the East Asian Studies Department & Cotsen Postdoctoral Fellow in the Society of Fellows, Princeton University
Lecture
China
Saturday, Apr. 23rd, 2022
A Dash of Mifune: Rashomon and More (Part II)
Film
Japan
Saturday, Apr. 23rd, 2022
Yalies at the Beijing Winter Olympics: Sports, Talent, and Internationalism
Special Event
China, Transregional
Friday, Apr. 22nd, 2022
Repurposing Wood for Sacred Images in Kamakura-Period Sculpture
Samuel C. Morse - Howard M. and Martha P. Mitchell Professor of the History of Art and Asian Languages and Civilizations, Amherst College
Lecture
Japan
Thursday, Apr. 21st, 2022
Digital Humanities on Korean Literature: Revisiting Yŏm Sang-sŏp through Digital Literary Approaches
Jae-Yon Lee - Associate Professor of Modern Korean Literature, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology; Namgi Han - Postdoctoral Fellow of Informatics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology
Workshop, Lecture
Korea
Thursday, Apr. 21st, 2022
Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue
Film
China
Thursday, Apr. 21st, 2022
From Buddhist Temple to Shinto Shrine: A History of Dazaifu Anrakuji/Tenmangū
Robert Borgen - Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Davis
Lecture
Japan
Wednesday, Apr. 20th, 2022
#MeToo in Japan, Britney Spears, BTS
Erina Ito - Journalist
Lecture
Japan
Wednesday, Apr. 20th, 2022
Making Population and Making the State: a Comparative Study of Communist China and North Korea
Juan Wang - Associate Professor of Political Science, McGill University
Lecture
China, Korea
Saturday, Apr. 16th, 2022
A Dash of Mifune: Rashomon and More (Part I)
Film
Japan
Thursday, Apr. 14th, 2022
Online Rakugo
Tozaburo Yanagiya III - Master Rakugo Performer
Workshop, Performance
Japan
Wednesday, Apr. 13th, 2022
Two Faces of Japan’s Wartime Empire: Khin Myo Chit and Asha Sahay
Amy Stanley - Wayne V. Jones Research Professor of History, Northwestern University
Lecture, Special Event
Japan, Transregional, Southeast Asia
Tuesday, Apr. 12th, 2022
Revolution of Our Times
Film
China, Hong Kong
Monday, Apr. 11th, 2022
A Journey to freedom
Joseph Kim - Associate and Expert-in-Residence on the Human Freedom Initiative, George W. Bush Institute
Lecture
Korea
Friday, Apr. 8th, 2022
Softwork: Gendered Labor and Computerization in Japan
Diane Wei Lewis - Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Washington University in St Louis
Lecture
Japan
Thursday, Apr. 7th, 2022
The Art of Breaking: Putting Salt Fields to Rest in 19th century Japan
Aleksandra Kobiljski - Senior Research Scholar, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS)
Lecture
Japan
Wednesday, Apr. 6th, 2022
Against the Odds in Asia, 1901-2021: Thoughts on the Activists, Autocrats, Exiles and Empires of Several Eras
Jeffrey Wasserstrom - Chancellor’s Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
Lecture
Transregional
Wednesday, Apr. 6th, 2022
Gender Inequality in Politics in Japan
Seiki Tanaka - Assistant Professor of International Relations, University of Groningen
Lecture
Japan
Tuesday, Apr. 5th, 2022
Women Writers and the Discourse on the Postwar Japan
Noriko Mizuta - Poet, literary critic, scholar of comparative literature and educator
Lecture, Special Event
Japan
Friday, Apr. 1st, 2022
‘An important secret teaching’: Gender-based approaches to topic in Eikyū hyakushu
Thomas McAuley - Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies, University of Sheffield
Lecture
Japan
Wednesday, Mar. 30th, 2022
The Poetry Demon and Other Passions in Medieval Chinese Monks' Literature
Jason Protass - William A. Dyer, Jr. Assistant Professor of the Humanities, Brown University
Lecture
China, Transregional
Tuesday, Mar. 15th, 2022
How to manage Sovereignty Restriction: Japan's experience of the 19th century “Unequal Treaty” and postwar Japan-US Security Treaty
Kaoru Iokibe - Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo and Academic Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University
Lecture, Special Event
Japan
Friday, Mar. 11th, 2022
Marginal Social Groups and Japan’s Early Modern Society 「周縁的社会集団から考える日本近世社会」
TSUKADA Takashi (塚田孝)- Professor Emeritus, Osaka City University (大阪市立大学)
Lecture
Japan
Thursday, Mar. 10th, 2022
Japanese “World Map” Folding Screens: Repositioning Japan and Europe in the Global Baroque Landscape
Angelo Cattaneo - Research Fellow, National Research Council (CNR)
Lecture
Japan
Thursday, Mar. 10th, 2022
Transformation and Upgrading of China’s Manufacturing Sectors: The Divergent Paths of Jinjiang’s and Putian’s Footwear Industries
Lu Zheng - Associate Professor of Sociology and RONG Professor of Data Sciences, Tsinghua University
Lecture
China
Wednesday, Mar. 9th, 2022
Is Heaven Blue or a Divinity? On Wang Chong’s Approach to Evidence
Esther Klein - Senior Lecturer of Culture, History, and Language, Australian National University
Lecture
China
Friday, Mar. 4th, 2022
How Institutions Rebound: Untangling Difficult Reforms in China's State-Owned Enterprises
Ling Chen - Assistant Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University
Lecture
China
Thursday, Mar. 3rd, 2022
Green With Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups
Robert Hellyer - Associate Professor of History, Wake Forest University
Lecture
Japan

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