Upcoming Events
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Thursday, Jan. 23rd 4:30 PM The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games: Why are they important, even for people who don’t like sports? William W. Kelly - Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Sumitomo Professor Emeritus of Japanese Studies, Yale University |
Auditorium, Henry R. Luce Hall Lecture, Special Event |
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Saturday, Jan. 25th 7:00 PM White Snake Introduction by Dihao Zhou - PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University |
Auditorium, Whitney Humanities Center Film |
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Thursday, Jan. 30th 12:00 PM The road from books to culture Haizheng Yang - Professor of Chinese Literature, Peking University |
Room 218, Sterling Memorial Library Lecture, Special Event |
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Thursday, Feb. 6th 4:30 PM Modern Buddhist Suffering: Pathos, History, and Moral Responses at a Contemporary Japanese Leprosarium Jessica Starling - Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Lewis and Clark College |
451 College Street, Room B04 Lecture |
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Wednesday, Feb. 12th 4:30 PM Japan’s Foreign Policy and International Law H.E. Shinsuke J. Sugiyama - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United States of America |
GM Room, Yale Jackson Institute for Global Affairs Lecture, Special Event |
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Thursday, Feb. 13th 12:00 PM Hong Kong on the Brink: Historical and Comparative Perspectives Jeffrey Wasserstrom - Chancellor's Professor of History, University of California, Irvine |
Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall Lecture |
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Thursday, Feb. 13th 5:00 PM Rethinking Panic: Toilet Paper and the Uncertainties of Early 1970s Japan Eiko Maruko Siniawer - Professor of History, Williams College |
Room 241, Rosenkranz Hall Lecture |
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Monday, Feb. 17th 5:00 PM Japanophone Literature in the Age of Three Worlds Nayoung Aimee Kwon - Associate Professor of Korean and Japanese Cultural Studies, Duke University |
Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall Lecture |
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Thursday, Feb. 20th 1:30 PM From Atheist to Agnostic to Secular Buddhist: A Personal Journey Stephen Batchelor - Bodhi College |
Room 102, Linsley-Chittenden Hall Lecture |
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Thursday, Feb. 20th 4:30 PM The Great Buddha+ Film Screening |
Auditorium, Henry R. Luce Hall Film |
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Tuesday, Feb. 25th 5:00 PM Japan’s Undeclared War: International Society and Japan’s 1930s China Policy Fumi Yoshii - Associate Professor of Japanese History, National Museum of Japanese History |
Room 241, Rosenkranz Hall Lecture |
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Wednesday, Feb. 26th 4:00 PM From Chernobyl’s Past to Fukushima’s Remembered Future Rachel DiNitto - Professor of Japanese Literature, University of Oregon |
Location TBD Lecture, Special Event |
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Thursday, Feb. 27th 4:30 PM Buddhist Apocalyptic Saviors and Imperial Authority during the Reign of Empress Wu Zetian (690-705CE) April D. Hughes - Assistant Professor of Religion, Boston University |
451 College Street, Room B04 Lecture |
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Monday, Mar. 23rd 4:00 PM Form and Insight in Medieval Chinese Poetry Nicholas Morrow Williams - Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, University of Hong Kong |
Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall Lecture |
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Tuesday, Mar. 24th 12:00 PM The Sacred, the Public Sphere and the Discriminated: Kiyomizu in the History of Japanese Religions Junichi Isomae - Professor of Religious Studies, International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) |
Room 241, Rosenkranz Hall Lecture |
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Tuesday, Mar. 24th 4:00 PM Diaspora and Diplomacy: China, Indonesia, and the Cold War Taomo Zhou - Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese and Southeast Asian History, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore |
Room 241, Rosenkranz Hall Lecture |
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Wednesday, Mar. 25th 12:00 PM The Eastern Han gaze on popular practices, and the European gaze on Chinese Religions Mark Csikszentmihalyi - Marjorie Meyer Eliaser Chair of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley |
Room 202, Henry R. Luce Hall Lecture |
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Wednesday, Mar. 25th 4:00 PM Between the Ephemeral and the Eternal: The Balancing Act of Xie Lingyun’s Poetry Ping Wang - Associate Professor of Asian Languages & Literature, University of Washington |
Location TBD Lecture |
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Thursday, Mar. 26th 12:00 PM Japanese “World Map” Folding Screens: Repositioning Japan and Europe in the global Baroque landscape Angelo Cattaneo - Research Fellow, National Research Council (CNR) |
Location TBD Lecture |
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Tuesday, Mar. 31st 4:00 PM Making It Count: Statistics and Statecraft in the Early People's Republic of China Arunabh Ghosh - Associate Professor of History, Harvard University |
Room 241, Rosenkranz Hall Lecture |
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