Past Events 2016-2017
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Wednesday, Feb. 22nd, 2017 Representing Radical Difference: Kim Sŏkpŏm's Korea(n) in Japan(ese) Cindi Textor - Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in East Asian Languages & Literatures |
Lecture Japan, Korea |
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Friday, Feb. 17th, 2017 Know before You Go: Researching East Asia in U.S. - East Asian Library and the Gest Collection, Princeton University Dr. Martin Heijdra - Library Director, Acting Chinese & Western Bibliographer, Head of Public Services; Ms. Setsuko Noguchi - Japanese Studies Librarian |
Workshop China, Japan, Korea |
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Wednesday, Feb. 15th, 2017 Did Daoist Scriptures come with a Price Tag? Pledge Offerings for Daoist Scriptures in Early Medieval China Friederike Assandri - Visiting Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Leipzig |
Lecture China |
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Monday, Feb. 13th, 2017 One Mind: A Zen Pilgrimage Edward A. Burger - Director |
Film China |
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Monday, Feb. 13th, 2017 Ariadne in Bordeaux: Unraveling the Ties that Bind in Tawada Yōko’s ボルドーの義兄 (Schwager in Bordeaux) Brett de Bary - Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature |
Lecture Japan |
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Friday, Feb. 10th, 2017 Handle with Care: Little Americans and the Supply Chain of Human Feeling Julie Y. Chu - Associate Professor of Anthropology, The University of Chicago |
Lecture China |
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Saturday, Feb. 4th, 2017 Lunarfest 2017 |
Special Event China, Transregional |
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Thursday, Jan. 26th, 2017 The Son also Rises: Stratification of Personal Reading among Educated Youths during the Cultural Revolution Sun Peidong - Associate Professor of History, Fudan University |
Lecture China |
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Wednesday, Jan. 25th, 2017 (Un)Doing Korean Dancing Body: Value of Freedom and West African Dance in Seoul Soo Ryon Yoon - CEAS Postdoctoral Associate & Lecturer in East Asian Languages & Literatures |
Lecture Korea, Transregional |
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Wednesday, Jan. 25th, 2017 The Gardens of Tranquil Wisdom: Tuệ Tĩnh and the Medical Environment of 14th Century Ðai Việt C. Michele Thompson - Professor of History, Southern Connecticut University |
Lecture China, Transregional, Southeast Asia |
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Friday, Dec. 16th, 2016 The Past Tense and the Future Perfect: Notes from Japan toward the Possibilities of Post-race and Post-Blackness William Bridges - Assistant Professor of Japanese, UC Irvine |
Japan |
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Thursday, Dec. 15th, 2016 Xie Lingyun and Imperial Performance: Deploying the Language of the Chuci Harrison Huang - Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures, Columbia University |
Lecture China |
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Friday, Dec. 9th, 2016 Japan in the Age of Walls: Its Current and Future Foreign and Security Policies in East Asia and Beyond Naoyuki Agawa - Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law, Doshisha University |
Lecture, Special Event Japan |
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Thursday, Dec. 8th, 2016 Instilling Life in the Buddha: Sacred Objects inside Korean Buddhist Images Junghee Kim - Professor of Archaeology and Art History, Wonkwang University |
Lecture Korea |
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Thursday, Dec. 8th, 2016 Artistic Exchanges between China and the Western Regions: From Mughal Jades to Zen Painting Dr. Josh Yiu - Director, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong; Dr. Xiaodong Xu - Associate Director, Art Museum, The Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Lecture China |
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Wednesday, Dec. 7th, 2016 Violence and Resistance: Imperial Bandits and the Echoes of Oral Tradition in the Uplands Bradley Camp Davis - Assistant Professor of History, Eastern Connecticut State University |
Lecture China, Transregional, Southeast Asia |
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Monday, Dec. 5th, 2016 Spectacles of Asceticism at Cave Temples of Sichuan: The Figuration of Liu Benzun in Ecological Perspectives Sonya Lee - Associate Professor of Chinese Art and Visual Cultures, University of Southern California |
Lecture China |
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Friday, Dec. 2nd, 2016 Fighting the People, Fighting for the People: Insurgent Governance and Conflict Outcomes in China, Malaya, and Vietnam Marc Opper - CEAS Postdoctoral Associate & Lecturer in Political Science |
Lecture China, Transregional, Southeast Asia |
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Thursday, Dec. 1st, 2016 The Buddha Śākyamuni as Vernacular Star of the Japanese Stage and Page Micah Auerback - Associate Professor of Japanese Religion, University of Michigan |
Lecture Japan |
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Tuesday, Nov. 29th, 2016 Cosmology Beneath the Master of Medicine: The Eighth-Century Pedestal at Yakushiji, Nara Cynthea Bogel - Professor of Japanese Art History, Kyushu University |
Lecture Japan |
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Monday, Nov. 28th, 2016 The Logographic Gloss: Writing and Metalanguage in Japan, 8th-13th Centuries C.E. David Lurie - Associate Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures, Columbia University |
Lecture Japan |
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Thursday, Nov. 17th, 2016 Nanban Dream: Navigating "Arrivals of the Southern Barbarians" Matthew McKelway - Takeo and Itsuko Atsumi Professor of Japanese Art History, Columbia University |
Lecture Japan |
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Monday, Nov. 14th, 2016 Writing Trauma and Violence in Early Medieval Chinese Aulic Poetry Xiaofei Tian - Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University |
Lecture China |
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Friday, Nov. 11th, 2016 New Perspectives on the Meiji Restoration: A Preliminary Workshop to Prepare for the 3rd Sesquicentennial Conference |
Workshop Japan |
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Friday, Nov. 11th, 2016 Party Manifestos and Voters' Multidimensional Policy Preferences: Identification via a Conjoint Experiment Teppei Yamamoto - Associate Professor of Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Lecture Japan |
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Friday, Nov. 11th, 2016 New Perspectives on the Meiji Restoration: A Preliminary Workshop to Prepare for the 3rd Sesquicentennial Conference |
Workshop Japan |
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Thursday, Nov. 10th, 2016 The Internet of (Japanese) Things: Cultural Protocols in an Augmented Age Paul Roquet - Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies, MIT |
Lecture Japan |
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Wednesday, Nov. 9th, 2016 The Making of the Socialist Media Censorship System in 1950s Shanghai Sei Jeong Chin - Associate Professor of History at Ewha Womans University |
Lecture China |
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Wednesday, Nov. 9th, 2016 A Conversation with Zhang Xin - In Discussion with Deborah Davis, Professor of Sociology Zhang Xin - Co-Founder and CEO of SOHO China |
Special Event China |
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Monday, Nov. 7th, 2016 Iron Moon Qin Xiaoyu and Wu Feiyue - Directors; Brian Cai - Producer; Chen Nianxi - Poet |
Film China |