Past Events 2017-2018

Friday, Jun. 29th, 2018
Teaching China's Cultural Revolution: Workshop for Middle School and High School Teachers
Denise Ho - Assistant Professor of History, Yale University, Haihui Zhang - Director of the CR-10 Project, Sandi Ward - Program Assistant of the CR-10 Project
Workshop
China
Friday, May. 4th, 2018
Ashes of Time
Film
China
Saturday, Apr. 28th, 2018
Monster Hunt Film Screening
Film
Japan
Saturday, Apr. 28th, 2018
Japan's Global Baroque Workshop
Workshop
Japan
Friday, Apr. 27th, 2018
Globalization Comes to Japan: Curiosity and Suspicion in the Age of the Columbian Exchange and the Counter-Reformation
Fabian Drixler - Professor of History, Yale University
Lecture
Japan
Friday, Apr. 27th, 2018
From Animation to Martial Arts: Toward Transcendence of False Movements
Jinying Li - Assistant Professor of Film Studies, University of Pittsburgh
Film, Lecture
Transregional
Friday, Apr. 27th, 2018
Japanese "Postwar" in Manchuria
Hideto Tsuboi - Professor, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Lecture
Japan
Thursday, Apr. 26th, 2018
What Is a Tradition? Consider, for example, Chinese Painting ...
Jonathan Hay - Ailsa Mellon Bruce Professor, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University
Lecture, Special Event
China
Wednesday, Apr. 25th, 2018
Shared History and the Responsibility for Justice: The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan
Seung-kyung Kim - Korea Foundation Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington
Lecture
Korea
Wednesday, Apr. 25th, 2018
Shared History and the Responsibility for Justice: The Korean Council for the Women Drafted for Military Sexual Slavery by Japan
Seung-kyung Kim - Korea Foundation Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington
Lecture
Korea
Monday, Apr. 23rd, 2018
Bad Karma: The Japanese Prison Chaplaincy and the Limits of Spiritual Care
Adam Lyons - Postdoctoral Fellow, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University
Lecture
Japan
Friday, Apr. 20th, 2018
Shamisen X Shakuhachi Concert
Hidejiro Honjoh - Shamisen & Akihito Obama - Shakuhachi
Special Event
Japan
Friday, Apr. 20th, 2018
Unconventional Politics: Ideas, Policy Networks and Japan’s Monetary Policymaking under Deflation
Saori Katada - Associate Professor, School of International Relations, University of Southern California
Lecture
Japan
Wednesday, Apr. 18th, 2018
One Sky: Cross-Cultural Music Performance
Performance
China, Japan, Korea, Transregional
Monday, Apr. 16th, 2018
The Nature of Water: Complexity in the Fu
David Andrew Knight
Lecture
China
Sunday, Apr. 15th, 2018
Big Fish & Begonia Film Screening
Film
China
Friday, Apr. 13th, 2018
Resurrecting Orikuchi Shinobu's "The Book of the Dead"
Jeffrey Angles - Professor of Japanese Literature and Translation, Western Michigan University
Lecture
Japan
Friday, Apr. 13th, 2018
Realigning America's Strategy toward Korea
Victor Cha - D.S. Song-KF Professor in Government and International Affairs, Georgetown University
Lecture
Korea
Friday, Apr. 13th, 2018
Patterns in the Ashes: Disaster Fiction and the Making of Early Modern Japanese Literature
David Atherton - Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Civilizations, Harvard University
Lecture
Japan
Thursday, Apr. 12th, 2018
Dreaming in Common: The Sociality of Dreams in China, ca. 300 BCE - 700 CE
Robert Campany - Professor of Asian and Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University
Lecture
China
Wednesday, Apr. 11th, 2018
Death and the Afterlife in Premodern Korea: What Can we Learn from the Ghosts that Haunt?
Michael Pettid - Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies, Binghamton University
Lecture
Korea
Tuesday, Apr. 10th, 2018
Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam
Rachel Harris - Reader in the Music of Central Asia and China, SOAS, University of London
Lecture
China
Monday, Apr. 9th, 2018
The Role of Town Officials in the Social Changes Facing the Castle Town in Early Modern Japan - 近世城下町の社会変容と町役人
Masato Takenouchi - Associate Research Scholar in East Asian Studies, Yale University
Lecture
Japan
Friday, Apr. 6th, 2018
Ainu Workshop @ Yale
Workshop
Japan
Friday, Apr. 6th, 2018
Why do we need DH?: Digital Humanities in China
Jing Chen - Associate Professor, School of Arts, Nanjing University; Founder & Editor, 01Lab (零壹 Lab)
Lecture
China
Thursday, Apr. 5th, 2018
Unconventional Economics: Debt and Fundraising by the Nuns of Zenkōji Daihongan in Eighteenth-century Japan
Matthew Mitchell - Graduate, Asian Religions, Duke University
Lecture
Japan
Wednesday, Apr. 4th, 2018
On the Transnational Destruction of Cities: What Japan and the U.S. Learned from the Bombing of Britain and Germany in World War II
Sheldon Garon - Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Princeton University
Lecture, Special Event
Japan, Transregional
Tuesday, Apr. 3rd, 2018
Behind Literary Creation: Lu Ji’s Ideas and Fears about Writing
Wendy Swartz - Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, Rutgers University
Lecture
China
Thursday, Mar. 29th, 2018
Rewriting Chinese Fiction in Early Modern Japan
William Fleming - Assistant Professor of Japanese, University of California Santa Barbara
Lecture
Japan
Monday, Mar. 26th, 2018
Lessons from the Local: Early Modern Japanese Society and its Documentary Record
Professor TSUKADA Takashi, Osaka City University
Lecture
Japan

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