Past Events 2017-2018

Thursday, Mar. 8th, 2018
POSTPONED: First-Person Illness Narratives in Early Medieval China: Autobiography, Correspondence, Poetry
Antje Richter - Associate Professor of Chinese, University of Colorado at Boulder
Lecture
China
Thursday, Mar. 8th, 2018
Curating Revolution: A Book Panel Discussion of Denise Ho’s Study of Politics on Display in Mao’s China
Denise Ho - Assistant Professor of History, Yale University
Lecture
China
Monday, Mar. 5th, 2018
A Mother’s Song: Translating Stella Dallas Across Media and Genre
Sarah Frederick - Associate Professor of Japanese, Comparative Literature, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Boston University
Lecture
Japan
Sunday, Mar. 4th, 2018
"Paprika" Film Screening
Film
Japan, Transregional
Friday, Mar. 2nd, 2018
Japan, US, and the Liberal World Order - A view out of UN diplomacy
Misako Kaji - Professor of International Relations, Hitotsubashi University
Lecture
Japan
Tuesday, Feb. 27th, 2018
A Poetics of Ambiguity: Japanese Cryptography at the Crossroads of Text and Image
Claire-­Akiko Brisset - Associate Professor in Japanese Cultural History, Paris Diderot University
Lecture, Special Event
Japan
Monday, Feb. 26th, 2018
Gendering Diplomacy at the Bandung Conference of 1955
Naoko Shimazu - Professor of Humanities (History), Associate Dean of Faculty, Yale-NUS College
Lecture
Transregional
Sunday, Feb. 25th, 2018
"Approved for Adoption" Film Screening
Film
Korea, Transregional
Friday, Feb. 23rd, 2018
Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of the Sinosphere
David Ambaras - Associate Professor of History, North Carolina State University
Lecture
Japan
Wednesday, Feb. 21st, 2018
When Did Mao’s Last Revolution Really Begin?: The Opening Salvos Reconsidered
Yiching Wu - Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
Lecture
China
Monday, Feb. 19th, 2018
Liao-Dynasty Elites in Light of Their Archaeological Remains
François Louis - Associate Professor, Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture
Lecture
China
Saturday, Feb. 17th, 2018
"Akira" - Film Screening and Reception
Film
Japan
Saturday, Feb. 17th, 2018
Lunarfest 2018
Special Event
China, Transregional
Friday, Feb. 16th, 2018
Yale Seminar For Future Collaboration in Asia-Pacific Region
Atsushi Yamakoshi - Executive Director, Keidanren USA
Lecture
Japan, Transregional
Friday, Feb. 16th, 2018
Waka and Things, Waka as Things
Edward Kamens - Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies, Yale University
Lecture
Japan
Friday, Feb. 16th, 2018
Major mtDNA Haplogroups in Bronze Age Mongol Steppe Populations and Their Eurasian Population Affinities
Leland Rogers - Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in Anthropology
Lecture
Mongolia
Wednesday, Feb. 14th, 2018
Tokyo 1968
Lecture
Japan
Tuesday, Feb. 13th, 2018
"Made in China" Film Screening
Film
China
Monday, Feb. 12th, 2018
Wellspring and Warning: Essential Chinas in Medieval Japan
Erin Brightwell - Assistant Professor of Pre-modern Japanese Literature, University of Michigan
Lecture
Japan
Thursday, Feb. 8th, 2018
Civilization and Its Discontents: Travel, Translation, and The Water Margin in Meiji- and Taishō-Period Japan
William Hedberg - Assistant Professor of Japanese, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University
Lecture
China, Japan
Wednesday, Feb. 7th, 2018
Lunar New Year Reception 2018
Special Event
China, Japan, Korea, Transregional, Mongolia
Monday, Feb. 5th, 2018
Japan-U.S. Relations in a Changing World: North Korea, China, and America First
Naoyuki Agawa - Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law, Doshisha University
Lecture
Japan
Thursday, Feb. 1st, 2018
The Politics of Compassion: The Sichuan Earthquake and Civic Engagement in China
Bin Xu - Assistant Professor of Sociology, Emory University
Lecture
China
Friday, Jan. 26th, 2018
Spectacular Sovereignty in the South China Sea: Japan's Offshore Guano Mines, 1902-1939
Paul Kreitman - Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Lecture
Japan
Thursday, Jan. 25th, 2018
Chinese Cities since 1900: Revolutionary Discipline and Exuberance
Kristin Stapleton - Professor of History, University at Buffalo, SUNY
Lecture
China
Friday, Jan. 19th, 2018
Workshop on Tangut Studies
Kirill Solonin - Institute of Chinese Classics, Renmin University
Workshop
China
Tuesday, Dec. 5th, 2017
Saving China’s History: The Fate of the Qing Central Government Archives during the First Half of the Twentieth Century
Beatrice S. Bartlett - Professor Emeritus of History and East Asian Studies, Yale University
Lecture
China
Monday, Dec. 4th, 2017
Building Monsanto With Chinese Characteristics: State-Industry Symbiosis, Organizational Chimerism, and China’s Nationalist Modality of Entrepreneurial Science
Abigail Coplin - Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in Sociology
Lecture
China
Wednesday, Nov. 29th, 2017
Rice Cycles and Price Cycles: The Economic Worldview of Sim Wŏn’gwŏn, 1870-1933
Holly Stephens - Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in History
Lecture
Korea
Tuesday, Nov. 28th, 2017
International Student Conferences Information Session: Japan-America & Korea-America Student Conferences
Special Event
Japan, Korea

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