Past Events 2022-2023
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Monday, Apr. 3rd, 2023 Who was a “Refugee”?: Returnees, Northerners, and Relief Societies in Liberated South Korea, 1945-50 Alyssa Park - Associate Professor, University of Iowa |
Lecture Korea |
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Friday, Mar. 31st, 2023 The Cost of "Normalcy": Updating Japan’s National Security Richard J. Samuels - Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director, MIT Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Lecture, Special Event Japan |
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Thursday, Mar. 30th, 2023 Verbal Arts of Japan - Rakugo & Rôkyoku Performances |
Special Event, Performance Japan |
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Monday, Mar. 27th, 2023 The Importance of K-Pop to the Sociology of Asian Americans and Music Grace Kao - IBM Professor of Sociology; Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration (by Courtesy); Faculty Director, Education Studies; Director of CERSI, Yale University |
Lecture Korea |
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Friday, Mar. 17th, 2023 Asian Studies Councils' Reception at AAS |
Special Event |
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Thursday, Mar. 9th, 2023 Half-emptiness: Aspiration and Angst of the Chinese Dream in Rural China Min-hua Ling - Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study 2022-2023 |
Lecture China |
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Thursday, Mar. 9th, 2023 Lecture and Korean Shamanic Ritual (Gut) Dr. Helena Soholm - Transpersonal Psychologist and Korean Shaman |
Lecture, Performance Korea, Transregional |
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Tuesday, Mar. 7th, 2023 From Community of Resistance to Community of Suffering: Hong Kong Struggles for Democracy Kin-man Chan - Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, National Chengchi University of Taiwan |
Lecture, Special Event China, Hong Kong |
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Tuesday, Mar. 7th, 2023 Nanjido: (Un)covering the Trash Mountains Se-Mi Oh - Assistant Professor of Modern Korean History, University of Michigan |
Lecture Korea |
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Monday, Mar. 6th, 2023 Divinity School Bartlett Lecture on East Asian Theologies |
Lecture, Special Event Transregional |
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Sunday, Mar. 5th, 2023 Something Like It (の・ようなもの) Film Screening |
Film Japan |
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Wednesday, Mar. 1st, 2023 Liberal International Norms and Restrictive Domestic Institutions: Politics of Refugee Reception in South Korea Angela McClean - Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in Sociology |
Lecture Korea |
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Tuesday, Feb. 28th, 2023 Home Meals in Global Korea: Gendered Labor in the Age of Neoliberalism Hyaeweol Choi - C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley Family and Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies, University of Iowa |
Lecture Korea |
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Tuesday, Feb. 28th, 2023 Polly Barton - Translation Master Class #1 Polly Barton - Translator and Writer |
Workshop, Lecture Japan |
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Saturday, Feb. 25th, 2023 Decision to Leave Film Screening |
Film Korea |
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Wednesday, Feb. 22nd, 2023 The Chinese Government’s Systematic Destruction of Uyghur Cultural Heritage Alim Alp - Visiting Associate Research Scholar in East Asian Studies, Yale University |
Lecture China |
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Friday, Feb. 17th, 2023 The Ancient Cultural Exchange of Korea and Eurasia Myung chul Youn - Professor Emeritus of History, Dongguk University; Professor of Archeology, Samarkand State University of Uzbekistan |
Lecture, Special Event Korea |
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Thursday, Feb. 16th, 2023 Two Archipelagoes and One Planet: Writer-Activist Michiko Ishimure's Island-Sea Poetics Christine Marran - Professor of Japanese Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Minnesota |
Lecture Japan |
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Wednesday, Feb. 15th, 2023 Thousands of Years of Korean History: Birth and Growth Myung chul Youn - Professor Emeritus of History, Dongguk University; Professor of Archeology, Samarkand State University of Uzbekistan |
Lecture, Special Event Korea |
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Monday, Feb. 13th, 2023 Suzuki Seijun and Nikkatsu Studio Will Carroll - Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Alberta |
Lecture Japan |
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Sunday, Feb. 12th, 2023 Satan's Town 悪魔の街 (1956) Film Screening |
Film Japan |
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Wednesday, Feb. 8th, 2023 Virtual Program, E-Lecture, Buddhas, Guardians, and Guides: How to Read Tibetan Paintings Denise Patry Leidy - Ruth and Bruce Dayton Curator of Asian Art, Head of the Department of Asian Art, Yale University Art Gallery |
Lecture Transregional, Tibet |
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Wednesday, Feb. 8th, 2023 Tokugawa Hidetada's Last Months Reinier H. Hesselink - Professor of History, University of Northern Iowa |
Lecture Japan |
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Monday, Feb. 6th, 2023 Postwar Jidaigeki’s Political Thought Junko Yamazaki - Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA |
Lecture Japan |
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Monday, Jan. 30th, 2023 Winning Elections with Unpopular Policies: Valence Advantage and Single-Party Dominance in Japan Daniel M. Smith - Gerald L. Curtis Visiting Associate Professor of Modern Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy, Columbia University |
Lecture Japan |
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Thursday, Jan. 26th, 2023 Kazakhstan After 2022: What’s Next for the Country? |
Lecture Transregional |
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Friday, Jan. 20th, 2023 Institutional Racism in International Relations Phillip Y. Lipscy - Professor, Department of Political Science and Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy, University of Toronto |
Lecture Japan, Transregional |
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Saturday, Dec. 17th, 2022 The Forum of International Chinese Language Education: Theory, Methodology and Practice 国际中文教育论坛：理论、方法与实践 |
Workshop China |
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Saturday, Dec. 10th, 2022 Effective Assessment in Chinese Learning Phyllis Ni Zhang - George Washington University, Matt Coss - Michigan State University |
Workshop, Lecture China |
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Friday, Dec. 9th, 2022 Bōnenkai End-of-Year Celebration 2022 |
Special Event |