Past Events 2005-2006
Friday, Apr. 21st, 2006 Sand, Stones, and Stars: Nature in the Religious Imagination |
Conference, Workshop, Lecture, Special Event China, Japan, Korea, Transregional |
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Thursday, Apr. 20th, 2006 Accounting for the Images of the Six Kannon Cult in Japan Sherry Fowler - Associate Professor of Japanese Art History, University of Kansas |
Lecture Japan |
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Monday, Apr. 17th, 2006 New Perspectives on China's Economic Development -- Understanding China's Recent Growth Story Zhiwu Chen - Yale School of Management |
Lecture China |
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Thursday, Apr. 13th, 2006 New Perspectives on China's Economic Development -- How Long Can China's Growth Miracle Go On? David Dollar - Country Director for China, Worldbank |
Lecture China |
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Thursday, Apr. 13th, 2006 Special Lecture on Mongolia -- Anthropology of Ethnic Groups of Mongolia Tumen Dashtseveg - Chair, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology, National University of Mongolia and Research Professor of Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona |
Lecture, Special Event Transregional, Mongolia, Tibet |
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Tuesday, Apr. 11th, 2006 The Hong Kong/Pearl River Delta Transborder Region: Three Transformative Moments 1950, 1979, 1997 Alan Smart, Professor of Anthropology, University of Calgary |
Lecture China, Hong Kong |
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Monday, Apr. 10th, 2006 From Peasants to Petty Bourgeoisie and Capitalists: Class Transformations in Post-1978 Guangdong, China Josephine Smart - Professor of Anthropology, University of Calgary |
Lecture China, Hong Kong |
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Monday, Apr. 10th, 2006 One Ism, Three Fates: The traveling theory of post-colonialism in Mainland China, Taiwan and Hong Kong? Zhao Xifang - Institute of Literature, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences |
Lecture China, Transregional, Hong Kong, Taiwan |
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Tuesday, Apr. 4th, 2006 New Perspectives on China's Economic Development -- A New World for Chinese Workers: Evolving Labor Markets, Vulnerability, and Policy |
Lecture China, Taiwan, Hong Kong |
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Monday, Apr. 3rd, 2006 Silk Road Lecture Series -- Two Special Presentations by Pominent Chinese Scholars |
Workshop, Lecture, Special Event China, Taiwan, Hong Kong |
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Friday, Mar. 31st, 2006 China Workshop -- Ethnic Insurgency in Southwest Guizhou: Indigenous and Imperial Views of the Nanlong Uprising of 1797 Jodi Weinstein, History Ph.D. Candidate, Yale University |
Workshop China |
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Thursday, Mar. 30th, 2006 Japanese Interpretations of the Pacific War in Late Postwar Manga Rachel DiNitto - Assistant Professor of Japanese, The College of William and Mary |
Lecture Japan |
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Wednesday, Mar. 29th, 2006 Writing, Language, and Legitimacy in Early Japan: Dedicatory Inscriptions and Historical Classics David Lurie - Assistant Professor of Japanese History and Literature, Columbia University |
Lecture Japan |
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Tuesday, Mar. 28th, 2006 Kinema Club VII Post-Event -- Special Japanese Film Screening and Discussion: Untamagiru Takamine Go - Film Director |
Film, Special Event Japan |
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Monday, Mar. 27th, 2006 Chinese Villagers' DV Documentaries On Village-Level Democracy -- Special Screening and Q&A with Filmmakers Wu Wenguang, Jian Yi, and Wang Wei |
Film, Special Event China, Hong Kong, Taiwan |
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Monday, Mar. 27th, 2006 Korea Lecture Series -- Seeking Sanctuary: Runaway Slaves in Chosôn Korea Milan Hejtmanek - Korea Foundation Assistant Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania |
Lecture Korea |
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Friday, Mar. 24th, 2006 Kinema Club VII Conference Kurosawa Kiyoshi, Film Director and Professor at the Tokyo National University of Fine Arts and Music, and Nakamura Hideyuki, Professor at Rikkyo University. |
Conference, Film, Workshop, Special Event Japan |
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Friday, Mar. 24th, 2006 New Perspectives on China's Economic Development -- Income Inequality in the Transition Period Loren Brandt - Professor of Economics, University of Toronto |
Lecture China |
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Thursday, Mar. 23rd, 2006 Kinema Club VII: Regimen, Revival and Recent Japanese Cinema, Pre-Event Organized by Aaron Gerow - Yale University |
Workshop Japan |
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Wednesday, Mar. 22nd, 2006 Worlding Japan: Totality and the Ends of History Tom Looser - Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, New York University |
Lecture Japan |
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Tuesday, Mar. 21st, 2006 New Perspectives on China's Economic Development -- Can China Learn from India ? Yasheng Huang - Associate Professor of International Management, MIT Sloan School of Management |
Lecture China |
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Monday, Mar. 20th, 2006 Korea Lecture Series: Perspectives On Korean Modernity -- Naming and Appearances of ‘Woman’: Gender, Modernity, and Censorship in Colonial Korea Kyeong-Hee Choi - Assistant Professor in Modern Korean Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago |
Lecture Korea |
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Thursday, Mar. 2nd, 2006 Medicine, Poison, and the Body Politic: From Mengxi bitan to Romeo and Juliet Zhang Longxi - Chair Professor of Comparative Literature and Translation, Director, Centre for Cross-Cultural Studies, City University of Hong Kong |
Lecture China |
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Wednesday, Mar. 1st, 2006 Korea Lecture Series -- Refashioning Women's Sphere in the Korea Mission Field, 1880s-1920s Hyaeweol Choi - Associate Professor of Korean Studies, Arizona State University |
Lecture Korea |
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Monday, Feb. 27th, 2006 Leaving in Sorrow (憂憂愁愁的走了) |
Film, Special Event China, Hong Kong |
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Monday, Feb. 27th, 2006 Special Lecture on Buddhism -- Translating Hermeneutics and the Hermeneutics of Translation in Kumarajiva's 'Lotus Sutra' Nathalie Gummer - Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Mouat Professor of International Studies, Beloit College |
Lecture China, Japan, Korea, Transregional |
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Saturday, Feb. 25th, 2006 Workshop on Work, Gender, and Identity in Modern Japan Organized by Christopher Gerteis - Postdoctoral Associate, Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University and Stephen Vlastos - Professor of History, University of Iowa |
Workshop Japan |
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Friday, Feb. 24th, 2006 Special Bilingual Poetry Reading Leung Ping-Kwan - Poet and Chair Professor of Comparative Literature, Lingnan University, Hong Kong |
Performance, Special Event China, Hong Kong |
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Thursday, Feb. 23rd, 2006 Lecture Series on Buddhism -- Making Sense of Zen Kôans Griff Foulk - Sarah Lawrence College |
Lecture China, Japan, Transregional |
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Thursday, Feb. 23rd, 2006 Hong Kong Cinema and Urban Culture Leung Ping-Kwan - Poet and Chair Professor of Comparative Literature, Lingnan University, Hong Kong |
Lecture China |