Past Events 2007-2008

Tuesday, Jan. 22nd, 2008
Japan History Lecture Series -- Japan's Kamioka Mine: Engineering Human Pain in the Hybrid Environments of the Jinzu River Basin
Brett Walker - Professor of History, Montana State Universit
Lecture, Film
Japan
Monday, Dec. 17th, 2007
Japan History Lecture Series -- Freedom Without Slavery? The Case of the Maria Luz and the Question of Emancipation in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Daniel Botsman - Associate Professor of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Lecture
Japan
Saturday, Dec. 15th, 2007
Dam Street
Film, Special Event
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Thursday, Dec. 6th, 2007
Globalizing Modern Chinese Literature: Sinophone and Diasporic Writings
Conference, Special Event
China, Transregional, Southeast Asia, Taiwan
Wednesday, Dec. 5th, 2007
Films of Fury: KICK Start My Art, A Special Screening and Discussion -- Akira Kurosawa's Judo Saga (Sanshiro Sugata) & Bruce Lee in Fist of Fury (Jingwu Men)
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Film, Special Event
China, Japan, Korea, Transregional, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Tuesday, Dec. 4th, 2007
Understanding Japanese Society Through Life After Death
Gordon Mathews - Professor of Anthropology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong
Lecture
Japan
Monday, Dec. 3rd, 2007
Calligraphy as 'Fine Art': Nakamura Fusetsu's (1866-1943) Longmian Tie and His Passion for Chinese Antiquities
Aida Yuen Wong - Associate Professor of Fine Arts, Brandeis University
Lecture
China, Japan, Transregional
Friday, Nov. 30th, 2007
Ethnicity at the Flicks: Do We Need It?
Georgia Lee, director of the feature film "Red Doors," will be joining Mary Lui of American Studies, Paize Keulemans of EALL, and Ron Gregg of Film Studies
Lecture, Special Event
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Thursday, Nov. 29th, 2007
Special Screening of "Red Doors" with Film Director Georgia Lee
Director Georgia Lee
Film, Special Event
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Wednesday, Nov. 28th, 2007
Dam Street
Film, Special Event
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Tuesday, Nov. 27th, 2007
Policies of the Ancestors: Historiography and the Founding of the Song Dynasty
Charles Hartman - Professor of East Asian Studies, State University of New York at Albany
Lecture
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Friday, Nov. 16th, 2007
Elihu Yale Lecture with U.S. Ambassador to the People's Republic of China -- U.S.-China Relations: The Views of a Yale Man in the Chinese Court
Clark T. Randt, Jr. - United States Ambassador to the People's Republic of China
Lecture, Special Event
China, Transregional, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Friday, Nov. 16th, 2007
Agrarian Studies Colloquium -- From Righteous to Rightful: Peasant Resistance to Agricultural Collectivization in China in the 1950s
Huaiyin Li - Assistant Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin
Lecture, Special Event
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Tuesday, Nov. 13th, 2007
Interactions between Indian and Chinese Culture in Buddhist Monasteries in 9th-10th Century Dunhuang
Hao Chunwen - Professor of History, Capital Normal University, Beijing
Lecture
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Tuesday, Nov. 13th, 2007
Diversifying Workplaces: Universities and Businesses in Japan and the U.S.
Mitsuru Claire Chino - Corporate Counsel, Itochu Corporation, Japan
Lecture, Special Event
Japan, Transregional
Monday, Nov. 12th, 2007
Special Visiting Scholar Lecture -- Dream of the Red Chamber: The Greatest Coming of Age Novel of Traditional China
Xue Haiyan - Professor of Literature, Ocean University of China
Lecture, Special Event
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Friday, Nov. 9th, 2007
An International Conference on Esoteric Buddhist Tradition in East Asia: Text, Ritual and Image
Conference, Special Event
China, Japan, Korea, Transregional
Thursday, Nov. 8th, 2007
Cinema / Movement at Yale -- The Interaction between Artistic and Social Praxis in Japanese Filmmaking
Lecture, Film
Japan
Wednesday, Nov. 7th, 2007
What Will Become of the Japanese Corporation? -- A Comparative Perspective
Katsuhito Iwai - Professor, Faculty of Economics, The University of Tokyo, Japan
Lecture, Special Event
Japan
Monday, Nov. 5th, 2007
The Fate of the Japanese Language in the Age of English
Minae Mizumura - Novelist
Lecture, Special Event
Japan
Friday, Nov. 2nd, 2007
Homeless Japan: The Birth of Shelter Culture
Tom Gill - Professor of Social Anthropology, Faculty of International Studies, Meiji Gakuin University, Japan
Lecture
Japan
Thursday, Nov. 1st, 2007
A Storming Drummer (Arashi o yobu otoko)
Film
Japan
Wednesday, Oct. 31st, 2007
"On the Song and Yuan Editions of Chinese Rarebooks" and "On the Miscellaneous Writings (biji) of the Song Dynasty"
An Pingqiu (安平秋)- Professor, Chinese Literature, Peking University; Chair, Classical Literature Research Center, Peking University; Zhong Zhenzhen (鍾振振)- Director, Classical Literature Research Institute
Lecture
China
Tuesday, Oct. 30th, 2007
Beliefs about Seeing: The Moral Technology of Optics in Early China
Michael Nylan - Professor of History, University of California at Berkeley
Lecture
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Friday, Oct. 26th, 2007
2007 Alumni Reunion - International and Area Studies
Special Event
China, Japan, Korea, Transregional
Thursday, Oct. 25th, 2007
Street of Violence (Boryoku no machi)
Film
Japan
Thursday, Oct. 25th, 2007
Research on Chinese Painting in Japan
Ogawa Hiromitsu - Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, Tokyo University
Lecture
China, Japan, Transregional
Thursday, Oct. 25th, 2007
"Homosexuality is not just for men. Even among women it is a splendid rage!": Representations of women's "perverse desires" in early postwar Japan
Mark McLelland - Toyota Visiting Professor; Center for Japanese Studies; University of Michigan
Lecture
Japan
Tuesday, Oct. 23rd, 2007
Roland Buckett, "The New Year's Gift", and a Consignment of Paintings from London to India and Japan, 1614
Timon Screech - University of London
Lecture, Special Event
Japan
Tuesday, Oct. 23rd, 2007
The Demilitarized Zone: American Representations of the Korean Korean War
Daniel Y. Kim - Associate Professor of English, Brown University
Lecture, Special Event
Korea

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