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 |
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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 |
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Saturday, Dec. 15th, 2007 Dam Street |
Film, Special Event China, Taiwan, Hong Kong |
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Thursday, Dec. 6th, 2007 Globalizing Modern Chinese Literature: Sinophone and Diasporic Writings |
Conference, Special Event China, Transregional, Southeast Asia, Taiwan |
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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) Sample data to avoid error during the import operation |
Film, Special Event China, Japan, Korea, Transregional, Taiwan, Hong Kong |
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Tuesday, Dec. 4th, 2007 Understanding Japanese Society Through Life After Death Gordon Mathews - Professor of Anthropology, the Chinese University of Hong Kong |
Lecture Japan |
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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 |
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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 |
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Thursday, Nov. 29th, 2007 Special Screening of "Red Doors" with Film Director Georgia Lee Director Georgia Lee |
Film, Special Event China, Taiwan, Hong Kong |
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Wednesday, Nov. 28th, 2007 Dam Street |
Film, Special Event China, Taiwan, Hong Kong |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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Thursday, Nov. 8th, 2007 Cinema / Movement at Yale -- The Interaction between Artistic and Social Praxis in Japanese Filmmaking |
Lecture, Film Japan |
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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 |
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Monday, Nov. 5th, 2007 The Fate of the Japanese Language in the Age of English Minae Mizumura - Novelist |
Lecture, Special Event Japan |
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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 |
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Thursday, Nov. 1st, 2007 A Storming Drummer (Arashi o yobu otoko) |
Film Japan |
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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 |
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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 |
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Friday, Oct. 26th, 2007 2007 Alumni Reunion - International and Area Studies |
Special Event China, Japan, Korea, Transregional |
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Thursday, Oct. 25th, 2007 Street of Violence (Boryoku no machi) |
Film Japan |
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Thursday, Oct. 25th, 2007 Research on Chinese Painting in Japan Ogawa Hiromitsu - Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, Tokyo University |
Lecture China, Japan, Transregional |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |