Past Events 2008-2009
Friday, May. 15th, 2009 Seoul Train (Korea, 2005) & Floating Life (China, 2005) |
Film China, Korea, Transregional |
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Friday, May. 8th, 2009 Insiders and Outsiders in Chinese History |
Conference, Special Event China, Hong Kong, Taiwan |
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Wednesday, Apr. 29th, 2009 Special Silk Road Lecture -- War and Peace: The Princess Story of the Silk Road Xiaoli Xu - Professor, Northwest University for Nationalities, China |
Lecture, Special Event China, Taiwan, Hong Kong |
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Monday, Apr. 27th, 2009 Special China Journalism Lecture -- China in the Age of Obama: Democrats, Identity, and Style Evan Osnos, Staff Writer, The New Yorker |
Lecture, Special Event China, Taiwan, Hong Kong |
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Thursday, Apr. 23rd, 2009 Representing Things: Visuality and Materiality in East Asia |
Conference China, Japan, Korea, Transregional |
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Wednesday, Apr. 22nd, 2009 The Future of U.S.-Japan Relations -- Closer Cooperation: Economy, Energy, Environment His Excellency Ichiro Fujisaki - The Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United States of America |
Lecture, Special Event Japan, Transregional |
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Monday, Apr. 20th, 2009 Amino Yoshihiko: How Medieval History Became the Epicenter for Historiographical Innovation in Post-war Japan Eiko Ikegami - Professor of Sociology, The New School for Social Research |
Lecture Japan |
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Friday, Apr. 17th, 2009 Special Poetry Reading Yang Lian |
Performance, Special Event China, Taiwan, Hong Kong |
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Friday, Apr. 17th, 2009 The World is Superflat: Art and Politics in Contemporary Japan Marilyn Ivy - Associate Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University |
Lecture Japan |
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Friday, Apr. 17th, 2009 The Journey of Chanoyu: An International Symposium on the Tea Culture of Japan, Past and Present |
Conference Japan |
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Tuesday, Apr. 14th, 2009 Comedy Can Be Deadly -or- The Story of How Mark Twain Killed Hara Hoitsuan Indra Levy - Assistant Professor in Department of Asian Languages at Stanford University |
Lecture Japan |
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Monday, Apr. 13th, 2009 Wu Foundation Lecture -- Monumentality en miniature: Toward a Cultural History of Wang Xizhi's "Prayer Ritual for a Good Harvest" Martin Kern - Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University |
Lecture China |
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Monday, Apr. 13th, 2009 Opening Reception for Calligraphy Exhibition -- A Celebration of the Calligraphy of Ch'ung-ho Chang Frankel Ch'ung-ho Chang Frankel (張充和題字選集) |
Performance, Special Event China, Taiwan, Hong Kong |
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Friday, Apr. 10th, 2009 Navigating Contemporary Japanese Buddhism - Priestly Routes Over Rough Terrain Mark Rowe - Assistant Professor of Department of Religious Studies at McMaster University |
Lecture Japan |
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Tuesday, Apr. 7th, 2009 The Information Revolution in China Susan Shirk - Director of Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation, and Ho Miu Lam Endowed Chair in China and Pacific Affairs, University of California at San Diego |
Lecture China, Taiwan, Hong Kong |
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Monday, Apr. 6th, 2009 How to Tell a (Hi)story without Beginning: Critical Thoughts on Japanese Film historiography Roland Domenig - Assistant Professor at the Institute of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna, Austria |
Lecture, Film Japan |
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Friday, Apr. 3rd, 2009 Multimedia Sinography: Chinese Characters and Sounds in Electronic Poetry Michel Hockx - Professor of Chinese, SOAS, University of London; Visiting Professor, EALC Department, Harvard University |
Lecture China, Taiwan, Hong Kong |
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Friday, Apr. 3rd, 2009 Mixed Mobilities: Taxi Drivers and Day Trippers in Kunming, China Beth E. Notar - Associate Professor of Anthropology, Trinity College |
Lecture China |
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Wednesday, Apr. 1st, 2009 Ban the Writer Lu Xun! Wolfgang Kubin - Professor of Sinology, Bonn University |
Lecture China, Taiwan, Hong Kong |
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Tuesday, Mar. 31st, 2009 Todai-Yale Initiative Lecture Series -- The Decline of Particularism in Japanese Politics Gregory Noble - Professor, Institute of Social Science at the University of Tokyo |
Lecture Japan |
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Monday, Mar. 30th, 2009 Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600-1912 Karen Wigen - Associate Professor of History at Stanford University |
Lecture Japan |
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Saturday, Mar. 7th, 2009 Waka Workshop |
Workshop Japan |
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Tuesday, Mar. 3rd, 2009 The Literary Education of the Dramatist Li Yu (李渔) GUO Yingde 郭英德 - Professor of Chinese Literature, Beijing Normal University; Visiting Scholar, Washington University |
Lecture China, Taiwan, Hong Kong |
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Tuesday, Mar. 3rd, 2009 Commerce and Corruption at the Frontier: The Gansu Fraud Scandal (1781) Dr. Elif Akcetin, Postdoctoral Associate, Council on East Asian Studies |
Lecture China |
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Friday, Feb. 27th, 2009 East Asia in Motion: Literature, Cinema, Dance |
Conference, Film, Lecture, Special Event, Performance China, Japan, Korea, Transregional |
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Thursday, Feb. 26th, 2009 The Poetics of Displacement: An 18th-Century Geography of Buddhist Images Patricia Berger - Associate Professor and Chair, History of Art, University of California, Berkeley |
Lecture China, Transregional, Mongolia, Tibet |
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Wednesday, Feb. 25th, 2009 A Cycle of Supermen: Linking Goethe, Nietzsche, Daoist Thinkers and Modern Chinese Intellectuals Dr. Helen Zhang - Postdoctoral Associate, Council on East Asian Studies |
Lecture China, Transregional |
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Monday, Feb. 23rd, 2009 Todai-Yale Initiative Lecture Series -- Asian Way of life Seen through AsiaBarometer Daesong Hyun - Associate Professor, institute of Oriental Culture at University of Tokyo |
Lecture Japan |
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Wednesday, Feb. 18th, 2009 Collections and Recent Archeological Finds in Hunan, China Jianming Chen - Director of Hunan Museum, China |
Lecture China |
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Tuesday, Feb. 17th, 2009 Space and National Identity in Yi Kwangsu's Vision of Korea: the Reinvention of the Hideyoshi Invasions during the Japanese Empire Dr. Ellie Choi - Postdoctoral Associate, Council on East Asian Studies |
Lecture China, Japan, Korea, Transregional |