Past Events 2008-2009

Thursday, Nov. 6th, 2008
Tokyo Twilight (Tokyo boshoku)
Film
Japan
Thursday, Nov. 6th, 2008
Asian Studies, Memoried Eyes, and the Human Scale
David Plath - Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Lecture, Special Event
Japan
Thursday, Nov. 6th, 2008
Beyond the Iron Rice Bowl: A Symposium on Public Health Interventions and Policy Approaches to New Nutritional Challenges in South China
Conference, Workshop, Lecture, Special Event
China, Hong Kong, Taiwan
Wednesday, Nov. 5th, 2008
We Are the...of Communism (我们是共产主义省略号) & Growing Up (成长)
Film
China
Tuesday, Nov. 4th, 2008
Bamboo Strip Texts and Grave Objects: Sources on the Social History of Early China
Liu Guosheng - Professor of History, Wuhan University; Yan Changgui - Professor of History, Wuhan University; Liu Lexian - Professor of History, Capital Normal University
Lecture, Special Event
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Monday, Nov. 3rd, 2008
Revalorizing Gendered Self-Worth in China's New Age of Private Property
Li Zhang - Professor of Anthropology, University of California at Davis
Lecture
China
Saturday, Nov. 1st, 2008
Epitaph & Save the Green Planet; screenings follwed by lectures on Korean film
Lecture, Film, Special Event
Korea
Friday, Oct. 31st, 2008
A Tale of Two Sisters (2003) & Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance (2002)
Lecture, Film, Special Event
Korea
Thursday, Oct. 30th, 2008
Tokyo Story (Tokyo monogatari)
Film
Japan
Thursday, Oct. 30th, 2008
Todai-Yale Initiative Lecture Series -- On the Role of Policy Interventions in Structural Change and Economic Development: The Case of Japan's Postwar
Esteban-Pretel Julen - Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo
Lecture
Japan
Wednesday, Oct. 29th, 2008
My Dear (亲爱的) & Golden Lotus (中国金莲)
Film
China
Wednesday, Oct. 29th, 2008
Dog at the Gate: Offices of the 'Grassmat Monks'
Tom Hare - Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University
Lecture, Special Event
Japan
Thursday, Oct. 23rd, 2008
There Was a Father (Chichi ariki) & Hen in the Wind (Kaze no naka no mendor)
Film
Japan
Wednesday, Oct. 22nd, 2008
Commemorating Empire, Waging War: The Great Korea Exposition (1940)
Todd Henry - Colorado State
Lecture
Japan, Korea, Transregional
Tuesday, Oct. 21st, 2008
Chinese Vassal or Sovereign Nation? Chosôn Korea's Late-19th Century International Status
Kirk Larsen - Brigham Young University
Lecture
China, Korea, Transregional
Monday, Oct. 20th, 2008
In Search of Lin Zhao's Soul (寻找林昭的灵魂)
Hu Jie 胡杰 - Director
Film, Special Event
China
Monday, Oct. 20th, 2008
Todai-Yale Initiative Lecture Series -- Education for 21st Century Japan: Political Economy of Reform Initiatives
Motohisa Kaneko - Tokyo University
Lecture
Japan
Friday, Oct. 17th, 2008
Rivers and Rice: What Lawyers and Legal Historians Should Know about Medieval Japan
John Owen Haley - William R. Orthwein Distinguished Professor of Law, Washington University
Lecture, Special Event
Japan
Friday, Oct. 17th, 2008
China Workshop -- English-language Source Materials for Research on Modern China
Chi-Wah Chan - Librarian for the Chinese Collection, East Asia Library; Diane Kaplan - Manuscripts & Archives, Sterling Memorial Library; Martha Smalley - Special Collections Librarian, Divinity Library
Workshop
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Friday, Oct. 17th, 2008
Distant Divides and Intimate Connections: Migrant Domestic Workers' Protest in Hong Kong
Nicole Constable - Professor of Anthropology, University of Pittsburgh
Lecture
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Thursday, Oct. 16th, 2008
“Suffering Everlasting Sorrow in Chang’an’s ‘Everlasting Tranquility’”: The Poetics of Japanese Missions to the Tang Court
Wiebke Denecke - Assistant Professor in the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College
Lecture
Japan
Tuesday, Oct. 14th, 2008
Gender and Japan's International Relations
Yumiko Mikanagi - International Christian University, Division Social Science
Lecture
Japan, Transregional
Monday, Oct. 13th, 2008
Research on Modern Chinese Literature -- A Conversational Presentation
A Delegation of Scholars from Shanghai-area universities will discuss their current work
Special Event
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong
Thursday, Oct. 9th, 2008
Walk Cheerfully (Hogaraka ni ayume) & The Only Son (Hitori musuko)
Film
Japan
Wednesday, Oct. 8th, 2008
Politics and Pageantry in Protectorate Korea: Emperor Sunjong's Imperial Progresses of 1909
Christine Kim - School of Foreign Service and Department of History, Georgetown University
Lecture
Korea
Tuesday, Oct. 7th, 2008
Wilbur Lucius Cross Medal Lecture -- Creating a Low-Carbon Society in Japan: Role of a Politician
Yoriko Kawaguchi - Member of the House of Councillors, Japan
Lecture, Special Event
Japan, Transregional
Saturday, Oct. 4th, 2008
Luxury Car (Jiang Cheng Xia Ri)
Film, Special Event
China
Friday, Oct. 3rd, 2008
An International Symposium -- The Olympics in East Asia: Nationalism, Regionalism and Globalism on the Center Stage of World Sports
Conference, Workshop, Special Event
China, Japan, Korea, Transregional
Thursday, Oct. 2nd, 2008
The Lady and the Beard (Shukujo to hige), I Flunked, But... (Rakudai wa shita keredo) & I Graduated, But... (Daigaku wa deta keredo)
Film
Japan
Tuesday, Sep. 30th, 2008
Reconstructing Chinese Cultural Identities in an Age of Globalization
WANG Ning
Lecture
China, Taiwan, Hong Kong

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