Past Events 2011-2012

Tuesday, Apr. 24th, 2012
MacMillan Comparative Politics Workshop -- "Exit" as Voice: Regime-Reinforcing Noncompliance in Rural China
Lily Tsai - Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT
Workshop, Lecture
China
Thursday, Apr. 19th, 2012
Embodying Guanyin through Hairpins as a Means of Transcendence
Li Yuhang - Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies, Yale University
Lecture
China
Tuesday, Apr. 10th, 2012
Reclaiming the Orient: Japanese Cinema and the Politics of Transnationality, 1952-1964
Hiroshi Kitamura - Associate Professor of History, William & Mary
Lecture
Japan
Monday, Apr. 9th, 2012
War, Water, Power: An Environmental History of Henan's Yellow River Flood Area, 1938-1952
Micah Muscolino - Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University
Lecture
China
Friday, Apr. 6th, 2012
Suicide, Mental Resilience and Meaning in Life in Japan
Chikako Ozawa-de Silva - Associate Professor of Anthropology, Emory University
Lecture
Japan
Wednesday, Apr. 4th, 2012
Journeys to the West: Buddhism and the Japanese World Map
D. Max Moerman - Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College
Lecture
Japan
Friday, Mar. 30th, 2012
Todai-Yale Initiative Symposium -- Japan and China for Four Decades: Cooperation and Competition since 1972
Conference
Japan
Thursday, Mar. 29th, 2012
Todai-Yale Initiative Junior Scholar Conference -- Discovering Japan in the United States
Conference
Japan
Tuesday, Mar. 27th, 2012
Conservation and Development in the Himalaya and Tibet -- a WWF Perspective
Jon Miceler - Managing Director, Eastern Himalayas Program, World Wildlife Fund US
Lecture, Special Event
China
Tuesday, Mar. 27th, 2012
Governing Educational Desire: Culture, Politics and Schooling in China
Andrew Kipnis - Senior Fellow in the (CAP) Department of Anthropology at the Australian National University
Lecture
China
Tuesday, Mar. 27th, 2012
Responding to 3.11: Preserving History in the Wake of Disaster
Hiroshi Okumura, Helen Hardacre, and Konrad Lawson
Lecture, Special Event
Japan
Tuesday, Mar. 27th, 2012
Constructing Commonality: Standardization and Modernization in Chinese Nation-Building
Andrew Kipnis - Senior Fellow in the (CAP) Department of Anthropology at the Australian National University
Workshop
China
Monday, Mar. 26th, 2012
The Increasing Significance of "Guanxi" in Chinese Transitional Economy
Yanjie Bian - Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota
Lecture
China
Monday, Mar. 26th, 2012
Japanese History Lecture Series -- Tsuneno's Journey: Gender, Microhistory, and the Limits of the Ordinary in Tokugawa Japan
Amy Stanley - Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University
Lecture
Japan
Monday, Mar. 26th, 2012
City and Region in Japanese History -- Special Three Day Symposium
Conference, Special Event
Japan
Friday, Mar. 23rd, 2012
Japan History Lecture Series -- Benevolence, Charity, and Duty: Famine Relief and Local Society in Early Modern Japan
Maren Ehlers - Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Lecture
Japan
Wednesday, Mar. 21st, 2012
Before and After Superflat: Contemporary Art in the Post-Bubble, Post-Disaster Society
Adrian Favell - Professor of Sociology, Sciences Po, Paris
Lecture
Japan
Monday, Mar. 19th, 2012
Shrine, Church, and State “Teaching” and “Religion” in Prewar Japan
Kate Wildman Nakai - Professor Emerita, Sophia University
Lecture, Special Event
Japan
Friday, Mar. 2nd, 2012
Fukushima's Victories and Victims: Contemplating Alliances Between Japanese Soccer, the State, and Nuclear Power
Elise Edwards - Associate Professor of Anthropology, Butler University
Lecture
Japan
Thursday, Mar. 1st, 2012
Elite Upheavals: Upward and Downward Trajectories of China's Social Elites in the Resistance War
Diana Lary - Professor Emerita of History Department, University of British Columbia
Lecture
China
Monday, Feb. 27th, 2012
Sima Qian's Narratives on Assassins / 司馬遷筆下的刺客與刺客外傳
Chi-hsiang Lee(李纪祥) - Professor of Chinese History/Dean of the College of Humanities, Fo Guang University, Taiwan
Lecture
China
Friday, Feb. 17th, 2012
Doing Media Anthropology in China: Production, Reception, Fandom, Ethnography
Louisa Schein - Professor of Anthropology and Gender & Women's Studies, Rutgers University
Lecture
China
Thursday, Feb. 16th, 2012
The 'Rise' of China: A Metaphor for Americans
Bruce Cumings - Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History and the College, University of Chicago
Lecture
China, Transregional
Wednesday, Feb. 15th, 2012
Disaster, Development, and Democracy: Japan after 3-11
Mary Alice Haddad - Associate Professor of Government, East Asian Studies; Wesleyan University
Lecture
Japan
Saturday, Feb. 11th, 2012
Kochiyama Soshun (河内山宗俊), Flowers Have Fallen (花ちりぬ) & Closing Symposium
Film, Special Event
Japan
Friday, Feb. 10th, 2012
Sendaihagi (先代萩 御殿の場 義大夫出語), An Unforgettable Grudge (長恨[部分) & A Diary of Chuji's Travels (忠次旅日記[トータル・イマーション版)
Film
Japan
Wednesday, Feb. 8th, 2012
Vessels of Influence: The Formation of the Porcelain Industry in Japan
Dr. Nicole Rousmaniere - Director of the Sainsbury Institute, 2nd year of secondment at the British Museum
Lecture, Special Event
Japan
Monday, Feb. 6th, 2012
Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
Ezra Vogel - Henry Ford II Research Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
Lecture
China
Sunday, Feb. 5th, 2012
Cannot Live Without You
Film
Taiwan
Sunday, Feb. 5th, 2012
Cape No. 7
Film
Taiwan

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