Past Events 2013-2014

Friday, May. 9th, 2014
Persianate World: A Conceptual Inquiry
Conference
Transregional
Wednesday, Apr. 30th, 2014
Things Left Behind
Film Screening and Q&A with Director Linda Hoaglund
Film
Japan
Friday, Apr. 25th, 2014
Inter-Asia Meeting
Small & Large Group Discussions Around the Concept of "inter-Asia."
Workshop
Transregional
Friday, Apr. 25th, 2014
Five Myths about North Korea
Dr. Sung-Yoon Lee - Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professor in Korean Studies and Assistant Professor, The Fletcher School, Tufts University
Lecture, Special Event
Korea, Transregional
Friday, Apr. 25th, 2014
The Tensions of Global Immigration: What Defines Where People Live?
Special Event
Transregional
Thursday, Apr. 24th, 2014
Competing Transnational Buddhisms: Yu Guanbin's Contribution to Taixu's Buddha-ization Movement in 1920-30s Shanghai
Hwansoo I. Kim - Assistant Professor of Religion, Duke University
Lecture
China, Korea, Transregional
Thursday, Apr. 24th, 2014
Freedom and Fear in Hong Kong Media 香港媒體自由何去何從?
Workshop, Special Event
China, Transregional
Wednesday, Apr. 23rd, 2014
'Believing' (信) in the Song: A Preliminary Report from Work in Progress
Robert Hymes - H. Walpole Carpentier Professor of Chinese History, Columbia University
Lecture
China
Tuesday, Apr. 22nd, 2014
A Touch of Sin
Panel Discussion with Professor Dudley Andrew (Film), Deborah Davis (Sociology), Dr. Mia Liu (CEAS), and Professor Jiwei Xiao (Fairfield University)
Film
China
Monday, Apr. 21st, 2014
Seeing is (Dis)Believing: Theatricality and Truth Claims in the Photographic Culture of Late Qing China
Shengqing Wu - Associate Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures, Wesleyan University
Lecture
China
Thursday, Apr. 17th, 2014
Robbe d’Europa: Global Connections and the Mailing of Letters, Money, and Merchandise in the Eighteenth-Century China Mission (Beijing)
Eugenio Menegon - Associate Professor of Chinese and World History, Department of History, Boston University & Director, Boston University Center for the Study of Asia
Lecture
China, Transregional
Thursday, Apr. 17th, 2014
Who is the 14th Dalai Lama?
Georges Dreyfus - Jackson Professor of Religion, Williams College
Lecture
China, Transregional, Tibet
Monday, Apr. 14th, 2014
Conversion and Exchange: The Gift in the Economy of Conversion in Early Modern Global Missions
Ronnie Hsia - Edwin Earle Sparks Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University
Lecture
Transregional
Monday, Apr. 14th, 2014
From Secret Language to Modern Voices: The Changing Role of Women in Modern China
With keynote performance of Tan Dun’s Nu Shu: The Secret Songs of Women
Conference
China, Transregional
Thursday, Apr. 10th, 2014
The Great East Earthquake and Tsunami: How Breaking News Became a Family Story
Maxine Hughes - BBC News Senior Producer
Lecture
Japan
Wednesday, Apr. 9th, 2014
Pictorial Shanghai (Shanghai huabao, 1925-1933) and Creation of Shanghai’s Modern Visual Culture & A Modern Showcase: Shidai (Modern Miscellany) in 1930s Shanghai
Julia Andrews (The Ohio State University) & Kuiyi Shen (University of California, San Diego)
Lecture
China
Wednesday, Apr. 9th, 2014
The Significance of 'the Frontier' to Japanese History
Workshop
Japan, Transregional
Wednesday, Apr. 9th, 2014
关于敦煌唐代《法华经变》研究的几个问题
WANG Xudong (Deputy Director) and ZHANG Yuanlin (Researcher), Dunhuang Academy
China
Tuesday, Apr. 8th, 2014
The Ghosts Return: History, Memory and International Tensions Between Japan and Its Neighbours
Tessa Morris-Suzuki - Professor of Japanese History, School of Culture, History and Language, College of Asia and the Pacific, the Australian National University
Lecture, Special Event
Japan
Saturday, Apr. 5th, 2014
Addressing Mental Health Issues of Refugee Students: Cultural Perspectives and Care Initiatives
Workshop
Transregional
Thursday, Apr. 3rd, 2014
From Filial Subjects to Loyal Citizens: Representations of the Emperor in Late Imperial and Modern China
Pär Cassel - Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Michigan
Lecture
China
Thursday, Apr. 3rd, 2014
The 14th Dalai Lama and the Politics of Reincarnation in the People's Republic of China
Robert Barnett - Director of the Modern Tibet Studies Program, Adjunct Professor of Contemporary Tibetan Studies, Columbia University
Lecture
China, Transregional, Tibet
Monday, Mar. 31st, 2014
The Conception of “Chinese Lyrical Tradition” (中國抒情傳統論)
Leonard Chan - Chair Professor of Chinese Literature, Dean of Faculty of Humanities, Hong Kong Institute of Education
Lecture
China
Saturday, Mar. 29th, 2014
Engaging Heritage Learners: Meeting the Challenges
Maria Carreira - Professor of Spanish, California State University, Long Beach & Co-Director of the National Heritage Language Resource Center
Workshop
Transregional
Friday, Mar. 28th, 2014
Yale Asian Studies Councils’ Reception (at AAS)
at the Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting in Philadelphia
Special Event
China, Japan, Korea, Transregional, South Asia, Southeast Asia
Friday, Mar. 28th, 2014
Religious Heterodoxy and Modern States
Organizer - Sadia Saeed, Department of Sociology, Yale University
Conference
Transregional
Wednesday, Mar. 26th, 2014
Embodied Histories: New Perspectives on Prostitution and Disease in Modern Japan
A bilingual workshop sponsored by CEAS
Workshop
Japan
Tuesday, Mar. 25th, 2014
Potala: The Palace of the Dalai Lamas
Clare Harris - Institute of Social & Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford
Lecture
China, Transregional, Tibet
Monday, Mar. 24th, 2014
Lyric Truth or Poetic Persona: Reading Wang Zhaoming (1883-1944)
Zhiyi Yang - Junior Professor, Department of Sinology, Goethe University of Frankfurt
Lecture
China
Friday, Mar. 14th, 2014
The 3rd Association of Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS) Himalayan Studies Conference
Conference
Transregional, South Asia

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