Past Events 2013-2014
Wednesday, Mar. 5th, 2014 Sōseki’s Diversity: Thoughts on Canonicity in Japanese Literary Studies Keith Vincent - Associate Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature, Boston University; Toyota Visiting Professorship in Japanese Studies, University of Michigan |
Lecture Japan |
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Tuesday, Mar. 4th, 2014 Wives, Husbands, and Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban China Deborah Davis - Professor of Sociology |
Lecture China, Transregional, Hong Kong, Taiwan |
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Monday, Mar. 3rd, 2014 Kabuki Performance Workshop: Exercises in Voice, Dance, Sword-play Laurence Kominz - Professor of Japanese, Portland State University |
Workshop Japan |
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Saturday, Mar. 1st, 2014 From Belles Lettres to the Academy: In Celebration of Kang-i Sun Chang Haun Saussy (University of Chicago) & Wang Ao (Wesleyan University) |
Lecture, Special Event China |
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Saturday, Mar. 1st, 2014 Glocalization: Students and Local Districts in a Borderless Society Featuring Japan’s Knowledge Investment Programs and Nayan Chanda (YaleGlobal Online) |
Conference, Lecture, Special Event Japan, Transregional |
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Friday, Feb. 28th, 2014 Magarikado: Kabuki at the Crossroads, 1952-1965 Samuel L. Leiter - Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Theatre, Brooklyn College and The Graduate Center, CUNY |
Lecture Japan |
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Friday, Feb. 28th, 2014 Japanese Theater Symposium at Yale |
Workshop, Special Event Japan |
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Tuesday, Feb. 25th, 2014 Japanese Culture and the Appreciation of Byōbu Hiroyuki Shimatani - Vice Executive Director, Tokyo National Museum |
Lecture, Special Event Japan |
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Friday, Feb. 21st, 2014 New Perspectives on Early Korean Art: From Silla to Koryŏ Youn-mi Kim - Assistant Professor, History of Art |
Lecture Korea |
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Friday, Feb. 21st, 2014 Amidst the Shadows: A Glance at the Inner Court Secretariat of the Song Period (掩映之間: 宋代尚書内省管窺) Xiaonan Deng - Professor of History at Peking University; Chairperson of Chinese Society for the Song Studies |
Lecture China |
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Thursday, Feb. 20th, 2014 Revolt Against the Elites: The Rise of Populism From Thailand to the Tea Party Ian Buruma - Professor of Human Rights and Journalism, Bard College; Writer, Guardian |
Lecture, Special Event China, Japan, Korea, Transregional, Southeast Asia |
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Thursday, Feb. 20th, 2014 The Creation of a Chinese Buddhist Pantheon: The Paired Worship of Guanyin and Dizang Chun-fang Yu - Sheng Yen Professor Emerita in Chinese Buddhist Studies, Religion and EALAC, Columbia University |
Lecture China |
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Wednesday, Feb. 19th, 2014 From Geisha to Activist: The Many Lives of Sumiya Koume (1850-1920) Marnie Anderson - Associate Professor, Department of History, Smith College |
Lecture Japan |
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Wednesday, Feb. 19th, 2014 Shifting Virtue Towards a Sustainable Qing David Bello - Associate Professor of History, Director of East Asian Studies, Washington and Lee University |
Lecture China |
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Tuesday, Feb. 18th, 2014 The Secret Life of the 6th Dalai Lama, Poet and Libertine Eric Mortensen - Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Guilford College |
Lecture China, Transregional, Tibet |
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Tuesday, Feb. 11th, 2014 Borderlands Business: Merchants, Mobility, and Neo-traditional Modernity in Southwest China Pat Giersch - Associate Professor of History, Wellesley College |
Lecture China |
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Monday, Feb. 10th, 2014 Hands of a Goze: The Tactile Culture of Visually-impaired People in Modern Japan Kojiro Hirose - Associate Professor, School of Cultural & Social Studies, Graduate University for Advanced Studies (Osaka); Associate Professor, Department of Cultural Research, National Museum of Ethnology (Japan); Visiting Scholar, University of Chicago |
Lecture Japan |
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Thursday, Feb. 6th, 2014 What Drives Chinese Foreign Policy: Vulnerability or Ambition? Andrew Nathan - Class of 1919 Professor of Political Science, Columbia University |
Lecture, Special Event China |
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Saturday, Feb. 1st, 2014 Lunarfest |
Special Event, Performance China, Transregional |
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Friday, Jan. 31st, 2014 The Yogin and the Madman: On Writing and Reading Tibet's Greatest Liberation Tale Andrew Quintman - Assistant Professor of Religious Studies |
Lecture China, Transregional, South Asia, Tibet |
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Thursday, Jan. 30th, 2014 Lymph and Lancets, Scabs and Scalpels: Crossovers between Chinese Style Variolation and Jennerian Vaccination Michele Thompson - Professor of Southeast Asian History, Southern Connecticut State University |
Lecture China, Japan, Transregional, Macau, Southeast Asia |
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Wednesday, Jan. 29th, 2014 Ladylike Religion: On Family, Gender, and Devotion in the Heian Period Heather Blair - Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Indiana University |
Lecture Japan |
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Tuesday, Jan. 28th, 2014 CEAS Lunar New Year Reception & Website Launch |
Special Event China, Japan, Korea, Transregional |
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Tuesday, Dec. 10th, 2013 Jamesian Precisions in Natsume Sōseki: Contending with 'Light and Dark' John Nathan - Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara |
Lecture Japan |
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Thursday, Dec. 5th, 2013 The Crucible of Self: Diary Writing in Wartime Japan, 1937-1945 Dr. Aaron Moore - Lecturer in East Asian History, University of Manchester |
Lecture Japan |
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Monday, Dec. 2nd, 2013 Study Break Chat - Blocked on Weibo Jason Q. Ng - Author; Google Policy Fellow, The Citizen Lab, University of Toronto |
Special Event China |
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Thursday, Nov. 21st, 2013 Tradition and Socialism-Art and Archaeology in North Korea Dr. Jane Portal - Matsutaro Chair of the Art of Asia, Oceania and Africa, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston |
Lecture Korea |
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Tuesday, Nov. 19th, 2013 Buddha Mountain 观音山 |
Film China |
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Monday, Nov. 18th, 2013 Film Exhibition Culture in Osaka, 1896-1926: The Cultural Geography of Movie Theaters Keiko Sasagawa - Associate Professor, Humanities Department of Film & Media Studies, Kansai University; Visiting Scholar, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University |
Lecture Japan |
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Friday, Nov. 15th, 2013 Rethinking the Literati: a New Paradigm for Song Dynasty History Charles Hartman - Professor of Chinese Studies, State University of New York at Albany |
Lecture China |