Past Events 2014-2015
Thursday, Nov. 20th, 2014 Abel-Rémusat and the Secret History of Sinology’s Origins Mark Elliott - Mark Schwartz Professor of Chinese and Inner Asian History, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations & Department of History, Harvard University; Director, Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies |
Lecture China, Transregional |
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Wednesday, Nov. 19th, 2014 Grounding Democracy in Inscription Technology: The Invention of the Stenographic Typewriter and Japan’s Postwar Legal Reform Miyako Inoue - Associate Professor, Department of Cultural and Social Anthropology, Stanford University |
Lecture Japan |
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Tuesday, Nov. 18th, 2014 Some Sufferings Are More Equal Than Others: Inequality and Memory of China's Zhiqing Generation Bin Xu - CEAS Postdoctoral Associate & Lecturer in Sociology |
Lecture China |
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Thursday, Nov. 13th, 2014 Tokugawa Ieyasu's Silver Telescope: A Gift from King James I, and the Meaning of Artistic Exchange Between England and Japan, 1613-1623 Timon Screech - Professor of the History of Art, SOAS, University of London |
Lecture, Special Event Japan, Transregional |
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Tuesday, Nov. 11th, 2014 A Special Screening of "Lessons in Dissent" followed by Q&A with Director Matthew Torne Matthew Torne - Director |
Film China, Hong Kong |
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Tuesday, Nov. 11th, 2014 A Mushroom’s Perspective on Chinese Environmental History Jonathan Schlesinger - CEAS Postdoctoral Associate & Lecturer in History |
Lecture China |
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Friday, Nov. 7th, 2014 Between Truth and Accuracy: Nature Knowledge in Late Tokugawa Japan Federico Marcon - Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University |
Lecture Japan |
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Thursday, Nov. 6th, 2014 China Workshop 2014: English-Language Resources for Research in the China Field Panel Discussion of English Language Primary Resources at Yale for Research on China |
Workshop China |
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Tuesday, Nov. 4th, 2014 Urbanism, Signs, and the Everyday in Contemporary South Korean Cities Seunghan Paek - CEAS Postdoctoral Associate & Lecturer in East Asian Studies |
Lecture Korea |
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Monday, Nov. 3rd, 2014 Konbini Cuisine: Towards a Gastronomy of Japan’s Convenience Culture Gavin H. Whitelaw - Associate Professor of Anthropology, International Christian University; 2014-2015 Visiting Scholar, Reischauer Institute, Harvard University |
Lecture Japan |
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Thursday, Oct. 30th, 2014 The Buddha’s Footprint: An Environmental History of Asia Johan Elverskog - Altshuler University Distinguished Teaching Professor & Chair of Religious Studies, Southern Methodist University |
Lecture China, Transregional, Mongolia, South Asia, Southeast Asia, Tibet |
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Tuesday, Oct. 28th, 2014 Examining the Life of Oyabe Zen’ichirō: The New Formation of Modern Japanese Identity at the Turn of the Twentieth Century Kazumi Hasegawa - CEAS Postdoctoral Associate & Lecturer in History |
Lecture Japan |
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Monday, Oct. 20th, 2014 Nomads and Climate in Chinese History: Scientific Arguments and New Perspectives Nicola Di Cosmo - Henry Luce Foundation Professor of East Asian History, Institute for Advanced Study School of Historical Studies |
Lecture China, Transregional, Mongolia |
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Thursday, Oct. 16th, 2014 8th Annual CHINA Town Hall A Special Webcast and Panel Discussion on U.S.-China Relations |
Conference, Special Event China, Transregional |
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Thursday, Oct. 16th, 2014 The Quan Tang shi and Topic Modeling: An Experiment in Macroscopic Literary Analysis Jack W. Chen - Associate Professor, Chinese Poetry and Thought, Asian Languages & Cultures, UCLA |
Lecture China |
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Wednesday, Oct. 15th, 2014 The Untold History of the United States (2012) - Episode 3: The Bomb (60 mins) Oliver Stone - Academy Award-winning Director & Peter Kuznick - Professor of History, American University |
Film, Lecture, Special Event Japan, Transregional |
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Wednesday, Oct. 15th, 2014 Who Owns the South China Sea? Bill Hayton - Senior Journalist, BBC; Researcher and Author |
Lecture China, Transregional, Southeast Asia |
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Friday, Oct. 10th, 2014 Landgrabs in Wukan Village, China: Identity Building and Communal Resistance Shenjing He - Department of Urban & Regional Planning, Sun Yat-sen University |
Lecture China, Transregional |
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Friday, Oct. 10th, 2014 Hōkō onchi: Way-finding and the Emergence of 'Directional Tone-Deafness' in Japan Joshua Roth - Professor of Anthropology, Mount Holyoke College |
Lecture Japan |
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Thursday, Oct. 2nd, 2014 “Leftover” Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China Leta Hong Fincher - Author, Journalist & Recent Ph.D. from Tsinghua University |
Lecture, Special Event China |
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Wednesday, Oct. 1st, 2014 Guarding Press Freedoms in the New Gilded Age: The Challenge of China Michael Forsythe - Correspondent, New York Times |
Lecture, Special Event China, Transregional, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Tibet |
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Tuesday, Sep. 30th, 2014 Following the Money in Chinese Politics Michael Forsythe - Correspondent, New York Times |
Lecture, Special Event China |
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Friday, Sep. 26th, 2014 Crying the Nation: Diva Misora Hibari and Affective Citizenship in Japan Christine R. Yano - Professor of Anthropology, University of Hawai’i-Manoa; 2014-2015 Visiting Professor, Harvard University |
Lecture Japan |
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Monday, Sep. 22nd, 2014 “Orientally Yours”: Anna May Wong’s Linguistic Cosmopolitanism and “Oriental” Act Yiman Wang - Associate Professor, Film & Digital Media, University of California, Santa Cruz |
Lecture China, Transregional |
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Thursday, Sep. 18th, 2014 The Lyrical in Epic Time: The Stories of Shen Congwen and Feng Zhi David Der-wei Wang - Edward C. Henderson Professor of Chinese Literature, Harvard University & Director of CCK Foundation Inter-University Center for Sinological Studies |
Lecture, Special Event China |
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Wednesday, Sep. 17th, 2014 Sounds of Music from North Korea A Concert with Professor Cheol Woong Kim, Pianist and North Korean Refugee |
Special Event, Performance Korea, Transregional |
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Monday, Sep. 15th, 2014 The Asian Modernities of Western Modernisms Christopher Bush - Associate Professor of French & Program Director, Comparative Literary Studies, Northwestern University & R. John Williams - Assistant Professor, Department of English, Yale University |
Workshop China, Japan |
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Tuesday, Sep. 9th, 2014 CEAS Fall 2014 Welcome Reception |
Special Event China, Japan, Korea, Transregional |
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Friday, Jul. 25th, 2014 Using Historical Maps to do Research LI Xiaocong - Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Peking University |
Workshop China |
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Friday, Jul. 11th, 2014 Ewha-Yale Conference: “Korean Literature, Art, and Film from 1910 to 1945” |
Conference Korea |