Past Events 2015-2016

Monday, May. 9th, 2016
Contemplating the Rise of Asian Cities: Workshop and Plenary Session
Ananya Roy - University of California, Los Angeles & Neil Brenner - Harvard Graduate School of Design
Workshop
China, Transregional, South Asia, Southeast Asia
Saturday, May. 7th, 2016
Yale Project on Japan’s Politics and Diplomacy 2016 International Conference
Conference
Japan
Thursday, May. 5th, 2016
New Frontiers of Eurasian Comparisons: Practices, Opportunities, Dirty Truths
Wiebke Denecke - Professor of Chinese, Japanese, and Comparative Literature, Boston University
Lecture
China, Japan, Transregional
Tuesday, May. 3rd, 2016
In Another Country
Film
Korea
Tuesday, May. 3rd, 2016
China and Japan: Nara to Now
Ezra Vogel - Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University
Lecture
China, Japan
Friday, Apr. 29th, 2016
The MacMillan Center International Film Festival: Though I Am Gone (China, 2006)
Film
China
Thursday, Apr. 28th, 2016
The MacMillan Center International Film Festival: Poetry (South Korea, 2010)
Film
Korea
Friday, Apr. 22nd, 2016
The Role of Women in Japanese Society: Three Generations of Women in My Family
Nobuko Sasae - Conference Interpreter
Lecture
Japan
Tuesday, Apr. 19th, 2016
Chi-hwa-seon
Film
Korea
Tuesday, Apr. 19th, 2016
The Rise of Post-Umbrella Movement: Political Forces in the New Era
Joshua Wong - Co-Founder, Demosisto
Lecture
China
Tuesday, Apr. 19th, 2016
Appropriation and the Objects of Tea in Sixteenth-Century Japan
Andrew Watsky - Professor of Japanese Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
Lecture
Japan
Monday, Apr. 18th, 2016
Japanese Cinema and France: Who Gets to Calibrate? (A Ghostwritten History)
Stephen Sarrazin - Film and Media Art Critic
Lecture
Japan
Friday, Apr. 15th, 2016
Know before You Go: Researching East Asia in US - Part IV. East Asia Library, Stanford University
Jidong Yang - Director
Lecture
China, Japan
Friday, Apr. 15th, 2016
Dirty Sexy Haiku: Senryū, Bareku, and the Perversification of Haikai
Adam Kern - Professor of East Asian Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lecture
Japan
Thursday, Apr. 14th, 2016
"And the Subtle Words Were Cut Off": Loss and Recovery in Early Chinese Buddhist Narratives on the Formation of the Canon
Stefano Zacchetti - Yehan Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies, Oxford University
China
Thursday, Apr. 14th, 2016
The Memory of War
Viet Nguyen - Associate Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
Lecture
Transregional
Monday, Apr. 11th, 2016
Dismantling Developmentalism: Japan’s Political and Economic Struggles After Achieving Success
T. J. Pempel - Jack M. Forcey Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Japan
Friday, Apr. 8th, 2016
Know before You Go: Researching East Asia in US - Part III. C.V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley
Jianye He - Librarian for the Chinese Collection; Toshie Marra - Librarian for the Japanese Collection
Lecture
China, Japan
Thursday, Apr. 7th, 2016
Decoding the European Image: Hollandology, Emblems, and Western World Views in Early Modern Japan
Ivo Smits - Professor of Arts and Cultures of Japan, Leiden University
Japan
Wednesday, Apr. 6th, 2016
China's New Frontiers: Rethinking Silk Roads
Ge Jianxiong - Professor, Institute of Chinese Historical Geography, Fudan University
Special Event
China, Transregional
Tuesday, Apr. 5th, 2016
A Girl at My Door
Film
Korea
Tuesday, Apr. 5th, 2016
Soil and Society on the Loess Plateau, c. 1850s-1950s: A History from the Bottom Up
Micah Muscolino - Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, Oxford University
Lecture
China
Monday, Apr. 4th, 2016
Memory Against Forgetting: The Work of the Dui Hua Foundation
John Kamm - Founder and Chairman, The Dui Hua Foundation
Lecture
China
Monday, Apr. 4th, 2016
Move, Connect, Exchange
Tulasi Srinivas - Emerson College; Pamela Corey - SOAS; & Eric Tagliacozzo - Cornell University
Workshop
China, Transregional, South Asia, Southeast Asia
Monday, Mar. 28th, 2016
Chinese Theories of Fiction and the Creation of Transcultural Theories of Fiction
Lena Rydholm - Professor of Chinese, Uppsala University
Lecture
China
Thursday, Mar. 10th, 2016
"Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron" - Kumokiri Nizaemon
Film
Japan
Thursday, Mar. 10th, 2016
The Nara Court Under Buddhism: The Religious Side of Political History in Ancient Japan
Bryan Lowe - Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University
Lecture
Japan
Thursday, Mar. 10th, 2016
Know before You Go: Researching East Asia in US - Part II, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University
Chengzhi Wang - Chinese Studies Librarian; Sachie Noguchi - Japanese Studies Librarian
Lecture
China, Japan
Tuesday, Mar. 8th, 2016
Sky-Blue Hometown
Film
Korea
Tuesday, Mar. 8th, 2016
Natural History, Satire, and the Politics of Hell
Alessandro Bianchi - Postdoctoral Fellow, Freer | Sackler Galleries of Art, Smithsonian Institution
Lecture
Japan

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