Past Events

Saturday, Apr. 8th, 2023
Harmonium (2016, Fukada Koji) Film Screening
Fukada Koji - Director
Film
Japan
Saturday, Apr. 8th, 2023
Lunch Session with Japanese Director, Fukada Koji (English & Japanese)
Fukada Koji - Director
Workshop
Japan
Thursday, Apr. 6th, 2023
Nature and Artifice: Korean Munbangdo Painting
Eleanor Soo-ah Hyun - Associate Curator for Korean Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lecture
Korea
Tuesday, Apr. 4th, 2023
The Making of North Korean Americans in the Afterlife of Cold War Cultural Politics
Na-Rae Kim - University of Connecticut, Assistant Professor in Residence and Associate Director for Asian and Asian American Studies Institute
Lecture
Korea, Transregional
Tuesday, Apr. 4th, 2023
The Story of a Hiroshima Atom Bomb Survivor
Toshiko Tanaka, Reiko Tashiro
Lecture, Special Event
Japan
Monday, Apr. 3rd, 2023
Who was a “Refugee”?: Returnees, Northerners, and Relief Societies in Liberated South Korea, 1945-50
Alyssa Park - Associate Professor, University of Iowa
Lecture
Korea
Friday, Mar. 31st, 2023
The Cost of "Normalcy": Updating Japan’s National Security
Richard J. Samuels - Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director, MIT Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lecture, Special Event
Japan
Thursday, Mar. 30th, 2023
Verbal Arts of Japan - Rakugo & Rôkyoku Performances
Special Event, Performance
Japan
Monday, Mar. 27th, 2023
The Importance of K-Pop to the Sociology of Asian Americans and Music
Grace Kao - IBM Professor of Sociology; Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration (by Courtesy); Faculty Director, Education Studies; Director of CERSI, Yale University
Lecture
Korea
Friday, Mar. 17th, 2023
Asian Studies Councils' Reception at AAS
Special Event
Thursday, Mar. 9th, 2023
Half-emptiness: Aspiration and Angst of the Chinese Dream in Rural China
Min-hua Ling - Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study 2022-2023
Lecture
China
Thursday, Mar. 9th, 2023
Lecture and Korean Shamanic Ritual (Gut)
Dr. Helena Soholm - Transpersonal Psychologist and Korean Shaman
Lecture, Performance
Korea, Transregional
Tuesday, Mar. 7th, 2023
From Community of Resistance to Community of Suffering: Hong Kong Struggles for Democracy
Kin-man Chan - Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, National Chengchi University of Taiwan
Lecture, Special Event
China, Hong Kong
Tuesday, Mar. 7th, 2023
Nanjido: (Un)covering the Trash Mountains
Se-Mi Oh - Assistant Professor of Modern Korean History, University of Michigan
Lecture
Korea
Monday, Mar. 6th, 2023
Divinity School Bartlett Lecture on East Asian Theologies
Lecture, Special Event
Transregional
Sunday, Mar. 5th, 2023
Something Like It (の・ようなもの) Film Screening
Film
Japan
Thursday, Mar. 2nd, 2023
Memory Politics, Fear of Technology and Gallows Humor in Traditional Japanese Comedy, Rakugo
Esra-Gökçe Şahin - Visiting Researcher, Bahçeşehir University
Lecture
Japan
Wednesday, Mar. 1st, 2023
Liberal International Norms and Restrictive Domestic Institutions: Politics of Refugee Reception in South Korea
Angela McClean - Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in Sociology
Lecture
Korea
Tuesday, Feb. 28th, 2023
Home Meals in Global Korea: Gendered Labor in the Age of Neoliberalism
Hyaeweol Choi - C. Maxwell and Elizabeth M. Stanley Family and Korea Foundation Chair in Korean Studies, University of Iowa
Lecture
Korea
Tuesday, Feb. 28th, 2023
Polly Barton - Translation Master Class #1
Polly Barton - Translator and Writer
Workshop, Lecture
Japan
Saturday, Feb. 25th, 2023
Decision to Leave Film Screening
Film
Korea
Wednesday, Feb. 22nd, 2023
The Chinese Government’s Systematic Destruction of Uyghur Cultural Heritage
Alim Alp - Visiting Associate Research Scholar in East Asian Studies, Yale University
Lecture
China
Friday, Feb. 17th, 2023
The Ancient Cultural Exchange of Korea and Eurasia
Myung chul Youn - Professor Emeritus of History, Dongguk University; Professor of Archeology, Samarkand State University of Uzbekistan
Lecture, Special Event
Korea
Thursday, Feb. 16th, 2023
Two Archipelagoes and One Planet: Writer-Activist Michiko Ishimure's Island-Sea Poetics
Christine Marran - Professor of Japanese Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Minnesota
Lecture
Japan
Wednesday, Feb. 15th, 2023
Thousands of Years of Korean History: Birth and Growth
Myung chul Youn - Professor Emeritus of History, Dongguk University; Professor of Archeology, Samarkand State University of Uzbekistan
Lecture, Special Event
Korea
Monday, Feb. 13th, 2023
Suzuki Seijun and Nikkatsu Studio
Will Carroll - Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Alberta
Lecture
Japan
Sunday, Feb. 12th, 2023
Satan's Town 悪魔の街 (1956) Film Screening
Film
Japan
Wednesday, Feb. 8th, 2023
Virtual Program, E-Lecture, Buddhas, Guardians, and Guides: How to Read Tibetan Paintings
Denise Patry Leidy - Ruth and Bruce Dayton Curator of Asian Art, Head of the Department of Asian Art, Yale University Art Gallery
Lecture
Transregional, Tibet
Wednesday, Feb. 8th, 2023
Tokugawa Hidetada's Last Months
Reinier H. Hesselink - Professor of History, University of Northern Iowa
Lecture
Japan
Monday, Feb. 6th, 2023
Postwar Jidaigeki’s Political Thought
Junko Yamazaki - Assistant Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA
Lecture
Japan

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