Past Events

Monday, Sep. 17th, 2012
Reading, Writing, and Intertextuality in Early Medieval China: The Case of Sun Chuo
Wendy Swartz - Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, Rutgers University
Lecture
China
Monday, Sep. 17th, 2012
Mapping Japanese History: Space Power, Representation
Workshop, Lecture
Japan
Friday, Sep. 14th, 2012
Athleticism, A Global Ideology: From Cultural Imperialism to Cultural Hegemony?
J.A. Mangan - Professor Emeritus, University of Strathclyde and Adjunct Professor, Cairns Institute, James Cook University
Lecture, Special Event
China, Japan, Korea, Transregional
Friday, Sep. 14th, 2012
The New Geopolitics of Sport in East Asia Workshop
Workshop
China, Japan, Korea, Transregional
Wednesday, Sep. 12th, 2012
“China is Far, Far Way": Nineteenth-Century Indian Convict Tales From Singapore
Anand Yang - Professor of International Studies and History, University of Washington
Lecture, Special Event
China, Transregional
Tuesday, Sep. 11th, 2012
The Art of Bourgeois Culture in Kamakura
Laura Hein - Professor of History, Northwestern University
Lecture, Special Event
Japan
Tuesday, Aug. 28th, 2012
The Birth of the Japanese Illustrated Book: Screen Painting and the Kōetsu Sanjūrokkasen (“The Kōetsu Thirty-Six Immortal Poets”)
Dr. Jun Suzuki - National Institute of Japanese Literature
Lecture, Special Event
Japan
Tuesday, Apr. 24th, 2012
MacMillan Comparative Politics Workshop -- "Exit" as Voice: Regime-Reinforcing Noncompliance in Rural China
Lily Tsai - Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT
Workshop, Lecture
China
Thursday, Apr. 19th, 2012
Embodying Guanyin through Hairpins as a Means of Transcendence
Li Yuhang - Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies, Yale University
Lecture
China
Tuesday, Apr. 10th, 2012
Reclaiming the Orient: Japanese Cinema and the Politics of Transnationality, 1952-1964
Hiroshi Kitamura - Associate Professor of History, William & Mary
Lecture
Japan
Monday, Apr. 9th, 2012
War, Water, Power: An Environmental History of Henan's Yellow River Flood Area, 1938-1952
Micah Muscolino - Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University
Lecture
China
Friday, Apr. 6th, 2012
Suicide, Mental Resilience and Meaning in Life in Japan
Chikako Ozawa-de Silva - Associate Professor of Anthropology, Emory University
Lecture
Japan
Wednesday, Apr. 4th, 2012
Journeys to the West: Buddhism and the Japanese World Map
D. Max Moerman - Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College
Lecture
Japan
Friday, Mar. 30th, 2012
Todai-Yale Initiative Symposium -- Japan and China for Four Decades: Cooperation and Competition since 1972
Conference
Japan
Thursday, Mar. 29th, 2012
Todai-Yale Initiative Junior Scholar Conference -- Discovering Japan in the United States
Conference
Japan
Tuesday, Mar. 27th, 2012
Conservation and Development in the Himalaya and Tibet -- a WWF Perspective
Jon Miceler - Managing Director, Eastern Himalayas Program, World Wildlife Fund US
Lecture, Special Event
China
Tuesday, Mar. 27th, 2012
Governing Educational Desire: Culture, Politics and Schooling in China
Andrew Kipnis - Senior Fellow in the (CAP) Department of Anthropology at the Australian National University
Lecture
China
Tuesday, Mar. 27th, 2012
Responding to 3.11: Preserving History in the Wake of Disaster
Hiroshi Okumura, Helen Hardacre, and Konrad Lawson
Lecture, Special Event
Japan
Tuesday, Mar. 27th, 2012
Constructing Commonality: Standardization and Modernization in Chinese Nation-Building
Andrew Kipnis - Senior Fellow in the (CAP) Department of Anthropology at the Australian National University
Workshop
China
Monday, Mar. 26th, 2012
The Increasing Significance of "Guanxi" in Chinese Transitional Economy
Yanjie Bian - Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota
Lecture
China
Monday, Mar. 26th, 2012
Japanese History Lecture Series -- Tsuneno's Journey: Gender, Microhistory, and the Limits of the Ordinary in Tokugawa Japan
Amy Stanley - Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University
Lecture
Japan
Monday, Mar. 26th, 2012
City and Region in Japanese History -- Special Three Day Symposium
Conference, Special Event
Japan
Friday, Mar. 23rd, 2012
Japan History Lecture Series -- Benevolence, Charity, and Duty: Famine Relief and Local Society in Early Modern Japan
Maren Ehlers - Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Charlotte
Lecture
Japan
Wednesday, Mar. 21st, 2012
Before and After Superflat: Contemporary Art in the Post-Bubble, Post-Disaster Society
Adrian Favell - Professor of Sociology, Sciences Po, Paris
Lecture
Japan
Monday, Mar. 19th, 2012
Shrine, Church, and State “Teaching” and “Religion” in Prewar Japan
Kate Wildman Nakai - Professor Emerita, Sophia University
Lecture, Special Event
Japan
Friday, Mar. 2nd, 2012
Fukushima's Victories and Victims: Contemplating Alliances Between Japanese Soccer, the State, and Nuclear Power
Elise Edwards - Associate Professor of Anthropology, Butler University
Lecture
Japan
Thursday, Mar. 1st, 2012
Elite Upheavals: Upward and Downward Trajectories of China's Social Elites in the Resistance War
Diana Lary - Professor Emerita of History Department, University of British Columbia
Lecture
China
Monday, Feb. 27th, 2012
Sima Qian's Narratives on Assassins / 司馬遷筆下的刺客與刺客外傳
Chi-hsiang Lee(李纪祥) - Professor of Chinese History/Dean of the College of Humanities, Fo Guang University, Taiwan
Lecture
China
Friday, Feb. 17th, 2012
Doing Media Anthropology in China: Production, Reception, Fandom, Ethnography
Louisa Schein - Professor of Anthropology and Gender & Women's Studies, Rutgers University
Lecture
China
Thursday, Feb. 16th, 2012
The 'Rise' of China: A Metaphor for Americans
Bruce Cumings - Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History and the College, University of Chicago
Lecture
China, Transregional

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