Past Events

Tuesday, Nov. 30th, 2004
Out of Phoenix Bridge
Film
China
Tuesday, Nov. 23rd, 2004
Along the Railway
Film
China
Wednesday, Nov. 17th, 2004
China and Liao Ritual Paraphernalia
François Louis - Assistant Professor, The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture
Lecture
China
Tuesday, Nov. 16th, 2004
Leave Me Alone (2001) & Walk on Roles (2002)
Film
China
Monday, Nov. 15th, 2004
Migration, Economic Development, and the Discursive Construction of Guangfu Culture
J. Dale Wilson - Postdoctoral Associate, Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University
Lecture
China, Hong Kong
Friday, Nov. 12th, 2004
China Workshop -- Chinese Orphans: What Has Been Done vs What Can Be Done
Weihang Chen - Alliance for Children Foundation <br>Dr. Diane Kunz - Executive Director, Center for Adoption Policy (Yale Ph.D.)
Workshop, Lecture
China
Thursday, Nov. 11th, 2004
Disturbing Difference: Translation, Naturalization, and the Global Publication of Japanese Fiction
Steven Snyder - Associate Professor of Japanese, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado at Boulder
Lecture
Japan
Wednesday, Nov. 10th, 2004
Confucius' Writing: The 'Gap' Between 'Omitted' and the 'Unwritten' in Spring and Autumn
Chi-hsiang Lee - Professor of History, Fo Guang University
Lecture
China
Tuesday, Nov. 9th, 2004
The Sun in Winter (2002) & The Secret Of My Success (2002)
Film
China
Thursday, Nov. 4th, 2004
Sun Legend of the Shogunate (幕末太陽伝)
Film
Japan
Thursday, Nov. 4th, 2004
Japan's Spirits of the State: An Inside Look at Yasukuni Shrine
John Nelson - Professor of Theology and Religious Studies, University of San Francisco
Lecture
Japan
Wednesday, Nov. 3rd, 2004
Art Collecting, Historical Consciousness, and Style in the Art of Early Modern China
Martin Powers - Sally Michelson Davidson Professor of Chinese Arts and Culture; Director of the Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Lecture
China
Thursday, Oct. 28th, 2004
From Martial Skills to Martial Arts: The Transformation of Warrior Military Methods in Tokugawa Japan
G. Cameron Hurst - Professor of Japanese and Korean Studies; Chair, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, University of Pennsylvania
Lecture, Special Event
Japan
Tuesday, Oct. 26th, 2004
Grandpa Jing and His Old Customers (2003), The Empty Cage (2002), Abing in 1950 (2001) & Who's Listening To My Song (2003)
Film
China
Friday, Oct. 22nd, 2004
Notes From Ground Zero: Historical Reflections on Power, Equity and Postwar Reconstruction in Two Eras
Mark Selden - Bartle Professor of History and Sociology, The State University of New York at Binghamton and Professorial Associate, East Asia Program, Cornell University
Lecture
Japan
Thursday, Oct. 21st, 2004
Recovering from 'Co-dependence' in Postwar Japan
Amy Borovoy - Assistant Professor of Japanese Anthropology, Princeton University
Lecture
Japan
Thursday, Oct. 21st, 2004
Learning About a Chinese Village in a Leninist Authoritarian State
Edward Friedman - Hawkins Chair Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lecture
China
Tuesday, Oct. 19th, 2004
San Yuan Li (2003) & Town Migration (1999)
Film
China
Tuesday, Oct. 19th, 2004
Show and Tell
Special Event
China, Japan, Korea, Transregional
Friday, Oct. 15th, 2004
Guangdong Music Performance
Performance, Special Event
China, Hong Kong
Thursday, Oct. 14th, 2004
Ino and Mon (兄いもうと)
Film
Japan
Thursday, Oct. 14th, 2004
Creating Spectral Kin: Wartime Annihilation and the Afterlives of Dolls
Ellen Schattschneider - Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Anthropology, Brandeis University
Lecture
Japan
Tuesday, Oct. 12th, 2004
DV China (2002) & Dance With Farm Workers (2001)
Film
China
Tuesday, Oct. 12th, 2004
Special presentation -- The current state of development of the University of Tokyo Historical Institute's on-line historical glossary and database of texts
Haruko Wakabayashi and Sayoko Sakakibara - Historical Institute at University of Tokyo
Lecture, Special Event
Japan
Friday, Oct. 8th, 2004
RePRODUCTION in Japan
Conference, Film, Lecture, Special Event
Japan
Thursday, Oct. 7th, 2004
Japan and U.S. Relations
Ambassador Hiroyasu Ando - Consul General, Consulate-General of Japan in New York
Lecture, Special Event
Japan, Transregional
Tuesday, Oct. 5th, 2004
Marriage (1999) & Old Yang Seeking Wife (2003)
Film
China
Monday, Oct. 4th, 2004
Poems on Hong Kong and the Multicultural Experience
Andrew Parkin - Professor of English Emeritus, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Lecture, Special Event
China, Hong Kong
Friday, Oct. 1st, 2004
A Pot Worth One Million Ryo (丹下左膳余話 百万両の壺)
Film
Japan
Friday, Oct. 1st, 2004
Round Table Discussion with Anne Allison about her research and new book "Millennial Monsters" (provisiona) with University of California Press
Anne Allison - Associate Professor and Chair, Department of Cultural Anthropology, Duke University
Lecture, Special Event
Japan

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