Past Events
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Friday, Dec. 8th, 2023 Project-Based Language Learning Dr. Naiyi Xie Fincham - Specialist Faculty at University of Hawai'i at Manoa; Associate Director at National Foreign Language Resource Cetner; Assistant Director at the Language Flagship Technology Innovation Center |
Workshop, Lecture China |
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Friday, Dec. 8th, 2023 Bōnenkai End-of-year Celebration 2023 |
Special Event |
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Wednesday, Dec. 6th, 2023 Revolutionary Becomings: Documentary Media in Twentieth Century China Ying Qian - Associate Professor, Chinese Cinema and Media, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University |
Lecture China |
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Saturday, Dec. 2nd, 2023 Grass Labyrinth 草迷宮 (1979) , Dogura Magura ドグラ・マグラ (1988) Film Screening |
Film Japan |
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Monday, Nov. 27th, 2023 Carving a Career in Independent Media: ChinaTalk + AI as a Case Study Jordan Schneider - Creator, ChinaTalk Podcast and Newsletter |
Lecture, Special Event China |
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Monday, Nov. 27th, 2023 Medium, Materiality, and the Body in Japanese Buddhist Embroideries Carolyn Wargula - Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in History of Art |
Lecture Japan |
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Tuesday, Nov. 14th, 2023 The Opportunities and Challenges of Korean Entertainment in the Global World Ji Hoon Park, Professor of Media & Communication, Korea University |
Lecture, Special Event Korea |
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Tuesday, Nov. 14th, 2023 Revenge Gone Newtro: Decolonizing Ressentiment in Korean Dramas on Retributive Justice Haerin Shin - Associate Professor of Media & Communication, Korea University |
Lecture, Special Event Korea |
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Tuesday, Nov. 14th, 2023 Translation in the Manuscript Archive: The Working Papers of a Buddhist Monk on the Ninth-century Sino-Tibetan Frontier Meghan Howard Masang - Khyentse Postdoctoral Associate in Tibetan Buddhist Studies and Lecturer in Religious Studies |
Lecture China, Transregional |
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Monday, Nov. 13th, 2023 Technology and Labor: Generative AI Dong-One Kim - President, Korea University |
Lecture, Special Event Korea |
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Friday, Nov. 10th, 2023 Offering Healing and Integration from "Arirang": Performances and Lectures Hyung Joon Won, Maestro Toshiyuki Shimada |
Lecture, Special Event, Performance Korea |
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Thursday, Nov. 9th, 2023 Emergence, Spontaneity, and Volition: A New Interpretation of Wuwei Mercedes Valmisa - Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Gettysburg College |
Lecture China |
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Thursday, Nov. 9th, 2023 Saving Families After the Korean War: Faith-based Aid, Orphaned Children, and Widows in South Korea Paul S. Cha - Assistant Professor of Korean Studies |
Lecture Korea |
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Wednesday, Nov. 8th, 2023 Rise and Fall of Epigraphic Practices in Historical China Tomoyasu Iiyama - Professor in the Faculty of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, Waseda University |
Lecture China |
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Wednesday, Nov. 8th, 2023 Cyberpunk in a Trans-chronological Context: from The Difference Engine to The Empire of Corpses Takayuki Tatsumi - Professor Emeritus, Keio University; Headmaster, Keio Academy of New York |
Lecture Japan |
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Tuesday, Nov. 7th, 2023 The Pure Hearted Major: on Oshii Mamoru’s Innocence Mari Kotani - Literary Critic |
Lecture Japan |
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Tuesday, Nov. 7th, 2023 Buddhism, Violence, and Modern ‘State-Protection’: Understanding the South Korean Buddhist Military Chaplaincy Jonathan Feuer - Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in Religious Studies |
Lecture Korea |
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Monday, Nov. 6th, 2023 Beyond the 38th Parallel: The Realities of North Korea and the Path to Free and Unified Korea Seohyun Lee - Human Rights Advocate & Master of International Affairs Student, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University |
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Monday, Nov. 6th, 2023 Japan & South Korea Relations Michelle Ye Hee Lee - Tokyo/Seoul Bureau Chief, The Washington Post |
Lecture Japan, Korea |
Saturday, Nov. 4th, 2023 Kinema Club XXI: A Workshopping Workshop for Emerging Scholars |
Conference, Workshop Japan |
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Friday, Nov. 3rd, 2023 Vampires & Blood Whores: Media Voyeurism and Health Regulation in South Korea’s Black Markets for Blood Inga Kim Diederich - Assistant Professor of East Asian History, Department of History, Colby College |
Lecture Korea |
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Wednesday, Nov. 1st, 2023 EALL & EAST Major Information Session |
Special Event China, Japan, Korea, Transregional |
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Tuesday, Oct. 31st, 2023 Into the Midwest: Tibetans, Chinese, and Muslims in China’s Incorporation of Inner Asia, 1862–1962 Gyatso Marnyi - Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in Religious Studies |
Lecture China |
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Monday, Oct. 30th, 2023 Revisiting Chinese "Schools" and "Teachings": Tracking Debates about the Zheng Dao 正道 in the Han Period Mark Csikszentmihalyi - Professor and Eliaser Chair of International Studies, University of California, Berkeley |
Lecture China |
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Monday, Oct. 30th, 2023 De-Normalizing and Regulating Smoking in Japan and Korea Celeste Arrington - Korea Foundation Associate Professor of Political Science and International Affairs, The George Washington University |
Lecture Japan, Korea |
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Thursday, Oct. 26th, 2023 Crossing the River of Fear: Lessons from the Life of a Korean Buddhist Female Monk Venerable Jeongmok |
Lecture Korea |
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Thursday, Oct. 26th, 2023 Transformation of Architecture and Royal Identity under the Qarakhanids in Central Asia (10th - 11th Centuries) Dilrabo Tosheva - Postdoctoral Associate in Central Asian Studies and Lecturer in History of Art |
Lecture Transregional |
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Thursday, Oct. 12th, 2023 Urban Japan on the Eve of Destruction, June 1944 - January 1945 Cary Karacas - Associate Professor of Human Geography, College of Staten Island, City University of New York |
Lecture |
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Thursday, Oct. 12th, 2023 When Propaganda Resonates Xiaoxiao Shen - Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in Political Science |
Lecture China |
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Wednesday, Oct. 4th, 2023 Law and the Formation of a Cosmopolitan Empire: Subjecthood in Early Tang Victor Fong - Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in History |
Lecture China |