Past Events
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Thursday, Feb. 6th, 2020 Modern Buddhist Suffering: Pathos, History, and Moral Responses at a Contemporary Japanese Leprosarium Jessica Starling - Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Lewis and Clark College |
Lecture Japan |
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Monday, Feb. 3rd, 2020 Social Bonds and Service in Persianate Asia: Love, Friendship, and the Problem of Hierarchy Mana Kia - Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University |
Lecture Transregional |
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Thursday, Jan. 30th, 2020 The road from books to culture Haizheng Yang - Professor of Chinese Literature, Peking University |
Lecture China |
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Saturday, Jan. 25th, 2020 White Snake Introduction by Dihao Zhou - PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University |
Film China |
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Thursday, Jan. 23rd, 2020 The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games: Why are they important, even for people who don’t like sports? William W. Kelly - Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Sumitomo Professor Emeritus of Japanese Studies, Yale University |
Lecture, Special Event Japan |
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Friday, Jan. 17th, 2020 National Security Experiments in Japan: Nuclear Taboo, Power Transition, and Invisible Crises Atsushi Tago - Professor of International Relations, Waseda University |
Lecture Japan |
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Thursday, Jan. 16th, 2020 Making Voices, Printing Sounds: Woodblock Print as Auditory Technology Satoko Shimazaki - Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and Theater, University of California Los Angeles |
Lecture Japan |
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Friday, Dec. 13th, 2019 Bōnenkai End-of-Year Celebration 2019 |
Special Event |
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Thursday, Dec. 12th, 2019 Back to the Future in a U.S. Satellite: Park Chung Hee and the May 16 (1961) Coup: A Genealogy Carter Eckert - Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Harvard University |
Lecture, Special Event Korea |
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Wednesday, Dec. 11th, 2019 Haiku Workshop |
Workshop Japan |
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Wednesday, Dec. 11th, 2019 Haiku Workshop for JAPN 150+ Level Students |
Workshop Japan |
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Thursday, Dec. 5th, 2019 Ginza Bricktown and the Politics of Urban Space in Early Meiji Tokyo Tristan R. Grunow -- Associate Research Scholar, Yale Council on East Asian Studies |
Lecture Japan |
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Sunday, Dec. 1st, 2019 Film Screening of Where Chimneys are Seen (1953) |
Film Japan |
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Thursday, Nov. 21st, 2019 History, Memory, and Progress: The Culture War in South Korea Namhee Lee - Associate Professor of Modern Korean History, UCLA |
Lecture Korea |
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Wednesday, Nov. 20th, 2019 Film Screening of Yama – Attack to Attack (1985) |
Film Japan |
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Monday, Nov. 18th, 2019 CHINA Town Hall 2019 - Webcast & Local Discussion George Stephanopoulos - Chief Anchor of ABC News |
Special Event China |
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Monday, Nov. 18th, 2019 Representing the Unseen: Blackness in Manga, Anime Dawn-Elissa Fischer - Associate Professor, San Francisco State University |
Lecture Japan |
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Friday, Nov. 15th, 2019 Reading Between the Texts: Forgery, History, and Authority in Late Medieval Japan Paula R. Curtis - Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in History |
Lecture Japan |
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Friday, Nov. 15th, 2019 Russia and Asia in the 20th and 21st Centuries Conference Paul Bushkovitch, David Engerman, and Thomas Graham - Yale University faculty hosts |
Conference Transregional |
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Thursday, Nov. 14th, 2019 Beijing and Tibet, 1949-1959: A Study Based on Archives Xiaoyuan Liu - David Dean Professor of East Asian Studies & Professor of History, University of Virginia |
Lecture China, Transregional, Tibet |
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Wednesday, Nov. 13th, 2019 My own flesh and blood: stratified parental compassion and law in Korean slavery Sun Joo Kim - Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History, Harvard University |
Lecture Korea |
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Sunday, Nov. 10th, 2019 Filmmaking on the Edges of China: Sunday Double Feature of "Fukuoka" (2019) and "Jinpa" (2018) Zhang Lu, director of "Fukuoka" (2019); Pema Tseden, director of "Jinpa" (2018) |
Film China |
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Friday, Nov. 8th, 2019 Transoceanic Embodiments: Yellowness as Filmic Technology André Keiji Kunigami - Carolina Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Romance Studies, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
Lecture Japan |
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Thursday, Nov. 7th, 2019 Opening Reception for Exhibition "From East to West: History of the Chinese Collection at Yale 1849-2019" |
Special Event China |
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Wednesday, Nov. 6th, 2019 The Promised Republic: Developmental Society and the Making of Modern Seoul, 1961-1979 Russell Burge - Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in History |
Lecture Korea |
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Tuesday, Nov. 5th, 2019 Opium’s Long Shadow: From Asian Revolt to Global Drug Control Steffen Rimner - Assistant Professor of the History of International Relations, Utrecht University |
Lecture China, Transregional |
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Monday, Nov. 4th, 2019 Fearing Hardships and Fatigue? Insubordination in the People's Liberation Army, 2009-2018 Eric Hundman - Assistant Professor of Political Science, NYU Shanghai |
Lecture China |
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Monday, Nov. 4th, 2019 EALL & EAST Major Information Session |
China, Japan, Korea, Transregional |
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Friday, Nov. 1st, 2019 Father’s Blood and Mother’s Love: Illegitimate Children in the Japanese Empire, 1868–1945 Jooyeon Hahm - Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in History |
Lecture China, Japan, Korea, Transregional |
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Thursday, Oct. 31st, 2019 Samuel Wells Williams and Chinese Printing Ching Su - Professor Emeritus of Chinese Studies, National Yunlin University of Science and Technology |
Lecture China |