Past Events
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Thursday, Apr. 18th, 2019 A History for China's Muslim Internment Camps Rian Thum - Associate Professor, History, Loyola University |
Lecture China |
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Wednesday, Apr. 17th, 2019 The North Korea Playbook: Five Facts You Need to Know Victor Cha - D.S. Song-KF Professor of Government and International Affairs, Georgetown University |
Lecture Korea |
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Tuesday, Apr. 16th, 2019 The Chinese Lingerie Dealers of Upper Egypt Peter Hessler - Staff Writer, The New Yorker |
Lecture China |
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Monday, Apr. 15th, 2019 Wikipedia Parade: Internet Poetry in Japan Andrew Campana - Presidential Postdoctoral Fellow, Cornell University |
Lecture Japan |
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Friday, Apr. 12th, 2019 The Book as Map: Illustrated Gazetteers and the Representation of Place in Late Tokugawa Japan Robert Goree - Assistant Professor of Japanese, Wellesley College |
Lecture Japan |
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Wednesday, Apr. 10th, 2019 Mapping Tokyo Olympics 3.0: From the Olympic Games to Playful Rural Revitalization Sharon Hayashi - Associate Professor of Cinema and Media Studies, York University |
Lecture, Special Event Japan |
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Tuesday, Apr. 9th, 2019 Disability in China: Citizenship, Identity and Culture Sarah Dauncey - Associate Professor of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Nottingham, UK |
Lecture China |
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Monday, Apr. 8th, 2019 Resistant then Compliant then Accomplice: Gradations of Resilience in Nagai Kafū’s Work on Ginza-Shinbashi Gala Follaco - Assistant Professor, Japanese Studies, L’Orientale University of Naples |
Lecture Japan |
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Monday, Apr. 8th, 2019 The Buddhist Makeup Artist: A Personal Story about Sexuality and Transformation Kodo Nishimura - Makeup Artist and Buddhist Priest |
Lecture, Special Event Korea |
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Tuesday, Apr. 2nd, 2019 Cultures of Emotion in the Japanese Empire Sabine Frühstück - Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara |
Lecture Japan |
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Friday, Mar. 29th, 2019 Who is the Greatest of them All? Generational Patterns of Political Participation in Japan Rieko Kage - Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Tokyo |
Lecture Japan |
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Thursday, Mar. 28th, 2019 "Sermon on the Mount" - Special Screening with the Director Ven. Daehae Young-uee Yoo - Director |
Film Korea |
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Thursday, Mar. 28th, 2019 The Tekagamijō and Tōdaijigire in Context |
Workshop Japan |
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Thursday, Mar. 28th, 2019 Writing the Sick Self in Early Medieval China Antje Richter - Associate Professor of Chinese, University of Colorado at Boulder |
Lecture China |
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Wednesday, Mar. 27th, 2019 The Buddhist Community and Local Material Culture in the Kucha Kingdom – as seen in Mural Paintings Satomi Hiyama - Assistant Professor, Hakubi Center / Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University |
Lecture China |
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Tuesday, Mar. 26th, 2019 Everyday Ecology: Writing an Environmental History of Modern Korea Albert L. Park - Bank of America Associate Professor of Pacific Basin Studies, Claremont McKenna College |
Lecture Korea |
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Monday, Mar. 25th, 2019 Marginal Social Groups and Historical Documents in Asia—Japan and the Ottoman Empire |
Workshop Japan |
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Saturday, Mar. 23rd, 2019 Yale Asian Studies Reception at AAS Annual Meeting |
Special Event China, Japan, Korea, Transregional, South Asia, Southeast Asia |
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Wednesday, Mar. 6th, 2019 Sogdian Sarcophagi: The Arts of an Immigrant Community in Early Medieval China Jin Xu - Assistant Professor of Art, Vassar College |
Lecture China |
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Wednesday, Mar. 6th, 2019 At the Geographic Limits of Discipline: The Japanese Empire and Indigeneity in Colonial Taiwan Paul Barclay - Professor of History, Lafayette College |
Lecture China, Japan |
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Tuesday, Mar. 5th, 2019 Lessons from the Anomalous: Rethinking the Function of Entombed Epitaphs in Tang China Ding Xiang Warner - Professor of Chinese Literature, Cornell University |
Lecture China |
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Friday, Mar. 1st, 2019 Tohoku no Shingetsu: A New Moon Over Tohoku Linda Ohama - Documentary Filmmaker |
Film |
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Thursday, Feb. 28th, 2019 Scattered and Gathered: Perspectives on the Tekagami-jō, a Japanese Calligraphy Album |
Special Event |
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Friday, Feb. 22nd, 2019 Kinema Club XVIII: Gender & Sexuality in Japanese Film |
Conference, Film Japan |
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Thursday, Feb. 21st, 2019 The Taiwan Expedition: New Perspectives on Japanese Imperialism and the Meiji Restoration Robert Eskildsen - Senior Associate Professor of History, International Christian University |
Lecture, Special Event Japan |
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Wednesday, Feb. 20th, 2019 American Sutra: Buddhism and the WWII Japanese American Internment Duncan Ryūken Williams - Professor of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California |
Lecture Japan, Transregional |
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Wednesday, Feb. 20th, 2019 Lunar New Year Reception 2019 |
Special Event China, Japan, Korea, Transregional |
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Saturday, Feb. 16th, 2019 Lunarfest 2019 |
Special Event China, Transregional |
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Friday, Feb. 15th, 2019 Visualizing Sound: A Lecture and Demonstration on the Notation System and Music of the Chinese Qin Kelsey Seymour - Postdoctoral Associate at the Institute of Sacred Music; Peiyou Chang 張培幼 - Qin Performer |
Lecture China |
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Thursday, Feb. 14th, 2019 Lost Graves and Recycled Mourning Sheds: How the Late Koryŏ Elite Took the Drama Out of Afterlife Juhn Ahn - Associate Professor of Buddhist and Korean Studies, University of Michigan |
Lecture Korea |