Past Events
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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 |
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Friday, Feb. 8th, 2019 Umbrella Diaries: The First Umbrella - A Documentary by James Leong |
Film China |
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Friday, Feb. 1st, 2019 Japan's Changing Defense Policy and Its Implications for National Security Shuhei Kurizaki - Associate Professor, School of Political Science and Economics, Waseda University |
Lecture Japan |
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Friday, Jan. 25th, 2019 3rd Yale Symposium on Chinese Overseas Investment Impacts: Greening the Belt and Road |
Workshop China |
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Friday, Jan. 11th, 2019 Unruly Youths, Unwanted Pregnancies and Rural Society in Nineteenth Century Japan – Cases from the Year of the Fire Horse, 1846 (19世紀における若者問題と地域社会 ―弘化3年丙午の年の事例から―) Mio Shimazaki –Postdoctoral Fellow in East Asian Studies, Yale University |
Lecture Japan |
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Tuesday, Dec. 11th, 2018 ISCLH Yale Workshop: Chinese Legal History in Comparative Context |
Conference China |
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Monday, Dec. 10th, 2018 Engineering the Moral Heart: Science and Literature in North and South Korea Dafna Zur - Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University |
Lecture Korea |
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Monday, Dec. 10th, 2018 2018 Winter Haiku Workshops Ms. Sho Otaka - Poet |
Workshop Japan |
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Friday, Dec. 7th, 2018 Bōnenkai 2018 |
Special Event |
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Thursday, Dec. 6th, 2018 Morimura Yasumasa's re-enactment of Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima: Between Gender and Nation, Japan and the USA Ayelet Zohar - Visiting Associate Professor in History of Art and East Asian Studies |
Lecture Japan |
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Sunday, Dec. 2nd, 2018 I Decided to Turn Left: A Film Performance by Simon Liu Simon Liu - Filmmaker |
Film China |
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Monday, Nov. 26th, 2018 Global Neurosurgery & Human Rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Kee Park - Paul Farmer Global Surgery Scholar at the Program in Global Surgery and Social Change, Harvard Medical School |
Lecture Korea |
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Friday, Nov. 16th, 2018 What Do Japanese People Want From Their Constitution? An Experimental Approach Kenneth Mori McElwain - Associate Professor, Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo |
Lecture Japan |
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Tuesday, Nov. 13th, 2018 Vernacular Animism: Cartoon Animals and Multiethnic Empire Dr. Thomas Lamarre - James McGill Professor in East Asian Studies & Associate Professor in Communication Studies, McGill University |
Lecture, Special Event Japan |
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Monday, Nov. 12th, 2018 Genuine Fake News: Epistolary Voice and Materiality during Late and Post-Han Wars, 196-265 Meow Hui Goh - Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, The Ohio State University |
Lecture China |
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Friday, Nov. 9th, 2018 China’s Rise and the Security of East Asia Dr. Thomas J. Christensen - Professor of Public & International Affairs and Director of the China and the World Program, Columbia University |
Lecture, Special Event China |
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Wednesday, Nov. 7th, 2018 Yamashiro Chikako's "Woman in the Butcher Shop": Okinawa as an exchange object between Japan and the USA Ayelet Zohar - Visiting Associate Professor in History of Art and East Asian Studies, Yale University |
Lecture Japan |
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Tuesday, Nov. 6th, 2018 The View from Above: A Computational Method in the Study of Modern China Charles Chang - Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in Anthropology |
Lecture China |
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Monday, Oct. 29th, 2018 Conversation with LTG(R) Chun, In-Bum, Former Commander of ROK Special Warfare Command |
Lecture Korea |
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Thursday, Oct. 25th, 2018 Early Cities and Economy: The Development of Urbanism, Regional Politics, and Economic Networks in the Shandong Peninsula before the Rise of Empire |
Conference China |
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Thursday, Oct. 25th, 2018 A Friend in Deed: Lu Xun, Uchiyama Kanzō, and the Intellectual World of Shanghai on the Eve of War Joshua Fogel - Canada Research Chair, Professor, Department of History, York University |
Lecture Japan |
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Thursday, Oct. 25th, 2018 Clean Mouths and Foul Mouths: Oral Hygiene and the Efficacy of Chant in Medieval China Kelsey Seymour - Postdoctoral Associate at the Institute of Sacred Music and Lecturer in East Asian Studies |
Lecture China |