Past Events
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Wednesday, Apr. 11th, 2018 Death and the Afterlife in Premodern Korea: What Can we Learn from the Ghosts that Haunt? Michael Pettid - Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies, Binghamton University |
Lecture Korea |
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Tuesday, Apr. 10th, 2018 Soundscapes of Uyghur Islam Rachel Harris - Reader in the Music of Central Asia and China, SOAS, University of London |
Lecture China |
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Monday, Apr. 9th, 2018 The Role of Town Officials in the Social Changes Facing the Castle Town in Early Modern Japan - 近世城下町の社会変容と町役人 Masato Takenouchi - Associate Research Scholar in East Asian Studies, Yale University |
Lecture Japan |
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Friday, Apr. 6th, 2018 Ainu Workshop @ Yale |
Workshop Japan |
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Friday, Apr. 6th, 2018 Why do we need DH?: Digital Humanities in China Jing Chen - Associate Professor, School of Arts, Nanjing University; Founder & Editor, 01Lab (零壹 Lab) |
Lecture China |
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Thursday, Apr. 5th, 2018 Unconventional Economics: Debt and Fundraising by the Nuns of Zenkōji Daihongan in Eighteenth-century Japan Matthew Mitchell - Graduate, Asian Religions, Duke University |
Lecture Japan |
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Wednesday, Apr. 4th, 2018 On the Transnational Destruction of Cities: What Japan and the U.S. Learned from the Bombing of Britain and Germany in World War II Sheldon Garon - Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Princeton University |
Lecture, Special Event Japan, Transregional |
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Tuesday, Apr. 3rd, 2018 Behind Literary Creation: Lu Ji’s Ideas and Fears about Writing Wendy Swartz - Associate Professor of Chinese Literature, Rutgers University |
Lecture China |
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Thursday, Mar. 29th, 2018 Rewriting Chinese Fiction in Early Modern Japan William Fleming - Assistant Professor of Japanese, University of California Santa Barbara |
Lecture Japan |
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Monday, Mar. 26th, 2018 Lessons from the Local: Early Modern Japanese Society and its Documentary Record Professor TSUKADA Takashi, Osaka City University |
Lecture Japan |
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Thursday, Mar. 8th, 2018 POSTPONED: First-Person Illness Narratives in Early Medieval China: Autobiography, Correspondence, Poetry Antje Richter - Associate Professor of Chinese, University of Colorado at Boulder |
Lecture China |
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Thursday, Mar. 8th, 2018 Curating Revolution: A Book Panel Discussion of Denise Ho’s Study of Politics on Display in Mao’s China Denise Ho - Assistant Professor of History, Yale University |
Lecture China |
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Monday, Mar. 5th, 2018 A Mother’s Song: Translating Stella Dallas Across Media and Genre Sarah Frederick - Associate Professor of Japanese, Comparative Literature, and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, Boston University |
Lecture Japan |
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Sunday, Mar. 4th, 2018 "Paprika" Film Screening |
Film Japan, Transregional |
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Friday, Mar. 2nd, 2018 Japan, US, and the Liberal World Order - A view out of UN diplomacy Misako Kaji - Professor of International Relations, Hitotsubashi University |
Lecture Japan |
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Tuesday, Feb. 27th, 2018 A Poetics of Ambiguity: Japanese Cryptography at the Crossroads of Text and Image Claire-Akiko Brisset - Associate Professor in Japanese Cultural History, Paris Diderot University |
Lecture, Special Event Japan |
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Monday, Feb. 26th, 2018 Gendering Diplomacy at the Bandung Conference of 1955 Naoko Shimazu - Professor of Humanities (History), Associate Dean of Faculty, Yale-NUS College |
Lecture Transregional |
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Sunday, Feb. 25th, 2018 "Approved for Adoption" Film Screening |
Film Korea, Transregional |
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Friday, Feb. 23rd, 2018 Japan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of the Sinosphere David Ambaras - Associate Professor of History, North Carolina State University |
Lecture Japan |
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Wednesday, Feb. 21st, 2018 When Did Mao’s Last Revolution Really Begin?: The Opening Salvos Reconsidered Yiching Wu - Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto |
Lecture China |
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Monday, Feb. 19th, 2018 Liao-Dynasty Elites in Light of Their Archaeological Remains François Louis - Associate Professor, Bard Graduate Center: Decorative Arts, Design History, Material Culture |
Lecture China |
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Saturday, Feb. 17th, 2018 "Akira" - Film Screening and Reception |
Film Japan |
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Saturday, Feb. 17th, 2018 Lunarfest 2018 |
Special Event China, Transregional |
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Friday, Feb. 16th, 2018 Yale Seminar For Future Collaboration in Asia-Pacific Region Atsushi Yamakoshi - Executive Director, Keidanren USA |
Lecture Japan, Transregional |
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Friday, Feb. 16th, 2018 Waka and Things, Waka as Things Edward Kamens - Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies, Yale University |
Lecture Japan |
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Friday, Feb. 16th, 2018 Major mtDNA Haplogroups in Bronze Age Mongol Steppe Populations and Their Eurasian Population Affinities Leland Rogers - Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in Anthropology |
Lecture Mongolia |
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Wednesday, Feb. 14th, 2018 Tokyo 1968 |
Lecture Japan |
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Tuesday, Feb. 13th, 2018 "Made in China" Film Screening |
Film China |
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Monday, Feb. 12th, 2018 Wellspring and Warning: Essential Chinas in Medieval Japan Erin Brightwell - Assistant Professor of Pre-modern Japanese Literature, University of Michigan |
Lecture Japan |
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Thursday, Feb. 8th, 2018 Civilization and Its Discontents: Travel, Translation, and The Water Margin in Meiji- and Taishō-Period Japan William Hedberg - Assistant Professor of Japanese, School of International Letters and Cultures, Arizona State University |
Lecture China, Japan |