Past Events
Tuesday, Sep. 29th, 2015 Fieldwork and Empire: The Making of Japan’s “Transwar Generation” of Human Scientists Miriam Kingsberg - Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of Colorado Boulder |
Lecture Japan |
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Monday, Sep. 28th, 2015 The Changing Shapes of Local Knowledge: Mid-Tang Literature and the Tujing Ao Wang - Assistant Professor of Asian Languages and Literatures, Wesleyan University |
Lecture China |
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Saturday, Sep. 26th, 2015 The Hidden Fortress |
Film Japan |
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Tuesday, Sep. 22nd, 2015 Chinese Modern Dance: From Stalin and Mao to Now - A Conversation with Xiao Suhua 肖苏华 Сяо Сухуа Xiao Suhua - Distinguished Professor, Beijing Dance Academy; Emeritus Senior Visiting Scholar, Bolshoi Ballet |
Special Event China |
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Monday, Sep. 21st, 2015 The Arc of Post-World War II Japanese Diplomacy: A Conversation Ryozo Kato - Former Ambassador to the U.S.; Naoyuki Agawa - Professor of Law, Keio University; Paul Kennedy - Dilworth Professor of History, Yale University; Koichi Hamada - Tuntex Emeritus Professor of Economics, Yale University |
Special Event Japan |
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Tuesday, Sep. 15th, 2015 The North Korean Human Rights Conundrum Greg Scarlatoiu - Executive Director, Committee for Human Rights in North Korea (HRNK) |
Lecture, Special Event Korea |
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Saturday, Sep. 12th, 2015 Text and Context in East Asian Buddhism |
Workshop China, Japan |
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Thursday, Sep. 10th, 2015 CEAS Fall 2015 Reception |
Special Event China, Japan, Korea, Transregional |
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Wednesday, Sep. 9th, 2015 Let the People Judge: The Introduction of the Jury System in Japan in Comparative Perspective Rieko Kage - Associate Professor of Political Science, University of Tokyo |
Lecture Japan |
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Thursday, Apr. 23rd, 2015 Queer Lives as Cautionary Tales: Female Same-Sex Marriage in the Hetero-Patriarchal Imagination of Postwar South Korea Todd Henry - Assistant Professor, Department of History, UC San Diego |
Lecture Korea |
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Monday, Apr. 13th, 2015 Poetry of Protest and the 1989 Tiananmen Movement Jiayan Mi - Associate Professor of English and World Languages & Cultures, The College of New Jersey |
Lecture China |
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Thursday, Apr. 9th, 2015 Do Flush Toilets Have Politics? Gonçalo Santos - Assistant Professor, Hong Kong Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong |
Lecture China |
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Tuesday, Apr. 7th, 2015 New Directions in Asia: The Tokyo War Crime Trials David Cohen - Professor of Law, University of Hawaii; Professor & Director, War Crimes Studies Center, UC Berkeley & Yuma Totani - Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Hawaii |
Workshop Japan, Transregional |
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Tuesday, Mar. 31st, 2015 Politics, Piety and Pots: Thinking about Shared Practices in The Eurasian Northlands, 7th to 12th Centuries Naomi Standen - Professor of Medieval History, University of Birmingham, UK |
Lecture China, Transregional |
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Saturday, Mar. 28th, 2015 Samurai and the Culture of Japan’s Great Peace |
Special Event Japan |
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Thursday, Mar. 5th, 2015 Jellyfish and Ginger: Medical Books and the Abandonment of Movable Type in the Early Edo Period ( 海月と生薑 - 江戸初期の医学書出版と活字印刷の衰退) Peter Kornicki - Emeritus Professor of Japanese Studies & Deputy Warden, Robinson College, University of Cambridge |
Lecture, Special Event Japan |
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Tuesday, Mar. 3rd, 2015 Confucianism in Everyday Life in Contemporary China Anna Sun - Associate Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies, Kenyon College |
Lecture China |
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Friday, Feb. 27th, 2015 The Problem of Commemorating: Epitaph Writing and Filial Expression in the Northern Song (960-1125) Cong Ellen Zhang - Associate Professor & Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of History, University of Virginia |
Lecture China |
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Thursday, Feb. 26th, 2015 2015 Lunar New Year Reception |
Special Event China, Japan, Korea, Transregional |
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Wednesday, Feb. 25th, 2015 Beyond Diplomacy: Tokugawa Japan’s Changing Relations with Southeast Asia in the Seventeenth Century Adam Clulow - Senior Lecturer, School of Philosophical, Historical and International Studies, Monash University |
Lecture Japan, Transregional, Southeast Asia |
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Tuesday, Feb. 24th, 2015 Parody as Key: Interpreting the Inconsistent Narrative Voice of Ihara Saikaku’s The Life of an Amorous Man David Gundry - Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages & Cultures, University of California, Davis |
Lecture Japan |
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Friday, Feb. 20th, 2015 Tokugawa, Romanov and Khmer: Japanese Diplomacy As World History Mark Ravina - Professor of History, Emory University |
Lecture Japan |
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Thursday, Feb. 19th, 2015 The Taming of ‘Sisters of the Gion’: A Case Study of the Home Ministry’s Film Censorship Chika Kinoshita - Associate Professor of Film Studies, Tokyo Metropolitan University |
Lecture Japan |
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Monday, Feb. 16th, 2015 Hong Kong Under China – Challenges to the Rule of Law and Judicial Independence Margaret Ng - Barrister and Former Legislative Council Member, HKSAR |
Lecture China, Hong Kong |
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Sunday, Feb. 15th, 2015 Japanese Crime Film Series Closing Symposium |
Film, Lecture Japan |
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Sunday, Feb. 15th, 2015 World Premiere - "Chutaro of Banba" - Mabuta no haha: Banba no Chūtarō (瞼の母 番場の忠太郎) |
Film Japan |
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Sunday, Feb. 15th, 2015 "Wolf, Pig, and Man" - Ōkami to buta to ningen (狼と豚と人間) |
Film Japan |
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Saturday, Feb. 14th, 2015 "A Fugitive from the Past" - Kiga kaikyō (飢餓海峡) |
Film Japan |
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Thursday, Feb. 12th, 2015 "The Last Gunfight" - Ankokugai no taiketsu (暗黒街の対決) |
Film Japan |
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Thursday, Feb. 12th, 2015 "The Man Who Disappeared Yesterday" - Kinō kieta otoko (昨日消えた男) |
Film Japan |