Past Events
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Friday, Apr. 22nd, 2022 Repurposing Wood for Sacred Images in Kamakura-Period Sculpture Samuel C. Morse - Howard M. and Martha P. Mitchell Professor of the History of Art and Asian Languages and Civilizations, Amherst College |
Lecture Japan |
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Thursday, Apr. 21st, 2022 Digital Humanities on Korean Literature: Revisiting Yŏm Sang-sŏp through Digital Literary Approaches Jae-Yon Lee - Associate Professor of Modern Korean Literature, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology; Namgi Han - Postdoctoral Fellow of Informatics, Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology |
Workshop, Lecture Korea |
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Thursday, Apr. 21st, 2022 Swimming Out Till The Sea Turns Blue |
Film China |
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Thursday, Apr. 21st, 2022 From Buddhist Temple to Shinto Shrine: A History of Dazaifu Anrakuji/Tenmangū Robert Borgen - Professor Emeritus of History, University of California, Davis |
Lecture Japan |
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Wednesday, Apr. 20th, 2022 #MeToo in Japan, Britney Spears, BTS Erina Ito - Journalist |
Lecture Japan |
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Wednesday, Apr. 20th, 2022 Making Population and Making the State: a Comparative Study of Communist China and North Korea Juan Wang - Associate Professor of Political Science, McGill University |
Lecture China, Korea |
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Saturday, Apr. 16th, 2022 A Dash of Mifune: Rashomon and More (Part I) |
Film Japan |
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Thursday, Apr. 14th, 2022 Online Rakugo Tozaburo Yanagiya III - Master Rakugo Performer |
Workshop, Performance Japan |
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Wednesday, Apr. 13th, 2022 Two Faces of Japan’s Wartime Empire: Khin Myo Chit and Asha Sahay Amy Stanley - Wayne V. Jones Research Professor of History, Northwestern University |
Lecture, Special Event Japan, Transregional, Southeast Asia |
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Tuesday, Apr. 12th, 2022 Revolution of Our Times |
Film China, Hong Kong |
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Monday, Apr. 11th, 2022 A Journey to freedom Joseph Kim - Associate and Expert-in-Residence on the Human Freedom Initiative, George W. Bush Institute |
Lecture Korea |
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Friday, Apr. 8th, 2022 Softwork: Gendered Labor and Computerization in Japan Diane Wei Lewis - Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies, Washington University in St Louis |
Lecture Japan |
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Thursday, Apr. 7th, 2022 The Art of Breaking: Putting Salt Fields to Rest in 19th century Japan Aleksandra Kobiljski - Senior Research Scholar, French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) |
Lecture Japan |
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Wednesday, Apr. 6th, 2022 Against the Odds in Asia, 1901-2021: Thoughts on the Activists, Autocrats, Exiles and Empires of Several Eras Jeffrey Wasserstrom - Chancellor’s Professor of History, University of California, Irvine |
Lecture Transregional |
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Wednesday, Apr. 6th, 2022 Gender Inequality in Politics in Japan Seiki Tanaka - Assistant Professor of International Relations, University of Groningen |
Lecture Japan |
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Tuesday, Apr. 5th, 2022 Women Writers and the Discourse on the Postwar Japan Noriko Mizuta - Poet, literary critic, scholar of comparative literature and educator |
Lecture, Special Event Japan |
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Friday, Apr. 1st, 2022 ‘An important secret teaching’: Gender-based approaches to topic in Eikyū hyakushu Thomas McAuley - Senior Lecturer in Japanese Studies, University of Sheffield |
Lecture Japan |
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Wednesday, Mar. 30th, 2022 The Poetry Demon and Other Passions in Medieval Chinese Monks' Literature Jason Protass - William A. Dyer, Jr. Assistant Professor of the Humanities, Brown University |
Lecture China, Transregional |
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Tuesday, Mar. 15th, 2022 How to manage Sovereignty Restriction: Japan's experience of the 19th century “Unequal Treaty” and postwar Japan-US Security Treaty Kaoru Iokibe - Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo and Academic Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University |
Lecture, Special Event Japan |
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Friday, Mar. 11th, 2022 Marginal Social Groups and Japan’s Early Modern Society 「周縁的社会集団から考える日本近世社会」 TSUKADA Takashi (塚田孝）- Professor Emeritus, Osaka City University （大阪市立大学） |
Lecture Japan |
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Thursday, Mar. 10th, 2022 Japanese “World Map” Folding Screens: Repositioning Japan and Europe in the Global Baroque Landscape Angelo Cattaneo - Research Fellow, National Research Council (CNR) |
Lecture Japan |
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Thursday, Mar. 10th, 2022 Transformation and Upgrading of China’s Manufacturing Sectors: The Divergent Paths of Jinjiang’s and Putian’s Footwear Industries Lu Zheng - Associate Professor of Sociology and RONG Professor of Data Sciences, Tsinghua University |
Lecture China |
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Wednesday, Mar. 9th, 2022 Is Heaven Blue or a Divinity? On Wang Chong’s Approach to Evidence Esther Klein - Senior Lecturer of Culture, History, and Language, Australian National University |
Lecture China |
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Friday, Mar. 4th, 2022 How Institutions Rebound: Untangling Difficult Reforms in China's State-Owned Enterprises Ling Chen - Assistant Professor, School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University |
Lecture China |
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Thursday, Mar. 3rd, 2022 Green With Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups Robert Hellyer - Associate Professor of History, Wake Forest University |
Lecture Japan |
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Wednesday, Mar. 2nd, 2022 Correlative Cosmology, Dividual Subjectivity, and Internet-based Fantasy Novels in Postsocialist China Zhange Ni - Associate Professor of Religion and Culture, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (Virginia Tech) |
Lecture China |
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Monday, Feb. 28th, 2022 Public Perceptions of Citizenship and Migration in Japan Yujin Woo - Assistant Professor of Law, Hitotsubashi University |
Lecture Japan |
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Monday, Feb. 28th, 2022 Why Risk an Alliance? Evidence from Japan (1901-1960) Mina Pollmann - PhD candidate in Political Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology |
Lecture Japan |
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Friday, Feb. 25th, 2022 Closure at the End of Genji’s Tale Edith Sarra - Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures Adjunct Associate Professor of Comparative Literature, Indiana University in Bloomington |
Lecture Japan |
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Friday, Feb. 25th, 2022 Social Mobility across the Pacific: The Case of Japanese in the United States Tate Kihara - PhD Candidate in Sociology, Brown University |
Lecture Japan |