Past Events
Thursday, Feb. 20th, 2020 From Agnostic to Atheist to Secular Buddhist: A Personal Journey Stephen Batchelor - Bodhi College |
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Thursday, Feb. 20th, 2020 An Introduction to the Korea Collection at Yale Jude Yang - Librarian for Korean Studies, Yale University |
Special Event Korea |
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Monday, Feb. 17th, 2020 Japanophone Literature in the Age of Three Worlds Nayoung Aimee Kwon - Associate Professor of Korean and Japanese Cultural Studies, Duke University |
Lecture Japan, Korea, Transregional |
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Friday, Feb. 14th, 2020 New Trends in the Study of Postwar Japan An interdisciplinary workshop with Eiko Maruko Siniawer (Professor of History, Williams College) and William W. Kelly (Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Sumitomo Professor Emeritus of Japanese Studies, Yale University) |
Workshop Japan |
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Thursday, Feb. 13th, 2020 Rethinking Panic: Toilet Paper and the Uncertainties of Early 1970s Japan Eiko Maruko Siniawer - Professor of History, Williams College |
Lecture Japan |
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Thursday, Feb. 13th, 2020 Hong Kong on the Brink: Historical and Comparative Perspectives Jeffrey Wasserstrom - Chancellor's Professor of History, University of California, Irvine |
Lecture China |
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Wednesday, Feb. 12th, 2020 Japan’s Foreign Policy and International Law H.E. Shinsuke J. Sugiyama - Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of Japan to the United States of America |
Lecture, Special Event Japan |
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Wednesday, Feb. 12th, 2020 The Emotional Topography of the Zainichi Memoryscape: Korean Ghettos in Postwar Japan Revisited Sayaka Chatani - Assistant Professor and Presidential Young Professor at the Department of History, The National University of Singapore |
Lecture Japan, Korea |
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Monday, Feb. 10th, 2020 Uyghur Poetry in a Time of Crisis Tahir Hamut Izgil - Poet |
Lecture China, Transregional |
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Thursday, Feb. 6th, 2020 Modern Buddhist Suffering: Pathos, History, and Moral Responses at a Contemporary Japanese Leprosarium Jessica Starling - Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Lewis and Clark College |
Lecture Japan |
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Monday, Feb. 3rd, 2020 Social Bonds and Service in Persianate Asia: Love, Friendship, and the Problem of Hierarchy Mana Kia - Middle Eastern, South Asian and African Studies, Columbia University |
Lecture Transregional |
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Thursday, Jan. 30th, 2020 The road from books to culture Haizheng Yang - Professor of Chinese Literature, Peking University |
Lecture China |
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Saturday, Jan. 25th, 2020 White Snake Introduction by Dihao Zhou - PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University |
Film China |
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Thursday, Jan. 23rd, 2020 The 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games: Why are they important, even for people who don’t like sports? William W. Kelly - Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Sumitomo Professor Emeritus of Japanese Studies, Yale University |
Lecture, Special Event Japan |
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Friday, Jan. 17th, 2020 National Security Experiments in Japan: Nuclear Taboo, Power Transition, and Invisible Crises Atsushi Tago - Professor of International Relations, Waseda University |
Lecture Japan |
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Thursday, Jan. 16th, 2020 Making Voices, Printing Sounds: Woodblock Print as Auditory Technology Satoko Shimazaki - Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and Theater, University of California Los Angeles |
Lecture Japan |
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Friday, Dec. 13th, 2019 Bōnenkai End-of-Year Celebration 2019 |
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Thursday, Dec. 12th, 2019 Back to the Future in a U.S. Satellite: Park Chung Hee and the May 16 (1961) Coup: A Genealogy Carter Eckert - Yoon Se Young Professor of Korean History, Harvard University |
Lecture, Special Event Korea |
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Wednesday, Dec. 11th, 2019 Haiku Workshop |
Workshop Japan |
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Wednesday, Dec. 11th, 2019 Haiku Workshop for JAPN 150+ Level Students |
Workshop Japan |
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Thursday, Dec. 5th, 2019 Ginza Bricktown and the Politics of Urban Space in Early Meiji Tokyo Tristan R. Grunow -- Associate Research Scholar, Yale Council on East Asian Studies |
Lecture Japan |
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Sunday, Dec. 1st, 2019 Film Screening of Where Chimneys are Seen (1953) |
Film Japan |
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Thursday, Nov. 21st, 2019 History, Memory, and Progress: The Culture War in South Korea Namhee Lee - Associate Professor of Modern Korean History, UCLA |
Lecture Korea |
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Wednesday, Nov. 20th, 2019 Film Screening of Yama – Attack to Attack (1985) |
Film Japan |
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Monday, Nov. 18th, 2019 CHINA Town Hall 2019 - Webcast & Local Discussion George Stephanopoulos - Chief Anchor of ABC News |
Special Event China |
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Monday, Nov. 18th, 2019 Representing the Unseen: Blackness in Manga, Anime Dawn-Elissa Fischer - Associate Professor, San Francisco State University |
Lecture Japan |
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Friday, Nov. 15th, 2019 Reading Between the Texts: Forgery, History, and Authority in Late Medieval Japan Paula R. Curtis - Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in History |
Lecture Japan |
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Friday, Nov. 15th, 2019 Russia and Asia in the 20th and 21st Centuries Conference Paul Bushkovitch, David Engerman, and Thomas Graham - Yale University faculty hosts |
Conference Transregional |
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Thursday, Nov. 14th, 2019 Beijing and Tibet, 1949-1959: A Study Based on Archives Xiaoyuan Liu - David Dean Professor of East Asian Studies & Professor of History, University of Virginia |
Lecture China, Transregional, Tibet |
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Wednesday, Nov. 13th, 2019 My own flesh and blood: stratified parental compassion and law in Korean slavery Sun Joo Kim - Harvard-Yenching Professor of Korean History, Harvard University |
Lecture Korea |