Past Events

Tuesday, May. 3rd, 2016
China and Japan: Nara to Now
Ezra Vogel - Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University
Lecture
China, Japan
Friday, Apr. 29th, 2016
The MacMillan Center International Film Festival: Though I Am Gone (China, 2006)
Film
China
Thursday, Apr. 28th, 2016
The MacMillan Center International Film Festival: Poetry (South Korea, 2010)
Film
Korea
Friday, Apr. 22nd, 2016
The Role of Women in Japanese Society: Three Generations of Women in My Family
Nobuko Sasae - Conference Interpreter
Lecture
Japan
Tuesday, Apr. 19th, 2016
Chi-hwa-seon
Film
Korea
Tuesday, Apr. 19th, 2016
The Rise of Post-Umbrella Movement: Political Forces in the New Era
Joshua Wong - Co-Founder, Demosisto
Lecture
China
Tuesday, Apr. 19th, 2016
Appropriation and the Objects of Tea in Sixteenth-Century Japan
Andrew Watsky - Professor of Japanese Art and Archaeology, Princeton University
Lecture
Japan
Monday, Apr. 18th, 2016
Japanese Cinema and France: Who Gets to Calibrate? (A Ghostwritten History)
Stephen Sarrazin - Film and Media Art Critic
Lecture
Japan
Friday, Apr. 15th, 2016
Dirty Sexy Haiku: Senryū, Bareku, and the Perversification of Haikai
Adam Kern - Professor of East Asian Languages and Literature, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Lecture
Japan
Friday, Apr. 15th, 2016
Know before You Go: Researching East Asia in US - Part IV. East Asia Library, Stanford University
Jidong Yang - Director
Lecture
China, Japan
Thursday, Apr. 14th, 2016
"And the Subtle Words Were Cut Off": Loss and Recovery in Early Chinese Buddhist Narratives on the Formation of the Canon
Stefano Zacchetti - Yehan Numata Professor of Buddhist Studies, Oxford University
China
Thursday, Apr. 14th, 2016
The Memory of War
Viet Nguyen - Associate Professor of English and American Studies and Ethnicity, University of Southern California
Lecture
Transregional
Monday, Apr. 11th, 2016
Dismantling Developmentalism: Japan’s Political and Economic Struggles After Achieving Success
T. J. Pempel - Jack M. Forcey Professor of Political Science, University of California, Berkeley
Japan
Friday, Apr. 8th, 2016
Know before You Go: Researching East Asia in US - Part III. C.V. Starr East Asian Library, University of California, Berkeley
Jianye He - Librarian for the Chinese Collection; Toshie Marra - Librarian for the Japanese Collection
Lecture
China, Japan
Thursday, Apr. 7th, 2016
Decoding the European Image: Hollandology, Emblems, and Western World Views in Early Modern Japan
Ivo Smits - Professor of Arts and Cultures of Japan, Leiden University
Japan
Wednesday, Apr. 6th, 2016
China's New Frontiers: Rethinking Silk Roads
Ge Jianxiong - Professor, Institute of Chinese Historical Geography, Fudan University
Special Event
China, Transregional
Tuesday, Apr. 5th, 2016
A Girl at My Door
Film
Korea
Tuesday, Apr. 5th, 2016
Soil and Society on the Loess Plateau, c. 1850s-1950s: A History from the Bottom Up
Micah Muscolino - Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, Oxford University
Lecture
China
Monday, Apr. 4th, 2016
Memory Against Forgetting: The Work of the Dui Hua Foundation
John Kamm - Founder and Chairman, The Dui Hua Foundation
Lecture
China
Monday, Apr. 4th, 2016
Move, Connect, Exchange
Tulasi Srinivas - Emerson College; Pamela Corey - SOAS; & Eric Tagliacozzo - Cornell University
Workshop
China, Transregional, South Asia, Southeast Asia
Monday, Mar. 28th, 2016
Chinese Theories of Fiction and the Creation of Transcultural Theories of Fiction
Lena Rydholm - Professor of Chinese, Uppsala University
Lecture
China
Thursday, Mar. 10th, 2016
"Bandits vs. Samurai Squadron" - Kumokiri Nizaemon
Film
Japan
Thursday, Mar. 10th, 2016
The Nara Court Under Buddhism: The Religious Side of Political History in Ancient Japan
Bryan Lowe - Assistant Professor of Religious Studies, Vanderbilt University
Lecture
Japan
Thursday, Mar. 10th, 2016
Know before You Go: Researching East Asia in US - Part II, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University
Chengzhi Wang - Chinese Studies Librarian; Sachie Noguchi - Japanese Studies Librarian
Lecture
China, Japan
Tuesday, Mar. 8th, 2016
Sky-Blue Hometown
Film
Korea
Tuesday, Mar. 8th, 2016
Natural History, Satire, and the Politics of Hell
Alessandro Bianchi - Postdoctoral Fellow, Freer | Sackler Galleries of Art, Smithsonian Institution
Lecture
Japan
Monday, Mar. 7th, 2016
Loess is More: Arid Asia and the Yellow River Disaster Regime
Ruth Mostern - Associate Professor of History, University of California, Merced
Lecture
China
Monday, Mar. 7th, 2016
Imagine, Conceive, Represent
Max Hirsh - University of Hong Kong; Martina Nguyen - Baruch College; & Anand Taneja - Vanderbilt University
Workshop
China, Transregional, Hong Kong, South Asia, Southeast Asia
Friday, Mar. 4th, 2016
Security Policy and Military Power in Japan
Nori Katagiri - Assistant Professor of Political Science, Saint Louis University
Lecture
Japan
Thursday, Mar. 3rd, 2016
Tea and Other Health Drinks in Song-dynasty China: Some Clues from the Buddhist Monastery
James Benn - Professor of Religious Studies, McMaster University
Lecture
China

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