Past Events
Wednesday, Sep. 12th, 2012 “China is Far, Far Way": Nineteenth-Century Indian Convict Tales From Singapore Anand Yang - Professor of International Studies and History, University of Washington |
Lecture, Special Event China, Transregional |
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Tuesday, Sep. 11th, 2012 The Art of Bourgeois Culture in Kamakura Laura Hein - Professor of History, Northwestern University |
Lecture, Special Event Japan |
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Tuesday, Aug. 28th, 2012 The Birth of the Japanese Illustrated Book: Screen Painting and the Kōetsu Sanjūrokkasen (“The Kōetsu Thirty-Six Immortal Poets”) Dr. Jun Suzuki - National Institute of Japanese Literature |
Lecture, Special Event Japan |
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Tuesday, Apr. 24th, 2012 MacMillan Comparative Politics Workshop -- "Exit" as Voice: Regime-Reinforcing Noncompliance in Rural China Lily Tsai - Associate Professor of Political Science, MIT |
Workshop, Lecture China |
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Thursday, Apr. 19th, 2012 Embodying Guanyin through Hairpins as a Means of Transcendence Li Yuhang - Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies, Yale University |
Lecture China |
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Tuesday, Apr. 10th, 2012 Reclaiming the Orient: Japanese Cinema and the Politics of Transnationality, 1952-1964 Hiroshi Kitamura - Associate Professor of History, William & Mary |
Lecture Japan |
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Monday, Apr. 9th, 2012 War, Water, Power: An Environmental History of Henan's Yellow River Flood Area, 1938-1952 Micah Muscolino - Associate Professor of History, Georgetown University |
Lecture China |
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Friday, Apr. 6th, 2012 Suicide, Mental Resilience and Meaning in Life in Japan Chikako Ozawa-de Silva - Associate Professor of Anthropology, Emory University |
Lecture Japan |
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Wednesday, Apr. 4th, 2012 Journeys to the West: Buddhism and the Japanese World Map D. Max Moerman - Associate Professor of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College |
Lecture Japan |
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Friday, Mar. 30th, 2012 Todai-Yale Initiative Symposium -- Japan and China for Four Decades: Cooperation and Competition since 1972 |
Conference Japan |
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Thursday, Mar. 29th, 2012 Todai-Yale Initiative Junior Scholar Conference -- Discovering Japan in the United States |
Conference Japan |
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Tuesday, Mar. 27th, 2012 Conservation and Development in the Himalaya and Tibet -- a WWF Perspective Jon Miceler - Managing Director, Eastern Himalayas Program, World Wildlife Fund US |
Lecture, Special Event China |
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Tuesday, Mar. 27th, 2012 Governing Educational Desire: Culture, Politics and Schooling in China Andrew Kipnis - Senior Fellow in the (CAP) Department of Anthropology at the Australian National University |
Lecture China |
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Tuesday, Mar. 27th, 2012 Responding to 3.11: Preserving History in the Wake of Disaster Hiroshi Okumura, Helen Hardacre, and Konrad Lawson |
Lecture, Special Event Japan |
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Tuesday, Mar. 27th, 2012 Constructing Commonality: Standardization and Modernization in Chinese Nation-Building Andrew Kipnis - Senior Fellow in the (CAP) Department of Anthropology at the Australian National University |
Workshop China |
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Monday, Mar. 26th, 2012 The Increasing Significance of "Guanxi" in Chinese Transitional Economy Yanjie Bian - Professor of Sociology, University of Minnesota |
Lecture China |
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Monday, Mar. 26th, 2012 Japanese History Lecture Series -- Tsuneno's Journey: Gender, Microhistory, and the Limits of the Ordinary in Tokugawa Japan Amy Stanley - Assistant Professor of History, Northwestern University |
Lecture Japan |
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Monday, Mar. 26th, 2012 City and Region in Japanese History -- Special Three Day Symposium |
Conference, Special Event Japan |
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Friday, Mar. 23rd, 2012 Japan History Lecture Series -- Benevolence, Charity, and Duty: Famine Relief and Local Society in Early Modern Japan Maren Ehlers - Assistant Professor of History, University of North Carolina, Charlotte |
Lecture Japan |
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Wednesday, Mar. 21st, 2012 Before and After Superflat: Contemporary Art in the Post-Bubble, Post-Disaster Society Adrian Favell - Professor of Sociology, Sciences Po, Paris |
Lecture Japan |
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Monday, Mar. 19th, 2012 Shrine, Church, and State “Teaching” and “Religion” in Prewar Japan Kate Wildman Nakai - Professor Emerita, Sophia University |
Lecture, Special Event Japan |
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Friday, Mar. 2nd, 2012 Fukushima's Victories and Victims: Contemplating Alliances Between Japanese Soccer, the State, and Nuclear Power Elise Edwards - Associate Professor of Anthropology, Butler University |
Lecture Japan |
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Thursday, Mar. 1st, 2012 Elite Upheavals: Upward and Downward Trajectories of China's Social Elites in the Resistance War Diana Lary - Professor Emerita of History Department, University of British Columbia |
Lecture China |
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Monday, Feb. 27th, 2012 Sima Qian's Narratives on Assassins / 司馬遷筆下的刺客與刺客外傳 Chi-hsiang Lee(李纪祥) - Professor of Chinese History/Dean of the College of Humanities, Fo Guang University, Taiwan |
Lecture China |
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Friday, Feb. 17th, 2012 Doing Media Anthropology in China: Production, Reception, Fandom, Ethnography Louisa Schein - Professor of Anthropology and Gender & Women's Studies, Rutgers University |
Lecture China |
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Thursday, Feb. 16th, 2012 The 'Rise' of China: A Metaphor for Americans Bruce Cumings - Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History and the College, University of Chicago |
Lecture China, Transregional |
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Wednesday, Feb. 15th, 2012 Disaster, Development, and Democracy: Japan after 3-11 Mary Alice Haddad - Associate Professor of Government, East Asian Studies; Wesleyan University |
Lecture Japan |
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Saturday, Feb. 11th, 2012 Kochiyama Soshun (河内山宗俊), Flowers Have Fallen (花ちりぬ) & Closing Symposium |
Film, Special Event Japan |
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Friday, Feb. 10th, 2012 Sendaihagi (先代萩 御殿の場 義大夫出語), An Unforgettable Grudge (長恨[部分) & A Diary of Chuji's Travels (忠次旅日記[トータル・イマーション版) |
Film Japan |
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Wednesday, Feb. 8th, 2012 Vessels of Influence: The Formation of the Porcelain Industry in Japan Dr. Nicole Rousmaniere - Director of the Sainsbury Institute, 2nd year of secondment at the British Museum |
Lecture, Special Event Japan |