Past Events

Friday, Apr. 7th, 2017
Know before You Go: Researching East Asia in U.S. - Asian Division, Library of Congress
Dr. Yuwu Song - Reference Specialist; Mr. Eiichi Ito - Reference Specialist
Workshop
China, Japan, Korea
Monday, Apr. 3rd, 2017
Raise the Umbrellas: Special Preview with Director Evans Chan
Evans Chan - Director
Film
China
Friday, Mar. 31st, 2017
Know before You Go: Researching East Asia in U.S. - East Asian Collection, University of Chicago
Dr. Yuan Zhou - Curator
Workshop
China, Japan, Korea
Wednesday, Mar. 29th, 2017
Dismembered and Still Kicking: Kokoro in the High School Textbook
Ken K. Ito - Professor, Japanese Literature, University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
Lecture
Japan
Wednesday, Mar. 29th, 2017
A Secular Japan?
Lola Martinez - Emeritus Reader, SOAS and Research Associate, University of Oxford
Lecture
Japan
Tuesday, Mar. 28th, 2017
A Discussion with Mark Schilling - Film Critic and Journalist
Mark Schilling - Film Critic and Journalist
Lecture
Japan
Monday, Mar. 27th, 2017
Spellbound by Blossoms: Dream Vision Noh as Political Allegory
Susan Blakeley Klein - Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and Culture, UC Irvine
Lecture
Japan
Saturday, Mar. 11th, 2017
Plebeian Society and the Growth of Cities in ‘Early Modern’ Japan (都市の巨大化と民衆世界)
Workshop, Special Event
Japan
Friday, Mar. 10th, 2017
Plebeian Society and the Growth of Cities in ‘Early Modern’ Japan (都市の巨大化と民衆世界)
Workshop, Special Event
Japan
Wednesday, Mar. 8th, 2017
"Jirōkichi the Rat" - Oatsurae Jirōkichi kōshi
Kataoka Ichirō - Japanese Silent Film Benshi
Film
Japan
Wednesday, Mar. 8th, 2017
Yamanaka Sadajirō and Nezu Ka'ichirō's Buddha Heads & The Modern Fragmentation and Re-presentation of Chinese Buddhist Sculpture
Gregory Levine - Associate Professor, History of Art, UC Berkeley
Lecture
Japan
Tuesday, Mar. 7th, 2017
Engineered Ecologies: The Transformation of Landscapes in China
Dorothy Tang - Assistant Professor of Landscape Architecture, University of Hong Kong
Lecture
China
Friday, Mar. 3rd, 2017
An Introduction to Epigraphic Field Research in Rural North China
Tomoyasu Iiyama - Adjunct Researcher, Waseda Institute for Advanced Study
Lecture
China
Friday, Mar. 3rd, 2017
Japan's National Security Policy and Voters
Aiji Tanaka - Professor, Political Process, Waseda University
Lecture
Japan
Friday, Mar. 3rd, 2017
An Environmental Economy during China’s “Medieval Economic Revolution”
Ling Zhang - Assistant Professor of History, Boston College
Lecture
China
Thursday, Mar. 2nd, 2017
The Ten Thousand Rooms Project
Tina Lu - Professor of East Asian Languages & Literatures, Yale University; Michael Hunter - Assistant Professor of East Asian Languages & Literatures, Yale University
Lecture
China
Wednesday, Mar. 1st, 2017
Day Laborer to Criminal: Gambling and the Narcotic of Time
Klaus Yamamoto-Hammering - Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in Anthropology
Lecture
Japan
Tuesday, Feb. 28th, 2017
Lunar New Year Reception 2017
Special Event
China, Japan, Korea, Transregional
Monday, Feb. 27th, 2017
'Normative Power Japan': Aid, Rule of Law and Democracy
André Asplund - Japan Foundation CGP Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies
Lecture
Japan
Friday, Feb. 24th, 2017
Know before You Go: Researching East Asia in U.S. - International and Area Studies Department, Duke University
Ms. Luo Zhou - Chinese Studies Librarian; Dr. Kristina Troost - Head of International Area Studies and Japanese Studies Librarian
Workshop
China, Japan, Korea
Thursday, Feb. 23rd, 2017
Rewriting Tang Literati Lives: New Views of Literary Composition in Biographies of the New Tang History
Anna M. Shields - Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University
Lecture
China
Wednesday, Feb. 22nd, 2017
Representing Radical Difference: Kim Sŏkpŏm's Korea(n) in Japan(ese)
Cindi Textor - Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies and Lecturer in East Asian Languages & Literatures
Lecture
Japan, Korea
Friday, Feb. 17th, 2017
Know before You Go: Researching East Asia in U.S. - East Asian Library and the Gest Collection, Princeton University
Dr. Martin Heijdra - Library Director, Acting Chinese & Western Bibliographer, Head of Public Services; Ms. Setsuko Noguchi - Japanese Studies Librarian
Workshop
China, Japan, Korea
Wednesday, Feb. 15th, 2017
Did Daoist Scriptures come with a Price Tag? Pledge Offerings for Daoist Scriptures in Early Medieval China
Friederike Assandri - Visiting Professor of Chinese Studies, University of Leipzig
Lecture
China
Monday, Feb. 13th, 2017
One Mind: A Zen Pilgrimage
Edward A. Burger - Director
Film
China
Monday, Feb. 13th, 2017
Ariadne in Bordeaux: Unraveling the Ties that Bind in Tawada Yōko’s ボルドーの義兄 (Schwager in Bordeaux)
Brett de Bary - Professor of Asian Studies and Comparative Literature
Lecture
Japan
Friday, Feb. 10th, 2017
Handle with Care: Little Americans and the Supply Chain of Human Feeling
Julie Y. Chu - Associate Professor of Anthropology, The University of Chicago
Lecture
China
Saturday, Feb. 4th, 2017
Lunarfest 2017
Special Event
China, Transregional
Thursday, Jan. 26th, 2017
The Son also Rises: Stratification of Personal Reading among Educated Youths during the Cultural Revolution
Sun Peidong - Associate Professor of History, Fudan University
Lecture
China
Wednesday, Jan. 25th, 2017
The Gardens of Tranquil Wisdom: Tuệ Tĩnh and the Medical Environment of 14th Century Ðai Việt
C. Michele Thompson - Professor of History, Southern Connecticut University
Lecture
China, Transregional, Southeast Asia

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