Past Events

Thursday, Apr. 20th, 2023
Porous Media and Viscous Extractions
Youngmin Choe - Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California
Lecture
Korea
Wednesday, Apr. 19th, 2023
Comparing Gods and Things: Looking At and Beyond Korea
Laurel Kendall - Curator of Asian Ethnographic Collections, American Museum of Natural History
Lecture, Special Event
Korea, Transregional
Tuesday, Apr. 18th, 2023
Diplomacy in the Imjin War (1592-1598): Chosŏn Korea’s Steadfast Performance and its Survival
Nam-lin Hur - Professor, Department of Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
Lecture
Japan, Korea, Transregional
Tuesday, Apr. 18th, 2023
Asa Yoneda - Translation Masterclass #2
Asa Yoneda - Translator
Workshop, Lecture
Japan
Saturday, Apr. 15th, 2023
The Catch (1983, Somai Shinji) Film Screening
Film
Japan
Saturday, Apr. 15th, 2023
Metal Mining: Balancing Investment Impact and Sustainability
Workshop
China
Friday, Apr. 14th, 2023
PP Rider (1983, Somai Shinji) Film Screening
Film
Friday, Apr. 14th, 2023
From “Fuzzy” to “Eclectic” and Everything in Between: Intercultural Encounters in the Pre-Modern World
Conference
Transregional
Thursday, Apr. 13th, 2023
World-oriented Crossings: The Covert Globality of Malaysian Chinese Literature
Chan Cheow Thia - Assistant Professor, Department of Chinese Studies, National University of Singapore
Lecture
China, Transregional, Southeast Asia
Wednesday, Apr. 12th, 2023
Looking at China from the Periphery: The Interconnected History of the Chinese Gazette in the Eighteenth Century
Nicolas Standaert - Professor of Sinology, KU Leuven
Lecture, Special Event
China
Monday, Apr. 10th, 2023
Transpacific Resonances: Writing Self and Speaking to Others in Pahk Induk’s Life Writings
Jina E. Kim - Associate Professor, University of Oregon
Korea, Transregional
Sunday, Apr. 9th, 2023
Love Life (2022, Fukada Koji) Film Screening
Fukada Koji - Director
Film
Japan
Sunday, Apr. 9th, 2023
Lunch Session with Japanese Director, Fukada Koji (Japanese Language Only)
Fukada Koji - Director
Workshop
Japan
Saturday, Apr. 8th, 2023
Harmonium (2016, Fukada Koji) Film Screening
Fukada Koji - Director
Film
Japan
Saturday, Apr. 8th, 2023
Lunch Session with Japanese Director, Fukada Koji (English & Japanese)
Fukada Koji - Director
Workshop
Japan
Thursday, Apr. 6th, 2023
Nature and Artifice: Korean Munbangdo Painting
Eleanor Soo-ah Hyun - Associate Curator for Korean Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art
Lecture
Korea
Tuesday, Apr. 4th, 2023
The Making of North Korean Americans in the Afterlife of Cold War Cultural Politics
Na-Rae Kim - University of Connecticut, Assistant Professor in Residence and Associate Director for Asian and Asian American Studies Institute
Lecture
Korea, Transregional
Tuesday, Apr. 4th, 2023
The Story of a Hiroshima Atom Bomb Survivor
Toshiko Tanaka, Reiko Tashiro
Lecture, Special Event
Japan
Monday, Apr. 3rd, 2023
Who was a “Refugee”?: Returnees, Northerners, and Relief Societies in Liberated South Korea, 1945-50
Alyssa Park - Associate Professor, University of Iowa
Lecture
Korea
Friday, Mar. 31st, 2023
The Cost of "Normalcy": Updating Japan’s National Security
Richard J. Samuels - Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director, MIT Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Lecture, Special Event
Japan
Thursday, Mar. 30th, 2023
Verbal Arts of Japan - Rakugo & Rôkyoku Performances
Special Event, Performance
Japan
Monday, Mar. 27th, 2023
The Importance of K-Pop to the Sociology of Asian Americans and Music
Grace Kao - IBM Professor of Sociology; Professor of Ethnicity, Race, and Migration (by Courtesy); Faculty Director, Education Studies; Director of CERSI, Yale University
Lecture
Korea
Friday, Mar. 17th, 2023
Asian Studies Councils' Reception at AAS
Special Event
Thursday, Mar. 9th, 2023
Half-emptiness: Aspiration and Angst of the Chinese Dream in Rural China
Min-hua Ling - Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study 2022-2023
Lecture
China
Thursday, Mar. 9th, 2023
Lecture and Korean Shamanic Ritual (Gut)
Dr. Helena Soholm - Transpersonal Psychologist and Korean Shaman
Lecture, Performance
Korea, Transregional
Tuesday, Mar. 7th, 2023
From Community of Resistance to Community of Suffering: Hong Kong Struggles for Democracy
Kin-man Chan - Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology, National Chengchi University of Taiwan
Lecture, Special Event
China, Hong Kong
Tuesday, Mar. 7th, 2023
Nanjido: (Un)covering the Trash Mountains
Se-Mi Oh - Assistant Professor of Modern Korean History, University of Michigan
Lecture
Korea
Monday, Mar. 6th, 2023
Divinity School Bartlett Lecture on East Asian Theologies
Lecture, Special Event
Transregional
Sunday, Mar. 5th, 2023
Something Like It (の・ようなもの) Film Screening
Film
Japan
Thursday, Mar. 2nd, 2023
Memory Politics, Fear of Technology and Gallows Humor in Traditional Japanese Comedy, Rakugo
Esra-Gökçe Şahin - Visiting Researcher, Bahçeşehir University
Lecture
Japan

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