Past Events
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Wednesday, Jul. 29th, 2020 Careers Beyond the Academy for Historians of China Moderated by: Emily Baum (Associate Professor of History, UC Irvine) and Denise Y. Ho (Assistant Professor of History, Yale University) |
Special Event China |
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Wednesday, Jul. 8th, 2020 Digital Sources for Chinese History Moderated by: Emily Baum (Associate Professor of History, UC Irvine) and Denise Y. Ho (Assistant Professor of History, Yale University) |
Special Event China |
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Tuesday, Jun. 23rd, 2020 Her Trajectory Zeng Hong - 2020 Yale-China Artist Fellow |
Lecture China |
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Monday, Apr. 27th, 2020 The Cult of Su Shi 蘇軾 in the 19th Century: A Sino-Korean Perspective Jeongsoo Shin - Assistant Professor, Korean Classics and Global Communication, Academy of Korean Studies |
Lecture China, Korea |
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Wednesday, Apr. 22nd, 2020 A Discussion on Science Fiction & Global Media with Chinese Science Fiction Writers Han Song, Chen Qiufan, Xia Jia |
Special Event China, Transregional |
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Tuesday, Apr. 14th, 2020 A celebration of Valerie Hansen's "The Year 1000" |
Special Event China |
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Monday, Mar. 2nd, 2020 Convenient Media, Convenient Japan Marc Steinberg - Associate Professor of Film Studies, Concordia University |
Lecture Japan |
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Friday, Feb. 28th, 2020 Virus, Alliance and the Emperor: Japan’s Stability and Security in an Unpredictable and Dangerous World Naoyuki Agawa - Distinguished Visiting Professor, Doshisha University |
Lecture Japan |
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Friday, Feb. 28th, 2020 4th Yale Symposium on Chinese Overseas Impacts: From Policies to Practices |
Workshop China |
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Thursday, Feb. 27th, 2020 Buddhist Apocalyptic Saviors and Imperial Authority during the Reign of Empress Wu Zetian (690-705CE) April D. Hughes - Assistant Professor of Religion, Boston University |
Lecture China |
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Wednesday, Feb. 26th, 2020 From Chernobyl’s Past to Fukushima’s Remembered Future Rachel DiNitto - Professor of Japanese Literature, University of Oregon |
Lecture, Special Event Japan |
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Tuesday, Feb. 25th, 2020 Japan’s Undeclared War: International Society and Japan’s 1930s China Policy Fumi Yoshii - Associate Professor of Japanese History, National Museum of Japanese History |
Lecture Japan |
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Friday, Feb. 21st, 2020 Japanese American, Japanese Brazilian: The Art and Literature of Transnational Belonging |
Workshop Japan, Transregional |
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Thursday, Feb. 20th, 2020 The Great Buddha+ Film Screening |
Film China |
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Thursday, Feb. 20th, 2020 From Agnostic to Atheist to Secular Buddhist: A Personal Journey Stephen Batchelor - Bodhi College |
Lecture |
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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 |