Transregional
This course examines how music is transmitted by various factors and how its styles and meanings can change in a new context. Through various scholarly approaches, this class aims to enhance your understanding of the mobility of music and its meanings. We will examine the processes and conditions in which music is exchanged and blended and consider how such “mashups” function as cultural indicators and symbols for emergent and migrant communities. We will also examine the impact of technology on musical globalization, localization, and glocalization. In doing so, this class explores issues of...
2024 Yale University Korean Language and Studies Student Research Symposium Five-Minute Thesis (5MT) Presentations Please view a full program here Moderator & MC: Angela McClean Postdoctoral Associate in East Asian Studies Lecturer in Sociology Symposium Program Organizer: Angela Lee-Smith
Join Yale International Security Studies, the Alexander Hamilton Society, and Yale Taiwanese-American Society at the Yale Jackson School of Global Affairs on Wednesday, April 17 at 5 PM in Horchow Hall (GM Room) for a moderated discussion on US-Taiwan relations with Taiwan’s Head of UN Affairs and Director General of the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in NY, Ambassador James K.J. Lee and Yale International Security Studies Executive Director, Professor Ted Wittenstein. Light refreshments will be served during the opening reception. This year marks the 45th anniversary of the...
The global movement of people that occurred in the aftermath of the Second World War is often evoked today. It’s used as a benchmark against which the scale and scope of the current global refugee crisis is measured. However, histories of this ‘global’ post-1945 crisis of displaced people have mainly focused on Europe, especially the aftermath of the Holocaust. This was a global war, but historical work on its aftermath for those displaced by fighting, genocidal regimes, and wartime mobilization is far less global in scope. Unlike in Europe after 1945, where, as historian Tony Judt writes, “...
What does it mean to narrate a queer feminist ethical praxis of “encounter” and diaspora bridging disciplines, languages, and politics that rarely meet in academic writing or activisms? My new research interweaves readings of Japanese fiction with Hong Kong, Sinophone studies, and queer women of color feminisms. In doing so, I question assumptions about the positionality of our readers, present and future, asking what Japanese literary studies might look like if we write for “Sinophone” queer/feminist readers, or queer/feminist of color readers. For example, I explore the significance of...
In this graduate seminar, we explore cultural representations of non-normative sexualities and gender variance produced in East Asia and its diaspora and survey the scholarly field that is broadly referred to as “queer East Asian studies.” The materials in this course include primary sources such as poetry, fiction, narrative and documentary films, as well as critical writings on LGBTQ history, culture, and activism in Japan, Korea, and the Sinophone world.
This course explores the role of memory as a social, cultural, and political force in contemporary society. How societies remember difficult pasts has become a contested site for negotiating the present. Through the lens of memory, we examine complex roles that our relationships to difficult pasts play in navigating issues we face today. The course explores the politics of memory that takes place in the realm of popular culture and public space. It asks such questions as: How do you represent difficult and contested pasts? What does it mean to enable long-silenced victims’ voices to be heard...
This introductory course explores the art of India, China, Japan, and Korea from prehistory to the present. We consider major works and monuments from all four regions. Themes include the representation of nature and the body, the intersection of art with spirituality and politics, and everything from elite to consumer culture. All students welcome, including those who have no previous experience with either art history or the study of Asian art. This class makes frequent visits to Yale University Art Gallery.
CHINA Town Hall (CTH), a two-part program that provides a snapshot of the current U.S.-China relationship and examines how that relationship reverberates at the local level – in our towns, states, and nation, connects Americans around the country with U.S. policymakers and thought leaders on China. Since CTH began in 2007, the National Committee has proudly partnered with a range of institutions and civic groups, colleges and universities, trade and business associations, world affairs councils, and think tanks to convene town halls and bring this important national conversation to local...
The Council on East Asian Studies is pleased to present the 5th Seong-Yawng Park GRD ‘65 and Marguerite Clark Park Memorial Lecture. The Seong-Yawng Park GRD ’65 and Marguerite Clark Park Memorial Lecture was made possible by a generous gift from the estate of the Park family. The principal objective of this gift is to foster the study of Korea at Yale by bringing recognition of the Korean peninsula and its affairs and achievements to Yale and the wider community. The lecture will take place from 4:30pm to 6:00pm, with a reception follow in the Luce Common Room on the 2nd floor. This...
Directed by Wen Hui and Eiko Otake Edited by Yiru Chen, Wen Hui, and Eiko Otake 2023, 73min This is a story of friendship between two independent female artists and their body memories each willingly carry. In January 2020, New York based, interdisciplinary performing artist Eiko Otake arrived in Beijing to visit Wen Hui, a Chinese choreographer and filmmaker. Eight years apart, Eiko grew up in postwar Japan and Wen during the Cultural Revolution. They planned to visit each other for a month to converse and collaborate. The surge of COVID-19 abruptly cut off Eiko’s visit and the...
Korea has a long, riveting history—it is also a divided nation. South Korea is a vibrant democracy, the tenth largest economy, and is home to a world-renowned culture. North Korea is ruled by the most authoritarian regime in the world, a poor country in a rich region, and is best known for the cult of personality surrounding the ruling Kim family. But both Koreas share a unique common history. Victor Cha and Ramon Pacheco Pardo draw on decades of research to explore the history of modern Korea, from the late nineteenth century, Japanese occupation, and Cold War division to the present day. A...
Sponsored by The Whitney and Betty MacMillan Center for International Area Studies at Yale, Council on East Asian Studies, Council on Southeast Asia Studies, Council on South Asia Studies.
Directed by Yang Yong-hi 1hr 58m Tracing back mother’s very last memory, we finally become a family. On one fine day in Osaka, Yong-hi invites her Japanese fiancé to her mother’s house. When her father was alive, he never allowed her to meet a Japanese man, but her mother happily prepares the traditional chicken soup that’s only served to sons-in-law in Korea. Though shocked by the photos of KIM Il-sung on the wall, her fiancé says, “our ideologies are different but let’s enjoy the soup”. And now as a husband, he stands by them when the mother gets Alzheimer’s disease after confessing...
The Council on East Asian Studies is pleased to present the 24th Annual John W. Hall Lecture in Japanese Studies. A reception will follow from 6:00pm to 7:00pm in the Luce Common Room (2nd Floor). In the 1960s, Adachi Masao was ubiquitous on the Japanese film scene. He made stunningly surreal experimental films. He exploited the soft-core pink film to political ends. He wrote scripts for the likes of Oshima Nagisa and Wakamatsu Koji, and played bit parts in their films. He also wrote important essays on political cinema. In the 1970s, Adachi made a documentary with the Popular Front for the...
This event will consist of two lectures. A light reception with Korean food will follow from 6pm-7pm. Managing Frontiers, Embracing Others: Xiongnu, Nanyue, and Chaoxian in Han Dynasty’s Foreign Policy. Professor Stella Xu East Asian countries have a rich tradition of historical writing, influencing cultural traditions and national identities over time. The earliest written records on “Koreans” are found in Chinese documents from the Han dynasty (3rd century BCE-3rd century CE), serving as primary sources for early Korean history in Korea, China, and Japan. These records play a crucial...
Kiyoteru Tsutsui is Henri H. and Tomoye Takahashi Professor of Japanese Studies, Deputy Director of the Shorenstein Asia Pacific Research Center (APARC), Director of the Japan Program at APARC, Senior Fellow of the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, Co-Director of the Center for Human Rights and International Justice, and Professor of Sociology, all at Stanford University. His research on the globalization of human rights and its impact on local politics has appeared in American Sociological Review, American Journal of Sociology, Social Forces, Social Problems, Journal of...
This event will include a live Sagyŏng and lecture from Master Kim. A reception will follow from 6:00pm. Dagil Kim Kyeong-ho is a poet, calligrapher, and artist who has devoted himself to the continuation of the rare art and technique of Sagyŏng (Buddhist sutra transcription) for the last 30 years. He is the author of An Introduction to Sagyŏng, the first unique publication on Sagyŏngin the modern times in Korea. He holds an M.A. in Art History from Dongguk University, and in 1997, he won the Grand Prize in the first-ever Buddhist Scripture Transcribing Contest co-organized by the Jogye...
The Second Biennial Graduate Student Sohbat-Yaji-Gathering, to be held at Yale University on January 19-20, 2024, brings together graduate students working on all areas of Asian art (for example. but not limited to Islamic, Buddhist, Chinese, Korean, and Japanese) and their diasporas (for example, in Al-Andalus, North and East Africa, Oceana) that focus on sites, materials, and histories, and engage with new and underrepresented geographies, archives, and methodologies. We intend to connect and share their research and critically examine the structural biases, canons, and disciplinary...
In the early 1970s, acupuncture suddenly burst into the American consciousness. The journalist James Reston, who had traveled to Beijing to report on China’s reopening to the Western world, suffered a burst appendix and was treated with acupuncture for his postoperative pain. From that moment, acupuncture became a word on every American’s lips – even if it was not yet a therapy that had penetrated their skin. This talk reconsiders the early history of acupuncture in the United States by tracing its journey from an all-but-unknown medical modality to a popular, albeit “alternative,” form of...
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