Transregional

This final session invites workshop participants and interested Yale scholars and affiliates to come together for an open conversation about new directions in the study of Asian cities at Yale. The evening will include two plenary talks by distinguished scholars of Asian and global urbanism, as well as ample time for conversation and discussion over dinner. Plenary speakers: Ananya Roy (University of California, Los Angeles) Neil Brenner (...

How does the supposed rise of the Asian city interact with forms of human creativity? How do visual artists, writers, and other represent the rising city? How does the rising city itself spur new imaginative practices? Featuring: Max Hirsh (University of Hong Kong) Martina Nguyen (Baruch College) on Humor in Colonial Hanoi...

The Program in Iranian Studies at Yale is organizing a workshop in May 2014 to explore the dimensions of Persianate Studies as an academic field. The workshop asks whether the term “Persianate” works as a conceptual framework beyond language and literature to such areas as habitat, economy and trade routes, and political and material cultures. Are there tangible historical ties in the pre-modern and early modern eras among such diverse regions as Anatolia, the Iranian plateau and the greater Khorasan region, the Caucasus, the southern rim of Central Asia, Western Xingjian, and the Indian...

North Korea is the world’s sole Communist hereditary dynasty; the world’s only literate, industrialized, urbanized peacetime economy to have suffered a famine; the world’s most cultish totalitarian system; and the world’s largest military in terms of manpower and defense spending proportional to population and national income. These contradictions often render North Korea misunderstood. Dr. Lee will address five most common myths about North Korea that have policy implications, and offer a prescription for debunking them. Sung-Yoon Lee is Kim Koo-Korea Foundation Professorship of Korean...

This talk concerns the work of the prominent Korean lay Buddhist and entrepreneur Yu Guanbin (1891-1933) in Shanghai during the mid-1920s and early-30s. Yu collaborated with the Chinese Buddhist reformer Taixu (1890–1947) to promote a transnational Buddhist discourse called “the Buddha-ization movement” (fohua yundong). Yu also acted as a bridge between Korean and Chinese Buddhism by undertaking the project of rebuilding an eleventh-century Korean temple, Koryŏsa, in Hangzhou. In this talk, Kim examines how Yu’s engagement in these projects is a distinctive case of modern East Asian...

If today we know anything about the life of Europeans in China during the early modern period, we owe it to the precious manuscript reports and letters written in inland China, Macao, and Canton, and still found scattered in archival repositories all over the world. Letters criss-crossed the oceans and the continents on sea ships, river boats, carts, horses and mules, palanquins etc., using  both European systems of transportation provided by the various East India Companies and governments, as well as Chinese and other local public and private postal arrangements.  In this presentation, I...

Ronnie Hsia’s research has focused on the history of the Protestant Reformation, Catholic Renewal, anti-Semitism, and the encounter between Europe and Asia. His current book project, tentatively titled Translating Christianity: China and the Catholic Missions 1584-1780, is a study of the history of cultural encounter between Counter-Reformation Europe and the Ming and Qing empires. Hsia teaches courses in early modern Europe and is interested in developing world history and comparative history courses for the early modern period. He is especially interested in the history of religion and the...

Frontier. It is a word at once pregnant and fraught. 120 years have elapsed since Frederick Jackson Turner presented his epoch-making paper on “The Significance of the Frontier in American History,” but frontiers still have a powerful hold on the popular imagination. In addition to the American West, we speak of frontier markets, technological and scientific frontiers, and, of course, the “final frontier.” This conference asks, “What is the significance of ‘frontiers’ to Japanese history?” We will present recent and in-progress works exploring the utility of a frontier perspective to enrich...

Yale University Center for Language Study and PIER/MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies Present a Workshop for Educators. This workshop, co-organized by the Yale Center for Language Study (CLS), PIER and Yale foreign language instructors, is intended for K-14 and community language teachers or anyone interested in heritage language issues.  It seeks to bring together instructors from a variety of instructional settings and backgrounds to discuss the specific challenges of teaching mixed classrooms with heritage learners.  The program will provide opportunities for discussion...