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Questions of religious difference, liberty and freedom are deeply bound with how notions of secularism and religion mutually take shape and evolve over time. There are consequently important national differences that cut across regional and religious divides in how religious differences are institutionally managed by modern states. This conference will probe theoretical and empirical issues pertaining to internal religious difference. Internal religious difference refers to those groups and communities that hold religious doctrines considered deviant from mainstream religions and which are...
Part of the Who is the Dalai Lama? Colloquium Series CLARE HARRIS is a reader in visual anthropology at the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography at the University of Oxford, curator for the Asian collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, and a fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. She is the author of In the Image of Tibet: Tibetan Painting after 1959 (Reaktion Books, 1999), which won the International Jury Prize for the best book in Visual Anthropology (awarded by the International Center for Ethnohistory) and most recently, The Museum on the Roof of the World: Art, Politics and the...
The Association of Nepal and Himalayan Studies (ANHS) is organizing its 3rd Himalayan Studies Conference at Yale University from Friday March 14 to Sunday March 16, 2014. Please note that registration for the conference is already full. However, the keynote talks are open to the public, and there will be live streams of the talks in two Luce Hall classrooms for any overflow. For any more information on the conference, including times for particular events, please visit the website: http://hsc2014.commons.yale.edu Research scholars, health...
Please join us for the final faculty book talk of the spring semester, with Professor Deborah Davis (Sociology) on her forthcoming book, Wives, Husbands, Lovers: Marriage and Sexuality in Hong Kong, Taiwan, and Urban China, co- edited with Sara Friedman (Stanford University Press). The East Asia Library is pleased to announce the continuation of the “Recent Publications by Yale’s East Asia Faculty” exhibit in the East Asian Reading Room. It features new books that have been written, edited, and translated by Yale’s faculty members in the fields of East Asian studies in the recent years. This...
Knowledge Investment Programs (KIP) is a non-profit organization that promotes awareness of social issues in Japan. Its membership comprises students from a number of major Tokyo-area universities. KIP students conduct research projects on current social issues in Japan, organizing lectures by government and corporate figures and hosting student forums. Thirteen KIP students are currently touring the United States and will be visiting Yale to present their ongoing research on a phenomenon they term “glocalization.” They will be joined by both Nayan Chanda (Editor-in-chief of YaleGlobal Online...
A wave of populism is sweeping the world. The talk will first compare the different forms populism takes in various countries, reflecting a variety of historical, political, and social conditions. Buruma will discuss what populist movements have in common; why elites are under fire everywhere, in Europe, the US, and Asia; the effects of the Internet, globalization, and immigration. Buruma will then conclude by looking at the common responses of the old elites, talk about why they are inadequate, and see what could possibly be done better.
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Lunarfest is a day-long event offering free arts and cultural programs for adults and children of all ages in celebration of the Chinese New Year, kicking off with the Lion Dance down Whitney Avenue! Registration now open! Register here. For more information, please email luna...
The East Asia Library is pleased to announce the continuation of the “Recent Publications by Yale’s East Asia Faculty” exhibit in the East Asian Reading Room. It features new books that have been written, edited, and translated by Yale’s faculty members in the fields of East Asian studies in the recent years. This exhibit is intended to showcase our fabulous East Asia faculty and their research. In association with the exhibit, the East Asia Library is holding a series of informal talks on new monographs written by Yale’s East Asia faculty. This is the first of three talks scheduled for the...
Please join CEAS in ushering in the Year of the Horse, in addition to the launch of our new website! Please RSVP to eastasian.studies@yale.edu
Who or what produces the layers of ‘popular’ culture? How do circulations of animation and music, as well as videos and clothing styles, tie together and enable us to imagine a broader region called “Asia?” What can pop tell us about moments of cultural friction and encounter? Join us for the first Yale Anthropology Inter-Asia Colloquium event, “Pan-Asian Pop,” on Saturday afternoon, November 9th, from 12 PM to 5 PM. Featuring talks by Ashish Chadha, Ian Condry, and Tiantian Zheng, followed by a conversation with the speakers. (Image - Eva Shogoki Battles Shamshel off the coast of Kanagawa by...
THE ASIAN SOUND REVOLUTION Traditional & Innovative Virtuosi, Jin Hi Kim and Min Xiao-Fen, Perform on Ancient Asian Fretted String Instruments from Korea and China. Min Xiao-Fen (pipa, sanxian and voice) Jin Hi Kim (komungo, electric komungo and janggo) FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC 2:00 PM WORKSHOP A brief introduction to Chinese instruments imported to Korea, with an intro to Korean court music and a demonstration of old and new music for the Chinese pipa and Korean komungo 4:00 PM PERFORMANCE A rare opportunity to hear two of Asia’s leading artists performing ancient Asian music and the...
Victor Nee, Cornell University-Sociology, “Capitalism from Below: Markets and Institutional Change in Today’s China John Padgett, University of Chicago-Political Science, “The Birth of Partnership Systems in Renaissance Florence” Comments from Deborah Davis,Yale-Sociology; Naomi Lamoueaux, Yale-Economics and History; Francesca Tivellato, Yale-History Moderated by Daniel Botsman, Yale-History.
THIS EVENT IS FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC Please RSVP to eastasian.studies@yale.edu TO REGISTER for this event BY FRIDAY, OCTOBER 25, 2013 7:00 PM - CHINA TOWN HALL WEBCAST ON U.S.-CHINA RELATIONS China’s rapid development and Sino-American relations have a direct...
Please join the Council on East Asian Studies and the MacMillan Center in celebrating the inauguration of President Peter Salovey! The MacMillan Center will host an International Buffet in the Common Room. Enjoy a sampling of dishes from around the world! Room 202 will have on-going demonstrations (11:30am - 1:30pm) that are fun for all ages, such as batik, henna, and origami. Room 203 will have the various performances, including a Vietnamese fan dance, a Red Mask dance (Java), Linnunrata (a Nordic Folk Music Band), and at 11:45am, special dance demonstrations by the Phoenix Dance Troupe...
Remember the 2012 Night Market–tantalizing food, enchanting lights, and amazing performances–that drew more than 500 people? The winner of the 2012 UOFC $5K challenge is back this year, with even more food, performances, and culture! For those of you who weren’t there, the Asian American Students Alliance’s Night Market is an event that seeks to recreate the awesome combination of food, entertainment, and fun found in a Taiwanese night market. After a busy day of studying, Night Market is the place to kick back, relax, and enjoy some performances and booths hosted by Yale...
Are any other premodernists dissatisfied with the standard units of historical analysis? Concepts such as ‘states’, ‘peoples’, ‘territory’ and ‘cultures’ derive from modern concerns and are often a poor fit to premodern circumstances of slow communications, weak centralization, fluid loyalties, shifting boundaries, remarkable mobility, tremendous diversity and continual interaction and exchange. Analyses that start from the normative ideas too often generate forced explanations of how a heterogeneous and unstable clumping of diverse interests and resources was really a ‘people’ on a...
Eric Hyer received his Ph.D. in political science from Columbia University in 1990 and is presently an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Brigham Young University in Provo, Utah (USA) and the Coordinator of Asian Studies. As a Fulbright Scholar at the Foreign Affairs College in Beijing in 1995-1996 he taught courses on international relations theory, US foreign policy, and US-China relations. His research focuses on China’s foreign relations, especially China’s arms sales and territorial conflicts. He has conducted field research on China’s boundaries in Russia,...
This talk explores how public knowledge of Western things, such as the telescope and the camera obscura, took shape in late Joseon Korea, and how it was used in painting. Korean envoys to Beijing were key players in introducing and circulating Western curiosities and novelties. They brought numerous books on Europe and some of the Western scientific instruments to Korea, and laid the foundation for the rise of Western learning. Telescopes, self-sounding clocks, world maps, and books on European geometry, such as Matteo Ricci’s (1552-1610) Jihe yuanben (Elements of Geometry) of 1607, opened up...
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