East Asian Transregional Histories Workshop
Location/Time: John Hope Franklin Room/4-6 pm
April 1- Stacie Hanneman, PhD student, History
Title: “Integrating China: Logics and Practices of a Global System in the Making”
April 7th – Professor Heonik Kwon, Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics
Title: “The Postcolonial Cold War”
April 15th – Cameron Penwell, PhD student, History
Title: “The Sugamo Prison Chaplain Incident: A Look at Religion-State Relations in the Late Meiji Period”
April 22nd – Takashi Fujitani, Professor of Japanese History, UCSD
Title: “Koreans as Japanese Soldiers: Reflections on Inclusionary or Polite Racism in WWII”
April 29th – Noriko Sugimori, Assistant Professor of Japanese Language, Kalamazoo College
Title: “The Occupation’s newspaper censorship and a drastic decline in the use of imperial honorifics”
May 10th – Prasenjit Duara, Professor of History, National University of Singapore
Title: “Periodizing the Cold War: The Imperialism of Nation-States”
May 13th – Yi Wang, PhD candidate, EALC
Title: “Land, Boundaries and Christianity: Catholic Missions in the Ordos of Inner Mongolia during the Late Qing”
May 20th -Sarah Kautz, PhD candidate, Anthropology
Title: “Genealogies of Japan: Archaeology, Tourism, and Japanese (Inter)nationalism”
May 27th – Bruce Cumings, Professor of International History
Discussion of his new book, Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power
June 3rd – Professor Andre Schmid, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
Title: “Family and Domesticity Across the Cold War Divide: North and South Korea in the 1950s.”
June 10th – John Person, PhD student, EALC
Title: The Language of Japanism: Poetry and Politics in the founding of the Genri Nippon Society”