East Asia: Transregional Histories Workshop’s winter schedule is as follows:

January 26: Monica Kim (Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, U Chicago)

“Empire’s Babel: Making the Decolonized Subject in the U.S. Military Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War.”

February 9: Stacie Hanneman (PhD Candidate, History, U Chicago)

“Event or Totality? Transit Passes and Questions of Governance in Treaty Port China”

February 23: Helen Findley (PhD Candidate, EALC, U Chicago)

“Practical Preaching: Shaku Soen and the Creation of a Buddhist Citizenry”

March 8: Noriko Yamaguchi (PhD Candidate, History, U Chicago)

“Reforming” Rural Everyday Life: Domestic Reforms in 1950s Japan.”

We will meet at 4 pm in JHF Room (SS224). If you have any questions, please contact Jun-hyung Chae (jhchae@uchicago.edu).