Winter Schedule 2013

1/10: Susan Burns (Associate Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago): “Hybrid Institutions/Local Solutions: The Iwakura “Colony” and Academic Psychiatry in Prewar Japan”

 

1/17: Mark Caprio (Professor, Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University): “Wartime Preparations for East Asian Occupations: Laying the Foundations for Postwar Alliances”

 

1/24: Tomoko Seto (PhD Candidate,  East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago): “Media Representations of the 1906 Protest Against the Streetcar Fare Increase in Tokyo”

 

2/7: Novella Chiechi (PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago): “State Formation and Household Registration Documentation in the early PRC and USSR”

 

2/14: Peng Xu (PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago): “Courtesans versus Literati: Gendered Soundscapes in Late-Ming Singing Culture (1547-1644)”

 

2/21: Jon Glade (PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago): “Occupied Liberation: The US Military Occupation of Japan and Southern Korea”

 

3/7: Douglas Howland (David D. Buck Professor of Chinese History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): “Meiji Japan and International Administrative Unions: An Alternative Genealogy of Internationalism”

 

3/14: Junhyung Chae (PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago): “From Spiritualism to Diffused Confucianism: The Transformation of Daoyuan Religiosity”