The East Asia: Transregional Histories Workshop is proud to present our schedule for the Fall 2016 Quarter! Unless otherwise noted, all meetings take place from 4:00 – 6:00 PM in the John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224) and refreshments will be served.
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10/13 Frontiers Across Eurasia: A Faculty Forum
Presenters: Kenneth Pomeranz: “From ‘Civilizing’ to ‘Modernizing’: Late Imperial and 20th Century Projects to Remake Chinese Frontier Communities.”
Faith Hillis: “Frontiers and the Relationship between Center and Periphery in Russian History”
4:00 – 6:00 PM
Location: CEAS Room 319
10/17 Documentary Screening and Discussion: “Coming Home in 70 Years: Repatriation of Korean Victims of Forced Labor and Reconciliation in East Asia.“
Presenters: Byung-ho Chung (Hanyang University), David Plath (University of Illinois), Tonohira Yoshihiko (Ichijoji Temple), Song Ki-Chan (Ritsumeikan University), and Sohn Sung Hyun (Korea Art Conservatory)
5:00 – 8:00 PM
Location: CEAS Room 319
10/20 Student-led Panel: Kickstarting your Research: Advice on Starting a Seminar Paper and Masters’ Thesis in the History Department
11/4 Presenter: Jamie Monson (Michigan State University)
Title: “China-Africa Railway Crossings: Cold War Techno-Politics at Work”
4:00 – 6:00 PM
Location: CEAS Room 319
11/11 Presenter: David Andrew Knight (University of Chicago, co-sponsored with APEA)
Title: “Li Deyu and the ‘Golden Pine.'”
4:00-6:00 PM
Location: CEAS Room 319
11/17 Presenter: Liping Wang, (Assistant Professor, University of Hong Kong)
Title: “Legal Pluralism or Jurisdictional Nexuses: The Transformation of Jurisdictional Boundaries in China-Inner Mongolia, 1900-1930”
11/30 Presenter: Kyle Gardner (University of Chicago)
Title: “The Space Between: Trade, Cosmology, and Modes of Seeing in Independent Ladakh”
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Please mark the following days and times down on your calendars and join us for an engaging and productive year!