Spring Quarter 2018 Schedule

The East Asia: Transregional Histories Workshop is excited to announce our schedule for Spring quarter!

Spring 2018

4/5  Jiakai Sheng, PhD Student in History, University of Chicago
Title: “Homeward Bound: The Postwar Repatriation of Japanese Civilians in Shanghai,1945-1947”
4:00-6:00 PM, John Hope Franklin Room
Co-sponsored with the Migration and Incorporation workshop

4/12 David L. Howell, Professor of Japanese History, Harvard University
Title: EAT History: A Talk with Professor David Howell
12:00-1:30 PM, John Hope Franklin Room

4/19  Yuan Julian Chen, PhD Candidate in History,Yale University
Title: ”The Ecological Footprint of China’s Medieval Capital Kaifeng, 900-1200″
4:00-6:00 PM,John Hope Franklin Room

5/3  Mark Frank, PhD Candidate in East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Title: “How to Invent a Province: Republican China’s ‘Xikang Problem’ in Agrarian Perspective”
4:00-6:00 PM, John Hope Franklin Room

5/17  Jun Hee Lee, PhD Candidate in History, University of Chicago
Title: “In Chorus with Friends: Soviet and American Factors in the Utagoe Movement’s National Music Paradigm”
4:00-6:00 PM, John Hope Franklin Room

5/31  Elisabeth Köll, William Payden Associate Professor of History, University of Notre Dame
Title: “Building Railroads in early 20th-Century China: Land Acquisition,Construction and Management in the Context of Local Society”
4:00-6:00 PM, John Hope Franklin Room