Fall 2018 EATRH Workshop Schedule

The East Asia: Transregional Histories Workshop is pleased to announce its schedule for Fall 2018. We look forward to seeing you in attendance!

Fall 2018 Schedule:

10/11  Dan Knorr, PhD Candidate in History, University of Chicago
Title: “War, State, and Place in Mid-Nineteenth Century China: Jinan during the Taiping and Nian”
4:00-5:30 PM, John Hope Franklin Room (SSR 224)

10/24  (Wednesday) Kaoru Iokibe, Professor, Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo
Title: “Distance, Time, Crossroad, and Expansion: Basic Elements of Modern Japanese History”
4:00 PM, Ida Noyes Theater (3rd floor)
Co-sponsored with the Center for East Asian Studies

10/25  Yuanxie Shi, PhD Student in EALC, University of Chicago
Title: “Timber Rafting and Waterborne Trade in Late Qing and Republican China: A Case Study of the Zhou Family’s Business in Quzhou, Eastern Zhejiang”
3:30-5:00 PM, John Hope Franklin Room (SSR 224)

11/8  Jessa Dahl, PhD Candidate in History, University of Chicago
Title: “From Entrepot to Treaty Port: Nagasaki’s Networks of Transnational Exchange and the Nineteenth Century Global Order, 1859-1899”
4:00-5:30 PM, John Hope Franklin Room (SSR 224)

11/16 (Friday) Charles Keith, Professor of Vietnamese History, Michigan State University
Title: “The Daily Lives of Indochinese Migrants in Interwar France”
4:30-6:00 PM, SSR Tea Room
Co-sponsored with the Interdisciplinary Approaches to Modern France and the Francophone World Workshop

11/30  (Friday) Breakfast discussion with Glenn Tiffert, Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution
9:45-11:00 AM, Stevanovich Institute Taberna Room
Co-sponsored with the Center for East Asian Studies

12/6  Yuan Tian, PhD Student in History, University of Chicago
Title: “Death of a Journalist: Debating Legal Cruelty in Late Qing China”
4:00-5:30 PM, John Hope Franklin Room (SSR 224)