Spring 2021 Schedule

Spring ’21 Schedule:

April 1st Matthew Lowenstein, PhD Candidate in History, UChicago

Title: “Chinese Rotating Savings and Credit Associations (ROSCAs) in Historical Perspective”

April 8th Stephanie Painter, PhD Candidate in History, UChicago

Title: “Trouble in the Marriage Bed: Licit Sex, Virginity, and Expectations of Marital Intimacy Among Newlyweds and Married Youth”

April 22nd Xavier Ante, PhD Candidate in History, UChicago

Title: “The Qingshui River Documents and the Persistence of the Miao Forest Frontier in the Qing”

April 29th Jiakai Sheng, PhD Candidate in History, UChicago

Title: “Extra-Settlement Road Negotiations of 1930s’ Shanghai: the Chinese, Westerners, and Japanese”

May 6th (3:30 PM to 5:00 PM CT) Professor Takashi Miura, University of Arizona

Title: TBA

May 13th Professor Kenneth Pomeranz, UChicago

Presenting an excerpt from Why is China So Big?

May 20th Marshall Kramer, PhD Candidate in Anthropology, UChicago

Title: “Medicine Men, Militias and Money: The Rise of Trade-Debt Capitalism on the Southern Silk Road”

[cancelled]

May 27th (7:00 PM to 8:30 PM CT) Tian Yuan, PhD Candidate in History, UChicago

Title: “Debating Chinese Cruelty: Legal Orientalism, Summary Execution, and Extraterritoriality”

June 3rd Spencer Stewart, PhD Candidate in History, UChicago

Title: TBA