October 14th | Gabriel Groz

PhD Student in History, The University of Chicago

Title: “‘All Under Heaven a Commonwealth’: The Fengjian Theory of the State in Ming China”

(Location: CEAS Room 319, 4:00 – 5:30 pm CT)

October 21st | Zhengyuan Lin

MA Candidate, MAPH, The University of Chicago

Title: “Sheng Xuanhuai’s dingyou and the private-public boundary in the 1900s China: the political, intellectual, and technological changes in late imperial China”

Discussant: Xiaoyu Gao, PhD Student in History, The University of Chicago

(Zoom, 4:00 – 5:30 pm CT)

October 28th | Heangjin Park

PhD in Anthropology & Teaching Fellow in the Department of Anthropology and the College, The University of Chicago

Title: “Reimagining ‘Korea’: The Topography of ‘Korea’ in Korean Kimchi, Korean-Chinese, and Qingdao Koreatowns”

Discussant: Robert Burgos, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago

(Zoom, 4:00 – 5:30 pm CT)

November 4th | Yujie Li

PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago

Title: “Earthwork Methods on Huai River: Engineering the Waterscape and the Rise of a New Labor Regime”

Discussant: Xiangli Ding, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Rhode Island School of Design

(Zoom, 3:00 – 4:30 pm CT)

November 18th | Carl Kubler

PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago

Title: “Intrepid Petitioners: Sino-Western Debt and Recompense at the Grassroots and Beyond”

Discussant: Yuan Tian, PhD Candidate in History, The University of Chicago

(Zoom, 5:30 – 7:00 pm CT)

If you have any concerns or questions, please do not hesitate to contact Jiakai Sheng (jiakaisheng@uchicago.edu) and/or Xiaoyu Gao (xiaoyugao@uchicago.edu) .