Money: Monetary Disputes in Early Eighteenth-Century Japan
Link to paper: Money Talks
Speaker: Dr. Federico Marcon (Professor of Japanese History at Princeton University)
Date/Time: January 15, 4:30 to 6:30pm
Venue: Cochrane-Woods Art Center (CWAC), Room 156
We’re back! Here is our schedule for the Winter 2016 Quarter…we hope you can join us!
January 15 – Dr. Federico Marcon, Professor of Japanese History at Princeton University.
“Money Talks: Monetary Disputes in Early Eighteenth-Century Japan”
*This will be a joint session with the Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia Workshop
January 28 – Paride Stortini, PhD Student in the Department of Divinity at the University of Chicago.
“East and West of the Tsukiji Honganji”
Discussant: Jun Hee Lee.
February 11 – Jun Hee Lee, PhD Student in the Department of History at the University of Chicago.
“Music for the Youth: American Folk Music’s Impact on 1960s Utagoe”
Discussant: Paride Stortini.
February 25 – Lester Zhuquing Hu, PhD Student in the Department of Music at the University of Chicago.
“Hybrid voices: Western music theory at the service of a Chinese emperor”
Discussant: TBA
March 10 – TBA
Placing the American State in the Interior of China: The Jinan Missionary Case, 1881-1891
Speaker: Dan Knorr (PhD Student, Department of History, University of Chicago)
Discussant: Evelyn Atkinson (PhD Student, Department of History, University of Chicago)
Date/Time: November 19, 4:15 to 6:00pm
Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (Social Science Research Building, 224)
Edomae and the Changing Environmental Relations of a Fishing Community in Edo-Tokyo, 1600-1900
Speaker: Dr. Roderick Wilson (Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Discussant: Sophia Sherry (PhD Student, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago)
Date/Time: November 5, 4:15 to 6:00pm
Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (Social Science Research Building, 224)
Yunnan’s Cosmopolitan Villagers: Merchants and Rural Reform in Early Twentieth- Century China
Speaker: Dr. C. Patterson Giersch (Professor of History, Wellesley College, Wellesley)
Discussant: Alíz Horvath (PhD Student, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)
Date/Time: October 22, 4:00 to 6:00pm
Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (Social Science Research Building, 224)
Narrating Empire: Cartographic, Comparative, and Horticultural Perspectives
Asia, China, 1785
Speaker: Dr. Laura Hostetler (Professor of History, University of Illinois, Chicago)
Discussant: Dr. Kenneth Pomeranz (Professor of History, University of Chicago)
Date/Time: October 8, 4:00 to 6:00pm
Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (Social Science Research Building, 224)
Oil on canvas of the Foreign Factories, Canton, 1850–1855 – Sunqua