Winter Schedule 2011

Location: John Hope Franklin Room (SS224), Thursday 4-6

Jan.13: Yi Wang, “Across the Western Pass: Merchants,  Migrants, and Chinese Expansion in Mongolia”

Feb.10: Hsing-yi Kao, “Tianyan (heavenly evolution) as the Foundation of Yan Fu’s Worldview and ist Impact on the Intelligentsia, 1898-1900s”

Feb. 17: Guoquan Seng, “Making New Familial Subjects: Chinese Family Law Reform in the Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya (1890-1942)”

Feb.24: Rie Hogetsu, “Physical Awareness and Wartime Mobilization: School Mastication Drill in 1930s Japan”

March 10: Ken Kawashima, “Biopolitics and the Aleatory Event(s) of Capitalism”

Fall Schedule 2010

Location: John Hope Franklin Room (SS224), Thursday 4-6

Oct. 1: Reception for all Modern East Asia workshops

Oct. 5: General Discussion: “What is trans-regional history? Why do it? And, how?”

Oct. 14: Nianshen Song:  “Discourse and Practice in the Tumen River Demarcation”

Oct. 21: Showing of Du Haibin’s film “1428, followed by a discussion with Du Haibin

Nov. 4: Prof. James Hevia, “The Uses of Intelligence”

Dec. 9: Noriko Yamaguchi,  “Improving” Our Life: Postwar Rural Community (Re)building in Japan, 1948-1981