All sessions, unless otherwise stated (*), will be held on Thursdays at 4-6 pm in the John Hope Franklin Room (Social Sciences Research Building, 224).

October 2, 4-5 pm, *1155 E. 60th St., Room 319, Workshop Town Hall
5-6 pm, *Ida Noyes Hall, Pub (basement), Happy Hour

October 23, 4:30-6 pm, Roundtable for MAPSS and Early-stage PhD Students on Research Methods, Theses, and Seminar Papers

October 30, *1155 E. 60th St., Room 319, Wang You (MAPSS); “Feed the Lower Gentry: Survival Strategies and Grain Tribute in the Early Nineteenth Century”; Discussant: Pan Yiying (PhD Student, EALC)

November 6, Cameron Penwell (PhD Candidate, History); “The Ashio Copper Mine Pollution Incident, Religious Relief Work, and Buddhist Imaginings of the Social Problem”; Discussant: Helen Findley (PhD Candidate, EALC)

November 20, Johanna Ransmeier (Assistant Professor, History); “From the Floodplain to the Capital”; Discussant: Guo-Quan Seng (PhD Candidate, History)

December 4, Guo-Quan Seng (PhD Candidate, History); “Sinology’s Father and the Codification of the Chinese Woman’s Property Rights in Dutch Colonial Java” (tentative); Discussant: Aliz Horvath (PhD Student, EALC)

All sessions, unless otherwise stated (*), will be held on Thursdays at 4-6 pm in the John Hope Franklin Room (Social Sciences Research Building, 224).

April 10, *3.30-5.30pm, Robert Hellyer (Assoc. Prof. Wake Forest Colllege), The West, the East, and the Insular Middle: Trading Systems, Demand, and Labor in the Integration of the Pacific, 1750-1875; Discussant: Julia Thomas.

April 29, *Tue, 4-6pm, Christopher A. Bayly (Vivekananda Visiting Professor), Introduction to World History in the Twentieth Century; Discussants: Covell Meyskens, Michael Geyer, Bruce Cumings [East Asia in World History Roundtable Series, Part 3 of 3].

May 8, David Ambaras (Assoc. Prof., N. Carolina State), Runaway Woman/Pirate Queen: Life on the Margins of the Japanese Empire; Discussants: Tadashi Ishikawa, Johanna Ransmeier.

May 22, *Cobb 112, Covell Meyskens (PhD Candidate), Guerilla Urbanism: Panzhihua and the Alternate Socialist Form Of Late Maoist Urbanity; Discussant: Andy Bruno (Asst. Prof., N. Illinois University)

June 5, Guo-Quan Seng (PhD Candidate), The Peranakan Chinese Bilateral Kinship System and The Rule of Property in Nineteenth Century Dutch Colonial Java

June 12, Johanna Ransmeier (Asst. Prof.), Title TBA     —-  (Rescheduled for Fall 2014).