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Winter 2014 Schedule

All sessions except 1/21 session will be held at 4-6 pm in the JHF Room (SSRB, 224)
1/16 (Thursday): Jake Werner, Ph.D. Candidate, History, Title: “Leveling the City: The Remaking of Urban Space in Shanghai, 1934-1958” (Mock Job Talk, No Paper)

1/21 (Tuesday): Noriko Yamaguchi, Ph.D. Candidate, History, Title: “Reforming Kitchen, Reforming Life: Conflicted Democratization of Rural Everyday Life in Post-WWII Japan” (Mock Job Talk, No Paper)
, Venue and Time: Judd 313 and 1-3pm

1/30 (Thursday), Limin Teh, Ph.D. Candidate, History
Title: “Destruction or Development? Explaining the Paradoxes of Japanese
Imperialism in Northeast China,” (No Paper).
Time and Venue: 4-6 pm at the JHF room (Social Sciences Research 224)

2/13 (Thursday), Fabio Lanza, Associate Professor, History, University of Arizona, Title: “Facing Thermidor: Global Maoism at its Ends”
Time and Venue: 4-6pm at Judd 313

2/27 (Thursday): Tadashi Ishikawa, Ph.D. Candidate, EALC, Title: “Can Adopted Daughters Be Free Aside from Their Household? Anti-Human Trafficking Discourses and the Law in Colonial Taiwan, 1919-1936,” Discussant: TBA

3/13 (Thursday): Shelly Chan, Assistant Professor, History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Title: When Diaspora Meets Homeland: Lim Boon Keng’s Clash with Lu Xun, 1926-27,” Discussant: TBA

3/18 (Tuesday): East Asia in World History Roundtable Series, Part 2 of 3, Peter Perdue, Professor, History, Yale University, Title: “Comparative Empires and Environmental History,” Discussant: TBA

 

Micah Auerback

 

Presenter: Micah Auerback
(Asssitant Professor, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan)

Title: Painting the Biography of the Buddha in Meiji Japan

Date and Time: 12/13 on Friday, 4-6pm
Venue: Cochrane-Woods Art Center 152

Southern Song dynasty artist Liang Kai’s _Śākyamuni Descending the Mountain_ that is compared with Yamamoto Shunkyo's one in Meiji Japan (Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo National Museum).

Southern Song dynasty artist Liang Kai’s _Śākyamuni Descending the Mountain_ that is compared with Yamamoto Shunkyo’s one in Meiji Japan (Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo National Museum).

12/5: Li Chen

Li Chen (Asst. Professor, History Department, University of Toronto)

Precarious Empire

Law, Sovereignty, and Cultural Politics in the Sino-Western Encounter, 1700-1860

The trial of four British seamne at Canton: the scene inside the court, by unknown Chinesea artist, about 1807

Date and Time: 12/5/2013 (Thu), 4 – 6pm

Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224)

Discussant: Guo-Quan Seng (PhD candidate, History)

 

11/21: Seong Un Kim

Keeping Television Pure and Clear: the Social Background of the Discourse on “Vulgar” Television in Japan

 

Date and Time: 11/21/2013 (Thu), 4 – 6pm

Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224)

Discussant: William Feeney (PhD candidate, Anthropology)

 

Anyone with disabilities who needs assistance to access the venue, please get in touch with Guo-Quan at gqseng@uchicago.edu

Nov. 7: Wei-ti Chen

Japanese Doctors Abroad: Imperial Japan and the Geo-Politics of Japanese Physicians’ Overseas Migration, 1868-1945

 

Japanese fishermen in a Japanese Hospital in Steveston, Vancouver (probably 1897)

Date and Time: 11/7/2013 (Thu), 4 – 6pm

Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224)

Student discussant: Zachary Barr (PhD Student, History)

Please note that Wei-ti will be giving a presentation of the introductory chapter of her dissertation. For optional readings are Weiti’s dissertation abstract and Chapter One, “Setting the Institutional Ground”.

Anyone with disabilities who needs assistance to access the venue, please get in touch with Guo-Quan at gqseng@uchicago.edu

October 28 (Mon): Charles Armstrong

In collaboration with the History Department and 57th Street Books, the workshop is pleased to co-sponsor a lecture cum book-signing event by Professor Charles Armstrong (History, Univ. of Columbia) for his newly released book:

 Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1992 (Cornell, June 2013).

Armstrong, Tyranny of the Weak, Cover

Click here to preview the book at Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100484410

Click here for the event notice at Sem Coop: http://www.semcoop.com/event/charles-armstrong-tyranny-weak-north-korea-and-world-1950-1992

Professor Charles Armstrong is the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences, Department of History at the University of Columbia. He is also writing the Modern East Asia volume for the Wiley-Blackwell series Concise History of the Modern World, to be published in 2014. His next research project is concerned with trans-Pacific Cold War culture and U.S.-East Asian relations.

Date: October 28 (Mon), 2013

Time: 12 – 1pm

Venue: 57th Street Books (57th and Kimbark)

October 24 (Thursday): Beer Hall Caucus

Our workshop’s faculty sponsors Professors Susan Burns and Jacob Eyferth would like to convene a “caucus meeting” in the University Pub for all workshop paper presenters, and everyone who is planning to be a regular/occasional participant of our workshop.

This is a good chance to meet up with everyone else who’s working on East-Asia related histories. We’ll also take this opportunity to sound everyone out on some new ideas we have about running the workshop. Come have a drink, and let us hear you!

Date: Oct. 24, 2013 (Thu)

Time: 4pm

Venue: The University of Chicago Pub (Ida Noyes Hall basement).

October 10 (Thursday): Kenneth Pomeranz

East Asia in World History Roundtable Series (Part 1 of 3):

Histories in a Less National Age

American Historical Association Presidential Address, 2013 (draft)

Kenneth Pomeranz

University Professor of Modern Chinese History and in the College

 

Roundtable Discussants:

Dipesh Chakrabarty  Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor

Paul Cheney  Associate Professor of European History

Date: October 10, 2013

Time: 4 – 6 pm

Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (Social Sciences 224)

 

Some highlights from the roundtable discussion:

Paul Cheney, “It’s the principle of variation that counts, not the scales!” (quoted from Jacques Revel’s contribution to his edited volume Jeux d’échelles.)

Professor Chakrabarty commenting.

Autumn Schedule 2013

All sessions run from 4 to 6pm, on Thursdays, in the John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224), unless otherwise stated.

October 10: East Asia in World History Roundtable Series (Part 1 of 3): Professor Kenneth Pomeranz, “Histories in a Less National Age”, AHA Presidential Address, 2013 (draft) Discussants: Professors Dipesh Chakrabarty and Paul Cheney

October 24: Beer Hall Caucus, convened by faculty sponsors Professors Susan Burns and Jacob Eyferth. 4pm – 6pm @ The University of Chicago Pub (Ida Noyes Hall basement). All paper presenters for the year, and PhD students working on East Asia-related history are strongly encouraged to join us!

November 7: Wei-ti Chen, PhD candidate (EALC), “Japanese Doctors Abroad: Imperial Japan and the Geo-Politics of Japanese Physicians’ Overseas Migration, 1868-1945” Discussant: tba.

November 21: Seong Un Kim, PhD candidate (History), “Keeping Television Pure and Clear: the Social Background of the Discourse on “Vulgar” Television” Discussant: tba.

December 5: Li Chen, Asst. Professor (History, Univ. of Toronto), “Precarity of Empire and Continued Legacy.” Discussant: Guo-Quan Seng (PhD candidate, History)

December 13 (Fri): (Joint-session with Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia Workshop) Micah Auerback, Asst. Professor (UMich Ann Arbor, Asian Languages and Cultures), “Painting the Biography of the Buddha in Meiji Japan,” Venue: CWAC 153