10/4: Laura Hein (Professor, History, Northwestern University): “The Art of Bourgeois Culture in Kamakura”

11/1: Amy Stanley (Assistant Professor, History, Northwestern University): “Tsuneno’s Story: Thinking about Networks and Households (ie) in Late Tokugawa Japan”

11/9 (Friday): Poshek Fu (Professor, History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): “Between Left and Right: Cold War Politics and Mid-Twentieth-Century Hong Kong Cinema”

11/15: Nianshen Song (PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago): “Immigrants, Mobility, and Banditry: the Formation of the ‘Kando’ Society”

11/28 (Wednesday): Bruce Cumings (Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History and the College, University of Chicago): “Back to the Future: Obama’s ‘Pivot’ to Asia in Historical Perspective”

12/6: Noriko Yamaguchi (PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago): “History of Reforms in Hamlet M, 1750s-1950s”

The time and locations are to be announced.