Spain and the Opium Trade in Asia
Speaker: Ander Permanyer-Ugartemendia (Postdoctoral Fellow, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Date/Time: May 14, 4:30-6 pm
Venue: 1155 E. 60th St., Room 319 (Center for East Asian Studies)
Category Archives: Empire
5/7 Kyle Gardner
Incongruent Frontiers: British Attempts to Define the Indo-Turko-Sino-Tibeto-Kashmiri Borderland in Ladakh, 1846-1907
Speaker: Kyle Gardner (PhD Candidate, History)
Discussant: Daniel Webb (PhD Candidate, History)
Date/Time: May 7, 4-6 pm
Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (Social Sciences 224)
David Ambaras
Runaway Woman, Pirate Queen: Life on the Margins of the Japanese Empire
Time and Date: 4-6pm on 5/8 (Thursday)
Venue: Social Sciences Research (SSR) 224
Speaker: David Ambaras (Associate Professor, History, North Carolina State University)
Discussants: Johanna Ransmeier (Assistant Professor, History, U Chicago) and Tadashi Ishikawa (PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations)
March 18: Peter Perdue
East Asia in World History Roundtable Series (Part 2 of 3)
Comparative Empires and Environmental History after the Transnational Turn
The Great Dust Cloud 2009
Time/Date: 4-6pm, March 18 (Tuesday)
Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (SSR 224)
Speaker: Peter Perdue (Professor of History, Yale University)
Discussants: Kenneth Pomeranz (University Professor of History), Dan Knorr (PhD student, History), Oliver Cussen (PhD student, History)
Tadashi Ishikawa
Tadashi Ishikawa (Ph.D. Candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations)
Title: “Can Adopted Daughters Be Free Aside from Their Household? Anti-Human Trafficking Discourses and the Law in Colonial Taiwan, 1919-1936″
Discussant: Wei-ti Chen (Ph.D. Candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations)
Time and Venue: 4-6 pm on 2/27 (Thursday) and SSR 224
The image of the Taihoku District Court in 1915 (Special Collections & College Archives, Skillman Library, Lafayette College, Paul Barclay)
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
May 2 (Thursday): Wei-Ti Chen
Wei-Ti Chen
(PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)
“Cosmopolitan Medicine, National Medical Profession: The Evaluation of Foreign Medical Certificates in Meiji Japan”
May 2 (Thursday) 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Location: Judd 313
Mar 7 (Thursday): Douglas Howland
Douglas Howland
(David D. Buck Professor of Chinese History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
“Meiji Japan and International Administrative Unions: An Alternative Genealogy of Internationalism”
Mar. 7 (Thursday) 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Location: Judd 313
Feb 21 (Thursday): Jonathan Glade
Jonathan Glade
(PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)
Transforming Boundaries: Japan and Southern Korea under US Occupation, 1945-1952
Feb. 21 (Thursday) 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Location: Judd 313
Jan 17 (Thursday): Mark Caprio
Mark Caprio
(Professor, Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University)
“Wartime Preparations for East Asian Occupations: Laying the Foundations for Postwar Alliances”
Jan. 17 (Thursday) 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Location: Judd 313