Edomae and the Changing Environmental Relations of a Fishing Community in Edo-Tokyo, 1600-1900
Speaker: Dr. Roderick Wilson (Professor of History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Discussant: Sophia Sherry (PhD Student, Department of English Language and Literature, University of Chicago)
Date/Time: November 5, 4:15 to 6:00pm
Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (Social Science Research Building, 224)
Narrating Empire: Cartographic, Comparative, and Horticultural Perspectives
Asia, China, 1785
Speaker: Dr. Laura Hostetler (Professor of History, University of Illinois, Chicago)
Discussant: Dr. Kenneth Pomeranz (Professor of History, University of Chicago)
Date/Time: October 8, 4:00 to 6:00pm
Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (Social Science Research Building, 224)
The Ashio Copper Mine Pollution Incident, Religious Relief Work, and Buddhist
Imaginings of the Social Problem
Presenter: Cameron Penwell (PhD candidate, History)
Discussant: Helen Findley (PhD candidate, EALC)
Date/Time: November 6, 2014, 4-6 pm
Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (Social Science Research Building 224)
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)