Category Archives: Law
11/19 Dan Knorr – Joint Session w/ Human Rights Workshop
Placing the American State in the Interior of China: The Jinan Missionary Case, 1881-1891
Speaker: Dan Knorr (PhD Student, Department of History, University of Chicago)
Discussant: Evelyn Atkinson (PhD Student, Department of History, University of Chicago)
Date/Time: November 19, 4:15 to 6:00pm
Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (Social Science Research Building, 224)
6/4 Stacie Kent
Bonding and Branding: The Body of Opium and Taxation Technologies in the Late Qing
Speaker: Stacie Kent (PhD Candidate, History)
Discussant: Evan Randall (PhD Student, History)
Date/Time: June 4, 4-6 pm
Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (Social Sciences 224)
12/4 Guo-Quan Seng
Sinology’s Father and the Codification of the Chinese Woman’s Property Rights in Dutch Colonial Java
Speaker: Guo-Quan Seng (PhD Candidate, History)
Discussant: Aliz Horvath (PhD Student, EALC)
Date/Time: December 4, 4-6 pm
Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224)
6/5 Guo-Quan Seng
Of Daughters and Widows: Kapitan Legal-Ritual Brokerage and Creole Chinese Patrilineal Inheritance in 19th Century Colonial Java
Peranakan Chinese family, circa 1890
Speaker: Guo-Quan Seng (PhD Candidate, History)
Discussant: Eric Alan Jones (Assistant Director of the Center for Southeast Asian Studies & Associate Professor, History, Northern Illinois University)
Date/Time: June 5, 2014 (Thu), 4-6pm
Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (SS224)
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)
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)
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
Feb 7 (Thursday): Novella Chiechi
Novella Chiechi
(PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago)
“State Formation and Household Registration Documentation in the early PRC and USSR”
Feb. 7 (Thursday) 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Location: Judd 313