All sessions, unless otherwise stated (*), will be held on Thursdays at 4-6 pm in the John Hope Franklin Room (Social Sciences Research Building, 224).

April 2, *4:30-6 pm, *1155 E. 60th St., Room 319, Roundtable Discussion on Publishing in Academic Journals: “So You’ve Got a Paper. Now What?” with Jennifer Munger (Managing Editor, The Journal of Asian Studies) and Stacie Kent (Managing Editor, Critical Historical Review).

April 9, Anne Walthall (Professor Emerita, University of California, Irvine); “Antiquity and Anachronism: Spear Fighting in Mid-Nineteenth Century Japan”; Discussants: Susan Burns (Professor, History) and Jessa Dahl (PhD Student, History)

April 23, Aniko Varga (PhD Candidate, History); “A Nation of Sorts: Korean Nationalism Revisited”; Discussant: Seong Un Kim (PhD Candidate, History)

April 30, *4:30-6 pm, Uemura Takashi

May 7, Kyle Gardner (PhD Candidate, History); “Incongruent Frontiers: British Attempts to Define the Indo-Turko-Sino-Tibeto-Kashmiri Borderland in Ladakh, 1846-1907”; Discussant: Daniel Webb (PhD Candidate, History)

May 14, *4:30-6 pm, *1155 E. 60th St., Room 319 (Center for East Asian Studies), Ander Permanyer-Ugartemendia (Postdoctoral Fellow, Universitat Pompeu Fabra); “Opium after the Manila Galleon: The Spanish Involvement in the Opium Economy in East Asia (1815-1830)”

May 21, *4:30-8:30 pm, Pushing the Boundaries of East Asia: A Symposium for Master’s Theses-In-Progress; full schedule to follow, includes a catered reception

June 4, *4:30-6 pm, Stacie Kent (PhD Candidate, History); “Bonding and Branding: The Body of Opium and Taxation Technologies in the Late Qing”; Discussant: Evan Randall (PhD Student, History)

All sessions, unless otherwise stated (*), will be held on Thursdays at 4-6 pm in the John Hope Franklin Room (Social Sciences Research Building, 224).

January 8, *1155 E. 60th St., Room 319, Roundtable Discussion on Archives in East Asia

January 29, Peter Thilly (PhD Candidate, Northwestern University); “The Offshore Opium Market in Fujian, 1833-1839”; Discussant: Jessa Dahl (PhD Student, History)

Pierre-Étienne Will (Professor, Collège de France); Lecture Series: “Modern Engineering, Warlord Politics, and Philanthropies in a Chinese Periphery: Xi’an and its Hinterland, 1911-1937” (Sponsored by the France Chicago Center)

February 12, John Hope Franklin Room, “Reviving a Two Thousand-Year Old Infrastructure: Modern Engineering and the Reconstruction of the Zheng Guo Irrigation System”; Discussants: Kenneth Pomeranz (Professor, History) and Diana Schwartz (PhD candidate, History)

February 17 (Tuesday), John Hope Franklin Room, “Delayed Modernization: Revolution and Warlordism in the Guanzhong Region, 1911-1930”; Discussant: Johanna Ransmeier (Professor, History)

February 19, *Social Sciences 401, “Philanthropies, Infrastructural Modernization and the Takeoff of the Guanzhong Region, 1930-1937”; Discussant: Jacob Eyferth (Professor, EALC)

March 5, Katherine Alexander (PhD Candidate, EALC); “Preserving Grains, Written Paper, and Infants in the Shadow of the Taiping War”; Discussant: Daniel Knorr (PhD Student, History)

March 12, Taeju Kim (PhD Candidate, History); “Anti-Nuclear Logic in Postwar Japan: Developing Others in the Frontier and Third World”; Discussant: Covell Meyskens (PhD Candidate, History)

March 17, *location TBA, Ma Zhao (Assistant Professor, Washington University in St. Louis); “War Remembered, Revolution Forgotten: (Re)Envisioning the North Korean Ally in Chinese Documentary Films, 1951-2013”; Discussants: Saul Thomas (PhD Candidate, Anthropology/History) and Ling Zhang (PhD Candidate, Cinema and Media Studies)

To kick the year off, we will be holding a special town hall and happy hour to welcome new and returning participants alike. At 4 pm we will meet in 1155 E. 60th St. (Harris School building, new location of the Center for East Asian Studies), Room 319 for a brief discussion of the workshop’s goals and plans for this year. Come with your own suggestions and questions. Faculty and students (PhD and MAPSS) from all disciplines and specialties are welcome. At 5 pm we will walk over to the Pub in the basement of Ida Noyes Hall for the happy hour portion of our event.  See below for a map of the location of the two venues. Don’t forget to “like” our new Facebook page to connect with the workshop and other participants.

All sessions, unless otherwise stated (*), will be held on Thursdays at 4-6 pm in the John Hope Franklin Room (Social Sciences Research Building, 224).

October 2, 4-5 pm, *1155 E. 60th St., Room 319, Workshop Town Hall
5-6 pm, *Ida Noyes Hall, Pub (basement), Happy Hour

October 23, 4:30-6 pm, Roundtable for MAPSS and Early-stage PhD Students on Research Methods, Theses, and Seminar Papers

October 30, *1155 E. 60th St., Room 319, Wang You (MAPSS); “Feed the Lower Gentry: Survival Strategies and Grain Tribute in the Early Nineteenth Century”; Discussant: Pan Yiying (PhD Student, EALC)

November 6, Cameron Penwell (PhD Candidate, History); “The Ashio Copper Mine Pollution Incident, Religious Relief Work, and Buddhist Imaginings of the Social Problem”; Discussant: Helen Findley (PhD Candidate, EALC)

November 20, Johanna Ransmeier (Assistant Professor, History); “From the Floodplain to the Capital”; Discussant: Guo-Quan Seng (PhD Candidate, History)

December 4, Guo-Quan Seng (PhD Candidate, History); “Sinology’s Father and the Codification of the Chinese Woman’s Property Rights in Dutch Colonial Java” (tentative); Discussant: Aliz Horvath (PhD Student, EALC)

All sessions, unless otherwise stated (*), will be held on Thursdays at 4-6 pm in the John Hope Franklin Room (Social Sciences Research Building, 224).

April 10, *3.30-5.30pm, Robert Hellyer (Assoc. Prof. Wake Forest Colllege), The West, the East, and the Insular Middle: Trading Systems, Demand, and Labor in the Integration of the Pacific, 1750-1875; Discussant: Julia Thomas.

April 29, *Tue, 4-6pm, Christopher A. Bayly (Vivekananda Visiting Professor), Introduction to World History in the Twentieth Century; Discussants: Covell Meyskens, Michael Geyer, Bruce Cumings [East Asia in World History Roundtable Series, Part 3 of 3].

May 8, David Ambaras (Assoc. Prof., N. Carolina State), Runaway Woman/Pirate Queen: Life on the Margins of the Japanese Empire; Discussants: Tadashi Ishikawa, Johanna Ransmeier.

May 22, *Cobb 112, Covell Meyskens (PhD Candidate), Guerilla Urbanism: Panzhihua and the Alternate Socialist Form Of Late Maoist Urbanity; Discussant: Andy Bruno (Asst. Prof., N. Illinois University)

June 5, Guo-Quan Seng (PhD Candidate), The Peranakan Chinese Bilateral Kinship System and The Rule of Property in Nineteenth Century Dutch Colonial Java

June 12, Johanna Ransmeier (Asst. Prof.), Title TBA     —-  (Rescheduled for Fall 2014).

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

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).

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