4/4 Professor Michael Wert (Assistant Professor, History, Marquette University): “Memory Landscapes and the Meiji Restoration in Modern Japan”

4/17 (Wed) Professor Hoyt Long (Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago): “Global Literary Networks: Macro-Scale Approaches to the Sociology of Literature and Translation”

5/2 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”

5/30 Max Bohnenkamp (PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago): “A “New Folk Marvel-Tale” (Xin minjian chuanqi 新民间传奇): The Revolutionary Re-Writing of Chinese Folklore and Literary Tradition in The White Haired Girl“

6/13 Cameron Penwell (PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago)

1/10: Susan Burns (Associate Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago): “Hybrid Institutions/Local Solutions: The Iwakura “Colony” and Academic Psychiatry in Prewar Japan”

1/17: Mark Caprio (Professor, Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University): “Wartime Preparations for East Asian Occupations: Laying the Foundations for Postwar Alliances”

1/24: Tomoko Seto (PhD Candidate,  East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago): “Media Representations of the 1906 Protest Against the Streetcar Fare Increase in Tokyo”

2/7: Novella Chiechi (PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago): “State Formation and Household Registration Documentation in the early PRC and USSR”

2/14: Peng Xu (PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago): “Courtesans versus Literati: Gendered Soundscapes in Late-Ming Singing Culture (1547-1644)”

2/21: Jon Glade (PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago): “Occupied Liberation: The US Military Occupation of Japan and Southern Korea”

3/7: Douglas Howland (David D. Buck Professor of Chinese History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): “Meiji Japan and International Administrative Unions: An Alternative Genealogy of Internationalism”

3/14: Junhyung Chae (PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago): “From Spiritualism to Diffused Confucianism: The Transformation of Daoyuan Religiosity”

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.

East Asia: Transregional Histories Workshop’s winter schedule is as follows:

January 26: Monica Kim (Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, U Chicago)

“Empire’s Babel: Making the Decolonized Subject in the U.S. Military Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War.”

February 9: Stacie Hanneman (PhD Candidate, History, U Chicago)

“Event or Totality? Transit Passes and Questions of Governance in Treaty Port China”

February 23: Helen Findley (PhD Candidate, EALC, U Chicago)

“Practical Preaching: Shaku Soen and the Creation of a Buddhist Citizenry”

March 8: Noriko Yamaguchi (PhD Candidate, History, U Chicago)

“Reforming” Rural Everyday Life: Domestic Reforms in 1950s Japan.”

We will meet at 4 pm in JHF Room (SS224). If you have any questions, please contact Jun-hyung Chae (jhchae@uchicago.edu).

Fall 2011 Schedule

Location: John Hope Franklin Room (SS224), Thursday 4-6 PM, except the discussion with Professor Koaysu Nobukuni on Oct. 5 (Wednesday, SS224)

Oct. 5: Nobukuni Koyasu (Professor Emeritus, Osaka University)

“Japanese Intellectuals and China: A Discussion”

Oct. 20: Matthew Johnson (Assistant Professor, History, Grinnell College)

Oct. 27: Dong-choon Kim (Professor, Sungkonghoe University, South Korea)

“Korea’s Movement to settle the Past Issues and Peace in East Asia”

Nov. 3: Fei-hsien Wang (PhD candidate, History, University of Chicago)

“Between Property and Privilege: Did Copyright Exist in China before the Copyright Law of 1910?”

Nov. 17: Limin Teh (PhD candidate, History, University of Chicago)

Location: John Hope Franklin Room (SS224), Thursday 4-6

Jan.13: Yi Wang, “Across the Western Pass: Merchants,  Migrants, and Chinese Expansion in Mongolia”

Feb.10: Hsing-yi Kao, “Tianyan (heavenly evolution) as the Foundation of Yan Fu’s Worldview and ist Impact on the Intelligentsia, 1898-1900s”

Feb. 17: Guoquan Seng, “Making New Familial Subjects: Chinese Family Law Reform in the Netherlands East Indies and British Malaya (1890-1942)”

Feb.24: Rie Hogetsu, “Physical Awareness and Wartime Mobilization: School Mastication Drill in 1930s Japan”

March 10: Ken Kawashima, “Biopolitics and the Aleatory Event(s) of Capitalism”

Location: John Hope Franklin Room (SS224), Thursday 4-6

Oct. 1: Reception for all Modern East Asia workshops

Oct. 5: General Discussion: “What is trans-regional history? Why do it? And, how?”

Oct. 14: Nianshen Song:  “Discourse and Practice in the Tumen River Demarcation”

Oct. 21: Showing of Du Haibin’s film “1428, followed by a discussion with Du Haibin

Nov. 4: Prof. James Hevia, “The Uses of Intelligence”

Dec. 9: Noriko Yamaguchi,  “Improving” Our Life: Postwar Rural Community (Re)building in Japan, 1948-1981

East Asian Transregional Histories Workshop

Location/Time: John Hope Franklin Room/4-6 pm

April 1-  Stacie Hanneman, PhD student, History

Title: “Integrating China: Logics and Practices of a Global System in the Making”

April 7th – Professor Heonik Kwon, Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics

Title: “The Postcolonial Cold War”

April 15^th – Cameron Penwell, PhD student, History

Title: “The Sugamo Prison Chaplain Incident: A Look at Religion-State Relations in the Late Meiji Period”

April 22^nd – Takashi Fujitani, Professor of Japanese History, UCSD

Title: “Koreans as Japanese Soldiers: Reflections on Inclusionary or Polite Racism in WWII”

April 29^th – Noriko Sugimori, Assistant Professor of Japanese Language, Kalamazoo College

Title: “The Occupation’s newspaper censorship and a drastic decline in the use of imperial honorifics”

May 10th – Prasenjit Duara, Professor of History, National University of Singapore

Title: “Periodizing the Cold War: The Imperialism of Nation-States”

May 13th – Yi Wang, PhD candidate, EALC

Title: “Land, Boundaries and Christianity: Catholic Missions in the Ordos of Inner Mongolia during the Late Qing”

May 20th -Sarah Kautz, PhD candidate, Anthropology

Title: “Genealogies of Japan: Archaeology, Tourism, and Japanese (Inter)nationalism”

May 27^th – Bruce Cumings, Professor of International History

Discussion of his new book, Dominion from Sea to Sea: Pacific Ascendancy and American Power

June 3rd – Professor Andre Schmid, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto

Title: “Family and Domesticity Across the Cold War Divide: North and South Korea in the 1950s.”

June 10th – John Person, PhD student, EALC

Title: The Language of Japanism: Poetry and Politics in the founding of the Genri Nippon Society”