Winter 2010 schedule

East Asian Transregional Histories Workshop

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

January 7thNorma Field, University of Chicago Professor in EALC

Title: “From Literature to Labor in Contemporary Japan and Other Nonprofessional Reflections”

January 21stYijiang Zhong, graduate student in EALC

Title: “Disrupting the Way of Gods: Separation of Religion and State in Early Meiji Japan”

February 4th – Shunsuke Nozawa, graduate student in Anthropology

Title: “An untimely eccentric: writing, locality, and memory in modern Japan”

February 18thLily Chumley, graduate student in Anthropology

Title: “Art School and the Visual Culture Industries in China, 1978-2008”

February 25thJulia Thomas, University of Notre Dame, Associate Professor, Department of History

Title: “Intimate Trauma, Cool Distance: Photographic Politics in 1950s Japan”

March 4thSarah Kautz, graduate student in Anthropology

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

Fall Schedule 2009

East Asian Transregional Histories Workshop Fall Schedule

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

October 19th – Professor Shao Dan, UIUC, Assistant Professor EALC and Gender/ Women’s Studies
Title: “Chinese by Definition: Nationality Law, Jus sanguinis, and State Succession (1909-1980)”  Note: Location Cobb 219

October 29th – Grace Chae, graduate student in History
Title: “Drawing the Leaflet Enemy: Semiotics and the Social History of the Psywarrior Imagination”

November 5th – Fei-Hsien Wang, graduate student in History
Title: “Hunting Pirates in Beijing (1930-1937)”

November 12th – Professor Akira Iriye, Charles Warren Research Professor of American History
Title: “Transnationalizing East Asian History”

November 23rd – Helen Li, graduate student in Sociology
Title: “Grassroots, Sisterhood and Activism: A revisit of Taiwanese feminist history”

December 3rd – If you would like to present, please contact cfmeyskens@uchicago.edu