A joint endeavor with the Art and Politics of East Asia Workshop
An open discussion about the nature of “space” and “region” in relation to the study of East Asia.
Discussants: Scott Aalgaard (PhD student, EALC), Susan Su (PhD student, EALC), Nic Wong (Phd student, CMLT)
Date/Time: 3pm to 5pm
Venue: Center for East Asian Studies Media Room (CEAS 319 1155 E 60th St.)
Spain and the Opium Trade in Asia
Speaker: Ander Permanyer-Ugartemendia (Postdoctoral Fellow, Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
Date/Time: May 14, 4:30-6 pm
Venue: 1155 E. 60th St., Room 319 (Center for East Asian Studies)
A Nation of Sorts: Korean Nationalism Revisited
Speaker: Aniko Varga (PhD Candidate, History)
Discussant: Seong Un Kim (PhD Candidate, History)
Date/Time: April 23, 4-6 pm
Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (Social Sciences 224)
Anti-Nuclear Logic in Postwar Japan: Developing Southeast Asia and Integrating the Frontier
Speaker: Taeju Kim (PhD Candidate, History)
Discussant: Covell Meyskens (PhD Candidate, History)
Date/Time: March 12, 4-6 pm
Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (Social Sciences 224)
The first 15-20 minutes of this session will be dedicated to a Town Hall meeting to discuss workshop affairs and start making plans for next year.
The Offshore Opium Market in Fujian, 1833-1839
Speaker: Peter Thilly (PhD Candidate, Northwestern University)
Discussant: Jessa Dahl (PhD Student, History)
Date/Time: January 29, 4-6 pm
Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224)
Twentieth Century World History – A roundtable discussion
East Asia in World History Roundtable Series, Part 3 of 3
Speaker: Christopher Bayly (The Indian Ministry of Culture Vivekananda Visiting Professor)
Discussants: Covell Meyskens (PhD Candidate), Michael Geyer (Samuel N. Harper Professor of German and European History), Bruce Cumings (Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History and the College)
Date/Time: April 29th (Tue), 4-6pm
Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (SSRB, 224)
The West, the East, and the insular middle: trading systems, demand, and labour in the integration of the Pacic, 1750–1875
A Chinese junk in Nagasaki (circa 1640s)
Time/Date: 3.30-5.30pm, April 10 (Thursday)
[*Please note that we’re meeting half an hour earlier than usual]
Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (SSR 224)
Speaker: Robert Hellyer (Associate Professor of History, Wake Forest College)
Discussant: Julia Adeney Thomas (Assoc. Prof, History, Notre Dame)
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)
The Case for Diaspora: A Temporal Approach to Chinese Communities in Global Context
Shelly Chan, Assistant Professor, History, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Discussants: Saul Thomas (Ph.D. Candidate History/Anthropology) and Guo-Quan Seng (Ph.D. Candidate History)
Time/Date: 4-6pm, March 13 (Thursday)
Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (SSR 224)
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)