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)
In collaboration with the History Department and 57th Street Books, the workshop is pleased to co-sponsor a lecture cum book-signing event by Professor Charles Armstrong (History, Univ. of Columbia) for his newly released book:
Tyranny of the Weak: North Korea and the World, 1950-1992 (Cornell, June 2013).
Click here to preview the book at Cornell University Press: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/?GCOI=80140100484410
Click here for the event notice at Sem Coop: http://www.semcoop.com/event/charles-armstrong-tyranny-weak-north-korea-and-world-1950-1992
Professor Charles Armstrong is the Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies in the Social Sciences, Department of History at the University of Columbia. He is also writing the Modern East Asia volume for the Wiley-Blackwell series Concise History of the Modern World, to be published in 2014. His next research project is concerned with trans-Pacific Cold War culture and U.S.-East Asian relations.
Date: October 28 (Mon), 2013
Time: 12 – 1pm
Venue: 57th Street Books (57th and Kimbark)
East Asia in World History Roundtable Series (Part 1 of 3):
Histories in a Less National Age
American Historical Association Presidential Address, 2013 (draft)
Kenneth Pomeranz
University Professor of Modern Chinese History and in the College
Roundtable Discussants:
Dipesh Chakrabarty Lawrence A. Kimpton Distinguished Service Professor
Paul Cheney Associate Professor of European History
Date: October 10, 2013
Time: 4 – 6 pm
Venue: John Hope Franklin Room (Social Sciences 224)
Some highlights from the roundtable discussion:
Paul Cheney, “It’s the principle of variation that counts, not the scales!” (quoted from Jacques Revel’s contribution to his edited volume Jeux d’échelles.)
Professor Chakrabarty commenting.
Prasenjit Duara
Raffles Professor of Humanities, Director of Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
“Competitive Temporalities and Historical Societies: The Place of Early Modern Circulations”
May 2 (Wednesday), 4-6 pm
Location: HM 103
Professor Duara’s paper and ppt are available below:
Taeju Kim
Ph.D. Candidate, History Department
“Postwar Moral Realism and Japan’s Cold War Ambivalence.”
Time: May 5, 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Place: JHF Room
General Discussion
“What is trans-regional history? Why do it? And, how?”
October 5th (Tuesday) 4:00-6:00 PM
Place: John Hope Franklin Room (SS 224)
April 7, 12-2 pm, Social Sciences 224
Heonik Kwon, Professor of Anthropology, London School of Economics
“The Postcolonial Cold War”
April 1, 4-6 pm, Social Sciences 224
Stacie Hanneman, PhD student, History
“Integrating China: Logics and Practices of a Global System in the Making”