Schedule – Spring 2025

March 27 (History Day): Fang Zhao, PhD student in History, University of Chicago

“The Emergence of National Markets in Republican China (1912-1945)”

Unusual time: 4:00-5:30 PM

Location: Foster 107

April 3: Erin Newton, PhD candidate in History, University of Chicago

“Defining ‘Caregiving’ Labor: Midwives, Housewives, and Nurses in Meiji Japan”

Location: CEAS 319, 1155 E 60th St.

April 10: Niu Teo, PhD candidate in History, University of Chicago

“Fat of the Land: Skinny Pigs and Nitrogen Fixations”

Location: John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB 224

April 17: Dr. Jeffrey T. Martin, Associate Professor, Anthropology and EALC, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

“Taiwan as Method for Writing the World History of Policing”

Location: CEAS 319, 1155 E 60th St.

May 1: Hannah Park, PhD candidate in History, University of Chicago

“Mediating Hope, Negotiating Disappointment:  The Complexities of Sakhalin Korean Repatriation in the Letters Sent to Yi Hŭip’al, 1957-1995”

Location: John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB 224

May 8: Dr. Hiromi Mizuno, Associate Professor, History, University of Minnesota, Twin Cities

“Western Chemistry Meets Japanese Soil: Race, Rice, and Chemical Fertilizer in Modernizing Japan”

Location: CEAS 319, 1155 E 60th St.

May 22: Dr. Eunhee Park, Instructor in History, University of Chicago

“Her Tactical Purse: The Postwar History of South Korean Urban Housewives’ Everyday Economics, Domesticity, and Financial Capitalism”

Location: CEAS 319, 1155 E 60th St.

June 5: Dr. Jiakai Sheng, Teaching Fellow in the Division of the Social Sciences, University of Chicago

Location: CEAS 319, 1155 E 60th St.