January 7: Shellen Xiao Wu, Professor and L.H. Gipson Chair in Transnational History, Lehigh University
“Cloud Computing 1.0”
Discussant: Elizabeth Chatterjee, University of Chicago
Location: John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB 224
Co-sponsored by Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago (CEAS)

January 15: Yuting Chen, PhD Candidate in Sociology
“Naval Shipbuilding and the Cold War Origins of Modular Innovations in China (1953-1978)”
Discussant: Gabriel Groz 
Location: John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB

January 22: Rebecca Nedostup, Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Brown University
“Working Refugees in Wartime Sichuan”
Discussants: Jiakai Sheng and Xinyang Zhou
Location: John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB
Co-sponsored by Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago (CEAS)

January 30* Yuanxie Shi, Collegiate Assistant Professor; Harper-Schmidt Fellow
“Sideline or Factory: Redistributing Work, Status, and Income through Layoffs and Mobilizations after the Great Leap Forward”
Discussant: Gary Herrigel 
Location: John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB
*Please note the unusual date.

February 5: Xinyi Wang, MAPSS Student 
“Wartime Censorship and Transnational Journalism, 1930-1950”
Discussant: Zhao Fang
Location: John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB

February 19: Yiching Wu, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
“Mao’s Cultural War: The Origins of the Cultural Revolution Reconsidered”
Discussant: Kelly Liu
Location: John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB
Co-sponsored by Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago (CEAS)

March 5: Susan Burns, Professor of History, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and the College
Title TBA
Location: John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB