Schedule – Winter 2025

January 16: Zhang Yueran, Assistant Professor at Department of Sociology, University of Chicago (co-hosted with Politics, History and Society Workshop)

“Workers of the Socialist World: The Transnational Making of Chinese Workers’ Class Consciousness, circa 1980”

Location: John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB 224

January 30: Wang You, Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor in Social Sciences Division, University of Chicago

“Polder Politics: Collective Drainage and the Rise of Community-Based Hydraulic Collaboration in Ming-Qing Jiangnan”

Location: John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB 224

February 27: Xiaoyu Gao, PhD Candidate in History, University of Chicago

“Opium, Silver Outflows, and the Daoguang Depression? Unravelling the Monetary Myth in Nineteenth-Century China”

Location: John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB 224

March 6: Gabriel Groz, PhD Candidate in History, University of Chicago

“Prerogatives, Publics, and Political Economies in Late Ming China and Early Stuart England”

Location: CEAS 319, 1155 E 60th St.