March 21, 4:00 to 5:30pm | Xiaoyu Gao

PhD candidate in History

Paper title: Empire of Copper: Chilean Copper, British Global Trade, and the Transformation of Chinese Monetary System and Copper Production (1800- 1862)

Discussant: Yiyun Peng, Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History

Location: CEAS 319, 1155 E 60th St

 

UPDATED: March 27, 4:00 to 5:30pm | Ruiling Xue (note the unusual date)

PhD student in History

Paper title: Tracing the 19th century North China materia medica market in Astragalus stories

Discussant: Gabriel Groz, PhD Candidate in History; Le Vi Pham, PhD Student in History

Location: CEAS 319, 1155 E 60th St

 

April 11, 4:00-5:30 PM | Dr. Federico Brusadelli

Fulbright Visiting Scholar, Lecturer of Chinese History at the University of Naples L’Orientale

Paper title: “‘Self-determination’, for whom? A Conceptual Analysis of Chen Jiongming’s Federal Manifesto (1927)”

Discussant: Zhao Fang, PhD student in History

Location: John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB

 

April 16, 6:00-8:00 PM | Xiaoyu Gao (On zoom)

Phd Candidate, History

Presentation on archival research in Taipei

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April 25, 4:00-5:30 PM | You Wang

Harper-Schmidt Fellow, Society of Fellows and Collegiate Assistant Professor, Social Sciences Division

Paper title: The 1834 White Thatch Drama: State, Gentry, Labor, and River

Discussant: Oliver Cussen, Harper-Schmidt Fellow

Location: John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB

 

May 1, 4:00 to 5:30pm | Dr. Hiromi Mizuno**

Associate Professor of History, University of Minnesota

Paper title: TBD

Discussant: TBD

Location: Social Sciences Tea Room, SSRB 201

 

May 16, 4:00 to 5:30pm | Arunabh Ghosh**

Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, Harvard University

Paper title: ORENCO and Chinese Small Hydropower in the United States

Discussant: Niu Teo, PhD Candidate in History

Location: John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB

 

May 23, 4:00 to 5:30pm | Yuan Tian

Teaching Fellow, Social Sciences Division

Paper title: Demolishing the Wall: Negotiating Foreign Space in Republican Chengdu (1910-1937)

Discussant: TBD

Location: John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB

 

**This event is co-sponsored by the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies with support from a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the United States Department of Education.