September 28, 4pm to 5:30pm | Peng Yiyun

Postdoctoral fellow in the Department of History

Opening up Hillsides: Challenges and Opportunities in Agricultural Cultivation in Upland Southeast China, 1600-1919

Location: John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB

*Joint event with the CEGU Environmental Studies Colloquium

 

October 5th, 4pm to 5:00pm | Zhao Fang, Gabriel Groz

Graduate student source workshop: Republican social surveys, “Kai Cai Tu Shuo”

Location: John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB

 

October 19/20, TBD | Elvin Meng

PhD student in the Departments of East Asian Languages and Civilizations & Comparative Literature

Babbling in Early Modern China

Location: TBD

*Joint event with the Arts and Politics of East Asia Workshop (APEA)

 

November 2, 4pm to 5:30pm | Shi Yuanxie

PhD candidate in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilization

Global Trade in the Maoist Era

Location: John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB

 

November 9, 3pm to 4:30pm (note the unusual timing) | Robert Burgos

PhD candidate in the Department of History

Developing a New Community of ‘Zainichi Compatriots’: The Postwar Establishment of Mindan and its Affiliated Associations

Location: John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB

 

November 16, 4pm to 5:30pm | Sayaka Chatani**

Assistant Professor, Department of History, National University of Singapore

TBA

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.

 

November 30, 4pm to 5:30pm | Wang You

Harper-Schmidt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor in Social Sciences Division

Being East to the Great Lake: a Work Relief and a Official-Gentry-Laborer Play in the Early Nineteenth-Century China

Location: John Hope Franklin Room, SSRB