LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | A Colonial Muslim History of Qing Central Asia: Revisiting Sayrāmī's "Tārīkh-i Ḥamīdī"
Eric Schluessel, Mellon Fellow, Institute for Advanced Study; Assistant Professor, University of Montana
The "Tārīkh-i Ḥamīdī of Mullah Mūsa Sayrāmī" (1836-1917) is celebrated as a monument of Uyghur literature and the preeminent...
International Institute Round Table
The Uyghur Human Rights Crisis: What is happening in Northwest China?
This panel will discuss the situation faced by the Uyghurs, a Muslim minority group living in northwestern China. Since early 2018, media...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | US-China Relations in the Age of Trump and Xi
Mary E. Gallagher, Professor of Political Science; Director, Lieberthal-Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, University of Michigan
Mary E. Gallagher is the Amy and Alan Lowenstein Professor of Democracy, Democratization, and Human Rights Professor at the University of...
De-Centering the Global Middle Ages
Keynote: Valerie Hansen, Yale University
De-centering the Global Middle Ages invites researchers to consider scholarly perspectives of the “global turn” of the premodern world,...
De-Centering the Global Middle Ages
Keynote: Valerie Hansen, Yale University
De-centering the Global Middle Ages invites researchers to consider scholarly perspectives of the “global turn” of the premodern world,...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | "Heaven and Earth are Within One's Grasp": The Healer's Body-as-Technology in Chinese Medicine
Marta Hanson, Associate Professor, Department of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University
Marta Hanson is an Associate Professor of the history of East Asian medicine in the Department of the History of Medicine, Johns Hopkins...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Ethics, Identity and Sociality in Wuna Wu’s First-person Documentaries
Tze-lan Sang, Professor of Chinese Literature and Media Studies, Michigan State University
Touted as a representative of the “Me” generation of documentary makers in 21st-century Taiwan, Wuna Wu has frequently appeared as both...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Mao’s Secret Photo Retoucher: Redefining Chinese Masculinity for a New China
Lex Jing Lu, Assistant Professor of History, Clark University
Dr. Lex Jing Lu is Assistant Professor of History at Clark University. He got his BA at East China Normal University and PhD at Syracuse...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | Prizes of the "Great Upheaval": The International Politics and Business of Chinese Art During World War I
Ian Shin, Assistant Professor of History and American Culture, University of Michigan
Among the many legacies of World War I (1914–1918) was the rise of the United States as a cultural superpower as seen in the international...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | China's Universities in Perspective
Yingyi Qian, Distinguished Professor of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences, Tsinghua University
In this talk, Professor Qian will review the major initiatives for China's universities in the past two decades, analyze the major global...
LRCCS Noon Lecture Series | The Origins and Evolution of Social Surveillance in China
Martin Dimitrov, Associate Professor of Political Science, Tulane University
This talk focuses on the post-1949 efforts of the Chinese state to develop a panoptical surveillance capacity. Although these efforts have...
LRCCS Conference | Understanding Media: New Perspectives on Ming–Qing Literature
This exploratory conference aims to bring new work on Ming and Qing literature into dialogue with approaches to the history and theory of...
LRCCS Conference | Understanding Media: New Perspectives on Ming–Qing Literature
This exploratory conference aims to bring new work on Ming and Qing literature into dialogue with approaches to the history and theory of...
