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CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Spirited Away
2001 | Fantasy/Mystery/Anime | 135 min | PG
In this animated feature by noted Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki, 10-year-old Chihiro and her parents stumble upon a seemingly abandoned...
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Poetry, Class, and Politics: Making Haiku into “Literature” in Meiji Japan
Robert Tuck, Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese Literature and Culture, Arizona State University
Known for its emphasis on nature and the seasons, as well as its accessibility and broad appeal, haiku is now one of Japan’s best-known...
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. Photographic Mourning: Witnessing the Philippine Drug War
Vicente L. Rafael, University of Washington, Department of History
Under the regime of Pres. Rodrigo Duterte, the so-called drug war in the Philippines has exacted an enormous toll. In this talk, I inquire...
Korean Cinema NOW | Believer / 독전
Directed by Hae-young Lee
2018 | 123 Minutes | Directed by Hae-young Lee...
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...
CJS Icons of Anime Film Series | Your Name
106 min. | Drama/Fantasy | PG | 2016
From Director Makoto Shinkai comes a beautiful masterpiece about time, the thread of fate, and the hearts of two young souls. A teenage boy...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Radical Adaptation: Japan’s Foreign Policy in the Trump Era
Toshihiro Nakayama, Professor of American Politics and Foreign Policy, Policy Management, Keio University, Japan
Seemingly, Japan has adapted to Trumpian foreign policy like no other. Whereas many “western democracies” have maintained a distance to...
Reading the Americanized Joothan: The Translator’s Cringe
Arun Mukherjee
My translation of Hindi Dalit writer, Omprakash Valmiki’s autobiography, Joothan, was published by Samya in 2003. Columbia University...
CSEAS Film Screening. Thai Movie Night: Pop Aye
Kirsten Tan, Director
On a chance encounter, a disenchanted architect bumps into his long-lost elephant on the streets of Bangkok. Excited, he takes his elephant...
CSAS Lecture Series | Of Commodities and Frontiers: Looking for "Capitalism" on the Edges of Britain’s Indian Colonies
Subir Sinha, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Subir Sinha studied History at the University of Delhi (BA) and Political Science at Northwestern University (MS, PhD), and has taught at...
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...
CSEAS Southeast Asia Practice and Scholarship Series | Perspectives on the State of Journalism
Muzammil Hussain, U-M Communication Studies; Hkun Lat, freelance documentary photographer from Myanmar; Tyrell Haberkorn, U-W Madison Southeast Asian Studies, ; Orlando de Guzman, Ilaya Films
Contemporary journalists covering the various countries of Southeast Asia face unprecedented challenges in the form of suppression,...
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,...
Korean Cinema NOW | The Fortress / 남한산성
Directed by Dong-hyuk Hwang
2017 | 140 Minutes | Dong-hyuk Hwang...
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...
CSAS Graduate Interdisciplinary Conference on South Asia 2019
Keynote by Indrani Chatterjee, Professor, Department of History, University of Texas at Austin
For complete details and the conference schedule, please see the conference website:...
Korean Cinema NOW | Little Forest / 리틀 포레스트
Directed by Soon-rye Yim
2018 | 104 Minutes | Soon-rye Yim...
Nam Center Colloquium Series | Looking through the 2018 Winter Olympics: The Complexity of Contemporary Korean Nationalism and National Identity Politics
Jung Woo Lee, Lecturer, Sport and Leisure Policy, University of Edinburgh, UK
Due to the Japanese colonialism, the Korean War and the partition of the nation, the nature of Korean national identity becomes complicated...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Japan’s Response to the ‘US-China Cold War
Masashi Nishihara, President of the Research Institute for Peace and Security, Tokyo, Japan
A strong and wealthy America meets Japan’s security as well as economic interests. In this sense Tokyo prefers Trump’s type of...
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. The Return to authoritarianism in Cambodia
Kheang Un, Northern Illinois University
In 2017, the Cambodian government dismantled the Cambodian National Rescue Party, clamped down on civil liberties and organized elections in...
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...
Nam Center for Korean Studies Colloquium Series | Uncle Tom’s Cabin in Korea: Translating Blackness Across the Pacific
Jang Wook Huh, Assistant Professor, American Ethnic Studies, University of Washington
In 1913 the renowned novelist Yi Kwang-su adapted Japanese translations of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. In this work Yi...
CLIFF 2019: Cartographies of Silence, 23rd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum
Keynote: Professor Irena Klepfisz
Call for Papers...
CSAS Lecture Series | Practicing Vulnerability -- Men's Rights Activists, Embodiment and Appropriation
Srimati Basu, Professor, Gender and Women's Studies; Anthropology, University of Kentucky
Srimati Basu is Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies and Anthropology, and a member of the Committee on Social Theory and the Asia...
CLIFF 2019: Cartographies of Silence, 23rd Annual Comparative Literature Intra-student Faculty Forum
Keynote: Professor Irena Klepfisz
Call for Papers...
Korean Cinema NOW | After My Death / 죄많은 소녀
Directed by Euiseok Kim
2017 | 131 Minutes | Euiseok Kim...
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...
CSEAS Film Series. “Yanan,” a film by Mae Caralde. Film screening followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker.
Mae Caralde, filmmaker and current Fulbright scholar
Ka Yanan, a member of the Philippine revolutionary movement, died during an encounter with government troops in 2012, and is survived by a...
Korean Cinema NOW | I Can Speak / 아이 캔 스피크
Directed by Hyeon-Seok Kim
2017 | 119 Minutes | Hyeon-Seok Kim...
Nam Center Colloquium Series | De/Militarized Ecologies: Making Peace with Nature Along the Korean DMZ
Eleana Kim, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine
Eleana Kim is a cultural anthropologist whose research and writing are organized around core anthropological concerns with nature and...
Nam Center Colloquium Series | De/militarized Ecologies: Making Peace with Nature Along the Korean DMZ
Eleana Kim, Associate Professor of Anthropology, University of California- Irvine
With the discovery of rare and endangered species in areas around the Korean Demilitarized Zone, and inspired by the paradoxical flourishing...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Abenomics: Escape from the Lost Two Decades of Japan
Takatoshi Ito, School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University and Director, Program on Public Pension and Sovereign Funds, CJEB, Columbia Business School
The lecture describes and analyze (i) why the Japan suffered from two decades of stagnation and fifteen years of deflation; (ii) how...
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. Neither Mahāyāna Nor Theravāda: Ashin Jinarakkhita and the Indonesian Buddhayāna Movement
Jack Meng-Tat Chia, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
Widely regarded as the first Indonesian-born Buddhist monk (biksu pertama putra Indonesia), Ashin Jinarakkhita took it as his mission to...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Consequences of Short-Time Work Schemes: Evidence from Japan
Naomi Kodama, Professor, College of Economics, Nihon University
Short-time work (STW) schemes, publicly subsidized work time reductions, are designed to incentivize firms to use worksharing and avoid...
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. The Thousand Year Old Stolen Burmese Buddha Who Traveled The World And The Saga Of Its Return
Catherine Raymond, Associate Professor of Art History, Northern Illinois University
This presentation will profile the return of a rare Buddha image that was stolen from a remote temple in Bagan in 1988 and would travel...
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...
Nam Center for Korean Studies Colloquium Series | Immigrant Incorporation in East Asian Democracies
Erin Chung, Charles D. Miller Associate Professor of East Asian Politics, Department of Political Science, Johns Hopkins University
This book examines how national policies and immigrant advocacy groups interact to shape collective identity formation, solidarity networks,...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Toward the Denuclearized Future: Ruses of Safety Myth and Citizen’s Activisms since the Fukushima Disasters
Katsuya Hirano , Associate Professor of History, UCLA
Since the 3.11 Fukushima nuclear disaster, the Japanese government and the nuclear energy industries have been attempting to promote a new...
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...
CSEAS Friday Lecture Series. German and Vietnamese Refugees: Interactions and Comparisons
Peter van der Veer, Professor of Anthropology, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Religious and Ethnic Diversity, Göttingen
This paper examines Germany as a country of and for refugees by focusing on two waves of refugees. The first is the influx of German...
CSAS Lecture Series | Film’s Mise-en-Scène as Labor’s Social Space
Priya Jaikumar, Associate Professor, Division of Cinema and Media Studies, School of Cinematic Arts, University of Southern California
Cinema’s heterogeneous artifactual status—as a regulated and profit-making commodity, technological apparatus, representational medium...
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...
Korean Cinema NOW | The Spy Gone North / 공작
Directed by Jong-bin Yoon
2017 | 137 Minutes | Jong-bin Yoon...
Nam Center for Korean Studies 2019 NEKST Conference
7th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars
CFP to be released soon, check back for more details......
Nam Center for Korean Studies 2019 NEKST Conference
7th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars
CFP to be released soon, check back for more details......
