2001 Fall Events (For 2002 Spring events click here)

Lectures, Conferences and Gatherings

CEAS Colloquium Series

Lectures by McClellan Visiting Fellows in Japanese Studies

China Workshop

China Film Series

Date Event Place/Time
 
Lectures, Conferences, and Gatherings
Sept. 28-29 China Education Mission Conference all day
Oct. 12 CEAS Fall Reception Luce common room / 4:30PM
Nov. 2-4 Workshop: Rethinking the Restoration: New Approaches to the Bakumatsu-Meiji Transition -- Please click for details
A reception for the workshop will be held Friday evening, November 2, 4:00-5:30, in HGS 211
Luce 202
Nov. 9 The Council on East Asian Studies and the Association of Chinese Students and Scholars at Yale (ACSSY) presents:
"Sino-American Relations After September 11th: Is it Time for Change?" - a lecture by Jia Qingguo, Professor and Associate Dean, School of International Studies, Peking University and Visiting Fellow, Brookings Institution
Luce 203 / 4:30PM
Nov. 14 42nd Annual Edward H. Hume Memorial Lecture: Goran Malmqvist, member of the Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, the Royal Swedish Academy of Letters, and History and Antiquities - Reflections of a Retired European Sinologist
Reception to follow lecture in Luce Hall Common Room at 5:30 p.m
Luce Auditorium / 4:00 PM
Nov. 27 "Front and Back: A Case Study of Historical Materiality of the Object" a lecture by Wu Hung, Harrie H. Vandersteppen Distinguished Service Professor in Chinese Art History, Departments of Art History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago
This Event is Free and Open to the Public
Yale Art Gallery Lecture Hall 1111 Chapel Street / 5:00 PM
Nov. 30 "A Classical Performance" by Mr. Zhang Feng, (Leading Baritone, Shanghai Opera House)
Accompanied on the piano by Mr. Gu Xiaoying
Branford College Common Room (74 High Street) / 8:00 PM
Dec. 7 "The Controversy between 'Liberalism' and 'New Left' in China and the Discrepancies among Chinese Intellectuals' Views on the Events of "September 11th" - a lecture and seminar lunch discussion in Mandarin Chinese with Xu Jilin, Professor of Intellectual History, Shanghai Normal University
Luce 103 / noon
 
CEAS Colloquium Series
Sept. 20 Alexis Dudden, Sue and Eugene Mercy Jr. Assistant Professor of History, Connecticut College - Questions from the Tokyo Tribunal Luce 102 / 4:00 PM
Sept. 21 David E. Weinstein, Department of Economics, Columbia University - Bones, Bombs, and Break Points: Understanding the Geography of Japanese Economic Activity Luce 203 / noon
Oct. 5 Gerald LeTendre, Department of Education Policy Studies, Pennsylvania State - A Japanese Adolescence?: The Effects of the Global Institutionalization of Schooling Luce 203 / noon
Oct. 11 Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, Deparment of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin-Madison - The Uses of Aesthetics in a Totalitarian State: Cherry Blossoms and the Kamikaze in Historical Perspective
This talk will be in the Lower Level Conference Room, Institution for Social & Policy Studies, 77 Prospect Street (corner Prospect & Trumbull Streets).
ISPS Lower Level / 4:00 PM
Oct. 26 E. Perry Link, Department of East Asian Studies, Princeton University - Literary Responses to Disaster and Repression
This talk will be conducted as a Roundtable Discussion with Professors Michael Holquist (Chair, Department of Comparative Literature, Yale University) and John Treat (Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University).
Luce 203 / 4:00 PM
Nov. 2 Fred Notehelfer, Department of History, UCLA - The Meiji Restoration: Realigning the Center-Periphery Perspective Luce 203 / noon
Nov. 8 Zhang Hongsheng, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Nanjing University - Modern PRC Scholarship on Traditional Chinese Women Poets (Note new date and time!)
  • WILL BE GIVEN IN MANDARIN CHINESE

  • Professor Zhang will, though, be able to answer any English language questions that are presented to him.
    Luce 103 / 4:00 PM
    Nov. 8 Margarita Estevez-Abe, Center for International Affairs, Harvard University - Japanese Welfare Capitalism in Comparative Perspective Luce 202 / 4:00 PM
    Nov. 9 POSTPONED TO SPRING SEMESTER
    Zhang Shengman, Managing Director and Vice President of the World Bank - The World Bank and the Development of East Asia
    TBA
    Nov. 9 Michael Robinson, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University - Marketing Nexus of Recording, Phonograph, Press Advertising, and Radio in 1930s Korea HGS 211 / 4:00 PM
    Dec. 7 David Howell, East Asian Studies Department, Princeton University - Status and Livelihood in Nineteenth Century Japan (Note new date and time!) Luce 102 / Noon
     
    Lectures by McClellan Visiting Fellows in Japanese Studies
    Oct. 22 Komine Kazuaki of Rikkyoo University (Tokyo) - Kibi daijin nittoo emaki to chuusei no miraiki Luce 203 / 4:00PM
     
    China Workshop
    Sept. 20 Jody Weinstein, Graduate Candidate, Department of History, Yale University - The Great Explorers, drawing on her 2000-2001 research in the Qing Archives in Taiwan and China Lunch Provided Luce 102 / Noon
    Oct. 18 David Bello, Professor of History, Southern Connecticut State University - Opium and the Limits of Empire: the Drug Traffic on Qing China's Western Frontiers Lunch Provided Luce 103 / Noon
    Nov. 15 The Great Explorers, Part II: Comparative Archives - Chinese Archives in the Summer of 2001
    presentations by and discussion with Janet Chen, Erez Manela, and Edward Melillo (History Department Ph.D. Candidates at Yale University) Lunch Provided
    Luce 103 / Noon
    Dec. 6 POSTPONED TO SPRING SEMESTER
    Chinese Nationalism at the Wilsonian Moment - Erez Manela, Ph.D. Candidate, History Department, Yale University Lunch Provided
    Luce 103 / Noon
      
    China Film Series - "Reflecting Arts: From Painting to Peking Opera"
    All Films Shown at 7:00 p.m. in Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue
    Admission is FREE
    For more information, please contact 203-432-3426
    Oct. 16 Life on a String (Bian Zou Bian Chang)
    Directed by Chen Kaige, 1991
    Oct. 25 The Other Bank (Documentary)
    Directed by Jiang Yue, 1994
    Oct. 30 The Puppetmaster (Ximeng Rensheng)
    Directed by Hou Hsiao-Hsian, 1993
    Nov. 8 ROOT - Talk Between Tan Dun and His Hometown (Documentary)
    Directed by Sheng Bo-Ji, 2000

    AND

    Jiang Hu: Life on the Road (Documentary)
    Directed by Wu Wenguang, 1999
    Nov. 13 Farewell My Concubine (Ba Wang Bie Ji)
    Directed by Chen Kaige, 1993
    Nov. 29 Art in the Cultural Revolution: The Establishment of a New Image (Documentary)
    Directed by Kubert Leung, 1996

    AND

    Swing in Beijing (Documentary)
    Directed by Shui-Bo Wang, 2000