2002 Fall Events

(For 2002 Spring Events click here and 2001 Fall Events click here)

Lectures, Conferences and Gatherings

CEAS Colloquium Series

2002-2003 Korean Studies Lecture Series

Lectures by McClellan Visiting Fellows in Japanese Studies

China Workshop

Journalism and Japan Speaker Series

Japan Film Series

Date Event Place/Time
 
Lectures, Conferences, and Gatherings

Sept. 30

Council on East Asian Studies presents "On Six Dynasties Literature: Questions of Periodization" - an informal lecture in Mandarin Chinese by Lin Wen-yueh, Professor Emeritus, National Taiwan University

Luce 203
4:00 PM

Oct. 1

Council on East Asian Studies presents "Problems in Translating Japanese Literature" - an informal lecture in Japanese by Lin Wen-yueh, Professor Emeritus, National Taiwan University

Room 312, HGS

4:00 PM

Oct. 2 Council on East Asian Studies presents "The Use of Maps in Studying History" - a presentation in Mandarin Chinese by Li Xiaocong, Center for Middle Period History, Peking University

Room 204, HGS

4:00 PM

Oct. 7

Council on East Asian Studies presents "Asia's World City: More than a Gateway to China" - a talk by Jacqueline Ann Willis, Hong Kong Commissioner to the United States. (Reception to follow in 2nd Floor Common Room, Luce Hall)

Luce 203

4:00 PM

Oct. 14 Council on East Asian Studies presents "Japanese Esotoric Buddhism and Mandala Art" - an informal lecture and discussion in Japanese by Shunsho Manabe, President of Hosen Gakuen College & Professor of Esoteric Buddhist Art, Visiting Fellow at the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture at Columbia University

Luce 203

4:00 PM

Oct. 24

The 4th Annual John W. Hall Lecture in Japanese Studies

"Who Really Kidnapped those Japanese to North Korea?" - a lecture by Patricia G. Steinhoff, Professor of Sociology, University of Hawaii

(Reception will follow lecture)

Peabody Museum Auditorium

4:00 PM

Nov. 11 Council on East Asian Studies and the Chinese Undergraduate Students at Yale (CUSY) are pleased to present:

"Underground Literature in China and Today Magazine" - a panel discussion with Bei Dao (pseudonym of Zhao Zhenkai), one of China's foremost contemporary poets

Please note: the presentation by Bei Dao will be in Mandarin Chinese. The panel discussion will be conducted in English and Mandarin Chinese and moderated by Professor Charles Laughlin, Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University.

 

Luce Auditorium

4:00 PM

 

Nov. 16

Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University, in coordination with Harvard University and Columbia University, presents a Workshop on Hardship in Rural China

Luce 203

9:30 AM-5:30 PM

Dec. 6 Council on East Asian Studies presents "Treading on Loose Sand - Terrorism, HIV/AIDS and the Future of the Xinjiang Uyghurs " - an Oasis Identities Lecture by Justin Rudelson, China Coordinator, Global AIDS Technical Assistance Program, National Alliance of State and Territorial AIDS Directors, and Guest Scholar, Central Asia-Caucasus Institute, Johns Hopkins University-Nitze School of Advanced International Studies

Room 217A, HGS

10:30 AM

 
CEAS Colloquium Series
Sept. 27 Brian Ruppert, Associate Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - "Treasure, Tradition, Network: Shingon Textual Production and Transmission in Early Medieval Japan"

Luce 203

12:00 PM

Nov. 8 Feng Li, Assistant Professor of Early Chinese Cultural History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University - "Succession and Promotion: Elite Mobility during the Western Zhou"

Luce 203

4:00 PM

Nov. 12

Liu Zaifu, Literary Critic; Visiting Professor, City University of Hong Kong; and Adjunct Professor, University of Colorado at Boulder - "Exile Literature in Traditional and Modern China" Lecture will be in Mandarin Chinese.

Luce 202

4:00 PM

 
2002-2003 Korean Lecture Series
The Korean Studies Lecture Series is generously funded by the Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund. For more information, contact the Council on East Asian Studies at (203) 432-3426.
Sept. 19 Bruce Cumings, Norman and Edna Freehling Professor of International History and East Asian Political Economy, Department of History, the University of Chicago - "Antinomies of Korean Studies"

Room 211, HGS

12:00 PM

Oct. 18 James Palais, Professor Emeritus, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington - "Confucianism, Status and Class in Late Choson"

Room 211, HGS

12:00 PM

Nov. 15 Carter Eckert, Professor of Korean History; Director, Korea Institute, Harvard University - "The Saint of Modernization: The Personal Diary of Park Chung Hee"

Luce 203

4:00 PM

 
Lectures by McClellan Visiting Fellows in Japanese Studies
    TBA
 
China Workshop
Sept. 20 "English-Language Primary Source Collections on China" - a panel discussion with William Massa (Sterling Memorial Library, Manuscripts & Archives), Nancy Chapman (Yale-China Association), Wen-kai Kung (Sterling Memorial Library, East Asian Collection) and Professor Beatrice Bartlett (History Department)

Luce 203

12:00 PM

Oct. 4 "Red Team vs. Blue Team: The U.S. Congress Looks at China" - Quentin Koffey, Policy Analyst for Economic Issues, U.S.-China Security Review Commission

Room 211, HGS

12:00 PM

Nov. 1

"<A New History of the Silk Road>: A Book Under Construction" - a presentation by Valerie Hansen, Professor of History, Yale University

Room 217A, HGS

12:00 PM

 
Journalism and Japan Lecture Series
Dec. 5 

"The Media and Japan: One Writer's Perspective" - a lecture by Alex Kerr, author of Dogs & Demons: Tales from the Dark Side of Japan

For more information about the series, please click HERE.

Luce 202

4:00 PM

 
Japan Film Series

The Council on East Asian Studies and the Film Studies Program present

2002 Japan Film Series - Japanese Cinema: Classic, Modern, and Beyond
All Screenings at 7:00 and 9:30 PM
Event is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact the Council on East Asian Studies (203-432-3426).

Oct. 3 "Ugetsu" (Ugetsu Monogatari) - Dir. Kenji Mizoguchi, 1953

WHC Auditorium

53 Wall St.

Oct. 10 "Double Suicide" (Shinju Ten no Amijima) - Dir. Masahiro Shinoda, 1969

Luce Auditorium

34 Hillhouse

Oct. 17 "Demon Pond" (Yashagaike) - Dir. Masahiro Shinoda, 1979

WHC Auditoirum

53 Wall St.

Oct. 24

"Late Spring" (Banshun) - Dir. Yasujiro Ozu, 1949

and

"Tokyo Ga" - Dir. Wim Wenders, 1985

Luce Auditorium

34 Hillhouse

Oct. 31 "High and Low" (Tengoku to Jigoku) - Dir. Akira Kurosawa, 1963

Luce Auditorium

34 Hillhouse

Nov. 7 "Family Game" (Kazoku Geimu) - Dir. Yoshimitsu Morita, 1984

Luce Auditorium

34 Hillhouse

Nov. 14 "Fireworks" (Hana-bi) - Dir. Takeshi Kitano, 1997

WHC Auditorium

53 Wall St.

Nov. 21 "Osaka Story"- Dir. Toichi Nakata, 1994

Luce Auditorium

34 Hillhouse

Dec. 5 "Maborosi" (Mabaroshi no Hikari) - Dir. Hirokazu Koreeda, 1995

WHC Auditorium

53 Wall St.

Dec. 12 "Metropolis" - Dir. Taro Rin, 2001

Luce Auditorium

34 Hillhouse