2002 Spring Events (For 2001 Fall Events click here. For 2002 Fall Events click here)
Lectures, Conferences and Gatherings
Lecture Series by the 2001-2002 CEAS Postdoctoral
Associates
Lectures by McClellan Visiting Fellows in Japanese
Studies
Summer Kambun Workshop: Honcho monzui
| Date | Event | Place/Time |
| Lectures, Conferences, and Gatherings | ||
| Feb. 18 | East Asian Studies, Yale Center for the Study of Globalization and
the School of Management Greater China SIG (Student Interest Group)
present a panel discussion: "From America: A Close Look at China" Panelists include Jeffrey Garten, Yale School of Management; Kenneth DeWoskin, Partner in charge of Strategy and Business Development in China, PricewaterhouseCoopers; Nicholas Lardy, Senior Fellow, the Brookings Institution; Beatrice Bartlett, History, Yale University; Deborah Davis, Sociology, Yale University; and Pierre Landry, Political Science, Yale University |
Luce Auditorium
6:00 PM |
| Feb. 21-24 | Department of Film Studies Conference on Japanese Cinema: "The Face of Another: Japanese Cinema / Global Images" | |
| Mar. 4 | The Council on East Asian Studies and Asia Law Forum present: "One Country, Two Systems - 5 Years Down the Road" - a lunch seminar with Margaret Ng, Member Legislative Council of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region | HGS 211 / 12:00 PM |
| Mar. 25 | Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Council on East Asian Studies present a Wu Foundation Lecture: "The Hidden Tale of Genji" - a lecture by Royall Tyler, Australian National University and Visiting Professor of Japanese Literature, Harvard University | HGS 217A / 4:00 PM |
| Mar. 28 | Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures and Council on East Asian Studies present a Wu Foundation Lecture: "Tanizaki and the Geopolitical Unconscious of Pure Film" - a lecture by Thomas LaMarre, Associate Professor, East Asian Studies, McGill University | HGS 217A / 4:00 PM |
| Apr. 3 | The Council on East Asian Studies, School of Management, and Asia
Law Forum are pleased to present: "Current Capital Market Reform
in China" - an informal discussion session with Laura Cha,
Vice Chairman, China Securities Regulatory Commission Refreshments will be served |
3:15 PM, General Motors Room, Horchow Hall, 55 Hillhouse Avenue |
| Apr. 5 | Council on East Asian Studies Reception for faculty, students and alumni at the Association of Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Meeting in Washington, DC | 8:00 - 10:00 PM / Hoover Room, Marriott Wardman Washington, DC |
| Apr. 8 | The 3rd Annual John W. Hall Lecture in Japanese Studies - Susan Hanley, Department of International Studies, University of Washington - "Making the Most of Resources and Space: Reflections on Premodern Japan from a Comparative Perspective." |
Luce Auditorium / 4:00 PM |
| Apr. 21 | Sogdian Tombs Workshop The Council of East Asian Studies at Yale University is pleased to host a one-day workshop on the Sogdian Tombs in China in honor of Professor Boris Marshak, visiting scholar from the Hermitage Museum, who is teaching at the University this spring. The workshop will be conducted in a casual format in which members of the audience will discuss slides from the tombs of Yu Hong and An Jia as well as the Miho couch. For more information regarding workshop content, please contact valerie.hansen@yale.edu and for information regarding logistical arrangements, please contact abbey.newman@yale.edu |
10:00 AM - 5:00 PM, Room 200, Old Art Gallery, 56 High Street |
| Apr. 26 | a reception for Professor Qin Wei of Sichuan University RSVP by April 19 to Mary Jane Stevens (203) 432-4750 |
4:00 - 6:00 PM Fellows Lounge (Room 108), Whitney Humanities Center 53 Wall Street |
| May 10-12 | Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS) Please click here for more information. |
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| June 11-13 | "Centers and Peripheries in Heian Japan" Please click here for more information. |
Barker Center, Harvard University (12 Quincy Street, Cambridge, MA 02138) |
| June 15-July 16 | Summer Workshop in Hong Kong and Shanghai | |
| July 18-Aug 10 |
Summer Kambun Workshop: Honcho monzui |
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| CEAS Colloquium Series | ||
| Feb. 1 | James McClain, Professor of History, Brown University - "Gion'e: From Imperial Rite to Popular Festival" | Luce 203 / 12:00 PM |
| Feb. 4 | John Campbell, Professor of Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - "Why So Radical an Expansion of Public Old-Age Care in Japan?" | Luce 202 / 4:00 PM |
| Feb. 21 | Daniel Gardner, Professor of History, Smith College - "Rereading
Confucius: Zhu Xi on the Analects" NOTE NEW DATE AND VENUE |
Luce 203 / 4:00 PM |
| Feb. 28 | Marja Kaikkonen, Professor of Chinese, Department of Oriental Languages, Stockholm University - "Egalitarian Progress? - 20th Century Chinese Literati and Popular Literature" | Luce 203 / 12:00 PM |
| Apr. 1 | Claire Conceison, Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Theatre and Drama, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor - "Performing the Extraordinary Foreigner in China" | HGS 211 / 12:00 PM |
| Apr. 9 | Fan Ziye, Professor of Chinese Literature, Department of Chinese, Heilongjiang University and Visiting Scholar of African and Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Florida - "Whistling in Early Medieval Chinese Literature and Culture" WILL BE GIVEN IN MANDARIN CHINESE | Luce 203 / 4:30 PM |
| Apr. 11 | Albert E. Dien, Professor of Chinese, Emeritus, Department
of Asian Languages, Stanford University - "The Sogdian
Presence in China: Recent Archaeological Discoveries" EVENT CANCELLED! |
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| Apr. 12 | Scott Rozelle, Associate Professor, Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Davis - "Working Until Dropping: The Economics of Being Old in Rural China" | Luce 203 / 12:00 PM |
| Apr. 18 | Hitomi Tonomura, Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor - "Dear Lady, Know the Rules and Make No Mistake: Keeping House in Sengoku Japan" | Luce 202 / 4:00 PM |
| Apr. 19 | Sonia Ryang, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Johns Hopkins University - "The enigma of Chrysanthemum--Ruth Benedict in postwar Japan" | Luce 203 / 12:00 PM |
| Apr. 19 | Alan Wachman, Assistant Professor, International Politics,
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University - "U.S.
'China Policy' as an Arena for Disputes about American National Identity" NOTE NEW DATE AND TIME |
Luce 203 / 4:00 PM |
| April 25 | Ni Yibin, Professor of Chinese Art History, National University of Singapore - "Memorabilia for Theatre-Goers: A Hidden Tresaure Trove of Visual Culture in Late Imperial China" | Luce 203 / 12:00 PM |
| May 2 | Youngsook Pak, Lecturer and Chairman, Centre for Korean Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London - "Images of Watermoon Avalokitesvara in the Koryo Court" | Luce 203 / 4:00 PM |
| May 3 | Roderick Whitfield, Professor, Department of Art and Archaeology, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London - "Empress Wu and Tang Buddhist Art" | Luce 203 / 4:00 PM |
| Lecture Series by the 2001-2002 CEAS Postdoctoral Associates | ||
| Wednesdays in April and May - Street Hall, corner High and Chapel (opposite History of Art) | ||
| Apr. 10 | Dr. Joshua Goldstein - "Valued garbage, disposable citizens: Beijing's trash-pickers and the economics of recycling in an Olympic city." | Rm. 165 / 5:30 PM |
| Apr. 17 | Dr. Carl Saxer - "Democratic Transition and Institutional Crafting: The South Korean Case" | Rm. 165 / 5:30 PM |
| Apr. 24 | Dr. Katherine Rupp - "The Princess and the Frog: Kisses, Smashes, and Multiple Transformations in Weimar Germany and Meiji Japan of the Grimms' First Fairy Tale." | Rm. 165 / 5:30 PM |
| May 1 | Dr. Hirokazu Miyazaki - "Economy of Dreams: Rationality
and Utopia in the Tokyo Financial Markets." NOTE NEW DATE, TIME, AND VENUE |
Rm. 165 / 5:30 PM |
| Lectures by McClellan Visiting Fellows in Japanese Studies | ||
| Jan. 28 | Mary Elizabeth Berry, Professor of History, University of California, Berkeley - "Cultural Literacy and Market Culture in Early Modern Japan" | Luce 202 / 4:00 PM |
| China Workshop | ||
| Jan. 24 | Deborah Davis, Professor of Sociology, Yale University - "The Importance of Political Capital in Urban China" | HGS 211 / 12:00 PM |
| Feb. 14 | Erez Manela, Ph.D. Candidate, History Department, Yale University- "Chinese Nationalism at the Wilsonian Moment, 1917-1920" | HGS 211/ 12:00 PM |
| Mar. 7 | Steve Courtney, independent scholar - "Joe Twichell, Mark Twain and 'the Boys': A Hartford Minister Befriends the Chinese Educational Mission (1872-1881)" | HGS 211 / 12:00 PM |
| Apr. 11 | Setsuko Sonoda, PhD Candidate, Department of Area Studies, Tokyo University and 2000-2001 YCIAS Fox Fellow - "The Cultural Expansion of Empire across the Pacific: Zhonghua Xuetang, the Second Chinese School in the Americas in the 1880-90's" | HGS 211 / 12:00 PM |
| All Films Shown at 7:00 p.m. in Luce Hall Auditorium,
34 Hillhouse Avenue Admission is FREE - Screenings in video format For more information, please contact 203-432-3426 |
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| Feb. 14 | Devotion.
Directed by Barbara Hammer. 85 min. 2000. |
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| Feb. 28 | Ripples of
Change. Directed by KURIHARA Nanako. 57 min. 1993. |
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| Mar. 7 | Tapestry II.
By the Organization of Asian Women. 55 min. 1991. |
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| Mar. 25 | Senso Daughters.
Directed by SEKIGUCHI Noriko. 54 min. 1989. Director Sekiguchi will introduce the film in person. |
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| Mar. 27 | When Mrs. Hegarty
Comes to Japan. Directed by SEKIGUCHI Noriko. 58 min. 1992. A question and answer discussion with director Sekiguchi will follow the film. |
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