Feb. 6

COME CELEBRATE THE YEAR OF THE MONKEY!

The Council on East Asian Studies

SPRING FESTIVAL
CELEBRATION

5:00 PM - Traditional Chinese Music Performance (Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue)

6:00 PM - Spring Festival Reception (2nd Floor Common Room, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue)

Yale Repertory Theatre's Special Events Series & the Council on East Asian Studies Present

HIROSHIMA MAIDEN
Created by Dan Hurlin
Original Music Composed by Robert Een
New England Premiere

Saturday, February 21, 2004 at 8:00 PM
Yale Repertory Theatre (1120 Chapel Street, at York)

Dan Hurlin's newest theatrical endeavor is centered on the true story of the Hiroshima Maidens - a group of 25 women disfigured by the nuclear blast at Hiroshima - and their infamous visit to the U.S. in 1955 to undergo reconstructive surgery.  The climax of their bizarre odyssey occurred when they met face to face with the pilot of Enola Gay on the television program This is Your Life.  Performed in style of Japanese Bunraku puppetry, Hiroshima Maiden involves nine puppets and set pieces manipulated by four puppeteers and five dancers.  The gorgeous life-like puppets, created by Hurlin, possess an astonishing range of emotion.  Composer Robert Een's original score borrows from Haiku poetry.  The New Haven Advocate has hailed Hurlin's work as "the most caring, big-hearted, open-minded, celebratory theater work imaginable."

OPENING RECEPTION - 6:30 PM

POST SHOW DISCUSSION WITH DIRECTOR DAN HURLIN

6:30 PM
Opening Reception

8:00 PM
Performance followed by Post Show Discussion

Yale Repertory Theatre

1120 Chapel Street at York

The 44th Annual Edward H. Hume Memorial Lecture

"CHINA IN TRANSITION"

a lecture by

Roderick MacFarquhar, Chair, Government Department and Leroy B. Williams Professor of History and Political Science, Harvard University

Reception to follow in 2nd Floor Luce Hall Common Room, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

4:00 PM

The Council on East Asian Studies and the Art School at Yale University are pleased to welcome

click on picture to visit Majima's home page

Ryoichi Majima
Contemporary Japanese Artist

in association with the Japan Association at Yale East Coast Japan America League Conference

Tuesday, March 30, 2004
Special Lecture - "Art as Communication"

4:30 PM, Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Tokyo artist Ryoichi Majima will present a lecture on his past and current
projects that address issues of consumption, tourism, and daily life. A
short video will accompany this presentation. This lecture will be given in Japanese with English translation provided.

Wednesday, March 31, 2004
Special Lecture - "Why Art and Food Meet"

10:30 AM, Room 204, Sculpture Department, 14 Mansfield Street

In this lecture, Ryoichi Majima will draw from his own work to explore
people's contradictory eating habits and how such practices can become the
source for popular art. This lecture will be given in Japanese with English translation provided.

To learn more about the artist and to view his work, please visit the following web sites:

http://www.dnp.co.jp/museum/nmp/nmp_i/interview/majima/majimaw1.html

http://www.peermagazine.com/Majima/majima.htm

http://www.assemblylanguage.com/reviews/Majima.html

For more information regarding these events, please contact Anne Letterman at 203-432-3428 or anne.letterman@yale.edu

Lectures
March 30 and 31

Apr. 3 - 4

SONG PAINTING AND ITS LEGACY

A CONFERENCE IN HONOR OF
RICHARD M. BARNHART
Sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University

For the complete conference schedule and to download a PDF registration form, please click HERE.

Henry R. Luce Hall Auditorium
34 Hillhouse Avenue

The Yale University History of Art Department, the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale, the Yale Center for International and Area Studies, the Office of the Provost, and the Whitney Humanities Center are pleased to announce

EMPIRE/GLOBE: ART IN INTERNATIONAL NETWORKS

For more information about the conference schedule, please click HERE.

Whitney Humanities Center

53 Wall Street

The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University and The Korea Society are pleased to present a special lecture

Introduction to Korean Music: Melding Memory, Heritage & Passion with world renowned musician

 JIN HI KIM
Reflecting the diversity of the Korean musical tradition, Jin Hi Kim shares her insights into its distinctive feature in a lecture with accompanying demonstrations on komungo (a six-stringed frettedboard zither that originated in northern Korea in the 4th century). Lecture/demonstration resources include slides, recordings and videotapes. Ms. Kim contrasts folk and court music, demonstrates the influences of Shamanistic ecstatic possession in folk music, the influences of Taoism's middle way between the static and dynamic, the Confucian concept of right conduct, and Buddhism's meditative quest for nothingness in court music.

The Korea Society is a private, nonprofit, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) organization with individual and corporate members that is dedicated solely to the promotion of greater awareness, understanding and cooperation between the people of the United States and Korea.  In pursuit of its mission, the Society arranges programs that facilitate discussion, exchanges and research on topics of vital interest to both countries in the areas of public policy, business, education, intercultural relations and the arts.  Funding for these programs is derived from contributions, endowments, grants, membership dues and program fees.  From its base in New York City, the Society serves audiences across the country through its own outreach efforts and by forging strategic alliances with counterpart organizations in other cities throughout the United States as well as in Korea.

Room 119, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street

4:00 PM

The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University and the Yale School of Management are pleased to announce a special lecture by

Professor Qin Hui
Tsinghua University

The "Tenant Myth" and "Clan Myth":  The History and Reality of Chinese Peasants

Please note this lecture will be given in Chinese but English-language paper will be provided to participants.

Professor Qin Hui, is a distinguished scholar on the faculty of Tsinghua University--China's premier research university.  Professor Qin has published numerous papers and books on China's agrarian history and is now a scholar-in-residence and visiting professor at Harvard's Fairbank Center where he is completing a new monograph entitled The Peasantry in Tradition, Collectivization and Market Transformation: A Comparative Study of China & Russia.  His work on Chinese agrarian history and on current economic reforms has won him a great reputation in and outside China's intellectual circle.

ICF Lounge, International Center for Finance, 46 Hillhouse Avenue

4:10 - 5:40 PM

The Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University is honored to welcome


Naoyuki Agawa
Minister of Public Affairs, Embassy of Japan

to present a special lecture

"Japan's New Global Security Policy: From the Tiny Teardrop
of Sri Lanka to the Devastated
Town of Samawa"

Room 119, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street

Reception
12:00 PM Lecture
12:30 PM

HISTORY, POETRY AND THE CLASSICAL TRADITION

An International Symposium at Yale University

Sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale
and the City University of Hong Kong

For a list of panelists, please click HERE.

4/24 - 4/25

Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

WORKSHOP ON BAMBOO - SLIP TEXTS

CLICK HERE FOR MORE INFORMATION ON THE WORKSHOP.

Apr. 26
Panel Discussion - 4:00 PM

Apr. 27
Workshop

Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

TAIWAN AFTER
THE ELECTION

Saturday, May 1, 2004
Auditorium, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

Please contact 203-432-3426 or eastasian.studies@yale.edu
by Friday, April 30, 2004 to REGISTER for this event.

8:00 AM   Breakfast (2nd Floor Common Room, Henry R. Luce Hall)

9:00 AM   OPENING REMARKS

9:30 AM   PANEL ONE

The Election and the State of Taiwan's Democracy

12:00 PM   Lunch

1:00 PM    PANEL TWO 

The Political Economy of Cross-Straits Relations

3:00 PM   Coffee Break

3:30 PM   PANEL THREE 

Taiwan Through the Eyes of the Mainland:
Chinese Nationalism and Identity

6:00 PM   RECEPTION (2nd Floor Common Room, Henry R. Luce Hall)

Participants:

Beatrice Bartlett, Yale University

Zhiwu Chen, Yale University School of Management

T. J. Cheng, College of William and Mary

John F. Copper, Rhodes College, Memphis, Tennessee

Deborah Davis, Yale University

Bruce J. Dickson, George Washington University

Elizabeth M. Freund, Mary Washington College

Thomas Gold, University of California, Berkeley

Peter Gries, University of Colorado

Pierre Landry, Yale University

Dachi Liao, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan

Byron Weng, National Chi Nan University, Taiwan

Dr. Rong-I Wu, Taiwan Institute of Economic Research

The Council on East Asian Studies, the Film Studies Program, and the Japan Society of Boston are pleased to welcome to Yale University

CELEBRATED JAPANESE FILM DIRECTOR

SHINODA MASAHIRO

For a complete schedule of the screenings and discussions, profile, filmography, and guide to resources on Shinoda Masahiro, please CLICK HERE.

Whitney Humanities Center,
53 Wall Street

Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall,
34 Hillhouse Avenue

4:00 PM

Li Ping, Vice President of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Zhongshan University - "The Challenges of Education in Contemporary China"

Please note this lecture will be given in Chinese.

Room 217A, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street

4:30 PM

A Discussion with Anthropologist/Filmmaker David W. Plath, Professor Emeritus, University of Illinois-Urbana

Room 1, Department of Anthropology, 51 Hillhouse Avenue

12:00 PM

Shinobu Ikeda, Associate Professor, Chiba University, Chiba, Japan and Visiting Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (January-April 2004) - "Gender and Courtly Narrative Painting"

Please note this lecture will be given in Japanese with English translation provided.

To view a special PDF note from Professor Ikeda, please click HERE.  To view a preliminary paper in English, please click HERE and to read a paper on a related topic in Japanese, please click HERE.

Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

4:30 PM

Miriam Silverberg, Professor of History and Director of UCLA Center for the Study of Women, University of California, Los Angeles - "Japanese Cultures of Intimacy (after Erotic Grotesque Nonsense)"

Room 217A, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street

4:30 PM

Xiaofen Huang, Professor, University of East Asia, Japan - "An Archaeological Study of Han Tombs"

Please note, this lecture will be given in Chinese.

Room 102, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

4:00 PM

Xu Shaohua, Professor of History and Archaeology and Director, Historical Geography Institute, Wuhan University; and Senior Research Scholar, Council on East Asian Studies, Yale Center for International and Area Studies - "Political Meanings in Ancient China: The Case of the Kingdom of Chu"

Please note, this lecture will be given in Chinese.

Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

12:00 PM

Chen-main Wang, Professor, Graduate Institute of History, National Central University, Taiwan - "Claiming Dynastic Legitimacy: Qing Strategies During the Dorgon Era"

Room 211, Hall of Graduate Studies, 320 York Street

12:00 PM

Dr. Yi-ya Lee, Associate Editor-in-Chief, Youth Daily, Taiwan - "The History of Literary Supplements in Modern China"

Please note that this lecture will be given in Chinese.

Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

4:00 PM

Room 202, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

4:30 PM

Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

4:00 PM

Alan Wachman, Assistant Professor, International Politics, Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University - "What's So Special About Taiwan? The PRC's Constructed and Evolving Rationale for Territorial Integrity"

Room 202, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

12:00 PM

NEW EVENT!

Dr. Sher-shiueh Li, Institute of Chinese Literature and Philosophy, Academia Sinica, Taiwan - "Rethinking Problems of Translation in Sinology"

Please note that this lecture will be given in both English and Chinese.

Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

4:00 PM

Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

4:30 PM

Jan. 21

Richard Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Studies, MIT - "Japanese Civil-Military Relations" - a round table discussion to give graduate students a chance to explore the topic in fuller methodological detail.

12:00 PM

"China and Southeast Asia: Geopolitics and Ethnic Politics" - a presentation by Evan Gottesman, Author and Foreign Policy Adviser in Washington, DC

Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

12:00 PM

Room 202, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

12:00 PM

2003-2004 Council on East Asian Studies Postdoctoral Associates Lecture Series

INFORMAL DINNER FROM 5:30 PM - LECTURES BEGIN AT 6:30 PM

For more information about the series and to SIGN UP for these events, please contact Anne Letterman at 203-432-3428 or anne.letterman@yale.edu.

Dr. Susie Kim - "Refashioning Civilization in Turn of the Century Korea, 1894-1919"

Room 203, Henry R. Luce Hall, 34 Hillhouse Avenue

6:30 PM

Dr. Elyssa Faison - "Proletarian Writing, Women Working:  Narrating Factory Work in Early Twentieth Century Japan"

Saybrook College, Master's House, 90 High Street

6:30 PM

Saybrook College, Master's House, 90 High Street

6:30 PM