Graduate Presentation: Title Forthcoming Note: Papers will be circulated one week in advance, if you would like to attend but have not received the paper, please e-mail one of the organizers. Fee free to contact us: Yushuang Zheng, History ([email protected]), Wesley Sampias, History ([email protected]), or Minah Kang, Political Science ([email protected]).
Graduate student Yida Jiao will present on the Servant of Chairman Mao for the Spring 2024 EAS Graduate Seminar Series.
Graduate student Ga Eun Cho will present on Making Koreans through Emigration for the Spring 2024 EAS Graduate Seminar Series. Papers and the Zoom link will be distributed one week in advance. If you would like to attend and have not received the papers, please e-mail one of the organizers: Yushuang Zheng (History), Wesley Sampias (History), Minah Kang […]
Faculty members Dr. Yumi Kim (History), Dr. Clara Han (Anthropology), and Dr. Satoru Hashimoto (Comparative Thought and Literature) will present on How to Turn Diss into Book for the Spring 2024 EAS Graduate Seminar Series. Papers and the Zoom link will be distributed one week in advance. If you would like to attend and have not […]
Immobilization and Decolonization in Singapore, 1945-1953 Perhaps the greatest challenge in preparing Singapore for independence was defining and assigning citizenship to its highly heterogeneous populations, a challenge magnified by the entrepot's majority of ethnic Chinese residents and its uncertain political relationship to Malaya. Affixing citizenship rights would determine balances of power in these future, presumably […]
Graduate student Jiwon Kim will present for the Spring 2024 EAS Graduate Seminar Series. Papers and the Zoom link will be distributed one week in advance. If you would like to attend and have not received the papers, please e-mail one of the organizers: Yushuang Zheng (History), Wesley Sampias (History), Minah Kang (Political Science), or Mercy An (Comparative Thought and Literature).
China: A Century of Family Revolutions A recent reproductive crisis has brought renewed interest in the century-old “family problem” (家庭问题) and “women’s problem” (妇女问题). Related issues have not only been debated in the discursive field, but also informed cross-border fields such as social policymaking and the law. Intrigued by questions such as why the state […]
Dr. Rachel Waxman, Dr. Nanxi Zeng, and Dr. Inho Choi will present a Career Workshop for the Spring 2024 EAS Graduate Seminar Series. The EAS Seminar is primarily an interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students and faculty to present a pre-circulated work-in-progress. Organized by graduate students, the seminar also hosts methodology workshops, career-building workshops, and undergraduate senior […]
Graduate student Heejae Park will present on Economic Sanctions, Reciprocity, and Retaliation for the Spring 2024 EAS Graduate Seminar Series. The EAS Seminar is primarily an interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students and faculty to present a pre-circulated work-in-progress. Organized by graduate students, the seminar also hosts methodology workshops, career-building workshops, and undergraduate senior theses presentations. The EAS […]
Union Responses to Gender-based Violence in Cambodia’s Construction Sector. Gender-based violence and harassment at work (workplace GBVH) is a global, complex and intractable issue that impacts millions of workers' lives. In Cambodia, unions - both local and international - have also attempted to influence policy, promote law reform and strengthen law enforcement, and raise awareness […]
Graduate student Mercy An will present on Native-Soil Literature for the Spring 2024 EAS Graduate Seminar Series. The EAS Seminar is primarily an interdisciplinary workshop for graduate students and faculty to present a pre-circulated work-in-progress. Organized by graduate students, the seminar also hosts methodology workshops, career-building workshops, and undergraduate senior theses presentations. The EAS seminar is free […]
Extreme Protests - Changing Protest Repertoires in Labor Movements in Neoliberal Korea. Yoonkyung Lee, Department of Sociology & Center for the Study of Korea, University of Toronto, will discuss the question of changing protest methods of labor contention in neoliberal Korea, and asks what explains the emergence of extreme repertoires in labor movements in times […]