Graduate student Mengqi (Mercy) An will present on “Foraging for the Root of Life: Manchurian Ginseng in Russian Literature” for the Fall 2024 EAS Seminar Series. The EAS Seminar is 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 […]
The EAS Seminar is pleased to announce a special Grant Application Workshop, featuring Professor Lan Li, Assistant Professor in the History of Medicine, as the speaker; panelists Christopher Taylor, Postdoctoral Fellow in Comparative Thought and Literature, Wesley Sampias, Graduate Student in History, and Jiwon Kim, Graduate Student in Anthropology; and Mengqi Mercy An, from Comparative […]
Health Consequences of Nuclear War: We Must Prevent What We Cannot Cure!Ira Helfand, MD, Co-founder and past president of Physicians for social Responsibility. Immediate past president of international physicians for the prevention of Nuclear War Dr. Helfand will also be speaking at the JHU Bloomberg School of Public Health at noon on September 23. Link […]
Jacob Eyferth Associate Professor Departments of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago During the collective era (1956–80), China’s farmers earned an average annual cash income from collective sources of ¥15, equivalent to US $9 in terms of purchasing power. Total income was higher, since members of collectives received much of their […]
Hopkins-Nanjing Deputy Director John Urban will share insights about the Hopkins-Nanjing Program, the one-of-a-kind educational collaboration between a Chinese and an American University, the direct admissions process for undergraduates and answer all your questions about what this educational opportunity offers.
Visiting scholar Dongmiao Hu will present on “Transferring Land and Concentrating Power: Converting a Chinese Village into an Enterprise” for the Fall 2024 EAS Seminar Series. The EAS Seminar is 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 […]
Join the East Asian Studies Students Academic Council for the launch of the Fall 2024 issue of the East Asian Forum and Review Journal. You will have an opportunity to get a copy of the journal, meet the journal editors Leyra Espino-Nardi and Noah Welch, learn about how the fall issue was prepared and about […]
East Asian Studies is co-sponsoring: JHU Anthro Colloquium Series: Hoon Song (10/8) Professor Song will be hosting a discussion of his paper during this colloquium. It is therefore necessary for all participants to have read his paper beforehand. Please find the document attached to this email."The Dream in North Korea's Historiography" (Reception to follow) Zoom: https://zoom.us/j/8809236688
To the Sea, To the Mountain: Cantonese Woodwork in the Indian Ocean during the Nineteenth Century This talk examines the mobility of Cantonese woodwork, a vibrant regional craft in the Pearl River Delta, and its impact on artisanal practices through a case study of woodworkers' movement to the Indian Ocean during the nineteenth century. co-sponsored […]
East Asian Studies is co-sponsoring: JHU Anthro Colloquium Series Unrepayable Debt:Post-imperial Redress, Repair and Reconciliation in East Asia
Graduate student Sojung Kim will present on “A Seed in an Empty Plain: Women's Voices and Norms of Kinship” for the Fall 2024 EAS Seminar Series. The EAS Seminar is 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 […]
Hirooka Asako, Uruno Coal Mine's Transformation, and Finding Businesswomen in Meiji Japan. Amidst changes redefining and subjugating womanhood in the Meiji period (1868-1912), industrialist Hirooka Asako (1849-1919) rescued her marital family’s failing coal mine in Uruno. This story highlights her determination, knowledge but also her collaboration with male relatives and associates, and direct management, illuminating […]