Welcome Back Party!
Mergenthaler 240Welcome in the fall semester with the East Asian Studies and International Studies Programs! Reconnect with old friends, make some new ones, and enjoy delicious food and drink. Hope to see you there!
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East Asian Studies Graduate Seminar: Kevin Kind
Gilman 308Graduate Presentation: The Prince: The Lukchun Junwang, Corvee Labor, and Elite Collaboration in Colonial Xinjiang. 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]), […]
East Asia Unscripted Speaker Series: Evan M. Wright (Science & Technology Policy Institute)
Mergenthaler 526Mr. Evan M. Wright will talk about Science and Technology policy in East Asia and showcase how his EAS specialization and knowledge of Japanese helped him in his career. Mr. Wright is a Science Policy Fellow with the Science and Technology Policy Institute and the Institute for Defense Analyses. He is also a non-resident Fellow […]
East Asian Studies Speaker Series: Yujie Li (University of Maryland, College Park)
Mergenthaler 266Fixing the Huai River: Engineering Designs and Earthwork Methods Across the 1949 Divide. The Control of the Huai River System was the first massive hydraulic project after the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in 1949. A close comparison of the 1932 and the 1950s Huai Control projects illuminates important differences in the hydraulic […]
East Asian Studies Graduate Seminar: Jingting Liang with Dr. Joel Andreas (Sociology)
Gilman 308Graduate Presentation: The Contentious History of Mao-era Policies Requiring Cadres to Participate in Manual Labor and Workers to Participate in Management. 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, […]
Panel Discussion: Politics, Gender, and the Asia Critique
Mergenthaler 526"Politics, Gender, and the Asia Critique" Please join us for a conversation with historians Suzy Kim (Among Women Across Worlds, 2023) and Tani Barlow (In the Event of Women, 2022) as they share insights on new approaches to Asia scholarship, through theoretical, philosophical, historical, and critical methods and perspectives. As the founding editor of the […]
East Asian Studies Graduate Seminar: Dr. Lijing Jiang (History of Science and Technology)
Gilman 308Faculty 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]).
East Asia Unscripted Speaker Series – Monica Weller
Mergenthaler 526Japan’s Role in International Cooperation and Development” with Monica Weller of the Japan International Cooperation Agency. This event is co-sponsored by the International Studies Program.
East Asian Studies Speaker Series: Fan Yang (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)
Mergenthaler 266Book Talk: Disorienting Politics mines 21st-century media artifacts to make visible the economic, cultural, political, and ecological entanglements of China and the United States. These “Chimerican media,” originating in America but circulating beyond national boundaries, co-create the figure of rising China and demonstrate the ways in which race is embedded in geopolitics evenwhen the subject […]
East Asian Studies Graduate Seminar – Yulia Frumer (HST) and Joel Andreas (Sociology)
Gilman 308Methodology Workshop: The Archive in Usual and Unusual Sites. 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]).
East Asian Studies Graduate Seminar – Minah Kang
Gilman 308Graduate Presentation: Anti-nuclear Activism and Developmental States 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]).
East Asian Studies Speaker Series – Shih-Diing Liu (University of Macau [Macau SAR])
Mergenthaler 266Book Talk - Affective Spaces as Method: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China East Asia is saturated with complex emotions. Although emotions play an essential role in the sociopolitical formations of the region, their implications are poorly understood. Affective Spaces: The Cultural Politics of Emotion in China (forthcoming, Edinburgh University Press) explains why and […]