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Fan Yang

East Asian Studies Speaker Series: Fan Yang (University of Maryland, Baltimore County)

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Book 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 308

Methodology 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 308

Graduate 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]).

Shih-Diing Liu

East Asian Studies Speaker Series – Shih-Diing Liu (University of Macau [Macau SAR])

Mergenthaler 266

Book 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 […]

East Asian Studies Seminar – Ga Eun Cho

Gilman 308

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 […]

East Asian Studies Seminar – Faculty Presentation

Gilman 308

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 […]

Madeline Hsu

East Asian Studies Speaker Series – Madeline Hsu (University of Maryland)

Gilman 308

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 […]

East Asian Studies Seminar – Jiwon Kim

Gilman 308

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).

Jin Jiang

East Asian Studies Speaker Series – Jin Jiang (Johns Hopkins University)

Mergenthaler 266

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 […]

East Asian Studies Seminar – Methodology Workshop

Gilman 308

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 […]