Mr. 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 […]
Fixing 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 […]
Graduate 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, […]
"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 […]
Faculty 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]).
Japan’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.
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 […]
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]).
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]).
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 […]
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.