Widespread civic duty has emerged as a last bastion against democratic backsliding. Why do some citizens feel a duty to vote, take up arms, and otherwise sacrifice for their democracies? Hur shows that the sense of obligation to be a good citizen is rooted in a force long thought to be detrimental to democracy's potential, […]
Papers will be circulated one week in advance, if you would like to attend but have not received the paper,please email one of the organizers. Feel free to contact us: [email protected] (Yushuang Zheng, History),[email protected] (Wesley Sampias, History), or [email protected] (Minah Kang, Political Science)**Every other week when there is no presentation, we will have an informal […]
The post Korean War era observed the presence of numerous US military bases. Mixed race Korean children of these decades were often stigmatized as the children of military sex workers and straddled the legal and social borders of citizenship between an ethnic nationalist Korea and a rising superpower that was America. This talk explores mixed […]
What is the relationship between energy and power in the industrial age?In this talk, historian Victor Seow explores this question through his recently published book, Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia (Chicago, 2021). This book uses the history of China’s onetime coal capital, Fushun, to examine how the Chinese and Japanese states that […]
Scholarship on racial politics in Japan has tended to take a dichotomous view of Japan as either a culturally homogenous, racially exceptional society where racism does not exist or a perniciously racist one. This talk examines how racism and antiracism have interactively shaped modern Japan’s political development, focusing on national and international coalitions, social movements, […]
Paul Kreitman’s research interests include environmental history, global history, commodity history, and histories of science and technology. He received his PhD in History from Princeton University in 2015, with a doctoral dissertation entitled “Feathers, Fertilizer and States of Nature: Uses of Albatrosses in the U.S.-Japan Borderlands”. He is currently working on a book manuscript exploring […]
Welcome 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!
Graduate 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]), […]
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 […]