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Paul Kreitman

Sovereignty and Biodiversity Conservation in Japan’s Ocean Borderlands – Paul Kreitman (Columbia University)

Gilman Hall 300

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 Back Party poster

Welcome Back Party!

Mergenthaler 240

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!

East Asian Studies Graduate Seminar: Kevin Kind

Gilman 308

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]), […]

Evan M. Wright

East Asia Unscripted Speaker Series: Evan M. Wright (Science & Technology Policy Institute)

Mergenthaler 526

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 […]

Yujie Li

East Asian Studies Speaker Series: Yujie Li (University of Maryland, College Park)

Mergenthaler 266

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 […]

East Asian Studies Graduate Seminar: Jingting Liang with Dr. Joel Andreas (Sociology)

Gilman 308

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, […]

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 […]

Lijing Jiang

East Asian Studies Graduate Seminar: Dr. Lijing Jiang (History of Science and Technology)

Gilman 308

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]).

Fan Yang

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

Mergenthaler 266

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]).