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Colloquia

Upcoming Spring 2012 Events

Marc Moskowitz 

(University of South Carolina; Dept of Anthropology)

"Cries of Joy, Songs of Sorrow: Chinese Pop Music and its Cultural Connotations"

Tuesday, February 7, 5:15 - 6:15pm

InterCultural Center

Multi-Purpose Room (Reading Room)

Post Event Meet The Majors Dinner,6:15 - 8:15pm

Fall 2011

Dr Miriam L. Kingsberg

"Love in the Time of Opium: The Opium War Centennial in the Culture of Imperial Japan."

Spring 2011

Professor Edward Bayone (IBS)

Chinese Real Estate Development,

Contemporary Calligrapher, Katsumi Yanagimoto:

A Demonstration and History of Japanese Calligraphy

Contemporary Chinese Painter, Li Huayi and his Traditionalist Style

Fall 2010

"History of Chopsticks in China and Beyond"

Q. Edward WANG

Professor of History, Rowan University

"Infectious Disease Challenges in China""

Joan Kaufman

Distinguished Scientist and Senior Lecturer

Heller School for Social Policy and Management

Spring 2010

Matthew Fraleigh,
Assistant Professor
East Asian Literature and Culture

 "Ancient Chinese Painting and Cosmology"

Spring 2009

Wellington Nyangoni
Professor
African and Afro-American Studies

 

 

Fall 2008

"And Now, for Your Moment of Zen Flute: Performance and Ethics in the History of the Shakuhachi"(PDF)

 Thomas Hare
Professor of Comparative Literature
Princeton University

"China: Global Crisis and Long-term Opportunities" (PDF)

 Albert Keidel
Senior Associate, China Program
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace

"From Heidi to Lolita: A Genealogy of Girlie Taste in Contemporary Japanese Fashion" (PDF)

 Tomiko Yoda
Associate Professor, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Duke University

"The Great Zoo Massacre: Ôdachi Shigeo and the Logic of Sacrifice in Wartime Japan" (PDF)

Ian Miller
Assistant Professor of History
Harvard University

Ken Tadashi Oshima, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department of Architecture
University of Washington