East Asian Colloquia
2007-2008

Fall 2007

Sept. 14

Takahashi Toru (Professor of Japanese Literature, Nagoya University)
"A Harem without Eunuchs: Women's Lives and the Formation of The Tale of Genji"

Sept. 28

Ho-fung Hung (Assistant Professor of Sociology, Indiana University)
"Chinese Nationalism and Its Discontents: 1950s Tibet and 1980s Hong Kong in Comparative Perspective"

Oct. 5

Sumie Jones (Professor Emerita of Comparative Literature, Communication and Culture, and EALC, Indiana University)
"Lying about Flying and the Invention of Science Fiction in Japan"

Oct. 12

James Bartholomew (Professor of History, The Ohio State University)
"East Asian Scientists and the Challenge of Professional Marginality"
This event is also part of the STIP series
Oct. 29

Anthony Kuhn (Foreign Correspondent, Beijing, National Public Radio)
Reporting on the Scene from China
CANCELLED
Nov. 2 Zhiwei Pan (Division Chief, 2008 Beijing Olympics Committee)
East Asian Olympics Symposium: "Olympic Dreams: East Asian Olympics from Tokyo to Beijing"
Nov. 16 Philip Altbach (Monan Professor of Higher Education, Director of the Center for International Higher Education, Boston College)
"World Class Worldwide? The Challenges of Creating and Sustaining Research Universities in Asia"
This event is also part of the STIP series
Nov. 30 Geoffrey Fox (Professor of Informatics, Computer Science, and Physics, Indiana University)
"Cyberinfrastructure and Scientific Collaboration"
This event is also part of the STIP series
Dec. 7

Scott Kennedy (Associate Professor of EALC and Political Science and Director of the Research Center for Chinese Politics & Business, Indiana University)
Deng Guosheng (Associate Professor and Director of the NGO Research Center of the School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University and Visiting Scholar at the Research Center for Chinese Politics & Business, Indiana University)
"Capitalists Lobbying in the Capital: Results from a Survey"

Spring 2008


Jan. 25

Klaus Mühlhahn (professor, Department of History, Indiana University Bloomington)
LI Ke (Ph.D. student, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Indiana University Bloomington)
"Contested Rights: The Politics of Law in China, 1949-?"

Feb. 8

Michael Robinson (Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington)
Jinyoung Park (2007-08 POSCO TJ Park Foundation NGO Fellow, Indiana University Bloomington)
"Labor Activism in Democratizing South Korea"

Feb. 15

George Wilson (professor emeritus, Departments of History and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University)
"Power vs. Culture in U.S.-Japan Relations since Commodore Perry"
Feb. 29

Xue Lan (executive associate dean, School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University)
Science in China
Part of the Science and Technology in the Pacific Century program

March 28

Edmund Waite (research officer, Department of Lifelong and Comparative Education, Institute of Education, University of London)
"Islam and Modernity in China's Xinjiang Region"

CANCELED

April 11

Charles Shiro Inouye (professor of Japanese, Department of German, Russian, and Asian Languages and Literatures TuftsUniversity)
"The End of the World, Plan B: Figurality and the Development of Modern Consciousness"

April 18

Marvin Sterling (assistant professor, Anthropology Department, Indiana University)
"Towards an Afro-Asian Ethnography: Jamaican Perspectives on Reggae Music in Japan"

 

April 25

Christopher Bondy (assistant professor of sociology, Sociology & Anthropology Department, DePauw University)
"Performing Pride: Culture, Collective Identity, and the Buraku Liberation Festival"
Rescheduled from February 22
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