East Asian Colloquium Series
The East Asian Studies Center Colloquium Series is an opportunity
for faculty from IU and other institutions to share current research with
colleagues and students in a friendly and informal environment.
Light refreshments are provided; you are also welcome to bring your own. Time and
location are indicated below.
Spring 2008 Schedule
| January 25 Noon Ballantine Hall 004 |
Klaus Mühlhahn (professor, Department of History, Indiana University Bloomington) "Contested Rights: The Politics of Law in China, 1949-?" |
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February 8 |
Michael Robinson
(professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Indiana University Bloomington) "Labor Activism in Democratizing South Korea" |
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February 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" |
| February 29 Noon Ballantine Hall 004 |
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 |
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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 Noon Ballantine Hall 004 |
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 Ballantine Hall 004
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Marvin Sterling (assistant professor, Anthropology Department, Indiana University) "Towards an Afro-Asian Ethnography: Jamaican Perspectives on Reggae Music in Japan" |
| April 25 Noon Ballantine Hall 004 |
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 |

