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)
LI Ke (Ph.D. student, Department of Sociology and Criminal Justice, Indiana University Bloomington)

"Contested Rights: The Politics of Law in China, 1949-?"

February 8

Noon

IMU Georgian Room

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"

February 15

Noon

Ballantine Hall
004

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

March 28

Noon

Ballantine Hall 004

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

Noon

Ballantine Hall 004

 

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

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