Spring Term

 

Sinophonic Detours
E. K. Tan, State University of New York
Yu-ting Huang, Amherst College
Brian Bernards, University of Southern California
Alison Groppe, University of Oregon
Conference              
Friday, May 19, 2017
10:00am – 5:00pm
Alumni Lounge, Gerlinger Hall

 

 

 

South Korean Democracy and What It Needs Next Week: A Digital Rights Activist’s Point of View
Kyung-Sin Park
Professor at Korea University Law School and Executive Director at Open Net Korea
Thursday, May 4, 2017
Crater Lake North Room, EMU
4:00 p.m.

 

 

Buddhist Experience in Modern Japanese Religion and Philosophy
Keynote Speakers:
Bret Davis, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Loyola University in Maryland.
Melissa Anne-Marie Curley, Assistant Professor, Department of Comparative Studies
Friday, April 21,2017  4:00 pm
129 McKenzie Hall
Conference
Saturday, April 22, 2017  9:30am – 3:30pm
375 McKenzie Hall

 

Making Mao: History, Memory, and the Meaning of a World Figure
Timothy Cheek
Professor and Louis Cha Chair in Chinese Research Institute of Asian Research and Department of History , University of British Columbia
Thursday, April 20,2017
Knight Library Browsing Room
12:00 p.m.

 

 

 

The Origins of Japanese American Literature are Queer and Mixed
Andrew Leong
Assistant Professor of English, Northwestern University
Monday, April 17, 2017
Knight Library Browsing Room
3:30 p.m.

 

 

 

Winter Term

 

 

Design and Demonstration: Edo-Period Culture and Society through the Lens of Senshafuda
Masaya Takiguchi
Faculty of Arts and Literature, Seiko University
Friday, March 10, 2017
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 p.m.

 

 

 

The Building Blocks of Masculine Desirability: Semiotic Partials, Dialect, and Affect
Cindi SturtzSreetharan
School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University
Thursday, March 2, 2017
175 McKenzie Hall
3:00 p.m.

 

 

 

Writing the Fukushima Disaster
Furukawa Hideo, award-winning Japanese author
Doug Slaymaker, Professor of Japanese, University of Kentucky
Monday, February 20, 2017
Knight Library Browsing Room
6:00 p.m.

 

 

Glossolalia and Cacophony in South Korea
Nicholas Harkness, John L. Loeb
Associate Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
Wednesday, February 15, 2017
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 p.m.

 

 

 

 

Comparing Early Empires: Rome and China
Michael Nylan, Professor of History
University of California at Berkeley
Friday, February 10, 2017
Crater Lake North Room, Erb Memorial Union
4:00 p.m.

 

 

 

 

Found in Translation
Ken Tadashi Oshima,
Department of Architecture, University of Washington
Friday, February 10, 2017
125 McKenzie Hall
11:30 a.m.

 

 

 

Godzilla; Cool Japan, and the Making of a Global Icon
William Tsutsui, President and Professor of History, Hendrix College
Friday, February 3, 2017
125 McKenzie Hall
1:30 a.m.

 

 

 

Why I Have Failed: Reflections on Translating the Zuozhuan
Stephen Durrant, Professor Emeritus, Chinese Literature Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Oregon
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 pm

 

 

Fall Term

 

 

CAPS Reception
Friday, November 4th, 2016
3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
Papé Reception Hall, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

 

 

 

The Literature of Location
Bilingual Reading in English and Japanese by
Shibasaki Tomoka with introduction by
Kendall Heitzman, University of Iowa
October 13, 2016
Crater Lake North, EMU
2:00 pm

 

 

Film Screening: A Day on the Planet
(Japanese with English subtitles)
October 11, 2016 at 7:30 pm
132 Global Scholars Hall
Companion to The Literature of Location event (see above)

 

 

China Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections
featuring Henry Kissinger via webcast
Live speaker: Dr. Kristen McDonald
October 18, 2016
110 Knight Law Center
4:00 pm

 

 

China Now: Independent Visions
Films introduced by Shelly Kracier,
China film curator
October 20 and 21, 2016
Ford Lecture Hall, JSMA
Films starting at 2:30 on Thursday
and 2:00 on Friday
See link for full schedule