Spring Term
Monday, June 3, 2019 4:30 pm
Knight Library Browsing Hall
How Daoism Became American: A Tale of Translation, Conservation, Immigration, Appropriation, and Impersonation
Elijah Siegler talks about American Daoism, its history and difference from Chinese Daoism.
Thursday, May 16, 2019 4:30 pm
Jaqua Center Auditorium J101
Freedom of Speech and the Press in Asia: Human Rights Balanced with Cultural Values
Kyo Ho Youm discusses freedom of expression in Asian contexts.
Tuesday, May 21, 2019 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm
Erb Memorial Union
The Transformative Power of Boys Love (BL) Media in Asia
James Welker speaks to the power of BL media and its potential for changing attitudes towards romance and sexuality in India and the Philippines.
Thursday, May 23, 2019 4:00 pm
229 McKenzie Hall
Identify Politics and Popular Culture in Taiwan: A Saijiao Generation
Dr. Yueh discusses her recent book, a complete and thorough analysis to date of the “culture of cute” in Taiwan.
Friday, April 19, 2019 1:00 pm
206 Condon Hall
The Globalization of Chinese Cities from 1757 Onwards
A lecture by Desheng Xue.
Thursday, April 19, 2019, 4:30 pm
Knight Library Browsing Hall
Xiao Qiang speaks to the new generation fo digital technology and how it is being used to collect information and limit freedom of expression in China.
Thursday, April 25, 2019, 4:30 pm
Gerlinger Lounge
Dr. Nojin Kwak talks about how the growing evidence that political rumors shared and discussed on social media may fuel misperceptions and negatively impact political systems around the world.
Wednesday, March 20, 2019, 5:30 pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art – Ford Lecture Hall
Yao Religion and Daoism in the Southwest China and Southeast Asia Borderlands
Eli Alberts talks about the spread of Daoism to Yao peoples living in South China and across national borders all the way to northern Thailand.
Thursday, February 7, 2019 4:00 pm
Knight Library Browsing Hall
Living with the Mekong: Archeological Perspectives and Alternative Futures
Miriam Stark discusses how “seeing like a state” produced disastrous consequences that in some respects still resonate with life in the contemporary Lower Mekong basin.
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Winter Term
Rethinking Free Speech in East Asia
A Lecture Series
This lecture series is presented by the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. It is co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Sciences, the Oregon Humanities Center, the UO Law School, the Asian Studies Program, and the Jonathan Marshall First Amendment Chair Endowment. For more information, please call (541) 346 – 5068
Tuesday, January 22, 2019 3:30 pm
Knight Library Browsing Hall
Majoritarian Oscillations and Judicial Serendipities: Free Speech in Korea
Thursday, January 31, 2019, 3:00 pm
Knight Library Browsing Hall
Free Speech in Japan: Forms of Speech, Forms of Suppression
Lawrence Repeta searches for the answer to questions about common forms of political speech and specific cases of police surveillance and suppression of speech deemed undesirable by the authorities.
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Fall Term
Taiwanese Women’s First-Person Documentaries
Thursday, November 1, 2018
4:00 pm @ Knight Library Browsing Room
The contemporary documentary scene in Taiwan has benefited from women documentary filmmakers’ remarkable creative energy. In this presentation, Professor Sang argues that documentaries by Wuna Wu, Mei ling Hsiao, Zero Chou, and Hui-chen Huang are preeminent examples of the striking foregrounding of subjectivity in Taiwanese women’s documentaries.
Cool Edo: Artisanship in Early Modern Japan and Beyond
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
4:00 pm @ Knight Library Browsing Room
Kyozaburo Tsuge, President of Tsuge Pipe Co., Ltd. of Japan, member of the Japan Netsuke Association, author of The tale of Asakusa, shitamachi craftsmen, and connoisseur of pipes for an antique arts television show, will be discussing traditional Edo period craftwork and the collecting of Japanese art and artifacts.
Tokyo to New York: A survey of music from Tokyo and NYC-based composers for clarinet, hichiriki, and piano.
Tuesday, November 6, 2018
7:00 pm @ Tykeson Recital Hall
“Tokyo to New York” features a variety of different musical styles and new works composed for both Western and traditional Japanese instruments.
Du Shiniang’s Jewelbox and the Problem of Interiority
Friday, November 9, 2018
4:00 pm @ Lillis Complex 111
This lecture series is presented by the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies. It is co-sponsored by the University of Oregon Libraries, the Asian Studies program, the Department of East Asian Languages and Linguistics, and the Department of History.
Farmer’s Battlefield: How post-conflict migrants adapt to UXO-contaminated land near the Cambodia Vietnam border
Friday, November 16, 2018
12:00 pm @ Maple Room (239) in the Erb Memorial Union
Why do post-conflict communities vary substantially in the speed and consistency with which they re-establish order and growth following war? The amount of unexploded ordnance left on farmlands can have a long-term impact on production, migration patterns, and local institutions. This talk discusses the role of unexploded ordnance (UXO) on the agricultural activities of Cambodian rice farmers.