Fall 2023

2023 CHINA Town Hall

Web Simulcast Interview followed by Live Speaker

Wednesday, October 11, 2023 at 4:00 PM in 242 Gerlinger Hall

CHINA Town Hall connects leading China experts with Americans around the country for a national conversation on the implications of China’s rise on U.S.-China relations and its impact on our towns, states, and nation.  The National Committee is proud to partner with a range of institutions and community groups, colleges and universities, trade and business associations, and world affairs councils to bring this important national conversation to local communities around America for the 17th consecutive year. This year, the national simulcast features a talk with current U.S. Ambassador to China, Nicholas Burns. At the University of Oregon, a live talk follows by Margaret K. Lewis, Associate Dean and Professor of Law, Seton Hall University.

Above and Below the Ground

Simulcast Film Screening & Discussion

Monday, October 16, 2023 at 3:00 PM in 105 Esslinger Hall

Please join us for a viewing of Emily Hong’s current project, Above and Below the Ground, which features indigenous women and punk rock pastors leading an environmental movement on water rights in Myanmar. For more film details, click here.

UX Innovation in South Korea’s ICT Industry: Theories and Applications

Invited Lecture by Kwan Min Lee Professor in Contemporary Korean Society and New media Wee Kim Wee School of Communication and Information Nanyang Technological University

Thursday, October 19, 2023 at 4:00 PM in Knight Library Browsing Room

This presentation will show how we can use what we know about media psychology to make ICT (information and communication technologies) innovation work better. Examples provided will be drawn from both academic and industry experience, spanning a spectrum from concepts rooted in evolutionary psychology to recent tangible products and services developed by companies like Samsung, Hyundai Motors, and other ICT companies in South Korea.

An Empire of Plants: Chineseplants, Asian-Austrailian-European trade, and a developing global gardeing culture, 1780s-1900s

Invited Lecture by James Beattie Associate Professor of Science and Society Victoria University

Monday, October 23, 2023 at 4:00 PM in Coquille Room, Erb Memorial Union

Both the British and the Chinese empires were as much empires of plants as they were empires of conquest. For gentleman naturalist Sir Joseph Banks, obtaining plants and expanding empire and trade were closely interlinked objectives. This talk examines the implications for both plant distribution and garden development of growing imperial connections between China, India, Britain, and Australasia using case studies of Banks and other lesser known plant collectors. As well as examining the impact of Asian plants in the UK, the talk considers the histories by which plants from Asia—and particularly China—reached the South Pacific, from the early 1830s. The talk will move from the East India Company opium trade in Asia to take in the grandiose plants of private garden-makers in Britain, the tireless activities of Cantonese market gardeners in colonial New Zealand and the impact of technology on plant distribution.

Sunrise: Radiant Stories Book Tour and Reading

Invited Reading by Author Erika Kobayashi and Translator Brian Bergstrom Yanai Initiative and the Japan Foundation

Tuesday, October 24, 2023 at 4:00 PM in 115 Lawrence Hall

Japanese author Erika Kobayashi and her English translator Brian Bergstorm will be giving a reading from two of her works, Trinity Trinity Trinity and Sunrise: Radiant Stories. Copies of her books will be available for purchase.

Spring 2023

Comparing Islamic Glass Bangles of South Asia
with those of the Middle East (16th-20th centuries)

Invited lecture by Charlotte K. Nash-Pye
Phd Candidate, University of Kent and The British Museum

Monday, April 3, 2023 at 4 PM in 204 Condon Hall

The presence of Islamic glass bangles across the Middle East, and beyond, has been documented from the 10th – 20th centuries. However, there is some differentiation over their popularity between regions and periods. Those that are best understood are from the Eastern Mediterranean regions of the Levant and Egypt, however other studies have also considered those from Anatolia, South Asia and southern Yemen. Having undertaken an analytical and typological review of multiple collections, it is now becoming possible to distinguish those found in the Middle East that were manufactured in South Asia, from both their distinctive typology and unique chemical signature. These are observed with a wide pattern of dissemination across the Western Indian Ocean trade network. It has long been speculated that South Asia may be the origin of many such glass bangles found in the Horn of and sub-Saharan Africa. This study considers the newly identified chemical signature of British Museum bangles from the rival manufacturing centre of Yemen. It also assesses the potential role South Asia played in glass bangle production and dissemination during this time. Both regions display a chemical signature with some similarities, but in other aspects clearly differ from one another.The study of Islamic glass bangles has traditionally been undertaken on a localised or regional level by a number of authors. However, with advances in archaeochemistry, the analysis of the primary production glass is offering new insights and contextualisation to their typological and colouration differences. This is particularly important when comparing those of a South Asian origin with Middle Eastern examples.

Following The “Chinese Model”? The Politics of
History and Memory in Present-day Vietnam

Invited lecture by Martin Grossheim
Dr. (University of Passau/Germany), Associate Professor of Vietnam History,
Seoul National University

Thursday, April 13, 2023 at 4 PM in Lillis Hall 175

In the aftermath of the collapse of communism in Central and Eastern Europe, the Vietnamese party-state has continued to disseminate a carefully crafted historical narrative that highlights the wisdom of the Party’s past and present actions and denounces dissenting views that “distort history” and “negate the achievements of the Revolution”. In this, the Vietnamese Communist Party (VCP) seems to follow closely the policy of the Chinese Communist Party that also maintains authoritarian control by propagating an orthodox outlook on history and suppressing “historical nihilism”. Against this background, the talk will present the Vietnamese “memory machine” at work by analyzing two case studies: 1. The presentation of the history of the Soviet Union and the decline of communism after the end of the Cold War; and 2. The Commemoration of the Sino-Vietnamese War (1979-1989) and naval battles between Vietnam and China. The second example will show that while to some degree the VCP follows the “Chinese model” to maintain control over historical memory, in the last two decades the commemoration of relations with China itself has been a contested issue in Vietnam.

The Ice Cream Sellers

Invited film screening and discussion with Sohel Rahman
Filmmaker, Writer, Producer

Wednesday, April 19, 2023 at 5 PM in JSMA Ford Lecture Hall

The Ice Cream Sellers (75”) tells the story of two little siblings and the genocide survivors of the Rohingya community who fled from Myanmar into Bangladesh after a brutal genocide. While most of the Rohingya people were exhausted from the weight of their trauma, the two siblings began their new life with hard work, selling cheap ice-cream door to door in the world´s largest refugee camp in a desperate attempt to earn enough money to bribe officials for the release of their father from prison in Myanmar. The film invites the audience to become a part of the journey of two children across the refugee camp in Cox’s Bazar, Bangladesh, just as the director himself was invited and received intimate access into their journey of life. The film portrays a story of tragedy and loss, courage, and suffering. On one hand, we have parents’ harrowing tales of their flight from their homeland, and on the other, we see laughter and the irrepressible spirit of the children.

A Traveling Feast: The Story of Chop Suey and
the Journey of Chinese Banquet Culture to America

Invited lecture by Miranda Brown & Aurthur F. Thurnau
Professor of Chinese Studies, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
University of Michigan

Wednesday, April 26, 2023 at 4 PM in Knight Library Browsing Room

Chances are good that if you encountered chop suey recently, it wasn’t at a restaurant with any gourmet aspirations. Fifty years ago, foodies banished the goopy stir-fry from their menus. Since then, chop suey has largely been consigned to the realm of cheap takeout. But chop suey wasn’t always the antithesis of fine Chinese. In centuries past, it was a staple of high-end banquets – on both sides of the Pacific. By tracing the journey of chop suey from eighteenth century Yangzhou to San Francisco: I use chop suey to tell a new, transnational story about the origins of Chinese-American cuisine.

BON-UTA
A SONG FROM HOME

Invited Film Screening and Taiko Drumming
by Ai Iwane and Ahiru Daiko
Associate Producer, Photographer

Thursday, May 18, 2023 at 4 PM in 128 Chiles Hall

This film about the people of Futaba, a town located in Japan’s Fukushima Prefecture, documents their fight to save a generations-old tradition in the wake of 201 1’s earthquake, tsunami, and nuclear disaster. The folk song from their hometown, the Futaba Bon-Uta, has been performed at their annual festival since ancient times, but after Futaba is evacuated following the disaster, residents worry that the dispersal will lead to its disappearance. But lessons from another group, descendents of Japanese immigrants who worked Maui’s sugar plantations, gives them reasons for hope. The film follows the stories of these groups dedicated to preserving and sharing their deeply-rooted traditions.

Specters of the Andamans: Indigenous, Settlers,
Poachers, Infiltrators, and Other Heterogenous Subjects

Invited lecture by Itty Abraham
Professor, School for the Future of Innovation in Society
Arizona State University

Thursday, May 4, 2023 at 4 PM in Gerlinger Alumni Lounge

Professor Abraham proposes that the Andaman and Nicobar Islands are a Southeast Asian space that belongs to India. Re-viewing the archipelago as a “sea of islands” (to draw from Pacific studies) rather than as an extension of Indian national space permits unauthorized social relations to become visible again. Once we redraw island geographies, spectral presences appear, taking the form of both foreign bodies and narrative contradictions. Currently, these specters are interpellated under the sign of “poaching,” a portmanteau of activities that joins the indigenous, settlers, infiltrators, and Nature in an illicit assemblage. The presence of ghostly contradictions should be read as recalcitrance: the complexity of an island space that cannot be erased by the violence of denial.

“Japaneseness” as an unmarked category: What does it mean
to be “Japanese” or “not truly Japanese” in an increasingly
diverse Japanese society?

Invited lecture by Ayako Mizumura
Assistant Director, Center for East Asian Studies
University of Kansas

Thursday, May 18, 2023 at 4 PM in 128 Chiles Hall

Japan is often perceived as a homogenous country. Many Japanese people still view themselves as a mono-ethnic people. Japanese politicians have embraced racial and cultural homogeneity to assert Japan’s uniqueness as the source of success and power that enabled Japan to attain world economic advancement. Is Japan a homogeneous country? Absolutely not. The myth of homogeneity continues to exclude Japan’s minority groups such as the Ainu, Okinawans, Burakumin, and Zainichi Koreans from master narratives of Japanese history. Growing numbers of laborer immigrants and mixed race Japanese have gained attention in and outside Japan. Many of these minority populations are Japanese citizens yet they are often perceived as “not truly Japanese,” marginalized, and treated as Other. This presentation is an overview of some minority groups in Japan. I discuss how “Japaneseness” excludes anyone who does not fit characteristics that constitute “Japanese.” What does it mean to be “Japanese” or “not truly Japanese” in an increasingly diverse Japanese society?

Winter 2023

Self-Ornamentalization: A New Chinese/American Femininity
in the Writings of Helena Kuo (1911-1999)

Invited lecture by Clara Iwasaki
Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature,
University of Alberta

Thursday, February 23, 2023 at 4 PM in 253 Straub Hall

Fall 2022

In the Footsteps of the Snow Lion:
A Meditative Journey from Eastern Tibet to the US

Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 4 pm
Fenton 110 and on Zoom

Join us for a lecture by Jamyong Singye, Tibetan Thangka artist. This lecture is also available via Zoom at this link. Please pre-register for the event at this link to receive the Meeting ID and passcode.

Thangka Painting Workshop

Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 10:00 am
Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 3:00 pm
Register here

Join us for a lecture by Jamyong Singye, Tibetan Thangka artist. These workshops are for UO students only. Please visit this link to register. Registration is required prior to the workshop. Please bring the following supplies to the workshop: paper, pencil, ruler, eraser, brush, and watercolors.

Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia

David Shambaugh

Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science and International Affairs
Director of the China Policy Program
George Washington University

Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 4:00 PM in Crater Lake North

The United States and China are engaged in a broad-gauged and global competition for power. While this competition ranges across the entire world, it is centered in Asia. In his recent book Where Great Powers Meet, Professor Shambaugh focuses on the critical sub-region of Southeast Asia. The United States and China constantly vie for position and influence–and the outcome of this contest will do much to determine whether Asia leaves the American orbit after seven decades and falls into a new Chinese sphere of influence. Just as importantly, to the extent that there is a global “power transition” occurring from the US to China, the fate of Southeast Asia will be a good indicator. Presently, both powers bring important assets to bear in their competition. In this special lecture Professor David Shambaugh of George Washington University delves into the complexities of the competition and asks whether the two superpowers can coexist.

Korean Literature Association Annual Meeting 2022

Friday, November 11 and Saturday, November 12, 2022
Global Scholars Hall 123 and on Zoom

Join us for two days of panels exploring the notion of ‘resonance’ as an important heuristic device for Korean literary and cultural studies. This hybrid event is taking place in person and on Zoom. Please register for the Zoom link prior to the conference.

Register to join the event via Zoom!

Download the program here: KLA 2022 Program

Understanding the microbial history of the Pacific Islands: Insights on human adaptations to new environments

Laura Weyrich

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Penn State University

Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 4:00 PM in the Museum of Natural and Cultural History

The settlement of the Eastern Pacific (the “Polynesian triangle” from Hawaii to Rapa Nui to Aotearoa New Zealand) represents the last great phase of prehistoric human exploration and expansion. Despite this incredible feat, we know incredibly little about immediate and long-term post-arrival impacts on human physiology and health. Arrival in unique locations with varied access to resources, new disease exposures, and altered diets likely resulted in differential adaptive strategies across distinct archipelagos. A new method – assessing ancient oral microbiomes within calcified dental plaque (calculus) – can provide insights into how humans adapted to new environments. Here, we sequenced ancient DNA preserved within dental calculus from three different Pacific Island Nations (Palau, Tahiti, and Aotearoa) in concert with local collaborators and communities. Distinct oral microbial communities were linked to the arrival in Central-East Polynesia, as well as settlement on individual archipelagos (i.e., in Tahiti), suggesting that settling in new locations may have altered microbes within these Ancestors.  Further, oral microbiome shifts were linked with different environments and ecologies, as distinct microbiomes were present in people living on sand atolls versus forested high-islands. Several of these microbes associated with these different ecologies are linked to the modern-day presence of oral disease, providing unique opportunities to examine the origins of chronic disease in the Pacific Islands. Lastly, a phylogenomic approach to reconstruct the evolutionary history of 10 different vertically-inherited oral microbes revealed past relationships between people in the Pacific, suggesting that microbes were shared between island communities, likely through interisland connections and trade. A key oral species within the Anaerolineaceae family also corroborated large-scale patterns of human migration, suggesting that these microbial signatures can potentially be leveraged to identify Pacific Islander Ancestors with minimally destructive sampling approaches. Overall, our work reveals how microbial signatures in Ancestors can illuminate novel insights into human adaptation to new environments.

Fall 2022

In the Footsteps of the Snow Lion:
A Meditative Journey from Eastern Tibet to the US

Tuesday, October 11, 2022 at 4 pm
Fenton 110 and on Zoom

Join us for a lecture by Jamyong Singye, Tibetan Thangka artist. This lecture is also available via Zoom at this link. Please pre-register for the event at this link to receive the Meeting ID and passcode.

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Thangka Painting Workshop

Wednesday, October 12, 2022 at 10:00 am
Thursday, October 13, 2022 at 3:00 pm
Register here

Join us for a lecture by Jamyong Singye, Tibetan Thangka artist. These workshops are for UO students only. Please visit this link to register. Registration is required prior to the workshop. Please bring the following supplies to the workshop: paper, pencil, ruler, eraser, brush, and watercolors.

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Invited Lecture

Where Great Powers Meet: America and China in Southeast Asia

David Shambaugh

Gaston Sigur Professor of Asian Studies, Political Science and International Affairs
Director of the China Policy Program
George Washington University

Thursday, November 10, 2022 at 4:00 PM in Crater Lake North

The United States and China are engaged in a broad-gauged and global competition for power. While this
competition ranges across the entire world, it is centered in Asia. In his recent book Where Great Powers
Meet, Professor Shambaugh focuses on the critical sub-region of Southeast Asia.  e United States and China
constantly vie for position and influence–and the outcome of this contest will do much to determine
whether Asia leaves the American orbit a er seven decades and falls into a new Chinese sphere of influence.
Just as importantly, to the extent that there is a global “power transition” occurring from the US to China, the
fate of Southeast Asia will be a good indicator. Presently, both powers bring important assets to bear in their
competition. In this special lecture Professor David Shambaugh of George Washington University delves into
the complexities of the competition and asks whether the two superpowers can coexist.

________________________________________________________

Korean Literature Association Annual Meeting 2022

Friday, November 11 and Saturday, November 12, 2022
Global Scholars Hall 123 and on Zoom

Join us for two days of panels exploring the notion of ‘resonance’ as an important heuristic device for Korean literary and cultural studies. This hybrid event is taking place in person and on Zoom. Please register for the Zoom link prior to the conference.

Register to join the event via Zoom!

Download the program here: KLA 2022 Program

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Invited Lecture

Understanding the microbial history of the Pacific Islands: Insights on human adaptations to new environments

Laura Weyrich

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology
Penn State University

Thursday, December 1, 2022 at 4:00 PM in the Museum of Natural and Cultural History

The settlement of the Eastern Pacific (the “Polynesian triangle” from Hawaii to Rapa Nui to Aotearoa New Zealand) represents the last great phase of prehistoric human exploration and expansion. Despite this incredible feat, we know incredibly little about immediate and long-term post-arrival impacts on human physiology and health. Arrival in unique locations with varied access to resources, new disease exposures, and altered diets likely resulted in differential adaptive strategies across distinct archipelagos. A new method – assessing ancient oral microbiomes within calcified dental plaque (calculus) – can provide insights into how humans adapted to new environments. Here, we sequenced ancient DNA preserved within dental calculus from three different Pacific Island Nations (Palau, Tahiti, and Aotearoa) in concert with local collaborators and communities. Distinct oral microbial communities were linked to the arrival in Central-East Polynesia, as well as settlement on individual archipelagos (i.e., in Tahiti), suggesting that settling in new locations may have altered microbes within these Ancestors.  Further, oral microbiome shifts were linked with different environments and ecologies, as distinct microbiomes were present in people living on sand atolls versus forested high-islands. Several of these microbes associated with these different ecologies are linked to the modern-day presence of oral disease, providing unique opportunities to examine the origins of chronic disease in the Pacific Islands. Lastly, a phylogenomic approach to reconstruct the evolutionary history of 10 different vertically-inherited oral microbes revealed past relationships between people in the Pacific, suggesting that microbes were shared between island communities, likely through interisland connections and trade. A key oral species within the Anaerolineaceae family also corroborated large-scale patterns of human migration, suggesting that these microbial signatures can potentially be leveraged to identify Pacific Islander Ancestors with minimally destructive sampling approaches. Overall, our work reveals how microbial signatures in Ancestors can illuminate novel insights into human adaptation to new environments.

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Spring 2022

Barbarians, Bronzes, and National Imagination:
Exploring Legendary Co Loa

Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 12 pm
Lawrence 166

Please join us for a lecture by Nam C. Kim of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This lecture can also be attended via Zoom. Please email for the Zoom link to attend remotely. Two thousand years ago, China’s Han Empire stretched its imperial grasp beyond the mountains far to the south of the Central Plains, reaching into the domains of “barbarians.” Along its southernmost periphery lay the Red River Valley (RRV) of present-day Vietnam. In their chronicles, the Han claimed they had “civilized” the RRV’s “barbarians.” In contrast, many Vietnamese believe this time and location represent the birthplace of an indigenous, proto-Vietnamese civilization that predates Han arrival. This view is based on colorful tales and legends. One of the most enduring accounts tells of the Au Lac Kingdom and its capital city, known as Co Loa. At the heart of ongoing, intense, and sometimes nationalistic debates are two contrasting views. One sees civilization as a byproduct of Han arrival, while the other sees it as the outcome of local, indigenous cultural traditions. This lecture presents recent and ongoing archaeological research that addresses these themes and questions.

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Plumbing Nebulous Depths: Warfare in Humanity’s Past

Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 4 pm
Lawrence 166

Please join us for a lecture by Nam C. Kim of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This lecture can also be attended via Zoom. Please email for the Zoom link to attend remotely. When did warfare begin? Is it as old as humanity? How would we know? Signs of warfare appear as soon as we began creating our earliest written records several thousand years ago. But what can we see beyond that literary horizon? This lecture highlights anthropological research to contemplate warfare’s origins, providing a glimpse into past contexts of organized violence in the deeper recesses of humanity’s past. We will take a tour around the world, considering select cases across space and time, from the Ice Ages to the present day. The lecture explores the evidence for varied manifestations of war and what those data can reveal about our shared past, our evolution as a species, and our prospects for peace.

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Winter 2022

China beyond China; china within China: Zhangzhou ceramics, 16th to 19th centuries

Wednesday February 23th, 2022 at 5 pm
Zoom talk

Please join us for a lecture by Lucille Chia, Department of History at the University of California, Riverside. For a relatively brief period Zhangzhou in southeastern China rivaled the famed porcelain center of Jingdezhen in the amount of export ware it produced. The markets for Zhangzhou ware spanned the globe from Japan to Southeast Asia to the Middle East and the Americas, as well as its own local area. In her talk historian Prof. Lucille Chia from UC Riverside will explore how the history of Zhangzhou ware can help explain the rise and decline of export ceramics centers throughout of China over the centuries. You can attend the talk by using this Zoom link.

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The Daode Jing’s Forgotten Forebear: The Ancestral Cult

Wednesday, March 2, 2022 at 5:00 pm
Lawrence 115
Hybrid in-person/online event
Join via Zoom at this link

Join us for a lecture by K.E. Brashier, Professor Emeritus of Religion and Humanities at Reed College, in person or via Zoom.  The Daode jing is one of the most famous and oft-translated books in the world, but scholarship on it never asks, “Where did it come from?” In the early ancestral cult, forebears gradually lost identity, fading upward into lineage history and into the formless heavens. In the early Dao discourse, the named and distinct ten thousand things merged into a nameless, blurry, unified Dao. That is, both ancestral cult and Dao discourse traced out a spectrum that moved from individuation to unity, from tangible definition to loss of dualistic knowledge. These spectrums are not only parallel but also overlap because the Daode jing explicitly uses the ancestral cult to explain itself. Brashier‘s presentation speculates that the Daode jing didn’t arise out of nowhere but is in fact a child of the ancestral cult.

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Barbarians, Bronzes, and National Imagination:
Exploring Legendary Co Loa

Postponed to Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 12 pm
Location TBD

Please join us for a lecture by Nam C. Kim of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This lecture can also be attended via Zoom. Please email for the Zoom link to attend remotely. Two thousand years ago, China’s Han Empire stretched its imperial grasp beyond the mountains far to the south of the Central Plains, reaching into the domains of “barbarians.” Along its southernmost periphery lay the Red River Valley (RRV) of present-day Vietnam. In their chronicles, the Han claimed they had “civilized” the RRV’s “barbarians.” In contrast, many Vietnamese believe this time and location represent the birthplace of an indigenous, proto-Vietnamese civilization that predates Han arrival. This view is based on colorful tales and legends. One of the most enduring accounts tells of the Au Lac Kingdom and its capital city, known as Co Loa. At the heart of ongoing, intense, and sometimes nationalistic debates are two contrasting views. One sees civilization as a byproduct of Han arrival, while the other sees it as the outcome of local, indigenous cultural traditions. This lecture presents recent and ongoing archaeological research that addresses these themes and questions.

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Plumbing Nebulous Depths: Warfare in Humanity’s Past

Thursday, May 19, 2022 at 4 pm

Please join us for a lecture by Nam C. Kim of the Department of Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. This lecture can also be attended via Zoom. Please email for the Zoom link to attend remotely. When did warfare begin? Is it as old as humanity? How would we know? Signs of warfare appear as soon as we began creating our earliest written records several thousand years ago. But what can we see beyond that literary horizon? This lecture highlights anthropological research to contemplate warfare’s origins, providing a glimpse into past contexts of organized violence in the deeper recesses of humanity’s past. We will take a tour around the world, considering select cases across space and time, from the Ice Ages to the present day. The lecture explores the evidence for varied manifestations of war and what those data can reveal about our shared past, our evolution as a species, and our prospects for peace.

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Fall 2021

China Town Hall
2021

Tuesday, October 19, 2021
4:00 PM

On Tuesday, October 19, 2021 at 4:00 PM PST, join us for 2021’s China Town Hall, a national conversation on how the U.S.-China relationship affects our cities, towns, and communities. From supply chains to national security, new technologies to climate change, the future of both countries will be determined by their relations with one another and the global community.

This year’s China Town Hall will feature keynote speaker Fareed Zakaria, host of Fareed Zakaria GPS on CNN Worldwide and columnist for the Washington Post. His keynote address will be nationally broadcast starting at 4:00 PM. The UO is a local partner for this year’s China Town Hall and will be hosting an invited speaker, Elizabeth Knup, regional director of the Ford Foundation in China. She will speak at 5:00 PM, followed by Q&A. The local presentation will be moderated by University of Oregon Law Professor Eric Priest.

The Event Zoom link is: https://uoregon.zoom.us/j/92059472725?pwd=WFZ6eEVqMFRqek1ZbENxR1pUNm5tdz09

Meeting ID: 920 5947 2725
Passcode: 688561

2011-12 Events

Spring Term

April 18-22, 2012
Cinema Pacific
For a full list of programming please visit: cinemapacific.uoregon.edu

Friday, April 20, 2012
Cinema Pacific Film Festival
“Overheard 2”
Regal Valley River Center
7:30 pm

Saturday, April 21, 2012
Cinema Pacific Film Festival
“The Heavenly Kings”
Bijou Art Cinemas
10:00 am

Saturday, April 21, 2012
Cinema Pacific Film Festival
“A Simple Life (Tao Jie)”
Bijou Art Cinemas
6:45 pm

Thursday May 3, 2012
Haru’s Journey
A film by Masahiro Kobayashi
6:30pm
Mills International Center at Erb Memorial Union

May 11-12, 2012
Asian Studies Program
Area Studies in Global Context, The ‘Place’ of Asia
Ford Lecture Hall

Thursday, May 24, 2012
Myung Sup Lim Lecture Series in Korean Studies
“Dragon King, War, and Esoteric Ritual: Rethinking the Twin Pagodas of Unified Silla (676-935)”
Youn-mi Kim, Assistant Professor of Art History, Ohio State University
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Ford Lecture Hall
4:00 pm

Thursday, May 31, 2012
Jeremiah Lecture
Joseph Needham (1900-1995) from science to Science and Civilization in China
A lecture by Dieter Kuhn, Professor Emeritus, Würzburg University, Germany
Ford Lecture Hall, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
3:00 pm

Thursday, May 31, 2012
“Fukushima Hula Girls”
Documentary
Mills International Center at EMU
6:00pm

Thursday, May 31, 2012
“Hula Girl”
Feature Movie
Mills International Center at EMU
8:00pm

Friday, June 8, 2012
“The Power Geometry of Globalized Parenting”
Pei-Chia Lan, Department of Sociology, National Taiwan University
Oregon Humanities Center Conference Room, 159 PLC
12:00 pm

Friday, June 8, 2012
“Furious (Inter)Nationalism: youth, right-wing politics, and very abrasive music in Japan”
Dr. Nathaniel Smith, Faculty Fellow, UCSB
Fenton Hall 117
4:00 pm

Winter Term

Tuesday, January 17, 2012
“What the U.S. Can Learn from China”
Ann Lee, Author, Senior Fellow – Demos
China’s economy is the second largest in the world and many predict it will surpass the United States’ by 2020.  Rather than viewing China’s power and influence as a threat, Ann Lee, author of the new book What the U.S. Can Learn from China and a senior fellow at Demos focusing on issues of global economics and finance, asks: What can America learn from its competition?
Following the talk, Ms. Lee will sign copies of her book.

Thursday, January 26, 2012
Religious Studies Event
“Global Rebellion: Religion and Violence among South & Central Asian Muslims”
Mark Juergensmeyer, Professor of Sociology and Global Studies at UC-Santa Barbara
McKenzie Hall, Room 240A
7:30 pm

Saturday, February 18, 2012
FOLK MUSIC OF NORTHERN JAPAN
CHOUEI SATO, Shamisen, with Chieko Shirokane and Simon Hutchinson
Beall Concert Hall
School of Music & Dance – World Music Series
Co-sponsors:  Oregon Humanities Center’s Endowment for Public Outreach in the Arts, Sciences, and Humanities; and the UO Center for Asian & Pacific Studies
Tickets:  $12 General Admission, $8 Students & Seniors.  Available in advance from the UO Ticket Office (541-346-4363; tickets.uoregon.edu), or at the door.

February 20, 2012
Jeremiah Lecture
“What We Talk About When We Talk About Eating Dog”
Robert Ji-Song Ku, Associate Professor of Asian and Asian American Studies, Binghamton University
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 pm

Thursday, March 1, 2012
Jeremiah Lecture
“Regional Policies of Development and Main Functional Zoning in China”
Weidong Liu, Professor in Economic Geography, Chinese Academy of Science
Condon 106
4:00 pm

Friday, March 2, 2012
Political Science Speaker Series
“Perpetuating Authoritatianism in the PRC”
Teresa Wright, Ph.D., Cal State Long Beach
Mackenzie 240C
Noon

Monday, March 5, 2012
Jeremiah Lectures
“Food for Good or Evil? Buddhist Precepts and Food as Depicted in Medieval Japanese Handscroll Paintings” Satomi Yamamoto and “An Examination of The Miraculous Origins of Kitano Tenjin Shrine (13th c.)” Akira Takagishi
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 pm

Tuesday, March 6, 2012
Jeremiah Lecture
“Stranger Intimacy and Transits Between Asia and the Americas”
Nayan Shah, Dept of History, University of California, San Diego
Knight Library Browsing Room
3:30 pm

March 15, 2012
Panel Discussion “40 years of US-China Business Relations”
Hult Center for the Performing Arts, Studio One
9.00 am-12:30 pm

Fall Term 

Thursday, October 6, 2011
Artists Talk: “Everyday Life in a Megacity: Pictures from Bangladesh”
Mills International Center –EMU
11:00 am
Reception to follow in the  EMU’s Adell McMillan Gallery

Thursday, October 13, 2011
Jeremiah Lecture
“Intercultural Communication and the Future of Korean Identity”
Min-Sun Kim, Professor of Communicology, University of Hawaii; Editor of Korean Studies
Mills International Center – EMU
2:30 pm

Monday, October 17, 2011
Jeremiah Lecture
“Marital Borders: Nation, Population, and Sovereignty across the Taiwan Strait”
Sara Friedman, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Gender Studies, Indiana University
Knight Library Browsing Room
3:30 pm

Thursday, October 20, 2011
Jeremiah Lecture
Documentary Showing and Discussion
“Does Microfinance Work?”
A Conversation between Danish Filmmaker Tom Heinemann and UO anthropologist Lamia Karim
PLC, Room 180
7:00 pm

Friday, November 4, 2011
CAPS/Asian Studies Reception
Knight Library Browsing Room
3:30-5:00 pm

Wednesday, November 9, 2011
Jeremiah Lecture
“Charter 2008 – Past and Present Dissents in China”
Dr. Debasish Chaudhuri, Ph D in Chinese Studies,
Department of East Asian Studies, University of Delhi
Mills International Center
3:30 pm

Thursday, Nov 10, 2011
Brownbag Lunch
“Designing the New Cities of China”
Jie Hu, Director and Chief Designer, Department of Landscape Architecture Beijing Tsinhua Urban Planning and Design Institute
231 Lawerence Hall
Noon

Thursday, Nov 10, 2011
Lecture
“Designing the New Cities of China”
Jie Hu, Director and Chief Designer, Department of Landscape Architecture Beijing Tsinhua Urban Planning and Design Institute
110 Fenton Hall
5:30 pm

Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Jeremiah Lecture
“Understanding Japan:  Expressed but Unspoken”
Jeanie Fuji, Adjunct Instructor of Japanese, University of Oregon
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Ford Lecture Hall
11:00 am

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Summer Term Events

Conference The 23rd North American Conference on Chinese Linguistics (NACCL-23) June 17-19, 2011 HEDCO Building, UO Campus For more info, please click here.

Film Screening “Enemies of the People:  One Man’s Journey to the Heart of the Killing Fields” Thursday, June 30, 2011 Willamette Hall, Room 110 7:00 pm For more information on the film, please  click here.

Symposium “China’s Revolution in Information Technology: Ethical Issues” Tuesday, August 16, 2011 UO Law School – Room 142 7:30 pm For more info, please click here.

Spring Term Events

Japan 199: New Japanese Cinema Tuesdays at 7:00pm in Lillis 282 March 29: 5 Centimeters per Secon April 5: Air Doll April 12: Millennium Actress April 19: Tokyo Sonata April 26: About Her Brother May 3: Shinobi: Heart Under Blade May 10: Fish Story May 17: Swing Girls May 24: Yatterman May 31: Summer Wars Contact: alisaf@uoregon.edu

Jeremiah Lecture Tuesday, April 5, 2011 “Challenging the 18th Amendment and the NRO (National Reconciliation Ordinance), or How to Stop the Cycle of Coup d’etats in Pakistan?” Miangul Hassan Aurangzeb, Barrister-at-Law Advocate, Supreme Court of Pakistan Gerlinger Lounge 4:00 pm

Cinema Pacific Focus on China April 6-10 2011 Please visit: cinemapacific.uoregon.edu

China Food Studies Workshop Monday, April 11, 2011 Panelists Include: Ina Asim, History, University of Oregon Daniel Buck, Geography, University of Oregon Françoise Sabban, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales Mark Swislocki, Arts and Humanities, NYU Abu Dhabi Joanna Waley-Cohen, History, NYU Knight Library Browsing Room 1:00-3:30 pm

Jeremiah Public Lecture Monday, April 11, 2011 “Reflections on Pets in Twentieth Century China” Mark Swislocki, Department of History, NYU Abu Dhabi Knight Library Browsing Room 4:00 pm

Japan Disaster Relief Events “Tragedy in Tohoku: A Roundtable Discussion of the Japanese Earthquake/Tsunami Disaster and its Aftermath” Wednesday, April 13, 2011 3:30-5:00 Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art Koto Concert featuring Mitsuki Dazai Wednesday, April 13, 2011 Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art These events are free and open to the public; donations will be collected for Mercy Corps’ Oregon Japan Relief Fund.

World Music Series Friday, April 15, 2011 Classical Music of North India Kartik Seshadri, sitar Arup Chattopadhyay, tabla Beall Concert Hall 8:00 pm This event is sponsored by the School of Music and Dance.

Jeremiah Public Lecture Monday, April 18, 2011 “Drivers of Globalization: From the Developmental State to the Rise of Lead Firms in the Asian Newly Industrialized Economies” Professor Henry Wai-chung Yeung,  Department of Geography, National University of Singapore Knight Library Browsing Room 3:30 pm This event is cosponsored by the Department of Geography and the Lundquist College of Business Center for Sustainable Business Practices.

“North Korea’s Politics of Survival” Wednesday, May 4, 2011 Mel Gurtov, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Portland State University Mills International Center  EMU 2:00 pmThis talk is presented by LiNK UO and cosponsored by the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies.

Shanghai EXPO 2010: Economy, Ecology, and the 2nd COming of Capitalism in China Thursday, May 5, 2011 David Leiwei Li, Professor of English & Collins Professor of the Humanities Browsing Room, Knight Library 12:00 pm

“Project 85 as X-cultural Ecriture” Thursday, May 12, 2011 Claire Huot, Department of Germanic, Slavic, and East Asian Studies, University of Calgary and Robert Majzels, Department of English, University of Calgary EMU Gumwood Room 3:00 pm

Jeremiah Public Lecture Thursday, May 19, 2011 “Korea in the Japanese Colonial Gaze” Taylor Atkins, Department of History, Northern Illinois University McKenzie Hall, Room 375 3:30 pmThis event is cosponsored by the Department of History

Jeremiah Public Lecture Thursday, May 26, 2011 “How Filipino Veterans Joined the Greatest Generation: Transnational Politics and Postcolonial Citizenship, 1945-2009” Christopher Capozzola, Associate Professor of History, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Knight Library Browsing Room 3:30 pm This event is cosponsored by the Department of Ethnic Studies and the Department of History.

Winter Term Events

Northwest China Council and World Affairs Council presents Thursday, February 3, 2011 “The Role of Law in China’s Strained ‘Harmonious Society'” Professor Margaret Lewis, Associate Professor, Seton Hall UO White Stag  Building in Portland, Room 142/144 12:00 pm This event is free, but please click here to register. This event is supported by the National Committee on U.S.-Chin Relations’ Public Intellectuals Program, which is funded by the Henry Luce and C.V. Starr Foundations.  It is also sponsored by the UO’s National Resource Center for East Asian Studies.

Jeremiah Lecture Monday, February 7, 2011 “Social, Cultural, and Linguistic Dimensions of Creative Language Use in China’s Internet” Hongyin Tao, Chinese Language and Linguistics, UCLA Knight Library Browsing Room 3:30 pm

Jeremiah Lecture Friday, February 18, 2011 “The Origins of Domesticated Water Buffalo in China: An Interdisciplinary Approach” Li Liu, Sir Robert Ho Tung Professor in Chinese Archaeology, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Stanford University Condon Hall, Room 204 4:00 pm

Contemporary Chinese Cultural Studies Tuesday, March 8 2011 at 12pm “Imagining Atrocity: The Nanjing Massacre on Film and the Curious Case if Scarlet Rose.” An Illustrated Talk by Michael Berry, Ph.D., UC Santa Barbara Mills International Center

The Robert D. Clark Honors College presents: “Adopted Territory: Transnational Korean Adoptees and the Politics of Belonging” Eleana J. Kim Clark Honors College Library, 3rd floor Chapman Hall Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 4pm This event is sponsored by Clark Honors College, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, Center for the Study of Women in Society, Global Oregon, Department of History, and CHC Kaleidoscope.

Author Talk “Pop Culture from a Multipolar Japan” Roland Kelts, Author and Journalist Knight Library Browsing Room March 10, 2011 at 4:00 pm This event is cosponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature.

Fall Term Events

China Town Hall: Local Connections, National Reflections Monday, October 18, 2010 University of Oregon White Stag Building – Portland 5:00 pm For a complete schedule, please click here.

Taiwan Film Festival October 20-22, 2010 Willamette Hall,  Room 110 For a complete festival schedule, please click here.

Lorwin Lectureship/Jeremiah Lecture Wednesday, October 20, 2010 “Mass Weddings and Garment Factories: The Reintegration of the LTTE Women Fighters in Postwar Sri Lanka” Cricket Keating, Women’s Studies, The Ohio State University McKenzie Hall, Room 221 4:00 pm

Jeremiah Lecture Friday, November 5, 2010 “The Magic of Concepts: Wang Yanan and His 1930s Critique of Social Science” Rebecca Karl, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies & History, New York University McKenzie Hall, Room 375 12:00 pm

Jeremiah Lecture Tuesday, November 9, 2010 “All Disease Comes from the Heart: The Pivotal Role of the Emotions in Classical Chinese Medicine” A talk by Heiner Fruehauf, PhD, Lac McKenzie Hall, Room 229 5:30 pm

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2004-05 Events

FALL TERM EVENTS

Wednesday, September 15, 2004
Faculty Colloquium
“Between Cultures: Buddhism and Psychotherapy in the 21st Century”
A talk by Professors Nabeshima and Naito
Ryukoku University, Kyoto, Japan
159 PLC
1:00 pm

Friday, October 8, 2004
CAPS/Asian Studies Annual Reception
McKenzie Hall, Room 375
3:00 – 5:00 pm

Monday, October 18, 2004
Poetry Reading by Bei Dao
Knight Library Browsing Room
7:00 pm

Tuesday, October 19, 2004
Lecture: “Underground Literature in Late 60’s China”
Bei Dao
Lillis Hall, Room 112
4:00 pm

Wednesday, October 20, 2004
Public Lecture
“What is the Point of an Economy? Citizenship and Consumption in Postwar Japan”
Laura Hein, Department of History, Northwestern University
McKenzie Hall, Room 375
4:00 pm
Friday, October 22 – Saturday, October 23, 2004
Conference: “Private Life in Late Imperial China: Objects, Images, and Texts”
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art
Lecture Hall
9:00 am – 4:00 pm

WINTER TERM EVENTS

Thursday, January 6, 2005
Jeremiah Public Lecture
“Inside-Out: A Decade of China Reporting For Overseas Readers”
Peter Wonacott, China Correspondent in Shanghai for The Wall Street Journal
Knight Library Browsing Room
7:00 pm

Tuesday, January 25, 2005
Jeremiah Public Lecture
“Shanxi as Translocal Imaginary: Reforming the Local”
David Goodman, Professor of Political Science and Pro Vice Chancellor at the University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
McKenzie Hall, Room 375
4:00 pm

Monday, February 21, 2005
Jeremiah Public Lecture
“Early Taoist Meditation”
Harold Roth, Professor of Chinese Religions, Brown University
Lillis Hall, Room 182
7:30 pm

Wednesday, February 23, 2005
Jeremiah Public Lecture
“History, Identity and Security: Commemorating National Humiliation Day in China”
William A Callahan, Senior Lecturer in International Politics; Director, Centre for Contemporary China Studies, University of Durham, England
Clark Honors College Library (Chapman Hall, Room 301)
4:00 pm

SPRING TERM EVENTS

Thursday, April 7, 2005
Jeremiah Public Lecture
“Getting to Rapprochement over Kashmir: Blending Realism with Justice”
Rifaat Hussain, Chairman of the Department of Defense and Strategic Studies, Quaid-I-Azam University – Islamabad
Knight Law Center, Room 184
4:00 pm
Thursday, April 14, 2005
CODAC lecture
“Mamiya Rinzo and the Japanese Mapping of Sakhalin Island”
Dr. Brett L. Walker, Associate Professor of History, Montana State University, Bozeman
Knight Library Browsing Room
3:30 pm

Friday, April 22, 2005
Brown Bag talk
“Korean Literature: Oral Epics”
Kyeung-Sin Park, Department of Korean Literature, University of Ulsan, Korea
CAPS Seminar Room (103 Gerlinger)
12:00 pm

Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Diagonal: A performance of music and poetry in English, German, and Japanese by Aki Takase and Yoko Tawada
Gerlinger Lounge
7:30 pm

Monday, May 2, 2005
“A View of the U.S. from Across the Pacific”
Takeshi Kawasaki, Journalist, Foreign News Department at the Asahi Shimbun in Tokyo
Gerlinger Lounge
2:00 pm

Thursday, May 5, 2005
Jeremiah Public Lecture
“Falling Between the Cracks: North Korean Women’s Human Rights”
Mikyoung Kim, Public Affairs Section, U.S. Embassy, Seoul, Korea; Visiting Fulbright Scholar, Portland State University
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 pm

Monday, May 9, 2005
Jeremiah Public Lecture
Muslims or Heretics?
A film screening and talk about struggles between moderate and radical Islamist forces in Bangladesh.
Naeem Mohaiemen, Editor, Shobak.Org; Director, DisappearedInAmerica.org project and Muslims Or Heretics
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 pm

Thursday, May 12, 2005
PPPM Lecture Series
“Strategies for Female Empowerment Used by the Feminist Movement in Pakistan: A Critical Analysis
Huma Haq, Visiting Pakistani Scholar
Hendricks Hall Hearth
3:00 pm

Friday, May 13, 2005
Jeremiah Public Lecture
“Japanese Security Policy: The Times They are a Changing?”
Richard Samuels, Ford International Professor of Political Science and Director of the Center for International Studies, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
McKenzie Hall, Room 125
3:00 pm

Friday, May 20, 2005
Brown Bag talk
“Structural Change of Consumption in Korea”
Inheun Choi, visiting economist
103 Gerlinger Hall
12:00 pm

Thursday, May 26, 2005
Jeremiah Public Lecture
“Shifting Power: From State-centric to Negotiated Governance in South Korea”
Hyuk-Rae Kim, Professor of Korean Studies, Graduate School of International Studies, Yonsei University, Korea
Knight Library Browsing Room
3:00 pm

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SPRING TERM EVENTS

Friday, April 4, 2008 “Doing Business in China: Pinpointing the Top Emerging Markets” Ted Plafker, Beijing Bureau Correspondent for The Economist and author of Doing Business in China: How to Profit in the World’s Fastest Growing Market Lillis Hall, Room 211 2:00 pm

Thursday, April 10, 2008 “Reflecting on the Two-way Educational Exchange between Korea and the United States” Jae-won Lee, Professor and Director, Journalism and Promotional Communication Division; Director of Curricular Affairs, Office of Academic Affairs, Cleveland State University Knight Library Browsing Room 4:00 pm

Thursday, April 24, 2008 “The Revolution is Dead. Long Lives the Revolution: Rethinking Modern Chinese History” Joseph Esherick, Hwei-chih and Julia Hsiu Professor of Chinese Studies, University of California, San Diego McKenzie Hall, Room 221 4:00 pm

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 “From the Heart of a Tradition” Lecture-Demonstration on South Indian Music and Dance Aniruddha Knight & Ensemble EMU Fir Room 2:00 pmThis event is cosponsored by the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, the School of Music, and the Oregon Humanities Center. It is funded in part by the National Dance Project of the New England Foundation for the Arts, with lead funding from the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation. Additional funding was provided by The Ford Foundation, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the JP Morgan Chase Foundation, and the MetLife Foundation. Support for the preparation and presentation of this tour was also provided by the Asian Cultural Council, the Samuel H. Scripps Foundation, and the LEF Foundation. For more info, please call 346-1521.

Thursday, June 5, 2008 “Ozu, Directionality, and Quandaries in Cross-cultural Aesthetics” Ben Singer, Associate Professor of Film, University of Wisconsin – Madison Lillis Hall, Room 111 4:00 pm

Wednesday, May 28, 2008 “Notes from a Gambling Nation: Why China Is Not Going to Be the World’s Next Superpower” John Pomfret, Editor, Outlook section, The Washington Post and Author of Chinese Lessons: Five Classmates and the Story of the New China Lillis Hall, Room 282 5:00 pm This event is presented by the Lundquist College of Business and is cosponsored by the School of Journalism and Communication, the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, the Oregon Humanities Center, the Chinese Flagship Program, the Asian Studies Program, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures. For more information, please call (541) 346-1521.

WINTER TERM EVENTS

New Japanese Cinema Series January 10 – March 13, 2008 Sponsored by EALL A film will be shown each Thursday in Lillis Hall, Room 282, at 7:00 pm.

JSMA – Buddhist Visions Exhibit EventsFriday, January 18, 2008 Preview Reception: Buddhist Visions Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art 5:30-8:00 pm Wednesday, January 23, 2008 Lecture: “How Chan/Zen Paintings Mean: Two Portraits of Bodhidharma” Charles Lachman, Curator of Asian Art, JSMA Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art 6:00 pmWednesday, January 30, 2008 Lecture: “Unframing Experience” Jacquelynn Baas, author of Smile of the Buddha: Eastern Philosophy and Western Art from Monet to Today Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art 6:00 pm Wednesday, February 13, 2008 Lecture and Demonstration: “In Search of the Meaning of Circles: Calligraphy in Zen Buddhism” Kaz Tanahashi, Zen Buddhism scholar and calligrapher Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art 6:00 pm

Korea in Prehistory: An Archaeological Perspective Engaging Korea Speaker Series Dr. Seonbok Yi, Professor of Archaeology and Art History, Seoul National UniversityWednesday, February 13, 2008 “Introducing Korean Archaeology and the Paleolithic Period (~10,000 BP)” 4:00 pm Knight Library, Browsing RoomThursday, February 14, 2008 “Neolithic and Earlier Bronze Periods (8000 – 2700 BP)” 12:00 pm Lillis Hall, Room 111 Thursday, February 14, 2008 “Later Bronze and Early Iron Periods (2700 – 2000 BP)” 4:00 pm Lillis Hall, Room 111 Friday, February 15, 2008 “New Data on the Acheulian-Like Handaxes in Korea and the Hoabihnian in Northern Vietnam” Noon Condon Hall, Room 204

Jeremiah Lecture Series Thursday, February 14, 2008 “Rethinking Language and Culture: The Nishogakusha International Kanbun Project” Professor Machi Senjuro, 21st Century COE Program, Nishogakusha University, Japan McKenzie Hall, Room 375 12:00 pm This talk will be presented in Japanese with English translation.

JSMA – Buddhist Visions Exhibit Events Wednesday, February 27, 2008 JSMA Buddhist Visions Exhibit Lecture: “The Giver of Sons and Mother of Daoist Goddesses Erin Cline, Assistant Professor of Chinese Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Oregon Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art 6:00 pm

Jeremiah Lecture SeriesMonday, March 3, 2008 A Confucian Contribution to Justice, Gender, and the Family Philip J. Ivanhoe, Reader-Professor of Philosophy, Department of Public and Social Administration, City University of Hong Kong Gerlinger Lounge 5:00 pmResponse by Rebecca L. Walker, Assistant Professor of Social Medicine and Adjunct Assistant Professor of Philosophy, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.This talk will be held in conjunction with conjunction with the conference, Confucian Virtues at Work, held at the UOMarch 2-3, 2008.

JSMA – Buddhist Visions Exhibit EventsWednesday, February 27, 2008 JSMA Buddhist Visions Exhibit Lecture: “The Giver of Sons and Mother of Daoist Goddesses Erin Cline, Assistant Professor of Chinese Philosophy and Religious Studies, University of Oregon Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art 6:00 pmWednesday, March 5, 2008 JSMA Buddhist Visions Exhibit Concert: Chamber Music on Campus Enjoy an evening of Asian-inspired music performed by students in the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance. Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art 6:00 pm Wednesday, March 12, 2008 JSMA Buddhist Visions Exhibit Lecture: Marketplace Morality in 19th and 20th Century Chinese Hell Scrolls K.E. Brashier, Associate Professor of Religion (Chinese) and Humanities (Chinese), Reed College Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art 6:00 pm Wednesday, April 2, 2008 JSMA Buddhist Visions Exhibit Lecture: The Letter of the Law and the Splendor of the Pure Land: The Artistry of Images and Character Calligraphy Mark Unno, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, University of Oregon

FALL TERM EVENTS

Thursday, October 11, 2007 Jeremiah Lecture Series “Confessions of an Ex-Con: Reading Repentance in Meiji-era Japan” Christine Marran, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature and Cultural Studies, University of Minnesota 4:00 pm Knight Library Browsing Room

Thursday, October 18 – Saturday, October 20, 2007 Taiwan Film Festival Please click here for a listing of films, times and venues

Monday, October 22, 2007 “The Other Origin of Species: Ethnic Categorization and Ethnic Identity in Contemporary China” Thomas Mullaney, Stanford University Department of History 4:00 pm McKenzie 375This event is sponsored by History, Ethnic Studies and CAPS.

	Friday, November 9, 2007 Korea Speaker Series – brown bag talk “The American Electronic Voting System: Problems and Solutions” Yonghi Kim, Director General of the E-Voting Promotion Bureau of the National Election Commission (NEC) of Korea 12:00 pm – CAPS Seminar Room (103 Gerlinger)
	Friday, November 16, 2007 Korea Speaker Series – brown bag talk “A Comparative Study of the National Trust for Historic Preservation in the US & Korea” Hongdong Kim, Cultural Heritage Administration in the Republic of Korea 12:00 pm – CAPS Seminar Room (103 Gerlinger)

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SPRING TERM EVENTS

Friday, April 13, 2007
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“Dying on Principle: The Claims and Renunciations of Suicide Bombing”
Faisal Devji, Department of History, The New School for Social Research
Lillis Hall, Room 211
4:00 pm

Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Public Lecture
“An Ethics of Reading the Environment in Postcolonial Fiction”
Sangeeta Ray, Department of English, University of Maryland
Lillis Hall, Room 185
4:00 pm

Thursday, May 3, 2007
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“Scandalous Sentiments: Improper Desires and Inconvenient Resentments in the Demise of an Elite Chinese Family”
Janet Theiss, Department of History, University of Utah
Lillis Hall, Room 132
4:00 pm

Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“Miike Takashi vs. Tsukamoto Shinya: Main Event in Japan’s Genre Film Arena?”
Tom Mes, Independent Film Scholar/Journalist & Founder of MidnightEye.com
Lillis Hall, Room 182
7:00 pm

Wednesday, June 6, 2007
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“China: Rebalancing Economic Growth”
Nicholas Lardy, Senior Fellow, Peterson Institute for International Economics
Lillis Hall, Room 282
5:00 pm

WINTER TERM EVENTS

Thursday, January 11, 2007
Korean Film Series
Take Care of My Cat (2001 – 112 min)
Director: Jae-eun Jeong
International Resource Center, EMU
7:00 pm

Tuesday, January 16, 2007
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“The Horror of Globalization”
Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies, East Asian Studies, New York University
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 pm

Thursday, January 18, 2007
Korean Film Series
Peppermint Candy (1999 – 129 min)
Director: Lee Chang-dong
International Resource Center, EMU
7:00 pm

Thursday, January 25, 2007
Korean Film Series
A State of Mind (2004 – 93 min)
Director: Daniel Gordon
International Resource Center, EMU
7:00 pm

Wednesday, January 31, 2007
Korean Film Series
Chi-hwa-seon (2002 – 116 min)
Director: Kwon-taek Im
6:00 pm
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art

Thursday, February 1, 2007
Korean Film Series
Chi-hwa-seon (2002 – 116 min)
Director: Kwon-taek Im
International Resource Center, EMU
7:00 pm
CAPS, JSMA, and IRC

Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Korean Speaker Series
“Art and Politics: Picasso’s Korean War paintings and Abstract Art of Korea and Japan, 1950’s-1960’s”
Young-Mok Chung, Chair, Department of Painting and Art Theory, College of Fine Arts, Seoul National University; Visiting Scholar, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Oregon
Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art – Lecture Hall
4:00 pm

Thursday, February 8, 2007
Korean Film Series
Shiri (1999 – 125 min)
Director: Je-gyu Kang
International Resource Center, EMU
7:00 pm

Friday, February 9, 2007
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“From Area Studies to Cultural Studies: A Commentary on Paradigm Shifts in Research of Cultures”
Liu Kang, Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies, Duke University
Lillis Hall, Room 132
4:00 pm (please note the time for this event has changed from 3 pm to 4 pm)

Thursday, February 15, 2007
Korean Film Series
Oldboy (2004 – 120 min)
Director: Chan-wook Park
International Resource Center, EMU
7:00 pm

Thursday, February 22, 2007
Korean Film Series
The Isle (2000 – 89 min)
Director: Ki-duk Kim
International Resource Center – EMU
7:00 pm

Tuesday, February 27, 2007
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“Burma’s Indigenous Peoples: A Human Rights and Environmental Crisis”
Edith Mirante, Director of “Project Maje” and author of Down the Rat Hole: Adventures Underground on Burma’s Frontiers
Many Nations Longhouse
4:00 pm

Thursday, March 1, 2007
Korean Film Series
Joint Security Area (JSA) (2000 – 110 min)
Director: Chan-wook Park
International Resource Center, EMU
7:00 pm

Thursday, March 8, 2007
Korean Film Series
Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring (2003 – 103 min)
Director: Ki-duk Kim
International Resource Center, EMU
7:00 pm

Monday, March 12, 2007
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“Hegemony Outsourced: The United States, India and the Struggle for Asian Architecture”
Siddharth Varadarajan, Associate Editor, The Hindu
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 pm

Thursday, March 15, 2007
Korean Film Series
3-Iron (2004 – 88 min)
Director: Ki-duk Kim (II)
International Resource Center, EMU
7:00 pm

FALL TERM EVENTS

Friday, October 6, 2006
CAPS/Asian Studies Welcome Reception
Knight Library Browsing Room
3:00 – 5:00 pm

Monday, October 16, 2006
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“Kamishibai: the Construction of Space and the National Imaginary in Modernizing Japan”
Sharalyn Orbaugh, Associate Professor of Asian Studies and Women’s Studies, University of British Columbia
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 pm

Tuesday, October 24, 2006 – revised
“Archaeological Surveys and Exploration in the Northwest Frontier Provinces, Pakistan”
Dr. Ihsan Ali, Vice Chancellor, Hazara University, Mansehra, Pakistan
204 Condon Hall
3:30 pm

Thursday, November 16, 2006
“The North Korean Nuclear Test and Northeast Asian Security”
Mel Gurtov, Professor of Political Science and International Studies, Portland State University
McKenzie Hall, Room 221
7:30 PM

A public lecture followed by a discussion with Richard P. Suttmeier, Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon; Heung Ho Moon, Professor of Political Science, Hanyang University; and Jinwoo Choi, Professor of Political Science, Hanyang University

Professor Gurtov, a Senior Fulbright Scholar in South Korea in 1994, is editor-in-chief of Asian Perspective, an international quarterly journal published in Seoul, and author of several books, including Pacific Asia? Prospects for Security and Cooperation in East Asia.

This event is presented by the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies and is free an open to the public. Support has also been provided by Hanyang University and the Admiral David E. Jeremiah and Mrs. Connie Jeremiah Speaker Fund. For more information, please call (541) 346-1521.

Friday, November 17, 2006
“Korean-Chinese Migrant Workers and Re-definition of Koreanness”
Jungmin Seo, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Hawaii at Manoa
McKenzie Hall, Room 375
3:30 pm
This talk is cosponsored by the Department of Political Science.

Tuesday, November 28, 2006
Brown Bag Talk
“New Developments in the Korean Governance for Science and Technology Policy”
Hyun Suk Cho, Department of Public Administration at Seoul National University of Technology
CAPS Seminar Room (103 Gerlinger Hall)
12:00 pm

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