2022-23 Events

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

The challenges of migration and anti-Asian racism are issues that are frequently explored in Chinese/American writing. Often these conflicts are conceived of as interethnic conflict such as Asian migrants’ oppression by white Americans. The centrality of the types of conflicts obscures subtler forms of oppression. Anne Cheng’s Ornamentalism is one recent work that has examined the particular way that the Asiatic woman has been constructed and fetishized by the white gaze. The question Iwasaki asks in this talk is whether a Chinese woman can ornamentalize herself?
She explores this question by discussing the Chinese/American writer Helena Kuo. Translator, writer, and Sino-American cultural broker, Kuo explores the idea of a new kind of Chinese migrant who shakes off the familiar stereotypes of prostitute or coolie and engages the West on equal footing. Embodying this new type of migrant occurs at the level of the superficial and the prosthetic. Chinese migrants must demonstrate their worth through their makeup, uniforms, or other outward signs. Kuo’s vision of the model Chinese migrant pointedly excludes earlier migrants such as coolies and their children. It also precluded solidarity with African Americans or Japanese Americans whose oppression she observes but avoids confronting. Instead Kuo is interested in upper class Chinese migrants’ ability to approach and eventually surpass whiteness by becoming modern while also remaining true to a vision of conservative Chinese domesticity and repositioning the post WWII wave of Chinese migrants as a more desirable kind of immigrant.

Wu Jianren’s Hybrid Modernity: The Late Qing Intellectual Crisis as Reflected in The New Story of the Stone

Invited lecture by Theodore Huters
Professor Emeritus, Asian Languages and Cultures, UCLA

Thursday, March 2, 2023 at 4 PM in 112 Lillis Hall

The period between China’s defeat by Japan in 1895-1895 and the New Culture Movement that gathered momentum after 1919 was marked by a great epistemic instability. Whereas there had been a number of efforts to accept certain Western ideas and technologies in the period prior to the war with Japan, even those who embraced those efforts were committed to the notion of Chinese cultural superiority. And following the May Fourth Movement and the reorganization of Peking University and the Commercial Press, there was general acceptance among the intellectual elite that the old Chinese order was not up to the challenge of the West. In the interim period, however, neither the Chinese nor the Western system was regarded definitively as having the upper hand: there was instead a nagging uncertainty as to which set of ideas was ultimately superior. Wu Jianren (1866-1910) was the novelist most acutely tuned into the political economy and intellectual wavering of the period, and his The New Story of the Stone, written in two distinct segments between 1905 and 1907, is his most complete interpretation of the various hard choices he saw as confronting China. While in the work he recognizes, often only indirectly, the power of Western science, after setting out China’s problems in the first half of the novel, in the second half he deploys the tropes of science fiction in an attempt to prove the superiority and potential of Chinese cultural values. The supreme difficulty of this effort is mirrored in the contradictions and inconsistencies that surface in the text.

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.

2021-2022 Events

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.

________________________________________________________

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

2011-2012 Events

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 pm
This 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

 

CAPS/Asian Studies Annual Reception
Thursday, November 4, 2010
Mills International Center
3:30 – 5:00 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

 

 

 

 

 

 


Workshop Talk and Discussion
Saturday, November 20, 2010
“Modern Girl Culture and Working-Class Women in Interwar Japan”
Barbara Sato, Professor of History at Seikei University in Japan
McKenzie Hall, Room 375
1:00 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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2003-04 Events

FALL TERM EVENTS
Wednesday, October 8, 2003
CAPS/Asian Studies Annual Welcome Reception
McKenzie Hall, Room 375
3:30 – 5:00 pm
Friday, October 10, 2003
Brown Bag Talk
“Disease and the Dilemmas of Identity: Representations of Women in Modern Chinese Literature”
Eileen Vickery, East Asian Languages and Literatures
12:00 pm
CAPS Seminar Room (Gerlinger Hall, Room 103)

Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Freeman Public Lecture
“Culture(s) in Eastern Asia: Views from Asia”
Wang Gungwu, National University of Singapore
Knight Library Browsing Room
3:00 pm

Wednesday, October 15, 2003
Film Showing
The Life and Times of Wu Zhong Xian
A discussion with the filmmaker Evans Chan to follow
Willamette Hall, Room 110
7:00 pm

Thursday, October 16 – Saturday, October 18, 2003
Freeman Conference

“From the Book to the Internet: Communication Technologies, Human Motions,
and Cultural Formations in Eastern Asia”
October 16-18, 2003
Gerlinger Lounge

Thursday, October 23, 2003
Seminar: “Disappearing Worlds: Anthropology and Cultural Studies in Hawaii and the Pacific,” appearing in the 2001 collection “Native Pacific Cultural Studies on the Edge,” edited by Kehaulani Kauanui and Vince Diaz, The Contemporary Pacific 13(2):381-416.
Geoff White, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii
PLC, Room 159
12:00 pm

Thursday, October 23, 2003
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“Fracturing the Postcolonial: A Pacific Genealogy”
Geoff White, Department of Anthropology, University of Hawaii
Willamette Hall, Room 110
7:00 pm

Thursday, October 30, 2003
Film Showings:
Feeding Boys, Ayaya
(Beijing, 2003) 80 minutes
The Old Testament (Beijing, 2001) 74 minutes
207 Chapman Hall.
6:00 -9:00 pm

Friday, October 31, 2003
Film Showings:
Enter the Clowns (Beijing, 2002) 79 minutes
Keep Cool and Don’t Blush (Beijing, 2003) 70 minutes
115 Pacific Hall
5:00 – 8:00 pm

Monday, November 3, 2003
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“Legislating Justice: The Evolution of Feminist and Human Rights Jurisprudence in the Postcolonial Sub-Continent”
Dr. Faustina Pereira, Advocate, Supreme Court of Bangladesh; Member and Deputy Director, Ain-o-Salish Kendro (ASK), Dhaka, Bangladesh
Knight Library Browsing Room
3:30 pm

Thursday, November 13, 2003
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“‘Freedom=Death’: Conjurings, Oaths and Secrecy in the Filipino Revolution of 1896”
Vincent Rafael, Department of History, University of Washington
Knight Library Browsing Room
7:00 pm

Friday, November 14, 2003
Seminar: “The Cell Phone and the Crowd: Messianic Politics in the Contemporary Philippines” (Public Culture vol. 15, no. 3, October 2003).
Vincent Rafael, Department of History, University of Washington
McKenzie Hall, Room 375

12:00 PM

Wednesday, November 19, 2003
Brown Bag Talk
“Japanese War Photographers: Image, Identity, and Context of the Vietnam War in East Asia”
Ken Nakajo, University of Oregon Alumnus
12:00 pm
CAPS Seminar Room (Gerlinger Hall, Room 103)

Wednesday, December 3, 2003
Brown Bag Talk
“Histological Transformation and Age Estimation in Prehistoric South Asia”
Gwen Robbins, Department of Anthropology
12:00 pm
CAPS Seminar Room (Gerlinger Hall, Room 103)

Thursday, December 4, 2003
“Early Chinese Oral and Chirogaphic Cultures: The Han Descendants of Mr. Continuous Chanting and Mr. Repeated Inking”
Ken Brashier, Religious Studies, Reed College
10:00 am
CAPS Seminar Room (Gerlinger Hall, Room 103)

WINTER TERM EVENTS

Friday, January 30, 2004
Brown Bag Talk
“Screening Humor in Ozu Yasujiro’s wartime cinema, ‘The Brothers and
Sisters of the Toda Family'”
Junji Yoshida, Ph.D. Candidate, East Asian Languages and Literature
Gerlinger 103
12:00 pm

Wednesday, February 4, 2004
Freeman Public Lecture
“Japanese Knowledge of America Before Perry”
Yumiko Kawamoto, Waseda University and
Frederick Schodt, Independent Translator and Interpreter
180 PLC
12:00 pm

Wednesday, February 11, 2004
Brown Bag Talk
“Modern Girl and the New Life Movement: Body Politics and National Salvation”
Hsiao-pei Yen, Department of History, University of Oregon
CAPS Seminar Room (103 Gerlinger)
12:00 pm

Tuesday, February 17, 2004
“Globalization and the Minority Question in India”
Anjan Ghosh, Centre for Studies in Social Sciences, Calcutta, India
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 pm

Friday, February 20 – Saturday, February 21, 2004
Symposium – Japanese-American Internment and Its Contemporary Implications
Participants: Frank Chin, Frank Emi, James Hirabayashi, Lawson Inada, Peggy Nagae, Sonny San Juan, Jr., Delia Aguilar, Moustafa Bayoumi, and Michi Okuda.
This event is presented by the Center for Critical Theory and Transnational Studies and cosponsored by the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, the Department of History, the Ethnic Studies Program and the College of Arts and Sciences.

Thursday, February 26, 2004
Brown Bag Talk
“Speculative Fiction and the Spectacle of Race: Negotiations of Race, Space, and National Identity in 20th Century Asian America”
Serenity Hee Jung Joo (Comparative Literature)
CAPS Conference Room – Gerlinger 103
12:00 pm

Thursday, February 26, 2004
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“East Asia and Northeast Asia in Contemporary South Korean Discourse”
Paik Nak-chung, Editor, the quarterly Creation and Criticism (Changbi Publishers, Seoul); Professor Emeritus of English Literature, Seoul National University
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 pm
Reception to follow

SPRING TERM EVENTS

Thursday, April 1, 2004
Jeremiah Lecture Series – Postcolonial Inscriptions
“Eugenic Sexuality and Colonial Modernity”
Tani Barlow, Women’s Studies, University of Washington
Knight Library Browsing Room
7:00 pm

Thursday, April 15, 2004
South Asia Speaker Series
“My Body is in Pain”: Violence, the State, and Women in the Bangladesh Liberation War of 1971″
Yasmin Saikia, Department of History, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 pm

Monday, April 19, 2004
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“Ethnicity, Violence and the State in Pakistan”
S. Zulfiqar Gilani, Rector (President), the Foundation University, Islamabad; Former Vice Chancellor, University of Peshawar, Pakistan
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 pm

Friday, April 30, 2004
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“Institutional Templates of East Asian Capitalism: China, Korea and Japan”
Hong Yung Lee, Department of Political Science, University of California-Berkeley
McKenzie Hall, Room 375
3:30 pm

Wednesday, May 5, 2004
South Asia Speaker Series
“Maps, Borders and Identities: Cartographic Anxiety and Conflict in South Asia.”
Willem Van Schendel, Professor of Modern Asian History, University of Amsterdam
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 pm

Thursday, May 6, 2004
Freeman Lecture Series
“Hong Kong Bilingual Child Language Acquisition: Insights from the Dative”
Virginia Yip, Department of Modern Languages and Intercultural Studies, Chinese University of Hong Kong and Stephen Matthews, Department of Linguistics, University of Hong Kong
EMU River Rooms – Metolius
3:30 pm

Monday, May 10, 2004
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“Dancing with My Mistress: Embezzlement and the Professionalization of Banking Employees in Republican-era Shanghai”
Pui Tak Lee, Centre of Asian Studies, University of Hong Kong
159 PLC
4:30 pm

Tuesday, May 11, 2004
Jeremiah Lecture Series – Premodern Japanese Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Tapestry
“In the Name of the Buddha: Armed Monks and Protesters in Heian and Kamakura
Japan”
Mikael Adolphson, Department of History, Harvard University
Knight Library Browsing Room
7:00 pm

Wednesday, May 12, 2004
Freeman Lecture Series
“A Sea of Flowers: Matter, Sense and Affect in the Botanical Exploration of Southwest China
Eric Mueggler, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan
375 McKenzie Hall
4:00 pm

Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Jeremiah Lecture Series – Premodern Japanese Buddhism: An Interdisciplinary Tapestry
“Chinese Threads in the Tapestry of Medieval Japanese Zen Buddhism”
Martin Collcutt, Department of History and East Asian Studies, Princeton University
Knight Library Browsing Room
7:00 pm

Thursday, May 27, 2004
Freeman Lecture Series
“Together-in-Difference: Beyond Diaspora, Into Hybridity”
Ien Ang, Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 pm

Friday, May 28, 2004
“The Predicament of Diversity: Presenting ‘Asian Art’ in the Art Museum”
Ien Ang, Professor of Cultural Studies and Director of the Centre for Cultural Research, University of Western Sydney, Australia
Gerlinger Lounge
7:00 pm

ASPAC 2004 (Asian Studies on the Pacific Coast Annual Meeting)
June 18-20, 2004
University of Oregon
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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 pm
This 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 pm

Wednesday, 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 University
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
“Introducing Korean Archaeology and the Paleolithic Period (~10,000 BP)”
4:00 pm
Knight Library, Browsing Room
Thursday, 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 pm
Response 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 pm
Wednesday, 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

Friday, October 5, 2007
CAPS/Asian Studies Annual Reception
3:00 – 5:00 pm
Knight Library Browsing Room

 

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 375
This 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)
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
“The Political Turmoil in Pakistan: Return from a Ringside Seat”
Anita Weiss, Professor of International Studies, University of Oregon
Mills International Center – EMU
4:00 pm 
This talk is cosponsored by the Concerned Faculty Group. 

 

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2006-07 Events

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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2008-09 Events

July 6 – 8, 2009
Documenting Taiwan on Film: Methods and Issues in New Documentaries
Workshop and Film Screenings
At the University of OregonThese events are free and open to the public. For a complete schedule, please click here.
Thursday, June 4, 2009
Panel Discussion
“Retrospectives on Tiananmen:  Two Decades Later”
Knight Library Browsing Room
7:00 pmPanel Participants:
Bryna Goodman, Department of History
David Li, Department of English
Richard Suttmeier, Department of Political Science
Tuong Vu, Department of Political Science
Friday, May 29, 2009
Brown Bag Talk
“Water Pollution Control Issues in China”
Zhuoni Wang, PhD Candidate, School of Environment and Natural Resources, Renmin University of China; Courtesy Research Assistant, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, University of Oregon
Gerlinger Hall, Room 103 (CAPS Seminar Room)
12:00 pm
Friday, May 15, 2009
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“Male Friendship and Male Homosexuality in Late Imperial China”
Martin Huang, Professor, East Asian Languages & Literature, University of California at Irvine
Lillis Hall, Room 175
3:30 pm
Thursday, May 14, 2009
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“Transforming an Urban Informal Settlement in an Asian Mega City: The Work of the Orangi Pilot Project, Karachi.”
Arif Hasan, Architect and Planner; Visiting Professor of Architecture and Planning, University of Karachi in Pakistan
Knight Library Browsing Room
3:30 pm
Friday, April 17, 2009
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“The Japanese Community of Shanghai: The First Generation, 1862-1895”
Joshua Fogel, Canada Research Chair and Professor, History Department, York University
McKenzie Hall, Room 375
3:30 pm
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Department of History Pierson Lecture Series
“The Precious Raft of History: The Past, the West, and the Woman Question in China”
Joan Judge, Associate Professor, Division of Humanities/School of Women’s Studies, York University
McKenzie Hall, Room 229
3:30 pm
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
“Humiliate-able Bodies: Rape in Wartime Propaganda Cartoons of the Sino-Japanese War”
Louise Edwards, Director, China Research Centre, University of Technology Sydney (UTS), Australia
Knight Library Browsing Room
3:30 pm
Thursday, March 5, 2009
“South Asian Models: New Strategies for Book History in the 21st Century”
Abhijit Gupta, Reader in English, Jadavpur University; Fulbright Senior Research Fellow, University of California at Riverside
EMU Maple Room
3:00 pm
Thursday, February 26, 2009
“How to Write a Woman’s Life Into and Out of History: The Case of Wang Zhaoyuan (1763-1851)”
Dr. Harriet Zurndorfer, Sinological Institute, Leiden University, The Netherlands
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 pm
Friday, February 20, 2009
Workshop: “Social Complexities in the Centers and Frontiers in Northern China”
Education Room, Museum of Natural and Cultural History
9:00 am – 3:00 pmFor a complete program, please click here.
November 18, 2009
“SURVIVING THE KILLING FIELDS”
Impacts and Aftermath of the Cambodian Genocide
Mills International Center, EMU
5:30 – 7:00 pm
October 23 – 25, 2008
Taiwan Film Festival
For a complete schedule, please click here.
Thursday, October 16,2008
Jeremiah Lecture Series
“Border Crossing and the Woman Writer: The Case of Gui Maoyi (1765-1835/6)”
Ellen Widmer, Edith Stix Wasserman Professor of East Asian Studies, Wellesley College
Thursday, October 16,2008
Jeremiah Lecture Series
”What is Buddhist Philosophy?”
M. David Eckel, Distinguished Teaching Professor of the Humanities, Boston University
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 pm 

Friday, October 10, 2008

CAPS/Asian Studies Annual Reception
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 – 5:30 pm*A meeting with the new Dean of CAS, Scott Coltrane and the Associate Dean for Social Sciences, Larry Singell, will precede the reception. It will be held in the Knight Library Administration Office, Room 115 at 3:00 pm. This is a great opportunity to speak with them about the future of Asian Studies, your wishes, concerns, etc.
August 25-29, 2008
“The Physician Manase Dosan (1507-1594): An International Workshop on Medical Texts and Sino-Japanese Writings in Early Modern Japan”
McKenzie Hall, Room 375This event is co-sponsored by the Nisho Gakusha University Center of Excellence (COE) Program and the University of Oregon’s Center for Asian and Pacific Studies. Financial support is provided by Nishogakusha COE, the Yoko McClain Faculty Endowment Fund, the Office of International Programs, the Oregon Humanities Center, the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, and the Departments of History and Art History.For a complete program, please click here.

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2005-06 Events

2005-06 Events

SUMMER EVENTS

Monday, July 31, 2006

Jeremiah Lecture Series
“Deep Listening, Deep Hearing: Buddhism and Psychotherapy East & West”
Dr. Jan Chozen Bays, M.D., Abbot, Great Vow Zen Monastery
Gerlinger Lounge
7:00 pm

SPRING TERM EVENTS

Thursday, April 6, 2006

Korea Speaker Series – Brown Bag talk
“High-Tech Ventures in Korea”
Moonhyun Nam, Reporter, Seoul Economic Daily; Visiting Scholar, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies
103 Gerlinger Hall
12:00 pm

Friday, April 14, 2006

China Speaker Series – Engaging China: History, Culture, Politics
“Why Ancient China Just Never Goes Away”
Steve Durrant, Professor of Chinese Literature; Acting Associate Dean of Humanities, University of Oregon
Lillis Hall, Room 212
12:00 pm

This talk is cosponsored by the Lundquist College of Business.

Monday, April 17, 2006

Korea Speaker Series
“Our Nation: A Korean Punk Rock Community” Lecture and Documentary Showing
Dr. Stephen Epstein, Director, Asian Studies Institute, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Lillis Hall, Room 111
4:00 pm

The rise of a new youth subculture in the Republic of Korea is an outgrowth of dramatic changes occurring there in the 1990’s. The country elected its first civilian president, it experienced new prosperity, and became increasingly exposed to Western influences. Young Koreans became exposed to the internet and a steady stream of new musical influences. Our Nation is a stunning portrayal of how Korean youth are using punk rock to find their voices in a rapidly changing culture.

This talk is cosponsored by the Oregon Humanities Center and the Asian Studies Program.

Friday, April 21, 2006

China Speaker Series – Engaging China: History, Culture, Politics
“Let the Best Win. Ritual, Performance, and Competition in Chinese History”
Ina Asim, Associate Professor of History, University of Oregon
Lillis Hall, Room 212
12:00 pm

This talk is cosponsored by the Lundquist College of Business.

Friday, April 28, 2006

Jeremiah Lecture Series
“Lovers, Talkers, Monsters, and Good Women: Contrasting Images from 16th-Century Chinese Epitaphs and Fiction.”
Katherine Carlitz, Assistant Director for Academic Affairs, Asian Studies Center; Adjunct Professor, Department of East Asian Languages & Literatures, University of Pittsburgh
Knight Library Browsing Room
3:30 pm

Monday, May 1, 2006

Jeremiah Lecture Series
“The City and the Citizen: Forms in Bombay and Bengal in the 50s Cinema”
Moinak Biswas, Department of Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Calcutta
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 pm

Moinak Biswas writes on Indian cinema and culture and has contributed to various journals and anthologies. He edits the Journal of the Moving Image, an annual publication of Jadavpur University, has edited two volumes of Bengali writings by Hemango Biswas, and the forthcoming (April, 2006) Apu and After: Revisiting Rays Cinema (Calcutta: Seagull Books and Oxford: Berg Publishers).

This event is presented by the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies and cosponsored by the CSWS Empire RIG, the Oregon Humanities Center, Asian Studies, Comparative Literature, English, Ethnic Studies, the Wayne Morse Center for Law and Politics, and the Center on Race, Ethnicity, and Sexuality Sttdies (CRESS).

Tuesday, May 2, 2006 – EVENT CANCELLED

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
Lillis Hall, Room 182
4:00 pm

Friday, May 5, 2006

China Speaker Series – Engaging China: History, Culture, Politics
“Transforming the Chinese Economy: The Making of a High Tech Competitor”
Richard P. Suttmeier, Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
Lillis Hall, Room 212
12:00 pm

This talk is cosponsored by the Lundquist College of Business.

Friday, May 12, 2006

Jeremiah Lecture Series
“Performing (in) Bali: Kembali, Bali, and Hyper-Bali”
Michael Tenzer, Professor of Music, University of British Columbia
Knight Library Browsing Room
3:00 pm

Bali’s vibrant culture has experienced virtually nonstop accelerated change for a hundred years or more, almost always in conjunction with the phenomenon of cross-cultural interaction. This presentation combines film and discussion to problematize the multidimensional strategies, successes, and compromises that Balinese culture–seen here in terms of its music–has devised to cope with such change, which includes both inward-facing ultra-traditionalism and the upheavals of ongoing interface with others. These videos will be used a springboard for discussing cross-cultural interaction in the Balinese context and how it has changed over time.

Thursday, May 18, 2006

Korea Speaker Series – Brown Bag Talk
“Institutional Inertia: The Six Party Talks and the Future of Two Koreas”
Sangbum Shin, Visiting Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Oregon
159 PLC (Oregon Humanities Center Conference Room)
12:00 pm

Friday, May 19, 2006

China Speaker Series – Engaging China: History, Culture, Politics
“Networked Intelligence for the China Market”
Robert Felsing, East Asian Bibliographer, Knight Library, University of Oregon
Lillis Hall, Room 212
12:00 pm

This talk is cosponsored by the Lundquist College of Business.

Thursday, May 25, 2006

Jeremiah Public Lecture
“Candor the World Over: Toward Some Unlikely Connections Between Japanese film, Global Ideology, Health Care and Political Resistance”
Eric Cazdyn, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Comparative Literature and Cinema Studies, University of Toronto
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:30 pm

This talk explores a new candor emerging in the world today, one that immediately recognizes the objective logic of global capitalism–how the stunning inequalities in the world (especially around access to life-saving medications) are not the result of capitalism’s failures, but of its successes. One unlikely place where this growing candor is expressed is in contemporary Japanese cinema (in particular, in the work of Tsukamoto Shinya, Miike Takashi, and Kurosawa Kiyoshi). Clinical, imminent, non-referential, and non-moralizing: these directors twist their cold obsession with horror and the wounded body out of the bloody facts of contemporary history–while at the same time seeming to care nothing for the world. But when these insular cinematic obsessions are put near our most radical democratic desires (for global equality and justice), something sparks and fuses with some of the more hopeful political movements in the world today.

Friday,June 2, 2006

China Speaker Series – Engaging China: History, Culture, Politics
“U.S.-China Relations: Is a Rising China a Threat to the U.S.?”
Hua-yu Li, Associate Professor of Political Science, Oregon State University
Lillis Hall, Room 212
12:00 pm

This talk is cosponsored by the Lundquist College of Business.

WINTER TERM EVENTS

Monday,January 23, 2006

Jeremiah Public Lecture
“Comparative Study of Religion: Its Relevance to Study of Any One Tradition and to Philosophy of Religion”
Dale Cannon, Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Western Oregon University
180 PLC
7:30 pm

Tuesday, January 24, 2006

Chinese New Year Celebration and Introduction of the
Chinese Flagship K-16 Academic Director, Madeline Spring
3:30 – 5:30 pm
EMU International Resource Center

Thursday, February 2, 2006

Jeremiah Public Lecture
“Meaning and Mantra: Indic Philosophy of Language in East Asia”
Richard Payne, Dean, Institute of Buddhist Studies, Graduate Theological Union
Gerlinger Lounge
7:30 pm

Monday, February 27, 2006

Phi Beta Kappa Public Lecture
“East and West in the Origins of a Modern World Economy”
Kenneth L. Pomeranz, Chancellor’s Professor of History, University of California, Irvine
180 Prince Lucien Campbell Hall
7:30 pm

Abstract:
Up until the eve of the Industrial Revolution, the more advanced economies in various parts of Eurasia were more similar than we had realized. This, in turn, demands new explanations for the enormous divergence in wealth and power that emerged in the nineteenth century and a new perspective on the old question of “Why was Europe first?”
Friday, March 10, 2006

“China: Its Borderlands and Its Neighbors”
Morris Rossabi, Professor of History, East Asian Institute at Columbia University and
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Clark Honors College Library – Chapman Hall
3:00 pm

This talk is presented by the Clark Honors College and cosponsored by the Center for Asian and Pacific Studies and the Department of History. For more info, please call 346-3345.

Monday,March 20, 2006

Jeremiah Public Lecture
“Scythe and the City: Exploring Death in 20th Century Shanghai”
Christian Henriot, Fulbright Scholar, Center for Chinese Studies, University of California, Berkeley
375 McKenzie Hall
4:00 pm

FALL TERM EVENTS

Thursday, October 6, 2005

Jeremiah Public Lecture
“Chinese Family Survival Strategies in War and Revolution”
Sherman Cochran, Hu Shih Professor of History, Cornell University
Knight Library Browsing Room
4:00 pm

Friday,October 7, 2005

CAPS/Asian Studies Reception
375 McKenzie Hall
3:00 – 5:00 pm

Thursday, October 13, 2005

Jeremiah Public Lecture
“Pakhtuns and Political Challenges for Pakistan”
Dr. Ghulam Taqi Bangash, Dean, Faculty of Arts & Humanities; Professor, Department of History, University of Peshawar, Pakistan
Rogue River Room (in the EMU, near the food court)
4:00 pm

Pakhtuns have been in the news ever since the Pakhtun-dominated government of the Taliban was ousted by U.S. forces in October 2002. That same month, an Islamist coalition was voted into office in the Pakhtun-dominated Northwest Frontier Province (NWFP) that borders Afghanistan in Pakistan. Today, global politics still embroil local politics in the NWFP as Pakistani military forces hunt for terrorists in Pakhtun tribal areas along the border. Professor Bangash will address what the issues are for Pakhtuns in Afghanistan, the NWFP and nearby tribal areas in Pakistan, and the ensuing political challenges these issues create for the government of Pakistan.

Friday, October 21, 2005

Jeremiah Public Lecture
“The Political Landscape of War Memory in Japan”
Franziska Seraphim, Department of History, Boston College
375 McKenzie Hall
3:00 pm

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