Burdick-Vary Symposium Friday, March 10, 2017 9:00 AM – 6:00 PM Pyle Center Session One – 10:00-12:30 – “Neo-Nationalisms and Empire” Daniel Ussishkin, UW Francine Hirsch, UW Laird Boswell, UW Louise Young, UW Viren Murthy, UW Session Two: – 2:00-4:30 – East Asian Regionalisms Sayuri Shimizu, Rice University Shelly Chan, UW Anne Hansen, UW Kim …
Omri Shafer Raviv “Early Dilemmas of the Israeli Occupation: Pacification, Modernization & the Reshaping of Palestine” Hye-Eun Choi “Munye-bu and Korean Record Production in the 1930s” Monday, February 27, 2017 11:50-1:20 PM Curti Lounge Click to view event poster (pdf)
Louise Young Professor of Japanese History, UW–Madison Wednesday, February 22, 2017 5:30-7:00 PM 212 University Club Building Japan built a wartime empire in Asia in the 1930s, and after losing that empire in 1945 created trading imperium under the American cold war umbrella. What are the lessons that imperial Japan can teach us about the …
Shelly Chan UW–Madison Assistant Professor of History Friday, February 3, 2017 12:00 – 1:30 PM 206 Ingraham Hall This talk asks how Chinese diaspora histories across the “South Seas” (Nanyang)—a maritime region connecting East and Southeast Asia from its height in the 1920s to its end in the 1960s—may help advance the understanding of trans-Asia. …
Panel on “Intimate Labors and Home Ownership” with April Haynes (early American republic) “Sweet Home and Elusive Homeownership in South Korea from the 1960s to 1970s” Eunhee Park Monday, October 24, 2016 11:50-1:20 PM Curti Lounge View event poster (pdf)
East Asian Connections The Transnational Humanities at the UW–Madison and Beyond Friday, April 17, 2015 1:00 – 3:00 PM Curti Lounge (Rm 5243 Humanities) “The Socialization of Risk in the Neoliberal City” Sean Dinces / History “City Stories as National Allegory in Postcolonial Africa” Emily Callaci/ History “Tokyo-centrism, or the Ideology of the Metropolis” Louise …