Past Event Category: East Asian History
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Apr 7Chinese Badgers/Badgers in China
Memorial Library, Room 126
Chinese Badgers/Badgers of China: Profiles of early UW–Madison students presented in the context of a 19th-century Chinese debate over the value of student exchanges The annual spring “Chinese Badgers” workshop offers opportunities for students to present profiles of early UW–Madison students who came to Madison from—or worked in—China. This year’s workshop will place these …
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Mar 11“Space, State, and Daily Life in a Manchurian City”
Nianshen Song (Tsinghua University)
Elvehjem Building, Room L160, 800 University Avenue
Co-sponsored by the Department of History, The Center for East Asian Studies, and the Department of Art History
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Jan 23History of Science Medicine and Technology Colloquium with Honghong Tinn
Honghong Tinn (University of Minnesota)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities)
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Oct 13“Fuji: the Making of a Global Mountain”
Andrew Bernstein (Lewis and Clark College)
Ingraham Hall (1155 Observatory Dr)
Mount Fuji commands attention. Visible to millions in Tokyo, its iconic silhouette is recognizable around the world. At the same time, industries and military bases located on and around the mountain connect it to economic and political networks with global reach. By examining both the representation and material exploitation of Fuji over the past several …
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Oct 8“Politics of the Sword: Ideology and the Martial in Early Modern Japan”
Michael Wert (Marquette University)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities)
This talk explores how the notion of embodied martiality became central to the ideological underpinnings of Tokugawa rule. From martial esotericism to swordsmanship, being “never quite warrior enough” defined warrior status and, by appealing to desire, opened up opportunities for commoners and marginal warriors to become activists during the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate. …
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Apr 14“BioCultural Diversity and Agency in the Anthropocene: Dams and Precarity along the Mekong”
Prasenjit Duara
Hybrid Event: Zoom & Sewell Social Science Building, Room 8108 Register Here for Zoom
“BioCultural Diversity and Agency in the Anthropocene: Dams and Precarity along the Mekong” Prasenjit Duara (Duke University) This event is presented in collaboration with the Institute for International and Regional Studies National Resource Center (IRIS NRC). Prasenjit Duara is the Oscar Tang Chair of East Asian Studies at Duke University. He was born and educated …
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Mar 17Mobilizing Chinese Information and Media in Early Modern France: How the History of Information Can Inform Global Conceptual and Intellectual Histories of Governance and Infrastructure
Hilde De Weerdt (KU Leuven)
Ingraham Hall Room 206
Professor Hilde De Weerdt is a historian of early modern Chinese and global history, specializing in information and intellectual history. She is also a leading figure in Digital Humanities. Using examples from her two latest research projects on the global history of medieval Sinitic political advice literature and the social history of Chinese material infrastructures, …
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Jan 30“WWII Comrades to Korean War Enemies and Cold War Strangers: Three Chinese Interpreters’ Trans-imperial Encounters” – David Chang
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building
“WWII Comrades to Korean War Enemies and Cold War Strangers: Three Chinese Interpreters’ Trans-imperial Encounters” David Chang (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology) Join us for our first Spring semester lecture titled “WWII Comrades to Korean War Enemies and Cold War Strangers: Three Chinese Interpreters’ Trans-imperial Encounters” in the Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse …
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Dec 5Madison History Club Fall 2024 Public Lecture: “Chivalry, Stoicism, and the Way of the Samurai in Modern Japan”
Pyle Center (702 Langdon St, Madison WI) Room 225
“Chivalry, Stoicism, and the Way of the Samurai in Modern Japan” Sarah Thal (UW–Madison, Department of History) The Way of the Samurai (bushido) is often seen as a centuries-old traditional code of Japan’s elite warrior class. However, not only did the idea of a distinct Way of the Samurai only originate around 1600, but proponents …
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Sep 5Amy Stanley, “Revisiting the ‘Comfort Girls’ of Report 49: Race, Sex, and Propaganda in Asia’s War for Empire”
Pyle Center 209
“Revisiting the “Comfort Girls” of Report 49: Race, Sex, and Propaganda in Asia’s War for Empire” Amy Stanley (Wayne V. Jones II Research Professor in History, Northwestern University) Amy Stanley (Ph.D., Harvard, 2007) is a social historian of early modern and modern Japan, with special interests in global history, women’s and gender history, and narrative. …