Memorial Library, Room 126 @ 4:30 pm
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 …
Nianshen Song (Tsinghua University)
Elvehjem Building, Room L160, 800 University Avenue @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm
Co-sponsored by the Department of History, The Center for East Asian Studies, and the Department of Art History
Honghong Tinn (University of Minnesota)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities) @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Andrew Bernstein (Lewis and Clark College)
Ingraham Hall (1155 Observatory Dr) @ 12:00 pm
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 …
Michael Wert (Marquette University)
Curti Lounge (5233 Mosse Humanities) @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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 …
Prasenjit Duara
Hybrid Event: Zoom & Sewell Social Science Building, Room 8108 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
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“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 …
Hilde De Weerdt (KU Leuven)
Ingraham Hall Room 206 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
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 …
Curti Lounge, 5233 Mosse Humanities Building @ 4:00 pm
“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 …
Pyle Center (702 Langdon St, Madison WI) Room 225 @ 6:00 pm
“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 …
Pyle Center 209 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
“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 …