Graduate Workshops
Graduate workshops offer students, faculty and scholars the opportunity to exchange new research and participate in discussions about East Asia-related topics. Workshops are sponsored by CEAS and the University of Chicago Council on Advanced Studies in the Humanities and Social Sciences. Workshops take place for the entire academic year, and all are welcome to attend. Please check individual workshop websites below for current topics.
Art and Politics in East Asia
This workshop provides a common intellectual forum for students and scholars of diverse fields investigating the interaction of aesthetics with political economics as reflected in textual and visual media in East Asia.
Meets: Alternate Fridays, 4:00-6:00pm, Judd Hall, Room 313, 5835 S. Kimbark Ave.
Faculty sponsors: Paola Iovene, Michael Bourdaghs
Coordinators: Ling Zhang, Ji Young Kim
China Before Print
This workshop focuses on recent archaeological discoveries in China and addresses some of the most pressing issues in the study of ancient civilizations, bottom-up and inside-out.
Meets: Alternate Thursdays, 4:30-6:30, EALC Seminar room, Wieboldt Hall, 1050 E. 59th St.
Faculty sponsors: Edward Shaugnessy, Donald Harper
Coordinator: Jeff Tharsen
East Asia: Politics, Economy, Society, Culture
This workshop focuses on current social science research on East Asian societies, particularly Mainland China, Taiwan, Korea and Japan. The scope of the workshop is truly interdisciplinary, attracting students and faculty from economics, political science, sociology, international studies, and various other areas.
Meets: Alternate Tuesdays, 4:00-6:00pm, Pick Hall Lounge, 5828 S. University Ave.
Faculty sponsors: Dali Yang, Cheol-Sung Lee, Dingxin Zhao (on leave)
Coordinator: Jean Lin
East Asia: Trans-Regional Histories
This workshop invites University of Chicago graduate students and faculty, as well as scholars from other academic communities, to present creative and original work that speaks across the national lines of East Asia as well as the disciplinary lines of the academic community. Joint presentations among participants that incorporate multidisciplinary and/or trans-regional historical perspectives are especially encouraged.
Meets: Alternate Thursdays, 4:00-5:30pm, SSR 224 (John Hope Franklin Room), 1126 E. 59th St.
Faculty sponsors: Susan Burns, James Hevia
Coordinators: Covell Meyskens, Noriko Yamaguchi
Literature, Theater, and Cultural History of China, 1500-Present
This workshop aims to explore literature, theater, and cultural history of the past five centuries in Chinese-speaking communities, in close relation with other disciplines such as art, religion, music, and philosophy. While focusing on the flow of cultural productions and ideas across regional boundaries, we will also discuss theoretical and historical issues such as gender and sexuality, performance and popular culture, book publishing and print culture, and the interactions between text and image. Media of particular interest range from film, theater, performance and music, to print and material culture. Just as last year, we will continue to offer occasional screenings of Chinese opera film. This year’s focus will be on opera film production after the Cultural Revolution and extending to the present day.
Meets: Alternate Thursdays 4:30-6:30, Classics 111 1010 E. 59th Street
Faculty sponsor: Judith Zeitlin, Yuming He
Coordinator: Anne Rebull
Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia
This workshop serves as a critical forum for the presentation of work addressing problems in the visual and material studies of East Asia, a region defined broadly to include China, Central, Asia, Japan, Korea, and Tibet. This workshop explores if and how theories of visuality current in western contexts may be applied to East Asia, and how approaches from both Eastern and Western scholarship may be fruitfully combined in visual and material studies.
Meets: Alternate Fridays, 4:00-6:00pm, Chochrane-Woods Arts Center, Room 152, 5540 South Greenwood Ave.
Faculty sponsors: Wu Hung, Ping Foong
Coordinator: Eleanor Hyun, Nancy Lin
