Events | Center for East Asian Studies

The Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) supports interaction across division and interdisciplinary lines for the benefit of its faculty and students. CEAS is also committed to fostering academic and programming partnerships with domestic and international institutions. In doing so, we host and sponsor public events that reflect our mission in supporting the rigorous study of East Asia by fostering public programming to enhance the understanding of China, Japan, and Korea.

From lectures to workshops, conferences, film series, cultural events, performing arts, K-16 outreach, and other programs, CEAS-sponsored events are free and open to the public.

To learn more about upcoming events, please visit the CEAS Calendar of Events and be sure to sign-up for the weekly CEAS e-Bulletin.

To learn more about CEAS signature series for lectures, book talks, and activities with graduate student workshops, please explore the following links:

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UChicago Professor Zhiying Ma providing concluding remarks at conference on Disability Activism in China.

Presenters at podium during symposium on Kabuki in Print: Actor Fans, Image, and Medium in Early Modern Japan and Beyond.

Film screening panel with Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang.

Full-house view of film screening panel with Taiwanese director Tsai Ming-Liang.

Audience listening to East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talk with Jessamyn Abel of Penn State.

People getting books signed at event with contemporary Japanese writer, Hiromi Ito, and poet and translator, Jeffrey Angles

Goddess Silent Film Musical Accompaniment

Min Xiaofen playing pipa and Rez Abbasi playing guitar as live accompaniment for the Chinese, silent film The Goddess

View of the screen of the black and white Chinese, silent film The Goddess with live musical accompaniment.

Performers from Okinawan Traditional and Folk Music Dance Troupe standing on stage. 10) Graduate student engaging with audience member during international Japan Studies workshop.