Published on Aug 12, 2022
An initiative that advances the Center’s mission in fostering dialogue and interdisciplinary collaboration, this annual public lecture series presents eminent scholars who concentrate on the study of East Asia in a variety of disciplines.
2022 - 2023 Speakers
Robert Weller (Boston University)
Professor of Anthropology
Title: "Chairman Mao and the Ferocious General: Value Pluralism, Value Play, and Ritual Subjunctives in Chinese Religion"
Date: Thursday, October 13, 2022, 5 pm (US Central Time)
Venue: Joseph Regenstein Library, Room 122
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Darren Byler (Simon Fraser University)
Assistant Professor of International Studies
Title: "The Camp as Classroom: Discipline, Technology and Agency in Uyghur Internment in Northwest China"
Date: Friday, October 21, 2022, 3:30 pm (US Central Time)
Venue: Joseph Regenstein Library, Room 122
Please note that the speaker did not authorize the recording of their lecture.
Also co-sponsored with the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights as part of its 25th-anniversary celebration, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
J. Keith Vincent (Boston University)
Associate Professor of Japanese & Comparative Literature and Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies, Convener of Japanese
Title: "Haiku and the 'Desire to Write': on Masaoka Shiki and Marcel Proust"
Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2023, 5 pm (US Central Time)
Venue: Joseph Regenstein Library, Room 122
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Laura Moretti (University of Cambridge)
University Associate Professor in Pre-Modern Japanese Studies
Title: "When Reading Morphs into Play Early Modern Japan and Ludic Literature"
Date: Thursday, April 27, 2023, 5 pm (US Central Time)
Venue: Zoom
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