THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
Events
East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks ft. Giorgio Biancorosso (University of Hong Kong)
Remixing Wong Kar-wai: Music, Bricolage, and the Aesthetics of Oblivion
Thursday, February 27, 2025 | 5 pm CST
Franke Institute for the Humanities, 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, IL 60637
BOOK GIVEAWAY!
Score a FREE copy of Giorgio Biancorosso’s book!
The first (5) University of Chicago students (currently enrolled) who register to attend the event will receive their very own copy, compliments of the Center for East Asian Studies! Please click HERE to register and for more information!
This event is presented in partnership with the Seminary Co-op Bookstores and sponsored by the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies.
Beyond Modernism – The Formation of Buddhist Identities in Asia (Part I)
A 2-Day Workshop at the University of Chicago
March 7, 2025 | 9 am CT
Swift Hall | 1025 East 58th Street 1st Floor Common Room Chicago, IL 60637
To assist us with our planning, please be sure to register foreachdate individually by selecting the appropriate date to ensure your registration for each day of the workshop! Click HERE to register and for the full program schedule.
This workshop seeks to move beyond an East/West axis in exploring the emergence and subsequent development of so-called “modernist” forms of Buddhism. In focusing on the entwinement of movements within Asia itself, the workshop takes inspiration from and aims to address recent concerns in the critical Asian humanities after the “transnational turn.” Central to this wider methodological aim is to reconsider the usefulness of “modernism” as a framework for conceptualizing Asian, and ultimately global, religious identities. As such, the workshop addresses itself not only to scholars of religion but also to those with broader interests in the study of Asian political and cultural histories from a transnational perspective.
This workshop is sponsored by the University of Chicago Divinity School, the Wedemeyer Faculty Fund for Tibetan Studies and History of Religions, the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and the Center for East Asian Studies.
Beyond Modernism – The Formation of Buddhist Identities in Asia (Part II)
A 2-Day Workshop at the University of Chicago
March 8, 2025 | 9 am CT
Swift Hall | 1025 East 58th Street 1st Floor Common Room Chicago, IL 60637
To assist us with our planning, please be sure to register foreachdate individually by selecting the appropriate date to ensure your registration for each day of the workshop! Click HERE to register and for the full program schedule.
This workshop seeks to move beyond an East/West axis in exploring the emergence and subsequent development of so-called “modernist” forms of Buddhism. In focusing on the entwinement of movements within Asia itself, the workshop takes inspiration from and aims to address recent concerns in the critical Asian humanities after the “transnational turn.” Central to this wider methodological aim is to reconsider the usefulness of “modernism” as a framework for conceptualizing Asian, and ultimately global, religious identities. As such, the workshop addresses itself not only to scholars of religion but also to those with broader interests in the study of Asian political and cultural histories from a transnational perspective.
This workshop is sponsored by the University of Chicago Divinity School, the Wedemeyer Faculty Fund for Tibetan Studies and History of Religions, the Committee on Southern Asian Studies, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, and the Center for East Asian Studies.
East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks ft. Hang Tu (National University of Singapore)
Sentimental Republic: Chinese Intellectuals and the Maoist Past
Tuesday, March 11, 2025 | 5 pm CST
Franke Institute for the Humanities, 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, IL 60637
BOOK GIVEAWAY!
Score a FREE copy of Hang Tu’s book!
The first (4) University of Chicago students (currently enrolled) who register to attend the event will receive their very own copy, compliments of the Center for East Asian Studies! Please click HERE to register and for more information!
This event is presented in partnership with the Seminary Co-op Bookstores and sponsored by the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies.
CEAS Lecture Series ft. Alexander Des Forges (University of Massachusetts-Boston)
“The Stuff of Literary Labor: Thinking about Text (wenzi) in China, 1000-1800 CE”
May 13, 2025 | 5:00 pm
Joseph Regenstein Library, Room 122 1100 E. 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637
Please click HERE to register and for more information!
This event is co-sponsored with the University of Chicago Library and the Center for East Asian Studies.