Events

Please join us at APEA tomorrow, Friday April 19 for a dissertation proposal workshop. PhD students from EALC who are working on their dissertation proposals will present the basic ideas of their projects and discuss their progress and needs in the process of writing proposals. Abstracts for the proposals can be accessed HERE with the password prospectus 1. Please do not circulate the materials without consent from the authors. This session will be held over Zoom. We hope to see you there!

Dissertation Proposal Workshop

Presenters:

Lilian Kong, EALC & CMS

Danlin Zhang, EALC

Yunjun Zhou, EALC

Time: Friday, April 19, 3-5pm CT

Location: TBA

Please feel free to contact Danlin (danlinz@uchicago.edu) or James (kennerly@uchicago.edu) with any questions you might have, and we look forward to seeing you at the workshop!

Featuring Award-Winning Japanese Writer, Kaori Fujino

April 19, 2024 - 5:00 pm

Franke Institute for the Humanities, 1100 East 57th Street Chicago, IL 60637

THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT AND WILL NOT BE LIVE STREAMING.

This bilingual reading will feature the award-winning Nails and Eyes and will feature Japanese author, Kaori Fujino, and English translator Kendall Heitzman (University of Iowa). With masterful narrative control, Nails and Eyes—appearing in English for the first time—builds to a conclusion of disturbing power. Paired with two additional stories of unsettled minds and creeping tension, it introduces a daring new voice in Japanese literature. This event is co-sponsored with the Japan Foundation, New York, the University of Iowa’s Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, and the Seminary Co-op Bookstores.

“North Korea’s Mundane Revolution, 1953-1965”

THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT AND WILL NOT BE LIVE STREAMING.

Thursday, April 25, 2024 - 6:30 pm

Joseph Regenstein Library, Room 122 1100 E. 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637

Part of the CEAS Lecture Series, this lecture is co-sponsored with the University of Chicago Library and features University of Toronto’s Andre Schmid. Professor Schmid presents findings from his recently published monograph of the same title which examines how North Korean Party-state emphasis on ideological and cultural change in pursuit of socialist goals ironically led to the depoliticization of two of is key revolutionary categories – class and gender.

THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT AND WILL NOT BE LIVE STREAMING.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

This two-day conference brings together scholars with an interdisciplinary focus on sound and writing in East Asia from across the academic fields of literature, history, music, media, sound, and performance. The purpose of the event is to facilitate innovative approaches to understanding and articulating intersections of aural and print cultures. While these explorations of sound and text may be situated specifically within the contexts of China, Japan, and Korea, the conference aims to foster scholarly contributions beyond the field of East Asian area studies.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

April 26 (Friday)

1:15-1:30 pm Opening remarks

1:30-3:30 pm Panel 1: Poetics

Discussant: Hoyt Long (EALC, University of Chicago)

• Andrew Campana (Cornell University), “A Lost Tape Recorder of Postwar Japan”
• Siting Jiang (University of Chicago), “Line Breaks and Tian Jian’s Poetry for Recitation”
• Si Nae Park (Harvard University), “Scriptspace, Soundscape, and Poetic Prowess in Yorowŏn yahwagi (1678)”

3:30-4:00 pm Tea Break

4:00-6:30 pm Panel 2: Music

Discussant: Michael Bourdaghs (EALC, University of Chicago)

• YoungEun Kim (University of California, Santa Cruz), “A Study on the Origins of ‘Ear Training’ in the Modernization Period of Korea: Japanese Music Education and Military Training”
• Jacob Reed (University of Chicago), “Chenzi as supplement: Tune-type and Meaning in Kunqu Theory”
• Susanna Sun (University of Chicago), “The Butterfly Lovers: From Yue Opera’s Stage Play to PRC’s first Violin Concerto”
• Ethan Waddell (University of Chicago), “Psychedelic Codes and Close Listening to South Korean Fiction”

SPONSORS

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago, with support from a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the University of Chicago Library, and the Arts & Politics in East Asia Workshop.

PHOTOGRAPHY/VIDEOGRAPHY

Please note that there may be photography taken during this educational event by the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies for archival and publicity purposes. By attending this event, participants are confirming their permission to be photographed and the University of Chicago’s right to use, distribute, copy, and edit the recordings in any form of media for non-commercial, educational purposes, and to grant rights to third parties to do any of the foregoing.

THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT AND WILL NOT BE LIVE STREAMING.

ABOUT THE PROGRAM

This two-day conference brings together scholars with an interdisciplinary focus on sound and writing in East Asia from across the academic fields of literature, history, music, media, sound, and performance. The purpose of the event is to facilitate innovative approaches to understanding and articulating intersections of aural and print cultures. While these explorations of sound and text may be situated specifically within the contexts of China, Japan, and Korea, the conference aims to foster scholarly contributions beyond the field of East Asian area studies.

PROGRAM SCHEDULE

April 27 (Saturday)

9:30-10:00 am Light breakfast on conference site (available to participants and registrants)

10:00-12:00 pm Panel 3: Language

Discussant: Sarah Nooter (Classics, University of Chicago)

• Janet Chen (Princeton University), “Medium or Message? The Politics of Language in Broadcasting in Taiwan, 1955-1975”
• Elvin Meng (University of Chicago), “Rituals of the Wild: The Concept of Orality in the History of Manchu Thought”
• Alex Murphy (Clark University), “Sound-Writing and Acoustics in Kanetsune Kiyosuke’s Structure of Japanese Language and Song”

12:00-1:00 pm Lunch on site (available to participants and registrants)

1:00-3:30 pm Panel 4: Media

Discussant: Thomas Lamarre (CMS & EALC, University of Chicago)

• Linshan Jiang (Duke University), “Voicing Queer Sexuality in Chinese BL Novel and Audio Drama”
• I Jonathan Kief (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), “Listening across Borders in the Cold War Koreas”
• Jiarui Sun (University of Chicago), “In My Words You Feel: Amateur Script Writing and Platformed Care”
• Hang Wu (University of Chicago), “Broadcasting Infrastructures and Electromagnetic Fatality: Listening to Enemy Radio in Socialist China.”

3:30-4:00 pm Tea Break

4:00-5:00 pm Keynote Speech

Jina E. Kim (University of Oregon), “Sonic Contact Zones”

1227 E 60th St, Chicago, IL 60637

SPONSORS

This event is co-sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Chicago, with support from a Title VI National Resource Center Grant from the U.S. Department of Education, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the University of Chicago Library, and the Arts & Politics in East Asia Workshop.

PHOTOGRAPHY/VIDEOGRAPHY

Please note that there may be photography taken during this educational event by the University of Chicago Center for East Asian Studies for archival and publicity purposes. By attending this event, participants are confirming their permission to be photographed and the University of Chicago’s right to use, distribute, copy, and edit the recordings in any form of media for non-commercial, educational purposes, and to grant rights to third parties to do any of the foregoing.

“The Serial Killer: Making Sense of War and Defeat in Occupied Japan (1945-1952)”

THIS IS AN IN-PERSON EVENT AND WILL NOT BE LIVE STREAMING.

Tuesday, April 30 · 5 - 6:30pm CDT

Joseph Regenstein Library, Room 122 1100 E. 57th St. Chicago, IL 60637

Part of the CEAS Lecture Series, this event is co-sponsored with the University of Chicago Library and features the University of Southern California’s Benjamin Uchiyama. While much has been written about the Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952), surprisingly little scholarly attention has been paid to one of the most notorious criminals who captivated Japanese public attention during that period. In August 1946, ex-soldier Kodaira Yoshio was arrested and charged for the murder of seven young women during the last months of the war and the first year of the occupation. Subsequent public debates attempted to explain his crimes in connection to Kodaira’s wartime experience in China, thus underscoring the importance for Japan to fully extirpate its wartime past. Another stream of thought, however, located the crimes in the context of the chaos and breakdown in social order still afflicting Japanese society in the wake of defeat. These debates, coming so soon after Japan’s surrender, helped lay the first building block of postwar Japanese memories of the war and understandings of defeat. Professor Uchiyama is Associate Profess of History and author of Japan’s Carnival War: Mass Culture on the Home Front, 1937-1945 (Cambridge University Press, 2019) which received the 2021 John Whitney Hall Prize from the Association for Asian Studies.