4/4 Professor Michael Wert (Assistant Professor, History, Marquette University): “Memory Landscapes and the Meiji Restoration in Modern Japan”

4/17 (Wed) Professor Hoyt Long (Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago): “Global Literary Networks: Macro-Scale Approaches to the Sociology of Literature and Translation”

5/2 Wei-Ti Chen (PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago): “Cosmopolitan Medicine, National Medical Profession: The Evaluation of Foreign Medical Certificates in Meiji Japan”

5/30 Max Bohnenkamp (PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago): “A “New Folk Marvel-Tale” (Xin minjian chuanqi 新民间传奇): The Revolutionary Re-Writing of Chinese Folklore and Literary Tradition in The White Haired Girl“

6/13 Cameron Penwell (PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago)