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”
May 30 (Thursday) 4:00-6:00 p.m.
Location: Judd 313
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“
6/6 Noriko Yamaguchi ( PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago)
6/13 Cameron Penwell (PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago)
1/10: Susan Burns (Associate Professor of History and East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago): “Hybrid Institutions/Local Solutions: The Iwakura “Colony” and Academic Psychiatry in Prewar Japan”
1/17: Mark Caprio (Professor, Intercultural Communication, Rikkyo University): “Wartime Preparations for East Asian Occupations: Laying the Foundations for Postwar Alliances”
1/24: Tomoko Seto (PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago): “Media Representations of the 1906 Protest Against the Streetcar Fare Increase in Tokyo”
2/7: Novella Chiechi (PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago): “State Formation and Household Registration Documentation in the early PRC and USSR”
2/14: Peng Xu (PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago): “Courtesans versus Literati: Gendered Soundscapes in Late-Ming Singing Culture (1547-1644)”
2/21: Jon Glade (PhD Candidate, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago): “Occupied Liberation: The US Military Occupation of Japan and Southern Korea”
3/7: Douglas Howland (David D. Buck Professor of Chinese History, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee): “Meiji Japan and International Administrative Unions: An Alternative Genealogy of Internationalism”
3/14: Junhyung Chae (PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago): “From Spiritualism to Diffused Confucianism: The Transformation of Daoyuan Religiosity”
10/4: Laura Hein (Professor, History, Northwestern University): “The Art of Bourgeois Culture in Kamakura”
11/1: Amy Stanley (Assistant Professor, History, Northwestern University): “Tsuneno’s Story: Thinking about Networks and Households (ie) in Late Tokugawa Japan”
11/9 (Friday): Poshek Fu (Professor, History, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): “Between Left and Right: Cold War Politics and Mid-Twentieth-Century Hong Kong Cinema”
11/15: Nianshen Song (PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago): “Immigrants, Mobility, and Banditry: the Formation of the ‘Kando’ Society”
11/28 (Wednesday): Bruce Cumings (Gustavus F. and Ann M. Swift Distinguished Service Professor in History and the College, University of Chicago): “Back to the Future: Obama’s ‘Pivot’ to Asia in Historical Perspective”
12/6: Noriko Yamaguchi (PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago): “History of Reforms in Hamlet M, 1750s-1950s”
The time and locations are to be announced.
Joshua Fogel
(Professor, Canada Research Chair, History, York University)
“The Afterlife of a Material Object: The Mysterious Gold Seal of 57 C.E.”
Prasenjit Duara
Raffles Professor of Humanities, Director of Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore
“Competitive Temporalities and Historical Societies: The Place of Early Modern Circulations”
May 2 (Wednesday), 4-6 pm
Location: HM 103
Professor Duara’s paper and ppt are available below:
March 27 (Tuesday): Julia Strauss ( Senior Lecturer in Chinese Politics, SOAS, University of London)
“Theatres of Land Reform: Repertoire and Campaign in Su’nan and Taiwan, 1950-53″
April 12: Jacob Eyferth (Associate Professor, EALC, University of Chicago)
“Women’s work and the Politics of Homespun in Socialist China, 1949-1980″
April 19: Pär Cassel (Assistant Professor, History, University of Michigan)
“Tinker, tailor, consul, sailor: Sino-Japanese Extraterritoriality under the Treaty of Tianjin, 1871-95″
May 2: Prasenjit Duara (Raffles Professor of Humanities, Director of Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore)
“Competitive Temporalities and Historical Societies: The Place of Early Modern Circulations”
May 17: Deokhyo Choi (PhD Candidate, History, Cornell University)
“Racializing the Postwar Crisis: Democratization and the Making of “the Korean Problem” in U.S./Allied-occupied Japan, 1946-1947″
May 24: Seongun Kim (PhD Candidate, History, University of Chicago)
“Entertaining Japan: Japan’s Postwar Entertainment Broadcasting and the Discourse of Media Responsibility”
June 1 (Friday): Joshua Fogel (Professor, Canada Research Chair, History, York University)
“The Afterlife of a Material Object: The Mysterious Gold Seal of 57 C.E.”
Noriko Yamaguchi
Ph.D Candidate, History, University of Chicago
East Asia: Transregional Histories Workshop’s winter schedule is as follows:
January 26: Monica Kim (Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow, U Chicago)
“Empire’s Babel: Making the Decolonized Subject in the U.S. Military Interrogation Rooms of the Korean War.”
February 9: Stacie Hanneman (PhD Candidate, History, U Chicago)
“Event or Totality? Transit Passes and Questions of Governance in Treaty Port China”
February 23: Helen Findley (PhD Candidate, EALC, U Chicago)
“Practical Preaching: Shaku Soen and the Creation of a Buddhist Citizenry”
March 8: Noriko Yamaguchi (PhD Candidate, History, U Chicago)
“Reforming” Rural Everyday Life: Domestic Reforms in 1950s Japan.”
We will meet at 4 pm in JHF Room (SS224). If you have any questions, please contact Jun-hyung Chae (jhchae@uchicago.edu).