CEAS Colloquium Series
The CEAS Colloquium Series is a public lecture series that covers topics in the humanities, arts and social sciences in East Asia. All lectures are free and open to the public. Find out more about the speakers and lecture topics below.
Past Events
China surpassed North America to become the world ’s largest movie market in 2020.
Kunimi or “land-viewing” is usually defined as an ancient Japanese ritual in which the ruler climbed a mountain or high place and…
From Waste Tide to AI2041, Chen's works imagine the plural versions of futures in which human, nature and technologies co-exist and co-evolve in a hyper sophisticated interaction…
In Development Drowned and Reborn, Clyde Woods proposes the imagining of new worlds—worlds “more egalitarian and democratic,” and more committed…
The global success of K-content (cultural products) seems to have been officially acknowledged, with the boy band BTS, the movie Parasite, and the drama Squid Game…
Imperial Gateway explores the political, social, and economic significance of colonial Taiwan in the southern expansion of Japan's empire from 1895 to the end of World War II.
The core works that collect early Japanese myths (the 712 CE Kojiki and 720 Nihon shoki) contain numerous references to male and female beauty, usually in the…
The Wuyi guangchang documents are so-called because they were unearthed in 2010 by workers digging in Wuyi (May the First) Square in downtown Changsha in preparation for the number 2 subway line…
Men of varying classes, ethnicities, and ages across the Qing empire (1644-1911) resorted to suicide.
What does reading poetry have to do with savoring “beef stew cooked in a bronze cauldron,” or “scallop whose exquisite flavor gives you headache?” For the Song thinkers, the…
