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
THIS WILL BE A CHINESE-LANGUAGE ONLY LECTURE. NO INTERPRETERS WILL BE AVAILABLE.
Based on the author's recently published book, Laws of the Land: Fengshui and the State in Qing Dynasty China (Princeton, 2023), this talk explores fengshui’s invocations in Chinese…
This paper delves into the structural and theoretical relationship between the One-child generation (O-generation) and their origin story: the ‘missing girls’.
This talk presents a fascinating look at the anxious pleasures of Japanese visual culture during World War II. Airplanes, gas masks, and bombs were common images in wartime Japan.
This talk examines how academic perspectives on China’s 18th and 19th Century economic decline change when the decline is not viewed in temporal isolation, but instead in conjunction with the…
Drawing on Karl Marx’s ecologically-driven concepts of the “Metabolic Rift” and the “emancipation of senses,” Ping Zhu's talk explores the human-nature relationship depicted in two Chinese Great…
Iris Murdoch famously extolled the role of art—particularly literature—in breaking the individual out of the prison of the self, allowing them to properly attend to the social…
This talk will look at the making and unmaking of an imperial region within the Japanese Empire; that of the two cities of Fukuoka and Pusan and the urbanizing, industrializing zone that…
This talk outlines the ways in which “hedonism” as a term can aptly be used to describe doctrines from ancient China.…
The anonymous poetic sequence Twenty Poems about Dunhuang (Dunhuang ershi yong) describes the history, geography, and lore of the Dunhuang region.