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Kellee S. Tsai
Program Director

Jennifer Lin
Program Administrator

East Asian Studies Program
Mergenthaler 263
3400 N. Charles Street
Baltimore, MD 21218

Office Phone: (410)516-6456
Fax: (410)516-5515
Email: eastasian@jhu.edu

East Asian Studies Speaker Series Fall 2009


Professor John Skrentny, Dept. of Sociology, University of California at San Diego

September 17, 2009 noon-1.30pm, Mergenthaler 366

Can States Control Immigration? A Comparison of the US, Asia and Europe

        co-sponsored with Dept. of Political Science

 

Professor Frank Wu, School of Law, Howard University

October 1, 2009 noon-1.30pm, Mergenthaler 366

Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White

        co-sponsored with Dept. of Political Science and Race, Immigration, and Citizenship Working Group

 

Professor Takashi Nishiyama, Dept. of History, SUNY Brockport

October 15, 2009 3-5pm, History of Science and Technology, 3505 North Charles Street

Kamikaze Technology and its Aftermath: Mobilizing Engineers for War and Peace in Japan, 1932-64

        co-sponsored with Dept. of History of Science and Technology

 

Assoc. Professor Hugh Shapiro, Dept. of History, University of Nevada-Reno

October 22, 2009 3pm 3rd Floor, Welch Library, 1900 E. Monument St.

The Birth of Nervousness: Neurasthenia in Modern China

         co-sponsored with Dept. of Medicine

 

Mr. Richard Danziger, Independent Scholar

October 27, 2009 1.30-3.30pm, Charles Commons 304

Japanese Tea Culture

 

Assoc. Professor Nanxiu Qian, Dept. of Asian Studies, Rice University 

November 19, 2009 noon-1.30pm, Mergenthaler 366

Chronicling China's Reform: The Late Qing Woman Writer Xue Shaohui (1866-1911) and Her Intellectual Networks

 

East Asian Studies Speaker Series Spring 2009


Professor Dorothy Ko, Department of History, Barnard College
The Body of the Artisan; The Body of the Connoisseur: The Qing Inkstone Carver Gu Erniang and Her Patrons
January 26, 2009, 4:00-6:00 pm, Dell House 102B
           
co-sponsored with Department of History

Professor Gary Gereffi, Department of Sociology, Duke University
New Trends and Challenges for Latin American Development:  A Global Perspective
March 4, 2009, 5:30-7:00 pm, Sherwood Room, Garland
            co-sponsored with
Program in Latin American Studies and Department of Sociology

Professor Victor Nee, Department of Sociology, Cornell University
Political Connections in China's Market Economy
March 9, 2009, 12:00-1:30 pm, 526 Mergenthaler
            co-sponsored with
Department of Sociology

Professor Daniel Slater, Department of Political Science, University of Chicago
Democracy Without Accountability: Party Cartels and Presidential Power in Indonesia
March 24, 2009, 12:00-1:30 pm, Mattin 160
            co-sponsored with
Department of Political Science

Dr. Dong-Won Kim, Visiting Associate Professor, Department of History of Science and Technology, Johns Hopkins University
Two Different Images of the Nuclear Bomb in Japan and Korea, 1945-1960
March 25, 2009, 12:00-1:30 pm, 366 Mergenthaler

Professor Shang-Jin Wei, Columbia Business School
From Sex Ratio Imbalance to Global Economic Imbalances: Some Unintended Consequences of China’s Family Planning Policy
March 31, 2009, 12:00-1:30 pm, 526 Mergenthaler
            co-sponsored with
Department of Economics 

Mr. Henry Levine, Stonebridge International, State Department’s Foreign Service Institute
US-China Trade:  The Threat of Economic Mutually Assured Destruction
April 14, 2009, 12-1:30 pm, 526 Mergenthaler

East Asian Studies Speaker Series Fall 2008


Professor Ching Kwan Lee, Department of Sociology, University of California-Berkeley
Raw Encounters: Politics of Casualization in Africa’s China Enclaves
October 20, 2008, 12:00-1:30 pm, Mergenthaler 526
           
co-sponsored with Department of Sociology

Professor Deborah Brautigam, School of International Service, American University
China and the Foreign Aid Regime in Africa
November 17, 2008, 12:00-1:30 pm, Mergenthaler 366
            co-sponsored with Department of Political Science

Professor Nicola di Cosmo, Institute for Advanced Study
Before the Conquest: Opportunity and Choice in the Construction of Manchu Power
November 17, 2008, 4:00-6:00 pm, Dell House
            co-sponsored with Department of History

Ms. Yoko Tawada, Japanese-German poet
Writing the Web of Words
December 1, 2008, 5:00-6:45 pm, Mattin 162
            co-sponsored with German and Romance Languages and Literature


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