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First Fridays Lunch Talk Series
Concise, informal presentations by EALC faculty on current research interests.
First Fridays Lunch Talk Series
Michael Puett - Possible Futures for Area Studies
Wai-yee Li - Lost and Found: Ming Objects in Qing China
Peter Bol - From Kinship to Collegiality: Using Data to Visualize Social and Intellectual Change
Sun Joo Kim - Yu Tae-ch'ing Family Documents at the Harvard-Yenching Library
William M. Tsutsui - Thinking Through Godzilla
David Atherton - The Kibyōshi Author Between Manuscript Draft and Printed Book
Shigehisa Kuriyama - Toward a History of Timeless Wisdom
Si Nae Park - Sounds of Reading in Chosŏn Korea
Andrew Gordon - When History Meets Tourism: World Heritage Sites of Japan's Industrial Revolution
Alexander Zahlten - Electricity, Circuits, and Film in Japan
Michael Szonyi - Modern China: A Village History
David Wang - Small Talk vs. Big Talk: Why Storytelling Matters in Contemporary China
Stephen Owen - Too Many Commentaries: Rereading the “Nine Songs”
Xiaofei Tian - Writing Empire, Writing Self in Early Medieval China
David Sena - Fudging Ancestry in an Early Chinese Bronze Inscription
Ryuichi Abe - The Pleasure of the Dharma for Gods: The Heart Sutra in Medieval Japan
Mark Elliott - On the Tracks of 'Empire' in China
Nara Dillon - China's Regressive Welfare State: What Were They Thinking?
David Howell - He Agreed to Edit a Journal. What Happened Next Will Stun You.
Jie Li - Madame Mao and Cinema: Actress, Censor, Critic, and Producer
Helen Hardacre - Current Debate on Constitutional Revision in Japan
Janet Gyatso - Being Human in a Buddhist World: An Intellectual History of Medicine in Early Modern Tibet
Tomiko Yoda - Girlscape
Karen Thornber - On the Medical Humanities
David McCann - On Korean Poetry