Past Events

Mar
18
2021

CEAS Humanities Colloquium: Jessey Choo, "The Men in Women's Hell: Gender in Daoist Blood Lake Soteriology in Pre-Modern China"

4:30pm - 6:00pm | Jessey Choo, Associate Professor of Chinese History and Religion at Rutgers University-New Brunswick
ONLINE via Zoom. REGISTER HERE

In pre-modern China, there appeared a curious and seemingly misogynous belief, namely, that all women were condemned to a special hell after death because their menses and blood from childbirth …

Mar
18
2021

RELS Book Launch: Hsiao-wen Cheng, "Divine, Demonic, and Disordered"

3:00pm - 3:00pm | Online via ZOOM
Hsiao-wen Cheng (Penn), with Lori Meeks (USC) Responding

Hsiao-wen Cheng (Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at Penn) will talk about her brand-new book…

Mar
18
2021

Korean Studies Colloquium: "By No Means Have They Been Completely Mellowed: Culture and the State on Chosŏn's Northern Border"

1:00pm - 1:00pm | Alexander Martin, Soch’on Scholar, University of Washington

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Mar
17
2021

CEAS Classroom Series with David Sneath: "Evolutionism in Historical Representations of 'Nomads'"

10:00am - 10:00am | David Sneath, Professor at Cambridge University
ONLINE via ZOOM. REGISTER HERE

In East Asian history, “nomads”…

Mar
09
2021

CEAS Classroom Series with Yan Liu: "Healing with Poisons"

12:00pm - 12:00pm | Yan Liu, Assistant Professor in History at SUNY, Buffalo
ONLINE via ZOOM. REGISTER HERE

At first glance, medicine and poison might seem to be opposites. But in China’s formative era of pharmacy (200–800 CE), poisons were strategically deployed as healing agents to cure everything from chills to pains to…

Mar
07
2021

Film screening of Alone Again in Fukushima ナオト、いまもひとりっきり

12:00am - 7:30pm | Streaming online on March 7th to 8th for preregistrants only! Register here for the film
and Register here for the panel discussion event on March 8th at 6pm EST.

Film synopsis:

Mar
05
2021