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| Thomas D Conlan, Professor of East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University
College Hall 205
The Ōuchi family were kings in all but name over much of the Japanese archipelago, while their city of Yamaguchi functioned as an important regional entrepôt. This talk reveals how Ōuchi control over copper and…
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| Mary Brinton, Professor, Harvard University
Williams Hall 623
Professor Mary Brinton is the Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology and Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University. She joined the Harvard faculty…
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| Hwansoo Kim, Associate Professor, Yale University
Williams Hall 623
This talk will examine the work of a largely forgotten Korean Buddhist laywoman, Court Lady Ch’ŏn Ilch’ŏng (1848 – 1934?), who served as one of the highest-ranking ladies in the court of the late Chosŏn dynasty…
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| Chapurukha M. Kusimba, Professor, American University
Penn Museum, Classroom L1 (3260 South St)
Complex and intricate human networks have crisscrossed the Indian Ocean and surrounding lands, and linked Africa to East Asia. The first expansion of humans – Homo erectus- began 2.4 – 1.8 million ago…
