Past Events

Past Events




CEAS Humanities Colloquium: Joshua Batts, "Outreach to the East(ern Nanban): Tokugawa Japan's Spanish Decade, 1603-1613"

- | Joshua Batts, PhD, Research Associate, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge University
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CEAS ICEA Series: "Organized for Peace?: Japan's Postwar Military Experiment"

- | Dr. Sheila Smith, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
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CEAS Classroom Series with Brooke McCorkle: "Nature, Technology, and Sound Design in Gojira (1954)"

- | Brooke McCorkle, Carleton College
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McCorkle plans to talk about her article and related book chapter on “Nature, Technology, and Sound Design in Gojira (1954)”.

 




CSCC Speaker Series: "Subversion or Seduction? Holding China’s Economic Statecraft Accountable"

- | Audrye Wong, Postdoctoral Fellow, Harvard Kennedy School and MIT’s Security Studies Program

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Korean Co-sponsored Event: "Ideologies and Materialities of Choice"

- | Jorge L. A. Garcia Professor, Boston College
Nancy H. Kwak Associate Professor, University of California, San Diego
Heonik Kwon, Professor, Trinity College, University of Cambridge

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CEAS Humanities Colloquium: Erin Brightwell, "Reflecting the Past: Place, Language, and Principle in Japan’s Medieval Mirror Genre”

- | Online via Zoom. REGISTER HERE
Erin Brightwell, Assistant Professor of Pre-modern Japanese Literature, University of Michigan

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Korean Co-sponsored Event: "Sticky Activism: Online Misogyny and Feminist Anti-Hate Activism in South Korea"

- | Jinsook Kim, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Pennsylvania

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CSCC Speaker Series: "Calculating Bully: Explaining China’s Coercion"

- | Ketian Zhang, Assistant Professor of International Security, George Mason University

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World War II Film Series Watch Party: The Human Bullet (1968)

- | ONLINE via Zoom. REGISTER HEREPlease NOTE: Access to the film itself will not be provided, but it can be streamed on available platforms.

The Human Bullet, 1968,
written and directed by Okamoto Kihachi

This satirical look at the absurd side of World War II deals with the topic of human torpedoes and suicide missions.  The unnamed…