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| Yuichi Hosoya, Professor of International Politics, Keio University
Perry World House, Global Policy Lab
Japan has promoted the Open and Free Indo-Pacific Strategy (FOIP) at a time of growing US-China rivalry. While the US is Japan’s indispensable ally sharing core values and strategic interests, China has been…
This event will be a celebration of CEAS faculty Prof. Eiichiro Azuma’s new book, In Search of Our Frontier: Japanese America and Settler Colonialism in the Construction of Japan’s Borderless Empire and…
Wai-chan is one of the last remaining fishermen in Ushimado, a small village in Seto Inland Sea, Japan. At the age of 86, he still fishes alone on a small boat to make his…
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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…
