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Charles Hartman, Professor of East Asian Studies at University at Albany - "Cash In, Paper Out: The Politics of Paper Currency in Song China"

- | Williams Hall 844

In the conventional understanding of Chinese history, the Song dynasty (960-1279) appears as a period during which civil officials, fortified by a renewal of Confucian values and recruited through an expanded civil…




Romantic Japanese Film Classics - "Shall We Dance?"

- | Claudia Cohen Hall 402

A successful but unhappy Japanese accountant finds the missing passion in his life when he begins to secretly take ballroom dance lessons.

* CEAS and Shofuso Japanese House & Garden Film Series

Romantic Japanese Film Classics - "Izu no Odoriko"/The Izu Dancer

- | Claudia Cohen Hall 402

A young male student who is touring the Izu Peninsula meets a family of traveling dancers, and develops feelings for their naïve daughter.

* CEAS and Shofuso Japanese House & Garden Film Series

*Re-scheduled from October 30, 2012* Timothy Wai Keung Chan, Hong Kong Baptist University - "Magical Food and Spatiotemporal Displacement in Early Medieval Chinese Narratives"

- | 844 Williams Hall

This paper discusses how prevalent dietary beliefs contributed to the literary motif of spatiotemporal displacement in narratives written in early medieval China (approx. 2nd–5th centuries CE). In this repertoire of…




Giant Robots Japanese Film Series - Castle in the Sky

- | Annenberg Hall, Room 111

Directed by Miyazaki Hayo, 1986. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.

A young boy stumbles into a mysterious girl who floats down from the sky. The girl, Sheeta, was being chased by pirates, army and…




Cancelled: Dr. Ursula Brosseder, "Dynamics of Interaction and Exchange in Late Iron Age Eurasia and the "Silk Road" (4th century BCE to 1st century CE)"

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Update 11 Feb: This event will be postponed to a later date in the spring

* Cosponsored with the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations

Dru Gladney, Professor of Anthropology at Pomona College, President of the Pacific Basin Institute - "An Arab Spring in Beijing? Islam, the Middle East, and China "

- | 401 Fisher-Bennett Hall

This talk examines China’s important and changing relationship with the Middle East, especially with regard to the recent tumultuous events there following several uprisings and revolutions across North Africa and…




"Challenges for the ICC's Second Decade - Pursuing Universal Acceptance of the Rome Statute and other Challenges for the Evolving System of International Criminal Justice" - featuring Judge Sang-Hyun Song, President of the International Criminal Court

- | University of Pennsylvania Law School, Silverman Hall

Keynote address by Judge Sang-Hyun Song, President of the International Criminal Court (ICC) -

"Pursuing universal acceptance of the Rome Statute and other challenges for the evolving system…




Theatre of Yugen - Lecture, Q&A and Noh and Kyogen Workshop

- | Fisher-Bennett Hall, Room 419

In the civil wars of 16th century Japan, two ambitious peasants want to make their fortunes. The potter Genjuro intends to sell his wares for vast profits in the local city, while his brother-in-law Tobei wishes to…




Romantic Japanese Film Classics - "Ugetsu Monogatari/Tales of Rain and Moon" (1953, dir. by Mizoguchi Kenji)

- | Claudia Cohen Hall 402

In the civil wars of 16th century Japan, two ambitious peasants want to make their fortunes. The potter Genjuro intends to sell his wares for vast profits in the local city, while his brother-in-law Tobei wishes to…