Sovereignty and Emperor’s Child: The Logic of Dispossession and Protection of Ainu Mosir Dr. Katsuya Hirano, Visiting Speaker Speaker Biography: Katsuya Hirano teaches history at UCLA. He is the author of The Politics of Dialogic Imagination: Power and Popular Culture in Early Modern Japan (Univ. of Chicago Press). He has published numerous articles and book […]
On Thursday, January 28, 2021, at 5:00pm (Pacific Time) Prof. Lei Xue of Oregon State University will deliver a lecture on the mysterious Yihe ming 瘞鶴銘 (Eulogy for Burying a Crane) and its significance to the history of Chinese calligraphy. The talk is coordinated with Prof. Peter Sturman’s “Chinese Calligraphy” course (Chinese / Art History 134K) but open to […]
Please join us for a lecture with Dr. Ruth Mostern to learn about GIS and data analysis for Yellow River history. “Digitizing the Tracks of Yu: GIS and Data Analysis for Yellow River History” Thursday, February 18, 2021 2:00pm (PST) tinyurl.com/Tracks-of-Yu (Zoom: 894 2595 8266 passcode: 719417) Since the publication of The Yellow River Annals (Huanghe nianbiao 黃河年表) […]
Please join us for our Inaugural Koichi Takashima Lecture on Wednesday, Feb. 24 at 4:00 PM PST! Featuring the electrifying Gennifer Weisenfeld (Duke University) on “Electric Design: Light, Labor and Leisure in Prewar Japanese Advertising.” This talk explores the industry’s important cultivation of a nascent consumer market for electrical goods in the prewar period, & the […]
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