Electric Design: Light, Labor and Leisure in Prewar Japanese Advertising by Gennifer Weisenfeld (Inaugural Koichi Takashima Lecture)

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 […]

Creating Virtual Reality in 18th-Century Chinese Painting and Prints by Dr. Kristina Kleughten

"Creating Virtual Reality in 18th-Century Chinese Painting and Prints" Tuesday, March 9, 2021    2:00pm (PST) tinyurl.com/VRin18thC (Zoom: 846 6268 232) Virtual reality was an essential component of eighteenth-century Chinese art, particularly in paintings and prints that evolved out of the artistic and cultural exchanges between China and Europe. These works created visions of extended realities for […]

Joshua Fogel, “Lingvo Internacia: The Esperanto Movement in China and Japan, 1905-1932”

In this talk for the Transregional East Asia Research Focus Group, Joshua Fogel will present on “Lingvo Internacia: The Esperanto Movement in China and Japan, 1905-1932.” Date: April 8, 2021 Time: 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm REGISTRATION HERE. Joshua Fogel is Professor of History and Canada Research Chair at York University, Toronto. Sponsored by the […]

Taiwan Makes History I: The Gender of Empire

Join us for the first event in the Center for Taiwan Studies three-part panel series Taiwan Makes History on "The Gender of Empire," guest directed and moderated by Kirsten Ziomek (Adelphi University)! We will welcome historians Fang Yu Hu (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga), Tadashi Ishikawa (University of Central Florida), and Sayaka Chatani (National University […]