All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
WEAI brown bag lectures feature speakers from a diverse range of professions, including academia, government, the arts, business, and journalism. These programs usually take place in Room 918 of the International Affairs Building. Thematic series have covered social, economic, and historical issues in East and Southeast Asia from a wide variety of perspectives, offering rich analyses and opportunities to discourse among students, faculty, and the public.
Brown Bag Series Archive
- Museums and Material Culture: East Asia (September 2014 – May 2015)
- East Asian Historical Thought in Comparative Perspective: What History Is, Knows, Does (October 2014 – December 2014)
- Human Rights in East Asia and Beyond: Critical Perspectives (September 2014 – April 2015)
- Meet the Authors of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (December 2013 – March 2014)
- After the Postcolonial Turn: Global Perspectives (September 2012 – April 2013)
- Deprovincializing Marx: The Japanese Experience (March 2012 – April 2012)
- Material Objects and Bodies in Industrializing East Asia (February 2011 – April 2011)
- New Angles on Japanese Society in the 20th Century (October 2010 – March 2011)
- Health and Welfare in East Asian Societies (November 2010 – January 2011)
- Hong Kong: Social Transformations (October 2009 – April 2010)
- North Korea and a Changing Northeast Asia (October 2009 – March 2010)
- The Global Financial Crisis: Responses from East and Southeast Asia (October 2009 – February 2010)
- Identities at Stake in Taiwan (February 2009 – March 2009)
- Soldiers and Soldiering in Twentieth-Century Japan (October 2008 – November 2008)
- Reporting China (September 2008 – November 2008)
