Material Objects and Bodies in Industrializing East Asia

LECTURE SERIES

(February 2011 – April 2011)

This series was organized by Eugenia Lean and Kim Brandt and co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. Additional co-sponsors listed for individual events below.

February 24, 2011 (Thursday)	“Chinese Typewriters and Recursive Embodiment: Humans Embodying Machines Embodying Humans Embodying Machines” Thomas S. Mullaney, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Stanford University 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918
March 21, 2011 (Monday)	“Body Manufacture and the Rhetoric of Chineseness in the Body Worlds Exhibits and Beyond” Larissa Heinrich, Associate Professor, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918
March 29, 2011 (Tuesday)	“Design’s Objects: Furniture, Technical Drawing and Education in Japan c. 1890-1910” Sarah Teasley, Tutor, School of Humanities, Departments of History of Design and Critical & Historical Studies, Royal College of Art 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 Co-sponsored by the Center on Japanese Economy and Business and the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture
April 18, 2011 (Monday)	“Fabricating Consumers: The Sewing Machine in Modern Japan” Andrew Gordon, Lee and Juliet Folger Fund Professor of History, Harvard University 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 Co-sponsored by the Center on Japanese Economy and Business and the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture
April 19, 2011 (Tuesday)	“From Vulnerability to Originality: How the Mechanical Typewriter Inspired New Typography in South Korea” Tae-Ho Kim, D. Kim Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow for the History of Science and Technology in East Asia, Center for Korean Research; Visiting Scholar, Weatherhead East Asian Institute 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 Co-sponsored by the Center for Korean Research