Brown Bag Lecture Featuring: Sebastian Veg, Professor of intellectual history and literature of 20th century China at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS), Paris; Honorary Professor at the University of Hong Kong Moderated by: Eugenia Lean, Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Associate Professor of Chinese history, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures. […]
Colloquium Featuring: Hae Yeon Choo, Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Toronto This talk examines the relationship between democratic citizenship, capitalist profit-making, and violence. In particular, it focuses on an evictee protest against urban redevelopment in Yongsan, South Korea in 2009, resulting in a fatal police raid. Based on the parliamentary hearings, court documents, and oral […]
Lecture Featuring Gregory T. Cushman, Associate Professor of International Environmental History, University of Kansas Moderated by Paul Kreitman, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, Columbia University In its conventional form, the Anthropocene is a Eurocentric and terracentric concept that needs to be provincialized. What might a history of the Anthropocene look like if we place the Pacific Ocean […]
Join us for a discussion with the translators of Enticement, the first English-language anthology of short stories by Pema Tseden. About this Event Pema Tseden is Tibet’s most prestigious filmmaker and an accomplished fiction writer. Enticement: Stories of Tibet translates his stories originally written either in Tibetan or in Chinese. His writing uses a variety […]
Join us for a special preview of this Tibetan documentary film, introduced by Riga Shakya. After the film, stay for a Q&A with the director, Dukar Tserang, and discussant, Nelson Walker. Featuring: Dukar Tserang, Nelson Walker and Riga Shakya They are One Hundred Years Old A Dukar Tserang Film In his previous life, he was […]
