Event Archives

Fall 2005 - Spring 2008


September 30, 2005

Speaker Series - Kyeong-Hee Choi
Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages & Civilizations
University of Chicago
Vanishing Traces: Japanese Censorship in Korea in the 1930s
3:00-4:30
Breedlove Room (204 Perkins Library), Duke West Campus
Cosponsored with the Korea Forum

Thursday, October 20, 2005

Speaker Series - Andrew Ross
Professor of American Studies
New York University
The Fast Boat to China: Outsourcing as a Way of Life--Lessons from Shanghai
4:00-5:30
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road
Cosponsored with the Center for International Studies

Friday, October 28, 2005

Speaker Series - Lydia Liu
Professor of Comparative Literature & Helmut Stern Professor of Chinese Studies
University of Michigan
Life in Flux: Lu Xun, Biology, and the Vicissitudes of Cosmic Womanhood
3:00-4:30
Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road

Wednesday, November 9, 2005

Performance and lecture on shakuhachi, the traditional Japanese bamboo flute, by James Nyoraku Schlefer

4:00-5:00pm
Breedlove Room, Perkins Library

Thursday, November 10, 2005

Speaker Series - Hu Ying
Associate Professor, East Asian Languages & Literatures University of California-Irvine
Public Monuments, Historical Memory: Qiu Jin’s Nine Burials

3:00-4:30
Room 230-232, John Hope Franklin Center, 2204 Erwin Road

December 13, 2005

Joseph Chan
University of Hong Kong
Democracy and Meritocracy: Towards a Confucian Perspective
3:30pm
202 West Duke Building

February 17, 2006

Speaker Series - Seungsook Moon
Associate Professor, Department of Sociology
Vassar College
Politics of Gender and Sexuality in the Global U.S. Military Empire: A Case of South Korea
3:00-4:30 pm
Room 230-232 John Hope Franklin Center
2204 Erwin Road
Cosponsored with the Korea Forum

AP Forum - Anne Allison - Topic: American Geishas
and Oriental/ist Fantasies - Cultural Anthropology, Duke University

February 22, 2006

Cine-East 7: New East Asian Cinema - Dust in the Wind

February 24, 2006

Speaker Series - Paul Barclay
Assistant Professor, Department of History
Lafayette College
Centrifugal Forces of Empire: Japan's "Aborigine Hands" in Colonial Taiwan
3:00-4:30 pm
Breedlove Room (204 Perkins Library), Duke West Campus

February 27, 2006

Cine-East 7: New East Asian Cinema - Centre Stage (aka Actress)

March 24, 2006

A CPSES/APSI (Joint Workshop)
Speakers are Huang Yueqin and Liu Guoen (Peking University), Ma Rong (Peking University and Visiting Scholar, Duke University), and Jiang Leiwen (Brown University).
Health, Economic Development, and Social Mobility in China
3:00-5:00 pm
Breedlove Room (204 Perkins Library), Duke West Campus


AP Forum - Ma Rong, APSI Visiting Faculty in Sociology

March 25, 2006 (Saturday)

2006 Triangle East Asia Colloquium
"Ruptures, Rivalries, and Reconciliations in Modern East Asia"

March 31, 2006

Speaker Series - Robert Sharf
D. H. Chen Distinguished Professor of Buddhist Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Chair of the Center for Buddhist Studies, University of California, Berkeley
How to Read A Chan/Zen Case
4:00-5:30 pm
0015 Westbrook, Divinity School
This lecture is also part of the Nichols Distinguished Lecture Series

April 5, 2006

Cine-East 7: New East Asian Cinema - A Bittersweet Life

April 8-9, 2006

Workshop on Foreign Direct Investment and Economic Development in Comparative Perspectives
329 Sociology/Psychology Building, Duke University West Campus (please note location change; directions to event and parking information here)

April 12, 2006

Cine-East 7: New East Asian Cinema - Letter From an Unknown Woman

April 15, 2006

Triangle East Asia History Colloquium (TEAHC)
Boyd Room, Carr Building, Duke East Campus

April 17, 2006

Cine-East 7: New East Asian Cinema - Who's Camus Anyway?

April 20, 2006

Cine-East 7: New East Asian Cinema - Taiwanese film by Wang Tong - title TBA

April 21, 2006

Speaker Series - Gail Hershatter
Professor, Department of History
University of California, Santa Cruz
The Gender of Memory: Rural Women and China's Collective Past
3:00-4:30 pm
Breedlove Room (204 Perkins Library) Duke West Campus
This lecture is also part of the Nichols Distinguished Lecture Series

April 28, 2006

AP Forum - Graduating students present their research

May 19-20, 2006

Mapping Difference: Structures and Categories of Knowledge Production
Room 240, John Hope Frankin Center, 2204 Erwin Road

July 15, 2006
International Conference on Chinese Language Education: Theories and Practice in Study Abroad Context (ICCLE) - Beijing

Fall 2007

August 28, 2007

Cine-East Film Series: Jump! Boys (Documentary)
8:00 PM White Auditorium

August 31

Cine_East Film Series: The Last Rice Farmer (Documentary)
8:00 PM White Auditoirum

September 5

Cine-East Film Series Double Feature: Bohemians In Taipei: The Life of Theatre and Rhythm in Wulu Village (Documentaries)
8:00 PM White Auditoirum

September 19

Information Session
Japan Exchange & Teaching (JET) Program
4:30-5:30 PM, 223B Trent Hall

September 21

Korean Teachers Workshop
10:00 am-3:00 pm
Old Trinity Room, Duke West Union Building

AP Forum
12:00-1:30 pm
Lunch and research presentations of four summer fellowship

Spring 2008

January 19
Fugaku Taiko Event at the NC School of Science & Math - Fugaku Taiko in Concert
7:00 pm
For tickets see http://cam06.auxserv.duke.edu/peo/default.asp (type "taiko" in upper right search box)

January 23
Fugaku Taiko Event at the NC School of Science & Math - Taiko Therapy Workshop
1:00-3:00 pm
Click here for a workshop flyer

January 24
The Cine-East: East Asian Cinema series - The Housemaid (Hanyo)
7:00 pm
East Duke 204B, East Campus
Click here for more information

January 31
Speaker Series - Chaibong Hahm - South Korea's Conservative Turn & US-Korea Relations
12:00-1:30 pm
Breedlove Room (204 Perkins Library), Duke West Campus

February 5
Speaker Series - Patricia Graham - Veneration and Imagery of Buddhist "Saints" (Rakan) in Japan from 1700-Present
4:30-6:00 pm
York Room (229 Gray Building), Duke West Campus

February 12
The Cine-East: East Asian Cinema series - Buffalo Boy
Film screening followed by a Q&A with the director
7:00 pm
Griffith Theater
Click here for more information

March 5
Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood, 2006, 141 min, USA, English, Japanese, Color, 35mm)
Griffith Theatre 7:00PM

March 19
Speaker Series - David Slater - Neoliberalism "with Japanese Characteristics"
3:00-4:30 pm
Room 225 Science Building, Duke East Campus

March 21
Tsui Hark's The Warrior (animated) ("Tiger" Fu Yan and Chen Yue Hui, 2006, 88 min, Hong Kong, Cantonese, Mandarin, Color, DVD)
East Duke 204B 8:00PM

March 25
Speaker Series - Ellis Krauss - Electoral Reform and Political Leadership in Japan
4:00-5:30 pm
Breedlove Room (204 Perkins Library), Duke West Campus

March 26
Linda Linda Linda (Nobuhiro Yamashita, 2005, 114 min, Japan, Japanese, Color, 35mm)
Griffith 8:00PM

March 29
Japanese Tea Ceremony
Sarah P. Duke Gardens, Doris Duke Center
Fee: Friends of the Gardens $10 General Public $15
Students & Children (over 5) $5
Contact (919) 668-1707 to register

April 16
Kung Fu Hustle (Stephen Chow, 2004, 95 min, China, Cantonese, Mandarin, Color, 35mm)
Griffith 8:00PM

April 21
Speaker Series -Jing Wang - Creative Culture & Creative Commons: Web 2.0 in China
3:00-4:30 pm
Breedlove Room (204 Perkins Library), Duke West Campus

April 27
New Korean Music: Kang Eun Il and Haegumplus
4:00 pm
Reynolds Industries Theater, Duke University Bryan Center
For tickets see http://cam06.auxserv.duke.edu/peo/default.asp (type "korean" in upper right search box)