East Asia Speaker Series Upcoming Talks - all are welcome!
March 8th - 5:00pm, FAB 220:
Professor Sharalyn Orbaugh, University of British Columbia, "Killer Kitsch: Kamishibai in Japan's Fifteen-Year War, 1931-1945."
March 12th - 5:00pm, PB 358:
Professor Ross King, University of British Columbia, "Glossing and the Problem of Cosmopolitan and Vernacular on Both Extremities of the Eurasian Landmass: Current Research Trends."
March 13th - 11:00am, CAB 281:
Professor Ross King, University of British Columbia, "The Graphic Imagination: Script Primordialism and the Imagining of Script in Korean Antiquity."
March 19th - 5:00pm, PB 358:
Professor Sam Crane, Williams College, "Confucianism and Soft Power: Why Ancient Thought Doesn't Work for Modern Diplomacy."
March 30th - 4:30pm, PB 358:
Dr. Thomas Pellard, French National Centre for Scientific Research/Le Centre national de la recherche scientifique, "The Ryūkyūan Languages and Their Relationship with Japanese."
Abstracts will be announced in advance of each talk.