East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks
About the East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks
Initiated in 2016, this annual series showcases CEAS faculty, alumni, and special guests who provide author talks and book launches as a way to engage the broader community in conversations regarding key scholarship on East Asia. In partnership with the Seminary Co-op Bookstore, the East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks features a presentation by the author(s) that is often facilitated through conversation with a discussant, following by a question and answer session with the audience.
Below, you'll find a listing of upcoming CEAS Author Talks, archive of past talks, and relevant episodes of our podcast, Open Stacks.
Winter 2020 Program:
Tues. 3/3: Levi Mclaughlin - "Soka Gakkai’s Human Revolution" - Andrew Kunze
Spring 2019:
Tues. 4/26: Justin Jesty - "Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan"
Winter 2019:
Fri. 1/25: Tie Xiao - "Revolutionary Waves: The Crowd in Modern China"
Winter 2018 Program:
Spring 2017 Program:
Mon. 5/08: Johanna Ransmeier - "Sold People"
Winter 2017:
Tues. 2/28: Norma Field and Heather Bowen-Struyk - "For Dignity, Justice, and Revolution"
Related Titles
Justin Jesty's Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan reframes the history of art and its politics in Japan post-1945. This fascinating cultural history addresses our broad understanding of the immediate postwar era moving toward the Cold War and subsequent consolidations of political...
During China's transition from dynastic empire to nation-state, the crowd emerged as a salient trope. Intellectuals across the ideological spectrum have used the crowd trope to ruminate on questions of selfhood and nationhood, and to advance competing models of enlightenment and revolution....
The notion of the individual was initially translated into Korean near the end of the nineteenth century and took root during the early years of Japanese colonial influence. Yoon Sun Yang argues that the first literary iterations of the Korean individual were prototypically female figures...
A robust trade in human lives thrived throughout North China during the late Qing and Republican periods. Whether to acquire servants, slaves, concubines, or children--or dispose of unwanted household members--families at all levels of society addressed various domestic needs by participating in...