On Feb. 9 at 4:00pm, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures will welcome featured speaker Laura Miller, who will give a lecture titled “Historically Hot: Reimagining Beauty from Japan’s Past.” Miller, an internationally prominent scholar, is the Ei'ichi Shibusawa-Seigo Arai Endowed Professor of Japanese Studies and professor of linguistic anthropology at the University of Missouri-St. Louis. She will be discussing historically accurate portraits of Japanese beauty as compared to more contemporary, commercial depictions. This lecture is part of a series called TEA (Teaching East Asia) that invites lecturers to introduce audiences to new aspects of research on East Asia.