February 04, 2021 7:00 PM"Taiwanese Puppetry Cosplay: Negotiating Performance and Animation"Teri Silvio is a Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology, Academia Sinica, Taiwan This will be a live zoom event. This Date is subject to change.
February 11, 2021 4:00 PMFourth Annual Robert Morrell Memorial Lecture in Asian Religions: "Religious Self-Cultivation as Politics: Examples from Grassroots-Level Activism in Japan"Levi McLaughlin, Associate Professor at the Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State UniversityZoom - register for link
February 23, 2021 6:00 PMOne Thousand Tempests in a Teacup: Natural Disaster and Shingen's 'Bloodless Coup' of 1541Elijah Bender, assistant professor of history, Concordia CollegeVirtual - Zoom registration required
February 26, 2021 2:00 PMEALC Major-Minor Welcome SessionChinese, Japanese, Korean majors and minorsVirtual - Zoom registration required
February 27, 2021 2:00 PMWebinar: Taiwanese-Language Films during the Cold WarA discussion with Chris Berry, professor of film studies at King’s College London and director of the Taiwanese-language Film FestivalVirtual - Zoom registration required
March 05, 2021 4:00 PMKinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic EverydayKsenia Chizhova, assistant professor of Korean literature and cultural studies, Princeton University Virtual - Zoom registration required
March 12, 2021 3:00 PMNarrating the Eighteenth Century in Qing KashgarDavid Brophy, senior lecturer in modern Chinese history, University of SydneyVirtual - Zoom registration required
March 18, 2021 2:30 PMBecoming A Literary Translator: A Work in ProgressLucy North, professional translatorVirtual - Zoom registration required
March 29, 2021 7:00 PMAnti-Asian AmericaThe Center for the Study of Race, Ethnicity & Equity, Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and the Asian American Studies Minor at Washington University in St. Louis invite leading scholars to talk with us about how we can understand Anti-Asian America. virtual
April 02, 2021 3:00 PMTea War: A History of Capitalism in China and IndiaAndrew B. Liu, assistant professor of history, Villanova UniversityVirtual - Zoom registration required
April 10, 2021 2:00 PMMinari Movie Screening and DiscussionEast Asian Languages and Cultures, East Asian Studies, and Asian American Studies bring you Minari movie night! We will be giving out tickets for a virtual screening for Minari directed by Lee Isaac Chung.Virtual
April 16, 2021 4:00 PMWeb Graphic Narrative and Platform CultureHeekyoung Cho, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages & Literature, University of WashingtonVirtual - Zoom registration required
April 19, 2021 3:30 PMSeeking Inspiration: How the Japanese Mountain Witch Encourages Artistic CreativitySponsored by the Ei’ichi Shibusawa-Seigo Arai Endowed Professorship in Japanese Studies and UMSL Global at the University of Missouri-St. LouisUMSL - virtual event
September 23, 2021 6:00 PMTravel, Encounter, and the "Shuihu-esque" in Meiji-Period JapanWilliam Hedberg, associate professor, Japanese, Arizona State UniversityVirtual - Zoom registration required
October 13, 2021 7:00 PMPost-Communicative Approaches in Language Curricula: Integrating Projects to Foster Deeper and Creative LearningAngela Lee-Smith, Senior Lector II, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale UniversityVirtual - Zoom registration required
October 21, 2021 4:00 PMForeign Language Learning Colloquium Speaker Series: Kim Potowski, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Foreign Language Learning Colloquium Speaker Series: Kim Potowski, Professor of Hispanic Linguistics from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Lecture on Thursday, Oct. 21st at 4pm at Wash U and Workshop at SLU on Friday, Oct. 22nd.
November 04, 2021 6:00 PMFrom Imperial Envoys to Legation Ministers: Diplomatic Communications in the Late QingJenny Huangfu Day, associate professor of history, Skidmore CollegeVirtual - Zoom registration required
November 11, 2021 4:00 PMDigital Methods for Chinese Historical Research and the "Books in China Database"Joseph Dennis, Associate Professor - University of WisconsinBusch Hall, Room 18
November 11, 2021 6:00 PMFifth Annual Robert Morrell Memorial Lecture in Asian Religions: Gods and Things in Four Asian PlacesLaurel Kendall, American Museum of Natural HistoryVirtual - Zoom registration required
November 16, 2021 4:00 PMCANCELLED: Ways of Learning: An Apprentice Boatbuilder in JapanDouglas Brooks, boatbuilder
November 18, 2021 5:00 PMEnvironmental Objects and (Post)Industrial SentimentsWeijie Song, Associate Professor, Chinese, Rutgers UniversityVirtual - Zoom registration required
November 19, 2021 1:00 PMEALC Brown Bag Series | En o musubi: Eternal ties and missed connections in the animation of Makoto ShinkaiChristopher A. Born, assistant professor, Japanese & Asian Studies, Belmont UniversityBusch Hall, room 202
December 03, 2021 1:00 PMEALC Brown Bag Series | Surviving State Authoritarianism: The Literature of Coerced Political Conversion (Tenkō) in Interwar JapanDr. George T. Sipos, Lecturer, Washington University in St. LouisVirtual - Zoom registration required