Past Events
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Laura Wen, postdoctoral fellow in EALC
Lunar New Year Festival
"Rise" 2017 Year of the Rooster
Making Bura(k)ku Lives Matter in Precarious Times
John Davis, Assistant Professor of Black Studies, East Asian Studies, International Studies & Anthropology, Denison University
“U.S. - China Relations"
Lei Hong, Consul General of the People's Republic of China in Chicago
Executive Orders: The Living Legacy of Japanese American Internment
Foreign Language Learning Colloquium Speaker Series Talk
Julie Sykes University of Oregon
Foreign Language Learning Colloquium Speaker Series Workshop
Julie Sykes University of Oregon
How Bad Immigrants Became Model Minorities: Policy and Racial Typing in the Making of US Citizens
Asian American Speaker Series: Madeline Hsu, University of Texas, Austin
Disruption Restoration: Illustration and Plot in the 17th Century Chinese Short Story
Alexander C. Wille, postdoctoral fellow, Washington University
Annual Stanley Spector Memorial Lecture: "Yasukuni Shrine and Total War: Memories and Counter-Memories of the Asia-Pacific War"
Akiko Takenaka, Associate Professor of History, University of Kentucky
So Long Asleep: Waking the Ghosts of a War
A film screening and discussion with filmmaker Dr. David Plath
Prepositional Bodies: Sensation and Translation in Manchu
Prof. Carla Nappi, University of British Columbia
EALC Forum: “Death, Mourning, and Poetry”
Jung Ja Choi, postdoctoral fellow, Washington University
EALC Poetry Reading SP17
EALC Senior Symposium
EALC Graduate Student Orientation
EALC Language Placement Exams
East Asian Library tours
East Asian Library tours
Major-Minor Fair
Making Chinese Modern in the 20th Century
Chaofen Sun, Professor, Stanford University
Simple, Understandable, and Verifiable Pedagogical Grammar:Between English and Chinese Adjectives
Chaofen Sun, Professor, Stanford University
Tuesday Tea with a Diplomat
John B. Brennan, US Department of State
Inaugural Robert Morrell Memorial Lecture in Asian Religions: "Gratitude and Treasuring Lives: Eating Animals in Contemporary Japanese Buddhism"
Barbara R. Ambros, Professor in East Asian Religions, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Saint Louis International Film Festival
Transitional Literacy: Language Education and the Vernacular-Cosmopolitan Interface in Early Modern Korea, 1895-1925
Daniel Pieper, Korea Foundation Post-doctoral Fellow
The Foreign Language Learning Colloquium Speaker Series Lecture: Processing Instruction: Building Bridges Between Theory, Research, and Classroom Instruction
Wynne Wong, Professor of French, The Ohio State University
The Foreign Language Learning Colloquium Speaker Series Workshop: Structured Input: Creating Activities to Enhance L2 Classroom Instruction
Wynne Wong, Professor of French, The Ohio State University
The 20th Annual Nelson Wu Memorial Lecture on Asian Art and Culture: "Elegant and Hallucinatory: Designing the Future at the Festival of India"
Rebecca Brown, Associate Professor of Art History, Johns Hopkins University
Futures Interrupted: Going North and the History of Korean Modernism
Janet Poole, Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Toronto
"Don’t Worry About Me, and Please Send Pickles: Writing Home in Early Modern Japan"
Amy Stanley, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University
EALC Sophomore Major-Minor Welcome session
Between Fact and Fiction: Classification and Liberation in Mao’s Rural Revolution
Brian DeMare, associate professor of history, Tulane University
Straight Men, Gay Buddies: Chinese BL Boom and Its Impact on Male Homosociality
Wei Wei, professor of sociology, East China Normal University, Shanghai
Takarabune: Awa Odori performance and workshop
25th Annual Stanley Spector Memorial Lecture: "Books and Biographies: Localizing China's Intellectual History"
Peter K. Bol, Carswell Professor of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Film Screening with Korean Director JANG Jin
We Are Brothers (2014)
A CONVERSATION WITH A SENIOR EDITOR
Albert Hoffstadt, a senior editor at Brill
Northeast Asia Documentary Film Matsuri
EALC Senior Symposium
EALC Language Placement Exams
Diva Nation: Female Icons from Japanese Cultural History
with comments from co-editors Dr. Laura Miller, University of Missouri - St. Louis and Dr. Rebecca Copeland, Washington University
EALC First Friday Talks
Ling Kang, Chinese and Comparative Literature PhD candidate; Ivanna Yi, Korea Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Assembly Series
Mischief and Mayhem: Japanese Kyōgen Farce
presented by UMSL International Studies and Programs
Fantasy Worlds: the Development of Shojo Manga (Girls’ Comics) as a Vehicle for Dreaming and Identity Formation
Kaoru Tamura, East Asian Studies MA candidate
T.T.C. Dance Company: Persistence of Memory
Artistic Direction by Ting-Ting Chang
Making Miyazakiworld: How I Spent 8 Years and Three Months Coming to Grips with Japan’s Greatest Living Filmmaker
Susan Napier, Goldthwaite Professor of Rhetoric, Tufts University
St. Louis International Film Festival
East Asian Languages and Cultures is proud to support the 27th Annual St. Louis International Film Festival by sponsoring the following Japanese films.
The Second Annual Robert Morrell Memorial Lecture in Asian Religions: "Dreaming Religious Identity: Master Zhou's Communications with the Unseen World"
Robert Campany, Professor of Asian Studies, Vanderbilt University
Speak Up, WE BELONG!
China Care Club and Asian American Association
21st Annual Nelson Wu Memorial Lecture "Chinese Cosmopolitans in Twentieth-Century Shanghai"
Dr. Julia F. Andrews, Distinguished University Professor, The Ohio State University
EALC Talk
Bing Yan, Chinese and Comparative Literature PhD candidate, and Sijing Zhang, Chinese Language and Literature PhD candidate
Integrating Intercultural Competence into Foreign Language Curriculum through Standards and Assessment
Jeeyoung Ahn Ha, Director Korean Language Program, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
EALC Major-Minor Welcome
“What do we do with our major?”
EALC Brown Bag
Quillon Arkenstone and Lei Hu
Beyond the Film: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Movie Audiences and Their Environments
A symposium honoring 20 Years of Film and Media Studies at Washington University in St. Louis
26th Stanley Spector Memorial Lecture: A Genealogy of Dissent: The Progeny of Fallen Royals in Chosŏn Korea
Eugene Park, Korea Foundation Associate Professor of History, University of Pennsylvania
Madness and the Insane in Early Twentieth-Century China
Emily Baum, Associate Professor of History, UC Irvine
EALC Senior Symposium
EALC Language Placement Exams
Language placement exams for Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
A Sino-Jewish Encounter, A Humanitarian Fantasy
Haiyan Lee, Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures and of Comparative Literature, Stanford University
Third Annual Robert Morrell Memorial Lecture in Asian Religions: "Foxes, Gods and Monsters in the Edo Anthropocene"
Michael Bathgate, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Religious Studies and Theology, Saint Xavier University
A Two-Way Mirror: Set Design and Social Reflection in Shanghai Cinema, 1937-1941
Yuqian Yan, postdoctoral fellow in Chinese performance cultures, Washington University
Foreign Language Learning Colloquium Speaker Series Talk
Dr. Kara Morgan-Short, University of Illinois at Chicago
Foreign Language Learning Colloquium Series Workshop
Prof. Kara Morgan-Short, University of Illinois-Chicago
Japano-Koreanic: Evidence for a Common Origin of the Japanese and Korean Languages
Alexander Francis-Ratte, James B. Duke Assistant Professor of Asian Studies, Furman University
Children of the Sea: Film Screening
Saint Louis International Film Festival 2019
Ximei: Film Screening
Saint Louis International Film Festival 2019
Global Asias as Imaginable Ageography
Tina Chen, Associate Professor of English and Asian American Studies, The Pennsylvania State University
22nd Annual Nelson Wu Lecture: "Dancing in Circles in the Arts on India and Its Neighbors"
Forrest McGill, Wattis Senior Curator of South and Southeast Asian Art, Asian Art Museum of San Francisco
China's Coronavirus: A Global Health Emergency
Figuring Difference in Modern Japanese Literature: The Case for Quantitative Reasoning
Hoyt Long, associate professor of Japanese literature, University of Chicago
Migration, Mobilization, and Moving Images: Imagination of "Nanyang" in 1930s Chinese Cinema.
Ling Zhang, assistant professor of cinema studies, Purchase College State University of New York
POSTPONED - Global Reception of the Classic Zhuangzi: Song to Ming
The Zhuangzi’s influence on (Chinese) literature is immense. From Jia Yi 賈誼 (200-169 BCE) and Sima Qian 司馬遷 (c. 145-86 BCE) onward, there was almost nobody of the great writers of the past who was not affected by it. In this second workshop, we explore the Zhuangzi’s reception history during the Song 宋 (960-1279), Yuan 元 (1279-1368), and Ming 明 (1368-1644) dynasties.
EALC Senior Symposium
2nd Annual Language Teaching Fair
EALC Bear Beginnings Open House
Welcome Class of 2024!
Dialectics of Protest Past and Present: A Reconsideration of Postwar Zainichi Activism
Robert Del Greco, assistant professor of Japanese studies, Oakland University
Major-Minor Fair
Origami Workshop
Shuffleyamamba: A special evening with Yasuko Yokoshi
Yasuko Yokoshi, dancer and choreographer
I am a Wanderer: Paek Sin-ae (1908-1939) and Writing Travel
Virtual lecture by Ji-Eun Lee (Washington University). Organized by Princeton University’s East Asian Studies Program
Conversation Between Contemporary Korean Author and Translator: Cho Hae-jin and Ji-Eun Lee
Webinar with Ji-Eun Lee. Hosted by the Gateway Korea Foundation.
OUR Fall 2020 Undergraduate Research Week
The Office of Undergraduate Research is excited to sponsor Fall Undergraduate Research Week.
Study Abroad Showcase
Overseas Programs is excited to offer an event for Danforth Campus students to learn more about available study abroad opportunities on December 4th, 12:00-2:00 pm (CT)
"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.
Fourth 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 University
Spy and Suspense: Taiwanese-Language Film Festival
online film screenings
One Thousand Tempests in a Teacup: Natural Disaster and Shingen's 'Bloodless Coup' of 1541
Elijah Bender, assistant professor of history, Concordia College
EALC Major-Minor Welcome Session
Chinese, Japanese, Korean majors and minors
Webinar: Taiwanese-Language Films during the Cold War
A discussion with Chris Berry, professor of film studies at King’s College London and director of the Taiwanese-language Film Festival
Kinship Novels of Early Modern Korea: Between Genealogical Time and the Domestic Everyday
Ksenia Chizhova, assistant professor of Korean literature and cultural studies, Princeton University
Narrating the Eighteenth Century in Qing Kashgar
David Brophy, senior lecturer in modern Chinese history, University of Sydney
Becoming A Literary Translator: A Work in Progress
Lucy North, professional translator
Anti-Asian America
The 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.
Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India
Andrew B. Liu, assistant professor of history, Villanova University
Minari Movie Screening and Discussion
East 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.
Web Graphic Narrative and Platform Culture
Heekyoung Cho, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages & Literature, University of Washington
Seeking Inspiration: How the Japanese Mountain Witch Encourages Artistic Creativity
Sponsored by the Ei’ichi Shibusawa-Seigo Arai Endowed Professorship in Japanese Studies and UMSL Global at the University of Missouri-St. Louis
EALC Senior Symposium
EALC Open House
Fall Classes Begin
Travel, Encounter, and the "Shuihu-esque" in Meiji-Period Japan
William Hedberg, associate professor, Japanese, Arizona State University
Post-Communicative Approaches in Language Curricula: Integrating Projects to Foster Deeper and Creative Learning
Angela Lee-Smith, Senior Lector II, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University
Foreign 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.
EALC Major-Minor Fair
From Imperial Envoys to Legation Ministers: Diplomatic Communications in the Late Qing
Jenny Huangfu Day, associate professor of history, Skidmore College
Digital Methods for Chinese Historical Research and the "Books in China Database"
Joseph Dennis,
Associate Professor -
University of Wisconsin
Fifth Annual Robert Morrell Memorial Lecture in Asian Religions: Gods and Things in Four Asian Places
Laurel Kendall, American Museum of Natural History
CANCELLED: Ways of Learning: An Apprentice Boatbuilder in Japan
Douglas Brooks, boatbuilder
Environmental Objects and (Post)Industrial Sentiments
Weijie Song, Associate Professor, Chinese, Rutgers University
EALC Brown Bag Series | En o musubi: Eternal ties and missed connections in the animation of Makoto Shinkai
Christopher A. Born, assistant professor, Japanese & Asian Studies, Belmont University
EALC Brown Bag Series | Surviving State Authoritarianism: The Literature of Coerced Political Conversion (Tenkō) in Interwar Japan
Dr. George T. Sipos, Lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis
Spring 2022 Classes Begin
EALC Lecture Series | Trans in Relation, Topos in Motion: Narrativity and the Power of Congruency
Howard Chiang, associate professor of history, UC Davis
Li Gui: A Qing Man in the World
Tobie Meyer-Fong, professor of history, Johns Hopkins University
CANCELLED: EALC Lecture Series | The Future Is Now: Theory and Method of the Newborn Socialist Thing
Laurence Coderre, assistant professor of East Asian Studies, New York University
Reflections on Craft: Connecting Creative and Scholarly Practice
Panel discussion featuring Washington University faculty in conversation with Faculty Book Celebration keynote speaker Charles Johnson
EALC Major-Minor Welcome Session
World Literature as Process and Relation: East Asia's Russia and Translation
Heekyoung Cho, associate professor, University of Washington
EALC Lecture Series | Economies of Compassion and Medicine in Colonial Korea
Sonja M. Kim, associate professor, Binghamton University
The Artisanal Heart: Craft and Experimentalism in Early Modern Korea
Hyeok Hweon Kang, assistant professor, Washington University
Pushing Hands film screening with discussion
William C. Jones Memorial Lecture: China's Quest for Leadership: The Story of Universities
William C. Kirby, T.M. Chang Professor of China Studies, Harvard University
Engineering self-reliance: Scientism, economic planning and Juch'e ideology in Cold War North Korea
Benoit Berthelier, lecturer in Korean studies, The University of Sydney
Foreign Language Learning Colloquium Speaker Series Presents Professor Susanne Rott
Professor Susanne Rott is our guest for WUSTL's Foreign Language Learning Colloquium Speaker Series
EALC Lecture Series | Unruly Subjects in Medoruma Shun’s ‘Walking a Street Named Peace’ and Miri Yū’s Tokyo Ueno Station
Davinder L. Bhowmik, associate professor of modern Japanese literature, University of Washington, Seattle
“Digital Humanities” as a Method for Studying Pre-modern Korean Culture
Maya Stiller, associate professor of Korean art history & visual culture, University of Kansas
Haunted Japan: The Evolution of J-Horror
Dr. Lindsay Nelson, associate professor of political science and economics, Meiji University
A new vision: Chinese spectacles and eyesight in "A History of Lenses" (1681)
Kristina Kleughten, David W. Mesker Associate Professor of Art History and Archeology at Washington University in St. Louis - Historia Medica Lecture
Rethinking Gu Yanwu from a Global Qing Perspective
John Delury, professor of Chinese studies, Yonsei University [Seoul]
Vietnam: Race, Violence, and Decolonization in a Mekong Delta at War, 1945-54
Global Studies Speaker Series, Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures and History Dept. Present Professor Shawn McHale
History, temporality and China's revolutions
Rebecca E. Karl, Professor of History, New York University
Nagae Yūki Poetry Reading
GeoPossessions: Topos of the Voice
Nagae Yūki, poet
Sixth Annual Robert Morrell Memorial Lecture in Asian Religions: Turning Ghosts into People: Religion and Gender Politics in the Chinese Communist Revolution
Xiaofei Kang, associate professor of religion, The George Washington University
The Chinese Dragon and the Yellow Peril: The Evolution of Western Media Portrayals of China since Opium Wars
Dr. Ariane Knüsel, University of Fribourg
The Dust
Love and Mortality. Existence and Destruction. These are the tensions at play in Hsu Yen Ling’s "The Dust".
Translation : Dramaturgy
The Performing Arts and East Asian Languages and Cultures Departments invite you to a mini-conference in conjunction with our production of Hsu Yen Ling’s The Dust.
Performing Democracy in the Graveyard: The Gwangju Uprising, Mangwoldong Cemetery, and South Korea’s Affective Space for Democracy
Hayana Kim, Washington University in St. Louis
Recipe as a Bodily Text
Suyoung Son, associate professor in Asian studies, Cornell University
Mapping Xinjiang: A Mongol-Banner Cartographer and the Qing Geographic Knowledge of Central Eurasia in the Late Eighteenth Century
Ling-Wei Kung, Institute of History and Philology, Academia Sinica
Annual Stanley Spector Memorial Lecture: Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan’s Self-Defense Force During the Cold War
Aaron Skabelund, associate professor of history, Brigham Young University
Rethinking Early Modern Globalization through the Case of Qing China and Its Perception of Its Own Position in the World
Yue Du, assistant professor of history, Cornell University
Virtuous Healing: Therapeutic Knowledge in Women’s Educational Literature in Early Modern Japan
W. Evan Young, assistant professor of history, Dickinson College
Gendering Male Dan: Jingju Male Cross-Gender Performers and Performance in the Post-Cultural Revolution Era
Yan Ma, postdoctoral fellow in Chinese performance cultures, Washington University
First day of FL23 classes
Mid-Autumn Festival: Blooming Flowers and Full Moon
The Ginger Marcus Foreign Language Learning Speaker Series at WUSTL
Dr. Claudia R. Fernández, Department of Hispanic and Italian Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago
Moving Bones: The Repatriation of Human Remains in Late Qing as a Historical and Cultural Phenomenon
Elizabeth Sinn, Honourary Professor at University of Hong Kong
Mapping the Underworld of Wartime Beijing, 1937-1949
Zhao Ma (WUSTL), Sarah Swanz (WUSTL, GIS and Data Visualization Analyst), and Xinyue Gao (WUSTL)
Gateway to the East: China at the St. Louis World’s Fair
This exhibition was organized by Dr. Zhao Ma and Chinese Studies students with Curator of Local History Miranda Rectenwald.
An Evening with Local Author: Rebecca Copeland
Join us for a visit from local author Rebecca Copeland, as she reads from and discusses her book, The Kimono Tattoo.
Conference: The Cultural Lives of Science and Technology in the Sinosphere: From the Late Qing to the Present
EALC Lecture Series: Beyond Borders: Navigating the Fluidity of K in K-Pop
Wonseok Lee, lecturer in Korean studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Workshop on academic publishing
Mr. Albert Hoffstädt, senior editor from Brill
EALC Lecture Series: Territorial Sovereignty and Socialist Landscape Paintings
Laikwan Pang, Choh-Ming Li Professor of Cultural and Religious Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Intercultural German Film Series, featuring “Cherry Blossoms” (Kirschblüten—Hanami), preceded by the short film “Dark Red” (Dunkelrot)
German graduate students, in collaboration with the Japanese section of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, are pleased to present two films in German, Japanese, and English, with English subtitles.