East Asian Studies

Faculty

Nicola Di Cosmo
Henry Luce Foundation
Professor of East Asian History
East Asian History

2025-2026 Calendar of Events

FALL
All seminars are held in the West Building Seminar Room from 3:30-5:00 pm unless otherwise specified. If you plan to attend any of the seminars please contact Nicola Di Cosmo ndc@ias.edu or Brett Savage bsavage@itg.ias.edu.

September 29
Said Reza Huseini, Princeton University
From Shadow to Light: Transition of Chinggisid Kingship under Ghazan Khan and its Revival under Akbar

October 6
Margaret Wan, IAS, University of Utah
Access and Censorship of Vernacular Short Stories in the Qing: Marvels New and Old (Jingu qiguan 今古奇觀)

October 20 
Yulian Wu, IAS, Michigan State University
Skilled Hands: Crafting Labor and its (mis)Management in Qing Jade Production Infrastructure

October 27
Fan Zhang, IAS, Tulane University
Entertaining with Foreign Performers: Acrobats, Musicians, and Immigrants during the Northern Wei

November 10
Rômulo Ehalt, IAS, Max Planck Institute for Legal History and Legal Theory
Japanese Slavery Through Jesuit Lenses: Moral Casuistry and Local Forms of Bondage (16th-17th c.)

November 17
Haiwei Liu, IAS, ShanghaiTech University
When Was Chinggis Khan Born? A Global History of Temporalities and Historical Truths

December 8
Wendy Swartz, Rutgers University
Theories of Literary Creation and Authorship in Early Medieval China (200-600)

Past East Asian Studies Events