East Asian Studies

Faculty

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

2025-2026 Calendar of Events

SPRING
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.

March 23
Jan Bemmann, IAS, Universität Bonn
Living together – burying apart? Distinct burial practices in the cemeteries of the “cosmopolitan” capital of the Mongol Empire

March 30
Bradley Camp Davis, IAS, Eastern Connecticut State University
The Elephant and the Worm: Death and Dominion in Imperial Vietnam

FALL 2025

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