East Asian Studies

2024-2025 Calendar of Events

FALL
All seminars are held in the White-Levy Room (HS/SS Library) from 3:30-5:00 pm unless otherwise specified. 

October 7
Nataly Shahaf, IAS, Princeton University
Science for Cultivation: Ghost Photography and the Scientific Reform of Chinese Spiritualism

October 22*
Jeff Wasserstrom, University of California-Irvine
Democratic Dreamers and Pan-Asian Connections, From China in the late Qing Era to Thailand Today
*This seminar will take place in the White-Levy Room from 1:30-3:00 pm

November 4
Dorothea Heuschert-Laage, IAS, University of Bonn
Mongolian Book Publishing in Post-Imperial China and the Production of Historical Knowledge

November 25
Don Wyatt, Middlebury College
Ethnicity and Medieval Unfreedom: West and East 

December 2
Rong Huang, (NYU-ISAW)
Towards a Theological Understanding of East Syriac Christianity (the Jingjiao Tradition) in Tang Dynasty China

December 9
Xiaoyu Xia, Princeton University
Rebinding Chinese Books: The Knotty Materiality of Literature in Early Twentieth-Century China

December 16
Hieu Phung, Rutgers University
Natural Disasters and State-Building in Dai Viet During the Transition to the Little Ice Age, 1427-1526

SPRING
All seminars are held in the White-Levy Room (HS/SS Library) from 3:30-5:00 pm unless otherwise specified. 

January 27
Jessey Choo, IAS, Rutgers University
The March of the Malicious Fetuses: Abortion and Maternal Mortality in Late Medieval Daoist Discourses

February 3
Dror Weil, IAS, University of Cambridge
Bridging Worlds: Huihui Yaofang回回藥方and the Production of Scientific Commensurability across Medieval Asia

February 10
Tansen Sen, IAS, NYU-Shanghai
Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral: Zheng He and the Chinese Overseas

February 24
James Millward, IAS, Georgetown University
Discovering Colonialism in China: a Critique of Cherished Concepts in China Historical Studies

March 3
Rachel Silberstein, IAS, University of Washington
Feather Satins and Orangutan Felts: a Material History of English Woolens in Qing Textile Markets

March 24
Mara Yue Du, IAS, Cornell University
China and Chinese-ness Bifurcated: "Confucius plus Lincoln" vs. "Qin Shihuang plus Marx”

March 31
Anne Feng, Boston University
Aqueous Visions: Pure Land Art and Sui-Tang Waterwork

April 7
Thomas Kelly, IAS, Harvard University
"The Unfinished Book: A Poetics of Incompletion in the Ming-Qing Transition"

Past East Asian Studies Events

For further information, please e-mail: Brett Savage, bsavage@itg.ias.edu.