Asian Studies Seminar Series
Lent Term, 2012
The University of Cambridge Department of East Asian Studies is pleased to announce the programme for its Lent Term series of Asian Studies Seminars.
The Asian Studies Centre acknowledges with gratitude financial support from the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.
Unless otherwise noted, all seminars are at 5pm in Lecture Room 8-9 on ground floor of the Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies, Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge.
ALL ARE WELCOME
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Monday, 23rd January, 2012
Early Modern Japanese Encyclopedism; Compiling, Organising and Criticizing Knowledge
Dr Matthias Hayek, Paris Diderot University
Generously supported by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation -
Tuesday, 24th January, 2012 (Auditorium Lounge, Robinson College)
(Please note this talk takes place on a Tuesday)
The Dilemma of Korean Conservatism
Prof. Kang Nae-Hui, Chung-Ang University -
2pm, Wednesday, 25th January, 2012 (The Old Library, Darwin College)
(Please note this talk takes place on a Wednesdayand starts at 2pm)
Special Talk: Towards Reconstruction “Hope Beyond the Disaster” The Great East Japan Earthquake, 3.11
Prof. Makoto Iokibe, National Defense Academy of Japan & Reconstruction Design Council
Generously supported by the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation and Japan Airlines -
Friday, 27th January, 2012 (Umney Theatre, Robinson College)
(Please note this talk takes place on a Friday)
The 2012 Kim Dae-Jung Lecture
Korean Culture after the Kim Dae-Jung Administration
Prof. Kang Nae-Hui, Chung-Ang University -
Monday, 30th January, 2012
Raising Eyebrows: The Journal Meiyu, 1914-1916, and the regulation of ‘Harmful Fiction in Modern China'
Prof. Michel Hockx, School of Oriental & African Studies, University of London -
Monday, 6th February, 2012
On the Notion of the ‘Politics and Culture’ in the Study of Contemporary Local Korea
Prof. Kwang Ok Kim, Seoul National University -
Monday, 13th February, 2012
Sainsbury Japanese Art History Talk
Tracing the Emperor: Photography and the Imperial Progressions in Meiji Japan
Dr Gyewon Kim, Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow, Sainsbury Institute for Japanese Arts and Culture, Norwich
Generously supported by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation -
Monday, 20th February, 2012
Chinese Voices in the Rites Controversy: The Globalisation of a Local Problem, 1701-1704
Prof. Nicolas Standaert, The Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium -
Monday, 27th February, 2012
Post Cold War Japanese Foreign Policy
Prof. Miyagi Taizo, Sophia University
Generously supported by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation -
Monday, 5th March, 2012
History and the Development of Chinese Foreign Policy
Prof. Kawashima Shin, University of Tokyo
Generously supported by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation -
Thursday, 8th March, 2012 (Umney Theatre, Robinson College)
(Please note this talk takes place on a Thursday)
The Other Korea: Thoughts and Pictures from the DPRK
Dr Jim Hoare, Chargé d'Affaires to Pyongyang -
Monday, 12th March, 2012 (Room 102, Faculty of Classics)
Chinese Medicine in East Africa
Prof. Elisabeth Hsu, University of Oxford
For further information, contact:
Dr Barak Kushner
University Senior Lecturer in Modern Japanese History
Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Telephone: +44(0)1223 335174
E-mail: bk284@cam.ac.ukDr Adam Chau
University Lecturer in the Anthropology of Modern China
Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Telephone: +44(0)1223 335146
E-mail: ayc25@cam.ac.ukDr Michael Shin
University Lecturer in Korean Studies
Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
Telephone: +44(0)1223 335173
Email: mds71@cam.ac.uk
