OUTREACH ACTIVITIES

Center for East Asian Studies


  • Mizoguchi film "Ugetsu monogatari (9/7/2007)
  • "Shanghai and the Global Imagination" (9/20/2007)
  • film showing: "Broken birds: an epic longing" (9/21/2007)
  • Mizoguchi Film "Street of Shame" (9/21/2007)
  • "The rise of the yuan- experts speak on the Chinese currency" (9/24/2007)
  • CEAS graduate student info session (10/2/2007)
  • CEAS Undergraduate Student Info Session (10/4/2007)
  • CEAS undergraduate student info session (10/4/2007)
  • Huashen: how Daoist masters change into gods (10/4/2007)
  • WUN contemporary China center video seminar: Resources, Development, and Environment: A Tangle of Contradictions? (10/4/2007)
  • Mizoguchi film: Sansho the Bailiff (10/5/2007)
  • Finding the center Zen Buddhism workshop (10/7/2007)
  • Finding the center musical and Zen performance (10/8/2007)
  • The lyrical in Epic time: the music and poetry of Jiang Wenye (10/8/2007)
  • WUN contemporary China center video seminar The rural-urban boundary in China (10/11/2007)
  • Panel discussion: Hu's on first but who and what else (10/16/2007)
  • Soft power and its perils: U.S. cultural policy in early postwar Japan and permanent dependency (10/16/2007)
  • Millennialism in early China: How divine authority was transformed into historiography (10/17/2007)
  • WUN contemporary China center video seminar: Changing Media,changing politics (10/18/2007)
  • International academic symposium Law and democratization in Taiwan and South Korea (10/19/2007 - 10/20/2007)
  • Mizoguchi film: The life of Oharu (10/19/2007)
  • Cognitive study of Chinese syntactic structure and its pedagogical significance (10/22/2007)
  • The origin of Sumo: a case study of the cultural relations among China, India and Japan (10/25/2007)
  • WUN contemporary China center video seminar: Gender and changing opportunities in China (10/25/2007)
  • Virtuous courtesans in the public eye: Rhetoric of female worthies in seventeenth century china (10/31/2007)
  • WUN contemporary China center video seminar Chinese administrative law in comparative perspective (11/1/2007)
  • Film screening: The Host (11/2/2007)
  • International academic symposium competition and collaboration in Edo print culture: a new perspective (11/3/2007)
  • Artist colloquium: Do -HO Suh (11/6/2007)
  • Global connectivity and consumer behanior (11/7/2007)
  • WUN Contemporary China Center Video Seminar: China's economic rise and the prospects of democratization (11/7/2007 - 11/7/2008)
  • Mizoguchi film: Utamaro and his five women (11/9/2007)
  • Standing up to the past: literature, humor, and EDO prints (11/9/2007)
  • Sacrifice and divination in warring states China: the case of Baoshan (11/14/2007)
  • ULLSU Korean Folk Drumming (11/15/2007)
  • WUN Contemporary China Center Video Seminar: Remapping Beijing: Polylocality, Globalization, Cinema (11/15/2007)
  • Mizoguchi film: "The Story of the Last Chrysanthemums" (11/16/2007)
  • Taiwanese Film Festival: "A Night of Magic: The Lantern Festival in Taiwan," "Taiwan Portrait: Dharma Master Cheng Yen," "Tropical Fish," "Let It Be," "Taiwan Portrait: King Liu," "Matsu- Taiwan's Guardian Goddess of the Sea" (11/26/2007 - 11/29/2007)
  • Mizoguchi film: Sisters of Gion (11/30/2007)
  • "WWII Japan: Comparing the lenses of anthropology and history" (12/4/2007)
  • WUN Contemporary China Center Video Seminar: Gender at Work in China's Urban Work Units (12/6/2007)
  • "Contemporary Transnational Popular Cultural Traffic between Japan and Korea" (12/13/2007)
  • WUN Contemporary China Video Seminar: "China, North Korea and the Emerging Security Order in Northeast Asia" (1/24/2008)
  • "Emotional Infectivity: Cyborg Affect and the Limits of the Human" (1/25/2008)
  • "The Internet and Mobile Phones in Rural China" (1/31/2008)
  • "Full Limited Animation" (2/4/2008)
  • Modern Korea: Literary and Cinematic Film Screening "My Heart" (2/7/2008)
  • WUN Contemporary China Center Video Seminar: "Vulnerability to Environmental Change, Linking Local Cases with Global Models" (2/7/2008)
  • Epidemiology, Social Sciences and the Spread of HIV/AIDS in China (2/8/2008)
  • "Can Schools be Hijacked?: High School Life on the Eve of the South Korea's April Revolution (1960)" (2/12/2008)
  • "Making Heroes out of Losers: Creating Meiji Restoration History in Local Japan" (2/13/2008)
  • "the Print Industry in Early Korea" (2/14/2008)
  • WUN Contemporary China Center Video Seminar: "Globalization, China, and Post-1997 Hong Kong Cinema (2/14/2008)
  • "Are China's and India's Growth Miracles Built to Last?" (2/18/2008)
  • "A Conversation with Mimi Ito," "The Social Life of Mobile Media" (2/21/2008)
  • Undergraduate Student Information Session (2/21/2008)
  • "Kamishibai and the National/Social Imaginary in Modernizing Japan." (2/26/2008)
  • "The Life Story of Ch'oe Yong-suk and the Politics of Gender and Identity in Colonial Korea" (2/26/2008)
  • "Ships in Distress and Acts of Authority: Faxian, Vajrabodhi, and the Narrative Function of Satyakirya" (2/28/2008)
  • Film Screening: "Peppermint Candy" (2/28/2008)
  • "The Literary Lives (and Deaths) of Chinese Buddhist Nuns at Baoshan" (3/3/2008)
  • Film Screening: "The Way Home" (3/6/2008)
  • "Free Trade in China: An American Economic/Political Perspective." (3/12/2008)
  • "Togawa Yoshio Oral History: Maoism, Sinology, and Gender in Postwar Japan." (3/12/2008)
  • American College Dance Festival Association North-Central Regional Conference Global Dance Concert (3/16/2008)
  • "Does Social Context Affect Second-Language Acquisition?" (3/25/2008)
  • "Japan's Motorcycle Wars: Success, Failure, and Industrial progress in Postwar Japan." (3/26/2008)
  • Film screening: "P'airan" (3/27/2008)
  • University Theater Youth production "Dragonwings" (3/29/2008 - 4/5/2008)
  • "The Geisha's Forbidden Comicbook: Gender, Advertising, and the Visual-Verbal Imagination in Early Modern Japan." (4/1/2008)
  • "Traditional Narration and Literary Treatmen: Centering on the Narration on the Chinese Cultural Revolution and American Jewish Consciousness Novels after the Holocaust." (4/4/2008)
  • "The Function of Suffix-s in Archaic Chinese." (4/7/2008)
  • "The Grammaticalization of the BA Construction" (4/7/2008)
  • "Autonomy through Social Networks: Law, Politics, and the New Media 1931-1957." (4/9/2008)
  • Africa/China Symposium: Africa Encounters Global China (4/9/2008)
  • "Markdedness and Second Language Acquisition." (4/14/2008)
  • "Strange Creatures of Chu: Antlered Tomb Sculptures of the Warring States Period." (4/16/2008)
  • "Exploring the Origins of Mandarin Chinese." (4/17/2008)
  • "Korean Economy: Opportunities in Current Asia." (4/24/2008)
  • Korean Tang Soo Do Lecture: Korean Martial Arts History and Philosophy (4/24/2008)
  • "Ins and Outs" Evidence from Adverbials, Applicatives, Light Verbs, and Object Fronting in Chinese." (4/29/2008)
  • "Technologies of War and Masculine Identities: The Introduction and Diffusion of Guns." (4/29/2008)
  • Sustaining Rapid Growth: Policy Challenges for China (5/1/2008)
  • Celebrating Empire, Fighting War The 1940 Exposition in Late Colonial Korea. Todd Henry-Assistant Professor of Modern East Asian History at Colorado State University (9/18/2008)
  • Undergraduate Advising Pizza Lunch (9/25/2008)
  • Introduction to East Asian Traditional Dress and Korean Crafts. Dr. Jung Uk Rhee from Dongguk University, Seoul, Korea (9/27/2008)
  • Graduate Advising Pizza Lunch (9/30/2008)
  • CEAS Film Series Farewell, My ConcubineDirected by Chen Kaige, 1993 (10/1/2008)
  • CEAS Film Series Red SorghumDirected by Zhang Yimou, 1987 (10/8/2008)
  • Heaven as a Source for Ethical Warrant in Early Confucianism. Philip J. Ivanhoe-Professor at City University of Hong Kong Specializing in Neo-Confucianism (10/9/2008)
  • CEAS Film Series Happy TogetherDirected by Wong Kar-Wai (10/15/2008)
  • Globalization is an Alien Conspiracy On Jang Joon-Hwans Save the Green Planet. Peter Paik-Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at UW-Milwaukee (10/15/2008)
  • Teacher Training Workshop for K-16 Chinese Language Instructors 2008 (10/18/2008)
  • Painting the Invisible World Literary and Theatrical Perspectives on Luo Pings Ghost Amusement Scrolls. Judith Zeitlin-Professor in Chinese Literature and East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago (10/23/2008)
  • CEAS Film Series The Presidents Last BangDirected by Im Sang-Soo, 2005 (10/29/2008)
  • The Consolation of Suffering and Zhang Yimous film To Live. Jian Xu-Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at UW-Milwaukee (10/29/2008)
  • CEAS Film Series My Beautiful Girl, MariDirected by Lee Seong-Kang, 2002 (11/5/2008)
  • The Painter-Sage, Wu Daozi, and the Practice of Religious Painting in China. Poul Andersen-Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Hawaii - Manoa (11/5/2008)
  • The Uses of Disguise, Deception, and Deceit New Mishima Play Translations. Larry Kominz-Director of the Center for Japanese Studies at Portland State University (11/10/2008)
  • Aging and Family in Japan - Continuity and Change. Kimiko Tanaka-Research Associate in the Department of Sociology at UW-Madison (11/12/2008)
  • CEAS Film Series Love LetterDirected by Shunji Iwai, 1995 (11/12/2008)
  • The View from the Tower of Crossing Sails Female Informants in Qing Tales of the Strange. Rania Huntington-Visiting Associate Professor of Chinese LiteratureDepartment of East Asian Languages and LiteratureUniversity of Wisconsin-Madison (11/12/2008)
  • From Desire to Sympathy Poetic Representations of Women through the Third Century. Hu Qiulei-Ph.D. Candidate, Harvard University (11/17/2008)
  • CEAS Film Series Millenium ActressDirected by Satoshi Kon, 2001 (11/19/2008)
  • Economic Restructuring and Changes in Job Mobility Patterns in Japan. Wei Hsin Yu-Assistant Professor of Sociology at University of Texas at Austin (11/20/2008)
  • The Courtesan as Nonconformist A Case Study of Wang Wei. Xu Sufeng-Visiting Assistant Professor, Hamilton College (11/24/2008)
  • Writing for Print Production and Circulation of Literary Texts in Seventeenth-Century China. Son Suyoung-Ph.D. Candidate, University of Chicago (12/1/2008)
  • Study Abroad Information Session China Summer History Program. (12/8/2008)
  • Study Abroad Information Session China History Summer Program. (1/29/2009)
  • Digging Out Kirino Natsuos Archaeological Fiction. Rebecca Copeland-Professor of Japanese Literature at Washington University in St. Louis (2/6/2009)
  • Chinas Inevitable Revolution Rethinking Americas Loss to the Communists, 1945-1949. Guest Lecture Thomas Lutze (2/12/2009)
  • Population Decline and Retreat from Marriage in Japan. Brown Bag Lunch Miho Iwasawa (2/18/2009)
  • The Korean Wave in Global Pop Culture. Guest Lecture Eun Young Jung (2/25/2009)
  • Chinas Crony Communism. Guest Lecture Bruce DicksonProfessor of Political Science and International Affairs at George Washington University (3/4/2009)
  • Forum The Asian Narrative and Revolutionary Martial Arts in Performance--Nogaku to Shaolin Narratives Stories as Combat. Guest Lecture Ruth Margraff - Associate Professor of Writing at the School of the Art Institute Chicago (3/4/2009 - 3/6/2009)
  • Representing the Others Wartime Animation Films of China and Japan. Daisy Yan Du-Ph. D Candidate at the Department of East Asian Languages and Literature (3/4/2009)
  • Undergraduate Pizza Luncheon (3/5/2009)
  • Graduate Pizza Luncheon (3/9/2009)
  • Exporting Uncertainty How Chinas Governance Impacts the World. Guest Speaker David Kelly-Australian Scholar of Contemporary Chinese Politics and Thought (3/25/2009)
  • Maundy Thursday Directed by Song Hae-Seong, 2006. CEAS Film Series (4/2/2009)
  • Tokyo Tower-Mom and Me, and Sometimes Dad Directed by Joji Matsuoka, 2007. CEAS Film Series (4/9/2009)
  • Reconstructing a Musical Self Jewish Immigrants in Republican China. Jeremy Leong-UW Ph.D student. (4/15/2009)
  • Happiness Directed by Heo Jin-Ho, 2007. CEAS Film Series (4/16/2009)
  • Unable or Unwilling to Forget Historical Memory and Korean Nationalism. Guest Lecture Michael Robinson-Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University-Bloomington (4/17/2009)
  • Portraits of Su Shi as an Immortal Perceptions of Su Shi During the Qing Dynasty. Jae-Suk Park-Research Associate in the Department of Art History at UW-Madison (4/22/2009)
  • Game Changers Toward a Theory of Literary Study. Guest Lecture Michelle Yeh-Professor of Chinese at the University of California - Davis (4/23/2009)
  • Tell Me Something Directed by Chang Yun-hyon, 2001. CEAS Film Series (4/23/2009)
  • Interpretation, Autonomy and Transformation Chinese Pedagogic Discourse in the Cross-Cultural Perspective. Wu Zongjie-School of International Studies, Zhejiang University, China (4/27/2009)
  • Homosexuality and Gendered Nature of Clothing Behavior in Korea. Dr. Jung-Uk Rhee (4/29/2009)
  • Memories of Murder Directed by Bong Joon-ho, 2003. CEAS Film Series (4/30/2009)
  • Jump-Start the Six-Party Talks Logic, Principle, and Implications. Guest Lecture Sung-Chull Kim, Professor at the Hiroshima Peace Institute (5/5/2009)
  • Caf Lumire and Hou Hsiao-hsiens Poetics of Mise en Abyme. Wenchi Lin, Taiwanese Film Specialist and Professor in Taiwan. (5/6/2009)
  • CEAS Film Series Attack the Gas StationDirected by Kim Sang-Jin, 1997 (10/22/2009)
  • Special seminar Kabuki in the Library and Classroom (1/15/2010 - 5/15/2010)
  • Does the demonstrative system in Pre-Qin Chinese make a two-way or three-way distinction? by Ms. Lin Deng, ABD, University of Washington (1/25/2010)
  • Info Session Research Fellowship Opportunities in Mongolia for Students and Faculty by Brian White, US Director, American Center for Mongolian Studies (1/28/2010)
  • Screening and discussion of Princess Mononoke by Gene Phillips, Professor of Art History, UW-Madison (1/28/2010)
  • Always-Sunset on Third Street Always San-chome no Yuhi (1/29/2010)
  • L2 Learners Shallow Structure or Limited Memory? by Dr. Jerome Packard, Professor, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1/29/2010)
  • Chinese Linguistic Talk Series Multimodal Metaphor in Multimodal Discourse The Case of a CCTV Commercial by Dr. Ning Yu, Professor, University of Oklahoma (2/1/2010)
  • Is it Science Fiction? Calculating Face-Value in Yamada Futaros Meiji Tower of Babel by Ben Rosenberg, University of Wisconsin Fellow in International Studies (2/3/2010)
  • Chinese Linguistics Talk Series A Model of Perceptual Categories of Mandarin Tones by Dr. Bei Yang, PhD Fudan University, ABD, The University of Iowa (2/5/2010)
  • The Girl Who Leapt Through Time Toki wo Kakeru Shojo (2/5/2010)
  • A New People Reconstructing Chinas Rural Turn by Kate Merkel-Hess, Professor, University of California, Irvine (2/8/2010)
  • Lecture by Charo DEtcheverry, UW-Madison East Asian Lang and Lit More Japanese Tales Medieval Magic (2/11/2010)
  • Lecture by Robert Buswell on Korean Buddhist Journeys to Lands Worldly and Otherworldly (2/23/2010)
  • Korean Music Conference (2/26/2010 - 2/27/2010)
  • Kabuki play Narukami - The Thunder God (3/3/2010 - 3/7/2010)
  • Lecture by Roderick Wilson on Rivers, Engineers, and Politicians Reframing Environmental Relations in Meiji Japan (3/3/2010)
  • Lecture by Adam Smith on Learning to Write at Anyang The Emergence of Literacy in East Asia (3/4/2010)
  • Lecture by Catherine Swatek on Beating the Officers and Cursing the Manchus Dialect and Humor in Classical Kun Opera (3/8/2010)
  • Kabuki play Narukami - The Thunder God (3/9/2010 - 3/11/2010)
  • Public presentation by Rania Huntington and Mark Meulenbeld on Journey to the West Monkey Wreaks Havoc in Heaven (3/11/2010)
  • Brownbag lecture by Richard Miller on From Moliendo Cafe to Kohii Rumba Latin Music in Asian Circulation (3/17/2010)
  • Screening and discussion of film Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter, and Spring by VAP Ann Choi (3/18/2010)
  • Lecture by Stephanie Tai, UW Law School, on What China is Doing about What It Doesnt Know Exploring the Regulatory Robustness of Chinas New Food Safety Law (3/26/2010)
  • Lecture by Victor Xiong on Sui Literary Figures and Their Works (4/7/2010)
  • Asian Supernatural lecture and discussion by Rania Huntington and Mark Meulenbeld on Journey to the West Monkeys Quest for Redemption (4/8/2010)
  • Lecture by Joel Andreas on Rise of the Red Engineers The Origins of Chinas Technocratic Class (4/13/2010)
  • Lecture by Aaron Moore on Technology as Power in Wartime Manchukou, 1932-1945 (4/14/2010)
  • Lecture by Joel Andreas on Dismantling Participatory Paternalism in Chinese Factories (4/14/2010)
  • Open seminar for faculty, students, and general public with Joel Andreas on Revolution, Reform and Class Transformation in China (4/15/2010)
  • Lecture by Mark Meulenbeld on Demons, Gods, and Masters Visualizations of the Chinese Religious Landscape (4/22/2010)
  • Lecture by Constantine Vaporis on Japan as Samurai Nation (4/29/2010)
  • The Zhang Clan Daoist Ritual Performance from Hunan (4/29/2010 - 5/1/2010)
  • Lecture by Florence Hsia on T.S. Bayer The Life of an Orientalist in St. Petersburg (5/5/2010)
  • Lecture by Jason Josephson on The Invention of Religion in Japan (5/6/2010)
  • Seminar with Yang Yao on Literature and Intellectual Culture of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (5/18/2010)
  • Kurosawa film series Rashomon (9/3/2010)
  • Korean War Memories Series The Steel Helmet (9/10/2010)
  • Korean War Memories Series Aimless Bullet Obaltan (9/11/2010)
  • Korean War Memories Series The Marines Who Never Returned Dora-oji anneun haebyeong (9/17/2010)
  • Korean War Memories Series Rainy Days Jangma (9/18/2010)
  • China Its Environment and History (9/23/2010)
  • Innovative Teaching Integrating Language and Disciplinary Learning (9/30/2010)
  • Kurosawa film series Drunken Angel Yoidore tenshi (10/1/2010)
  • Akiko Yano Concert Demae (10/2/2010)
  • Panel Discussion Wisconsin-China Water Collaborations Past, Present, and Future (10/7/2010)
  • Kurosawa film series Stray Dog Nora Inu (10/8/2010)
  • Kurosawa film series High and Low Tengoku to jigoku (10/13/2010)
  • Film Screening Wei Deshengs Cape No. 7 (10/14/2010)
  • Hopkins-Nanjing Center Graduate Program Information Session (10/15/2010)
  • Kurosawa film series Seven Samurai Shichinin no samurai (10/15/2010)
  • Representations of the New Woman in post-1980s Taiwan Cinema (10/16/2010)
  • Screening and Discussion of Seoul Train 2005 (10/19/2010)
  • Kurosawa film series Ikiru (10/22/2010)
  • Change and Recovery in Two China Landscapes Scenarios for the Sichuan Region and Poyang Lake Ecosystem (10/27/2010)
  • Chinese Linguistic Studies in Korea (10/28/2010)
  • Information Session Pyongyang Project (10/29/2010)
  • Kurosawa film series Yojimbo (10/29/2010)
  • Understanding Uyghurs Through Popular Chinese Media Self representation in Music Videos (11/3/2010)
  • How to help students make connections between their East Asia-related learning and the world beyond the classroom (11/4/2010)
  • Kurosawa film series The Bad Sleep Well Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (11/5/2010)
  • John Bull Gave Us Rice Covered with Spice-Flavored Sauce How Curry Made it Big in Japan (11/17/2010)
  • Japan-U.S. Relations Building for the Future (11/18/2010)
  • Energy, Indoor Air Pollution and Cardiovascular Health in Rural China (12/1/2010)
  • Same Rules, New Dimensions for Mongolias National Security Adapting to the New Geo-Economic Environment (12/1/2010)
  • The Melodrama of Virginity and Sex Drive The Gendered Discourse of The Sexual Oppression of Disabled People and its Solutions (12/8/2010)
  • Thirty Years of Subculture and Frenchness in Japanese Girls Culture-- From Rose of Versailles 1972 to Shimotsuma Monogatari 2002 (12/8/2010)
  • Conflict in the West Sea Reigniting the Korean War? (12/9/2010)
  • Film Memories of Matsuko Kiraware Matsuko no issho (2/13/2011)
  • ZhongKuitheLocalExorcistandMediatorASurveyontheRitualAspectsinPingguizhuan (2/16/2011)
  • Japanese film I just did not do it Soredemo bokuwa yattenai (2/19/2011)
  • Lecture by Julia Murray on Dueling Images Picturing the Life of Confucius, 1444-2010 (2/19/2011)
  • Adam Kern lecture and screening of Kurosawas Rashomon (2/25/2011)
  • Performance of kabuki play Narukami - The Thunder God (2/25/2011 - 2/27/2011)
  • ImaginedCamaraderiesNarrativesofExileinJapaneseandKorean-AmericanWomensPoetry (3/9/2011)
  • Sa-Mul-NoriinaGlobalPerspective (3/31/2011)
  • Parking (4/2/2011)
  • God Man Dog (4/3/2011)
  • TheNextWaveRecentFilmsfromTaiwan (4/7/2011)
  • Cape No. 7 (4/8/2011)
  • City of Sadness (4/9/2011)
  • Orz Boys (4/9/2011)
  • MappingCourtshipinTheTaleofGenji (4/10/2011)
  • Yang Yang (4/10/2011)
  • City as Country the Urban Comedies of Hou Hsiao-hsien and Chen Kuen-hou (4/11/2011)
  • PrimevalShinto,ModernJapan (4/12/2011)
  • TheSignificanceandImplicitTransmissionoftheGreatLeapFamine1959-61 (4/13/2011)
  • WhatsinaName?ZhongguoorChina (4/23/2011)
  • TheTwoGoldenAgesofWomensLiteratureinTaiwan (4/26/2011)
  • ConstructionofEmploymentPolicyforGenderEqualityAComparativeAnalysisintheUnitedStatesandChinabyPolicyProcessPerspective (4/30/2011)
  • Music Taipei vs. Music Shanghai A Historic Overview on the Dissemination of Popular Songs from Shanghai to Taipei in the 20th Century (5/2/2011)
  • The Aesthetics of Combat Poetry for Recitation in 1950s Taiwan (5/3/2011)

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