Past Events

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Ryan Moran (Utah): Selling the Future: Community, Hope, and Crisis in the Early History of Japanese Life Insurance

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on Zoom
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Asian Studies Lunch Meeting

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LeConte Hall Conference Room 201
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April 18, 2pm, on Zoom: Jooyeon Rhee (Penn State): Colonial Flȃneur and Fugitive Archives: Yŏm Sangsŏp’s On the Eve of the Uprising

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on ZOOM
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Dr. Bruce Fulton (U. of British Columbia): What is Korean Literature?

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MLC 350
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2025 Women's History Month Keynote Lecture

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Richard B. Russell Special Collections Libraries, 271 (Auditorium)
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The Linguistics Conference at the University of Georgia

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UGA Campus
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“Fiction Without Mimesis: A Comparative Philosophy of Fiction”--Hannah Kim (University of Arizona)

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115 Peabody Hall
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Lunar New Year Celebration

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UGA Memorial Hall
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2025 Shouky Shaheen Lecture | Iris Moon “Monstrous Beauty: A Feminist Revision of Chinoiserie”

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Lamar Dodd, S150

Asian Studies Faculty Meeting

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on Zoom
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Dr. Maria Repnikova (Georgia State): "China's Image-Making in Africa: Competing for Soft Power in the Shadows of the West"

Dr. Maria Repnikova, (Georgia State University)
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Journalism Room 511
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The Dancer's Voice: Author Rumya Putcha in Conversation with Jared Holton

Rumya Putcha (University of Georgia)
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1260 S. Lumpkin St. (Willson Center for Humanities and Arts)
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Park Jeong-Mi, "The State's Sexuality: Prostitution and Postcolonial Nation Building in South Korea"

Park Jeong-Mi, Sociology (Chungbuk National University)
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MLC Room 367
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Listening Workshop, Dr. Isabel Huacuja Alonso (Columbia)

Dr. Isabel Huacuja Alonso , (Columbia University)
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Hugh Hodgson School of Music, 250 River Road, Room 308
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History Film Series: Visions of the Past

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LeConte Hall 101

Center for Asian Studies Meeting

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on Zoom

Final Asian Studies Meeting of Semester

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on Zoom
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Early Career Workshop on “Mobilities, Itineraries, Circulations: Rethinking Asian Connections”

TBA
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Christopher Craig (Tohoku University), "Middlemen of Modernity: Local Elites and Agricultural Development in Modern Japan"

on Zoom
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"Myths of the Pendatang: Politics of Refugees and Temporariness in the Global South"

Miller Learning Center, Room 248
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Ji Li (HKU): "God's Little Daughters" and a Missionary Odyssey in Modern China

101 LeConte Hall

CAS Faculty Meetings, March 22 and March 28

on Zoom
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Hua Hsu, Delta Visiting Chair for Global Understanding

Georgia Museum of Art, Auditorium
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Zine Workshop + Conversation with Delta Visiting Chair Hua Hsu

Delta Innovation Hub 210 Spring Street
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The Sea Elephants: A Reading & Conversation with Visiting Author Shastri Akella

Sanford Hall Room 209
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Lunar New Year Celebration

Oconee County Civic Center
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In Conversation: Kei Ito and Binh Danh

Georgia Museum of Art

Faculty Meeting, Center for Asian Studies

LeConte Hall Conference Room (2nd Floor) and on Zoom
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Prof. June McDaniel to deliver Howard Lecture on "Contemplative Psychology: Some Eastern and Western Understandings of the Mind and Spirit"

Caldwell Hall, Room 204
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Visiting Author: Suchitra Vijayan: How Long Can the Moon Be Caged? Voices of Indian Political Prisoners

Graduate Reading Room, Main Library
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The Georgia Review Presents Jennine Capó Crucet and Brian Truong

Appleton Auditorium, Athens-Clarke County Library

RESCHEDULED: Asian Studies Faculty Meeting

LeConte Hall Conference Room (2nd Floor) and on Zoom
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Willson Center Distinguished Lecturer: Bhakti Shringarpure's "Publishing at a Crossroads: Notes on the "D" word"

Park Hall 265
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JET Program Information Session

*On Zoom
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Indian Majoritarianism: Othering of religious minorities and politics of polarization

Anuradha Bhasin, (Executive Edtior, Kashmir Times)
MLC 248
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Faculty New Book Release and Reception: Kalyani Ramnath

314 North Tower, 3rd Floor, Zell Miller Learning Center

Faculty Meeting

on Zoom

CAS End-of-the-year Lunch

MLC, North Tower
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Chris Suh (Emory): "Asia, Asian America, and the American South: Doing Transpacific History in Georgia"

Chris Suh, History (Emory)
101 LeConte Hall
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Victor Seow (Harvard): Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in Modern East Asia

Dr. Victor Seow, History of Science (Harvard University)
Virtual Event on Zoom
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Monday, April 3, 4-5:30pm (on Zoom): Author, Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

Virtual Event on Zoom
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Kristin Shi-Kupfer (Trier): Beyond Disinformation: Competing Chinese Voices in the Global Media Sphere

Candler Hall 214
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"Blurring the Color Line": Chinese in the Segregated South

Tate Theater
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Dr. Wai-yee Li (Harvard): “Gender and Friendship in Ming and Qing Literature”

Dr. Wai-yee Li, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations (Harvard University)
Larry Walker Room, Dean Rusk Hall, UGA Law School
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2023 Seuss Flic Zhonghe Dragon Conference

Walker Room, Dean Rusk Hall and Russell Special Collections Library
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Dr. Priyasha Mukhopadhyay (Yale): Reading for Company: Empire and its Forms of Writing, 1857- 1914

Dr. Priyasha Mukhopadhyay, English (Yale University)
Park Hall Room 265

Faculty Meeting, Center for Asian Studies

on Zoom
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Reception: Liu Shiming: Descending the Mountain Together

Margie E. West Gallery, Lamar Dodd School of Art
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January 20, 2023: Screen Time with your Humanities Professors: How did Crash Landing on You glamorize North Korea?

Mi-Ryong Shim (University of Georgia)
The Athenaeum
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Dr. Ling Ma (SUNY Geneseo), "Rediscovering Abortion by Turning Away from it: Researching Abortion in Early Twentieth-Century China"

Dr. Ling Ma, History (State University of New York Geneseo)
Virtual Event on Zoom
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Willson Center Distinguished Lecture: Dr. Carol Gluck (Columbia U.), "World War II and Global Memory Culture: The Case of the 'Comfort Women'"

Dr. Carol Gluck, History (Columbia University)
Larry Walker Room, Dean Rusk Hall, UGA Law School
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Film Premiere: Behind the Strings

Tate Theater
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Asian Studies Faculty Coffee Hour

LeConte Hall Lounge (2nd Floor)
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“'See You in Your Next Life': Creativity, the Zhuangzi, and Grief" - Julianne Chung (York University)

Peabody Hall, Room 115

XXth Biennial Symposium for Southern Asian Art

Richard B. Russel Special Collections Library
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Tea War: A History of Capitalism in China and India

Dr. Andrew Liu, Department of History (Villanova University)
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Samurai on Sakhalin: Ōno Domain, Mercantilist Reform, and the Japanese ‘Northern Frontier,’ 1855-1869

Dr. Maren Ehlers, (University of North Carolina, Charlotte)
Online-Zoom
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2022 Howard Lecture in Religion

Dr. Ann Gleig, (University of Central Florida)
ZOOM
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Professor Pia Brancaccio Lecture

Dr. Pia Brancaccio, (Drexel University)
Lamar Dodd School of Art | S150
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Professor Max Deeg Lecture

Dr. Max Deeg, (Cardiff University)
Lamar Dodd School of Art | S150

On the Regional Development of Early Medieval Buddhist Monasteries in South Asia | Vihāra Project International Research Workshop

Lamar Dodd School of Art | S150
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Professor Ronald Davidson Lecture

Dr. Ronald Davidson, (Fairfield University)
Lamar Dodd School of Art | S150
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Vihāra Project International Research Workshop | On the Regional Development of Early Medieval Buddhist Monasteries in South Asia

Lamar Dodd School of Art | S150

INDIA-US BILATERAL RELATIONS

VIRTUAL - To register: https://rb.gy/kqvgtv
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Dr. Marko Geslani Lecture

Dr. Marko Geslani, Department of Religious Studies (University of South Carolina)
Peabody Hall | 115
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Dr. Pierce Salguero Lecture

Dr. Pierce Salguero, (Penn State University’s Abington College)
Lamar Dodd School of Art | S150

Symposium | The Buddha Image in South Asia: Trans-Regional Diversity, Iconographic Innovation, and Localized Idioms

Lamar Dodd School of Art
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Dr. Ju-Hyung Rhi Lecture

Dr. Ju-Hyung Rhi, Department of Art and Archaeology (Seoul National University)
M. Smith Griffith Auditorium | Georgia Museum of Art
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2017 Hangeul Party

4th Floor Rotunda, UGA
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Colloquium in Asian Studies

Nanette R. Spina (University of Georgia)
213 MLC, UGA
Dr. Yuanfei Wang

Colloquium in Asian Studies

350 MLC, UGA
Dr. Jungnam Kim

Colloquium in Asian Studies: Issues of Spelling in Korean Education

Dr. Jungnam Kim, Korean Language (Kyung Hee University)
350 MLC, UGA
Dr. Ari Lieberman

Colloquium in Asian Studies: The Lebanon War in Israeli Cinema

Dr. Ari Lieberman, Comparative Literature (Uni)
350 MLC, UGA
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Asian Film Series: Train to Busan (2016, dir. Yeon Sangho)

248 MLC, UGA
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Meditation with a Zen Nun

Founders Garden Lawn
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Haun Saussy – The Only Game in Town: Early Buddhist Translations Into Chinese

Haun Saussy, Comparative Literature and East Asian Languages (University of Chicago)
248 MLC, UGA
Dr. Yuanfei Wang

Java in Discord: Unofficial History, Vernacular Fiction, and the Discourse of Imperial Identity in Late Ming China

TBA MLC, UGA
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Colloquium in Asian Studies: Special Lecture by Dr. Masaki Mori

Masaki Mori (University of Georgia)
348 MLC, UGA
Park & Kang

Special Night with Korean Film Director & Actor

101 MLC, UGA

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