East
 Asian
 Studies

Faculty

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

Members, 2009-10
= first semester;  = second semester;  = visitor

Daniel Botsman (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill),
Japanese History

Yingcong Dai (William Patterson University of New Jersey),
History of Late Imperial China

Fa-Ti Fan (State University of New York at Binghamton),
Chinese History and History of Science

Marie Favereau-Doumenjou (Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale),
History of the Mongol Empire

Sarah Fraser (Northwestern University),
History of Chinese Art

Jinah Kim (Vanderbilt University),
Art History/Buddhist Manuscripts

Christopher Minkowski (University of Oxford),
Sanskrit and Indian Studies 

Lauren Minsky (New York University Abu Dhabi),
South Asian History of Medicine/Science

Klaas Ruitenbeek(Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto),
Chinese Studies

Franciscus Verellen (École Française d'Extreme-Orient),
East Asian Studies

Q. Edward Wang (Rowan University),
Chinese History and Comparative Historiography 

Don Wyatt (Middlebury College),
Chinese Intellectual History

2009-2010 Calendar of Events

FALL 2009 SEMINARS

September 30
Klaas Ruitenbeek, Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, IAS
"Material Traces of a General in the Ming-Qing war: Zu Dashou (ca. 1565-1656)."
Meeting from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm, Dilworth Room - Rear

November 3
Marie Favereau-Doumenjou, Institut Français d'Archéologie Orientale, IAS
"The Meaning of 'Tatar' from Asia to Europe (8th-15th c.)."
Meeting from 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm, White-Levy Room

November 10
Yingcong Dai, William Patterson University of New Jersey, IAS
"The Jiaqing Emperor's Failed Battle with Lebao, Commander-in-Chief in the White Lotus War."
Meeting from 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm, West Building Seminar Room

December 8
Jonathan C. Gold, Princeton University
"Summarizing Vasubandhu: Must a Buddhist Philosopher Have a Philosophy?"
Meeting from 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm, West Building Seminar Room

December 15
Lauren Minsky, New York University Abu Dhabi, IAS
"The Hospital as Healing Shrine: Rethinking Colonial India's 'Medical Masala'."
Meeting from 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm, West Building Seminar Room

SPRING 2010 SEMINARS

January 19
Judith Pfeiffer, University of Oxford, IAS
"Rashid al-Din's Universalism at the Crossroads of Political Thought, Theology, and Historiography."
Meeting from 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm, West Building Seminar Room

January 26
Sarah Fraser, Northwestern University, IAS
"The Cultural Frontier in Western China during the 1940s."
Meeting from 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm, West Building Seminar Room

February 16
Franciscus Verellen, École Française d'Extreme-Orient, IAS
"The tenth-century kingdom of Shu 蜀: Cultural innovation and the politics of secession."
Meeting from 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm, West Building Seminar Room

February 23
Daniel Botsman, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, IAS
"Treaty Ports, Outcasts and the Meaning of 'Liberation': Revisiting Meiji Japan's Emancipatory Moment."
Meeting from 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm, West Building Seminar Room

March 9
Q. Edward Wang, Rowan University, IAS
"Chopsticks: 'Bridges' of Culture in East Asia."
Meeting from 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm, West Building Seminar Room

March 16
Fa-ti Fan, State University of New York at Binghamton, IAS
TBA
Meeting from 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm, West Building Seminar Room

March 23
Don Wyatt, Middlebury College, IAS
"Chinese Self, Alien Other, and the Emergence of a Racialized Worldview."
Meeting from 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm, West Building Seminar Room

March 30
Jinah Kim, Vanderbilt University, IAS
"Sādhus, ācāryas and their sons: Lay Buddhist practitioners and the production of Medieval Indian Buddhist books"
Meeting from 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm, West Building Seminar Room

For further information, please call or e-mail: María M. Tuya, 609.734.8019, mtuya@ias.edu


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Updated February 3, 2010