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Faculty Nicola Di Cosmo |
Members, 2017-2018
▲ = first term only ● = second term only

Chinese History


Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Modern European History & International Relations







2017-2018 Calendar of Events
FALL 2017 SEMINARS
October 16
Inaba Minoru, IAS, Kyoto University
"Wukong’s itinerary to India”
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room
October 30
Timothy Brook, IAS, University of British Columbia
“Narrating the Concept of the Great State.”
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room
November 6
Ying Zhang, IAS, Ohio State University
“Making Confinement Confucian: Imprisoned Officials and Their Families”
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room
November 13
Miriam Kingsberg Kadia, IAS, University of Colorado, Boulder
“Men of One Age: Japanese Fieldworkers in the Transwar World”
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room
November 27
Eugenia Lean, IAS, Columbia University
“Upending Convention: ‘Lettered’ Experimentation and New Technologies in Turn-of-the-Century Hangzhou”
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room
December 4
Yitzchak Jaffe, The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University
“Assembling communities of culinary and mortuary practice - Rethinking Zhou contact with their Western Neighbors (1046-771 BCE)”
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room
SPRING 2018 SEMINARS
January 22
William Hedberg, IAS, Arizona State University
"The Role of China in Japanese Literary Historiography of the Meiji Period (1868-1912)”
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room
January 29
Kwangmin Kim, IAS, University of Colorado
“Asian borderlands and millenarianism, 1850-1900”
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room
February 5
Ksenia Chizhova, Princeton University
“Feelings and the Logic of Space in the Lineage Novel of Late Chosŏn Korea (1392-1910)”
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room
February 26
Marta Hanson, IAS, Johns Hopkins University
“Ritual Healing: The Body-as-Technology in mid-7th-century Tang China”
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room
March 5
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University
“Mao Zedong between Caopi and Yuan Shikai: another look at 20th century Chinese History”
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room
March 12
Weijing Lu, IAS, University of California, San Diego
“Marriage and Intimacy in Late Imperial China”
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room
March 27
Don Wyatt, Middlebury College
“The Expanding Boundaries of Slavery in Tang China”
Meeting from 4:30 to 6:00 pm
White-Levy Room
April 2
Constance Cook, IAS, Lehigh University
“Divination and the Body in Ancient China”
Meeting from 3:30 to 5:00 pm
West Building Seminar Room
Past East Asian Studies Events
For further information, please call or e-mail: Brett Savage, 609.734.8313, bsavage@itg.ias.edu.