April 23, 2021
David Fedman, the University of California-Irvine
"Beyond the Green Archipelago: Japan's Empire of Forestry in Korea and Beyond"
April 16, 2021
Aike Peter Rots, University of Oslo, Norway
"Of Gods & Whales: Popular Rituals, Environmental Change, and the Necessity of Intra-Asian Comparison"
April 8, 2021
Ambassador Ha Kim Ngoc, Vietnamese Ambassador to the United States
"The United States and Vietnam: Ney Dynamics" Part Two
April 2, 2021
Amitav Acharya, American University
"ASEAN and Regional Order in Southeast Asia"
March 19, 2021
Xin Conan-Wu, The College of William and Mary
"The Walled Grove: Chinese Gardens in History"
March 4, 2021
Daniel Kritenbrink, US Ambassador to Vietnam
"The United States and Vietnam: New Dynamics"
February 5, 2021
Timothy Grose
"Uyghurs are Uyghurs. They Aren’t Muslim:" Forging "Modern" Chinese Citizens in Xinjiang
November 18, 2020
Naomi Standen
"Taking China out of Premodern Global History: Bodies, Threads and Fabrics"
November 13, 2020
Eddy U
"Creating the Intellectual: Chinese Communism and the Rise of a Classification"
October 29, 2020
Sonya Lee
"Island Illusion: Recreating Avalokiteshvara at Mt. Putuo in Sichuan during Song-dynasty China"
October 16, 2020
Graham F. Odell
"State Reconstitution in China, Japan and East Africa"
October 9, 2020
Ezra F. Vogel
"China-Japan: 1895-2010, The Interim of Japan on Top"
October 2, 2020
Evan A. Feigenbaum
"China, Asia, and the US: Foreground and Lost Ground"
September 25, 2020
Bob Davis, Lingling Wei, Wall Street Journal
"China & the US - A Superpower Showdown"
February 14, 2020
Dr. Perry Link, University of California, Riverside
"Three Turning Points in Chinese Popular Political Thought since 1949"
November 1, 2019
Dr. Koji Murata, Doshisha Univeristy
"The US-Japan Alliance in the Trump Era"
October 25, 2019
Dr. Robert Weller, Boston University
"Anti-Heroic Agents: The Gendered Dynamics of Religious Change in Urbanizing China"
October 21, 2019
Duncan Clark, BDA China, & Syaru Shirley Lin, UVA Visiting Professor
"The Rise of Alibaba and Prospects for Technological Innovation in China"
October 11, 2019
Dr. Josh Eisenman, University of Notre Dame
"Red China’s Green Revolution: Technological Innovation, Institutional Change and Economic Development"
4/11/2019
Taisu Zhang, Yale Law School
"Legality in Contemporary Chinese Politics"
4/04/2019
To-Hai Liou, National Chengchi University
"Taiwan's New Southbound Policy and Asian Economic Integration"
3/01/2019
Xiao Ren, Fudan University
"China and the Denuclearization of North Korea: History in the Making?"
2/22/2019
Minxin Pei, Claremond McKenna College
"Autopsy of a Failed Policy: Why China's One Party Political Regime Made America's Engagement Unsuccessful"
10/19/2018
Takeshi Watanabe, Wesleyan University
"How to Treat Spirit Possessions in the Heian Japan: Eiga monogatari and the Potential of Historical Writing for Healing"
9/21/2018
Paul Goldin, University of Pennsylvania
"Self Interest in Early Chinese Texts"
4/20/2018
Johnathan Skaff, Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania
"Slavery of the Silk Road of the Tang Empire"
2/16/2018
Martin Schoenhals, UNC Chapel Hill
"'Civilizing' China: Cultural Beliefs about the Urban & Modern in the People's Republic of China"
2/2/2018
Fred Damon, University of Virginia
"Chinese Astronomical Systems in the South Pacific? Conforming Earth to Heaven Through the Reaches of the Austronesian World"
11/16/2017
François Jullien, Fondation Maison des Sciences de l'Homme
"There is No Such Thing as Cultural Identity, but We Shall Defend a Culture’s Resources"
11/3/2017
Jonathan Best, Wesleyan University
"Empress Jingu's Magical Conquest of Korea: A Legend of Multiple Uses"
10/27/2017
Brandon Dotson, Georgetown University
"A Strange Gift and Stranger Beneficiaries: 1,650 Sutras Copied for the Tibetan Emperor"
10/20/2017
Nicole Willock, Old Dominion University
"Lineages of the Literacy: Religious Repertoires and the Cultural Revolution"
10/19/2017
Ian Johnson, Journalist
"China's Religious Revival"
9/27/2017
Holly Gayley, The University of Colorado, Boulder
"Epistolary Intimacy in the Love Letters of a Buddhist Tantric Couple"