EAST ASIA CENTER SPRING SPEAKER SERIES EVENT SCHEDULE

Friday, February 5 – Tim Grose (Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology)

3:00 – 4:30 p.m. ‘Uyghurs are Uyghurs. They Aren’t Muslim:’ Forging ‘Modern’ Chinese Citizens in Xinjiang

Friday, February 19 – Xiang “Sean” Gao (The University of Delaware/East China Normal University)

3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Creating Shanghai Sonatas – A New Musical Based on the True Stories of the Shanghai Jewish Refugees during WWII

Friday, March 5 (Date TBD) – Paul Groner (UVA Department of Religion, emeritus) and Dale Copeland (UVA Department of Politics)

3:00 – 4:30 p.m. East Asia Center Faculty Forum (Talk titles TBD)

Friday, March 19 – Xin Conan-Wu (The College of William & Mary)

3:00 – 4:30 p.m. The Walled Grove: Chinese Gardens in History

Thursday, April 8 – Jeffrey Nicholaisen (Duke Kunshan University)

7:00 – 8:30 p.m. Inequality of Equalities: The Taiwanese Buddhist Encounter with Liberal Humanism and Taiwan’s Indigenous People

Friday, April 16 – Aike Rots (University of Oslo)

1:00 – 2:30 p.m. Talk title TBD

Friday, April 23 – David Fedman (The University of California-Irvine)

3:00 – 4:30 p.m. Beyond the Green Archipelago: Japan’s Empire of Forestry in Korea and Beyond

SPECIAL SOUTHEAST ASIA EVENTS

Friday, February 26 – Hugh Clark (Ursinus College, emeritus)

3:00 – 4:30 p.m. What Do Historians Mean When They Say ‘China’?

A Nelson Lecture on Southeast Asia

Friday, April 2 – Amitav Acharya (American University)

9:00 – 10:30 a.m. Book Launch: ASEAN and Regional Order: Revisiting Security Community in Southeast Asia

A Coughlin Lecture on Southeast Asia

“ASSESSMENT OF CHINA’S BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE” EVENT SCHEDULE

February (Date TBD) Liaqat Ali Shah (Centre of Excellence for CPEC)

Talk title TBD

Thursday, February 25 – David F. Day (Belt & Road Task Force, American Bar Association)

2:30 – 5:00 p.m. Talk title TBD

Friday, March 12 – Sophia Kidd (Sichuan University)

8:00 – 9:30 p.m. Minxin Xiangtong and People-to-People (P2P) Relations along the New Silk Roads (NSR)

Friday, March 26 – Daniel S. Markey (Johns Hopkins University)

3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Book Launch: China’s Western Horizon: Beijing and the New Geopolitics of Eurasia

Friday, April 16 – Marlene Laruelle (George Washington University)

3:30 – 5:00 p.m. Central Asia's Perceptions of the BRI: Hopes and Concerns

Thursday, April 22 – Hans Holzhacker (Central Asia Regional Economic Cooperation Program)

Talk title TBD