Colloquium Speaker Series (Print Version)

The events are held in person from 12 noon - 1:15pm on Wednesdays. 

2023-2024 Schedule

East Asian Studies Librarians
"Unlikely sources – Examples from the Collections of the East Asian Library"
Wed, Feb 12, 2025, 12:00 pm1:15 pm
He Bian, Associate Professor of History and East Asian Studies
“Gao Lian’s Two Bodies: Caring for Oneself and Others across the Ming-Qing Transition”
Wed, Feb 19, 2025, 12:00 pm1:15 pm
Xiaoyu Xia, Cotsen Fellow in East Asian Studies, Society of Fellows
“Strange Characters: The Orthographic Outliers of Modern China”
Wed, Feb 26, 2025, 12:00 pm1:15 pm
Dror Weil, Assistant Professor, University of Cambridge and Visiting IAS scholar
"Islamicate China: A Translocal History of Premodern Science and Philology"
Wed, Mar 5, 2025, 12:00 pm1:15 pm
Jessey Choo, Associate Professor, Rutgers and Visiting IAS scholar
"The Immortal in a Doomed Tomb: Entombed Epitaph Inscription and the Quest for Immortality"
Wed, Mar 19, 2025, 12:00 pm1:15 pm
Cheng-hua Wang, Associate Professor of Art and Archaeology
"The Politics of Topographical Landscape Painting in Eighteenth-Century China"
Wed, Mar 26, 2025, 12:00 pm1:15 pm
Xin Wen, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies and History
"How to Write about the History of Common People in a Medieval Chinese City"
Wed, Apr 2, 2025, 12:00 pm1:15 pm
Paul Vierthaler, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies
"Censorship, Editing, and the Siku Quanshu: Late Imperial Collections as a Prism for Understanding Large Language Models"
Wed, Apr 9, 2025, 12:00 pm1:15 pm
Akiko Walley, Associate Professor of Japanese Art, University of Oregon. Numata Visiting Scholar, Department of Religion
"Orchestrating Miracles: Strategies of Sensing the Relics of the Buddha in Nao Haiji Reliquary"
Wed, Apr 16, 2025, 12:00 pm1:15 pm
Kit Brooks, Curator of Asian Art, Princeton Art Museum
"Morphing into Madness: Shifting Depictions of the Japanese Wolf"
Wed, Apr 23, 2025, 12:00 pm1:15 pm