Spring Events 2021
Chinese Writing is Logographic: Evidence from East Asian Script Borrowing
Featuring Professor Zev Handel
(University of Washington, Seattle)
author of Sinography: The Borrowing and Adaptation of the Chinese Script
Friday, 9 April 2021, 3:00–4:30 PM (EST)
Registration is required for this event. Please fill out our RSVP form:
this RSVP form (click here).
The Zoom link will be provided upon registration. For more info, email:
aee2126@columbia.edu
Co-sponsored by Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University.
QUEERING THE STRAITS: UNRULY SUBJECTS ACROSS MODERN KOREAN AND JAPANESE STUDIES
The details on the workshop series can be found on this page (click here).
Co-sponsored by the Academy of Korean Studies; the Center for Korean Research at Columbia University; the Columbia University Alumni Association of Korea; the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture (Columbia); the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures (Columbia); the Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature at the University of California, San Diego; Transnational Korean Studies (UCSD); and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute (Columbia).
Zoom Workshop #1: REMEMBERING THE MODERN BOY: GENDER, EMPIRE, AND NOSTALGIA
Friday & Saturday, 19 & 20 February 2021, 7:00–9:45 PM (New York time) [Saturday & Sunday, 20 & 21 February, 9:00–11:45 AM (Seoul/Tokyo time)]
Zoom Workshop #2: CROSS-STRAIT CULTURES: PERFORMANCE, MEDIA, AND HISTORY
weekend of 30 April–2 May 2021, Friday & Saturday, New York time 8:00–10:45 PM [Saturday & Sunday, Seoul/Tokyo time 9:00–11:45 AM]
Preregistration is required for this event. We particularly invite the participation of scholars whose work focuses on gender and sexuality in East Asia. To register, please fill out our RSVP form by April 29: this RSVP form (click here). Sign-in to Google account is required. A day or two before the start of the workshop, we will send an email to all registered participants with a link to the event. If you have any questions or trouble with registration, please email us at queeringthestraits@gmail.com.
The details on the workshop series can be found on this page (click here).Fall Events 2021
Hoyt Long
Associate Professor of Japanese Literature; Co-Director, Textual Optics Lab
East Asian Languages and Civilizations
University of Chicago
THE VALUES IN NUMBERS: Reading Japanese Literature in a Global Information Age
Pre-register by clicking here to receive Zoom link.
Thursday, 30 September, at 6:00 PM EST
A copy of the book may be purchased here. Use discount coupon code: CUP20
Robert Hellyer
Associate Professor of History
Wake Forest University
