Post Tagged with: "Asian studies"

Dr. Ji Young Choi of Ohio Wesleyan University will give a public lecture on “Historical and Theoretical Views on The Rise of China” Tuesday, March 5, at 6:30 p.m. in Porter Hall 104. Choi’s lecture will address political and economic aspects of China’s emerging role in international politics. The event […]

Dr. Josh Hill, Assistant Professor of History at Ohio University, was named a 2019 Fellow in the National Asia Research Program. The National Bureau of Asian Research and the Institute for National Security Studies at the National Defense University annually select a group of scholars as National Asia Research Fellows. […]

Dr. Sung-Yoon Lee of Tufts University gives a public lecture on “Containing Kim Jong Un: Five Myths About North Korea” on Feb. 13 at 6:30 p.m. in Bentley Hall 306. The lecture is hosted by the War and Peace theme, Asian Studies at the Center for International Studies, and the […]

Dr. Victoria Lee, Assistant Professor of History, presented a paper titled “Wild Toxicity, Cultivated Safety: Aflatoxin and Kōji Classification” as part of a Princeton University invitation-only workshop in March. Organized under the rubric of “Risk on the Table: Food, Health, and Environmental Exposures,” the workshop examined the confluence of hazards and concerns that characterize […]

Dr. Victoria Lee, Assistant Professor of History, contributed the entry on “Hakkō” (Fermentation) to the recently published Kagakushi jiten (Encyclopedia of the History of Chemistry), edited by Kagakushi gakkai (Japanese Society for the History of Chemistry). The encyclopedia, published in April 2017, will be the major Japanese-language reference work on the history of chemistry. Lee’s research focuses on […]

Women’s, Gender, & Sexuality Studies invites students to join the WGSS Reading Group presentation on “The Policing of Sexuality in Malaysia” on Wednesday, Oct. 26, from 11:50 a.m.  to 12:50 p.m. The reading group is facilitated by WGSS Allushuski Fellow Wai Ling Fong, a second-year graduate student in the Asian Studies […]

This past August, Dr. Joshua Hill, Assistant Professor of History, recently gave a talk on “The ‘Right to Bear Arms’ in the Early Chinese Republic” at the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences’ Institute of Modern History in Beijing. He discussed the curious (and little known) appearance of “Second Amendment”-style protections for […]