In this lecture, Paul Pickowicz will screen compelling clips from Chinese silent-era films of the 1920s and 1930s. Pickowicz will emphasize the diverse roles played by women and ask questions about why the women seen on screen, including such iconic figures as Ruan Lingyu, Li Lili, and Wang Renmei, were far more important than men […]
Please join us for our international conference from April 20-21 at UCSB (SSMS 2135), "Ancient China in a Eurasian Context!" The goal of our conference is to place the history and archaeology of early China in a Eurasian context, through papers that either address “connections” across Eurasia, or “comparisons” between China and other cultures in […]
David R. Ambaras is a scholar of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japanese history. His first book, Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Japan (University of California, 2005), examined the development of the modern Japanese state through the policing of urban youth. His second book project, from which this […]
Please join the RFG Reinventing Japan in welcoming Professor Timon Screech (SOAS, University College London) to campus on November 2, 2016. Professor Screech will be presenting his new work on "The Shogun's Silver Telescope: God, Art, and Money in the First English Voyages to Japan, 1611-1623." The talk will be held in SSMS 2135 at […]
FARINA MIR University of Michigan, Associate Professor of History KAPANY ENDOWMENT VISITING LECTURE SERIES About the Talk This talk considers the literary history of one Indian vernacular tradition, Punjabi, to interrogate assumptions about the temporality of literary history embedded in today's normative mode of writing the history of literature, assumptions critically linked to notions of […]