AsiaTalks is a ongoing series of guest lectures on the latest research and scholarship related to the study of all regions of Asia.
AsiaTalks
2024
Community-based education as sites of racial contestation
April 10, 2024, 12:00 - 1 :00 pm, 509 O'Brian hall, UB North Campus
Eujin Park, Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Education, Stanford University
Fighting Against the ghosts of government-made-hallyu theories
February 13, 2024, 2:00 - 3:20 pm, Student Union 330, UB North Campus
Shin Dong Kim, Professor at Hallym University, South Korea
Reading the china dream
February 6, 2024, 3:30 - 5:00pm, Capen 10 (Buffalo Room)
David Ownby, Research Associate, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology
2023
Phantom Japan: Unit Thinking, Fetish, and Productive Illusions
November 17, 2:00-3:30pm, Park 280
Neriko Doerr, Ramapo College.
Japanese Colonial Education in Korea 1910-1945: An Oral History
October 6, 12:00-1:30pm with light lunch at 11:30am, Park 280
Russell Vacante (PhD '87), UB alum
AsiaTalks/Asia@Noon
2024
Monumental faith: the texts of the taj mahal
Friday, November 8, 12-1pm, Park 280
Micheal Calabria, Associate Professor of Arab and Islamic Studies, St. Bonaventure University
The State's Sexuality prostitution and postcolonial nation building in south korea
Friday, October 11, 12-1pm, Park 280
Jeong-Mi Park, Associate Professor of History, Chungbuk National University
managing rivers and traversing oceans: New perspectives on international exchange and environmental change in asia
Friday, September 13, 12-1:30 pm, Park 280
UB PhD Alumni Panel
China and the Philippines: A Connected History, c. 1900-50
Phillip Guingona (UB, PhD 2015), Assistant Professor in the Department of History, Politics, and Law, Nazareth University.
Hydropower Nation: Dams, Energy, and Political Changes in Twentieth-Century China
Xiangli Ding (UB PhD 2018), Associate Professor in the Department of History, Philosophy and the Social Sciences at Rhode Island School of Design.
The creation of the global ip in the japanese entertainment industry: From mukokuseki to co-creation
Friday, September 6, 12-1pm, Park 280
Aki Nakamura, Ph.D, Professor in the College of Image Arts and Sciences, Ritsumeikan University
How American History is taught in chinese universities
Friday, April 26, 12-1pm, Park 280
Tao Zhai, Ph.D, Professor in the School of History, Capital Normal University
women participating in a post-coup myanmar
Friday, April 12, 12-1pm, Park 280
Aye Mya Mya Myo, member of Parliament, National League for Democracy, Myanmar
2023
The Role of Attention in Early Chinese Ethics
October 20, 12:00-1:00pm, Park 280
Dr. Daniel Stephens, Assistant Professor, UB Department of Philosophy
Institutionalization within Revolution: The Chinese Communist Party's Radio Communications and Reconnaissance, 1936-1941
October 13, 12:00-1:00pm, Park 280
Dr. Zhongtian Han, Visiting Assistant Professor of Chinese History, UB
Among Women across Worlds: North Korea in the Global Cold War
Friday, April 28, 12-1pm, Park 280
Suzy Kim, Rutgers University
K-Pop: Digital Circulation of Intimacy and Postcolonial Desires
Friday, March 3, 12-1pm, Park 280
Stephanie Choi, Ph.D, Postdoctoral Associate, UB Asia Research Institute.
