The Triangle East Asia Colloquium
(TEAC) was begun in 1972 to improve contact between
East Asian faculty at the three major research universities
in the Triangle Area-Duke University, North Carolina
State University, and the University of North Carolina
at Chapel Hill. TEAC has since expanded to include East
Asian specialists and other interested scholars from
across North Carolina and in the Southeast.
TEAC chooses a coordinator each year,
from one of the three institutions on a rotating basis,
to organize its annual conference and to manage the
affairs of TEAC. Financial support is provided by the
three founding universities and by the Department of
Education Title VI grant. The Asian/Pacific Studies
Institute provides administrative support for TEAC.
The 2009 Triangle East Asia Colloquium will be held on April 16 and 17, 2010 on the University of North Carolina campus. This year's TEAC is being organized by Professor Barbara Ambros, Department of Religious Studies, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. The topic is "Animals in East Asian History and Culture". A tentative schedule for the colloquium follows.
Friday, April 16 (late afternoon)
Keynote Speaker: John Knight, Social Anthropology, Queens University Belfast, UK:
"The Establishment of Monkey Parks in Postwar Japan"
The theme of this paper is the emergence in the 1950s of popular visitorattractions known as /yaen kôen/ or 'wild monkey parks' in Japan. It looks at the phenomenon of /ezuke/ or provisioning - the organized human feeding of monkeys - on which the monkey parks are based and addresses the questions of /who/ did the provisioning, /how/ they did it, and /why/ they did it. The paper describes the different categories of stakeholder involved in the establishment of the parks - including primatologists, entrepreneurs, local politicians, tourists, and farmers, as well as the monkeys themselves - and examines the extent to which their respective interests converge or diverge at this time.
Saturday, April 17, 2010:
Morning Sessions:
Ian Miller, History, Harvard University:
"Mohammed Ali and Other Creatures of the Japanese Colonial Imagination"
Discussant: David Ambaras, History, North Carolina State University
Christine Marran, Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota:
"Water, Toxins, and the Creaturely in Cinema"
Discussant: Guo-Juin Hong, Duke University
Afternoon Sessions:
Fa-Ti Fan, History, SUNY Binghamton:
"'When Chickens Fly Up to the Trees and When Ducks Refuse to Go into the Water': Animals and Earthquake Prediction in Communist China"
Discussant: Michael Tsin, History, UNC Chapel Hill
Wei-Cheng Lin, Art History, UNC Chapel Hill:
"Wheels on the Silk Road: Camels and Horses in Han and Tang China"
Discussant: Neil Schmid, Religion, North Carolina State University
Late afternoon (ca. 5 pm):
Reception at the Ackland Art Museum with a tour of the Silk Road exhibit
Please see below for information about past programs.
2008 Triangle East Asia Colloquium: "Buddhist Practice in Contemporary East Asia" September 19 and 20, 2008
Friday, September 19, 2008
Screening of two new 30-minute documentaries on Chinese Buddhism in Europe, by Qin Wen-jie
7:00 - 9:00 pm
Center for Documentary Studies Screening Room
Click here for more on documentaries
Saturday, September 20, 2008
9:00 am - Religious Practice in Contemporary China and Korea
Speakers: Gareth Fisher, Thomas Borchert, and Pori Park
pm - Religious Practice in Contemporary Japan
Speakers: John Nelson and Mark Rowe
Stuart Chandler: General Remarks and Discussion
York Reading Room, Duke Divinity School Library, Duke West Campus
The 2008 TEAC was organized by Professor Richard Jaffe, Department of Religion, Duke University.
2007 Triangle East Asia Colloquium: "Politics,
Economy, and the Changing Shapes of Faith:
Globalization, Religion, and the State in East Asia"
Saturday, April 21, 2007
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
UNC Global Education Center (corner of McCauley and
Pittsboro Streets)
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Featured Speakers:
Robert Oppenheim (Assistant Professor of Asian
Studies, University of Texas at Austin)
Ellen Schattschneider (Associate Professor of Anthropology,
Brandeis University)
Robert Weller (The Institute on Culture, Religion
and World Affairs and Professor in the Department
of Anthropology, Boston University)
