Events Calendar

Fall 2009 - Spring 2010

September 1

Speaker Series - Wen-shan Yang, Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Institute of Sociology and Program for Historical Demography, Academia Sinica, Taiwan

" Light at the End of the Tunnel: Can Uxorilocal Marriage Solve the Problem of Sex Ratio Imbalance in China? Lessons from the Historical Experience of Taiwan"

3:00–4:30 pm
McKinney Room (329 Sociology/Psychology) Duke West Campus

September 9

Cine-East East Asian Film Series: Meishi Street and The Gangster's God (Double Feature documentary films)

7:00 pm
White Hall, Duke East Campus

September 25

Speaker Series - Jason McGrath, Associate Professor, Department of Asian Languages and Literatures
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

"The Libidinal (a)political: Repression, Masochism, and Generic Residua in Contemporary Chinese Cinema"

3:00–4:30 pm
Breedlove Room (204 Perkins Library) Duke West Campus

September 30

Cine-East East Asian Film Series: Rouge

8:00 pm
Griffith Theater (Bryan Center) Duke West Campus

October 11

Cine-East East Asian Film Series: Spring in My Hometown

8:00 pm
White Hall, Duke East Campus

October 15

Speaker Series - Jin-Kyung Lee, Associate Professor, Department of Literature
University of California, San Diego

"Military Labor and Military Prostitution Across South Korea, Vietnam and the United States, 1960s-1970s"

3:00–4:30 pm
Breedlove Room (204 Perkins Library) Duke West Campus

October 21

Cine-East East Asian Film Series: Dear Pyongyang (documentary film)

7:00 pm
White Hall, Duke East Campus

October 23

Speaker Series - Thomas D. Conlan, Associate Professor, Departments of History and Asian Studies
Bowdoin College

"Myth, Memory and the Mongol’s Invasions of Japan"

3:00–4:30 pm
Breedlove Room (204 Perkins Library) Duke West Campus

October 29 & 30

Cine-East East Asian Film Series: Departures

7:00 pm and 9:30 pm on Oct. 29 & Oct. 30
Griffith Theater (Bryan Center) Duke West Campus

November 18

Speaker Series - Anne Walthall, Professor, Department of History
University of California, Irvine

"Introducing the Gun: Masculinity and Shoguns"

4:00–5:30 pm
Breedlove Room (204 Perkins Library) Duke West Campus


Cine-East East Asian Film Series: The Game of Their Lives (documentary film)

7:00 pm
White Hall, Duke East Campus

November 19

Cine-East East Asian Film Series: Morning Sun (documentary film)

7:00 pm
White Hall, Duke East Campus

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