Speaker Series

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 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

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 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

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

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