Speaker Series

Fall 2009 - Spring 2010

SPRING 2010

January 21

Speaker Series - Wei-Cheng Chu, Associate Professor of English, Dept. of Foreign Languages and Literatures, National Taiwan University, and Fulbright Scholar

"The Intriguing Case of Queer Taiwan: A Glocal Comparative Account"

4:30–6:00 pm
Room 204 B East Duke Building, Duke East Campus

February 17

Speaker Series - Susan Brownell, Professor, Department of Anthropology and Languages, University of Missouri, St. Louis

"Taking the Olympic Spirit into the Earthquake Disaster Zone: Global, National and Local Meanings of the Beijing Olympics"

Wednesday, February 17, 2010 12:00–1:30 pm
Room 217 Perkins Library, Duke West Campus

February 26

Speaker Series - Suisheng Zhao, Professor and Executive Director, Center for China-US Cooperation
Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver

"US-China Relations During the First Year of the Obama Administration"

3:00–4:30 pm
Room 218 Perkins Library, Duke West Campus

April 22, 2010

Speaker Series - Helen Hardacre, Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society
Harvard University

"Reconsidering the Concept of State Shinto"

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

FAll 2009

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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