The Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS)
is thrilled to begin another academic year as we welcome new and returning students and faculty for the start of the Autumn Quarter!
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ABOUT CEAS
The Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) serves as an interdisciplinary nexus, clearinghouse, and resource for the study of East Asia, engaging students, educators, scholars, and the general public. CEAS supports three active committees - the Committee on Chinese Studies, the Committee on Japanese Studies, and the Committee on Korean Studies - that sponsor events and workshops, provide grants and fellowships to UChicago students, and coordinate area-related programming. In sum, CEAS supports academic activities, research, library acquisitions, K-16 outreach, and public events to promote greater understanding of China, Japan, and Korea.
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CEAS EVENTS
From lectures to workshops, conferences, film series, cultural events, performing arts, K-16 outreach, and other programs,
CEAS-sponsored events continue to be FREE and open to the public.
CEAS is pleased to announce that it will continue to implement both
in-person and virtual events during the 2022-2023 academic year.
Virtual events will continue to be hosted on Zoom, while in-person events will operate under specific guidelines and protocols as we continue to adhere to University Chicago COVID-19 policies.
Click HERE to view changes and stay updated on how
CEAS in-person events will be implemented this year!
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An initiative that advances the Center’s mission in fostering dialogue and interdisciplinary collaboration, this annual public lecture series presents eminent scholars who concentrate on the study of East Asia in a variety of disciplines. Past speakers have included Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist, Ian Johnson; Professor Emeritus of English and the Co-President Emeritus of the Korea Peace Forum, Nak-chung Paik; and Professor of History at Yale University, Daniel Botsman.
The lineup for this year's CEAS Lecture Series
includes the following distinguished speakers:
ROBERT WELLER
Professor of Anthropology
Boston University
Chairman Mao and the Ferocious General: Value Pluralism, Value Play, and Ritual Subjunctives in Chinese Religion
Thursday, October 13, 2022
5 PM US Central Time - IN-PERSON
REGISTER
DARREN BYLER
Assistant Professor of International Studies
Simon Fraser University
The Camp as Classroom: Discipline, Technology and Agency in Uyghur Internment in Northwest China
Friday, October 21, 2022
3:30 PM US Central Time - IN-PERSON
Also co-sponsored with the Pozen Family Center for Human Rights
as part of its 25th-anniversary celebration, and the
Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations
REGISTER
J. KEITH VINCENT
Associate Professor of Japanese & Comparative Literature and
Women's Gender and Sexuality Studies, Convenor of Japanese
Boston University
Haiku and the "Desire to Write": on Masaoka Shiki and Marcel Proust
Wednesday, April 19, 2023
5:00 PM US Central Time - IN-PERSON
LAURA MORETTI
University Associate Professor in Pre-Modern Japanese Studies
University of Cambridge
When Reading Morphs into Play Early Modern Japan
and Ludic Literature
Thursday, April 27, 2023
5:00 PM US Central Time - IN-PERSON
The CEAS Lecture Series is co-sponsored with
the University of Chicago Library.
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FALL QUARTER
ROBERT "BO" JACOBS
Professor of History, Hiroshima Peace Institute and
the Graduate School of Peace Studies
Hiroshima City University
Nucear Bodies: The Global Hibakusha
Discussant: Hiroko Takahashi (Nara University)
Wednesday, October 19, 2022
6:00 PM US Central Time - VIRTUAL
REGISTER
ROBERT HELLYER
Professor of History
Wake Forest University
Supplying the Midwestern Green Tea Habit:
Chicago's Role in the Global Tea Trade, 1850 to 1950
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
5:00 PM US Central Time - IN-PERSON
REGISTER
AYNNE KOKAS
C.K. Yen Professor, The Miller Center; Director, UVA East Asia Center, and Associate Professor of Media Studies
University of Virginia
Trafficking Data: How China is Winning the Battle for Digital Sovereignty
Discussant: Johanna Ransmeier (University of Chicago)
Monday, November 7, 2022
5:00 PM US Central Time - IN-PERSON
REGISTER
HAUN SAUSSY
University Professor, East Asian Languages and Civilizations
and the Committee on Social Thought
University of Chicago
The Making of Barbarians: Chinese Literature and Multilingual Asia
Discussant: Martin Powers (University of Michigan)
Date: TBD
Time: TBD
The East Asia by the Book! CEAS Author Talks Series
is co-sponsored with the Seminary Co-op Bookstores.
*Please note that additional book talks may be scheduled this quarter.
Check out the CEAS website for updates!
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Chicago Premiere of Light and
Your Face Featuring Panel with Director TSAI Ming-Liang
In collaboration with Doc Films at the University of Chicago, CEAS is pleased to present an October 1st screening and panel featuring Director Tsai, actor Lee Kang-Sheng, and Paola Iovene (EALC, University of Chicago).
Click here for more information.
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Socialist Aspirations
September 30-October 1
This workshop asks how socialist aspirations relate to socialist practices. To this end, participants will engage socialism’s plural expressions across various domains of historical memory (e.g., commemorations of revolution and war), political aesthetics (e.g., rhetoric, performing arts), and social organization (e.g., labor movements, mass communications, urban planning). The focused conversation around sovereignty, ethics, and global politics will further interdisciplinary lines of collaboration toward understanding salient connections between different archival and ethnographic sites of socialism worldwide.
Click here for more information.
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The Center for East Asian Studies is excited to welcome playwright, novelist, and essayist, Yu Miri, on October 10th for a reading of her book, Tokyo Ueno Station.
This program will feature a reading in Japanese by the author, with the English version (from Morgan Giles's award-winning translation) presented by Chicago-based actor, Dwight Sora, and the University of Chicago's Michael Bourdaghs as interlocutor.
Click here for more information.
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Interpreting Japan
Interpreting Buddhism
October 17-18
Celebrating the the partnership between the University of Chicago and the Numata Foundation, this conference celebrates that cooperation by foregrounding moments in the interpretative histories of Japan and Buddhism, their representations, and their representers.
Click here for more information.
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The Center for East Asian Studies is pleased to be cooperating once again with the Taipei Economic and Cultural Office in Chicago (TECO) on events that showcase important scholarship about Taiwan.
TERI SILVIO
Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology
Academia Sinica, Taiwan
Conspiracy Theorists of True Love: "Dangaiju," "Mama" fans,
and the Chinese Internet Environment
Wednesday, October 26, 2022
5:00 PM US Central Time - IN-PERSON
REGISTER
Co-sponsored with support from the
Taiwan Ministry of Culture and TECO through their dedicated
Spotlight Taiwan Program.
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A Diplomatic Encounters Series Event featuring the Consul-General of Japan in Chicago Hiroshi TAJIMA
November 1
In presentation with the International House at the University of Chicago, CEAS welcomes the Consul-General of Japan in Chicago, Hiroshi TAJIMA, for a conversation with Susan Burns (Director of CEAS; History, UChicago).
Click here for more information.
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Kabuki in Print: Actor, Fans, Image, and Medium in Early Modern Japan and Beyond
November 4-5
This intimate symposium seeks to bring together experts from theater, literature, and art history in order to study the collection and contribute their own insights on the relation between page and stage in the case of kabuki. The resulting insights will have implications for all who are interested in the relation between print technology, narrative, visual art, fan cultures, and the stage.
Click here for more information.
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"The Future is Here, Are You Coming?" Microcinema Screening
November 14
This program presents recent video works by four contemporary artists from China, all at varying stages in their careers. Each artist draws upon unique contemporary conditions, fueled by major investments in robotics, AI technologies, video game aesthetics, as well as an ever-expanding online social and commercial landscape.
Click here for more information.
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On Kappa, Tokugawa Naturalists, and the History of Knowledge: A Provocation
November 17
Professor Federico Marcon (Associate Professor of East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University) takes the 1820 investigation of kappa as an excuse to investigate the production of authoritative nature knowledge in early modern Japan: naturalists' terminology, institutional framing, cognitive procedures, textual authority, and the processes of legitimation of the cognitive value of their claims.
Click here for more information.
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16TH TETSUO NAJITA DISTINGUISHED LECTURE IN JAPANESE STUDIES | |
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The CEAS Committee on Japanese Studies at the University of Chicago is pleased to announce that renowned Japanese writer, and recipient of the Hans Christian Andersen Literature award, Nahoko UEHASHI, will deliver the 16th Annual Tetsuo Najita Distinguished Lecture in Japanese Studies during the Spring 2023 Quarter.
The Tetsuo Najita Distinguished Lecture series was launched in 2007 by the CEAS Committee on Japanese Studies to honor the legacy of Tetsuo Najita, Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of History and of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, and his contribution to the university during his long career.
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Be sure to check out our WEBSITE and view our Upcoming Events section to see additional forthcoming events and relevant updates!
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ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITIES FAIR
September 28, 2022
3:30 - 5:00 pm CST
Learn more here!
STUDENT ACTIVITIES AND RESOURCE FAIR
September 30, 2022
3:00 - 5:00 pm CST
Learn more here!
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Visit our table during the upcoming Academic Opportunities Fair and/or the Student Activities and Resource Fair where you'll have the opportunity to chat with CEAS staff regarding the many opportunities and resources available including:
- EAST ASIA-RELATED EVENTS AND CEAS FILM LIBRARY
- GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS FOR RESEARCH & LANGUAGE STUDY
- COMMUNITY OUTREACH VOLUNTEERING
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THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO
EAST ASIAN COLLECTON
ORIENTATION
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MEET YOUR LIBRARIANS, IN-PERSON, AND LEARN ABOUT LIBRARY RESOURCES IN CHINESE, JAPANESE, AND KOREAN!
- KOREAN STUDIES - October 4 (10 am)
- CHINESE STUDIES - October 11 (3 pm)
- JAPANESE STUDIES - October 14 (3 pm)
E-MAIL REGISTRATION REQUIRED!
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CEAS FILM LIBRARY
CEAS maintains an extensive East Asian Film Library available to students, faculty, and staff at the University FOR FREE. The collection includes approximately 8,000 films, including historical films, documentaries, television series, and contemporary cinema from
China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, and Hong Kong.
The CEAS Film Library is open for browsing and borrowing by appointment only. For more information on borrowing and/or returning films, please click HERE.
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STUDENT GRANTS & FELLOWSHIPS
Each year, CEAS accepts applications from UChicago undergraduate and graduate students for various grants and fellowships in Chinese, Japanese and Korean studies. These awards support language study, pre-dissertation and dissertation research, professional training, and dissertation fellowships related to East Asian studies. Additionally, we offer conference travel grants to graduate students for expenses related to travel to present a paper at a conference and copy editing grants for graduate students preparing manuscript and final dissertation submissions.
Click HERE to learn more about the many funding opportunities CEAS offers and upcoming application deadlines.
SOCIAL MEDIA
While the CEAS WEBSITE provides important information and resources for those interested in East Asian studies, be sure to visit our other social media channels including
TWITTER and FACEBOOK where we provide important
updates and reminders on events and news!
Visit the official CEAS YOUTUBE channel where you can view any events that you may have missed!
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UChicago CEAS Awarded over $1.9 Million from the U.S. Department of Education
CEAS, one of the longest established interdisciplinary centers on campus, is a recipient of two grants from Title VI of the Higher Education Act (International Education Programs). CEAS has been designated a National Resource Center (NRC) and will administer Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships to support the advanced study of modern, less commonly taught languages (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) and international and area studies related to East Asia.
Read more here.
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Humanities Day 2022 Features CEAS Faculty and Affiliated Faculty
An annual tradition at the University of Chicago since 1980, this year's Humanities Day will take place on October 15th.
Held in-person and virtually through free discussions, performances, and lectures featuring the latest research of award-winning faculty in the Division of the Humanities, hear nearly 30 presentations and tours by leading scholars in the arts, literature, languages, cinema, philosophy, music, and linguistics.
Read more here.
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We are always interested in supporting students and faculty
with the resources that our Center has to offer.
See who to contact depending on your inquiry!
grants and fellowships, and outreach initiatives
CEAS events and social media
film library
payments and reimbursements
The CEAS team looks forward to another fruitful year of activities, programs, and collaborations with faculty, students, and the community!
Susan Burns, Director
Abbey Newman, Associate Director
Connie Yip, Assistant Director, Programming
Myra Su, Outreach Coordinator
Hyeonjin Schubert, Center Administrator
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1155 E. 60th Street, Room 310, Chicago, IL 60637
CEAS.UCHICAGO.EDU
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