WELCOME BACK!

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!

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.

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!

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.

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!

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.

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.

YU MIRI


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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

"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.

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.

16TH TETSUO NAJITA DISTINGUISHED LECTURE IN JAPANESE STUDIES

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.

Be sure to check out our WEBSITE and view our Upcoming Events section to see additional forthcoming events and relevant updates!
OTHER EVENTS

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!

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


THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

EAST ASIAN COLLECTON

ORIENTATION

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!

Contact Jiaxun Wu,

Chinese Studies Librarian,

to register.

Contact Jee-Young Park, Korean Studies Librarian,

to register.

Contact Ayako Yoshimura, Japanese Studies Librarian, to register

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.

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!

ANNOUNCEMENTS

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.


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.

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
1155 E. 60th Street, Room 310, Chicago, IL 60637
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