As part of the Université Paris Cité’s commitment to global engagement, creativity and critical knowledge and research, the Paris Graduate School of East Asian Studies is organizing a series of lectures by international scholars for the 2023-2024 academic year. The series highlights the wide-ranging intellectual interests and innovations of prominent scholars in the humanities and social sciences, with a focus on the East Asia and flows of ideas, people, institutions, and texts across linguistic and national borders.

Presentation

As part of the Université Paris Cité’s commitment to global engagement, creativity and critical knowledge and research, the Paris Graduate School of East Asian Studies is organizing a series of lectures by international scholars for the 2023-2024 academic year.

The series highlights the wide-ranging intellectual interests and innovations of prominent scholars in the humanities and social sciences, with a focus on the East Asia and flows of ideas, people, institutions, and texts across linguistic and national borders.

Participation

The lecture series will take place one Thursday a month from October, from 17:00 to 18:30, both online on Zoom and in-person in the Room Léon Vandermeersch (481C, 4th floor, building C, 5 rue Thomas Mann, 75013, Paris).

Zoom link : https://u-paris.zoom.us/j/85096166643?pwd=VlZUQmtGbXNlSmFWaVVtSVZwTi9BZz09

Meeting ID : 850 9616 6643Secret code: 591397

For more information: https://u-paris.fr/lcao/cycle-de-conferences-current-research-on-east-asia/

Program 2023-2024

October 12, 2023

• Noga Ganany (University of Cambridge), “Literature and Religion in Late Imperial China”

November 9, 2023

• Sharalyn Orbaugh (University of British Columbia), “Testimony vs. Propaganda: Love and Kamishibai in Japan’s Colonial Empire”

December 7, 2023

• Holly Stephens (University of Edinburgh), “The Programme to Improve Rice Production in Colonial Korea: Inspections, Regulations, and the Creation of a Commodity”

January 25, 2024

• Juliane Noth (Freie Universität Berlin), “To Rebel is Justified: Red Guard Art and the Mass Production of Images”

February 15, 2024

• Barak Kushner (University of Cambridge), “East Asia’s Postwar Battle over History and Memory – the Hidden Legacy of War Crimes Tribunals”

March 7, 2024

• Nguyen Minh (Bielefeld University), “Transnational Mobility, Kinship and Aspiration for the Good Life in Rural Central Vietnam”

April 4, 2024

• Jong-Chol An (Ca' Foscari University of Venice), “Gender Equality or Traditional Culture: Legal Cases Afterwards the Abolishment of the Household Head System in Korea”

April 25, 2024

• Sarah Turner (McGill University), “Slow forms of infrastructural violence: the complexities of Vietnamese state plans and ethnic minority livelihoods in Vietnam’s mountainous northern borderlands”