2023-2024 Princeton Events on East Asia 

9/5/2023 Beginning of classes

Fall 2023

8/28 Academic Expo for Freshman

9/5 First Day of class

9/6 “Birth of the Geopolitical Age: Remaking China from the Outside In,” Shellen Wu (Lehigh) EAP book talk @ 4:30 p.m. in 202 Jones.

9/7 GJL Speaker Series - Nobuko Nagase (Ochanomizu University)

9/13 A Fashionable Century: Textile Artistry and Commerce in the Late Qing, book talk, Rachel Silberstein (Independent Scholar), EAP and Tang Center co-sponsor Lecture @ 4:30 p.m. in Burr Hall.

9/14 Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima’s Gray Zone, a Department of Anthropology book talk and panel discussion with Ryo Morimoto @ 4:30 p.m. in 219 Aaron Burr Hall

https://anthropology.princeton.edu/events/nuclear-ghost-atomic-liveliho…

9/14 GJL Speaker Series - Allison Alexy (Michigan) @ 4:30 p.m.

https://gjl.princeton.edu/events/2023/parental-abduction-contemporary-j…

9/20 2023 East Asian Studies Fall Reception

9/21 GJL Speaker Series - Kiyoteru Tsutsui (Stanford)

9/21-22 Numata conference (all day), hosted by Bryan Lowe

9/27 "On the Translation and Adoption of the Vocabulario la lingoa de lapam" Jeroen Lamers (Author and Translator), @4:30 p.m. (EST),  EAP lecture on Zoom. 

9/28 GJL Speaker Series - JC de Swaan

10/3 PUL and GJL Book Talk - Ryo Morimoto’s Nuclear Ghost

10/4 “The Sacrificial Body of Moye: Affect and Materiality in the Forging of Wu-Yue Swords,” Dorothy Ko (Columbia) @ 4:30 p.m. in 202 Jones

10/5 Mote Graduate Lunch (with Dorothy Ko)

10/5 Yu Miri Book Talk in Frist 302 4:30-6:30 P.M., Jones 202 from 3:30-6:30 p.m.

10/11 Davis Center, TBA

10/12 GJL Speaker Series - Christina Davis (Harvard)

10/13 East Asian Studies Department Book Talk

10/14-10/22 Fall Recess

10/25 “The Archaeology of Everyday Life in Late Medieval Japan,” Morgan Pitelka (UNC-Chapel Hill), @ 4:30 p.m. in 202 Jones.

11/1 Davis Center lecture, Wednesday, TBA

11/8 “On the Integral Nature of the Zuo Zhuan (Zhuo Tradition) as Seen from Such Factors as Character Development,” Scott Bradley Cook (Yale-NUS College) an EAP lecture @4:30 p.m. in 202 Jones

11/9 “The Tokyo Toilet” Project

11/10 Scott Bradley Cook seminar, time TBA

11/15 “Manuscript and the Human in Modern China” an EAP coffee-hour lecture by Chloe Estep (University of Pennsylvania) @ 4:30 p.m. in 202 Jones.

11/21(after last class)-26 Thanksgiving Recess

11/29 “Xiaoshuo as China’s Fourth Religion” an EAP coffee-hour lecture by Katherine Alexander (University of Colorado at Boulder) @ 4:30 p.m. in 202 Jones.

12/6 “China: From a Nationless State to a Nation Defined by State,” Mara Yue Du (Cornell University) an EAP lecture @ 4:30 p.m. in 202 Jones

12/7 Last day of scheduled class

12/7 GJL and Anthropology (Amy Borovoy) Plan 75 movie showing and panel discussion

12/13 Davis Center?

12/15 Last day of Reading Period, Dean’s Date