Past Events

2023-2024 Academic Year

• Kim Bong Jun: Artist's Talk and Performance, May 30, 2024
• Book Launch: Late Industrialization, Tradition, and Social Change in South Korea, May 29, 2024
• Turkic and Central Eurasian Studies Seminar: Language Oppression in Tibet, May 22, 2024
• Teaching English in Japan: an on the Ground Approach, with Maxwell Willis, May 20, 2024
• Turkic and Central Eurasian Studies Seminar: Analysis of modern Kazakh conversation, May 10, 2024
• 'The Path to Sensei: Career Steps for Aspiring Japanese Educators' with Aaron Steel, May 1, 2024
• Lecture by Professor Thomas Christensen, Columbia University, April 29, 2024
• Southeast Asia and Taiwan Conference: Politics, Aesthetics, Indigeneity, April 25-26, 2024
• 'Escaping the Highway to Hell: Death, the Afterlife, and Buddhist Practice in Premodern Japan' with Miriam Chusid, University of Washington, April 25, 2024
• 'Genbaku Otome: Reconsidering the “Hiroshima Maidens”' with Kim Brandt, Columbia University, April 22, 2024
• Book Talk: North Korea’s Mundane Revolution with Andre Schmid, April 18, 2024
• Lectures and Discussions with Professor QIN Hui 秦晖, JIN Yan 金雁 and SONG Yongyi 宋永毅, April 15-16, 2024
• Developing Yourself Through Foreign Language Teaching, with Andrew Kim, Microsoft, April 15, 2024
• CHINA Town Hall with Dr. Kurt Campbell, April 9, 2024
• Chinese Characters across Asia: Continuity and Transformation in Japanese, Korean, and Vietnamese, April 3, 2024
• "MUSIC, ISLAND, STORIES: TAIWAN CALLING!" Pop-up Mini Concert, April 3, 2024
• Film Screening: CHOSEN at UW, March 28, 2024
• From Security Threats to Emerging Tech: U.S-Japan-South Korean Trilateral Relations, March 27, 2024
• TALK | Arctic Ambitions: Navigating Arctic Security Challenges, March 27, 2024
• 'Gas Mask Nation: Visualizing Civil Air Defense in Wartime Japan' with Gennifer Weisenfeld, Duke University, March 13, 2024
• Screening Queer Hong Kong: A Screening and Conversation with Kit Hung, March 13, 2024
• CANADA | Book talk -- True North Rising: My fifty-year journey with the Inuit and Dene leaders who transformed Canada's North, March 8, 2024
• Book Talk: Taiwan Lives with Niki Alsford, March 6, 2024
• 'Learning Japanese from Manga: A Workshop on Speech Character Types and Mimetic Words in Manga' with Kyoko Masuda, March 1, 2024
• Small Island Big Song Live Concert at Meany Hall, February 24, 2024
• TIDES OF TIMES: A CONVERSATION ON MARITIME ASIA IN ART AND TRADE, February 24, 2024
• Navigating Global Careers: Careers in the Foreign Service, February 13, 2024
• Film Screening: Whole, February 12, 2024
• Korea and Taiwan in the US-China Hi-Tech Rivalry: Special Lecture with Dr. Keun Lee, February 12, 2024
• Book Talk: One China, Many Taiwans with Ian Rowen, February 7, 2024
• 'Public Interest and State Legitimation: Early Modern England, Japan, and China' by Wenkai He, The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, January 29, 2024
• China Colloquium: Professor Emily Baum, University of California, Irvine, January 26, 2024
• Book talk: 'Ghosts in the Neighborhood: Why Japan is Haunted by its Past and Germany is Not' by Walter Hatch, Professor Emeritus, Colby College, January 22, 2024
• ‘Examining Ourselves in Order to be Culturally Responsive Educators and Create Inclusive Environments’ with William Matsuzaki, All Saints’ Episcopal School, January 20, 2024
• Book Talk: U.S.-Taiwan Relations with Bonnie Glaser, January 17, 2024
• EVENT FULL ‘The U.S.-Japan Alliance and Security Challenges in Asia’ with Christopher B. Johnstone, December 4, 2023
• Kuroshio Odyssey: Maritime Memories, Culture, and Landscapes, October 14-November 28, 2023
• China Colloquium: UW Professor Emeritus Stevan Harrell, November 17, 2023
• Film Screening: Close-Knit, November 13, 2023
• INVISIBLE NATION (Vanessa Hope, 2023) with Director Q&A, November 7, 2023
• 'Death is Life is Death is Life: Eco-Critical Consciousness in the Art of Maki Ohkojima' with Keijiro Suga, Meiji University, Tokyo, November 6, 2023
• 'Japan's New Security Strategy: Outlook and Challenges' with Dr. Narushige Michishita, GRIPS University, November 1, 2023
• Making Waves: Taiwan's Presidential Election 2024, November 1, 2023
• China Colloquium: Professor Yuhua Wang, Harvard University, October 27, 2023
• 'Teaching Japanese Language in Washington State' with Kei Tsukamaki, Juanita High School and Chikako Misener, Bothell High School, October 25, 2023
• Book Talk: The Sounds of Mandarin with Janet Chen, October 12, 2023
• Nakatani Gong Orchestra, October 12, 2023
• Crossing at UW - Screenings and Q&A, October 11, 2023
• CHINA Town Hall, October 11, 2023
• 'Coronavirus as a Metaphor in Japanese COVID Literature' with Mina Qiao, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, October 9, 2023
• 10th Annual Korean Peninsula Forum, October 6, 2023
• Playing Korean Sanjo on the Violin, October 3, 2023
• Workshop: Land/scaping Taiwan: (Non-)Humans, Environment, and Moments of Encounter, September 25-26, 2023

2022-2023 Academic Year

• Foreign Affairs Virtual Open House, August 2, 2023
• GAGA & Post-Screening Q&A with Director Laha Mebow (in-person only), May 22, 2023
• 4th Northwest Conference on Japanese Pedagogy, May 20-21, 2023
• 'Teaching English in Japan: An on the Ground Perspective' with Max Willis, May 17, 2023
• 'Feminist “Failed” Reproductive Futures in Japanese Speculative Fiction' with Kazue Harada, Miami University, Ohio, May 15, 2023
• Chips and Chains: Trends in US-Taiwan Business, May 12-13, 2023
• Book Talk: Divided Allies with Hsiao-ting Lin, May 11, 2023
• Key Challenges to the Japanese Economy, May 4, 2023
• 'Teaching Japanese Language in High School', with Jayne Kolberg, Kelso High School, May 3, 2023
• EXHIBIT: Encountering Hu Tai-Li: The Anthropologist Behind the Camera, April 3-May 3, 2023
• ‘Stand Up Like a Taiwanese!’ with CHONG Ja Ian, April 26, 2023
• 'Recent Developments in Japanese Security and Foreign Policy with a focus on Japan’s ODA Policy' with Shinichi Kitaoka, April 26, 2023
• Kids Workshop: 'Alofo Lover's Bag from Pangcah, Taiwan with Chu-mei Lin (Pangcah / 'Amis, Taiwan), April 15 & 22, 2023
• Kids Storytime: "LOKOT: the Fish that Lived in a Tree" with Nikal Kabala’an (Pangcah / 'Amis, Taiwan), April 15 & 22, 2023
• The Sewol Square: Sublimation, Hatred, and Singularity, April 20, 2023
• HU Tai-Li Memorial Lecture and Film Screening with Scott Simon (in-person only), April 18, 2023
• Book Talk: Truly Human with Scott Simon, April 17, 2023
• The Future of US-Taiwan Relations: A Conversation with Representative Bi-khim Hsiao (In-person Only), April 14, 2023
• Book Talk: Diasporic Cold Warriors with Chien-Wen Kung, April 13, 2023
• Griffith and Patricia Way Lecture with Phillip Y. Lipscy: Stagnation or Renewal? Japan’s Energy and Climate Change Policy, April 12, 2023
• Großheim Talk | Remembering a Forgotten War: The Vietnamese State, War Veterans, and the Commemoration of the Sino-Vietnamese War (1979–1989), April 11, 2023
• China Colloquium with Professor Changdong Zhang: Pennies from the Heaven: Regional Fiscal Structure, Fiscal Illusion, and Regime Support in Urban China, April 6, 2023
• 'Johnny Depp Goes to Serbia: Temporality and Landscape in Films about Environmental Toxins' with Christine Marran, University of Minnesota, March 9, 2023
• Book Talk: Island Fantasia with Wei-ping Lin, February 28, 2023
• 'Ainu' - Film Screening, February 27, 2023
• 'Mitigating Risks of Coastal Sailing: Adaptations to Oceanic Dangers in Early-Modern Japan' with Jakobina Arch, Whitman College, February 23, 2023
• Film Screening & Director Q&A: Miki Dezaki's "Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the 'Comfort Women' Issue", February 15, 2023
• 2023 GWSS Winter Colloquium: "The visibility/invisibility of pain: women’s reproductive bodies in socialist China," Presented by Anna Zhao, February 15, 2023
• 'Japan’s Prisoners of Conscience: Protest and Law During the Iraq War' with Lawrence Repeta, Professor Emeritus, Meiji University, February 3, 2023
• Catching Your Wave: Channeling Your Career in Global Development & International Relations with Steve Davis, February 2, 2023
• 'Japan in St. Louis: Exhibition and Architecture at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition' with Alice Y. Tseng, Boston University, February 1, 2023
• Book Talk: Imperial Gateway with Seiji Shirane, January 19, 2023
• 'Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups' with Robert Hellyer, Wake Forest University, January 6, 2023
• Book Talk | Converging Empires: Citizens and Subjects in the North Pacific Borderlands, 1867–1945, January 5, 2023
• HYBRID EVENT | Storm Clouds Over the Pacific? Impacts of the Invasion of Ukraine on China-Taiwan-U.S. Relations, November 15, 2022
• Making Peace With Nature: CKS Fall Colloquium with Eleana Kim, November 14, 2022
• Korean Peninsula Forum 2022: US-South Korean Relations and the Crisis of International Order, November 10, 2022
• 'Implications of an Aging Ally, Japan: National Security & Demographic Change in the Indo-Pacific' with Andrew Oros, Washington College, November 9, 2022
• Hafu ハーフ - film screening, November 3, 2022
• 'The Life We Longed For: Danchi Housing and the Middle-Class Dream in Postwar Japan' with Laura Neitzel, October 27, 2022
• Book Talk: Daughters of the Flower Fragrant Garden w/ Zhuqing Li (In-person & Online), October 25, 2022
• 'Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan' with Michael Strausz, Texas Christian University, October 17, 2022
• Book Talk ~ "The Evolution of Chinese Filiality: Insights from the Neurosciences", October 13, 2022
• Kamishibai - Japanese Paper Theater with Tacchan, October 5, 2022
• 'Why Attention to Religion is Vital to Understanding Politics in Japan' with Levi McLaughlin, NC State University, October 3, 2022
• Defending against Invasion w/ Ian Easton, September 29, 2022

2021-2022 Academic Year

• Symposium on Middle Period China, August 12, 2022
• 4th World Congress of Taiwan Studies (hybrid), June 27-29, 2022
• Saturday University: Charles Lang Freer collection, June 11, 2022
• Navigating Global Careers | UW Alumni Panel, May 24, 2022
• "Restoration/Revolution? The Question of Passive Revolution in Japan" with Harry Harootunian, University of Chicago - Emeritus, May 16, 2022
• Okinawa 'Reversion' 50 Years On, May 13-14, 2022
• Career Talk: 'Teaching Japanese in High School: Is This the Career for You?' with Jayne Kolberg, May 4, 2022
• Career Talk: 'Developing Yourself Through Foreign Language Teaching' with Andrew Kim, April 25, 2022
• 'Line of Advantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzō' with Michael J. Green, Center for Strategic and International Studies, April 20, 2022
• "Peak Performance: Disaster, Olympics, Politics, and Bodily Acts" with Justine Wiesinger, April 18, 2022
• 'Transpacific Imperial Nationalisms: Mifune Toshirō’s Performativity of Race in Ánimas Trujano' with Andrea Mendoza, UC San Diego, April 11, 2022
• Cold War Democracy: The United States and Japan with Jennifer Miller, Dartmouth College, April 4, 2022
• Ukraine Crisis, China, and the Global Geopolitical Landscape: Responses and Implications, March 15, 2022
• South Korea’s 20th Presidential Election: The Future of the Nation, March 14, 2022
• "Artist as Storyteller" with Ken + Julia Yonetani, March 8, 2022
• 'Presence of Cherry blossoms in Haiku and Anime' with Makoto Aoki, Ehime University "桜が象徴するもの, 日本の俳句、和歌、アニメなどを通して考える" 青木亮人、愛媛大学准教授, March 3, 2022
• "Yamanaka & Co.: Building Global Markets for Asian Art" with Yuriko Kuchiki, February 12, 2022
• Talk: Inequity at Boiling Point with New York Times International Climate Reporter Somini Sengupta, February 9, 2022
• The Detention of Uyghur Muslims in China, February 8, 2022
• MA in Japanese Film (Japan House LA), February 1, 2022
• Book Talk: The Tiger Leading the Dragon, with Professor Shelley Rigger, January 13, 2022
• Korean-Japanese relations and the role of the US, December 7, 2021
• 2021 Korean Peninsula Forum, North Korea’s Nuclear Issues: from a deadlock to a breakthrough?, November 10, 2021
• Squid Game discussion with Dr. Areum Jeong, November 3, 2021
• CHINA Town Hall, October 19, 2021
• TALK | A Conversation with Congressman Adam Smith on China, October 8, 2021
• "Dismantling the Japanese Developmental Regime" with T.J. Pempel, University of California, Berkeley, October 4, 2021

2020-2021 Academic Year

• Remember the Korea War, June 25, 2021
• NAVIGATING GLOBAL CAREERS | Bridging the Gap: Foreign Language Acquisition in a Global Force | Darius Izad, Assistant Staff Judge Advocate, U.S. Air Force, June 1, 2021
• NAVIGATING GLOBAL CAREERS | Working for U.S.-based Nonprofit Organizations and NGOs | Claire Yunker, Executive Director, PeaceTrees Vietnam, May 27, 2021
• 'Women in the World of Murakami' with Gitte Marianne Hansen, Newcastle University, May 20, 2021
• Taiwan Entangled in the Global Economy: Silicon, Supply Chains, Geopolitics, May 19, 2021
• 'Teaching English as a Second Language: Life on the Ground' a Career talk with Max Willis, May 19, 2021
• Learning from Remote Japanese Language Instruction: Building on the Past to Equip Ourselves for the Future. (遠隔授業の経験を今後の日本語教育にどう活かすべきか), May 15, 2021
• "On the Impossibility of Speech in Contemporary Korean Fiction", May 14, 2021
• NAVIGATING GLOBAL CAREERS | Tips to Transition to a Career in Tech | Diana Pallais, Sr. Director and Principal, Microsoft, May 14, 2021
• Workshop on Contemporary China’s Turkic Frontier Zone, May 13, 2021
• Public Spaces, Creative Action, Democratic Practices in East Asia Symposium, May 7-9, 2021
• Late Industrialization, the State and Tradition: the Emergence of Neofamilism in South Korea, May 3, 2021
• Aenikkaeng' Koreans in the Yucatan Peninsula (Korean migration to Mexico), April 29, 2021
• NAVIGATING GLOBAL CAREERS | International Law Enforcement from the Field | Steve Lettic, Int'l Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (DOJ), April 26, 2021
• TALK | Facing the New Geopolitics: China at the Poles - Spring 2021 Lecture Series, April 15, 2021
• NAVIGATING GLOBAL CAREERS | Careers in U.S. Foreign Policy | Carmela Conroy, U.S. Consul General (Retired), April 12, 2021
• Center for Korea Studies Colloquium with Dr. Olga Fedorenko, April 8, 2021
• Book talk: The Great Exodus from China, with Prof. Dominic Yang, April 7, 2021
• Spring 2021 Lecture Series | The Chinese Century and the City of Gold: Making Sino-African Worlds, April 1, 2021
• "3.11 - Ten Years On " Panel Discussion, March 10, 2021
• QUAL Speaker Series: Rosemary Foot | China’s UN Thinking and Behavior: The Attempt to Uncover the Decision-Making Inside Opaque Governments, March 10, 2021
• "Japanese Literature in an Age of Rising Seas" with Christine Marran, University of Minnesota, March 8, 2021
• Environment Issues 2021, Part 4: Taiwan’s Food and Agriculture: History, Environment, and Challenges, March 4, 2021
• Environment Issues 2021, Part 3: Climate Change Disaster and Governance in Taiwan, March 2, 2021
• 3.1 Independence Movement Day Event, March 1, 2021
• Environment Issues 2021, Part 2: Public Opinion and Behavior towards Climate Change in Taiwan, February 25, 2021
• "The Rise of China and Japan's Response" with Narushige Michishita, GRIPS University, February 24, 2021
• Environment Issues 2021, Part 1: Understanding the Politics of Climate Change in Taiwan: from Global, National, to Local, February 23, 2021
• Leadership Transitions and the Future of U.S. - Japan Relations, February 10, 2021
• (Seattle Asian Art Museum) Virtual Saturday University: Fire and Renewal in Edo Period Japan, February 5, 2021
• China Studies Graduate Association Event with Andrew Batson, January 29, 2021
• China Studies Colloquium - Andrew Batson, January 28, 2021
• Discovering Korea by teaching English (experiences of English teachers in South Korea), January 28, 2021
• Putting a lid on the Pandemic in Japan: Who Has the Tools?, January 19, 2021
• The Peace Corps and the Korean Studies, December 17, 2020
• Remembering Peace Corps – Korea, December 10, 2020
• CHINA Town Hall, November 10, 2020
• Korean Peninsula Forum 2020 - "North Korean Nuclear Issues following the US Presidential Election: Stalemate, Progress or Escalation?", November 10, 2020
• Griffith and Patricia Way Lecture with Richard J. Samuels, October 28, 2020
• Translation of "One Left" by Kim Soom, Virtual Launch, October 6, 2020

2019-2020 Academic Year

• 'Rigor, Grit, and Advocacy as a Japanese Language Teacher' with Jessica Lee, May 11, 2020
• Film Screening: "Blind Bombing, Filmed by a Bat" with Kota Takeuchi, April 28, 2020
• 'Developing Yourself through Foreign Language Teaching in Japan' with Andrew Kim, Microsoft, April 20, 2020
• Climate Change and Questions of Justice: A Choices Program Workshop, March 7, 2020
• Paths to Freedom & Human Rights in North Korea, March 4, 2020
• 'The West, the East, and the Insular Middle: Pacific Integration During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries' with Robert I. Hellyer, Wake Forest University, February 28, 2020
• School of Art/China Studies Colloquium - Xiaoze Xie, February 27, 2020
• "Parasite" Movie Open Discussion, February 26, 2020
• China Studies Colloquium - Klaus Mühlhahn, February 26, 2020
• China and the COVID-19 Coronavirus: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on an Epidemic, February 25, 2020
• 'Who Was in Charge in Early Modern Japan?: Governance from the Ground Up' with David Howell, Harvard University, February 21, 2020
• China Studies Colloquium - David Bachman, February 13, 2020
• 'The Scales of History' with Shunya Yoshimi, University of Tokyo, January 23, 2020
• 'Tokyo 2020+: Urban Identity in the Era of Globalization' with Shunya Yoshimi of the University of Tokyo, January 22, 2020
• Film: "Edo Avant Garde: How Japan Invented Modern Art" with filmmaker Linda Hoaglund, January 20, 2020
• 'Performing Modernity: Sutematsu Oyama’s Voice, Figure, and Legacy as a Translation of Modern Japanese Female Identity' with Orna Shaughnessy, January 13, 2020
• TALK | Can the U.S. Still Have a Successful Foreign Policy?, December 4, 2019
• Prof. Harriet Evans: Changing Gender Practices Since 1949: Perspectives from a Poor ‘Old Beijing’ Neighborhood, November 25, 2019
• TALK | Getting to Yes: Foreign Service Case Studies on Negotiation, November 21, 2019
• CHINA Town Hall, November 18, 2019
• 'Mind the Gap: Japanese Women Directors and Commercial Cinema' with Colleen Laird, University of British Columbia, November 18, 2019
• 'Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: Kyokutei Bakin (1767-1848) and the Formation of Modern Japanese Literature' with Brian Dowdle, University of Montana, November 15, 2019
• 'Where Written Language and Literature Meet: Thinking About the Role of Script in Japanese-language Literature' with Konno Shinji, Seisen University, and Christopher J. Lowy, University of Washington, November 12, 2019
• Global Mondays Lecture: Prof. Mark Levin on Women in Legal Education in Japan, November 4, 2019
• Between Ningbo and Hakata: Trade of Art in the Age of Maritime Commerce, ca. 1050-1250, November 1, 2019
• “Exploring the Parameters of China’s Economic Influence” with Margaret M. Pearson, University of Maryland, November 1, 2019
• China’s War on Smuggling: Law, Economic Life, and the Making of the Modern State, October 24, 2019
• 'Cross-cultural and Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Narrative Discourse' with Masahiko Minami, San Francisco State University, October 21, 2019
• A Panoply of Metaphors: Painting and Intermediality in Early Modern China, October 18, 2019
• Resuscitation: Insights into the Dynamics of China-Japan Relations, October 17, 2019
• Crisis and Development at the Margins of the Qing Empire: Imperial Finances and Natural Resources in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Xinjiang, October 17, 2019
• Red China’s Black Gold: Fueling Socialist Industrialization in the Early People’s Republic, October 10, 2019
• Is Any Publicity Good Publicity?: The Role of Media Exposure in Chinese Elite Politics, October 4, 2019

2018-2019 Academic Year

• UW EAL Oral History Community Forum - Dr. Shen Fu-Hsiung, August 25, 2019
• 10th Biennial Symposium: Educational Innovations in Countries Around the World, June 25-27, 2019
• "Ethnic Bias in Criminal Sentencing in China" with Yue Hou, University of Pennsylvania, May 30, 2019
• Trump in the World Talk | David Bachman: From Engagement to What? The Trump Administration and China, May 21, 2019
• Film Screening: "Little Voices from Fukushima" with Director Hitomi Kamanaka, May 16, 2019
• "Longevity of Chinese Absolutism" with Yasheng Huang, MIT Sloan School of Management, May 16, 2019
• "Japan’s Monarchy and the New Emperor in Historical Perspective", Griffith and Patricia Way Lecture with Ken Ruoff, Portland State University, May 13, 2019
• Japanese Wartime Slogans and Intellectuals: The Philippines Case: 1942-45, May 7, 2019
• "Creating Han Ethnicity in Eleventh-Century Northeast Asia: The Impact of Liao Ethnic Politics and Song-Liao Diplomatic Practice" with Nicolas Tackett, UC Berkeley, May 2, 2019
• "What's Next with My Asian Language Degree?" with Andrew Kim, Microsoft Corporation, May 2, 2019
• "Writing to Cultivate Souls, Reading to Craft Bodies: Literacy and Lineage in a Native Chiefly House during the Qing" with Erik Mueggler, University of Michigan, April 26, 2019
• "Marking the Centenary Anniversary of the May 4th Movement": Zhaoguang Ge and Yan Dai Symposium, April 19, 2019
• "Why We Have to Discuss 'What Is China?' Today" with Professor Zhaoguang Ge, Fudan University, April 18, 2019
• "To Be an Educator of Japanese", with Professor Mutsuko Endo Hudson, Michigan State University, April 17, 2019
• Failing and Chasing Dreams, by Dr. Chang, April 15, 2019
• Where Do Indigenous Peoples Come From? A Historian’s View with Professor Paul Barclay, April 10, 2019
• Meeting China Halfway: Defusing U.S.-China Rivalry" with Professor Lyle J. Goldstein, U.S. Naval War College, April 8, 2019
• Formidable Attraction: The Figure of the Pro- Japanese Collaborators in Recent South Korean Cinema, March 15, 2019
• Japanese Factors in Building Understanding on Confucian Tradition in Modern Korea, March 8, 2019
• TALK | The Second US-North Korea Summit: Any Signs of Progress?, March 5, 2019
• The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories with Jay Rubin, February 25, 2019
• Challenges and Possibilities of Creating Inclusive Societies in Japan and the U.S., February 21, 2019
• "Faith and Fate in Meiji and Taishō Literature" with Massimiliano Tomasi, Western Washington University, February 15, 2019
• "The Place of Japanese Kanshi: Toponyms in Early Modern Sinitic Poetry" with Matthew Fraleigh, Brandeis University, February 7, 2019
• Observing Nature, Practicing Science: Plant Hunting and Field Research in Early Republican China by Nick Menzies, February 1, 2019
• Movie Screening | Out of Breath, January 22, 2019
• "Alegal: Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life" by Annmaria Shimabuku, New York University, January 22, 2019
• "Education and Individuality (kosei) in Meiji Japan: Promises and Problems" with W. Puck Brecher, Washington State University, January 17, 2019
• World Affairs Council - North Korea: What Now?, December 14, 2018
• Book Talk: Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan by Justin Jesty, December 7, 2018
• Shifting: The Pacific Triangle, December 3, 2018
• Kyogen Dance/Drama Workshop with Prof. Julie Iezzi, University of Hawaii, November 30, 2018
• Korean Railway Architecture: Its History and Challenge, November 27, 2018
• PUSHBACK: The China Challenge, November 19, 2018
• “The Meaning of Production and the Production of Meaning in Traditional Japanese Poetry, Printing and Painting” Jack Stoneman, Brigham Young University, November 2, 2018
• Between Nativism and Globalism: Mao, Medicine, and the Making of Wartime China, November 1, 2018
• CKS Colloquium Series: Dr. John DiMoia “Interrogating ‘Security Roads’: Southeast Asia (Thailand, South Vietnam) and South Korea’s Nascent Construction Industry, 1954-1973”, October 31, 2018
• "Who Knew? How Japanese Language Learners Negotiate the Challenges of Dialect in Small-Town Japan" with Jae Takeuchi, Clemson University, October 29, 2018
• Crazy Brideprice: Does rural-urban migration matter? Rural men’s marriage expense in three countries of China, October 25, 2018
• "From Student to Teacher: Japanese Beyond the Classroom" with Kei Tsukamaki, October 24, 2018
• Write About Asia, October 20, 2018
• “The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature: What Happens Next” with John Whittier Treat, Yale University Emeritus, October 19, 2018
• Translating Blackness in Colonial Korea, October 8, 2018
• Write About Asia, October 6, 2018
• TALK | Asia and regional integration in the midst of global uncertainty with Bart W. Édes, September 26, 2018
• PANEL: War or peace? U.S.-North Korea Relations, September 26, 2018